Gregers Wegener

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
252 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Gregers Wegener is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregers Wegener has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 74 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 60 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gregers Wegener's work include Tryptophan and brain disorders (74 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (72 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (57 papers). Gregers Wegener is often cited by papers focused on Tryptophan and brain disorders (74 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (72 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (57 papers). Gregers Wegener collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, South Africa and United States. Gregers Wegener's co-authors include Betina Elfving, Vallo Volke, Sâmia Joca, Raben Rosenberg, Heidi Kaastrup Müller, Brian H. Harvey, Jens Randel Nyengaard, Aleksander A. Mathé, Sten Lund and Fenghua Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gregers Wegener

247 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 – A systematic review

2021 269 citations Sâmia Joca, Gregers Wegener et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregers Wegener Denmark	51	2.6k	2.3k	1.9k	1.9k	1.6k	252	8.1k
Gislaine Z. Réus Brazil	47	1.8k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	167	7.3k
Vaishnav Krishnan United States	27	2.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	789 0.5×	57	8.7k
Juan C. Leza Spain	59	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	229	9.7k
Etienne Sibille United States	54	3.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	3.1k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	810 0.5×	177	9.5k
Yogesh Dwivedi United States	55	3.3k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	3.7k 1.9×	2.2k 1.2×	862 0.5×	174	10.4k
Connie Sánchez Denmark	52	3.8k 1.5×	1.7k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.7×	210	8.6k
Alain M. Gardier France	48	4.8k 1.8×	1.8k 0.8×	3.3k 1.7×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	156	8.7k
Michel Bourin France	54	4.8k 1.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	307	10.9k
Marco Andrea Riva Italy	63	4.7k 1.8×	3.2k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	3.8k 2.1×	1.1k 0.7×	299	13.0k
Thomas C. Baghai Germany	45	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	170	6.7k

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Kõiv, Kadri, et al.. (2025). Ultrasonic vocalisations in the Flinders Sensitive Line rat, a genetic animal model of depression. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 37. e3–e3.

Ilaghi, Mehran, et al.. (2024). Predictive utility of artificial intelligence on schizophrenia treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 105968–105968. 3 indexed citations

Ilaghi, Mehran, et al.. (2024). Regulation of mitochondrial dysfunction by estrogens and estrogen receptors in Alzheimer's disease: A focused review. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology. 135(2). 115–132. 7 indexed citations

Joca, Sâmia, et al.. (2024). Approaches to embryonic neurodevelopment: from neural cell to neural tube formation through mathematical models. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(4). 1 indexed citations

Ilaghi, Mehran, et al.. (2024). Exploring the potential link between ΔFosB and N-acetylcysteine in craving/relapse dynamics: can N-acetylcysteine stand out as a possible treatment candidate?. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 37. e31–e31. 1 indexed citations

Bærentzen, Simone Larsen, Aage Kristian Olsen Alstrup, Gregers Wegener, et al.. (2024). Excessive sucrose consumption reduces synaptic density and increases cannabinoid receptors in Göttingen minipigs. Neuropharmacology. 256. 110018–110018. 2 indexed citations

Mookerjee, Rajeshwar P., et al.. (2022). Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Also a Disease of the Brain? A Systematic Review of the Preclinical Evidence. Neurochemical Research. 49(6). 1468–1488. 10 indexed citations

Landau, Anne M., et al.. (2022). The intersection of astrocytes and the endocannabinoid system in the lateral habenula: on the fast-track to novel rapid-acting antidepressants. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(8). 3138–3149. 7 indexed citations

Gobira, Pedro H., Ariandra Guerini Sartim, Gregers Wegener, et al.. (2022). CB1 Receptor Silencing Attenuates Ketamine-Induced Hyperlocomotion Without Compromising Its Antidepressant-Like Effects. Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. 8(5). 768–778. 7 indexed citations

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Stone, Jennifer, et al.. (2022). Reporting quality in preclinical animal experimental research in 2009 and 2018: A nationwide systematic investigation. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0275962–e0275962. 10 indexed citations

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Pouretemad, Hamidreza, et al.. (2021). Dual Profile of Environmental Enrichment and Autistic-Like Behaviors in the Maternal Separated Model in Rats. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(3). 1173–1173. 18 indexed citations

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Ardalan, Maryam, Tetyana Chumak, Kasper Hansen, et al.. (2020). Flinders sensitive line rats are resistant to infarction following transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery. Brain Research. 1737. 146797–146797. 1 indexed citations

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Kohtala, Samuel, Wiebke Theilmann, Heidi Kaastrup Müller, et al.. (2019). Ketamine-induced regulation of TrkB-GSK3β signaling is accompanied by slow EEG oscillations and sedation but is independent of hydroxynorketamine metabolites. Neuropharmacology. 157. 107684–107684. 19 indexed citations

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Musazzi, Laura, Nathalie Sala, Paolo Tornese, et al.. (2019). Acute Inescapable Stress Rapidly Increases Synaptic Energy Metabolism in Prefrontal Cortex and Alters Working Memory Performance. Cerebral Cortex. 29(12). 4948–4957. 24 indexed citations

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Rajkumar, Anto P., Jonatan Pallesen, Jakob Grove, et al.. (2018). Brain proteome changes in female Brd1 mice unmask dendritic spine pathology and show enrichment for schizophrenia risk. Neurobiology of Disease. 124. 479–488. 13 indexed citations

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Aalling, Nadia, Ida Hageman, Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak, et al.. (2017). Erythropoietin prevents the effect of chronic restraint stress on the number of hippocampal CA3c dendritic terminals—relation to expression of genes involved in synaptic plasticity, angiogenesis, inflammation, and oxidative stress in male rats. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 96(1). 103–116. 12 indexed citations

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Wegener, Gregers, et al.. (2015). Estimation of shape and orientation of neurons in thick histological sections by volume tensors. Image Analysis & Stereology. 1 indexed citations

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Slattery, David A., Roshan Ratnakar Naik, Thomas Grund, et al.. (2015). Selective Breeding for High Anxiety Introduces a Synonymous SNP That Increases Neuropeptide S Receptor Activity. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(11). 4599–4613. 50 indexed citations

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Müller, Heidi Kaastrup, Dariusz Orłowski, Carsten Reidies Bjarkam, Gregers Wegener, & Betina Elfving. (2015). Potential roles for Homer1 and Spinophilin in the preventive effect of electroconvulsive seizures on stress-induced CA3c dendritic retraction in the hippocampus. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 25(8). 1324–1331. 17 indexed citations

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Kjær, Susanne K., Gregers Wegener, Sebastian Rosenberg, & Karin Sørig Hougaard. (2010). Reduced Mobility But Unaffected Startle Response in Female Rats Exposed to Prenatal Dexamethasone: Different Sides to a Phenotype. Developmental Neuroscience. 32(3). 208–216. 6 indexed citations

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