Fredrik Ek

966 total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 704 citations indexed

About

Fredrik Ek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Fredrik Ek has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 704 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Fredrik Ek's work include Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (5 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (4 papers). Fredrik Ek is often cited by papers focused on Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (5 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (4 papers). Fredrik Ek collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Denmark. Fredrik Ek's co-authors include Roger Olsson, Torbjörn Frejd, Lars‐Göran Wistrand, Karin Hellman, Mattias Andersson, Martin Hjort, Peter Ekström, David Bliman, Annika Friberg and Xenofon Strakosas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Fredrik Ek

40 papers receiving 688 citations

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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.

Metabolite-induced in vivo fabrication of substrate-free organic bioelectronics

2023 109 citations Xenofon Strakosas, Tobias Abrahamsson et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fredrik Ek Sweden	16	236	214	138	106	80	43	704
Jun‐ichi Ishiyama Japan	18	234 1.0×	339 1.6×	108 0.8×	67 0.6×	68 0.8×	60	944
Maki Miyamoto Japan	19	173 0.7×	518 2.4×	139 1.0×	41 0.4×	117 1.5×	59	1.2k
Sébastien Marais France	9	182 0.8×	399 1.9×	188 1.4×	182 1.7×	48 0.6×	16	826
Adam Henke United States	11	87 0.4×	180 0.8×	161 1.2×	28 0.3×	41 0.5×	16	544
Pamela R. Westmark United States	18	136 0.6×	476 2.2×	195 1.4×	46 0.4×	61 0.8×	36	1.1k
Beatrice Chelli Italy	20	144 0.6×	354 1.7×	306 2.2×	121 1.1×	44 0.6×	30	902
Kyo Chul Lee South Korea	21	228 1.0×	298 1.4×	137 1.0×	193 1.8×	22 0.3×	112	1.3k
Xiang Yi United States	21	176 0.7×	382 1.8×	145 1.1×	227 2.1×	72 0.9×	24	1.2k
Peter A. Petillo United States	20	503 2.1×	380 1.8×	70 0.5×	44 0.4×	128 1.6×	50	1.1k
Heather A. Behanna United States	12	311 1.3×	479 2.2×	109 0.8×	91 0.9×	59 0.7×	15	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fredrik Ek

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Musumeci, Chiara, Michael Larsson, Jonas Larsson, et al.. (2025). Lithography-Free Water Stable Conductive Polymer Nanowires. Nano Letters. 25(8). 3059–3065.

Yadav, Amit Singh, Karin Hellman, Peter Ekström, et al.. (2025). Injectable bioresorbable conductive hydrogels for multimodal brain tumor electroimmunotherapy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9702–9702. 1 indexed citations

Dicko, Cedric, Xenofon Strakosas, Karin Hellman, et al.. (2024). In situ assembly of an injectable cardiac stimulator. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6774–6774. 8 indexed citations

Abrahamsson, Tobias, Mary J. Donahue, Xenofon Strakosas, et al.. (2024). Tuning the Organic Electrochemical Transistor (OECT) Threshold Voltage with Monomer Blends. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(17). 2 indexed citations

Ek, Fredrik, Tobias Abrahamsson, Sebastian Bormann, et al.. (2024). In Vivo Photopolymerization: Achieving Detailed Conducting Patterns for Bioelectronics. Advanced Science. 11(48). e2408628–e2408628. 2 indexed citations

Topi, Geriolda, Shakti Ranjan Satapathy, Souvik Ghatak, et al.. (2024). High Oestrogen receptor alpha expression correlates with adverse prognosis and promotes metastasis in colorectal cancer. Cell Communication and Signaling. 22(1). 198–198. 10 indexed citations

Strakosas, Xenofon, Tobias Abrahamsson, Karin Hellman, et al.. (2023). Metabolite-induced in vivo fabrication of substrate-free organic bioelectronics. Science. 379(6634). 795–802. 109 indexed citations breakdown →

Ek, Fredrik, Agatheeswaran Subramaniam, Yun-Ruei Kao, et al.. (2023). Ciclopirox ethanolamine preserves the immature state of human HSCs by mediating intracellular iron content. Blood Advances. 7(24). 7407–7417. 2 indexed citations

Hjort, Martin, David Bliman, Karin Hellman, et al.. (2023). In situ assembly of bioresorbable organic bioelectronics in the brain. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4453–4453. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Jiaxin, Fredrik Ek, Roger Olsson, Mattias Belting, & Johan Bengzon. (2022). Glioblastoma CD105+ cells define a SOX2− cancer stem cell-like subpopulation in the pre-invasive niche. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 10(1). 126–126. 7 indexed citations

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Dash, Pujarini, Souvik Ghatak, Geriolda Topi, et al.. (2021). High PGD2 receptor 2 levels are associated with poor prognosis in colorectal cancer patients and induce VEGF expression in colon cancer cells and migration in a zebrafish xenograft model. British Journal of Cancer. 126(4). 586–597. 11 indexed citations

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Palma-Tortosa, Sara, Carl Sandén, Thoas Fioretos, et al.. (2020). Combinatorial molecule screening identified a novel diterpene and the BET inhibitor CPI-203 as differentiation inducers of primary acute myeloid leukemia cells. Haematologica. 106(10). 2566–2577. 5 indexed citations

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Freiburghaus, C., Christian Winther Eskelund, Kirsten Grønbæk, et al.. (2018). Bortezomib prevents cytarabine resistance in MCL, which is characterized by down-regulation of dCK and up-regulation of SPIB resulting in high NF-κB activity. BMC Cancer. 18(1). 466–466. 5 indexed citations

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Jönsson, Mikael, et al.. (2017). Osmotic Concentration of Zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) Body Fluids Is Lower in Larvae than in Adults. Zebrafish. 15(1). 9–14. 3 indexed citations

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Ek, Fredrik, et al.. (2017). Action sequencing in the spontaneous swimming behavior of zebrafish larvae - implications for drug development. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 3191–3191. 20 indexed citations

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Pfisterer, Ulrich, Fredrik Ek, Stefan Lang, et al.. (2016). Small molecules increase direct neural conversion of human fibroblasts. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38290–38290. 43 indexed citations

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Andersson, Mattias, Fredrik Ek, & Roger Olsson. (2015). Using visual lateralization to model learning and memory in zebrafish larvae. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8667–8667. 28 indexed citations

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Lameh, Jelveh, Krista McFarland, Jörgen Ohlsson, et al.. (2011). Discovery of potential antipsychotic agents possessing pro-cognitive properties. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 385(3). 313–323. 6 indexed citations

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Thunberg, Linda, Stig Allenmark, Annika Friberg, Fredrik Ek, & Torbjörn Frejd. (2004). Evaluation of two pairs of chiral stationary phases: Effects from the length of the achiral spacers. Chirality. 16(9). 614–624. 23 indexed citations

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Grand, Adélaïde Le, et al.. (1997). Bloc des branches perforantes latérales des nerfs sous-costal et iliohypogastrique pour la chirurgie proximale du fémur. Annales Françaises d Anesthésie et de Réanimation. 16(8). 982–984. 10 indexed citations

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