Léon Beyer

519 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 320 citations indexed

About

Léon Beyer is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Léon Beyer has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 320 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Physiology, 6 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 5 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Léon Beyer's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (10 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (6 papers) and Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (2 papers). Léon Beyer is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (10 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (6 papers) and Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (2 papers). Léon Beyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United Kingdom. Léon Beyer's co-authors include Klaus Gerwert, Hermann Brenner, Hannah Stocker, Bernd Holleczek, Dan Rujescu, Konrad Beyreuther, Ben Schöttker, Laura Perna, Andreas Nabers and Kira Trares and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, Biophysical Journal and Molecular Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Léon Beyer

17 papers receiving 316 citations

Hit Papers

Association of Kidney Function With Development of Alzhei... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 20 40 60
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Association of Kidney Function With Development of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias and Dementia-Related Blood Biomarkers
    2023 66 citations Hannah Stocker, Léon Beyer et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Léon Beyer Germany 9 164 112 74 68 59 17 320
Ryoko Ihara Japan 12 138 0.8× 165 1.5× 90 1.2× 105 1.5× 53 0.9× 40 388
Hao‐Lun Sun China 11 239 1.5× 75 0.7× 116 1.6× 31 0.5× 110 1.9× 12 390
Alícia Nadal Spain 6 171 1.0× 143 1.3× 74 1.0× 28 0.4× 31 0.5× 7 280
Maria João Leitão Portugal 13 272 1.7× 256 2.3× 105 1.4× 68 1.0× 76 1.3× 22 449
Daniel Janowitz Germany 11 236 1.4× 174 1.6× 57 0.8× 47 0.7× 59 1.0× 14 615
Cheng‐Rong Tan China 9 198 1.2× 63 0.6× 71 1.0× 17 0.3× 94 1.6× 20 307
Maryline Simon Switzerland 5 197 1.2× 175 1.6× 46 0.6× 30 0.4× 74 1.3× 13 298
Claire Peterson United States 9 214 1.3× 118 1.1× 70 0.9× 161 2.4× 58 1.0× 16 338
Michael Ouk Canada 11 133 0.8× 54 0.5× 87 1.2× 33 0.5× 105 1.8× 15 348

Countries citing papers authored by Léon Beyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Léon Beyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Léon Beyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Léon Beyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Léon Beyer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Léon Beyer. Léon Beyer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Weber, Sandrina, Eun‐Hae Kwon, Robin Wanka, et al.. (2025). Alpha-synuclein misfolding as fluid biomarker for Parkinson’s disease measured with the iRS platform. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 17(6). 1203–1221. 1 indexed citations
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Stocker, Hannah, Léon Beyer, Kira Trares, et al.. (2025). Association of Nonmodifiable Risk Factors With Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers in Community-Dwelling Adults in the ESTHER Study. Neurology. 104(9). e213500–e213500. 2 indexed citations
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Benkert, Pascal, Anthony Seibert, Thomas Grüter, et al.. (2025). Serum Neurofilament Light Chain as a Biomarker for CIDP Diagnosis, Severity, and Treatment Outcome. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 12(4). e200419–e200419. 1 indexed citations
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Stocker, Hannah, Manuel Gentiluomo, Kira Trares, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial DNA abundance in blood is associated with Alzheimer’s disease- and dementia-risk. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(1). 131–139. 8 indexed citations
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Stocker, Hannah, Léon Beyer, Kira Trares, et al.. (2023). Association of Kidney Function With Development of Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias and Dementia-Related Blood Biomarkers. JAMA Network Open. 6(1). e2252387–e2252387. 66 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perna, Laura, Ute Mons, Hannah Stocker, et al.. (2023). High cholesterol levels change the association of biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases with dementia risk: Findings from a population‐based cohort. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(7). 2913–2922. 5 indexed citations
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Stocker, Hannah, Kira Trares, Léon Beyer, et al.. (2023). Alzheimer’s polygenic risk scores, APOE, Alzheimer’s disease risk, and dementia-related blood biomarker levels in a population-based cohort study followed over 17 years. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 24 indexed citations
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Perna, Laura, Hannah Stocker, Léon Beyer, et al.. (2023). Subjective cognitive complaints and blood biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases: a longitudinal cohort study. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 198–198. 9 indexed citations
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Beyer, Léon, Thomas Grüter, Kalliopi Pitarokoili, et al.. (2023). Serum neurofilament light chain does not detect self‐reported treatment‐related fluctuations in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. European Journal of Neurology. 31(1). e16023–e16023. 5 indexed citations
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Gold, Ralf, et al.. (2022). Update on CSF Biomarkers in Parkinson’s Disease. Biomolecules. 12(2). 329–329. 45 indexed citations
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Beyer, Léon, Hannah Stocker, Dan Rujescu, et al.. (2022). Amyloid‐beta misfolding and GFAP predict risk of clinical Alzheimer's disease diagnosis within 17 years. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(3). 1020–1028. 47 indexed citations
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Beyer, Léon, René Günther, Jan Christoph Koch, et al.. (2020). TDP‐43 as structure‐based biomarker in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 8(1). 271–277. 20 indexed citations
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Acharya, Atanu, Léon Beyer, Till Rudack, et al.. (2020). The Effect of (−)-Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate on the Amyloid-β Secondary Structure. Biophysical Journal. 119(2). 349–359. 25 indexed citations
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