P. Eckhard Witten

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

P. Eckhard Witten is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aquatic Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, P. Eckhard Witten has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Aquatic Science and 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in P. Eckhard Witten's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (36 papers), Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth (30 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (29 papers). P. Eckhard Witten is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (36 papers), Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth (30 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (29 papers). P. Eckhard Witten collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Norway and Germany. P. Eckhard Witten's co-authors include Ann Huysseune, Brian K. Hall, Tamara A. Franz‐Odendaal, A. Huysseune, Alex Obach, Carol H. Kim, Mark T. Mellon, Peter E. Phelan, Christoph Winkler and George Koumoundouros and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Development.

In The Last Decade

P. Eckhard Witten

128 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Buried alive: How osteoblasts become osteocytes

2005 504 citations Tamara A. Franz‐Odendaal, Brian K. Hall et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
P. Eckhard Witten Belgium	40	1.9k	1.9k	1.5k	834	795	134	5.3k
Ann Huysseune Belgium	36	2.4k 1.3×	916 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	254 0.3×	560 0.7×	128	4.2k
M. Leonor Cancela Portugal	38	1.7k 0.9×	957 0.5×	465 0.3×	406 0.5×	393 0.5×	235	4.8k
Glenda M. Wright Canada	30	719 0.4×	601 0.3×	463 0.3×	772 0.9×	222 0.3×	100	2.6k
Jean‐Yves Sire France	39	1.9k 1.0×	474 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	244 0.3×	403 0.5×	96	4.2k
Yasuaki Takagi Japan	35	836 0.4×	788 0.4×	586 0.4×	447 0.5×	175 0.2×	155	3.7k
Shaojun Du United States	33	2.6k 1.4×	542 0.3×	183 0.1×	627 0.8×	451 0.6×	119	4.2k
Tohru Suzuki Japan	32	1.3k 0.7×	635 0.3×	231 0.2×	433 0.5×	148 0.2×	102	2.7k
Hiroshi Mitani Japan	34	2.2k 1.2×	409 0.2×	316 0.2×	765 0.9×	409 0.5×	202	5.3k
Noriyuki Satoh Japan	53	5.4k 2.9×	644 0.3×	338 0.2×	526 0.6×	460 0.6×	291	9.5k
Yu‐San Han Taiwan	25	821 0.4×	558 0.3×	541 0.4×	202 0.2×	76 0.1×	127	2.7k

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Losada, Ana Paula, et al.. (2025). The Vertebral Column of Flatfish: A Review. Reviews in Aquaculture. 17(4).

Witten, P. Eckhard, et al.. (2024). The problems with pin bones: Intermuscular bone development and function in salmonids and their implications for aquaculture. Reviews in Aquaculture. 16(4). 1981–1995. 1 indexed citations

Rücklin, Martin, et al.. (2023). Deformity or variation? Phenotypic diversity in the zebrafish vertebral column. Journal of Anatomy. 243(6). 960–981. 1 indexed citations

Huysseune, Ann, et al.. (2023). Bone Formation in Zebrafish: The Significance of DAF-FM DA Staining for Nitric Oxide Detection. Biomolecules. 13(12). 1780–1780. 4 indexed citations

Fjelldal, Per Gunnar, et al.. (2023). Elevated Water CO2 Can Prevent Dietary-Induced Osteomalacia in Post-Smolt Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar, L.). Biomolecules. 13(4). 663–663. 5 indexed citations

Huysseune, Ann & P. Eckhard Witten. (2023). Continuous tooth replacement: what can teleost fish teach us?. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(3). 797–819. 4 indexed citations

Tonelli, Francesca, Laura Leoni, Roberta Gioia, et al.. (2023). Zebrafish Tric-b is required for skeletal development and bone cells differentiation. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1002914–1002914. 9 indexed citations

Kague, Érika, Francesco Turci, Kate Robson Brown, et al.. (2021). 3D assessment of intervertebral disc degeneration in zebrafish identifies changes in bone density that prime disc disease. Bone Research. 9(1). 39–39. 39 indexed citations

Huysseune, Ann, Wolfgang Koppe, Martin Rücklin, et al.. (2020). More Bone with Less Minerals? The Effects of Dietary Phosphorus on the Post-Cranial Skeleton in Zebrafish. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(15). 5429–5429. 28 indexed citations

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Tonelli, Francesca, Laura Leoni, Roberta Besio, et al.. (2020). Crtap and p3h1 knock out zebrafish support defective collagen chaperoning as the cause of their osteogenesis imperfecta phenotype. Matrix Biology. 90. 40–60. 30 indexed citations

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Gistelinck, Charlotte, Ronald Y. Kwon, Fransiska Malfait, et al.. (2018). Zebrafish type I collagen mutants faithfully recapitulate human type I collagenopathies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(34). E8037–E8046. 69 indexed citations

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Willems, Maxime, et al.. (2016). Epithelial Label-Retaining Cells Are Absent during Tooth Cycling in Salmo salar and Polypterus senegalus. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0152870–e0152870. 11 indexed citations

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Boglione, Clara, Enric Gisbert, Paulo J. Gavaia, et al.. (2013). Skeletal anomalies in reared European fish larvae and juveniles. Part 2: main typologies, occurrences and causative factors. Reviews in Aquaculture. 5(s1). 226 indexed citations

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Izquierdo, Marisol, M. Scolamacchia, Mónica B. Betancor, et al.. (2012). Effects of dietary DHA and α-tocopherol on bone development, early mineralisation and oxidative stress inSparus aurata(Linnaeus, 1758) larvae. British Journal Of Nutrition. 109(10). 1796–1805. 77 indexed citations

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Witten, P. Eckhard, Harald Takle, Grete Bæverfjord, & Ann Huysseune. (2007). Early and late vertebral fusion in Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) : vertebral bodies and arches as developmental modules and the lifelong role of the notochord. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations

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Witten, P. Eckhard, et al.. (2004). Acellular teleost bone : dead or alive, primitive or derived?. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 6 indexed citations

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Huysseune, Ann, Christine Van der heyden, & P. Eckhard Witten. (2004). Patterns of tooth replacement in osteichthyans: variations on a theme. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 1 indexed citations

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Witten, P. Eckhard, et al.. (2004). Breeding teeth in Atlantic salmon: fact or fake?. Journal of Morphology. 260. 340–341. 1 indexed citations

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Marxen, Julia C., et al.. (2003). A light‐ and electron‐microscopic study of enzymes in the embryonic shell‐forming tissue of the freshwater snail, Biomphalaria glabrata. Invertebrate Biology. 122(4). 313–325. 14 indexed citations

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Witten, P. Eckhard & Brian K. Hall. (2002). Differentiation and growth of kype skeletal tissues in anadromous male Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 46(5). 719–730. 66 indexed citations

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