Jérôme Mertens

7.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
39 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Jérôme Mertens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jérôme Mertens has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Jérôme Mertens's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (8 papers). Jérôme Mertens is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (21 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (8 papers). Jérôme Mertens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Jérôme Mertens's co-authors include Fred H. Gage, Yongsung Kim, Joseph R. Herdy, Robert T. Dell’Orco, Paul F. Kruse, Cédric Bardy, Maria C. Marchetto, Leah Boyer, Philipp Koch and Michael Hamm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jérôme Mertens

39 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Directly Reprogrammed Human Neurons Retain Aging-Associated Transcriptomic Signatures and Reveal Age-Related Nucleocytoplasmic Defects

2015 517 citations Jérôme Mertens, Apuã C.M. Paquola et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Metabolic reprogramming during neuronal differentiation from aerobic glycolysis to neuronal oxidative phosphorylation

2016 458 citations Leah Boyer, Jérôme Mertens et al. eLife profile →
Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS

2015 446 citations Jérôme Mertens, Joseph R. Herdy et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Microglial lipid droplet accumulation in tauopathy brain is regulated by neuronal AMPK

2024 61 citations Jérôme Mertens et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jérôme Mertens United States	24	2.9k	1.0k	772	589	550	39	4.0k
Wado Akamatsu Japan	35	2.6k 0.9×	929 0.9×	484 0.6×	481 0.8×	597 1.1×	89	3.7k
Yosif Ganat United States	17	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	493 0.6×	425 0.7×	1.0k 1.9×	19	4.4k
Michael Peitz Germany	25	2.6k 0.9×	889 0.9×	617 0.8×	164 0.3×	413 0.8×	57	3.7k
Oliver Cooper United States	19	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	468 0.6×	686 1.2×	712 1.3×	25	3.4k
Gregorio Valdez United States	25	2.0k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	508 0.7×	552 0.9×	231 0.4×	52	3.0k
Oliver Brüstle Germany	34	3.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	437 0.6×	239 0.4×	1.7k 3.0×	77	4.8k
Toshiyuki Araki Japan	33	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 2.1×	698 0.9×	529 0.9×	757 1.4×	94	5.6k
Henrik Ahlenius Sweden	24	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	514 0.7×	223 0.4×	1.8k 3.3×	46	5.7k
Michela Deleidi Germany	24	1.6k 0.6×	909 0.9×	722 0.9×	723 1.2×	537 1.0×	40	3.1k
Mi‐Yoon Chang South Korea	30	2.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	437 0.6×	235 0.4×	607 1.1×	55	3.8k

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Traxler, Larissa, et al.. (2024). All roads lead to cholesterol: Modulating lipid biosynthesis in multiple sclerosis patient-derived models. Cell stem cell. 31(11). 1551–1552. 1 indexed citations

Pitrez, Patrícia R., et al.. (2024). Cellular reprogramming as a tool to model human aging in a dish. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1816–1816. 22 indexed citations

Fuente, Alerie Guzman de la, Silvia Pelucchi, Jérôme Mertens, et al.. (2023). Novel therapeutic approaches to target neurodegeneration. British Journal of Pharmacology. 180(13). 1651–1673. 16 indexed citations

Gentzel, Marc, Silvia Pelucchi, Jérôme Mertens, et al.. (2023). Obatoclax Rescues FUS-ALS Phenotypes in iPSC-Derived Neurons by Inducing Autophagy. Cells. 12(18). 2247–2247. 2 indexed citations

Traxler, Larissa, Raffaella Lucciola, Joseph R. Herdy, et al.. (2023). Neural cell state shifts and fate loss in ageing and age-related diseases. Nature Reviews Neurology. 19(7). 434–443. 10 indexed citations

Böhnke, Lena, Silvia Pelucchi, Joseph R. Herdy, et al.. (2022). Chemical Replacement of Noggin with Dorsomorphin Homolog 1 for Cost-Effective Direct Neuronal Conversion. Cellular Reprogramming. 24(5). 304–313. 2 indexed citations

Böhnke, Lena, et al.. (2021). Direct Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Induced Neurons. Methods in molecular biology. 2352. 73–96. 9 indexed citations

Schlachetzki, Johannes C. M., Tomohisa Toda, & Jérôme Mertens. (2020). When function follows form: Nuclear compartment structure and the epigenetic landscape of the aging neuron. Experimental Gerontology. 133. 110876–110876. 11 indexed citations

Mertens, Jérôme, et al.. (2019). Take the shortcut – direct conversion of somatic cells into induced neural stem cells and their biomedical applications. FEBS Letters. 593(23). 3353–3369. 23 indexed citations

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Traxler, Larissa, Frank Edenhofer, & Jérôme Mertens. (2019). Next‐generation disease modeling with direct conversion: a new path to old neurons. FEBS Letters. 593(23). 3316–3337. 38 indexed citations

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Herdy, Joseph R., Simon T. Schafer, Yongsung Kim, et al.. (2019). Chemical modulation of transcriptionally enriched signaling pathways to optimize the conversion of fibroblasts into neurons. eLife. 8. 36 indexed citations

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Schafer, Simon T., Apuã C.M. Paquola, Shani Stern, et al.. (2019). Pathological priming causes developmental gene network heterochronicity in autistic subject-derived neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 22(2). 243–255. 168 indexed citations

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Toda, Tomohisa, Jonathan Y. Hsu, Sara B. Linker, et al.. (2017). Nup153 Interacts with Sox2 to Enable Bimodal Gene Regulation and Maintenance of Neural Progenitor Cells. Cell stem cell. 21(5). 618–634.e7. 90 indexed citations

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Mertens, Jérôme, Maria C. Marchetto, Cédric Bardy, & Fred H. Gage. (2016). Evaluating cell reprogramming, differentiation and conversion technologies in neuroscience. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 17(7). 424–437. 224 indexed citations

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Bardy, Cédric, Mark van den Hurk, Tameji Eames, et al.. (2015). Neuronal medium that supports basic synaptic functions and activity of human neurons in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(20). E2725–34. 268 indexed citations

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Vadodaria, Krishna C., Jérôme Mertens, Apuã C.M. Paquola, et al.. (2015). Generation of functional human serotonergic neurons from fibroblasts. Molecular Psychiatry. 21(1). 49–61. 100 indexed citations

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Mertens, Jérôme, Apuã C.M. Paquola, Manching Ku, et al.. (2015). Directly Reprogrammed Human Neurons Retain Aging-Associated Transcriptomic Signatures and Reveal Age-Related Nucleocytoplasmic Defects. Cell stem cell. 17(6). 705–718. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vadodaria, Krishna C., Jérôme Mertens, Apuã C.M. Paquola, et al.. (2015). The different moods of human serotonergic neurons. Molecular Psychiatry. 21(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

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Mertens, Jérôme, Patrick Wunderlich, Julia Ladewig, et al.. (2013). APP Processing in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons Is Resistant to NSAID-Based γ-Secretase Modulation. Stem Cell Reports. 1(6). 491–498. 45 indexed citations

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Ladewig, Julia, Jérôme Mertens, Jaideep Kesavan, et al.. (2012). Small molecules enable highly efficient neuronal conversion of human fibroblasts. Nature Methods. 9(6). 575–578. 259 indexed citations

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