Markus Tolnay

16.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
124 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Markus Tolnay is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Tolnay has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Physiology, 47 papers in Neurology and 42 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Markus Tolnay's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (61 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (29 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (26 papers). Markus Tolnay is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (61 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (29 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (26 papers). Markus Tolnay collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Markus Tolnay's co-authors include A. Probst, Michel Goedert, Florence Clavaguera, Stephan Frank, Matthias Staufenbiel, Mathias Jucker, R. Anthony Crowther, Graham Fraser, David T. Winkler and Dorothée Abramowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Markus Tolnay

124 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transmission and spreading of tauopathy in transgenic mouse brain

2009 1.3k citations Florence Clavaguera, Dorothée Abramowski et al. profile →
Postmortem examination of COVID‐19 patients reveals diffuse alveolar damage with severe capillary congestion and variegated findings in lungs and other organs suggesting vascular dysfunction

2020 834 citations Thomas Menter, Jasmin D. Haslbauer et al. Histopathology profile →
Brain homogenates from human tauopathies induce tau inclusions in mouse brain

2013 563 citations Florence Clavaguera, Graham Fraser et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Tolnay Switzerland	50	5.5k	3.8k	3.7k	2.7k	2.4k	124	10.9k
Fredrik Piehl Sweden	64	1.5k 0.3×	4.1k 1.1×	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	324	15.1k
Klaus V. Toyka Germany	66	2.2k 0.4×	5.2k 1.3×	2.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	4.4k 1.8×	202	12.7k
Roy O. Weller United Kingdom	64	4.5k 0.8×	5.4k 1.4×	3.4k 0.9×	4.1k 1.5×	5.3k 2.2×	213	16.1k
Jonathan D. Glass United States	48	1.7k 0.3×	2.9k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	131	8.6k
Axel Petzold United Kingdom	58	1.5k 0.3×	5.7k 1.5×	3.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	287	13.4k
Stephen B. Wharton United Kingdom	51	2.7k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	170	8.9k
Marcel M. Verbeek Netherlands	65	5.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	294	12.9k
Walter Schulz‐Schaeffer Germany	56	2.6k 0.5×	3.5k 0.9×	8.2k 2.2×	4.3k 1.6×	1.1k 0.5×	222	12.7k
Dirk Troost Netherlands	59	1.6k 0.3×	3.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	197	11.3k
Robert E. Mrak United States	51	3.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	143	9.4k

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Menter, Thomas, Jasmin D. Haslbauer, Ronny Nienhold, et al.. (2020). Postmortem examination of COVID‐19 patients reveals diffuse alveolar damage with severe capillary congestion and variegated findings in lungs and other organs suggesting vascular dysfunction. Histopathology. 77(2). 198–209. 834 indexed citations breakdown →

Monica, Rosa Della, Lorenzo Chiariotti, Michel Bihl, et al.. (2020). Fast routine assessment of MGMT promoter methylation. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 3(1). vdaa170–vdaa170. 3 indexed citations

Alborelli, Ilaria, Obinna Chijioke, Spasenija Savic Prince, et al.. (2020). Robust assessment of tumor mutational burden in cytological specimens from lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer. 149. 84–89. 17 indexed citations

Vazquez‐Sanchez, Sonia, Anna Nölle, Florence Clavaguera, et al.. (2019). Granulovacuolar degeneration bodies are neuron-selective lysosomal structures induced by intracellular tau pathology. Acta Neuropathologica. 138(6). 943–970. 57 indexed citations

Hench, Jürgen, et al.. (2018). Liquid Biopsy in Clinical Management of Breast, Lung, and Colorectal Cancer. Frontiers in Medicine. 5. 9–9. 91 indexed citations

Fraser, Graham, Dorothée Abramowski, Florence Clavaguera, et al.. (2016). Co-expression of truncated and full-length tau induces severe neurotoxicity. Molecular Psychiatry. 21(12). 1790–1798. 47 indexed citations

Goedert, Michel, et al.. (2014). Prion-like Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Tauopathies and Synucleinopathies. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 14(11). 495–495. 102 indexed citations

Ahmed, Zeshan, Jane Cooper, Tracey K. Murray, et al.. (2014). A novel in vivo model of tau propagation with rapid and progressive neurofibrillary tangle pathology: the pattern of spread is determined by connectivity, not proximity. Acta Neuropathologica. 127(5). 667–683. 364 indexed citations

Hench, Jürgen, Claire Pujol, S. Ipsen, et al.. (2011). A Tissue-Specific Approach to the Analysis of Metabolic Changes in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28417–e28417. 13 indexed citations

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Goedert, Michel, Florence Clavaguera, & Markus Tolnay. (2010). The propagation of prion-like protein inclusions in neurodegenerative diseases. Trends in Neurosciences. 33(7). 317–325. 349 indexed citations

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Taylor, Kirsten I., et al.. (2008). The validity of clinical diagnoses of dementia in a group of consecutively autopsied memory clinic patients. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 12(2). 132–137. 12 indexed citations

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Osinde, Maribel, et al.. (2008). Lentivirus Tau (P301S) expression in adult amyloid precursor protein (APP)‐transgenic mice leads to tangle formation. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 34(5). 523–531. 15 indexed citations

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Tolnay, Markus & Florence Clavaguera. (2004). Argyrophilic grain disease: A late‐onset dementia with distinctive features among tauopathies. Neuropathology. 24(4). 269–283. 105 indexed citations

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Clavaguera, Florence, et al.. (2003). Argyrophilic grain disease: molecular genetic difference to other four-repeat tauopathies. Acta Neuropathologica. 106(4). 363–366. 14 indexed citations

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Ferrer, Isidró, Marta Barrachina, Markus Tolnay, et al.. (2003). Phosphorylated Protein Kinases Associated with Neuronal and Glial Tau Deposits in Argyrophilic Grain Disease. Brain Pathology. 13(1). 62–78. 51 indexed citations

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Bissig, Heidi, Markus Tolnay, Jan Richter, et al.. (2002). Co-occurrence of neuroblastoma and nephroblastoma in an infant with Fanconi's anemia. Human Pathology. 33(10). 1047–1051. 13 indexed citations

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Tolnay, Markus & A. Probst. (2001). Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration. Gerontology. 47(1). 1–8. 16 indexed citations

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Botez, Giovannina, A. Probst, S. Ipsen, & Markus Tolnay. (1999). Astrocytes expressing hyperphosphorylated tau protein without glial fibrillary tangles in argyrophilic grain disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 98(3). 251–256. 73 indexed citations

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Tolnay, Markus, Claudia Mistl, S. Ipsen, & A. Probst. (1998). Argyrophilic grains of Braak: occurrence in dendrites of neurons containing hyperphosphorylated tau protein. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 24(1). 53–59. 38 indexed citations

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Tolnay, Markus, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Michel Goedert, et al.. (1997). Argyrophilic grain disease: widespread hyperphosphorylation of tau protein in limbic neurons. Acta Neuropathologica. 93(5). 477–484. 94 indexed citations

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