Dirk Meyer

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Dirk Meyer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Meyer has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Surgery and 15 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Meyer's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (19 papers), Congenital heart defects research (16 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (14 papers). Dirk Meyer is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (19 papers), Congenital heart defects research (16 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (14 papers). Dirk Meyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Dirk Meyer's co-authors include Carmen Birchmeier, K. Michael Weidner, Reinhold Schmidt, J. Engelbert Gessner, Erez Raz, Wouter L. W. Hazenbos, J. Sjef Verbeek, Joshua R. Sanes, Heather Flanagan‐Steet and Michael A. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Meyer

75 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

Multiple essential functions of neuregulin in development

1995 996 citations Dirk Meyer, Carmen Birchmeier Nature profile →
Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor and its receptor, the c-met tyrosine kinase, can mediate a signal exchange between mesenchyme and epithelia during mouse development.

1993 601 citations Dirk Meyer, Carmen Birchmeier et al. profile →
Guidance of Primordial Germ Cell Migration by the Chemokine SDF-1

2002 550 citations Dirk Meyer, Erez Raz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Meyer Germany	34	3.1k	1.0k	967	910	828	76	5.8k
Dieter Riethmacher Germany	38	4.5k 1.5×	834 0.8×	888 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	60	8.6k
Stanislav I. Tomarev United States	50	4.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	962 1.0×	377 0.4×	923 1.1×	114	7.2k
Danny Huylebroeck Belgium	58	8.3k 2.7×	1.6k 1.5×	964 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	679 0.8×	163	11.7k
Ian W. McLean United States	31	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	746 0.8×	882 1.0×	726 0.9×	82	6.7k
Siew‐Lan Ang United States	37	4.4k 1.4×	452 0.4×	462 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	640 0.8×	48	6.2k
Corrinne G. Lobe Canada	31	3.4k 1.1×	522 0.5×	418 0.4×	689 0.8×	536 0.6×	48	5.3k
Satoshi Hattori Japan	39	2.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.9×	578 0.6×	2.0k 2.2×	312 0.4×	182	7.0k
Matthew P. Hoffman United States	45	2.6k 0.8×	479 0.5×	1.6k 1.6×	258 0.3×	567 0.7×	82	5.8k
Malcolm Whitman United States	44	8.6k 2.8×	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	753 0.8×	341 0.4×	82	10.3k
Gerry Weinmaster United States	59	10.6k 3.4×	1.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.9k 2.2×	86	14.4k

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Mayer, E, et al.. (2024). Conserved glucokinase regulation in zebrafish confirms therapeutic utility for pharmacologic modulation in diabetes. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1557–1557. 3 indexed citations

Graber, Michael, Felix Nägele, Jakob Hirsch, et al.. (2022). Prevention of Oxidative Damage in Spinal Cord Ischemia Upon Aortic Surgery: First‐In‐Human Results of Shock Wave Therapy Prove Safety and Feasibility. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(20). 4 indexed citations

Meyer, Dirk, et al.. (2020). Inducible Mosaic Cell Labeling Provides Insights Into Pancreatic Islet Morphogenesis. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 586651–586651.

Fischer, Patrick, et al.. (2019). FoxH1 represses miR-430 during early embryonic development of zebrafish via non-canonical regulation. BMC Biology. 17(1). 61–61. 7 indexed citations

Lőrincz, Réka, Christopher H. Emfinger, Michael Giolai, et al.. (2018). In vivomonitoring of intracellular Ca²⁺dynamics in the pancreatic β-cells of zebrafish embryos. Islets. 10(6). 221–238. 11 indexed citations

Kimmel, Robin A., et al.. (2015). Diabetic pdx1-mutant zebrafish show conserved responses to nutrient overload and anti-glycemic treatment. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14241–14241. 50 indexed citations

Roos, Christian, Dietmar Zinner, Laura Kubatko, et al.. (2011). Nuclear versus mitochondrial DNA: evidence for hybridization in colobine monkeys. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 77–77. 104 indexed citations

Meyer, Dirk, et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial phylogeny of leaf monkeys (genus Presbytis, Eschscholtz, 1821) with implications for taxonomy and conservation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59(2). 311–319. 45 indexed citations

Meyer, Dirk, et al.. (2011). On the use of frequency-domain reconstruction algorithms for photoacoustic imaging. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 16(8). 86002–86002. 17 indexed citations

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Kimmel, Robin A. & Dirk Meyer. (2010). Molecular Regulation of Pancreas Development in Zebrafish. Methods in cell biology. 100. 261–280. 26 indexed citations

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Flanagan‐Steet, Heather, Michael A. Fox, Dirk Meyer, & Joshua R. Sanes. (2005). Neuromuscular synapses can form in vivo by incorporation of initially aneural postsynaptic specializations. Development. 132(20). 4471–4481. 255 indexed citations

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Zecchin, Elisabetta, Anastasia Mavropoulos, Nathalie Devos, et al.. (2004). Evolutionary conserved role of ptf1a in the specification of exocrine pancreatic fates. Developmental Biology. 268(1). 174–184. 91 indexed citations

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Pogoda, Hans‐Martin, Lilianna Solnica‐Krezel, Wolfgang Driever, & Dirk Meyer. (2000). The zebrafish forkhead transcription factor FoxH1/Fast1 is a modulator of Nodal signaling required for organizer formation. Current Biology. 10(17). 1041–1049. 133 indexed citations

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Behrens, Georg M. N., Dirk Meyer, Matthias Stoll, & Reinhold Schmidt. (2000). Immune Reconstitution Syndromes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Following Effective Antiretroviral Therapy. Immunobiology. 202(2). 186–193. 33 indexed citations

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Yaniv, Karina, Froma Oberman, Uta Wolke, et al.. (1999). Vg1 RBP intracellular distribution and evolutionarily conserved expression at multiple stages during development. Mechanisms of Development. 88(1). 101–106. 52 indexed citations

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Grapin‐Botton, Anne, et al.. (1998). The avian fli gene is specifically expressed during embryogenesis in a subset of neural crest cells giving rise to mesenchyme. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 42(4). 561–572. 37 indexed citations

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Meyer, Dirk, Jörg Schubert, Claudia Scholz, Sabine Braun, & Reinhold Schmidt. (1997). MHC-I antigen expression determines sensitivity of hematopoetic progenitor cells as targets for NK cells. Immunobiology. 197(5). 494–504. 6 indexed citations

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Meyer, Dirk, et al.. (1995). Whole-mount in situ hybridization reveals the expression of the Xl-Fli gene in several lineages of migrating cells in Xenopus embryos. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 39(6). 909–919. 42 indexed citations

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Meyer, Dirk & Carmen Birchmeier. (1995). Multiple essential functions of neuregulin in development. Nature. 378(6555). 386–390. 996 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sorgo, W., Dirk Meyer, J. Homoki, et al.. (1988). Testosterone-Secreting Adrenocortical Tumor in a Pubertal Girl. Hormone Research. 30(6). 217–223. 6 indexed citations

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