Gerlinde A. S. Metz

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
185 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Gerlinde A. S. Metz is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerlinde A. S. Metz has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 39 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 34 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Gerlinde A. S. Metz's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (50 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (35 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (27 papers). Gerlinde A. S. Metz is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (50 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (35 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (27 papers). Gerlinde A. S. Metz collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iran and Germany. Gerlinde A. S. Metz's co-authors include Ian Q. Whishaw, Martin E. Schwab, Igor Kovalchuk, Volker Dietz, Karim Fouad, Olena Babenko, Jamshid Faraji, Megan J. Metzler, Doron Merkler and Gwendolyn L. Kartje and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Gerlinde A. S. Metz

178 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination

2002 559 citations Gerlinde A. S. Metz et al. Journal of Neuroscience Methods profile →
Stress-induced perinatal and transgenerational epigenetic programming of brain development and mental health

2014 368 citations Igor Kovalchuk, Gerlinde A. S. Metz et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerlinde A. S. Metz Canada	46	2.4k	1.6k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	185	8.2k
Sandrine Thuret United Kingdom	37	2.7k 1.1×	618 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	385 0.3×	97	8.9k
Rainer Hellweg Germany	50	3.8k 1.6×	445 0.3×	961 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	276 0.2×	194	8.5k
Luigi Aloe Italy	71	8.5k 3.5×	911 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	3.8k 3.3×	835 0.7×	432	18.8k
Francesco Angelucci Italy	45	2.2k 0.9×	336 0.2×	838 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	267 0.2×	130	5.7k
Jeffrey A. Woods United States	51	789 0.3×	441 0.3×	876 0.7×	2.3k 2.0×	329 0.3×	146	12.2k
Dale Corbett Canada	61	3.3k 1.3×	771 0.5×	4.2k 3.5×	1.5k 1.3×	826 0.7×	181	13.5k
Farida Sohrabji United States	43	1.3k 0.5×	367 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	344 0.3×	107	6.5k
Martin Koltzenburg United Kingdom	65	5.6k 2.3×	732 0.5×	685 0.6×	3.6k 3.1×	698 0.6×	171	17.6k
Timothy Schallert United States	70	6.1k 2.5×	1.0k 0.6×	3.1k 2.6×	2.9k 2.5×	1.2k 1.0×	218	16.7k
Eduardo E. Benarroch United States	73	3.9k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.7×	2.5k 2.2×	454 0.4×	351	17.4k

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Faraji, Jamshid & Gerlinde A. S. Metz. (2026). Environmental epigenetics: new horizons in redefining biological and health outcomes. Environment International. 208. 110072–110072.

Metz, Gerlinde A. S., et al.. (2024). What Comes after Moral Injury?—Considerations of Post-Traumatic Growth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 219–228. 3 indexed citations

Dukelow, Sean P., et al.. (2024). Blood-Derived Metabolic Signatures as Biomarkers of Injury Severity in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study. Metabolites. 14(2). 105–105.

McDonald, Robert J., et al.. (2023). Effects of maternal social isolation on adult rodent offspring cognition. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7748–7748. 7 indexed citations

Dukelow, Sean P., et al.. (2023). Identification of Serum Metabolites as Prognostic Biomarkers Following Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study. Metabolites. 13(5). 605–605. 9 indexed citations

Simcock, Gabrielle, Sue Kildea, Marie‐Paule Austin, et al.. (2023). Urinary 1H NMR Metabolomic Analysis of Prenatal Maternal Stress Due to a Natural Disaster Reveals Metabolic Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study. Metabolites. 13(4). 579–579. 4 indexed citations

Faraji, Jamshid, et al.. (2021). Regional differences in BDNF expression and behavior as a function of sex and enrichment type: oxytocin matters. Cerebral Cortex. 32(14). 2985–2999. 7 indexed citations

Dukelow, Sean P., et al.. (2021). Alterations in Urine Metabolomics Following Sport-Related Concussion: A 1H NMR-Based Analysis. Frontiers in Neurology. 12. 645829–645829. 9 indexed citations

Olson, David M., Suzette Brémault‐Phillips, Suzanne King, et al.. (2019). Recent Canadian efforts to develop population-level pregnancy intervention studies to mitigate effects of natural disasters and other tragedies. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 10(1). 108–114. 19 indexed citations

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Kingston, Dawn, Muhammad Kashif Mughal, Muhammad Arshad, et al.. (2019). Prediction and Understanding of Resilience in Albertan Families: Longitudinal Study of Disaster Responses (PURLS) – Protocol. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 10. 729–729. 7 indexed citations

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Frasch, Martin G., Silvia M. Lobmaier, Tamara Stampalija, et al.. (2018). Non-invasive biomarkers of fetal brain development reflecting prenatal stress: An integrative multi-scale multi-species perspective on data collection and analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 117. 165–183. 34 indexed citations

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McCreary, J. & Gerlinde A. S. Metz. (2016). Environmental enrichment as an intervention for adverse health outcomes of prenatal stress. Current Zoology. 2(3). dvw013–dvw013. 48 indexed citations

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Zucchi, Fabíola Cristina Ribeiro, Youli Yao, Yaroslav Ilnytskyy, et al.. (2013). Maternal Stress Induces Epigenetic Signatures of Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases in the Offspring. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56967–e56967. 143 indexed citations

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Kolb, Bryan, et al.. (2013). Stress and risk avoidance by exploring rats: Implications for stress management in fear-related behaviours. Behavioural Processes. 94. 89–98. 13 indexed citations

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Faraji, Jamshid, Maede Ejaredar, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, & Robert J. Sutherland. (2011). Chronic stress prior to hippocampal stroke enhances post-stroke spatial deficits in the ziggurat task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 95(3). 335–345. 21 indexed citations

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Faraji, Jamshid, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, & Robert J. Sutherland. (2009). Characterization of spatial performance in male and female Long-Evans rats by means of the Morris water task and the ziggurat task. Brain Research Bulletin. 81(1). 164–172. 36 indexed citations

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Klein, Alexander, et al.. (2008). Walking pattern analysis after unilateral 6-OHDA lesion and transplantation of foetal dopaminergic progenitor cells in rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 199(2). 317–325. 35 indexed citations

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Riek‐Burchardt, Monika, Petra Henrich‐Noack, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, & Klaus G. Reymann. (2004). Detection of chronic sensorimotor impairments in the ladder rung walking task in rats with endothelin-1-induced mild focal ischemia. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 137(2). 227–233. 20 indexed citations

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Merkler, Doron, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, Olivier Raineteau, et al.. (2001). Locomotor Recovery in Spinal Cord-Injured Rats Treated with an Antibody Neutralizing the Myelin-Associated Neurite Growth Inhibitor Nogo-A. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(10). 3665–3673. 268 indexed citations

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Metz, J.A.J. & Gerlinde A. S. Metz. (1978). [Nevoid hair bundles in man].. PubMed. 29(11). 586–9. 8 indexed citations

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