Philipp Niethammer

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Philipp Niethammer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Niethammer has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Philipp Niethammer's work include Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (7 papers), Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (7 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (6 papers). Philipp Niethammer is often cited by papers focused on Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms (7 papers), Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (7 papers) and Nuclear Structure and Function (6 papers). Philipp Niethammer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Hungary. Philipp Niethammer's co-authors include Timothy J. Mitchison, Clemens Grabher, A. Thomas Look, Balázs Enyedi, Philippe I. H. Bastiaens, Mark Jelcic, Eric Karsenti, Michael Overholtzer, Melitta Schachner and Markus Delling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Niethammer

32 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

A tissue-scale gradient of hydrogen peroxide mediates rapid wound detection in zebrafish

2009 1.2k citations Philipp Niethammer, Timothy J. Mitchison et al. profile →
Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture

2020 350 citations Tom Levin, Noah J. Steinberg et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Niethammer United States	20	1.6k	835	628	328	273	34	3.0k
Clemens Grabher Germany	25	2.9k 1.9×	1.5k 1.8×	930 1.5×	90 0.3×	454 1.7×	34	4.9k
Heiko Blaser Germany	17	2.3k 1.5×	751 0.9×	832 1.3×	197 0.6×	143 0.5×	17	4.2k
Do Han Kim South Korea	40	2.9k 1.8×	693 0.8×	228 0.4×	279 0.9×	595 2.2×	153	5.1k
Xiaobo Wang China	34	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	374 0.6×	235 0.7×	401 1.5×	152	4.5k
Yih‐Cherng Liou Singapore	39	3.5k 2.3×	562 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	143 0.4×	739 2.7×	89	5.3k
Vladimir L. Katanaev Switzerland	35	2.8k 1.8×	738 0.9×	810 1.3×	215 0.7×	445 1.6×	145	4.6k
Dianqing Wu United States	40	3.7k 2.4×	880 1.1×	812 1.3×	218 0.7×	365 1.3×	85	5.3k
Vivaldo Moura‐Neto Brazil	47	2.6k 1.7×	582 0.7×	499 0.8×	286 0.9×	768 2.8×	162	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philipp Niethammer

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Niethammer, Philipp, et al.. (2025). Endoplasmic reticulum disruption stimulates nuclear membrane mechanotransduction. Nature Cell Biology. 28(1). 125–134. 1 indexed citations

Rajan, Saravanan, et al.. (2025). Mechanotransduction by nuclear envelope tension. Nucleus. 17(1). 2600901–2600901.

Levin, Tom, Noah J. Steinberg, Scott J. Dixon, et al.. (2020). Ferroptosis occurs through an osmotic mechanism and propagates independently of cell rupture. Nature Cell Biology. 22(9). 1042–1048. 350 indexed citations breakdown →

Jelcic, Mark, Ke Wang, King Lam Hui, et al.. (2020). A Photo-clickable ATP-Mimetic Reveals Nucleotide Interactors in the Membrane Proteome. Cell chemical biology. 27(8). 1073–1083.e12. 10 indexed citations

Jelcic, Mark, et al.. (2020). Lipid peroxidation regulates long-range wound detection through 5-lipoxygenase in zebrafish. Nature Cell Biology. 22(9). 1049–1055. 78 indexed citations

Huang, Cong, et al.. (2019). Live imaging of leukocyte recruitment in a zebrafish model of chemical liver injury. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 28–28. 14 indexed citations

Jelcic, Mark, Balázs Enyedi, & Philipp Niethammer. (2019). Quantitative Imaging of Endogenous and Exogenous H2O2 Gradients in Live Zebrafish Larvae. Methods in molecular biology. 1982. 283–299. 1 indexed citations

Niethammer, Philipp. (2017). Wound redox gradients revisited. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 80. 13–16. 13 indexed citations

Jelcic, Mark, Balázs Enyedi, João B. Xavier, & Philipp Niethammer. (2017). Image-Based Measurement of H 2 O 2 Reaction-Diffusion in Wounded Zebrafish Larvae. Biophysical Journal. 112(9). 2011–2018. 22 indexed citations

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Enyedi, Balázs, Mark Jelcic, & Philipp Niethammer. (2016). The Cell Nucleus Serves as a Mechanotransducer of Tissue Damage-Induced Inflammation. Cell. 165(5). 1160–1170. 161 indexed citations

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Huang, Cong & Philipp Niethammer. (2016). Illuminating Phagocyte Biology: The View from Zebrafish. Developmental Cell. 38(2). 133–134. 2 indexed citations

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Enyedi, Balázs & Philipp Niethammer. (2016). A Case for the Nuclear Membrane as a Mechanotransducer. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. 9(2). 247–251. 16 indexed citations

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Roxbury, Daniel, Prakrit V. Jena, Ryan M. Williams, et al.. (2015). Hyperspectral Microscopy of Near-Infrared Fluorescence Enables 17-Chirality Carbon Nanotube Imaging. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14167–14167. 113 indexed citations

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Enyedi, Balázs & Philipp Niethammer. (2015). Mechanisms of epithelial wound detection. Trends in Cell Biology. 25(7). 398–407. 63 indexed citations

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Kueh, Hao Yuan, Philipp Niethammer, & Timothy J. Mitchison. (2013). Maintenance of Mitochondrial Oxygen Homeostasis by Cosubstrate Compensation. Biophysical Journal. 104(6). 1338–1348. 21 indexed citations

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Enyedi, Balázs, et al.. (2013). Tissue damage detection by osmotic surveillance. Nature Cell Biology. 15(9). 1123–1130. 86 indexed citations

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Niethammer, Philipp, Hao Yuan Kueh, & Timothy J. Mitchison. (2008). Spatial Patterning of Metabolism by Mitochondria, Oxygen, and Energy Sinks in a Model Cytoplasm. Current Biology. 18(8). 586–591. 31 indexed citations

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Niethammer, Philipp, Iva Kronja, Stefanie Kandels‐Lewis, et al.. (2007). Discrete States of a Protein Interaction Network Govern Interphase and Mitotic Microtubule Dynamics. PLoS Biology. 5(2). e29–e29. 63 indexed citations

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Bastiaens, Philippe I. H., Maïwen Caudron‐Herger, Philipp Niethammer, & Eric Karsenti. (2006). Gradients in the self-organization of the mitotic spindle. Trends in Cell Biology. 16(3). 125–134. 91 indexed citations

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Niethammer, Philipp, Philippe I. H. Bastiaens, & Eric Karsenti. (2004). Stathmin-Tubulin Interaction Gradients in Motile and Mitotic Cells. Science. 303(5665). 1862–1866. 159 indexed citations

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