Marcus Kostka

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Marcus Kostka is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Kostka has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Neurology, 4 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Marcus Kostka's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (4 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers) and Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (3 papers). Marcus Kostka is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (4 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (4 papers) and Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (3 papers). Marcus Kostka collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Marcus Kostka's co-authors include Karin M. Danzer, Armin Giese, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Bastian Hengerer, Dorothea Haasen, Simon Moussaud, Christian Haass, Harald Steiner, Gabriele Basset and Dieter Edbauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Kostka

7 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Different Species of α-Synuclein Oligomers Induce Calcium Influx and Seeding

2007 653 citations Karin M. Danzer, Dorothea Haasen et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcus Kostka Germany	7	881	692	523	375	253	7	1.4k
Anurag Tandon Canada	15	922 1.0×	619 0.9×	1.1k 2.2×	459 1.2×	588 2.3×	19	2.1k
Shusei Hamamichi United States	16	548 0.6×	910 1.3×	943 1.8×	453 1.2×	391 1.5×	31	2.2k
Rachel M. Bailey United States	18	575 0.7×	663 1.0×	1.0k 2.0×	333 0.9×	348 1.4×	29	1.9k
Shruti Sahay India	12	597 0.7×	642 0.9×	491 0.9×	191 0.5×	116 0.5×	14	1.2k
Kiran Yanamandra Sweden	14	1.2k 1.4×	575 0.8×	909 1.7×	479 1.3×	214 0.8×	17	2.0k
Paul Fraser Canada	15	1.4k 1.5×	260 0.4×	879 1.7×	420 1.1×	481 1.9×	18	1.8k
Yongjun Gu Canada	14	940 1.1×	232 0.3×	907 1.7×	505 1.3×	429 1.7×	14	1.7k
Alice Schindzielorz Germany	7	531 0.6×	479 0.7×	406 0.8×	382 1.0×	189 0.7×	7	1.0k
V.M.-Y. Lee United States	16	1.0k 1.2×	211 0.3×	644 1.2×	336 0.9×	241 1.0×	21	1.5k
Karine Ancolio France	14	666 0.8×	288 0.4×	534 1.0×	289 0.8×	177 0.7×	14	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcus Kostka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Kostka

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Marcus Kostka. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Marcus Kostka. The network helps show where Marcus Kostka may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Kostka

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcus Kostka. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcus Kostka 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 Marcus Kostka. Marcus Kostka is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Zondler, Lisa, Marcus Kostka, Patrick Garidel, et al.. (2017). Proteasome impairment by α-synuclein. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184040–e0184040. 53 indexed citations

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Welander, Hedvig, Sai Vineela Bontha, Thomas Näsström, et al.. (2011). Gelsolin co-occurs with Lewy bodies in vivo and accelerates α-synuclein aggregation in vitro. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 412(1). 32–38. 16 indexed citations

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Kostka, Marcus, Tobias Högen, Karin M. Danzer, et al.. (2008). Single Particle Characterization of Iron-induced Pore-forming α-Synuclein Oligomers. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(16). 10992–11003. 184 indexed citations

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Danzer, Karin M., Dorothea Haasen, Simon Moussaud, et al.. (2007). Different Species of α-Synuclein Oligomers Induce Calcium Influx and Seeding. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(34). 9220–9232. 653 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shirotani, Keiro, Dieter Edbauer, Marcus Kostka, Harald Steiner, & Christian Haass. (2004). Immature nicastrin stabilizes APH‐1 independent of PEN‐2 and presenilin: identification of nicastrin mutants that selectively interact with APH‐1. Journal of Neurochemistry. 89(6). 1520–1527. 53 indexed citations

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Steiner, Harald, Edith Winkler, Dieter Edbauer, et al.. (2002). PEN-2 Is an Integral Component of the γ-Secretase Complex Required for Coordinated Expression of Presenilin and Nicastrin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(42). 39062–39065. 236 indexed citations

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Steiner, Harald, Marcus Kostka, Helmut Romig, et al.. (2000). Glycine 384 is required for presenilin-1 function and is conserved in bacterial polytopic aspartyl proteases. Nature Cell Biology. 2(11). 848–851. 228 indexed citations

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