Andreas Linkermann

44.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
104 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Andreas Linkermann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Linkermann has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Immunology and 21 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Andreas Linkermann's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (31 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (19 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (18 papers). Andreas Linkermann is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (31 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (19 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (18 papers). Andreas Linkermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Andreas Linkermann's co-authors include Douglas R. Green, Stefan Krautwald, Henning Walczak, Peter Vandenabeele, Sandrine Jouan-Lanhouet, Tom Vanden Berghe, Ulrich Kunzendorf, Brent R. Stockwell, Hans‐Joachim Anders and Wulf Tonnus and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Linkermann

101 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

Ferroptosis as a target for protection against... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2019 2014 2014 2014 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Ferroptosis as a target for protection against cardiomyopathy
    2019 1.6k citations Xuexian Fang, Hao Wang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Regulated necrosis: the expanding network of non-apoptotic cell death pathways
    2014 1.3k citations Andreas Linkermann, Henning Walczak et al. profile →
  3. Necroptosis
    2014 882 citations Andreas Linkermann, Douglas R. Green profile →
  4. Ferrostatins Inhibit Oxidative Lipid Damage and Cell Death in Diverse Disease Models
    2014 872 citations Andreas Linkermann et al. profile →
  5. Fundamental Mechanisms of Regulated Cell Death and Implications for Heart Disease
    2019 704 citations Andreas Linkermann et al. profile →
  6. Loss of Cardiac Ferritin H Facilitates Cardiomyopathy via Slc7a11-Mediated Ferroptosis
    2020 569 citations Xuexian Fang, Zhaoxian Cai et al. Circulation Research profile →
  7. ESCRT-III Acts Downstream of MLKL to Regulate Necroptotic Cell Death and Its Consequences
    2017 485 citations Jan U. Becker, Andreas Linkermann et al. profile →
  8. Two independent pathways of regulated necrosis mediate ischemia–reperfusion injury
    2013 452 citations Andreas Linkermann, Ana B. Sanz et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Regulated Cell Death in AKI
    2014 451 citations Andreas Linkermann, Stefan Krautwald et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
  10. Ferroptosis, but Not Necroptosis, Is Important in Nephrotoxic Folic Acid–Induced AKI
    2016 445 citations Diego Martín‐Sánchez, Susana Carrasco et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
  11. Determination of the Subcellular Localization and Mechanism of Action of Ferrostatins in Suppressing Ferroptosis
    2018 269 citations Andreas Linkermann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andreas Linkermann Germany 54 9.2k 4.3k 3.2k 3.2k 1.7k 104 14.7k
Xiao‐Ming Meng China 58 8.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.4× 3.6k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 1.8k 1.0× 256 15.3k
Volker H. Haase United States 60 6.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.4× 6.0k 1.9× 2.1k 0.7× 937 0.5× 114 14.9k
Chantal M. Boulanger France 70 7.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.3× 2.8k 0.9× 2.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 185 16.4k
David J. Nikolic‐Paterson Australia 70 5.9k 0.6× 2.2k 0.5× 894 0.3× 4.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.6× 244 17.6k
Hermann-Josef Gröne Germany 62 5.0k 0.5× 997 0.2× 942 0.3× 2.7k 0.8× 776 0.4× 170 11.9k
D Stern United States 57 4.9k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 1.5k 0.5× 3.2k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 92 16.6k
Ziad Mallat France 84 9.5k 1.0× 2.5k 0.6× 2.6k 0.8× 12.8k 4.0× 4.6k 2.7× 279 25.8k
Ana B. Sanz Spain 55 3.9k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 1.3k 0.4× 1.6k 0.5× 853 0.5× 180 9.5k
Peter S.T. Yuen United States 50 4.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.2× 1.6k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 83 9.7k
Roy L. Silverstein United States 79 11.7k 1.3× 1.2k 0.3× 3.6k 1.1× 7.8k 2.4× 3.0k 1.7× 209 24.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Luksch, Hella, David Sprott, Éva M. Szegő, et al.. (2025). Tissue inflammation induced by constitutively active STING is mediated by enhanced TNF signaling. eLife. 14.
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Kusunoki, Yoshihiro, Chenyu Li, Hao Long, et al.. (2025). Gasdermin D deficiency aggravates nephrocalcinosis-related chronic kidney disease with rendering macrophages vulnerable to necroptosis. Cell Death and Disease. 16(1). 283–283.
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Tonnus, Wulf, Francesca Maremonti, Mami Sato, et al.. (2024). Seratrodast inhibits ferroptosis by suppressing lipid peroxidation. Cell Death and Disease. 15(11). 853–853. 6 indexed citations
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Uranga-Murillo, Iratxe, Maykel Arias, Julián Pardo, et al.. (2024). The importance of murine phospho-MLKL-S345 in situ detection for necroptosis assessment in vivo. Cell Death and Differentiation. 31(7). 897–909. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Chenyu, Yoshihiro Kusunoki, Hao Long, et al.. (2024). Gasdermin D drives focal crystalline thrombotic microangiopathy by accelerating immunothrombosis and necroinflammation. Blood. 144(3). 308–322. 6 indexed citations
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Maremonti, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Cholesterol business: life or death by rust. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 9(1). 71–71. 1 indexed citations
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Tonnus, Wulf, Sophie Locke, Claudia Meyer, et al.. (2022). Rubicon-deficiency sensitizes mice to mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL)-mediated kidney ischemia-reperfusion injury. Cell Death and Disease. 13(3). 236–236. 5 indexed citations
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Lau, Arthur, Jennifer J. Rahn, Hyunjae Chung, et al.. (2022). Dipeptidase-1 governs renal inflammation during ischemia reperfusion injury. Science Advances. 8(5). eabm0142–eabm0142. 62 indexed citations
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Mäßenhausen, Anne von, Francesca Maremonti, Alexia Belavgeni, et al.. (2022). Dexamethasone sensitizes to ferroptosis by glucocorticoid receptor–induced dipeptidase-1 expression and glutathione depletion. Science Advances. 8(5). eabl8920–eabl8920. 78 indexed citations
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Tonnus, Wulf, Francesca Maremonti, Alexia Belavgeni, et al.. (2022). Gasdermin D-deficient mice are hypersensitive to acute kidney injury. Cell Death and Disease. 13(9). 792–792. 35 indexed citations
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Wu, Junnan, Archana Raman, Nathan J. Coffey, et al.. (2021). The key role of NLRP3 and STING in APOL1-associated podocytopathy. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(20). 94 indexed citations
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Guan, Yuting, Xiujie Liang, Ziyuan Ma, et al.. (2021). A single genetic locus controls both expression of DPEP1/CHMP1A and kidney disease development via ferroptosis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5078–5078. 54 indexed citations
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Fang, Xuexian, Zhaoxian Cai, Hao Wang, et al.. (2020). Loss of Cardiac Ferritin H Facilitates Cardiomyopathy via Slc7a11-Mediated Ferroptosis. Circulation Research. 127(4). 486–501. 569 indexed citations breakdown →
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Demarco, Benjamin, James P. Grayczyk, Elisabet Bjånes, et al.. (2020). Caspase-8–dependent gasdermin D cleavage promotes antimicrobial defense but confers susceptibility to TNF-induced lethality. Science Advances. 6(47). 168 indexed citations
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Mulay, Shrikant R., Mohsen Honarpisheh, Orestes Foresto‐Neto, et al.. (2019). Mitochondria Permeability Transition versus Necroptosis in Oxalate-Induced AKI. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 30(10). 1857–1869. 92 indexed citations
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Martín‐Sánchez, Diego, Miguel Fontecha‐Barriuso, Susana Carrasco, et al.. (2018). TWEAK and RIPK1 mediate a second wave of cell death during AKI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(16). 4182–4187. 118 indexed citations
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Lafont, Élodie, Peter Dráber, Eva Rieser, et al.. (2018). TBK1 and IKKε prevent TNF-induced cell death by RIPK1 phosphorylation. Nature Cell Biology. 20(12). 1389–1399. 205 indexed citations
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Schreiber, Adrian, Anthony Rousselle, Jan U. Becker, et al.. (2017). Necroptosis controls NET generation and mediates complement activation, endothelial damage, and autoimmune vasculitis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(45). E9618–E9625. 208 indexed citations
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Linkermann, Andreas. (2016). Nonapoptotic cell death in acute kidney injury and transplantation. Kidney International. 89(1). 46–57. 106 indexed citations
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Galluzzi, Lorenzo, Oliver Kepp, Stefan Krautwald, Guido Kroemer, & Andreas Linkermann. (2014). Molecular mechanisms of regulated necrosis. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 35. 24–32. 201 indexed citations

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