Martina Schifferer

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Martina Schifferer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Martina Schifferer has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Neurology and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Martina Schifferer's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (12 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (9 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers). Martina Schifferer is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (12 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (9 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (8 papers). Martina Schifferer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Martina Schifferer's co-authors include Mikael Simons, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Eloi Montañez, Siegfried Ussar, Michael R. Bösl, Roy Zent, Markus Moser, Reinhard Fässler, Tobias Madl and Dierk Niessing and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Martina Schifferer

42 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Phase Separation of FUS Is Suppressed by Its Nuclear Import Receptor and Arginine Methylation

2018 497 citations Martina Schifferer, Mikael Simons et al. profile →
White matter aging drives microglial diversity

2021 271 citations Shima Safaiyan, Simon Besson‐Girard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martina Schifferer Germany	21	1.2k	780	460	370	320	43	2.5k
Hajime Yano Japan	32	1.4k 1.2×	638 0.8×	390 0.8×	843 2.3×	129 0.4×	79	3.0k
Wia Baron Netherlands	33	1.8k 1.4×	615 0.8×	534 1.2×	484 1.3×	1.2k 3.7×	79	3.3k
Michael Synowitz Germany	33	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 2.9×	155 0.4×	313 1.0×	116	4.3k
Tracy L. Hagemann United States	26	1.1k 0.9×	241 0.3×	628 1.4×	458 1.2×	102 0.3×	48	2.1k
Gabriele Loers Germany	31	1.4k 1.1×	344 0.4×	209 0.5×	364 1.0×	605 1.9×	92	2.7k
Alessandro Fatatis United States	31	1.4k 1.1×	640 0.8×	859 1.9×	177 0.5×	146 0.5×	68	3.3k
Arsalan S. Haqqani Canada	29	1.2k 1.0×	686 0.9×	476 1.0×	157 0.4×	62 0.2×	64	2.5k
Anje Sporbert Germany	19	1.2k 1.0×	645 0.8×	368 0.8×	258 0.7×	124 0.4×	41	2.3k
Dirk Fitzner Germany	15	1.2k 1.0×	782 1.0×	490 1.1×	99 0.3×	333 1.0×	32	2.2k
Eldon E. Geisert United States	29	1.4k 1.1×	277 0.4×	153 0.3×	306 0.8×	380 1.2×	103	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Martina Schifferer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martina Schifferer

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Khalin, Igor, Nagappanpillai Adarsh, Martina Schifferer, et al.. (2025). Nanocarrier Drug Release and Blood-Brain Barrier Penetration at Post-Stroke Microthrombi Monitored by Real-Time Förster Resonance Energy Transfer. ACS Nano. 19(15). 14780–14794. 1 indexed citations

Micheva, Kristina D., Jemima J. Burden, & Martina Schifferer. (2024). Array tomography: trails to discovery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 9–17. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Jianping, Asude Durmaz, Benedikt Wefers, et al.. (2024). Nonvesicular lipid transfer drives myelin growth in the central nervous system. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9756–9756. 4 indexed citations

Völgyi, Katalin, Stephan A. Müller, Nathalie Beaufort, et al.. (2024). Proteomics of mouse brain endothelium uncovers dysregulation of vesicular transport pathways during aging. Nature Aging. 4(4). 595–612. 12 indexed citations

Fabig, Gunar, Andrey S. Klymchenko, Nikolaus Plesnila, et al.. (2024). Combining array tomography with electron tomography provides insights into leakiness of the blood-brain barrier in mouse cortex. eLife. 12. 2 indexed citations

Dawkins, Edgar, Rico J. E. Derks, Martina Schifferer, et al.. (2023). Membrane lipid remodeling modulates γ-secretase processivity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(4). 103027–103027. 16 indexed citations

Androvic, Peter, Martina Schifferer, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, et al.. (2023). Spatial Transcriptomics-correlated Electron Microscopy maps transcriptional and ultrastructural responses to brain injury. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4115–4115. 34 indexed citations

Djannatian, Minou, Shima Safaiyan, Christoph Wrede, et al.. (2023). Myelination generates aberrant ultrastructure that is resolved by microglia. The Journal of Cell Biology. 222(3). 42 indexed citations

Schifferer, Martina, Luis A. Williams, Alexandra Stolz, et al.. (2023). Spatial proteomics reveals secretory pathway disturbances caused by neuropathy-associated TECPR2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 870–870. 8 indexed citations

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Kaya, Tuğberk, Nicola Mattugini, Lu Liu, et al.. (2022). CD8+ T cells induce interferon-responsive oligodendrocytes and microglia in white matter aging. Nature Neuroscience. 25(11). 1446–1457. 109 indexed citations

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Borsa, Mariana, Daniel J. Puleston, Jesusa Capera, et al.. (2022). Mapping autophagosome contents identifies interleukin-7 receptor-α as a key cargo modulating CD4+ T cell proliferation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5174–5174. 10 indexed citations

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Weber, Melanie, Cyrus Papan, Markus Damm, et al.. (2022). Ganglioside lipidomics of CNS myelination using direct infusion shotgun mass spectrometry. iScience. 25(11). 105323–105323. 4 indexed citations

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Bosch-Queralt, Mar, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Martina Schifferer, et al.. (2021). Diet-dependent regulation of TGFβ impairs reparative innate immune responses after demyelination. Nature Metabolism. 3(2). 211–227. 54 indexed citations

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Colombo, Alessio, Stephan A. Müller, Laura Sebastián Monasor, et al.. (2021). Loss of NPC1 enhances phagocytic uptake and impairs lipid trafficking in microglia. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1158–1158. 71 indexed citations

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Gouna, Garyfallia, Christian Klose, Mar Bosch-Queralt, et al.. (2021). TREM2-dependent lipid droplet biogenesis in phagocytes is required for remyelination. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(10). 118 indexed citations

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Schifferer, Martina, et al.. (2021). Systematically defining selective autophagy receptor-specific cargo using autophagosome content profiling. Molecular Cell. 81(6). 1337–1354.e8. 84 indexed citations

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Kranich, Jan, Lisa Rausch, Martina Schifferer, et al.. (2020). In vivo identification of apoptotic and extracellular vesicle‐bound live cells using image‐based deep learning. Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. 9(1). 1792683–1792683. 21 indexed citations

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Su, Minhui, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Stephan A. Müller, et al.. (2020). Pro-inflammatory activation following demyelination is required for myelin clearance and oligodendrogenesis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 217(5). 106 indexed citations

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Kerschensteiner, Martin, et al.. (2020). Multiscale ATUM-FIB Microscopy Enables Targeted Ultrastructural Analysis at Isotropic Resolution. iScience. 23(7). 101290–101290. 12 indexed citations

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Schifferer, Martina, Suihan Feng, Frank Stein, & Carsten Schultz. (2016). Reversible Chemical Dimerization by rCD1. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 583. 173–195. 6 indexed citations

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