Olaf Merkel

4.0k total citations
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Olaf Merkel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Merkel has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Olaf Merkel's work include Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (16 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (10 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (5 papers). Olaf Merkel is often cited by papers focused on Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (16 papers), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research (10 papers) and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (5 papers). Olaf Merkel collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Olaf Merkel's co-authors include Lukas Kenner, Suzanne D. Turner, Richard Greil, Richard Moriggl, Fritz Paltauf, Johannes A. Mayr, Sepp D. Kohlwein, Konstantin Glebov, Jochen Walter and Michaela Schlederer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Merkel

37 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olaf Merkel Austria 21 921 452 306 300 235 40 1.5k
Esther Castaño Spain 20 856 0.9× 376 0.8× 147 0.5× 401 1.3× 157 0.7× 49 1.6k
Brigitte Sola France 28 1.3k 1.4× 209 0.5× 305 1.0× 485 1.6× 368 1.6× 101 2.2k
Kathrin Gottlob United States 7 2.0k 2.1× 648 1.4× 191 0.6× 291 1.0× 221 0.9× 7 2.4k
Yi Luo China 24 895 1.0× 499 1.1× 160 0.5× 273 0.9× 174 0.7× 75 1.7k
Han C. Dan United States 22 1.5k 1.6× 551 1.2× 212 0.7× 528 1.8× 345 1.5× 25 2.2k
Qingbin Kong China 15 1.0k 1.1× 398 0.9× 145 0.5× 364 1.2× 191 0.8× 17 1.7k
Osman Nidai Özeş United States 4 1.5k 1.6× 704 1.6× 157 0.5× 465 1.6× 525 2.2× 5 2.2k
A. Pieter J. van den Heuvel United States 13 967 1.0× 335 0.7× 101 0.3× 363 1.2× 132 0.6× 14 1.4k
Man‐Wook Hur South Korea 26 1.4k 1.5× 292 0.6× 121 0.4× 281 0.9× 184 0.8× 77 2.0k
T F Franke United States 7 1.3k 1.4× 223 0.5× 366 1.2× 367 1.2× 159 0.7× 7 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Olaf Merkel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Olaf Merkel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olaf Merkel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Olaf Merkel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Olaf Merkel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Olaf Merkel. Olaf Merkel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Timelthaler, Gerald, Dominik Kirchhofer, Oldamur Hollóczki, et al.. (2025). Anti-Cancer Potential of a new Derivative of Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester targeting the Centrosome. Redox Biology. 81. 103582–103582.
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Prutsch, Nicole, Shuning He, Alla Berezovskaya, et al.. (2024). STAT3 couples activated tyrosine kinase signaling to the oncogenic core transcriptional regulatory circuitry of anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(3). 101472–101472. 4 indexed citations
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Prokoph, Nina, Jamie D. Matthews, Ricky M. Trigg, et al.. (2023). Patient‐derived xenograft models of ALK+ ALCL reveal preclinical promise for therapy with brigatinib. British Journal of Haematology. 202(5). 985–994. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Huan-Chang, et al.. (2018). The Role of Activator Protein-1 (AP-1) Family Members in CD30-Positive Lymphomas. Cancers. 10(4). 93–93. 111 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, Elena Hartmann, Nina Reinart, et al.. (2018). FcmR Shapes BCR Signaling in IgM-Positive Leukemia. Blood. 132(Supplement 1). 2620–2620.
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Kaltenecker, Doris, Madeleine Themanns, Kristina M. Mueller, et al.. (2018). Hepatic growth hormone - JAK2 - STAT5 signalling: Metabolic function, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma progression. Cytokine. 124. 154569–154569. 46 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, Ninon Taylor, Nicole Prutsch, et al.. (2017). When the guardian sleeps: Reactivation of the p53 pathway in cancer. Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research. 773. 1–13. 47 indexed citations
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Malcolm, Tim, Patrick Villarèse, Laurence Lamant, et al.. (2016). Anaplastic large cell lymphoma arises in thymocytes and requires transient TCR expression for thymic egress. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10087–10087. 51 indexed citations
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Hassler, Melanie R., Walter Pulverer, Ranjani Lakshminarasimhan, et al.. (2016). Insights into the Pathogenesis of Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma through Genome-wide DNA Methylation Profiling. Cell Reports. 17(2). 596–608. 45 indexed citations
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Pěnčík, Jan, Hà Phạm, Johannes Schmoellerl, et al.. (2016). JAK-STAT signaling in cancer: From cytokines to non-coding genome. Cytokine. 87. 26–36. 177 indexed citations
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Hotz‐Wagenblatt, Agnes, Jennifer Hüllein, Leopold Sellner, et al.. (2015). p53-dependent non-coding RNA networks in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 29(10). 2015–2023. 140 indexed citations
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Malcolm, Tim, Rifat Hamoudi, Shahzad I. Mian, et al.. (2014). Anaplastic large cell lymphoma-propagating cells are detectable by side population analysis and possess an expression profile reflective of a primitive origin. Oncogene. 34(14). 1843–1852. 29 indexed citations
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Hopfinger, Georg, et al.. (2012). Novel treatment avenues for peripheral T-cell lymphomas. Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 7(12). 1149–1163. 2 indexed citations
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Sellner, Leopold, et al.. (2012). What Do We Do with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia with 17p Deletion?. Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports. 8(1). 81–90. 6 indexed citations
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Jöhrer, Karin, Daniel Neureiter, Claudia Zelle‐Rieser, et al.. (2011). Antimyeloma activity of the sesquiterpene lactone cnicin: impact on Pim-2 kinase as a novel therapeutic target. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 90(6). 681–693. 32 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, Christoph Heyder, Daniela Asslaber, et al.. (2008). Arsenic trioxide induces apoptosis preferentially in B-CLL cells of patients with unfavourable prognostic factors including del17p13. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 86(5). 541–552. 26 indexed citations
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Mayr, Johannes A., Olaf Merkel, Sepp D. Kohlwein, et al.. (2007). Mitochondrial Phosphate–Carrier Deficiency: A Novel Disorder of Oxidative Phosphorylation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 80(3). 478–484. 120 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, Patricia C. Schmid, Fritz Paltauf, & Harald H.O. Schmid. (2005). Presence and potential signaling function of N-acylethanolamines and their phospholipid precursors in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1734(3). 215–219. 37 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, et al.. (2005). Regulation of activity in vitro and in vivo of three phospholipases B from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemical Journal. 387(2). 489–496. 35 indexed citations
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Merkel, Olaf, et al.. (1999). Characterization and Function in Vivo of Two Novel Phospholipases B/Lysophospholipases fromSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(40). 28121–28127. 96 indexed citations

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