Birgit Zucker

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 958 citations indexed

About

Birgit Zucker is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Zucker has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Birgit Zucker's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (7 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers). Birgit Zucker is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (7 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (5 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers). Birgit Zucker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Birgit Zucker's co-authors include Robert J. Ferrante, Steven M. Hersch, Ruth Luthi‐Carter, Hoon Ryu, Rajiv R. Ratan, Karen Smith, James K. Kubilus, Junghee Lee, Neil W. Kowall and Jonathan H. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Zucker

9 papers receiving 936 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.

Histone Deacetylase Inhibition by Sodium Butyrate Chemotherapy Ameliorates the Neurodegenerative Phenotype in Huntington's Disease Mice

2003 559 citations Robert J. Ferrante, James K. Kubilus et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Zucker Germany	8	737	556	173	140	84	9	958
Michael Flower United Kingdom	13	685 0.9×	601 1.1×	223 1.3×	81 0.6×	80 1.0×	20	938
Xavier Xifró Spain	22	638 0.9×	635 1.1×	284 1.6×	88 0.6×	125 1.5×	36	1.1k
Shilpa Ramaswamy United States	10	409 0.6×	441 0.8×	186 1.1×	63 0.5×	110 1.3×	13	762
Mohammed T. Akbar United Kingdom	12	566 0.8×	370 0.7×	156 0.9×	47 0.3×	149 1.8×	13	855
Nichola Z. Lax United Kingdom	17	735 1.0×	199 0.4×	84 0.5×	67 0.5×	88 1.0×	23	905
Shana L. Skradski United States	12	448 0.6×	393 0.7×	95 0.5×	71 0.5×	47 0.6×	12	747
Erika B. Villanueva Canada	15	636 0.9×	489 0.9×	187 1.1×	44 0.3×	59 0.7×	20	944
Shun Shimohama Japan	12	373 0.5×	337 0.6×	81 0.5×	223 1.6×	80 1.0×	14	728
Marilyn Tirard Germany	11	470 0.6×	230 0.4×	98 0.6×	115 0.8×	268 3.2×	19	805
Bashayer Al‐Mubarak Saudi Arabia	16	474 0.6×	227 0.4×	71 0.4×	91 0.7×	111 1.3×	19	797

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Zucker

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Kuhn, Alexandre, G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Ruth Luthi‐Carter, et al.. (2012). Comparative analyses of Purkinje cell gene expression profiles reveal shared molecular abnormalities in models of different polyglutamine diseases. Brain Research. 1481. 37–48. 14 indexed citations

2.

Kuhn, Alexandre, et al.. (2012). Gene expression analysis on a single cell level in Purkinje cells of Huntington's disease transgenic mice. Neuroscience Letters. 517(1). 7–12. 6 indexed citations

3.

Hellwig, Sabine, Iris Hack, Birgit Zucker, Bianka Brunne, & Dirk Junghans. (2012). Reelin Together with ApoER2 Regulates Interneuron Migration in the Olfactory Bulb. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e50646–e50646. 20 indexed citations

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Qiu, Zhihua, Bhupinder Singh, Raman Chopra, et al.. (2006). Sp1 Is Up-regulated in Cellular and Transgenic Models of Huntington Disease, and Its Reduction Is Neuroprotective. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(24). 16672–16680. 100 indexed citations

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Zucker, Birgit, Ruth Luthi‐Carter, Jibrin Kama, et al.. (2004). Transcriptional dysregulation in striatal projection- and interneurons in a mouse model of Huntington's disease: neuronal selectivity and potential neuroprotective role of HAP1. Human Molecular Genetics. 14(2). 179–189. 82 indexed citations

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Zucker, Birgit, et al.. (2004). Gabapentin-lactam, but not gabapentin, reduces protein aggregates and improves motor performance in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington?s disease. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 370(2). 131–9. 12 indexed citations

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Fox, Jonathan H., David S. Barber, Bhupinder Singh, et al.. (2004). Cystamine increases l‐cysteine levels in Huntington's disease transgenic mouse brain and in a PC12 model of polyglutamine aggregation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 91(2). 413–422. 110 indexed citations

8.

Ferrante, Robert J., James K. Kubilus, Junghee Lee, et al.. (2003). Histone Deacetylase Inhibition by Sodium Butyrate Chemotherapy Ameliorates the Neurodegenerative Phenotype in Huntington's Disease Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 23(28). 9418–9427. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zucker, Birgit, et al.. (1997). Glutathione depletion in fibroblasts is the basis for apoptosis-induction by endogenous reactive oxygen species. Cell Death and Differentiation. 4(5). 388–395. 55 indexed citations

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