Gerald Thiel

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Gerald Thiel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Thiel has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Genetics and 29 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Gerald Thiel's work include Ion Channels and Receptors (19 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Gerald Thiel is often cited by papers focused on Ion Channels and Receptors (19 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Gerald Thiel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Gerald Thiel's co-authors include Oliver G. Rößler, Giuseppe Cibelli, Susanne Schoch, Michael Lietz, Dirk Petersohn, Mathias Hohl, Isabelle Müller, Sabine Mayer, Charles Vinson and Louis Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Thiel

154 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Regulation of life and death by the zinc finger transcription factor Egr‐1
    2002 514 citations Gerald Thiel, Giuseppe Cibelli profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald Thiel Germany 44 3.7k 1.1k 787 782 621 158 6.1k
Xinmin Zhang United States 39 4.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 720 0.9× 630 0.8× 1.2k 1.9× 140 7.2k
Willi Hunziker Switzerland 37 3.1k 0.8× 987 0.9× 560 0.7× 889 1.1× 295 0.5× 74 6.1k
Hiroshi Takemori Japan 41 3.7k 1.0× 701 0.7× 866 1.1× 632 0.8× 686 1.1× 136 5.7k
Kaoru Goto Japan 40 3.6k 1.0× 828 0.8× 826 1.0× 382 0.5× 442 0.7× 211 5.8k
Karnam S. Murthy United States 48 3.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 941 1.2× 350 0.4× 182 0.3× 174 6.3k
Adam J. Shaywitz United States 18 2.9k 0.8× 2.1k 2.0× 481 0.6× 528 0.7× 374 0.6× 41 5.6k
Pann‐Ghill Suh South Korea 43 3.6k 1.0× 645 0.6× 411 0.5× 277 0.4× 383 0.6× 117 5.2k
Jong‐Ik Hwang South Korea 33 2.6k 0.7× 892 0.8× 439 0.6× 628 0.8× 268 0.4× 110 4.2k
Xin Xu United States 33 2.9k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 475 0.6× 277 0.4× 196 0.3× 92 4.5k
Jonathan Lytton Canada 43 7.5k 2.0× 2.2k 2.1× 812 1.0× 650 0.8× 212 0.3× 91 10.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Thiel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Thiel

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All Works

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Thiel, Gerald & Oliver G. Rößler. (2023). Glucose Homeostasis and Pancreatic Islet Size Are Regulated by the Transcription Factors Elk-1 and Egr-1 and the Protein Phosphatase Calcineurin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(1). 815–815. 5 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald, et al.. (2021). Chromatin-embedded reporter genes: Quantification of stimulus-induced gene transcription. Gene. 787. 145645–145645. 9 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald, et al.. (2019). Pharmacological inhibition of TRPM8-induced gene transcription. Biochemical Pharmacology. 170. 113678–113678. 14 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald & Oliver G. Rößler. (2017). Hyperforin activates gene transcription involving transient receptor potential C6 channels. Biochemical Pharmacology. 129. 96–107. 26 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald, et al.. (2017). Regulation of Gene Transcription Following Stimulation of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels. International review of cell and molecular biology. 335. 167–189. 15 indexed citations
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Ampofo, Emmanuel, Jeannette Rudzitis‐Auth, Oliver G. Rößler, et al.. (2015). Inhibition of protein kinase CK2 suppresses tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α-induced leukocyte–endothelial cell interaction. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1852(10). 2123–2136. 26 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald, Isabelle Müller, & Oliver G. Rößler. (2014). Expression, signaling and function of Egr transcription factors in pancreatic β-cells and insulin-responsive tissues. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 388(1-2). 10–19. 23 indexed citations
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Gozdecka, Malgorzata, Saki Kondo, Janet Taylor, et al.. (2014). JNK Suppresses Tumor Formation via a Gene-Expression Program Mediated by ATF2. Cell Reports. 9(4). 1361–1374. 32 indexed citations
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Müller, Isabelle, et al.. (2012). Efficient genetic manipulation of 1321N1 astrocytoma cells using lentiviral gene transfer. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 206(2). 138–142. 31 indexed citations
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Ekici, Myriam, et al.. (2011). Chromatin structure and expression of the AMPA receptor subunit Glur2 in human glioma cells: Major regulatory role of REST and Sp1. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 113(2). 528–543. 24 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yao, Jean‐Luc Rodeau, Michel Boisbrun, et al.. (2011). EGR1 expression: A calcium and ERK1/2 mediated PPARγ-independent event involved in the antiproliferative effect of 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2 and thiazolidinediones in breast cancer cells. Biochemical Pharmacology. 81(9). 1087–1097. 17 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald & Michael Lietz. (2004). Regulator neuronaler Gene: Zinkfingerprotein REST. Biologie in unserer Zeit. 34(2). 96–101. 1 indexed citations
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James, Allan B., Ann-Marie Conway, Gerald Thiel, & Brian Morris. (2004). Egr-1 modulation of synapsin I expression: permissive effect of forskolin via cAMP. Cellular Signalling. 16(12). 1355–1362. 13 indexed citations
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Nègre‐Aminou, Pascale, Rick E.W. van Leeuwen, Gerald Thiel, et al.. (2002). Differential effect of simvastatin on activation of Rac1 vs. activation of the heat shock protein 27-mediated pathway upon oxidative stress, in human smooth muscle cells. Biochemical Pharmacology. 64(10). 1483–1491. 31 indexed citations
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Thiel, Gerald, et al.. (2001). Biological Activity of Mammalian Transcriptional Repressors. Biological Chemistry. 382(6). 891–902. 15 indexed citations
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Lietz, Michael, et al.. (1998). Inverse expression pattern of REST and synapsin I in human neuroblastoma cells.. PubMed. 379(10). 1301–4. 17 indexed citations
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Cibelli, Giuseppe, et al.. (1996). A (G+C)‐Rich Motif in the Aldolase C Promoter Functions as a Constitutive Transcriptional Enhancer Element. European Journal of Biochemistry. 237(1). 311–317. 16 indexed citations

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