Beate Ritz

14.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Beate Ritz is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Beate Ritz has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Neurology, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Beate Ritz's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (63 papers), Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity (25 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (23 papers). Beate Ritz is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (63 papers), Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity (25 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (23 papers). Beate Ritz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Taiwan. Beate Ritz's co-authors include Jeff M. Bronstein, Myles Cockburn, Kimberly C. Paul, Steve Horvath, Yvette Bordelon, Sadie Costello, Shannon Rhodes, Julia E. Heck, Janet S. Sinsheimer and Eva Schernhammer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Beate Ritz

148 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Parkinson's Disease and Residential Exposure to Maneb and Paraquat From Agricultural Applications in the Central Valley of California

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Beate Ritz United States	49	3.1k	2.1k	1.3k	1.2k	1.0k	151	7.9k
Jeff M. Bronstein United States	51	2.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	723 0.7×	164	8.4k
Anna Członkowska Poland	57	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	2.9k 2.8×	477	12.1k
David M. Umbach United States	57	2.0k 0.6×	3.0k 1.5×	552 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	213	10.2k
Freya Kamel United States	49	2.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	666 0.5×	2.7k 2.3×	1.5k 1.5×	151	8.6k
Alexis Elbaz France	58	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	454 0.4×	639 0.6×	177	10.7k
Deborah A. Cory‐Slechta United States	53	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	6.3k 6.2×	192	11.5k
Samuel M. Goldman United States	39	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	972 0.7×	372 0.3×	260 0.3×	85	5.6k
Andreas Hartmann Germany	59	2.6k 0.8×	3.1k 1.5×	852 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	2.8k 2.7×	245	14.9k
Tomás R. Guilarte United States	57	936 0.3×	2.5k 1.2×	2.7k 2.1×	501 0.4×	3.3k 3.2×	165	10.3k
William Slikker United States	60	762 0.2×	2.7k 1.3×	3.8k 2.9×	464 0.4×	991 1.0×	329	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beate Ritz

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Zhuo, Haoran, Beate Ritz, Joshua L. Warren, Krystal J. Godri Pollitt, & Zeyan Liew. (2025). Ambient Toxic Air Contaminants in the Maternal Residential Area during Pregnancy and Cerebral Palsy in the Offspring. Environmental Health Perspectives. 133(1). 17008–17008. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Tianyu, Joachim Heinrich, Michael Bräuer, et al.. (2025). Urban greenspace under a changing climate: Benefit or harm for allergies and respiratory health?. Environmental Epidemiology. 9(2). e372–e372. 2 indexed citations

Nguyen, Nicholas D., et al.. (2024). Maternal autoimmune disease and its association with childhood cancer: A population-based case-control study in Denmark. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100145–100145. 1 indexed citations

Heck, Julia E., Andrew Charles, Di He, et al.. (2023). Maternal migraine and risk of pediatric cancers. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 70(7). e30385–e30385. 4 indexed citations

Lindert, Jutta, Kimberly C. Paul, Margie E. Lachman, Beate Ritz, & Teresa E. Seeman. (2021). Social stress and risk of declining cognition: a longitudinal study of men and women in the United States. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 57(9). 1875–1884. 7 indexed citations

Maple‐Grødem, Jodi, Kimberly C. Paul, Ingvild Dalen, et al.. (2021). Lack of Association Between GBA Mutations and Motor Complications in European and American Parkinson's Disease Cohorts. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 5 indexed citations

Kusters, Cynthia, Kimberly C. Paul, Aline Duarte Folle, et al.. (2021). Increased Menopausal Age Reduces the Risk of Parkinson's Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach. Movement Disorders. 36(10). 2264–2272. 29 indexed citations

Yan, Qi, Kimberly C. Paul, Douglas I. Walker, et al.. (2021). High-Resolution Metabolomic Assessment of Pesticide Exposure in Central Valley, California. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 34(5). 1337–1347. 21 indexed citations

Paul, Kimberly C., Ake T. Lu, Steve Horvath, et al.. (2021). DNA methylation-based surrogates of plasma proteins are associated with Parkinson's disease risk. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 431. 120046–120046. 5 indexed citations

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Omidakhsh, Negar, Johnni Hansen, Beate Ritz, et al.. (2020). Parental Occupation and Risk of Childhood Retinoblastoma in Denmark. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 63(3). 256–261. 6 indexed citations

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Omidakhsh, Negar, Johnni Hansen, Beate Ritz, Jørn Olsen, & Julia E. Heck. (2019). High parental occupational social contact and risk of childhood hematopoietic, brain and bone cancers. Cancer Epidemiology. 62. 101575–101575. 6 indexed citations

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Bech, Sára, et al.. (2018). Carnitine levels and mutations in the SLC22A5 gene in Faroes patients with Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience Letters. 675. 116–119. 8 indexed citations

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Omidakhsh, Negar, Greta R. Bunin, Arupa Ganguly, et al.. (2017). Parental occupational exposures and the risk of childhood sporadic retinoblastoma: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 75(3). 205–211. 10 indexed citations

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Levine, Morgan E., Ake T. Lu, Brian H. Chen, et al.. (2016). Menopause accelerates biological aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(33). 9327–9332. 319 indexed citations

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Kenborg, Line, Kathrine Rugbjerg, Pei‐Chen Lee, et al.. (2015). Head injury and risk for Parkinson disease. Neurology. 84(11). 1098–1103. 33 indexed citations

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Kannarkat, George T., Jae‐Kyung Lee, Jianjun Chang, et al.. (2015). Common genetic variant association with altered HLA expression, synergy with pyrethroid exposure, and risk for Parkinson’s disease: an observational and case–control study. npj Parkinson s Disease. 1(1). 105 indexed citations

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Marcotte, Erin L., Beate Ritz, Myles Cockburn, Fei Yu, & Julia E. Heck. (2014). Exposure to Infections and Risk of Leukemia in Young Children. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 23(7). 1195–1203. 32 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Daniel W., John P. Wilson, Craig A. Knoblock, Beate Ritz, & Myles Cockburn. (2008). An effective and efficient approach for manually improving geocoded data. International Journal of Health Geographics. 7(1). 60–60. 96 indexed citations

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Wahner, Angelika D., Charles E. Glatt, Jeff M. Bronstein, & Beate Ritz. (2006). Glutathione S-transferase mu, omega, pi, and theta class variants and smoking in Parkinsonâs disease.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 40 indexed citations

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Schernhammer, Eva, Honglei Chen, & Beate Ritz. (2006). Circulating Melatonin Levels: Possible Link Between Parkinson’s Disease and Cancer Risk?. Cancer Causes & Control. 17(4). 577–582. 27 indexed citations

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