Dietmar Vestweber

39.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
323 papers, 30.1k citations indexed

About

Dietmar Vestweber is a scholar working on Immunology and Allergy, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dietmar Vestweber has authored 323 papers receiving a total of 30.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Immunology and Allergy, 169 papers in Molecular Biology and 113 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Dietmar Vestweber's work include Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (174 papers), Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (55 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (34 papers). Dietmar Vestweber is often cited by papers focused on Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (174 papers), Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (55 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (34 papers). Dietmar Vestweber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Dietmar Vestweber's co-authors include Rolf Kemler, Gottfried Schatz, Klaus Ebnet, Stefan Butz, Martin K. Wild, Elisabetta Dejana, Sandra Isenmann, Britta Engelhardt, Eric Borges and Astrid F. Nottebaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dietmar Vestweber

318 papers receiving 29.5k 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.

Mechanisms That Regulate the Function of the Selectins and Their Ligands

1999 766 citations Dietmar Vestweber et al. profile →
Functionally specialized junctions between endothelial cells of lymphatic vessels

2007 761 citations Peter Bałuk, Stefan Butz et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
VE-Cadherin

2007 651 citations Dietmar Vestweber profile →
P- and E-selectin mediate recruitment of T-helper-1 but not T-helper-2 cells into inflamed tissues

1997 637 citations Dietmar Vestweber et al. profile →
How leukocytes cross the vascular endothelium

2015 601 citations Dietmar Vestweber profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dietmar Vestweber Germany	101	13.9k	9.2k	8.8k	4.5k	4.4k	323	30.1k
Francisco Sánchez‐Madrid Spain	99	16.7k 1.2×	16.7k 1.8×	10.3k 1.2×	5.5k 1.2×	3.9k 0.9×	525	39.9k
Elisabetta Dejana Italy	113	22.7k 1.6×	7.2k 0.8×	8.3k 0.9×	5.6k 1.3×	8.4k 1.9×	389	44.0k
Ulrich H. von Andrian United States	109	9.8k 0.7×	26.1k 2.8×	7.4k 0.8×	7.6k 1.7×	3.2k 0.7×	256	42.9k
Ann M. Dvořàk United States	87	13.7k 1.0×	8.4k 0.9×	4.8k 0.5×	4.1k 0.9×	3.2k 0.7×	330	30.5k
Brian Seed United States	77	17.8k 1.3×	11.8k 1.3×	5.2k 0.6×	5.0k 1.1×	4.5k 1.0×	155	33.2k
Anne J. Ridley United Kingdom	95	26.0k 1.9×	6.3k 0.7×	7.2k 0.8×	5.7k 1.3×	16.4k 3.7×	304	43.9k
Karl Tryggvason Sweden	96	15.1k 1.1×	4.1k 0.4×	9.8k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	4.9k 1.1×	384	34.3k
Joseph A. Madri United States	85	8.6k 0.6×	3.3k 0.4×	5.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	2.9k 0.7×	241	21.0k
Steven Μ. Albelda United States	96	10.6k 0.8×	13.6k 1.5×	5.7k 0.6×	13.2k 3.0×	2.0k 0.5×	315	35.5k
Eugene C. Butcher United States	126	12.4k 0.9×	31.9k 3.4×	16.0k 1.8×	10.2k 2.3×	4.3k 1.0×	338	53.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dietmar Vestweber

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Shirakura, Keisuke, et al.. (2025). VE-PTP controls a fluid shear stress set point that governs cell morphological responses through Tie-2. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 13. 1603517–1603517.

Shirakura, Keisuke, Peter Bałuk, Astrid F. Nottebaum, et al.. (2023). Shear stress control of vascular leaks and atheromas through Tie2 activation by VE‐PTP sequestration. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 15(4). e16128–e16128. 22 indexed citations

Vladymyrov, Mykhailo, Elisa Bouillet, Johanna Andræ, et al.. (2023). VE-cadherin in arachnoid and pia mater cells serves as a suitable landmark for in vivo imaging of CNS immune surveillance and inflammation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5837–5837. 37 indexed citations

Smith, Ross, Takeshi Ninchoji, Emma Gordon, et al.. (2020). Vascular permeability in retinopathy is regulated by VEGFR2 Y949 signaling to VE-cadherin. eLife. 9. 71 indexed citations

Margraf, Andreas, Giulia Germena, Hannes C. A. Drexler, et al.. (2020). The integrin-linked kinase is required for chemokine-triggered high-affinity conformation of the neutrophil β2-integrin LFA-1. Blood. 136(19). 2200–2205. 29 indexed citations

Vestweber, Dietmar, et al.. (2019). Blood flow guides sequential support of neutrophil arrest and diapedesis by PILR-β1 and PILR-α. eLife. 8. 12 indexed citations

Thomson, Benjamin R., et al.. (2019). Targeting the vascular-specific phosphatase PTPRB protects against retinal ganglion cell loss in a pre-clinical model of glaucoma. eLife. 8. 24 indexed citations

Hägerling, René, Cathrin Dierkes, Martin Stehling, et al.. (2018). Distinct roles of VE ‐cadherin for development and maintenance of specific lymph vessel beds. The EMBO Journal. 37(22). 59 indexed citations

Reckzeh, Kristian, Montserrat Estruch, Amit Grover, et al.. (2018). Human adult HSCs can be discriminated from lineage-committed HPCs by the expression of endomucin. Blood Advances. 2(13). 1628–1632. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, Yang Su, Wei Xia, et al.. (2017). Conformational equilibria and intrinsic affinities define integrin activation. The EMBO Journal. 36(5). 629–645. 114 indexed citations

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Vestweber, Dietmar, Dagmar Zeuschner, Klemens Rottner, & Michael Schnoor. (2013). Cortactin regulates the activity of small GTPases and ICAM-1 clustering in endothelium. Tissue Barriers. 1(1). e23862–e23862. 14 indexed citations

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Schnoor, Michael, Frank P.L. Lai, Alexander Zarbock, et al.. (2011). Cortactin deficiency is associated with reduced neutrophil recruitment but increased vascular permeability in vivo. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 208(8). 1721–1735. 133 indexed citations

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Bixel, M. Gabriele, Hang Li, Alexander G. Khandoga, et al.. (2010). CD99 and CD99L2 act at the same site as, but independently of, PECAM-1 during leukocyte diapedesis. Blood. 116(7). 1172–1184. 69 indexed citations

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Tanne, Antoine, Bo Ma, Frédéric Boudou, et al.. (2009). A murine DC-SIGN homologue contributes to early host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206(10). 2205–2220. 86 indexed citations

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Nottebaum, Astrid F., Giuseppe Cagna, Mark Winderlich, et al.. (2008). VE-PTP maintains the endothelial barrier via plakoglobin and becomes dissociated from VE-cadherin by leukocytes and by VEGF. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 205(12). 2929–2945. 184 indexed citations

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Labelle, Myriam, Hans‐Joachim Schnittler, Daniela E. Aust, et al.. (2008). Vascular Endothelial Cadherin Promotes Breast Cancer Progression via Transforming Growth Factor β Signaling. Cancer Research. 68(5). 1388–1397. 82 indexed citations

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Clasper, Steven, Daniel Royston, Dilair Baban, et al.. (2008). A Novel Gene Expression Profile in Lymphatics Associated with Tumor Growth and Nodal Metastasis. Cancer Research. 68(18). 7293–7303. 90 indexed citations

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Wild, Martin K., et al.. (2001). Affinity, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics of E-selectin Binding to E-selectin Ligand-1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(34). 31602–31612. 75 indexed citations

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Ebnet, Klaus & Dietmar Vestweber. (1999). Robert Feulgen Lecture 1998 Molecular mechanisms that control leukocyte extravasation: the selectins and the chemokines. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 1(112). 1–23. 3 indexed citations

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Vestweber, Dietmar. (1997). The selectins : initiators of leukocyte endothelial adhesion. 23 indexed citations

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