Rick Dersch

2.3k total citations
68 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rick Dersch is a scholar working on Neurology, Parasitology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Dersch has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Neurology, 20 papers in Parasitology and 17 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Rick Dersch's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (20 papers), Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (16 papers) and Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (12 papers). Rick Dersch is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (20 papers), Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (16 papers) and Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (12 papers). Rick Dersch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Rick Dersch's co-authors include Sebastian Rauer, Oliver Stich, Tilman Hottenrott, Dominique Endres, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Benjamin Berger, Joerg J Meerpohl, Harriet Sommer, Harald Prüß and Simon Maier and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Neurology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Rick Dersch

64 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rick Dersch Germany 21 555 332 235 227 187 68 1.4k
Oliver Stich Germany 24 954 1.7× 95 0.3× 63 0.3× 193 0.9× 574 3.1× 65 1.6k
Patrick Oschmann Germany 20 194 0.3× 237 0.7× 231 1.0× 26 0.1× 707 3.8× 75 1.5k
Tilman Hottenrott Germany 14 263 0.5× 64 0.2× 62 0.3× 97 0.4× 272 1.5× 23 780
Ronny Wickström Sweden 23 342 0.6× 309 0.9× 70 0.3× 25 0.1× 181 1.0× 69 1.6k
Mohammad A. A. Ibrahim United Kingdom 27 216 0.4× 74 0.2× 37 0.2× 233 1.0× 161 0.9× 64 2.4k
Jane E. Libbey United States 26 249 0.4× 407 1.2× 28 0.1× 94 0.4× 451 2.4× 73 2.5k
P. N. Jayakumar India 24 429 0.8× 124 0.4× 64 0.3× 18 0.1× 266 1.4× 92 1.8k
Shekeeb S. Mohammad Australia 22 1.3k 2.3× 270 0.8× 15 0.1× 76 0.3× 457 2.4× 72 2.1k
Patricia Melville United States 11 260 0.5× 203 0.6× 241 1.0× 15 0.1× 645 3.4× 17 1.2k
Sachin P. Gadani United States 11 231 0.4× 118 0.4× 26 0.1× 421 1.9× 246 1.3× 19 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rick Dersch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Dersch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rick Dersch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rick Dersch 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 Rick Dersch. Rick Dersch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Solomon, Andrew, et al.. (2025). McDonald criteria application by German neurologists suggests a need for further training. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 94. 106304–106304.
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Urbach, Horst, et al.. (2024). Spectrum of MRI findings in central nervous system affection in Lyme neuroborreliosis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 12486–12486. 2 indexed citations
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Runge, Kimon, Bernd L. Fiebich, Simon Maier, et al.. (2022). Altered cytokine levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of adult patients with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 158. 134–142. 10 indexed citations
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Runge, Kimon, Bernd L. Fiebich, Simon Maier, et al.. (2022). Neurodegeneration Markers in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of 100 Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 49(2). 464–473. 7 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Stefanie, Frank Kunath, Bernadette Coles, et al.. (2020). Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin versus mitomycin C for Ta and T1 bladder cancer: Abridged summary of the Cochrane Review. Investigative and Clinical Urology. 61(4). 349–349. 3 indexed citations
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Endres, Dominique, Sebastian Rauer, Nils Venhoff, et al.. (2020). Probable Autoimmune Depression in a Patient With Multiple Sclerosis and Antineuronal Antibodies. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11. 745–745. 6 indexed citations
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Endres, Dominique, Viktoria Maier, Frank Leypoldt, et al.. (2020). Autoantibody-associated psychiatric syndromes: a systematic literature review resulting in 145 cases. Psychological Medicine. 52(6). 1135–1146. 43 indexed citations
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Abdelhak, Ahmed, Tanima Bose, Edgar Meinl, et al.. (2020). Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Relation to MRZ Reaction Status in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Cells. 9(12). 2543–2543. 9 indexed citations
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Fiebich, Bernd L., Nizar M. Yousif, Soraya Wilke Saliba, et al.. (2020). Increased IL-8 concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with unipolar depression. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 102. 152196–152196. 32 indexed citations
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Franke, Christiana, Caroline Ferse, Jakob Kreye, et al.. (2020). High frequency of cerebrospinal fluid autoantibodies in COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 93. 415–419. 175 indexed citations
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Hottenrott, Tilman, Elisabeth Schorb, Kristina Fritsch, et al.. (2018). The MRZ reaction and a quantitative intrathecal IgG synthesis may be helpful to differentiate between primary central nervous system lymphoma and multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology. 265(5). 1106–1114. 13 indexed citations
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Dersch, Rick, et al.. (2018). Erythrophages do not develop when lumbar CSF and blood samples are mixed in vitro. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 15(1). 31–31. 3 indexed citations
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Rauer, Sebastian, Stefan Kastenbauer, Volker Fingerle, et al.. (2018). Lyme Neuroborreliosis. Deutsches Ärzteblatt international. 115(45). 751–756. 31 indexed citations
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Endres, Dominique, Petra Dykierek, Oliver Stich, et al.. (2017). Plasmapheresis Responsive Rapid Onset Dementia with Predominantly Frontal Dysfunction in the Context of Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 8. 212–212. 17 indexed citations
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Hottenrott, Tilman, Rick Dersch, Benjamin Berger, et al.. (2017). The MRZ reaction in primary progressive multiple sclerosis. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 14(1). 2–2. 28 indexed citations
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Endres, Dominique, Evgeniy Perlov, Viktoria Maier, et al.. (2017). Steroid-Responsive Chronic Schizophreniform Syndrome in the Context of Mildly Increased Antithyroid Peroxidase Antibodies. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 8. 64–64. 20 indexed citations
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Berger, Benjamin, et al.. (2016). Prevalence of anti-SOX1 reactivity in various neurological disorders. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 369. 342–346. 30 indexed citations
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Berger, Benjamin, Tilman Hottenrott, Jonas Leubner, et al.. (2015). Transient spurious intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis in neurological patients after therapeutic apheresis. BMC Neurology. 15(1). 255–255. 5 indexed citations
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Dersch, Rick, Tilman Hottenrott, Makbule Şenel, et al.. (2015). The chemokine CXCL13 is elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurosyphilis. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 12(1). 12–12. 46 indexed citations
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