Peter Wieghofer

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Peter Wieghofer is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Ophthalmology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Wieghofer has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Neurology, 19 papers in Immunology and 13 papers in Ophthalmology. Recurrent topics in Peter Wieghofer's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (23 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (13 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (13 papers). Peter Wieghofer is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (23 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (13 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (13 papers). Peter Wieghofer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Peter Wieghofer's co-authors include Marco Prinz, Ori Staszewski, Ido Amit, Thorsten Buch, Eyal David, Wendy S. Garrett, Kristin Jakobshagen, Diego Adhemar Jaitin, Peter Staeheli and Vera Schwierzeck and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Experimental Medicine, The EMBO Journal and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Peter Wieghofer

31 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS

2015 2.5k citations Daniel Erny, Diego Adhemar Jaitin et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
A new type of microglia gene targeting shows TAK1 to be pivotal in CNS autoimmune inflammation

2013 516 citations Tobias Goldmann, Peter Wieghofer et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Wieghofer Germany	19	2.1k	1.6k	1.1k	997	922	31	4.3k
Ori Staszewski Germany	26	3.0k 1.4×	3.7k 2.3×	2.2k 2.0×	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	59	7.3k
Jonas J. Neher Germany	24	1.5k 0.7×	2.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	687 0.7×	35	4.7k
Thomas Blank Germany	37	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	725 0.7×	716 0.8×	74	4.5k
Daniel Erny Germany	19	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	786 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.5×	51	4.7k
Jessica L. Teeling United Kingdom	37	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.4×	666 0.7×	66	6.1k
Man Yu China	13	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	651 0.6×	345 0.3×	144 0.2×	44	4.0k
Ulrich Eisel Netherlands	39	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	912 0.8×	880 0.9×	544 0.6×	120	5.2k
Ádám Dénes Hungary	40	2.3k 1.1×	3.0k 1.8×	1.8k 1.7×	715 0.7×	328 0.4×	99	6.3k
Peder S. Olofsson Sweden	36	2.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.0×	433 0.4×	250 0.3×	87	5.1k
Juan Pablo de Rivero Vaccari United States	44	3.8k 1.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	629 0.6×	657 0.7×	114	6.4k

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Koch, Jana, Annika Hausmann, Takahiro Masuda, et al.. (2024). Redefining the ontogeny of hyalocytes as yolk sac-derived tissue-resident macrophages of the vitreous body. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 21(1). 168–168. 5 indexed citations

Lange, Clemens, Stefaniya Boneva, Peter Wieghofer, & J. Sebag. (2024). Hyalocytes—guardians of the vitreoretinal interface. Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 262(9). 2765–2784. 9 indexed citations

Wolf, Julian, Anja Schlecht, Stefaniya Boneva, et al.. (2022). Comparative transcriptome analysis of human and murine choroidal neovascularization identifies fibroblast growth factor inducible-14 as phylogenetically conserved mediator of neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1868(4). 166340–166340. 13 indexed citations

Boneva, Stefaniya, et al.. (2022). Hyalocyte functions and immunology. Expert Review of Ophthalmology. 17(4). 249–262. 13 indexed citations

Wolf, Julian, Stefaniya Boneva, Hansjürgen Agostini, et al.. (2022). In-Depth Molecular Profiling Specifies Human Retinal Microglia Identity. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 863158–863158. 14 indexed citations

Zhuang, Xinyu, Günther Schlunck, Julian Wolf, et al.. (2021). Time- and Stimulus-Dependent Characteristics of Innate Immune Cells in Organ-Cultured Human Corneal Tissue. Journal of Innate Immunity. 14(2). 98–111. 7 indexed citations

Wieghofer, Peter, et al.. (2021). Guardians of the eye: new tales about retinal microglia and other ocular macrophages. Neural Regeneration Research. 17(6). 1275–1275. 7 indexed citations

Schlecht, Anja, Peipei Zhang, Julian Wolf, et al.. (2021). Secreted Phosphoprotein 1 Expression in Retinal Mononuclear Phagocytes Links Murine to Human Choroidal Neovascularization. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 8. 618598–618598. 27 indexed citations

Zhang, Peipei, Anja Schlecht, Julian Wolf, et al.. (2021). The role of interferon regulatory factor 8 for retinal tissue homeostasis and development of choroidal neovascularisation. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 18(1). 215–215. 14 indexed citations

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Schlecht, Anja, Julian Wolf, Gabriele Prinz, et al.. (2021). Immunosenescence in Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV)—Transcriptional Profiling of Naïve and CNV-Associated Retinal Myeloid Cells during Aging. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(24). 13318–13318. 10 indexed citations

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Wolf, Julian, Stefaniya Boneva, Anja Schlecht, et al.. (2021). Subretinal fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration: current concepts, therapeutic avenues, and future perspectives. Cell and Tissue Research. 387(3). 361–375. 81 indexed citations

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Brioschi, Simone, Paolo d’Errico, Lukas Amann, et al.. (2020). Detection of Synaptic Proteins in Microglia by Flow Cytometry. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 13. 149–149. 17 indexed citations

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Boneva, Stefaniya, Julian Wolf, Anja Schlecht, et al.. (2020). Transcriptional Profiling Uncovers Human Hyalocytes as a Unique Innate Immune Cell Population. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 567274–567274. 37 indexed citations

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Schlecht, Anja, Stefaniya Boneva, Markus Gruber, et al.. (2020). Transcriptomic Characterization of Human Choroidal Neovascular Membranes Identifies Calprotectin as a Novel Biomarker for Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration. American Journal Of Pathology. 190(8). 1632–1642. 36 indexed citations

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Ajami, Bahareh, Nikolay Samusik, Peter Wieghofer, et al.. (2018). Single-cell mass cytometry reveals distinct populations of brain myeloid cells in mouse neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration models. Nature Neuroscience. 21(4). 541–551. 236 indexed citations

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Erny, Daniel, Diego Adhemar Jaitin, Peter Wieghofer, et al.. (2015). Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS. Nature Neuroscience. 18(7). 965–977. 2498 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wieghofer, Peter & Marco Prinz. (2015). Genetic manipulation of microglia during brain development and disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1862(3). 299–309. 45 indexed citations

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Guire, Conor Mc, Peter Wieghofer, Jens Staal, et al.. (2014). Pharmacological inhibition of MALT1 protease activity protects mice in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 11(1). 124–124. 61 indexed citations

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Wieghofer, Peter, Klaus‐Peter Knobeloch, & Marco Prinz. (2014). Genetic targeting of microglia. Glia. 63(1). 1–22. 103 indexed citations

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Goldmann, Tobias, Peter Wieghofer, Philippe Müller, et al.. (2013). A new type of microglia gene targeting shows TAK1 to be pivotal in CNS autoimmune inflammation. Nature Neuroscience. 16(11). 1618–1626. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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