Michael Zimmermann

44.1k total citations · 18 hit papers
534 papers, 31.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Zimmermann is a scholar working on Hematology, Nutrition and Dietetics and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Zimmermann has authored 534 papers receiving a total of 31.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Hematology, 143 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 128 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Michael Zimmermann's work include Iron Metabolism and Disorders (154 papers), Thyroid Disorders and Treatments (119 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (64 papers). Michael Zimmermann is often cited by papers focused on Iron Metabolism and Disorders (154 papers), Thyroid Disorders and Treatments (119 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (64 papers). Michael Zimmermann collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Michael Zimmermann's co-authors include Richard F. Hurrell, Maria Andersson, Volker Seifert, Isabelle Herter‐Aeberli, Christophe Zeder, Diego Moretti, Pieter L. Jooste, Maria Zimmermann‐Kogadeeva, Andrew L. Goodman and Andreas Raabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Michael Zimmermann

516 papers receiving 30.0k citations

Hit Papers

Diet, Nutrition, and the ... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 2007 2019 2008 2009 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases
    1994 1.6k citations Michael Zimmermann American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
  2. Nutritional iron deficiency
    2007 1.0k citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  3. Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes
    2019 777 citations Michael Zimmermann, Maria Zimmermann‐Kogadeeva et al. profile →
  4. Iodine-deficiency disorders
    2008 762 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  5. Iodine Deficiency
    2009 744 citations Michael Zimmermann Endocrine Reviews profile →
  6. Iodine deficiency and thyroid disorders
    2015 549 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  7. Discovery and Characterization of Gut Microbiota Decarboxylases that Can Produce the Neurotransmitter Tryptamine
    2014 519 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  8. Near-infrared Indocyanine Green Video Angiography: A New Method for Intraoperative Assessment of Vascular Flow
    2003 506 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  9. Global Iodine Status in 2011 and Trends over the Past Decade
    2012 503 citations Maria Andersson, Michael Zimmermann et al. Journal of Nutrition profile →
  10. Iron fortification adversely affects the gut microbiome, increases pathogen abundance and induces intestinal inflammation in Kenyan infants
    2014 481 citations Guus A. M. Kortman, Jos Boekhorst et al. profile →
  11. Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries
    2011 467 citations Michael Zimmermann, Isabelle Herter‐Aeberli et al. profile →
  12. The effects of iron fortification on the gut microbiota in African children: a randomized controlled trial in Côte d'Ivoire
    2010 400 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
  13. Assessment of iodine nutrition in populations: past, present, and future
    2012 378 citations Michael Zimmermann, Maria Andersson profile →
  14. Oral iron supplements increase hepcidin and decrease iron absorption from daily or twice-daily doses in iron-depleted young women
    2015 363 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  15. Separating host and microbiome contributions to drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity
    2019 296 citations Michael Zimmermann, Maria Zimmermann‐Kogadeeva et al. Science profile →
  16. GLOBAL ENDOCRINOLOGY: Global perspectives in endocrinology: coverage of iodized salt programs and iodine status in 2020
    2021 124 citations Michael Zimmermann, Maria Andersson profile →
  17. Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness
    2024 72 citations Saravanan Devendran, Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →
  18. Gut microbiota carcinogen metabolism causes distal tissue tumours
    2024 50 citations Michael Zimmermann et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Zimmermann 7.9k 7.4k 6.4k 5.1k 5.1k 534 31.2k
Giuseppe Remuzzi 11.6k 1.5× 2.6k 0.4× 10.6k 1.7× 5.0k 1.0× 16.0k 3.1× 1.3k 95.1k
Aaron R. Folsom 10.3k 1.3× 6.3k 0.9× 4.4k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 7.2k 1.4× 867 75.6k
Paul F. Jacques 3.9k 0.5× 6.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.3× 2.8k 0.5× 6.1k 1.2× 431 39.1k
David J. Hunter 5.9k 0.7× 4.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.3× 3.4k 0.7× 13.6k 2.6× 1.4k 97.1k
Børge G. Nordestgaard 18.8k 2.4× 2.9k 0.4× 2.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.3× 7.8k 1.5× 953 65.2k
Jukka T. Salonen 4.6k 0.6× 4.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.3× 1.1k 0.2× 2.8k 0.5× 340 31.9k
Charles H. Hennekens 17.5k 2.2× 9.0k 1.2× 3.5k 0.6× 2.8k 0.5× 9.0k 1.8× 586 86.1k
Garret A. FitzGerald 2.6k 0.3× 4.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.2× 11.4k 2.2× 488 50.4k
Giuseppe Lippi 3.4k 0.4× 1.3k 0.2× 6.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.3× 5.5k 1.1× 1.7k 53.4k
Hermann Brenner 2.3k 0.3× 2.2k 0.3× 1.9k 0.3× 3.8k 0.7× 11.2k 2.2× 1.5k 64.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Zimmermann

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Lu, Ting-Hao Kuo, Bastian Seelbinder, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiome-mediated transformation of dietary phytonutrients is associated with health outcomes. Nature Microbiology. 11(1). 94–110.
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Podvalnyy, Nikita M., et al.. (2024). Synthesis of trisaccharide antigens featuring colitose, abequose and fucose residues and assessment of antibody binding on antigen arrays. Carbohydrate Research. 545. 109283–109283. 2 indexed citations
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Müller, Patrick, Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Michael Kuhn, et al.. (2023). High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities. Nature Protocols. 19(3). 668–699. 14 indexed citations
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Proost, Sebastian, Jeannine Baumgartner, Raúl Y. Tito, et al.. (2023). Associations of HIV and iron status with gut microbiota composition, gut inflammation and gut integrity in South African school‐age children: a two‐way factorial case–control study. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36(3). 819–832. 9 indexed citations
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Proost, Sebastian, Raúl Y. Tito, Jeannine Baumgartner, et al.. (2022). The effect of oral iron supplementation on the gut microbiota, gut inflammation, and iron status in iron-depleted South African school-age children with virally suppressed HIV and without HIV. European Journal of Nutrition. 61(4). 2067–2078. 4 indexed citations
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Stoffel, Nicole U., et al.. (2021). A test to measure oral iron absorption and glucose tolerance simultaneously in 18 to 55 year old premenopausal women. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 46. 325–329.
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Kari, Khalid El, Nicole U. Stoffel, Ayoub Al‐Jawaldeh, et al.. (2021). Tea Consumption Reduces Iron Bioavailability from NaFeEDTA in Nonanemic Women and Women with Iron Deficiency Anemia: Stable Iron Isotope Studies in Morocco. Journal of Nutrition. 151(9). 2714–2720. 22 indexed citations
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Konstantinidis, Dimitrios, Filipa Pereira, Eleni Kafkia, et al.. (2021). Adaptive laboratory evolution of microbial co‐cultures for improved metabolite secretion. Molecular Systems Biology. 17(8). e10189–e10189. 37 indexed citations
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Øyås, Ove, Sònia Borrell, Andrej Trauner, et al.. (2020). Model-based integration of genomics and metabolomics reveals SNP functionality in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(15). 8494–8502. 23 indexed citations
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Zimmermann, Michael, Maria Zimmermann‐Kogadeeva, Rebekka Wegmann, & Andrew L. Goodman. (2019). Separating host and microbiome contributions to drug pharmacokinetics and toxicity. Science. 363(6427). 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Wen, Long Tan, Elizabeth N. Pearce, et al.. (2019). Serum Iodine Is Correlated with Iodine Intake and Thyroid Function in School-Age Children from a Sufficient-to-Excessive Iodine Intake Area. Journal of Nutrition. 149(6). 1012–1018. 22 indexed citations
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Farebrother, Jessica, Michael Zimmermann, & Maria Andersson. (2019). Excess iodine intake: sources, assessment, and effects on thyroid function. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1446(1). 44–65. 193 indexed citations
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Paganini, Daniela, Mary A Uyoga, Guus A. M. Kortman, et al.. (2019). Maternal Human Milk Oligosaccharide Profile Modulates the Impact of an Intervention with Iron and Galacto-Oligosaccharides in Kenyan Infants. Nutrients. 11(11). 2596–2596. 37 indexed citations
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Degiacomi, Giulia, Michael Zimmermann, Alessandro Cascioferro, et al.. (2017). PknG senses amino acid availability to control metabolism and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathogens. 13(5). e1006399–e1006399. 78 indexed citations
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Hess, Sonja Y., Césaire T. Ouédraogo, Rebecca Young, et al.. (2016). Urinary iodine concentration identifies pregnant women as iodine deficient yet school-aged children as iodine sufficient in rural Niger. Public Health Nutrition. 20(7). 1154–1161. 18 indexed citations
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Chevallereau, Anne, Bob Blasdel, Jeroen De Smet, et al.. (2016). Next-Generation “-omics” Approaches Reveal a Massive Alteration of Host RNA Metabolism during Bacteriophage Infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Genetics. 12(7). e1006134–e1006134. 85 indexed citations
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Zimmermann, Michael. (2009). Iodine Deficiency. Endocrine Reviews. 30(4). 376–408. 744 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zimmermann, Michael. (2007). The Berlin Memorial for the murdered Sinti and Roma: Problems and points for discussion. Romani Studies. 17(1). 1–30. 2 indexed citations
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Zimmermann, Michael. (1995). Diabetes in Europe: A Monograph on Diabetes Epidemiology in Europe. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 62(2). 454–454. 2 indexed citations

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