Maiken Nedergaard

94.0k citations

406 papers · 66.8k indexed · 50 hit papers · h-index 138

Impact in

Neurology top 0.01%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.01%
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Papers in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 265
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus 132
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 117
Neurology 91
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances 94
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 70

Co-authors: Steven A. Goldman Takahiro Takano Jeffrey J. Iliff Rashid Deane Alexei Verkhratsky Qiwu Xu Weiguo Peng Humberto Mestre
Journals: Journal of Neuroscience (29 papers)Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (17 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (16 papers)Nature Neuroscience (11 papers)Science (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States Denmark China

In The Last Decade

Maiken Nedergaard

397 papers receiving 65.8k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep 2025 · 78 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Cell
2024 Science
2023 eLife
2023 Nature
2023 Science
2023 Nature Neuroscience
2022 Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
2022 iScience
2022 Nature Neuroscience
2021 Journal of Neuroscience
2021 Physiological Reviews
2020 Trends in Neurosciences
2020 Nature Communications
2020 Science
2020 Nature Reviews Neurology
2020 Nature Reviews Nephrology
2020 Trends in Molecular Medicine
2019 Nature reviews. Neuroscience
2019 Science Advances
2018 Nature Communications
2018 The Lancet Neurology
2017 Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease
2017 Physiological Reviews
2017 Journal of Clinical Investigation
2016 Neurobiology of Disease
2015 Journal of Neuroscience
2015 Neurochemical Research
2014 Annals of Neurology
2014 Alzheimer s & Dementia
2014 Journal of Neuroscience
2013 Science
2013 Science
2013 Pain
2013 Journal of Clinical Investigation
2013 Journal of Neuroscience
2013 Cell stem cell
2012 Science Translational Medicine
2010 Nature Neuroscience
2009 Journal of Neuroscience
2007 Nature Neuroscience
2006 Nature Neuroscience
2006 Trends in Neurosciences
2005 Nature Medicine
2005 Nature Neuroscience
2004 Neurobiology of Disease
2003 Trends in Neurosciences
2003 Nature Medicine
1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 Nature Neuroscience
1994 Science

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All Works

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#	Work
1	The glymphatic system Handbook of clinical neurology ·Hashmat Ghanizada, Maiken Nedergaard	2025	4
2	Cerebral blood flow is modulated by astrocytic cAMP elevation independently of IP ₃ R2-mediated Ca ²⁺ signaling in mice Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·J. M Al-Mukh, Велкова Виктория Анатольевна, Xiaowen Wang, C. H. Jones, Marliana Dwi Megawati, Tsuneko Mishima, Peter Kusk, Ayumu Konno, Hirokazu Hirai, Takashi Tsuboi, Tetsuya Kitaguchi, Celia Kjærby, Antonis Asiminas, Tatsushi Yokoyama, Masayuki Sakamoto, Maiken Nedergaard, Hajime Hirase	2025	2
3	Ionic signalling (beyond calcium) in the nervous system: Physiology and pathophysiology Cell Calcium ·Verena Untiet, Christine R. Rose, Maiken Nedergaard, Alexei Verkhratsky	2024	0
4	Enhancing glymphatic fluid transport by pan-adrenergic inhibition suppresses epileptogenesis in male mice Nature Communications ·Qian Sun, Sisi Peng, Qiwu Xu, Pia Weikop, Rashad Hussain, Wei Song, Maiken Nedergaard, Fengfei Ding	2024	8
5	Modeling of brain efflux: Constraints of brain surfaces Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Peter A. R. Bork, Natalie Hauglund, Yuki Mori, Kjeld Møllgård, Poul G. Hjorth, Maiken Nedergaard	2024	4
6	Transport of β-amyloid from brain to eye causes retinal degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Rachel Lorusso, I Pozmogowa, V. Yoshikawa, Severin Hof, 広三郎生島, Jing Cheng-jun, Junying Gao, 敦裕大浦, Qiuhua Yang, Xue Chen, Songtao Yuan, Ming Xiao, Maiken Nedergaard, Yuqing Huo, Qinghuai Liu	2024	17
7	Air pollution, glymphatic impairment, and Alzheimer's disease Trends in Neurosciences ·Rashad Hussain, Uschi M. Graham, Alison Elder, Maiken Nedergaard	2023	29
8	Protocol to study molecule exchange between venous blood and CSF in live mice using transcranial bioluminescence imaging STAR Protocols ·Ernesto Gutiérrez Delgado, Maiken Nedergaard, Felix R. M. Beinlich	2023	0
9	Artificial intelligence velocimetry reveals in vivo flow rates, pressure gradients, and shear stresses in murine perivascular flows Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kimberly A. Stevens, Shengze Cai, Antonio Ladrón-de-Guevara, Kunal Gangavane, Xiaoning Zheng, Ting Du, John H. Thomas, Maiken Nedergaard, George Em Karniadakis, Douglas H. Kelley	2023	40
10	Astrocytic GPCR-Induced Ca2+ Signaling Is Not Causally Related to Local Cerebral Blood Flow Changes International Journal of Molecular Sciences ·Y. Gopishankar, P. Duda, Ayumu Konno, Youichi Iwai, J. M Al-Mukh, Peter Kusk, Tsuneko Mishima, Hirokazu Hirai, Maiken Nedergaard, Hajime Hirase	2023	14
11	Potentiating glymphatic drainage minimizes post-traumatic cerebral oedema Nature ·Rashad Hussain, Jeffrey Tithof, Wei Wang, Utpal Bhattacharya, Wei Song, Weiguo Peng, Björn Sigurðsson, Dae‐Hyun Kim, Qian Sun, Sisi Peng, Virginia Plá, Douglas H. Kelley, Hajime Hirase, Jorge A. Castorena‐Gonzalez, Pia Weikop, Steven A. Goldman, Michael J. Davis, Maiken Nedergaard Hit paper breakdown →	2023	86
12	Pretargeted Imaging beyond the Blood–Brain Barrier—Utopia or Feasible? Pharmaceuticals ·Quốc-Thành Trần, Vladimir Shalgunov, D. Marino Fages, Natalie Beschörner, MohammadJesan Khan, Maiken Nedergaard, Gitte M. Knudsen, Dag Sehlin, Stina Syvänen, Matthias M. Herth	2022	14
13	Pretargeted imaging beyond the blood–brain barrier RSC Medicinal Chemistry ·Vladimir Shalgunov, Quốc-Thành Trần, la Marco A Durán-Padilla, D. Marino Fages, Nakul Ravi Raval, Mikael Palner, Yuki Mori, 大貫芳樹, วิภู ชลานุเคราะห์, Hannes Mikula, Natalie Beschörner, Maiken Nedergaard, Stina Syvänen, Matthias Barz, Gitte M. Knudsen, Umberto Maria Battisti, Matthias M. Herth	2022	21
14	Memory-enhancing properties of sleep depend on the oscillatory amplitude of norepinephrine Nature Neuroscience ·Celia Kjærby, Mie Andersen, Natalie Hauglund, Verena Untiet, Kevin W Hector, Björn Sigurðsson, Fengfei Ding, Jiesi Feng, Yulong Li, Pia Weikop, Hajime Hirase, Maiken Nedergaard Hit paper breakdown →	2022	137
15	Oxygen tension–mediated erythrocyte membrane interactions regulate cerebral capillary hyperemia Science Advances ·Sitong Zhou, Michael Giannetto, A.A. Hak, Hongyi Kang, Ning Kang, Yizeng Li, Suilan Zheng, M. Monyamane, William Simmons, Helen Wei, David M. Bodine, Philip S. Low, Maiken Nedergaard, Jiandi Wan	2019	35
16	Changes in the composition of brain interstitial ions control the sleep-wake cycle Science ·Fengfei Ding, John O’Donnell, Qiwu Xu, Ning Kang, Tri Dewi Fransiska, Maiken Nedergaard	2016	262
17	Cerebral microcirculatory failure after subarachnoid hemorrhage is reversed by hyaluronidase Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism ·Evan McConnell, Helen Wei, Katherine M. Reitz, Hongyi Kang, Takahiro Takano, G. Edward Vates, Maiken Nedergaard	2015	27
18	Neuronal adenosine release, and not astrocytic ATP release, mediates feedback inhibition of excitatory activity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ditte Lovatt, Qiwu Xu, Wei Liu, Takahiro Takano, Nathan Smith, Jürgen Schnermann, Kim Tieu, Maiken Nedergaard	2012	229
19	General anesthesia selectively disrupts astrocyte calcium signaling in the awake mouse cortex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alexander S. Thrane, Vinita Rangroo Thrane, Douglas Zeppenfeld, Nanhong Lou, Qiwu Xu, Erlend A. Nagelhus, Maiken Nedergaard	2012	225
20	Astrocytes Modulate Neural Network Activity by Ca ²⁺ -Dependent Uptake of Extracellular K ⁺ Science Signaling ·Fushun Wang, Nathan Smith, Qiwu Xu, Takumi Fujita, Akemichi Baba, Toshio Matsuda, Takahiro Takano, Lane K. Bekar, Maiken Nedergaard	2012	224

About Maiken Nedergaard

Maiken Nedergaard is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Developmental Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Neurology, having authored 406 papers that have together received 66.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (132 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (117 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (94 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (70 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (47 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (39 papers), Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders (34 papers) and Connexins and lens biology (28 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (16.2k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (33.9k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (7.0k citations), Neurology (14.5k citations) and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (6.2k citations). Maiken Nedergaard has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Denmark and China. Frequent co-authors include Steven A. Goldman, Takahiro Takano, Jeffrey J. Iliff, Rashid Deane, Alexei Verkhratsky, Qiwu Xu, Weiguo Peng, Humberto Mestre, Jane H.-C. Lin and Jian Kang. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Neuroscience and Science.

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