Amanda L. Woerman

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Amanda L. Woerman is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda L. Woerman has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Neurology, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Amanda L. Woerman's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (22 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (17 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (17 papers). Amanda L. Woerman is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (22 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (17 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (17 papers). Amanda L. Woerman collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Amanda L. Woerman's co-authors include Stanley B. Prusiner, Smita S. Patel, Abby Oehler, Lefkos Middleton, Daniel A. Mordes, Kurt Giles, Steve Gentleman, Joel C. Watts, Atsushi Aoyagi and Lea T. Grinberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and Trends in Neurosciences.

In The Last Decade

Amanda L. Woerman

33 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism

2015 542 citations Stanley B. Prusiner, Amanda L. Woerman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amanda L. Woerman United States	17	988	757	744	584	376	35	1.7k
Dora Yearout United States	18	1.3k 1.3×	443 0.6×	487 0.7×	624 1.1×	542 1.4×	24	1.8k
Dong Hwan Ho South Korea	19	1.2k 1.2×	595 0.8×	575 0.8×	628 1.1×	525 1.4×	41	1.9k
Elvira Valera United States	22	943 1.0×	540 0.7×	458 0.6×	472 0.8×	557 1.5×	28	1.7k
Mark S. Moehle United States	17	1.1k 1.1×	399 0.5×	610 0.8×	492 0.8×	568 1.5×	27	1.7k
Wouter Peelaerts Belgium	10	1.1k 1.1×	595 0.8×	340 0.5×	399 0.7×	375 1.0×	17	1.4k
Anna Villar‐Piqué Spain	21	624 0.6×	525 0.7×	616 0.8×	303 0.5×	217 0.6×	44	1.4k
Rebecca L. Wallings United States	10	760 0.8×	361 0.5×	421 0.6×	389 0.7×	294 0.8×	19	1.3k
Simon Moussaud United States	13	784 0.8×	628 0.8×	375 0.5×	340 0.6×	385 1.0×	17	1.4k
Sonia George United States	17	759 0.8×	334 0.4×	345 0.5×	329 0.6×	400 1.1×	23	1.3k
Abhisek Mukherjee United States	14	495 0.5×	514 0.7×	683 0.9×	264 0.5×	208 0.6×	25	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Woerman, Amanda L., et al.. (2025). Limitations and Applications of Rodent Models in Tauopathy and Synucleinopathy Research. Journal of Neurochemistry. 169(3). e70021–e70021. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Jisoo, et al.. (2025). Evidence of a novel α-synuclein strain isolated from a Parkinson’s disease with dementia patient sample. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 13(1). 177–177. 1 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L., et al.. (2024). The role of α-synuclein prion strains in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy. PLoS Pathogens. 20(1). e1011920–e1011920. 5 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L., et al.. (2024). A-synuclein prion strains differentially adapt after passage in mice. PLoS Pathogens. 20(12). e1012746–e1012746. 3 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L. & Jason C. Bartz. (2024). Effect of host and strain factors on α-synuclein prion pathogenesis. Trends in Neurosciences. 47(7). 538–550. 6 indexed citations

Burré, Jacqueline, Robert H. Edwards, Glenda M. Halliday, et al.. (2024). Research Priorities on the Role of α‐ Synuclein in Parkinson's Disease Pathogenesis. Movement Disorders. 39(10). 1663–1678. 16 indexed citations

Olson, Steven H., et al.. (2024). Structurally targeted mutagenesis identifies key residues supporting α-synuclein misfolding in multiple system atrophy. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(8). 1543–1558. 3 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L. & Gültekin Tamgüney. (2022). Body-first Parkinson’s disease and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease – similar or different?. Neurobiology of Disease. 164. 105625–105625. 6 indexed citations

Woerman, Amanda L., et al.. (2022). Consequences of variability in α-synuclein fibril structure on strain biology. Acta Neuropathologica. 143(3). 311–330. 25 indexed citations

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Lester, Evan, Felicia K. Ooi, Nadine Bakkar, et al.. (2021). Tau aggregates are RNA-protein assemblies that mislocalize multiple nuclear speckle components. Neuron. 109(10). 1675–1691.e9. 129 indexed citations

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Bouley, James, et al.. (2021). Mouse closed head traumatic brain injury replicates the histological tau pathology pattern of human disease: characterization of a novel model and systematic review of the literature. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 9(1). 118–118. 33 indexed citations

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Woerman, Amanda L., Smita S. Patel, Sabeen A. Kazmi, et al.. (2020). Kinetics of α-synuclein prions preceding neuropathological inclusions in multiple system atrophy. PLoS Pathogens. 16(2). e1008222–e1008222. 24 indexed citations

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Woerman, Amanda L., et al.. (2020). Evidence of distinct α-synuclein strains underlying disease heterogeneity. Acta Neuropathologica. 142(1). 73–86. 61 indexed citations

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Aoyagi, Atsushi, Carlo Condello, Jan Stöhr, et al.. (2019). Aβ and tau prion-like activities decline with longevity in the Alzheimer’s disease human brain. Science Translational Medicine. 11(490). 95 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinzhu, Declan Williams, Iris Müller, et al.. (2019). Tau interactome analyses in CRISPR-Cas9 engineered neuronal cells reveal ATPase-dependent binding of wild-type but not P301L Tau to non-muscle myosins. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16238–16238. 23 indexed citations

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Woerman, Amanda L., Joel C. Watts, Atsushi Aoyagi, et al.. (2017). α-Synuclein: Multiple System Atrophy Prions. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 8(7). a024588–a024588. 69 indexed citations

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Woerman, Amanda L., Sabeen A. Kazmi, Smita S. Patel, et al.. (2017). MSA prions exhibit remarkable stability and resistance to inactivation. Acta Neuropathologica. 135(1). 49–63. 73 indexed citations

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Giles, Kurt, Amanda L. Woerman, David B. Berry, & Stanley B. Prusiner. (2017). Bioassays and Inactivation of Prions. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 9(8). a023499–a023499. 26 indexed citations

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Prusiner, Stanley B., Amanda L. Woerman, Daniel A. Mordes, et al.. (2015). Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). E5308–17. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gorini, Christopher, Heather Jameson, Amanda L. Woerman, Daniel C. Perry, & David Mendelowitz. (2013). Prenatal nicotine exposure enhances the trigeminocardiac reflex via serotonin receptor facilitation in brainstem pathways. Journal of Applied Physiology. 115(4). 415–421. 6 indexed citations

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