Ninouk Akkerman

441 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 285 citations indexed

About

Ninouk Akkerman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ninouk Akkerman has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 285 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ninouk Akkerman's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (2 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (1 paper) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (1 paper). Ninouk Akkerman is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (2 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (1 paper) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (1 paper). Ninouk Akkerman collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Ninouk Akkerman's co-authors include Libert H.K. Defize, Hans Clevers, Inha Heo, Devanjali Dutta, Aurelia Saftien, Adriana Martínez-Silgado, Charelle Boot, Cayetano Pleguezuelos‐Manzano, Jens Puschhof and Joep Beumer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Cell Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Ninouk Akkerman

6 papers receiving 282 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.

Lactate controls cancer stemness and plasticity through epigenetic regulation

2025 22 citations Rutger N.U. Kok, Hannah K. Neikes et al. Cell Metabolism profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ninouk Akkerman Netherlands	6	129	106	96	36	31	6	285
Aurelia Saftien Netherlands	5	142 1.1×	79 0.7×	103 1.1×	30 0.8×	26 0.8×	5	297
Adriana Martínez-Silgado Netherlands	4	109 0.8×	83 0.8×	106 1.1×	54 1.5×	17 0.5×	5	257
Veerle Geurts Netherlands	5	60 0.5×	73 0.7×	93 1.0×	30 0.8×	20 0.6×	6	199
Wakana Mochizuki Japan	6	119 0.9×	124 1.2×	230 2.4×	100 2.8×	38 1.2×	6	354
Geniver El Tekle United States	3	165 1.3×	32 0.3×	62 0.6×	18 0.5×	33 1.1×	3	267
Mengwen Huang China	9	144 1.1×	85 0.8×	68 0.7×	26 0.7×	16 0.5×	14	309
Sally Kinrade United States	5	138 1.1×	43 0.4×	95 1.0×	13 0.4×	67 2.2×	7	329
Kenia de los Santos-Alexis United States	6	116 0.9×	126 1.2×	90 0.9×	63 1.8×	12 0.4×	8	385

Countries citing papers authored by Ninouk Akkerman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ninouk Akkerman

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Kok, Rutger N.U., Hannah K. Neikes, Ninouk Akkerman, et al.. (2025). Lactate controls cancer stemness and plasticity through epigenetic regulation. Cell Metabolism. 37(4). 903–919.e10. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Daisong, Willem Kasper Spoelstra, Lin Lin, et al.. (2025). Interferon-responsive intestinal BEST4/CA7+ cells are targets of bacterial diarrheal toxins. Cell stem cell. 32(4). 598–612.e5. 7 indexed citations

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Beumer, Joep, Maarten H. Geurts, Veerle Geurts, et al.. (2024). Description and functional validation of human enteroendocrine cell sensors. Science. 386(6719). 341–348. 8 indexed citations

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Geurts, Maarten H., Shashank Gandhi, Matteo Boretto, et al.. (2023). One-step generation of tumor models by base editor multiplexing in adult stem cell-derived organoids. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4998–4998. 32 indexed citations

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Puschhof, Jens, Cayetano Pleguezuelos‐Manzano, Adriana Martínez-Silgado, et al.. (2021). Intestinal organoid cocultures with microbes. Nature Protocols. 16(10). 4633–4649. 171 indexed citations

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Akkerman, Ninouk & Libert H.K. Defize. (2017). Dawn of the organoid era. BioEssays. 39(4). 45 indexed citations

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