Markus Bitzer

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Markus Bitzer is a scholar working on Nephrology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Bitzer has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Nephrology, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Markus Bitzer's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (27 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (19 papers) and Renal and related cancers (15 papers). Markus Bitzer is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (27 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (19 papers) and Renal and related cancers (15 papers). Markus Bitzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Markus Bitzer's co-authors include Erwin P. Böttinger, Gero von Gersdorff, Dan Liang, Peter Mündel, Mario Schiffer, Amer A. Beg, Marcos Rojkind, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Xiao Lan Zhang and Babak Razani and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Markus Bitzer

74 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

TGF-ß Signaling in Renal Disease

2002 631 citations Markus Bitzer et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
Caveolin-1 Regulates Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-β/SMAD Signaling through an Interaction with the TGF-β Type I Receptor

2001 561 citations Markus Bitzer, Gero von Gersdorff et al. profile →
Apoptosis in podocytes induced by TGF-β and Smad7

2001 508 citations Mario Schiffer, Markus Bitzer et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Markus Bitzer	2.9k	1.8k	702	584	567	77	5.3k
Hans J. Baelde	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	498 0.7×	814 1.4×	523 0.9×	160	5.8k
Chunsun Dai	4.1k 1.4×	2.8k 1.5×	797 1.1×	962 1.6×	557 1.0×	119	8.0k
Weichun He	2.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	352 0.5×	443 0.8×	200 0.4×	55	3.9k
Fabiola Terzi	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	222 0.3×	422 0.7×	252 0.4×	93	3.9k
Sharon D. Ricardo	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	406 0.6×	806 1.4×	295 0.5×	109	5.5k
Maria Pia Rastaldi	2.6k 0.9×	4.1k 2.3×	462 0.7×	890 1.5×	418 0.7×	120	7.3k
Nichola Figg	2.6k 0.9×	630 0.3×	643 0.9×	497 0.9×	407 0.7×	67	5.6k
Jeffrey L. Barnes	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	348 0.5×	497 0.9×	251 0.4×	92	4.9k
Christian Rosenberger	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 2.4×	637 1.1×	268 0.5×	81	5.0k
Tammo Ostendorf	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	246 0.4×	651 1.1×	345 0.6×	98	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Markus Bitzer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Bitzer

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alakwaa, Fadhl, Vivek Das, Årindam Majumdar, et al.. (2025). Leveraging complementary multi-omics data integration methods for mechanistic insights in kidney diseases. JCI Insight. 10(5). 3 indexed citations

Veličković, Dušan, Marija Veličković, Christopher L. O’Connor, Markus Bitzer, & Christopher Anderton. (2025). The Impact of the Mass Analyzer and Tissue Section Thickness on Spatial N-Glycomics with MALDI-MSI. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 36(4). 823–828. 2 indexed citations

Moledina, Dennis G., Wassim Obeid, R. Neal Smith, et al.. (2024). Identification and validation of urinary CXCL9 as a biomarker for diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(6). 3 indexed citations

Veličković, Dušan, John P. Shapiro, Samir V. Parikh, et al.. (2024). Protein N-Glycans in Healthy and Sclerotic Glomeruli in Diabetic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 35(9). 1198–1207. 7 indexed citations

Li, Xiang, Timothy A. Dinh, Christopher L. O’Connor, et al.. (2024). Computational Characterization of Arteries/Arterioles in FSGS/Minimal Change Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 35(10S).

Moledina, Dennis G., Wassim Obeid, R. Neal Smith, et al.. (2023). Identification and validation of urinary CXCL9 as a biomarker for diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 133(13). 37 indexed citations

Schaub, Jennifer A., Christopher L. O’Connor, Yurui Chang, et al.. (2023). Spatial Heterogeneity of Glomerular Phenotypes Affects Kidney Biopsy Findings. Kidney360. 4(11). 1598–1607. 4 indexed citations

Kaverina, Natalya, Diana G. Eng, Christopher L. O’Connor, et al.. (2023). Inhibiting NLRP3 signaling in aging podocytes improves their life- and health-span. Aging. 15(14). 6658–6689. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Linda, Dorey A. Glenn, Katherine R. Tuttle, et al.. (2023). Tobacco exposure in adults and children with proteinuric glomerulopathies: a NEPTUNE cohort study. BMC Nephrology. 24(1). 30–30. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Hak Joo, Denis Féliers, Yuyang Sun, et al.. (2021). Chloride channel accessory 1 integrates chloride channel activity and mTORC1 in aging‐related kidney injury. Aging Cell. 20(7). e13407–e13407. 11 indexed citations

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Hahm, Eunsil, Changli Wei, Isabel Cuesta Fernández, et al.. (2016). Bone marrow-derived immature myeloid cells are a main source of circulating suPAR contributing to proteinuric kidney disease. Nature Medicine. 23(1). 100–106. 101 indexed citations

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Kato, Mitsuo, Mei Wang, Zhuo Chen, et al.. (2016). An endoplasmic reticulum stress-regulated lncRNA hosting a microRNA megacluster induces early features of diabetic nephropathy. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12864–12864. 184 indexed citations

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Zammit, Andrea R., Mindy J. Katz, Carol A. Derby, Markus Bitzer, & Richard B. Lipton. (2015). Metabolic Syndrome and Smoking Are Associated with Future Development of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Older Adults. Cardiorenal Medicine. 6(2). 108–115. 9 indexed citations

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Ju, Wenjun, Casey S. Greene, Felix Eichinger, et al.. (2013). Defining cell-type specificity at the transcriptional level in human disease. Genome Research. 23(11). 1862–1873. 176 indexed citations

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Ju, Wenjun, Felix Eichinger, Markus Bitzer, et al.. (2009). Renal Gene and Protein Expression Signatures for Prediction of Kidney Disease Progression. American Journal Of Pathology. 174(6). 2073–2085. 55 indexed citations

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Bitzer, Markus & NC Brecha. (2007). Distribution of GFP-Expressing Horizontal Cells in a GAD67-GFP BAC Transgenic Mouse Line. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 48(13). 2799–2799. 1 indexed citations

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Bitzer, Markus & Nicholas C. Brecha. (2006). Expression of Different VAMP Isoforms in the Mouse Outer Retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 47(13). 3720–3720. 2 indexed citations

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Schiffer, Mario, Markus Bitzer, Ian S. Roberts, et al.. (2001). Apoptosis in podocytes induced by TGF-β and Smad7. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 108(6). 807–816. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schiffer, Mario, Markus Bitzer, S. A. Roberts, et al.. (2001). Apoptosis in podocytes induced by TGF-β and Smad7. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 108(6). 807–816. 146 indexed citations

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Schiffer, Mario, Gero von Gersdorff, Markus Bitzer, Katalin Suszták, & Erwin P. Böttinger. (2000). Smad proteins and transforming growth factor-β signaling. Kidney International. 58. S45–S52. 95 indexed citations

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