Daniela Kaufer

10.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
78 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Daniela Kaufer is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniela Kaufer has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 24 papers in Neurology and 21 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Daniela Kaufer's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers), Barrier Structure and Function Studies (18 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (15 papers). Daniela Kaufer is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers), Barrier Structure and Function Studies (18 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (15 papers). Daniela Kaufer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Daniela Kaufer's co-authors include Alon Friedman, Hermona Soreq, Mony Benifla, Uwe Heinemann, Shlomo Seidman, Annaliese K. Beery, Alon Friedman, Uwe Heinemann, Sebastian Ivens and Luisa P. Cacheaux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniela Kaufer

76 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

Blood–brain barrier breakdown as a therapeutic target in traumatic brain injury

2010 680 citations Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman et al. profile →
VEGF is necessary for exercise‐induced adult hippocampal neurogenesis

2003 655 citations Daniela Kaufer et al. profile →
Acute stress facilitates long-lasting changes in cholinergic gene expression

1998 506 citations Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman et al. Nature profile →
Critical period regulation across multiple timescales

2020 281 citations Daniela Kaufer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniela Kaufer United States	38	2.2k	2.2k	1.5k	1.3k	854	78	7.6k
Massimo Gennarelli Italy	54	3.0k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	244	9.4k
Robert K. McNamara United States	49	1.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	944 1.1×	180	8.6k
Andrew J. Dwork United States	50	3.5k 1.6×	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	140	10.4k
Hans‐Gert Bernstein Germany	51	3.1k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.8×	254	10.3k
Naguib Mechawar Canada	51	3.4k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	653 0.5×	1.7k 2.0×	155	9.1k
Bernhard Bogerts Germany	44	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	132	7.1k
Gorazd Rosoklija United States	36	1.9k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	606 0.5×	819 1.0×	82	6.9k
Károly Mirnics United States	47	4.8k 2.2×	3.0k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	901 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	135	11.2k
Johann Steiner Germany	55	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.6×	2.0k 2.3×	253	10.4k
Robert H. Lipsky United States	44	2.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	444 0.3×	962 0.7×	557 0.7×	112	8.1k

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Muroy, Sandra E., et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic profiles of susceptibility and resilience to stress in the amygdala and hippocampus of male rats. Neurobiology of Stress. 38. 100754–100754.

Ehrenberg, Alexander J., Cathrine Petersen, Felipe Luiz Pereira, et al.. (2025). Pathways underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease: Contrasting the vulnerable locus coeruleus to the resilient substantia nigra. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(3). e70087–e70087. 2 indexed citations

Friedman, Alon, Ofer Prager, Yonatan Serlin, & Daniela Kaufer. (2025). Dynamic modulation of the blood–brain barrier in the healthy brain. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 26(12). 749–764.

Swissa, Evyatar, Lyna Kamintsky, Rishi Patel, et al.. (2024). Cortical plasticity is associated with blood–brain barrier modulation. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Arevalo, José A., et al.. (2023). Underfeeding Alters Brain Tissue Synthesis Rate in a Rat Brain Injury Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(17). 13195–13195. 1 indexed citations

Preininger, Marcela K., et al.. (2023). Blood–brain barrier dysfunction promotes astrocyte senescence through albumin‐induced TGFβ signaling activation. Aging Cell. 22(2). e13747–e13747. 20 indexed citations

Bartal, Inbal Ben-Ami, Jocelyn Breton, Huanjie Sheng, et al.. (2021). Neural correlates of ingroup bias for prosociality in rats. eLife. 10. 46 indexed citations

Aronica, Eleonora, Sebastian Bauer, Yuri Bozzi, et al.. (2017). Neuroinflammatory targets and treatments for epilepsy validated in experimental models. Epilepsia. 58(S3). 27–38. 151 indexed citations

Orendorff, Ryan, Bo Zheng, R. Matthew Ferguson, et al.. (2017). Firstin vivotraumatic brain injury imaging via magnetic particle imaging. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 62(9). 3501–3509. 86 indexed citations

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Calisi, Rebecca M., et al.. (2016). Patterns of hypothalamic GnIH change over the reproductive period in starlings and rats. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 237. 140–146. 13 indexed citations

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Tochitsky, Ivan, Aleksandra Polosukhina, Caleb M. Smith, et al.. (2014). Restoring Visual Function to Blind Mice with a Photoswitch that Exploits Electrophysiological Remodeling of Retinal Ganglion Cells. Neuron. 81(4). 800–813. 146 indexed citations

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Kirby, Elizabeth D., Kelly Jensen, Ki A. Goosens, & Daniela Kaufer. (2012). Stereotaxic Surgery for Excitotoxic Lesion of Specific Brain Areas in the Adult Rat. Journal of Visualized Experiments. e4079–e4079. 19 indexed citations

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Heinemann, Uwe, Daniela Kaufer, & Alon Friedman. (2012). Blood‐brain barrier dysfunction, TGFβ signaling, and astrocyte dysfunction in epilepsy. Glia. 60(8). 1251–1257. 200 indexed citations

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Meerson, Ari, Luisa P. Cacheaux, Ki A. Goosens, et al.. (2009). Changes in Brain MicroRNAs Contribute to Cholinergic Stress Reactions. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Cacheaux, Luisa P., Sebastian Ivens, Yair Bar David, et al.. (2009). Transcriptome Profiling Reveals TGF- Signaling Involvement in Epileptogenesis. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(28). 8927–8935. 294 indexed citations

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Dumas, Theodore C., Phiroz E. Tarapore, Brian Webster, et al.. (2003). Potassium channel gene therapy can prevent neuron death resulting from necrotic and apoptotic insults. Journal of Neurochemistry. 86(5). 1079–1088. 37 indexed citations

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Kaufer, Daniela & Hermona Soreq. (1999). Tracking cholinergic pathways from psychological and chemical stressors to variable neurodeterioration paradigms. Current Opinion in Neurology. 12(6). 739–743. 18 indexed citations

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Kaufer, Daniela, Alon Friedman, Shlomo Seidman, & Hermona Soreq. (1999). Anticholinesterases induce multigenic transcriptional feedback response suppressing cholinergic neurotransmission. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 119-120. 349–360. 79 indexed citations

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Kaufer, Daniela, Alon Friedman, Shlomo Seidman, & Hermona Soreq. (1998). Acute stress facilitates long-lasting changes in cholinergic gene expression. Nature. 393(6683). 373–377. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Friedman, Alon, Daniela Kaufer, Joshua Shemer, et al.. (1996). Pyridostigmine brain penetration under stress enhances neuronal excitability and induces early immediate transcriptional response. Nature Medicine. 2(12). 1382–1385. 284 indexed citations

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