Bram Piersma

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bram Piersma is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bram Piersma has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Cell Biology, 4 papers in Surgery and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bram Piersma's work include Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (4 papers), Genital Health and Disease (4 papers) and Connective tissue disorders research (2 papers). Bram Piersma is often cited by papers focused on Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ (4 papers), Genital Health and Disease (4 papers) and Connective tissue disorders research (2 papers). Bram Piersma collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Bram Piersma's co-authors include Ruud A. Bank, Mary-Kate Hayward, Valerie M. Weaver, Miriam Boersema, Paul M. N. Werker, Boris Hinz, Marike Marjolijn van Beuge, Stellar Boo, Rutger A. F. Gjaltema and Anna M. Leliveld and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and American Journal Of Pathology.

In The Last Decade

Bram Piersma

9 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Fibrosis and cancer: A strained relationship

2020 440 citations Bram Piersma, Mary-Kate Hayward et al. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer profile →
Signaling in Fibrosis: TGF-β, WNT, and YAP/TAZ Converge

2015 351 citations Bram Piersma, Ruud A. Bank et al. Frontiers in Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bram Piersma Netherlands	7	399	292	264	145	144	9	1.0k
Franco Klingberg Canada	5	373 0.9×	254 0.9×	128 0.5×	219 1.5×	220 1.5×	6	1.1k
Yoshiya Shimao Japan	15	508 1.3×	255 0.9×	350 1.3×	168 1.2×	96 0.7×	43	1.2k
Michael Ginsberg United States	16	912 2.3×	287 1.0×	156 0.6×	211 1.5×	225 1.6×	24	1.5k
Xiangwei Huang China	10	414 1.0×	279 1.0×	147 0.6×	405 2.8×	139 1.0×	16	1.2k
Salman Rahman United States	17	792 2.0×	216 0.7×	162 0.6×	137 0.9×	215 1.5×	41	1.5k
Seiji Mori Japan	20	490 1.2×	104 0.4×	289 1.1×	103 0.7×	179 1.2×	45	1000
Guangpei Hou Canada	18	415 1.0×	307 1.1×	180 0.7×	110 0.8×	113 0.8×	25	1.2k
Monika Hermansson United Kingdom	15	437 1.1×	150 0.5×	206 0.8×	152 1.0×	135 0.9×	19	1.6k
Melanie Mumau United States	8	638 1.6×	131 0.4×	228 0.9×	378 2.6×	306 2.1×	19	1.2k
Dongmiao Wang China	23	976 2.4×	242 0.8×	420 1.6×	127 0.9×	96 0.7×	63	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Bram Piersma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bram Piersma

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bram Piersma. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bram Piersma. The network helps show where Bram Piersma may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bram Piersma

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Kamali, Zoha, Michael Ng, Dmitriy Drichel, et al.. (2024). A genome-wide association meta-analysis implicates Hedgehog and Notch signaling in Dupuytren’s disease. Nature Communications. 15(1). 199–199. 6 indexed citations

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Werker, Paul M. N., et al.. (2022). Verteporfin ameliorates fibrotic aspects of Dupuytren’s disease nodular fibroblasts irrespective the activation state of the cells. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13940–13940. 3 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram, Mary-Kate Hayward, & Valerie M. Weaver. (2020). Fibrosis and cancer: A strained relationship. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer. 1873(2). 188356–188356. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bigaeva, Emilia, Henricus A. M. Mutsaers, Bram Piersma, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of tyrosine kinase receptor signaling attenuates fibrogenesis in an ex vivo model of human renal fibrosis. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 318(1). F117–F134. 12 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram & Ruud A. Bank. (2019). Collagen cross-linking mediated by lysyl hydroxylase 2: an enzymatic battlefield to combat fibrosis. Essays in Biochemistry. 63(3). 377–387. 64 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram, et al.. (2018). αII-spectrin and βII-spectrin do not affect TGFβ1-induced myofibroblast differentiation. Cell and Tissue Research. 374(1). 165–175. 4 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram, et al.. (2017). Ascorbic acid promotes a TGFβ1-induced myofibroblast phenotype switch. Physiological Reports. 5(17). e13324–e13324. 35 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram, Paul M. N. Werker, Stellar Boo, et al.. (2015). YAP1 Is a Driver of Myofibroblast Differentiation in Normal and Diseased Fibroblasts. American Journal Of Pathology. 185(12). 3326–3337. 107 indexed citations

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Piersma, Bram, Ruud A. Bank, & Miriam Boersema. (2015). Signaling in Fibrosis: TGF-β, WNT, and YAP/TAZ Converge. Frontiers in Medicine. 2. 59–59. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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