Merel Stok

727 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 412 citations indexed

About

Merel Stok is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Merel Stok has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 412 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Merel Stok's work include Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (5 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (3 papers) and Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (2 papers). Merel Stok is often cited by papers focused on Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (5 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (3 papers) and Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (2 papers). Merel Stok collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and China. Merel Stok's co-authors include Víctor García, Marco Quarta, Patrick Paine, Mark Hamer, Thomas A. Rando, Joseph B. Shrager, Niek P. van Til, Ans T. van der Ploeg, Gerard Wagemaker and Trudi P. Visser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Blood and Genetics in Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Merel Stok

9 papers receiving 407 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.

Fusobacterium nucleatum upregulates the immune inhibitory receptor PD-L1 in colorectal cancer cells via the activation of ALPK1

2025 14 citations Coco Duizer, Merel van Gogh et al. Gut Microbes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Merel Stok Netherlands	8	243	144	136	83	66	9	412
Johana Guevara Colombia	11	103 0.4×	66 0.5×	65 0.5×	100 1.2×	39 0.6×	37	356
Mohamed I. Elashry Germany	14	367 1.5×	83 0.6×	153 1.1×	57 0.7×	22 0.3×	32	528
J.E. Castillo Guerra Spain	4	313 1.3×	95 0.7×	94 0.7×	48 0.6×	20 0.3×	4	444
Maximilien Bencze France	10	485 2.0×	156 1.1×	130 1.0×	59 0.7×	20 0.3×	18	583
Rongmei Qu China	15	189 0.8×	102 0.7×	50 0.4×	125 1.5×	52 0.8×	39	508
Hisashi Ideno Japan	12	486 2.0×	134 0.9×	78 0.6×	76 0.9×	35 0.5×	21	654
Grégoire Vallet France	2	405 1.7×	174 1.2×	120 0.9×	57 0.7×	26 0.4×	2	513
Meryem B. Baghdadi France	8	435 1.8×	166 1.2×	97 0.7×	43 0.5×	24 0.4×	8	565
Robin Duelen Belgium	12	227 0.9×	125 0.9×	55 0.4×	64 0.8×	59 0.9×	22	389
T M Nguyen United Kingdom	10	553 2.3×	85 0.6×	103 0.8×	89 1.1×	71 1.1×	11	619

Countries citing papers authored by Merel Stok

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Fields of papers citing papers by Merel Stok

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Merel Stok

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Duizer, Coco, Merel van Gogh, Merel Stok, et al.. (2025). Fusobacterium nucleatum upregulates the immune inhibitory receptor PD-L1 in colorectal cancer cells via the activation of ALPK1. Gut Microbes. 17(1). 2458203–2458203. 14 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stok, Merel, Arnold G. Vulto, Wendy W. J. Unger, et al.. (2022). Lentiviral gene therapy prevents anti-human acid α-glucosidase antibody formation in murine Pompe disease. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 25. 520–532. 12 indexed citations

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Stok, Merel, et al.. (2022). IGF2-tagging of GAA promotes full correction of murine Pompe disease at a clinically relevant dosage of lentiviral gene therapy. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 27. 109–130. 19 indexed citations

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Stok, Merel, Helen de Boer, Edwin H. Jacobs, et al.. (2020). Lentiviral Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy Corrects Murine Pompe Disease. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 17. 1014–1025. 27 indexed citations

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Yadak, Rana, Javier Torres‐Torronteras, Marianna Bugiani, et al.. (2018). Preclinical Efficacy and Safety Evaluation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy in a Mouse Model of MNGIE. Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development. 8. 152–165. 16 indexed citations

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Quarta, Marco, Víctor García, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2017). Bioengineered constructs combined with exercise enhance stem cell-mediated treatment of volumetric muscle loss. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15613–15613. 211 indexed citations

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Vries, Juna M. de, Marianne Hoogeveen‐Westerveld, Marian A. Kroos, et al.. (2016). Pompe disease in adulthood: effects of antibody formation on enzyme replacement therapy. Genetics in Medicine. 19(1). 90–97. 36 indexed citations

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Stok, Merel, Dirk J. Duncker, Arnold Reuser, et al.. (2015). Lentiviral Stem Cell Gene Therapy for Pompe Disease. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. 2(s1). S64–S64. 4 indexed citations

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Til, Niek P. van, Merel Stok, Fatima Aerts‐Kaya, et al.. (2010). Lentiviral gene therapy of murine hematopoietic stem cells ameliorates the Pompe disease phenotype. Blood. 115(26). 5329–5337. 73 indexed citations

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