Jan Jensen

10.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
87 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Jan Jensen is a scholar working on Surgery, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Jensen has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Surgery, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 39 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jan Jensen's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (66 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (24 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (20 papers). Jan Jensen is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (66 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (24 papers) and Congenital heart defects research (20 papers). Jan Jensen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Jan Jensen's co-authors include Palle Serup, Ole Madsen, R. Scott Heller, Jacob Hald, John C. Hutton, François Guillemot, Ryoichiro Kageyama, Mākoto Ishibashi, Kirstine Juhl and Suparna A. Sarkar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Jan Jensen

86 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Control of endodermal endocrine development by Hes-1

2000 907 citations Jan Jensen, Jacob Hald et al. profile →
The cation efflux transporter ZnT8 (Slc30A8) is a major autoantigen in human type 1 diabetes

2007 723 citations Janet M. Wenzlau, Kirstine Juhl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Diabetes recovery by age-dependent conversion of pancreatic δ-cells into insulin producers

2014 308 citations Jan Jensen, Guoqiang Gu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Jensen United States	44	5.2k	3.5k	3.5k	1.9k	876	87	7.5k
Maike Sander United States	45	4.7k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	975 1.1×	90	7.4k
Palle Serup Denmark	53	6.5k 1.2×	5.2k 1.5×	4.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.4×	643 0.7×	114	9.6k
Gérard Gradwohl France	40	4.5k 0.9×	5.6k 1.6×	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	68	9.2k
Frédéric P. Lemaigre Belgium	46	4.3k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.5×	781 0.4×	864 1.0×	127	8.0k
Vincenzo Cirulli United States	37	2.5k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	952 0.5×	526 0.6×	62	5.3k
Beatriz Sosa‐Pineda United States	28	2.8k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	524 0.6×	36	4.5k
Eckhard Lammert Germany	32	2.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	861 0.4×	594 0.7×	71	4.9k
Henrik Semb Sweden	43	2.1k 0.4×	4.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.3×	796 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	76	6.9k
Xueying Gu United States	27	2.1k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	915 0.5×	426 0.5×	41	3.7k
Matthias Hebrok United States	68	6.9k 1.3×	9.3k 2.6×	3.8k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	4.0k 4.5×	130	14.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Jensen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Jensen

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Qiu, Jiajun, Li Li, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, et al.. (2025). Deep representation learning for clustering longitudinal survival data from electronic health records. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2534–2534. 2 indexed citations

Arora, Jatin, A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu, Stephen A. Stanhope, et al.. (2024). Enhancing patient representation learning with inferred family pedigrees improves disease risk prediction. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 32(3). 435–446.

Afelik, Solomon, Jan Jensen, Michael A. Bukys, et al.. (2013). Notch-mediated post-translational control of Ngn3 protein stability regulates pancreatic patterning and cell fate commitment. Developmental Biology. 376(1). 1–12. 43 indexed citations

Kim, Yong Sik, Hong Soon Kang, Yukimasa Takeda, et al.. (2012). Glis3 Regulates Neurogenin 3 Expression in Pancreatic β-Cells and Interacts with Its Activator, Hnf6. Molecules and Cells. 34(2). 193–200. 28 indexed citations

Ahnfelt‐Rønne, Jonas, Mette C. Jørgensen, Jan Jensen, et al.. (2011). Ptf1a-mediated control of Dll1 reveals an alternative to the lateral inhibition mechanism. Development. 139(1). 33–45. 56 indexed citations

Giry-Laterrière, Marc, et al.. (2011). Polyswitch Lentivectors: “All-in-One” Lentiviral Vectors for Drug-Inducible Gene Expression, Live Selection, and Recombination Cloning. Human Gene Therapy. 22(10). 1255–1267. 20 indexed citations

Afelik, Solomon, et al.. (2011). Notch mediated patterning and cell fate allocation of pancreatic progenitor cells. Developmental Biology. 356(1). 168–168. 1 indexed citations

Kang, Hong Soon, Yong Sik Kim, Gary ZeRuth, et al.. (2010). Transcription Factor Glis3, a Novel Critical Player in the Regulation of Pancreatic beta-Cell Development and Insulin Gene Expression (vol 29, pg 6366, 2009). Molecular and Cellular Biology. 30(7). 1864–1864. 7 indexed citations

Nyeng, Pia, et al.. (2010). Fibroblast growth factor 10 represses premature cell differentiation during establishment of the intestinal progenitor niche. Developmental Biology. 349(1). 20–34. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Sui, Jan Jensen, Philip A. Seymour, et al.. (2009). Sustained Neurog3 expression in hormone-expressing islet cells is required for endocrine maturation and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(24). 9715–9720. 137 indexed citations

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Kobberup, Sune, et al.. (2009). Conditional control of the differentiation competence of pancreatic endocrine and ductal cells by Fgf10. Mechanisms of Development. 127(3-4). 220–234. 22 indexed citations

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Fendrich, Volker, Farzad Esni, Georg Feldmann, et al.. (2008). Hedgehog Signaling Is Required for Effective Regeneration of Exocrine Pancreas. Gastroenterology. 135(2). 621–631.e8. 146 indexed citations

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Wenzlau, Janet M., Kirstine Juhl, Liping Yu, et al.. (2007). The cation efflux transporter ZnT8 (Slc30A8) is a major autoantigen in human type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(43). 17040–17045. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sarkar, Suparna A., Sune Kobberup, Ryan L. Wong, et al.. (2007). Global gene expression profiling and histochemical analysis of the developing human fetal pancreas. Diabetologia. 51(2). 285–297. 75 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jan, et al.. (2005). Recapitulation of elements of embryonic development in adult mouse pancreatic regeneration. Gastroenterology. 128(3). 728–741. 271 indexed citations

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Hald, Jacob, J. Hjorth, Michael S. German, et al.. (2003). Activated Notch1 prevents differentiation of pancreatic acinar cells and attenuate endocrine development. Developmental Biology. 260(2). 426–437. 198 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jan, et al.. (2003). FGF10 signaling maintains the pancreatic progenitor cell state revealing a novel role of Notch in organ development. Developmental Biology. 264(2). 323–338. 161 indexed citations

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Fu, Hui, Yingchuan Qi, Min Tan, et al.. (2003). Molecular mapping of the origin of postnatal spinal cord ependymal cells: Evidence that adult ependymal cells are derived from Nkx6.1+ ventral neural progenitor cells. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 456(3). 237–244. 68 indexed citations

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Petersen, Helle V., Jan Jensen, Roland Stein, & Palle Serup. (2002). Glucose induced MAPK signalling influences NeuroD1‐mediated activation and nuclear localization. FEBS Letters. 528(1-3). 241–245. 36 indexed citations

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Hansen, L, Jan Jensen, Helle V. Petersen, et al.. (2000). NeuroD/BETA2 gene variability and diabetes: no associations to late-onset type 2 diabetes but an A45 allele may represent a susceptibility marker for type 1 diabetes among Danes. Danish Study Group of Diabetes in Childhood, and the Danish IDDM Epidemiology and Genetics Group.. Diabetes. 49(5). 876–878. 37 indexed citations

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