Dirk Fitzner

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Dirk Fitzner is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Fitzner has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Neurology, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Fitzner's work include Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (14 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers) and Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (6 papers). Dirk Fitzner is often cited by papers focused on Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (14 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers) and Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (6 papers). Dirk Fitzner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Portugal and Australia. Dirk Fitzner's co-authors include Mikael Simons, Mareike Schnaars, Mostafa Bakhti, Denise van Rossum, Tommy Regen, Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy, Payam Dibaj, Uwe‐Karsten Hanisch, Marie‐Theres Weil and Minhui Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Fitzner

27 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Selective transfer of exosomes from oligodendrocytes to microglia by macropinocytosis

2011 669 citations Dirk Fitzner, Mikael Simons et al. profile →
Defective cholesterol clearance limits remyelination in the aged central nervous system

2018 395 citations Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Dirk Fitzner et al. Science profile →
White matter aging drives microglial diversity

2021 271 citations Shima Safaiyan, Simon Besson‐Girard et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Fitzner Germany	15	1.2k	782	490	486	333	32	2.2k
Zhihong Chen United States	22	741 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	1.3k 2.7×	284 0.6×	247 0.7×	35	2.8k
Marta Joana Costa Jordão Germany	9	775 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	1.2k 2.4×	290 0.6×	200 0.6×	9	2.5k
Hai Ngu United States	21	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	903 1.8×	226 0.5×	234 0.7×	35	2.9k
Tatyana Veremeyko United States	18	980 0.8×	622 0.8×	557 1.1×	767 1.6×	139 0.4×	22	2.0k
Sagar Sagar Germany	18	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 2.3×	1.6k 3.3×	236 0.5×	322 1.0×	51	3.7k
Karolina Wosik Canada	15	699 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	552 1.1×	118 0.2×	194 0.6×	23	2.1k
Martina Gabrielli Italy	16	1.2k 0.9×	550 0.7×	239 0.5×	471 1.0×	116 0.3×	24	1.6k
Galina Dvoriantchikova United States	26	1.1k 0.9×	469 0.6×	300 0.6×	145 0.3×	134 0.4×	52	1.9k
Linda Ottoboni Italy	22	923 0.8×	660 0.8×	555 1.1×	100 0.2×	572 1.7×	57	2.5k
Francesca Ruffini Italy	21	665 0.5×	571 0.7×	566 1.2×	171 0.4×	312 0.9×	30	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Fitzner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Klose, Christian, et al.. (2025). Plasma lipidomic patterns associated with disease activity in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (LIPID-CIDP). Journal of Lipid Research. 66(11). 100903–100903.

Bouter, Caroline, et al.. (2025). Early stage seronegative autoimmune psychosis. Behavioural Brain Research. 494. 115739–115739.

Hansen, Niels, Kristin Rentzsch, Björn H. Schott, et al.. (2025). Subjective cognitive decline in conjunction with cerebrospinal fluid anti-ATP1A3 autoantibodies and a low amyloid β 1–42/1–40 ratio: Report and literature review. Behavioural Brain Research. 485. 115541–115541.

Hansen, Niels, et al.. (2025). Longitudinally persisting KCNA2-autoantibodies in mild amnestic dementia with Alzheimer´s pathology – Report and literature review. Behavioural Brain Research. 482. 115437–115437. 1 indexed citations

Klose, Christian, et al.. (2024). Plasma Lipidomic Profiling Using Mass Spectrometry for Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis and Disease Activity Stratification (LipidMS). International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(5). 2483–2483. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Lin, Wenqiang Xin, Yongli Pan, et al.. (2023). TREM2 regulates microglial lipid droplet formation and represses post-ischemic brain injury. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 170. 115962–115962. 44 indexed citations

Hansen, Niels, et al.. (2023). Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in psychiatric autoimmune encephalitis: a retrospective cohort study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1165153–1165153. 2 indexed citations

Teegen, Bianca, et al.. (2022). Biomarkers of neurodegeneration in neural autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of Translational Autoimmunity. 5. 100169–100169. 3 indexed citations

Hansen, Niels, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of Anti-neural Autoantibodies in a Psychiatric Patient Cohort-Paradigmatic Application of Criteria for Autoimmune-Based Psychiatric Syndromes. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 864769–864769. 5 indexed citations

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Hansen, Niels, Claudia Bartels, W. Stöcker, Jens Wiltfang, & Dirk Fitzner. (2022). Impaired Verbal Memory Recall in Patients With Axonal Degeneration and Serum Glycine-Receptor Autoantibodies—Case Series. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 12. 778684–778684. 7 indexed citations

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Safaiyan, Shima, Simon Besson‐Girard, Tuğberk Kaya, et al.. (2021). White matter aging drives microglial diversity. Neuron. 109(7). 1100–1117.e10. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Penkert, Horst, Chris Lauber, Mathias J. Gerl, et al.. (2020). Plasma lipidomics of monozygotic twins discordant for multiple sclerosis. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 7(12). 2461–2466. 15 indexed citations

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Fitzner, Dirk, Jakob M. Bader, Horst Penkert, et al.. (2020). Cell-Type- and Brain-Region-Resolved Mouse Brain Lipidome. Cell Reports. 32(11). 108132–108132. 179 indexed citations

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Lodygin, Dmitri, Nils Schweingruber, Cassandra Flügel‐Koch, et al.. (2019). β-Synuclein-reactive T cells induce autoimmune CNS grey matter degeneration. Nature. 566(7745). 503–508. 96 indexed citations

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Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Ludovico, Dirk Fitzner, Mar Bosch-Queralt, et al.. (2018). Defective cholesterol clearance limits remyelination in the aged central nervous system. Science. 359(6376). 684–688. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Koziolek, Michael, Désirée Tampe, Mathias Bähr, et al.. (2012). Immunoadsorption therapy in patients with multiple sclerosis with steroid-refractory optical neuritis. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 9(1). 80–80. 48 indexed citations

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Fitzner, Dirk & Mikael Simons. (2010). Chronic Progressive Multiple Sclerosis – Pathogenesis of Neurodegeneration and Therapeutic Strategies. Current Neuropharmacology. 8(3). 305–315. 83 indexed citations

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Fitzner, Dirk, et al.. (2009). Actomyosin contractility controls cell surface area of oligodendrocytes. BMC Cell Biology. 10(1). 71–71. 43 indexed citations

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Trajković, Katarina, et al.. (2008). Identification of Tmem10/Opalin as a novel marker for oligodendrocytes using gene expression profiling. BMC Neuroscience. 9(1). 40–40. 29 indexed citations

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Fitzner, Dirk, Anja Schneider, Wiebke Möbius, et al.. (2006). Myelin basic protein‐dependent plasma membrane reorganization in the formation of myelin. The EMBO Journal. 25(21). 5037–5048. 96 indexed citations

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