Jonathan Baets

9.3k citations

174 papers · 7.0k · 2 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Hereditary Neurological Disorders
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurology top 1%
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
- Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma

Papers in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 91
- Hereditary Neurological Disorders 76
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases 15
Neurology 16
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research 11

Co-authors: Peter De Jonghe (50 shared papers)Vincent Timmerman (23 shared papers)Annelies Rotthier (5 shared papers)Tine Deconinck (23 shared papers)Albena Jordanova (10 shared papers)Katrien Janssens (3 shared papers)Michaela Auer‐Grumbach (5 shared papers)Els De Vriendt (7 shared papers)
Journals: Brain (27 papers)Neuromuscular Disorders (13 papers)Neurology (13 papers)European Journal of Human Genetics (7 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (7 papers)
Partner nations: Belgium Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Baets

164 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Jonathan Baets's Hit Papers

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Genomic reanalysis of a pan-European rare-disease resource yields new diagnoses 2025 · 27 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2025 Nature Medicine
2021 The Lancet Neurology

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1	Safety, efficacy, and tolerability of efgartigimod in patients with generalised myasthenia gravis (ADAPT): a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial The Lancet Neurology ·James F. Howard, Vera Bril, Tuan Vu, Chafic Karam, Stojan Perić, Temur Margania, Hiroyuki Murai, Małgorzata M. Bilińska Hit paper breakdown →	2021	522
2	A de novo gain-of-function mutation in SCN11A causes loss of pain perception Nature Genetics ·Enrico Leipold, Lutz Liebmann, Georg Christoph Korenke, Theresa Heinrich, Sebastian Gießelmann, Jonathan Baets, Matthias Ebbinghaus, R. Oliver Goral	2013	252
3	Mutations in FAM134B, encoding a newly identified Golgi protein, cause severe sensory and autonomic neuropathy Nature Genetics ·Ingo Kurth, Torsten Pamminger, J. Christopher Hennings, Désirée Soehendra, Antje K. Huebner, Annelies Rotthier, Jonathan Baets, Jan Senderek	2009	215
4	KIF1A, an Axonal Transporter of Synaptic Vesicles, Is Mutated in Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 2 The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Jean‐Baptiste Rivière, Siriram Ramalingam, Valérie Lavastre, Masoud Shekarabi, Sébastien Holbert, Julie Lafontaine, Myriam Srour, Nancy D. Merner	2011	168
5	Missense Mutations in the Copper Transporter Gene ATP7A Cause X-Linked Distal Hereditary Motor Neuropathy The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Marina L. Kennerson, Garth A. Nicholson, Stephen Gerard Kaler, Bartosz Kowalski, Julian F. B. Mercer, Jingrong Tang, Roxana M. Llanos, Shannon Chu	2010	159
6	Mutations in the SPTLC2 Subunit of Serine Palmitoyltransferase Cause Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type I The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Annelies Rotthier, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, Katrien Janssens, Jonathan Baets, Anke Penno, Leonardo Almeida-Souza, Kim van Hoof, An Jacobs	2010	158
7	REEP1 mutation spectrum and genotype/phenotype correlation in hereditary spastic paraplegia type 31 Brain ·Christian Beetz, Rebecca Schüle, Tine Deconinck, Khanh-Nhat Tran-Viet, Hui Zhu, Berry P. H. Kremer, Suzanna G.M. Frints, Wendy A.G. van Zelst–Stams	2008	152
8	Loss of TBK1 is a frequent cause of frontotemporal dementia in a Belgian cohort Neurology ·Ilse Gijselinck, Sara Van Mossevelde, Julie van der Zee, Anne Sieben, Stéphanie Philtjens, Bavo Heeman, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Mathieu Vandenbulcke	2015	145
9	Mechanisms of disease in hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies Nature Reviews Neurology ·Annelies Rotthier, Jonathan Baets, Vincent Timmerman, Katrien Janssens	2012	141
10	Genes for hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathies: a genotype-phenotype correlation Brain ·Annelies Rotthier, Jonathan Baets, Els De Vriendt, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, Nicolas Lévy, Nathalie Bonello‐Palot, Joachim Weis, Andrés Nascimento	2009	137
11	Transcriptional regulator PRDM12 is essential for human pain perception Nature Genetics ·Ya-Chun Chen, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, Shinya Matsukawa, Manuela Zitzelsberger, Andreas C. Themistocleous, Tim Matthias Strom, Adrian Walton Moore, Lily T. Y. Cho	2015	128
12	Targeted High-Throughput Sequencing Identifies Mutations in atlastin-1 as a Cause of Hereditary Sensory Neuropathy Type I The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Christian Guelly, Peng-Peng Zhu, Lea Leonardis, Lea Papić, Janez Zidar, Maria Schabhüttl, Heimo M. Strohmaier, Joachim Weis	2010	113
13	Safety and efficacy of intravenous bimagrumab in inclusion body myositis (RESILIENT): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2b trial The Lancet Neurology ·Michael G G Hanna, Umesh A. Badrising, Olivier Benvéniste, Thomas E. Lloyd, Merrilee Needham, Hector Chinoy, Masashi Aoki, Pedro Machado	2019	113
14	TheSCN1Avariant database: a novel research and diagnostic tool Human Mutation ·Godelieve R.F. Claes, Liesbet Deprez, Arvid Suls, Jonathan Baets, Katrien Smets, Tine Van Dyck, Tine Deconinck, Albena Jordanova	2009	111
15	Relative contribution of mutations in genes for autosomal dominant distal hereditary motor neuropathies: a genotype-phenotype correlation study Brain ·Ines Dierick, Jonathan Baets, Joy Irobi, An Jacobs, Els De Vriendt, Tine Deconinck, Luciano Merlini, Peter Van den Bergh	2007	109
16	Dominant mutations in the cation channel gene transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 cause an unusual spectrum of neuropathies Brain ·M. Zimoń, Jonathan Baets, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, José Berciano, Antonio García Chica, Eduardo López‐Laso, Luciano Merlini, David Hilton‐Jones	2010	109
17	Mutations in SACS cause atypical and late-onset forms of ARSACS Neurology ·Jonathan Baets, Tine Deconinck, Dirk Goossens, Peter Y. K. Van den Bergh, Eric Schmedding, Patrick Santens, V. Milić Rašić, Philip Van Damme	2010	106
18	Genetic spectrum of hereditary neuropathies with onset in the first year of life Brain ·Jonathan Baets, Tine Deconinck, Els De Vriendt, M. Zimoń, Laetitia Yperzeele, Kim Van Hoorenbeeck, Kristien Peeters, Ronen Spiegel	2011	103
19	Loss-of-function mutations in HINT1 cause axonal neuropathy with neuromyotonia Nature Genetics ·M. Zimoń, Jonathan Baets, Leonardo Almeida-Souza, Els De Vriendt, J. Nikodinović, Yeşim Parman, Esra Battaloğlu, Zeliha Matur	2012	94
20	Defects of mutant DNMT1 are linked to a spectrum of neurological disorders Brain ·Jonathan Baets, Xiaohui Duan, Yanhong Wu, Gordon A. Smith, William W. Seeley, Inès Mademan, N. M. McGrath, Noah C. Beadell	2015	94

About Jonathan Baets

Jonathan Baets is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology, having authored 174 papers that have together received 7.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hereditary Neurological Disorders (76 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (15 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (14 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (12 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (11 papers), Inflammatory Myopathies and Dermatomyositis (4 papers), Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus (2 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (2.2k citations), Neurology (984 citations), Molecular Biology (898 citations), Genetics (347 citations) and Sensory Systems (57 citations). Jonathan Baets has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Peter De Jonghe, Vincent Timmerman, Annelies Rotthier, Tine Deconinck, Albena Jordanova, Katrien Janssens, Michaela Auer‐Grumbach, Els De Vriendt, Stephan L. Zuchner and Danique Beijer. Their work appears in journals such as Brain, Neuromuscular Disorders, Neurology, European Journal of Human Genetics and The American Journal of Human Genetics.

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