Nicolai Savaskan

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Nicolai Savaskan is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolai Savaskan has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nicolai Savaskan's work include Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (19 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (18 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (14 papers). Nicolai Savaskan is often cited by papers focused on Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (19 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (18 papers) and Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling (14 papers). Nicolai Savaskan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Nicolai Savaskan's co-authors include Michael Buchfelder, Ilker Y. Eyüpoglu, Anja U. Bräuer, Robert Nitsch, Manfred Rauh, Zheng Fan, Ulrich Schweizer, Hartmut Kühn, Olaf Ninnemann and Anna-Katharina Wirth and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Medicine and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nicolai Savaskan

87 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Nrf2-Keap1 pathway promotes cell proliferation and diminishes ferroptosis

2017 536 citations Zheng Fan, Anna-Katharina Wirth et al. Oncogenesis profile →
ATF4 promotes angiogenesis and neuronal cell death and confers ferroptosis in a xCT-dependent manner

2017 332 citations Zheng Fan, Manfred Rauh et al. Oncogene profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolai Savaskan Germany	38	2.2k	1.1k	977	775	730	90	4.9k
Qing Guo China	40	3.3k 1.5×	599 0.6×	622 0.6×	279 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	183	6.7k
Hideyo Sato Japan	39	4.6k 2.1×	1.9k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	561 0.7×	901 1.2×	99	8.1k
Francisco Nualart Chile	37	1.3k 0.6×	289 0.3×	509 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	472 0.6×	126	3.9k
Steven Estus United States	44	4.4k 2.0×	400 0.4×	529 0.5×	314 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	87	8.3k
Katja M. Kanninen Finland	35	2.0k 0.9×	307 0.3×	461 0.5×	239 0.3×	473 0.6×	106	4.0k
Ajit G. Thomas United States	34	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	130 0.2×	706 1.0×	84	5.0k
Jan Lewerenz Germany	29	1.9k 0.9×	566 0.5×	471 0.5×	162 0.2×	950 1.3×	79	4.5k
Darius J.R. Lane Australia	38	2.1k 1.0×	463 0.4×	370 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	374 0.5×	72	4.5k
Joshua L. Dunaief United States	45	3.6k 1.6×	366 0.3×	246 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	310 0.4×	146	6.9k
Axel Methner Germany	37	2.4k 1.1×	623 0.6×	527 0.5×	220 0.3×	914 1.3×	87	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolai Savaskan

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Savaskan, Nicolai, et al.. (2024). Ende der Pandemie – Beginn der Digitalisierung im Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst? Das nationale Förderprogramm Pakt-öGD. Das Gesundheitswesen. 87(4). 253–259.

Savaskan, Nicolai, et al.. (2024). A European roadmap to a digital epidemiology in public health system. Frontiers in Digital Health. 6. 1284426–1284426. 1 indexed citations

Savaskan, Nicolai, et al.. (2024). Do summaries of evidence enable informed decision-making about COVID-19 and influenza vaccination equitably across more and less disadvantaged groups? Study protocol for a multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial of ‘fact boxes’ in health and social care in Germany. BMJ Open. 14(10). e083515–e083515.

Wolf, Kathrin, et al.. (2024). Neighborhood-level inequalities and influencing factors of COVID-19 incidence in Berlin based on Bayesian spatial modelling. Sustainable Cities and Society. 104. 105301–105301. 5 indexed citations

Savaskan, Nicolai, et al.. (2024). Germany's national public health gets reorganized: A new institute shall take center stage. Health Policy. 145. 105084–105084.

Savaskan, Nicolai, et al.. (2023). Glial Glutamate Transporter-Mediated Plasticity: System xc-/xCT/SLC7A11 and EAAT1/2 in Brain Diseases. Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark. 28(3). 57–57. 22 indexed citations

Elson, Richard, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Spatial Relative Risk of COVID-19 in Berlin-Neukölln. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(10). 5830–5830. 2 indexed citations

Ehehalt, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Wissenschaftlich-medizinische Fachgesellschaft für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung – ein Plädoyer. Public Health Forum. 31(4). 371–373. 1 indexed citations

Groos, Dominik, et al.. (2021). The Acidic Brain—Glycolytic Switch in the Microenvironment of Malignant Glioma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(11). 5518–5518. 38 indexed citations

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Groos, Dominik, et al.. (2021). MCT4 Promotes Tumor Malignancy in F98 Glioma Cells. Journal of Oncology. 2021. 1–20. 12 indexed citations

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Fan, Zheng, Anna-Katharina Wirth, Christoph Jan Wruck, et al.. (2017). Nrf2-Keap1 pathway promotes cell proliferation and diminishes ferroptosis. Oncogenesis. 6(8). e371–e371. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yakubov, Eduard, et al.. (2017). Chemotherapeutic xCT inhibitors sorafenib and erastin unraveled with the synaptic optogenetic function analysis tool. Cell Death Discovery. 3(1). 17030–17030. 33 indexed citations

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Ghoochani, Ali, Marc Schwarz, Eduard Yakubov, et al.. (2016). MIF-CD74 signaling impedes microglial M1 polarization and facilitates brain tumorigenesis. Oncogene. 35(48). 6246–6261. 97 indexed citations

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Fan, Zheng, Eduard Yakubov, Daishi Chen, et al.. (2016). PRG3 induces Ras-dependent oncogenic cooperation in gliomas. Oncotarget. 7(18). 26692–26708. 11 indexed citations

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Eyüpoglu, Ilker Y., Michael Buchfelder, & Nicolai Savaskan. (2013). Surgical resection of malignant gliomas—role in optimizing patient outcome. Nature Reviews Neurology. 9(3). 141–151. 128 indexed citations

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Halstead, Jonathan R., Nicolai Savaskan, Iman van den Bout, et al.. (2010). Rac controls PIP5K localisation and PtdIns(4,5) P 2 synthesis, which modulates vinculin localisation and neurite dynamics. Journal of Cell Science. 123(20). 3535–3546. 41 indexed citations

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Broggini, Thomas, Robert Nitsch, & Nicolai Savaskan. (2009). Plasticity-related Gene 5 (PRG5) Induces Filopodia and Neurite Growth and Impedes Lysophosphatidic Acid– and Nogo-A–mediated Axonal Retraction. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(4). 521–537. 40 indexed citations

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Engelhorn, Tobias, Nicolai Savaskan, Marc Schwarz, et al.. (2009). Cellular characterization of the peritumoral edema zone in malignant brain tumors. Cancer Science. 100(10). 1856–1862. 74 indexed citations

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Savaskan, Nicolai, Anja U. Bräuer, M. Kühbacher, et al.. (2002). Selenium deficiency increases susceptibility to glutamate‐induced excitotoxicity. The FASEB Journal. 17(1). 112–114. 131 indexed citations

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Skutella, Thomas, Nicolai Savaskan, Olaf Ninnemann, & Robert Nitsch. (1999). Target- and Maturation-Specific Membrane-Associated Molecules Determine the Ingrowth of Entorhinal Fibers into the Hippocampus. Developmental Biology. 211(2). 277–292. 11 indexed citations

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