Josef Ecker

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Josef Ecker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Josef Ecker has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Biochemistry and 13 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Josef Ecker's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (10 papers), Fatty Acid Research and Health (10 papers) and Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (8 papers). Josef Ecker is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (10 papers), Fatty Acid Research and Health (10 papers) and Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (8 papers). Josef Ecker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Josef Ecker's co-authors include Gerd Schmitz, Gerhard Liebisch, Max Scherer, Hannelore Daniel, Britta Spanier, Margot Grandl, Pieter Giesbertz, Horst Robenek, Claudine Seeliger and Dirk Haller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Josef Ecker

39 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

The opposing effects of n−3 and n−6 fatty acids

2007 934 citations Gerd Schmitz, Josef Ecker Progress in Lipid Research profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Josef Ecker	1.4k	733	725	432	362	43	3.0k
Atsushi Hara	1.3k 0.9×	458 0.6×	634 0.9×	450 1.0×	230 0.6×	61	3.2k
Robert Ringseis	1.5k 1.0×	833 1.1×	636 0.9×	247 0.6×	351 1.0×	158	3.8k
Peter Lawrence	927 0.6×	341 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	581 1.3×	149 0.4×	77	2.8k
Alvin Berger	1.6k 1.1×	510 0.7×	918 1.3×	304 0.7×	180 0.5×	58	3.6k
Marc E. Surette	1.2k 0.8×	496 0.7×	734 1.0×	525 1.2×	147 0.4×	90	3.0k
Harold M. Aukema	1.1k 0.7×	700 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	1.1k 2.6×	292 0.8×	147	4.1k
Françoise Guéraud	1.2k 0.8×	480 0.7×	442 0.6×	194 0.4×	125 0.3×	78	3.3k
Yong Zhao	1.9k 1.3×	284 0.4×	361 0.5×	262 0.6×	255 0.7×	171	4.3k
Zhe Wang	1.4k 1.0×	697 1.0×	185 0.3×	218 0.5×	811 2.2×	199	3.8k
Xihong Zhou	1.3k 0.9×	556 0.8×	475 0.7×	189 0.4×	204 0.6×	101	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Josef Ecker

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Martin, Manon, Gerhard Liebisch, Josef Ecker, et al.. (2025). Jacaric Acid Empowers RSL3-Induced Ferroptotic Cell Death in Two- and Three-Dimensional Breast Cancer Cell Models. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(7). 3375–3375.

Höring, Marcus, Gerhard Liebisch, Sabine Schweizer, et al.. (2024). Cold-induced phosphatidylethanolamine synthesis in liver and brown adipose tissue of mice. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1870(1). 159562–159562. 1 indexed citations

Plagge, Johannes, et al.. (2024). Rapid quantification of murine bile acids using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 417(4). 687–696. 5 indexed citations

Höring, Marcus, Gerhard Liebisch, Sabine Schweizer, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial lipidomes are tissue specific – low cholesterol contents relate to UCP1 activity. Life Science Alliance. 7(8). e202402828–e202402828. 3 indexed citations

Ecker, Josef, et al.. (2024). Metabolic inflexibility of mitochondria: beneficial for the fitness of regenerating liver cells. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 9(1). 233–233. 3 indexed citations

Dawczynski, Christine, Johannes Plagge, Gerhard Jahreis, et al.. (2022). Dietary PUFA Preferably Modify Ethanolamine-Containing Glycerophospholipids of the Human Plasma Lipidome. Nutrients. 14(15). 3055–3055. 6 indexed citations

Ruschke, Stefan, Claudine Seeliger, Samantha Laber, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome and fatty-acid signatures of adipocyte hypertrophy and its non-invasive MR-based characterization in human adipose tissue. EBioMedicine. 79. 104020–104020. 28 indexed citations

Blücher, Christina, Silvana Müller, Gerhard Liebisch, et al.. (2020). Secreted Factors from Adipose Tissue Reprogram Tumor Lipid Metabolism and Induce Motility by Modulating PPARα/ANGPTL4 and FAK. Molecular Cancer Research. 18(12). 1849–1862. 33 indexed citations

Schweizer, Sabine, et al.. (2019). The lipidome of primary murine white, brite, and brown adipocytes—Impact of beta-adrenergic stimulation. PLoS Biology. 17(8). e3000412–e3000412. 32 indexed citations

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Just, Sarah, Stanislas Mondot, Josef Ecker, et al.. (2018). The gut microbiota drives the impact of bile acids and fat source in diet on mouse metabolism. Microbiome. 6(1). 134–134. 209 indexed citations

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Kindt, Alida, Gerhard Liebisch, Thomas Clavel, et al.. (2018). The gut microbiota promotes hepatic fatty acid desaturation and elongation in mice. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3760–3760. 213 indexed citations

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Appenroth, Klaus‐J., K. Sowjanya Sree, Manuela Bog, et al.. (2018). Nutritional Value of the Duckweed Species of the Genus Wolffia (Lemnaceae) as Human Food. Frontiers in Chemistry. 6. 483–483. 126 indexed citations

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Giesbertz, Pieter, Inken Padberg, Dietrich Rein, et al.. (2015). Metabolite profiling in plasma and tissues of ob/ob and db/db mice identifies novel markers of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 58(9). 2133–2143. 128 indexed citations

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Giesbertz, Pieter, et al.. (2015). An LC-MS/MS method to quantify acylcarnitine species including isomeric and odd-numbered forms in plasma and tissues. Journal of Lipid Research. 56(10). 2029–2039. 91 indexed citations

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Ecker, Josef & Gerhard Liebisch. (2014). Application of stable isotopes to investigate the metabolism of fatty acids, glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid species. Progress in Lipid Research. 54. 14–31. 126 indexed citations

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Ecker, Josef, Max Scherer, Gerd Schmitz, & Gerhard Liebisch. (2012). A rapid GC–MS method for quantification of positional and geometric isomers of fatty acid methyl esters. Journal of Chromatography B. 897. 98–104. 138 indexed citations

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Degen, Christian, Josef Ecker, Stefanie Piegholdt, et al.. (2011). Metabolic and growth inhibitory effects of conjugated fatty acids in the cell line HT-29 with special regard to the conversion of t11,t13-CLA. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1811(12). 1070–1080. 38 indexed citations

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Chen, Shih‐Kuo, Josef Ecker, & Samer Hattar. (2010). Understanding the Complexity of ipRGCs Targeting and Functions. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 51(13). 664–664. 1 indexed citations

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Scherer, Max, et al.. (2010). A rapid and quantitative LC-MS/MS method to profile sphingolipids. Journal of Lipid Research. 51(7). 2001–2011. 120 indexed citations

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Goldsmith, Portia, et al.. (1997). A decline in myometrial nitric oxide synthase expression is associated with labor and delivery.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 99(10). 2502–2508. 85 indexed citations

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