Anders Wittrup

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Anders Wittrup is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anders Wittrup has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Immunology and 3 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Anders Wittrup's work include RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (15 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Anders Wittrup is often cited by papers focused on RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (15 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (7 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (4 papers). Anders Wittrup collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Hungary. Anders Wittrup's co-authors include Judy Lieberman, Mattias Belting, Staffan Sandgren, Matthias Mörgelin, Katrin J. Svensson, Lena Svensson, Eva Lindqvist, Helena C. Christianson, Erika Bourseau-Guilmain and Radiana Trifonova and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Anders Wittrup

22 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Knocking down disease: a progress report on siRNA therapeutics

2015 647 citations Anders Wittrup, Judy Lieberman Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
Exosome Uptake Depends on ERK1/2-Heat Shock Protein 27 Signaling and Lipid Raft-mediated Endocytosis Negatively Regulated by Caveolin-1

2013 567 citations Katrin J. Svensson, Helena C. Christianson et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →
Visualizing lipid-formulated siRNA release from endosomes and target gene knockdown

2015 517 citations Anders Wittrup, Angela Ai et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anders Wittrup Sweden	17	2.4k	613	355	264	258	22	2.8k
Antonin de Fougerolles United States	13	2.5k 1.1×	684 1.1×	838 2.4×	229 0.9×	200 0.8×	20	3.4k
Amin Hajitou United Kingdom	29	1.7k 0.7×	569 0.9×	261 0.7×	149 0.6×	181 0.7×	64	3.0k
Rudolph L. Juliano United States	30	2.4k 1.0×	264 0.4×	151 0.4×	243 0.9×	191 0.7×	56	2.9k
Deborah Palliser United States	19	2.5k 1.0×	474 0.8×	833 2.3×	118 0.4×	106 0.4×	29	3.4k
Eric L. Snyder United States	24	2.6k 1.1×	701 1.1×	341 1.0×	112 0.4×	147 0.6×	36	3.7k
Yunping Luo China	34	1.9k 0.8×	885 1.4×	1.8k 5.0×	223 0.8×	479 1.9×	69	4.0k
Joshua L. Hood United States	21	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 2.1×	460 1.3×	84 0.3×	386 1.5×	35	2.7k
Daniel J. Kenan United States	30	2.5k 1.1×	205 0.3×	364 1.0×	172 0.7×	150 0.6×	49	3.8k
William Querbes United States	25	3.8k 1.6×	585 1.0×	334 0.9×	517 2.0×	644 2.5×	37	5.1k
Tatiana Ketova United States	14	2.1k 0.9×	376 0.6×	469 1.3×	123 0.5×	206 0.8×	21	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Anders Wittrup

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anders Wittrup

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anders Wittrup

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anders Wittrup. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anders Wittrup based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Anders Wittrup. Anders Wittrup is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Blenke, Erik Oude, et al.. (2025). Cellular and biophysical barriers to lipid nanoparticle mediated delivery of RNA to the cytosol. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5354–5354. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Linfeng, et al.. (2023). Single-cell quantification and dose-response of cytosolic siRNA delivery. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1075–1075. 22 indexed citations

Adrian, Gabriel, Elise Konradsson, Anders Wittrup, et al.. (2021). Cancer Cells Can Exhibit a Sparing FLASH Effect at Low Doses Under Normoxic In Vitro-Conditions. Frontiers in Oncology. 11. 686142–686142. 44 indexed citations

Nordenfelt, Pontus, et al.. (2020). Imaging small molecule-induced endosomal escape of siRNA. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1809–1809. 134 indexed citations

Sartor, Hanna, David Minarik, Olof Enqvist, et al.. (2020). Auto-segmentations by convolutional neural network in cervical and anorectal cancer with clinical structure sets as the ground truth. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. 25. 37–45. 20 indexed citations

Gilboa-Geffen, Adi, Péter Hamar, Minh T. N. Le, et al.. (2015). Gene Knockdown by EpCAM Aptamer–siRNA Chimeras Suppresses Epithelial Breast Cancers and Their Tumor-Initiating Cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 14(10). 2279–2291. 69 indexed citations

Wittrup, Anders, Angela Ai, Xing Liu, et al.. (2015). Visualizing lipid-formulated siRNA release from endosomes and target gene knockdown. Nature Biotechnology. 33(8). 870–876. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

Wittrup, Anders & Judy Lieberman. (2015). Knocking down disease: a progress report on siRNA therapeutics. Nature Reviews Genetics. 16(9). 543–552. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

Svensson, Katrin J., Helena C. Christianson, Anders Wittrup, et al.. (2013). Exosome Uptake Depends on ERK1/2-Heat Shock Protein 27 Signaling and Lipid Raft-mediated Endocytosis Negatively Regulated by Caveolin-1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(24). 17713–17724. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wittrup, Anders, Sihe Zhang, & Mattias Belting. (2010). Studies of Proteoglycan Involvement in CPP-Mediated Delivery. Methods in molecular biology. 683. 99–115. 10 indexed citations

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Wittrup, Anders, Sihe Zhang, Gerdy B. ten Dam, et al.. (2009). ScFv Antibody-induced Translocation of Cell-surface Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan to Endocytic Vesicles. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(47). 32959–32967. 51 indexed citations

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Belting, Mattias & Anders Wittrup. (2009). Macromolecular Drug Delivery: Basic Principles and Therapeutic Applications. Molecular Biotechnology. 43(1). 89–94. 19 indexed citations

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Belting, Mattias, Toin van Kuppevelt, Anders Wittrup, et al.. (2008). Single chain fragment anti-heparan sulfate antibody targets the polyamine transport system and attenuates polyamine-dependent cell proliferation. International Journal of Oncology. 32(4). 749–56. 25 indexed citations

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Belting, Mattias & Anders Wittrup. (2008). Nanotubes, exosomes, and nucleic acid–binding peptides provide novel mechanisms of intercellular communication in eukaryotic cells: implications in health and disease. The Journal of Cell Biology. 183(7). 1187–1191. 141 indexed citations

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Belting, Mattias & Anders Wittrup. (2008). Developments in Macromolecular Drug Delivery. Methods in molecular biology. 480. 1–10. 14 indexed citations

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Wittrup, Anders & Mattias Belting. (2008). Characterizing Peptide-Mediated DNA Internalization in Human Cancer Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 480. 101–112. 6 indexed citations

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Wittrup, Anders, Staffan Sandgren, Johanna Lilja, et al.. (2007). Identification of Proteins Released by Mammalian Cells That Mediate DNA Internalization through Proteoglycan-dependent Macropinocytosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(38). 27897–27904. 35 indexed citations

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Magzoub, Mazin, Staffan Sandgren, Pontus Lundberg, et al.. (2006). N-terminal peptides from unprocessed prion proteins enter cells by macropinocytosis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 348(2). 379–385. 84 indexed citations

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Sandgren, Staffan, Anders Wittrup, Fang Cheng, et al.. (2004). The Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Transfers Extracellular DNA Plasmid to the Nuclear Compartment of Mammalian Cells via Lipid Rafts and Proteoglycan-dependent Endocytosis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(17). 17951–17956. 189 indexed citations

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Belting, Mattias, Staffan Sandgren, & Anders Wittrup. (2004). Nuclear delivery of macromolecules: barriers and carriers. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 57(4). 505–527. 153 indexed citations

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