Ralf Wimmer

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ralf Wimmer is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Wimmer has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Epidemiology, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ralf Wimmer's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (20 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers). Ralf Wimmer is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (20 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (16 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers). Ralf Wimmer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Ralf Wimmer's co-authors include Michael M. Halassa, Lukas Ian Schmitt, Miho Nakajima, Sima Mofakham, Christian Rust, Simone Astori, Anita Lüthi, Karl Deisseroth, Thomas J. Davidson and Gerald Denk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Wimmer

55 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Thalamic amplification of cortical connectivity sustains attentional control

2017 408 citations Lukas Ian Schmitt, Ralf Wimmer et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralf Wimmer Germany	26	1.6k	928	421	371	328	63	2.8k
Masami Futatsubashi Japan	32	994 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	694 1.6×	219 0.6×	130 0.4×	49	4.3k
B Antoine France	27	633 0.4×	812 0.9×	859 2.0×	162 0.4×	94 0.3×	73	2.6k
Masaki Tanaka Japan	27	1.3k 0.8×	364 0.4×	462 1.1×	64 0.2×	138 0.4×	137	2.2k
Shinsuke Ohta Japan	30	1.3k 0.8×	337 0.4×	745 1.8×	584 1.6×	100 0.3×	102	3.7k
Sylvain Williams Canada	43	2.7k 1.7×	3.4k 3.7×	1.2k 2.9×	105 0.3×	90 0.3×	87	5.3k
Edward O. Mann United Kingdom	25	1.9k 1.2×	2.7k 2.9×	855 2.0×	147 0.4×	33 0.1×	42	3.9k
Sang Jeong Kim South Korea	34	527 0.3×	1.3k 1.5×	1.4k 3.3×	243 0.7×	141 0.4×	170	3.9k
David Spencer Australia	24	718 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	705 1.7×	103 0.3×	76 0.2×	71	2.3k
Patricio T. Huerta United States	34	2.1k 1.4×	2.9k 3.1×	1.5k 3.5×	181 0.5×	106 0.3×	63	6.0k
Abba J. Kastin United States	30	314 0.2×	1.2k 1.3×	957 2.3×	208 0.6×	270 0.8×	60	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Wimmer

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Wang, Bin, Norman H. Lam, Shumei Li, et al.. (2025). Thalamic regulation of reinforcement learning strategies across prefrontal-striatal networks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9095–9095. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Anna, Ralf Wimmer, Norman H. Lam, et al.. (2025). 40. A Prefrontal Thalamocortical Readout for Conflict-Related Executive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry. 97(9). S91–S91. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Liangtao, Andreas Ziesch, Hanno Nieß, et al.. (2024). The inhibition of YAP Signaling Prevents Chronic Biliary Fibrosis in the Abcb4^-/- Model by Modulation of Hepatic Stellate Cell and Bile Duct Epithelium Cell Pathophysiology. Aging and Disease. 15(1). 338–338. 4 indexed citations

Wimmer, Ralf, et al.. (2022). Spiking Recurrent Neural Networks Represent Task-Relevant Neural Sequences in Rule-Dependent Computation. Cognitive Computation. 15(4). 1167–1189. 5 indexed citations

Hohenester, Simon, Veronika Kanitz, Andreas E. Kremer, et al.. (2020). Glycochenodeoxycholate Promotes Liver Fibrosis in Mice with Hepatocellular Cholestasis. Cells. 9(2). 281–281. 34 indexed citations

Reiter, Florian P., Liangtao Ye, Florian Bösch, et al.. (2019). Antifibrotic effects of hypocalcemic vitamin D analogs in murine and human hepatic stellate cells and in the CCl4 mouse model. Laboratory Investigation. 99(12). 1906–1917. 20 indexed citations

Hohenester, Simon, et al.. (2018). Lifestyle intervention for morbid obesity: effects on liver steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 315(3). G329–G338. 41 indexed citations

Chen, Zhe, Ralf Wimmer, Matthew Wilson, & Michael M. Halassa. (2016). Thalamic Circuit Mechanisms Link Sensory Processing in Sleep and Attention. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Chen, Zhe, Ralf Wimmer, Matthew Wilson, & Michael M. Halassa. (2016). Thalamic Circuit Mechanisms Link Sensory Processing in Sleep and Attention. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 9. 83–83. 60 indexed citations

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Wells, Michael F., Ralf Wimmer, Lukas Ian Schmitt, Guoping Feng, & Michael M. Halassa. (2015). Thalamic reticular impairment underlies attention deficit in Ptchd1Y/− mice. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

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Halassa, Michael M., Zhe Chen, Ralf Wimmer, et al.. (2014). State-Dependent Architecture of Thalamic Reticular Subnetworks. Cell. 158(4). 808–821. 229 indexed citations

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Astori, Simone, Ralf Wimmer, & Anita Lüthi. (2013). Manipulating sleep spindles – expanding views on sleep, memory, and disease. Trends in Neurosciences. 36(12). 738–748. 109 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Ralf, Simone Astori, Chris T. Bond, et al.. (2012). Sustaining Sleep Spindles through Enhanced SK2-Channel Activity Consolidates Sleep and Elevates Arousal Threshold. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(40). 13917–13928. 71 indexed citations

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Hohenester, Simon, Ralf Wimmer, Ulrich Beuers, et al.. (2010). Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase p110γ contributes to bile salt-induced apoptosis in primary rat hepatocytes and human hepatoma cells. Journal of Hepatology. 53(5). 918–926. 40 indexed citations

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Ábrahám, Erika, et al.. (2010). Exploiting Different Strategies for the Parallelization of an SMT Solver.. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 97–106. 2 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Ralf, et al.. (2008). Tauroursodeoxycholic acid exerts anticholestatic effects by a cooperative cPKC -/PKA-dependent mechanism in rat liver. Gut. 57(10). 1448–1454. 57 indexed citations

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Pusl, Thomas, et al.. (2007). Tauroursodeoxycholic acid reduces bile acid-induced apoptosis by modulation of AP-1. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 367(1). 208–212. 23 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Ralf, et al.. (2006). Collaborative Exercise Management. E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. 2006(1). 3127–3134.

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Landau, Kurt, et al.. (2001). Anforderungen an Montagearbeitsplätze. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 1 indexed citations

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Wimmer, Ralf, et al.. (1978). Comparison of kinin release and blood pressure activity of porcine pancreatic, submandibular, and urinary kallikrein.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 17. 121–6. 1 indexed citations

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