Andreas Villunger

766 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 594 citations indexed

About

Andreas Villunger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Villunger has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 594 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Oncology and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Andreas Villunger's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (2 papers) and interferon and immune responses (1 paper). Andreas Villunger is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (4 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (2 papers) and interferon and immune responses (1 paper). Andreas Villunger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, France and Switzerland. Andreas Villunger's co-authors include Muhammet F. Gülen, Ute Koch, Andrea Ablasser, Fabian Schuler, Simone M. Haag, Freddy Radtke, Lionel Apétoh, Gerhard Krumschnabel, Hannes Ebner and Michael W. Hess and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Villunger

7 papers receiving 592 citations

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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.

Signalling strength determines proapoptotic functions of STING

2017 376 citations Muhammet F. Gülen, Ute Koch et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Villunger Austria	7	384	335	140	88	42	7	594
Caleb D. Swaim United States	6	186 0.5×	192 0.6×	74 0.5×	68 0.8×	19 0.5×	8	494
Meike Müller Germany	11	90 0.2×	229 0.7×	117 0.8×	151 1.7×	49 1.2×	17	662
Baigen Mei United States	9	157 0.4×	301 0.9×	34 0.2×	38 0.4×	41 1.0×	16	597
Phillip J. Lachmann United States	9	218 0.6×	206 0.6×	39 0.3×	26 0.3×	61 1.5×	13	557
Rachel A. Idol United States	10	99 0.3×	412 1.2×	45 0.3×	47 0.5×	24 0.6×	12	626
Marco Garate United States	13	165 0.4×	439 1.3×	19 0.1×	56 0.6×	42 1.0×	17	672
Machiko Sawada Japan	13	97 0.3×	362 1.1×	84 0.6×	68 0.8×	58 1.4×	27	654
René Köffel Switzerland	13	191 0.5×	362 1.1×	40 0.3×	44 0.5×	23 0.5×	19	626
Xiangyang Wu China	8	111 0.3×	198 0.6×	84 0.6×	40 0.5×	51 1.2×	19	359
Inbar Shlomovitz Israel	9	289 0.8×	353 1.1×	29 0.2×	47 0.5×	54 1.3×	9	559

Countries citing papers authored by Andreas Villunger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andreas Villunger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Villunger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andreas Villunger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andreas Villunger 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 Andreas Villunger. Andreas Villunger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Gülen, Muhammet F., Ute Koch, Simone M. Haag, et al.. (2017). Signalling strength determines proapoptotic functions of STING. Nature Communications. 8(1). 427–427. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hájek, Jan, Jan Mareš, Petra Urajová, et al.. (2017). The cyanobacterial metabolite nocuolin a is a natural oxadiazine that triggers apoptosis in human cancer cells. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0172850–e0172850. 40 indexed citations

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Bock, Florian J., Maria C. Tanzer, Manuel D. Haschka, et al.. (2015). The p53 binding protein PDCD5 is not rate-limiting in DNA damage induced cell death. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11268–11268. 7 indexed citations

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Hausmann, Martin, Katharina Leucht, Christian Ploner, et al.. (2011). BCL-2 Modifying Factor (BMF) Is a Central Regulator of Anoikis in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(30). 26533–26540. 40 indexed citations

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Krumschnabel, Gerhard, Hannes Ebner, Michael W. Hess, & Andreas Villunger. (2010). Apoptosis and necroptosis are induced in rainbow trout cell lines exposed to cadmium. Aquatic Toxicology. 99(1). 73–85. 62 indexed citations

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Egle, Alexander, Andreas Villunger, I Marschitz, et al.. (1997). Expression of Apo‐1/Fas (CD95), Bcl‐2, Bax and Bcl‐x in myeloma cell lines: relationship between responsiveness to anti‐Fas mab and p53 functional status. British Journal of Haematology. 97(2). 418–428. 35 indexed citations

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Geley, Stephan, Bernd Hartmann, Klaus Kapelari, et al.. (1997). The interleukin 1β‐converting enzyme inhibitor CrmA prevents Apo1/Fas‐ but not glucocorticoid‐induced poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase cleavage and apoptosis in lymphoblastic leukemia cells. FEBS Letters. 402(1). 36–40. 34 indexed citations

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