Geert Jan Biessels

48.8k citations

439 papers · 26.2k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 84

Impact in

Neurology top 0.02%
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neurological Disorders and Treatments
Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.1%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Papers in

Neurology 115
- Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 71
- Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research 43
Psychiatry and Mental health 133
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 127

Co-authors: L. Jaap Kappelle Willem Hendrik Gispen Esther van den Berg Philip Scheltens Florin Despa Yaël D. Reijmer Amer Kamal Carol Brayne
Journals: Journal of Alzheimer s Disease (22 papers)Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (19 papers)Stroke (17 papers)Alzheimer s & Dementia (16 papers)Journal of the Neurological Sciences (14 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Geert Jan Biessels

425 papers receiving 25.8k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Type 2 diabetes and cognitive dysfunction—towards effective management of both comorbidities 2020 · 299 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
2019 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
2018 Nature Reviews Endocrinology
2015 Nature reviews. Neuroscience
2014 NeuroImage
2013 The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
2012 The Lancet Neurology
2005 The Lancet Neurology
2005 Diabetes Care
2000 Trends in Neurosciences

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1	The relation between cerebral small vessel function and white matter microstructure in monogenic and sporadic small vessel disease - the ZOOM@SVDs study PubMed ·Naomi Vlegels, Hilde van den Brink, Anna Kopczak, Tine Arts, Stanley Pham, Jeroen C.W. Siero, Benno Gesierich, Alberto De Luca, Marco Duering, Jaco J.M. Zwanenburg, Martin Dichgans, Geert Jan Biessels	2025	1
2	Relation between Cerebral Small Vessel Function at 7T MRI and Small Vessel Disease Burden in a General Aging Population Cerebrovascular Diseases ·Stanley Pham, Madouc B. Linders, Anna Maria Streiber, Carmen Kuenen, Jeroen C.W. Siero, Nikki Dieleman, Jaco J.M. Zwanenburg, Julia Neitzel, Daniel Bos, Marleen de Bruijne, Meike W. Vernooij, Geert Jan Biessels	2025	0
3	Dementia Risk in People With Type 1 Diabetes and Associated Risk Factors: A Nationwide, Register-Based Cohort Study Diabetes Care ·Milena Jancev, Björn Eliasson, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Katarina Eeg‐Olofsson, Tali Cukierman‐Yaffe, Geert Jan Biessels, J. Hans DeVries, Frank L.J. Visseren, Naveed Sattar, Thomas T. van Sloten	2025	0
4	Microstructural white matter damage on MRI is associated with disease severity in Dutch-type cerebral amyloid angiopathy Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism ·Ingeborg Rasing, Naomi Vlegels, M. Schipper, Sabine Voigt, Emma A. Koemans, Kanishk Kaushik, Rosemarie van Dort, Thijs W. van Harten, Alberto De Luca, Ellis S. van Etten, Erik W. van Zwet, Mark A. van Buchem, Huub A. M. Middelkoop, Geert Jan Biessels, Gisela M. Terwindt, Matthias J.P. van Osch, Marianne AA van Walderveen, Marieke J.H. Wermer	2024	2
5	Assessment of Small Vessel Function Using 7T MRI in Patients With Sporadic Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Neurology ·Hilde van den Brink, Stanley Pham, Jeroen C.W. Siero, Tine Arts, Laurien Onkenhout, Hugo J. Kuijf, Jeroen Hendrikse, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Martin Dichgans, Jaco J.M. Zwanenburg, Geert Jan Biessels	2024	5
6	Systemic determinants of brain health in ageing Nature Reviews Neurology ·Eric E. Smith, Geert Jan Biessels, Virginia Gao, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Arthur Liesz, Neal S. Parikh, Costantino Iadecola	2024	10
7	Orthostatic hypotension, cognition and structural brain imaging in hemodynamically impaired patients Journal of the Neurological Sciences ·Naomi Louisa Paula Starmans, Frank J. Wolters, Anna E. Leeuwis, Esther E. Bron, Jeroen de Bresser, Hans‐Peter Brunner‐La Rocca, Julie Staals, Majon Muller, Geert Jan Biessels, L. Jaap Kappelle	2024	3
8	Are we ready to cure post-stroke cognitive impairment? Many key prerequisites can be achieved quickly and easily European Stroke Journal ·Olivier Godefroy, Ardalan Aarabi, Yannick Béjot, Geert Jan Biessels, Bertrand Glize, Vincent Mok, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Igor Sibon, Hugues Chabriat, Martine Roussel	2024	1
9	Identifying factors affecting resilience in atrophy-based subtypes of vascular cognitive impairment SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Vikram Venkatraghavan, Betty M. Tijms, Hugo J. Kuijf, Alberto De Luca, Esther E. Bron, Argonde van Harten, Lieza G. Exalto, Frederik Barkhof, Rik Ossenkoppele, Geert Jan Biessels, Wiesje M. van der Flier	2024	0
10	Disentangling poststroke cognitive deficits and their neuroanatomical correlates through combined multivariable and multioutcome lesion‐symptom mapping Human Brain Mapping ·Nick A. Weaver, Muhammad Hasnain Mamdani, Jae‐Sung Lim, J. Matthijs Biesbroek, Geert Jan Biessels, Irene M.C. Huenges Wajer, Yeonwook Kang, Beom Joon Kim, Byung‐Chul Lee, Keon‐Joo Lee, Kyung‐Ho Yu, Hee‐Joon Bae, Danilo Bzdok, Hugo J. Kuijf	2023	2
11	Predicting Cognitive Decline in Older Adults Using Baseline Metrics of AD Pathologies, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Neurodegeneration Neurology ·Lloyd Prosser, Amy MacDougall, Carole H. Sudre, Emily N. Manning, Ian B. Malone, Phoebe Walsh, Olivia Goodkin, Hugh Pemberton, Frederik Barkhof, Geert Jan Biessels, David M. Cash, Josephine Barnes, (unknown)	2022	11
12	Females with type 2 diabetes are at higher risk for accelerated cognitive decline than males: CAROLINA-COGNITION study Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases ·C. Verhagen, Jolien Janssen, Geert Jan Biessels, Odd Erik Johansen, Lieza G. Exalto	2021	23
13	Subjective cognitive decline, brain imaging biomarkers, and cognitive functioning in patients with a history of vascular disease: the SMART-Medea study Neurobiology of Aging ·Kim Blom, Huiberdina L. Koek, Maarten H.T. Zwartbol, Yolanda van der Graaf, Lara Kesseler, Geert Jan Biessels, Mirjam I. Geerlings, Yolanda van der Graaf, Diederick E. Grobbee, Guy E.H.M. Rutten, Frank L.J. Visseren, Gert Jan de Borst, L. Jaap Kappelle, Tim Leiner, Pieter A. Doevendans	2019	17
14	Nonfocal transient neurological attacks are related to cognitive impairment in patients with heart failure Journal of Neurology ·Eline A. Oudeman, Jacoba P. Greving, Astrid M. Hooghiemstra, Hans‐Peter Brunner‐La Rocca, Geert Jan Biessels, L. Jaap Kappelle	2019	1
15	Hypoglycemia and cognitive decline in older people with type 2 diabetes: a bidirectional relationship Geert Jan Biessels	2014	6
16	Major depressive episodes over the course of 7 years and hippocampal subfield volumes at 7 tesla MRI: The PREDICT-MR study Journal of Affective Disorders ·Laura E.M. Wisse, Geert Jan Biessels, Bauke T. Stegenga, Minke Kooistra, Paul Veen, Jaco J.M. Zwanenburg, Yolanda van der Graaf, Mirjam I. Geerlings	2014	39
17	Diabetes and the Brain Humana Press eBooks ·Geert Jan Biessels, José A. Luchsinger	2009	12
18	Insulin inhibits extracellular regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation in a phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase (PI3) kinase‐dependent manner in Neuro2a cells Journal of Neurochemistry ·Lars P. van der Heide, Marco F.M. Hoekman, Geert Jan Biessels, W.H. Gispen	2003	32
19	Neuroprotection in Diabetic and Toxic Neuropathies Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) ·W.H. Gispen, Frank P.T. Hamers, Geert Jan Biessels, P. Sytze van Dam	1997	4
20	The effect of diabetes mellitus on development of autonomic neuropathy in the rat: Beneficial effects of the ACTH4-9 analogue Org 2766 on existing diabetic neuropathy Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·W.H. Gispen, A.C. Kappelle, Geert Jan Biessels, T. van Buren, Bert Bravenboer, Dick J. De Wildt	1994	6

About Geert Jan Biessels

Geert Jan Biessels is a scholar working on Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, having authored 439 papers that have together received 26.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (127 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (117 papers), Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (90 papers), Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (71 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (54 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (45 papers), Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research (43 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (42 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (6.4k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (5.5k citations), Physiology (7.3k citations), Neurology (4.2k citations) and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (4.6k citations). Geert Jan Biessels has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include L. Jaap Kappelle, Willem Hendrik Gispen, Esther van den Berg, Philip Scheltens, Florin Despa, Yaël D. Reijmer, Amer Kamal, Carol Brayne, Salka S. Staekenborg and Eric J. Brunner. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, Stroke, Alzheimer s & Dementia and Journal of the Neurological Sciences.

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