Rickard Westergren

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Rickard Westergren is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rickard Westergren has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Physiology, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Rickard Westergren's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (9 papers), FOXO transcription factor regulation (7 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (3 papers). Rickard Westergren is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (9 papers), FOXO transcription factor regulation (7 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (3 papers). Rickard Westergren collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Canada. Rickard Westergren's co-authors include Sven Enerbäck, Mikael Heglind, Martin E. Lidell, Janne Orava, Kirsi A. Virtanen, Tarja Niemi, Markku Taittonen, Jukka Laine, Pirjo Nuutila and Sandra Rodrigo Blomqvist and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rickard Westergren

11 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults

2009 2.4k citations Kirsi A. Virtanen, Martin E. Lidell et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rickard Westergren Sweden	9	2.5k	1.1k	620	597	560	11	2.9k
Nanda M. Smulders Netherlands	5	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	651 1.1×	409 0.7×	599 1.1×	5	2.7k
Mikael Heglind Sweden	12	2.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	771 1.2×	774 1.3×	675 1.2×	15	3.5k
Tarja Niemi Finland	11	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	801 1.3×	549 0.9×	772 1.4×	21	3.6k
Janne Orava Finland	7	3.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	854 1.4×	508 0.9×	816 1.5×	8	3.4k
Rita De Matteis Italy	26	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	455 0.7×	722 1.2×	334 0.6×	48	3.1k
Jasper M. A. de Jong Sweden	11	1.6k 0.6×	822 0.7×	393 0.6×	278 0.5×	404 0.7×	14	1.8k
Marc Slawik Germany	20	1.3k 0.5×	636 0.6×	368 0.6×	445 0.7×	210 0.4×	42	2.2k
Søren Nielsen Denmark	27	1.5k 0.6×	600 0.5×	366 0.6×	1.0k 1.7×	763 1.4×	46	2.7k
Matthias Johannes Betz Switzerland	20	1.3k 0.5×	574 0.5×	408 0.7×	355 0.6×	266 0.5×	48	1.9k
Rohit N. Kulkarni United States	19	1.3k 0.5×	710 0.6×	277 0.4×	1.0k 1.7×	123 0.2×	33	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rickard Westergren

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Lidell, Martin E., Erin L. Seifert, Rickard Westergren, et al.. (2011). The Adipocyte-Expressed Forkhead Transcription Factor Foxc2 Regulates Metabolism Through Altered Mitochondrial Function. Diabetes. 60(2). 427–435. 52 indexed citations

Westergren, Rickard. (2010). Foxf2 and Foxc2, two transcription factors that regulate adipocyte metabolism. Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive (Gothenburg University). 1 indexed citations

Viđarsson, Hilmar, Rickard Westergren, Mikael Heglind, et al.. (2009). The Forkhead Transcription Factor Foxi1 Is a Master Regulator of Vacuolar H+-ATPase Proton Pump Subunits in the Inner Ear, Kidney and Epididymis. PLoS ONE. 4(2). e4471–e4471. 106 indexed citations

Virtanen, Kirsi A., Martin E. Lidell, Janne Orava, et al.. (2009). Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults. New England Journal of Medicine. 360(15). 1518–1525. 2425 indexed citations breakdown →

Virtanen, Kirsi A., Martin E. Lidell, Janne Orava, et al.. (2009). Brief Report: Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults.. 13 indexed citations

Westergren, Rickard, Daniel Nilsson, Mikael Heglind, et al.. (2009). Overexpression of Foxf2 in adipose tissue is associated with lower levels of IRS1 and decreased glucose uptake in vivo. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 298(3). E548–E554. 7 indexed citations

Xue, Yuan, Renhai Cao, Daniel Nilsson, et al.. (2008). FOXC2 controls Ang-2 expression and modulates angiogenesis, vascular patterning, remodeling, and functions in adipose tissue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(29). 10167–10172. 93 indexed citations

Cornier, Marc‐André, William T. Donahoo, Rocio I. Pereira, et al.. (2005). Insulin Sensitivity Determines the Effectiveness of Dietary Macronutrient Composition on Weight Loss in Obese Women. Obesity Research. 13(4). 703–709. 105 indexed citations

Kim, Jason K., Hyo‐Jeong Kim, So‐Young Park, et al.. (2005). Adipocyte-Specific Overexpression of FOXC2 Prevents Diet-Induced Increases in Intramuscular Fatty Acyl CoA and Insulin Resistance. Diabetes. 54(6). 1657–1663. 58 indexed citations

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Gregorio, Gina B. Di, Rickard Westergren, Sven Enerbäck, Tong Lü, & Philip A. Kern. (2004). Expression of FOXC2 in adipose and muscle and its association with whole body insulin sensitivity. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. 287(4). E799–E803. 17 indexed citations

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Yanagisawa, K., Lesli H. Larsen, Gregers S. Andersen, et al.. (2003). The FOXC2 -512C>T variant is associated with hypertriglyceridaemia and increased serum C-peptide in Danish Caucasian glucose-tolerant subjects. Diabetologia. 46(11). 1576–1580. 14 indexed citations

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