Nicola M. Tomas

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Nicola M. Tomas is a scholar working on Nephrology, Immunology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola M. Tomas has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Nephrology, 12 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Nicola M. Tomas's work include Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (23 papers), Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases (7 papers) and Complement system in diseases (7 papers). Nicola M. Tomas is often cited by papers focused on Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (23 papers), Autoimmune Bullous Skin Diseases (7 papers) and Complement system in diseases (7 papers). Nicola M. Tomas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Nicola M. Tomas's co-authors include Gunther Zahner, Elion Hoxha, Rolf A.K. Stahl, Catherine Meyer‐Schwesinger, Udo Helmchen, Gérard Lambeau, David J. Salant, Laurence H. Beck, Barbara Seitz‐Polski and Guillaume Dolla and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Kidney International.

In The Last Decade

Nicola M. Tomas

27 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Thrombospondin Type-1 Domain-Containing 7A in Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy

2014 641 citations Nicola M. Tomas, Laurence H. Beck et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicola M. Tomas Germany	15	1.2k	492	452	349	262	30	1.5k
Xiaoxia Pan China	22	818 0.7×	232 0.5×	390 0.9×	303 0.9×	147 0.6×	65	1.3k
José G. van den Berg Netherlands	14	431 0.4×	171 0.3×	88 0.2×	191 0.5×	133 0.5×	36	968
Claudia R.C. van Roeyen Germany	20	394 0.3×	94 0.2×	142 0.3×	470 1.3×	161 0.6×	27	1.2k
Antonia Potarca United States	8	331 0.3×	58 0.1×	383 0.8×	124 0.4×	412 1.6×	16	919
Marc Hilhorst Netherlands	16	271 0.2×	72 0.1×	753 1.7×	382 1.1×	702 2.7×	34	1.5k
Shoji Ichikawa United States	21	1.2k 1.0×	150 0.3×	368 0.8×	750 2.1×	72 0.3×	47	1.9k
Branca Cavaco Portugal	28	441 0.4×	244 0.5×	270 0.6×	594 1.7×	79 0.3×	67	2.2k
Michael Boxer United States	16	75 0.1×	314 0.6×	148 0.3×	181 0.5×	188 0.7×	43	1.3k
Valeriano Leite Portugal	28	175 0.1×	314 0.6×	226 0.5×	667 1.9×	114 0.4×	121	2.5k
Andrew Arnold United States	13	363 0.3×	285 0.6×	115 0.3×	603 1.7×	59 0.2×	14	1.4k

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Hengel, Felicitas E., et al.. (2025). Passive transfer of patient-derived anti-nephrin autoantibodies causes a podocytopathy with minimal change lesions. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(5). 7 indexed citations

Zahner, Gunther, Silke Dehde, Larissa Seifert, et al.. (2025). Patient anti-PLA2R1 autoantibodies cause membranous nephropathy in human PLA2R1 transgenic mice. Kidney International. 108(6). 1179–1183.

Hengel, Felicitas E., Matthias Janneck, Henry H. L. Wu, et al.. (2025). Non-invasive Diagnosis of Antinephrin–Associated Podocytopathy. Kidney International Reports. 10(8). 2800–2804.

Hengel, Felicitas E., Alev Yılmaz, Aysun Karabay Bayazıt, et al.. (2025). Anti-nephrin autoantibodies in steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome may inform treatment strategy. Kidney International. 107(6). 1099–1103. 6 indexed citations

Rissiek, Björn, Christian F. Krebs, Hans‐Willi Mittrücker, et al.. (2024). ATP-Gated P2X7-Ion Channel on Kidney-Resident Natural Killer T Cells and Memory T Cells in Intrarenal Inflammation. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 36(4). 602–613. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Shuya, Malik Alawi, Felicitas E. Hengel, et al.. (2024). Adeno-associated virus–based gene therapy treats inflammatory kidney disease in mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(17). 14 indexed citations

Seifert, Larissa, Kristoffer Riecken, Gunther Zahner, et al.. (2024). An antigen-specific chimeric autoantibody receptor (CAAR) NK cell strategy for the elimination of anti-PLA2R1 and anti-THSD7A antibody-secreting cells. Kidney International. 105(4). 886–889. 27 indexed citations

Seifert, Larissa & Nicola M. Tomas. (2024). CAAR NK and T cells to eliminate autoreactive lymphocytes in autoimmune disorders. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 40(2). 215–217. 6 indexed citations

Wiech, Thorsten, et al.. (2023). Complement component C3 as a new target to lower albuminuria in hypertensive kidney disease. British Journal of Pharmacology. 180(18). 2412–2435. 7 indexed citations

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Tomas, Nicola M., Silke Dehde, Irm Hermans‐Borgmeyer, et al.. (2023). Introduction of a novel chimeric active immunization mouse model of PLA2R1-associated membranous nephropathy. Kidney International. 104(5). 916–928. 9 indexed citations

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Riedel, Jan-Hendrik, Hans‐Joachim Paust, Yu Zhao, et al.. (2022). Glucocorticoids target the CXCL9/CXCL10-CXCR3 axis and confer protection against immune-mediated kidney injury. JCI Insight. 8(1). 8 indexed citations

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Seifert, Larissa, et al.. (2022). Strategies Towards Antigen-Specific Treatments for Membranous Nephropathy. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 822508–822508. 19 indexed citations

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Tomas, Nicola M., Silke Dehde, Catherine Meyer‐Schwesinger, et al.. (2022). Podocyte expression of human phospholipase A2 receptor 1 causes immune-mediated membranous nephropathy in mice. Kidney International. 103(2). 297–303. 21 indexed citations

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Ruffer, Nikolas, Nicola M. Tomas, Stefan Schmiedel, Sabine Jordan, & Ina Kötter. (2021). Imitation eines Felty-Syndroms durch eine viszerale Leishmaniasis bei rheumatoider Arthritis unter Therapie mit Methotrexat und Etanercept. Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie. 81(3). 240–243. 1 indexed citations

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Loreth, Desirée, Fatih Demir, Nicola M. Tomas, et al.. (2021). Tripartite Separation of Glomerular Cell Types and Proteomes from Reporter-Free Mice. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 32(9). 2175–2193. 14 indexed citations

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Tomas, Nicola M., Simon A. Mortensen, Matthias Wilmanns, & Tobias B. Huber. (2021). Across scales: novel insights into kidney health and disease by structural biology. Kidney International. 100(2). 281–288. 1 indexed citations

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Meyer‐Schwesinger, Catherine, Nicola M. Tomas, Silke Dehde, et al.. (2019). A novel mouse model of phospholipase A2 receptor 1-associated membranous nephropathy mimics podocyte injury in patients. Kidney International. 97(5). 913–919. 64 indexed citations

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Hoxha, Elion, Laurence H. Beck, Thorsten Wiech, et al.. (2016). An Indirect Immunofluorescence Method Facilitates Detection of Thrombospondin Type 1 Domain–Containing 7A–Specific Antibodies in Membranous Nephropathy. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 28(2). 520–531. 152 indexed citations

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Seitz‐Polski, Barbara, Guillaume Dolla, Christine Payré, et al.. (2015). Cross-reactivity of anti-PLA2R1 autoantibodies to rabbit and mouse PLA2R1 antigens and development of two novel ELISAs with different diagnostic performances in idiopathic membranous nephropathy. Biochimie. 118. 104–115. 16 indexed citations

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Tomas, Nicola M., et al.. (2012). Akt and phospholipase Cγ are involved in the regulation of growth and migration of MDA-MB-468 breast cancer and SW480 colon cancer cells when cultured with diabetogenic levels of glucose and insulin. BMC Research Notes. 5(1). 214–214. 41 indexed citations

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