Nele Vandersickel

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nele Vandersickel is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nele Vandersickel has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 19 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 16 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nele Vandersickel's work include Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (25 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (19 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (17 papers). Nele Vandersickel is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (25 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (19 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (17 papers). Nele Vandersickel collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Brazil and Russia. Nele Vandersickel's co-authors include David Dudal, Henri Verschelde, J. A. Gracey, S. P. Sorella, Alexander V. Panfilov, Attilio Cucchieri, Orlando Oliveira, Tereza Mendes, S. P. Sorella and Rahul Pandit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Nele Vandersickel

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Refinement of the Gribov-Zwanziger approach in the Landau gauge: Infrared propagators in harmony with the lattice results

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nele Vandersickel Belgium	21	1.2k	383	216	136	72	51	1.6k
Marcel Wellner United States	14	42 0.0×	194 0.5×	51 0.2×	129 0.9×	102 1.4×	47	534
M. Lewkowicz Israel	13	28 0.0×	83 0.2×	30 0.1×	108 0.8×	257 3.6×	37	500
P. Białas Poland	13	257 0.2×	2 0.0×	18 0.1×	276 2.0×	78 1.1×	47	531
Aleksandra Maluckov Serbia	20	19 0.0×	36 0.1×	22 0.1×	778 5.7×	886 12.3×	89	1.1k
Yusuke Kimura Japan	13	454 0.4×		34 0.2×	354 2.6×	82 1.1×	61	718
Riccardo Barbieri Italy	36	5.2k 4.4×	6 0.0×	16 0.1×	120 0.9×	125 1.7×	98	5.4k
Luc Lapointe Canada	17	30 0.0×	21 0.1×	13 0.1×	203 1.5×	178 2.5×	49	756
Daniel M. Reich Germany	18	35 0.0×	20 0.1×	16 0.1×	52 0.4×	554 7.7×	38	733
James Q. Quach Australia	9	26 0.0×	14 0.0×	26 0.1×	182 1.3×	323 4.5×	29	469
Kiril Hristov Bulgaria	17	874 0.7×		46 0.2×	434 3.2×	29 0.4×	50	985

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Wülfers, Eike M., et al.. (2025). Cross-correlation as an alternative for Local Activation Times for the analysis of reentries in Directed Graph Mapping. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 106. 107716–107716. 1 indexed citations

Wülfers, Eike M., et al.. (2025). DGM-TOP: automatic identification of the critical boundaries in atrial tachycardia. Frontiers in Physiology. 16. 1563807–1563807.

Nguyen, Long, Eike M. Wülfers, Antoine A.F. de Vries, et al.. (2025). Small-molecule-induced ERBB4 activation to treat heart failure. Nature Communications. 16(1). 576–576. 6 indexed citations

Wülfers, Eike M., et al.. (2024). Directed Graph Mapping exceeds Phase Mapping for the detection of simulated 2D meandering rotors in fibrotic tissue with added noise. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 171. 108138–108138. 3 indexed citations

Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2024). Impact of topology on the number of loops during macro-re-entrant atrial tachycardia. European Heart Journal. 45(18). 1586–1588. 6 indexed citations

Panfilov, Alexander V., et al.. (2023). Directed graph mapping shows rotors maintain non-terminating and focal sources maintain self-terminating Torsade de Pointes in canine model. Frontiers in Physiology. 14. 1201260–1201260. 1 indexed citations

Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2023). Unique topological classification of complex reentrant atrial tachycardias enables optimal ablation strategy. EP Europace. 25(Supplement_1). 3 indexed citations

Knecht, Sébastien, et al.. (2022). DG-Mapping: a novel software package for the analysis of any type of reentry and focal activation of simulated, experimental or clinical data of cardiac arrhythmia. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. 60(7). 1929–1945. 7 indexed citations

Strisciuglio, Teresa, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Jan Goedgebeur, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of Directed Graph-Mapping in Complex Atrial Tachycardias. JACC. Clinical electrophysiology. 7(7). 936–949. 12 indexed citations

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Martínez-Mateu, Laura, et al.. (2021). Directed graph mapping exceeds phase mapping in discriminating true and false rotors detected with a basket catheter in a complex in-silico excitation pattern. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 133. 104381–104381. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Nan, Maarten De Smet, Alexander V. Panfilov, et al.. (2020). Gap19, a Cx43 Hemichannel Inhibitor, Acts as a Gating Modifier That Decreases Main State Opening While Increasing Substate Gating. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(19). 7340–7340. 11 indexed citations

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Strisciuglio, Teresa, Nele Vandersickel, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, et al.. (2019). Prospective evaluation of entrainment mapping as an adjunct to new-generation high-density activation mapping systems of left atrial tachycardias. Heart Rhythm. 17(2). 211–219. 16 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, Masaya Watanabe, Qian Tao, et al.. (2018). Dynamical anchoring of distant arrhythmia sources by fibrotic regions via restructuring of the activation pattern. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(12). e1006637–e1006637. 25 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, Jan De Neve, Veronique M.F. Meijborg, et al.. (2017). Short-Lasting Episodes of Torsade de Pointes in the Chronic Atrioventricular Block Dog Model Have a Focal Mechanism, While Longer-Lasting Episodes Are Maintained by Re-Entry. JACC. Clinical electrophysiology. 3(13). 1565–1576. 24 indexed citations

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Sridhar, S., Nele Vandersickel, & Alexander V. Panfilov. (2017). Effect of myocyte-fibroblast coupling on the onset of pathological dynamics in a model of ventricular tissue. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40985–40985. 37 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2017). Spatial Patterns of Excitation at Tissue and Whole Organ Level Due to Early Afterdepolarizations. Frontiers in Physiology. 8. 404–404. 9 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, Teun P. de Boer, Marc A. Vos, & Alexander V. Panfilov. (2016). Perpetuation of torsade de pointes in heterogeneous hearts: competing foci or re‐entry?. The Journal of Physiology. 594(23). 6865–6878. 35 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2016). Global alternans instability and its effect on non-linear wave propagation: dynamical Wenckebach block and self terminating spiral waves. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29397–29397. 3 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2015). A Comparative Study of Early Afterdepolarization-Mediated Fibrillation in Two Mathematical Models for Human Ventricular Cells. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0130632–e0130632. 25 indexed citations

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Vandersickel, Nele, et al.. (2014). A Study of Early Afterdepolarizations in a Model for Human Ventricular Tissue. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e84595–e84595. 53 indexed citations

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