Lukas Amann

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Lukas Amann is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Lukas Amann has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Neurology, 13 papers in Immunology and 5 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Lukas Amann's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (14 papers), Immune cells in cancer (11 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (5 papers). Lukas Amann is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (14 papers), Immune cells in cancer (11 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (5 papers). Lukas Amann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. Lukas Amann's co-authors include Marco Prinz, Takahiro Masuda, Josef Priller, Chotima Böttcher, Ori Staszewski, Roman Sankowski, Dominic Grün, Ulrich Sure, Anna Michel and Patrik Kunz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Lukas Amann

14 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution

2019 861 citations Takahiro Masuda, Roman Sankowski et al. Nature profile →
Interleukin-22 protects intestinal stem cells against genotoxic stress

2019 272 citations Konrad Gronke, Pedro P. Hernández et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lukas Amann Germany	13	1.2k	943	506	262	243	15	1.9k
Nora Hagemeyer Germany	14	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	584 1.2×	195 0.7×	325 1.3×	16	2.4k
Iva Lelios Switzerland	8	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	448 0.9×	192 0.7×	263 1.1×	10	2.4k
Björn Spittau Germany	25	835 0.7×	565 0.6×	522 1.0×	328 1.3×	183 0.8×	57	1.9k
Sebastiaan De Schepper Belgium	10	826 0.7×	698 0.7×	420 0.8×	196 0.7×	126 0.5×	11	1.6k
Simone Brioschi United States	15	990 0.8×	692 0.7×	404 0.8×	175 0.7×	199 0.8×	18	1.8k
Justin Rustenhoven New Zealand	23	1.4k 1.2×	578 0.6×	626 1.2×	531 2.0×	260 1.1×	39	2.7k
Jami Bennett Canada	12	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	447 0.9×	186 0.7×	312 1.3×	18	2.6k
Laura A. N. Peferoen Netherlands	15	814 0.7×	460 0.5×	657 1.3×	222 0.8×	245 1.0×	31	1.8k
Zhihong Chen United States	22	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	741 1.5×	251 1.0×	247 1.0×	35	2.8k
Catarina Rapôso Brazil	19	638 0.5×	469 0.5×	475 0.9×	329 1.3×	213 0.9×	48	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lukas Amann

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15 of 15 papers shown

Merkt, Simon, Geoffroy Andrieux, Elisa Nent, et al.. (2025). Early microglia progenitors colonize the embryonic CNS via integrin-mediated migration from the pial surface. Developmental Cell. 61(1). 85–101.e7.

Choi, James S., Roman Sankowski, Lukas Amann, et al.. (2024). Interaction between subventricular zone microglia and neural stem cells impacts the neurogenic response in a mouse model of cortical ischemic stroke. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9095–9095. 5 indexed citations

Levard, Damien, Antoine Fournier, Eloïse Lemarchand, et al.. (2024). Central nervous system-associated macrophages modulate the immune response following stroke in aged mice. Nature Neuroscience. 27(9). 1721–1733. 22 indexed citations

Amann, Lukas, Takahiro Masuda, & Marco Prinz. (2023). Mechanisms of myeloid cell entry to the healthy and diseased central nervous system. Nature Immunology. 24(3). 393–407. 32 indexed citations

Faust, Travis E., Philip A. Feinberg, Christopher M. O’Connor, et al.. (2023). A comparative analysis of microglial inducible Cre lines. Cell Reports. 42(9). 113031–113031. 41 indexed citations

Masuda, Takahiro, Lukas Amann, & Marco Prinz. (2022). Novel insights into the origin and development of CNS macrophage subsets. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 12(11). e1096–e1096. 14 indexed citations

Wieghofer, Peter, Nora Hagemeyer, Roman Sankowski, et al.. (2021). Mapping the origin and fate of myeloid cells in distinct compartments of the eye by single‐cell profiling. The EMBO Journal. 40(6). e105123–e105123. 81 indexed citations

Masuda, Takahiro, Lukas Amann, Roman Sankowski, et al.. (2020). Novel Hexb-based tools for studying microglia in the CNS. Nature Immunology. 21(7). 802–815. 210 indexed citations

Ydens, Elke, Lukas Amann, Bob Asselbergh, et al.. (2020). Profiling peripheral nerve macrophages reveals two macrophage subsets with distinct localization, transcriptome and response to injury. Nature Neuroscience. 23(5). 676–689. 163 indexed citations

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Brioschi, Simone, Paolo d’Errico, Lukas Amann, et al.. (2020). Detection of Synaptic Proteins in Microglia by Flow Cytometry. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 13. 149–149. 17 indexed citations

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Amann, Lukas & Marco Prinz. (2020). The origin, fate and function of macrophages in the peripheral nervous system—an update. International Immunology. 32(11). 709–717. 18 indexed citations

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Gronke, Konrad, Pedro P. Hernández, Jakob Zimmermann, et al.. (2019). Interleukin-22 protects intestinal stem cells against genotoxic stress. Nature. 566(7743). 249–253. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Masuda, Takahiro, Roman Sankowski, Ori Staszewski, et al.. (2019). Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution. Nature. 566(7744). 388–392. 861 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kolter, Julia, Reinhild Feuerstein, Patrice Zeis, et al.. (2019). A Subset of Skin Macrophages Contributes to the Surveillance and Regeneration of Local Nerves. Immunity. 50(6). 1482–1497.e7. 155 indexed citations

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Blank, Thomas, Tobias Goldmann, Patrick M. Koch, et al.. (2018). Early Microglia Activation Precedes Photoreceptor Degeneration in a Mouse Model of CNGB1-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 1930–1930. 39 indexed citations

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