Fulya Akçimen

945 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 385 citations indexed

About

Fulya Akçimen is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fulya Akçimen has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 385 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Neurology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fulya Akçimen's work include Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (7 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (7 papers) and Restless Legs Syndrome Research (6 papers). Fulya Akçimen is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (7 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (7 papers) and Restless Legs Syndrome Research (6 papers). Fulya Akçimen collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Türkiye and United States. Fulya Akçimen's co-authors include Guy A. Rouleau, Patrick A. Dion, Calwing Liao, Avindra Nath, Bryan J. Traynor, Ruth Chia, John E. Landers, Adriano Chiò, Dan Spiegelman and Jay P. Ross and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Fulya Akçimen

24 papers receiving 384 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.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies

2023 103 citations Fulya Akçimen, John E. Landers et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fulya Akçimen Canada	11	182	141	118	77	77	24	385
Katyayani Singh Estonia	10	180 1.0×	165 1.2×	92 0.8×	96 1.2×	42 0.5×	13	405
Carlo Wilke Germany	18	144 0.8×	305 2.2×	138 1.2×	93 1.2×	44 0.6×	24	556
Sarah‐Ann Aelvoet Belgium	7	180 1.0×	105 0.7×	163 1.4×	27 0.4×	32 0.4×	7	442
Carl T. Fulp United States	7	208 1.1×	118 0.8×	196 1.7×	54 0.7×	163 2.1×	8	533
Maria Chiara Malaguti Italy	7	118 0.6×	75 0.5×	42 0.4×	32 0.4×	60 0.8×	18	303
Lisa P. Elia United States	6	203 1.1×	142 1.0×	121 1.0×	33 0.4×	33 0.4×	6	451
Sandra Martins Portugal	15	351 1.9×	171 1.2×	329 2.8×	49 0.6×	65 0.8×	39	503
Terri L. Petkau Canada	12	189 1.0×	390 2.8×	82 0.7×	98 1.3×	41 0.5×	18	618
Eliana Marisa Ramos United States	12	162 0.9×	159 1.1×	91 0.8×	21 0.3×	26 0.3×	24	482
Antonio Berretta United Kingdom	11	156 0.9×	154 1.1×	158 1.3×	14 0.2×	68 0.9×	15	486

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20 of 20 papers shown

Akçimen, Fulya, Ruth Chia, Sara Sáez-Atiénzar, et al.. (2024). Genomic Analysis Identifies Risk Factors in Restless Legs Syndrome. Annals of Neurology. 96(5). 994–1005. 2 indexed citations

Ross, Jay P., Fulya Akçimen, Calwing Liao, et al.. (2023). Rare-variant and polygenic analyses of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the French-Canadian genome. Genetics in Medicine. 26(1). 100967–100967. 1 indexed citations

Akçimen, Fulya, John E. Landers, Avindra Nath, et al.. (2023). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies. Nature Reviews Genetics. 24(9). 642–658. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

Ross, Jay P., Fulya Akçimen, Calwing Liao, et al.. (2022). Questioning the Association of the STMN2 Dinucleotide Repeat With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neurology Genetics. 8(4). e678–e678. 1 indexed citations

Liao, Calwing, Hélène Catoire, Fulya Akçimen, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome-wide association study reveals increased neuronal FLT3 expression is associated with Tourette’s syndrome. Communications Biology. 5(1). 289–289. 10 indexed citations

Estiar, Mehrdad A., Eric Yu, Jay P. Ross, et al.. (2021). Evidence for Non‐Mendelian Inheritance in Spastic Paraplegia 7. Movement Disorders. 36(7). 1664–1675. 14 indexed citations

Bonadia, Luciana Cardoso, Alberto Martínez, José Luiz Pedroso, et al.. (2021). Diagnostic Yield of Whole Exome Sequencing for Adults with Ataxia: a Brazilian Perspective. The Cerebellum. 21(1). 49–54. 10 indexed citations

Spiegelman, Dan, et al.. (2020). SKOR1 has a transcriptional regulatory role on genes involved in pathways related to restless legs syndrome. European Journal of Human Genetics. 28(11). 1520–1528. 10 indexed citations

Liao, Calwing, Daniel Rochefort, Fulya Akçimen, et al.. (2020). Transcriptomic Changes Resulting From STK32B Overexpression Identify Pathways Potentially Relevant to Essential Tremor. Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 813–813. 9 indexed citations

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Kotan, Dilcan, et al.. (2020). Phenotypic and genotypic features of patients diagnosed with ALS in the city of Sakarya, Turkey. Acta Neurologica Belgica. 120(6). 1411–1418. 4 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, et al.. (2020). Transcriptome-wide association study for restless legs syndrome identifies new susceptibility genes. Communications Biology. 3(1). 373–373. 14 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, Sandra Martins, Calwing Liao, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide association study identifies genetic factors that modify age at onset in Machado-Joseph disease. Aging. 12(6). 4742–4756. 12 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, Jay P. Ross, Calwing Liao, et al.. (2019). Genetic and epidemiological characterization of restless legs syndrome in Québec. SLEEP. 43(4). 8 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, Atay Vural, Hacer Durmuş, et al.. (2019). A novel homozygous FBXO38 variant causes an early-onset distal hereditary motor neuronopathy type IID. Journal of Human Genetics. 64(11). 1141–1144. 9 indexed citations

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Dionne‐Laporte, Alexandre, Hélène Catoire, Daniel Rochefort, et al.. (2019). Mineral absorption is an enriched pathway in a brain region of restless legs syndrome patients with reduced MEIS1 expression. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0225186–e0225186. 9 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, Jay P. Ross, Cynthia V. Bourassa, et al.. (2019). Investigation of the RFC1 Repeat Expansion in a Canadian and a Brazilian Ataxia Cohort: Identification of Novel Conformations. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 1219–1219. 45 indexed citations

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Liao, Calwing, Alexandre D. Laporte, Dan Spiegelman, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome-wide association study of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder identifies associated genes and phenotypes. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4450–4450. 63 indexed citations

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Vural, Seçil, Atay Vural, Fulya Akçimen, et al.. (2018). Clinical and molecular characterization and response to acitretin in three families with Sjögren‐Larsson syndrome. International Journal of Dermatology. 57(7). 843–848. 6 indexed citations

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Akçimen, Fulya, Kemal S. Türker, Hakkı Dalçık, et al.. (2018). Assessment of the corticospinal fiber integrity in mirror movement disorder. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 54. 69–76. 3 indexed citations

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Tunca, Ceren, Fulya Akçimen, Aslı Gündoğdu-Eken, et al.. (2018). ERLIN1 mutations cause teenage-onset slowly progressive ALS in a large Turkish pedigree. European Journal of Human Genetics. 26(5). 745–748. 24 indexed citations

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