Roger C. Wiggins

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
195 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Roger C. Wiggins is a scholar working on Nephrology, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger C. Wiggins has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Nephrology, 72 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Roger C. Wiggins's work include Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (65 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (33 papers) and Renal and related cancers (22 papers). Roger C. Wiggins is often cited by papers focused on Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (65 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (33 papers) and Renal and related cancers (22 papers). Roger C. Wiggins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Roger C. Wiggins's co-authors include Meera Goyal, Jocelyn Wiggins, Lawrence B. Holzman, Bryan L. Wharram, Steven L. Kunkel, Silja K. Sanden, Stephen W. Chensue, Larysa Wickman, Sem H. Phan and Marcus J. Moeller and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Roger C. Wiggins

193 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Podocyte Depletion Causes Glomerulosclerosis 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2007 2011 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Podocyte Depletion Causes Glomerulosclerosis
    2005 586 citations Bryan L. Wharram, Meera Goyal et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
  2. The spectrum of podocytopathies: A unifying view of glomerular diseases
    2007 579 citations Roger C. Wiggins profile →
  3. mTORC1 activation in podocytes is a critical step in the development of diabetic nephropathy in mice
    2011 438 citations Ken Inoki, Tsukasa Suzuki et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roger C. Wiggins United States 51 4.5k 3.5k 1.4k 1.2k 790 195 9.7k
Susan E. Quaggin United States 60 4.4k 1.0× 6.0k 1.7× 1.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.2× 428 0.5× 156 12.2k
Tobias B. Huber Germany 56 5.2k 1.2× 5.7k 1.7× 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.5× 651 0.8× 257 12.7k
Jochen Reiser United States 51 9.1k 2.0× 5.3k 1.5× 1.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.6× 1.3k 1.6× 179 14.1k
Hermann-Josef Gröne Germany 62 1.7k 0.4× 5.0k 1.4× 2.7k 1.9× 878 0.7× 687 0.9× 170 11.9k
Martin R. Pollak United States 61 9.4k 2.1× 5.5k 1.6× 787 0.6× 2.3k 1.9× 2.1k 2.6× 189 14.6k
Masashi Mukoyama Japan 56 2.2k 0.5× 4.5k 1.3× 553 0.4× 623 0.5× 354 0.4× 259 15.3k
Juhani Rapola Finland 46 1.1k 0.2× 3.3k 1.0× 471 0.3× 999 0.8× 375 0.5× 189 7.3k
Gerd Walz Germany 60 2.6k 0.6× 8.6k 2.5× 1.4k 1.0× 5.7k 4.7× 329 0.4× 222 14.1k
Geoffrey N. Hendy Canada 59 3.5k 0.8× 5.2k 1.5× 349 0.3× 2.2k 1.8× 174 0.2× 241 10.7k
Minoru Satoh Japan 65 1.2k 0.3× 4.6k 1.3× 4.8k 3.5× 771 0.6× 499 0.6× 329 14.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cusick, Matthew F., Viji Nair, Damian Fermin, et al.. (2025). The growth hormone/IGF-1 axis is a risk factor for long-term kidney allograft failure. JCI Insight. 10(11). 1 indexed citations
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Sato, Yuji, et al.. (2024). Urinary podocyte markers of disease activity, therapeutic efficacy, and long-term outcomes in acute and chronic kidney diseases. Clinical and Experimental Nephrology. 28(6). 496–504. 7 indexed citations
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Naik, Abhijit S., Farsad Afshinnia, Diane M. Cibrik, et al.. (2016). Quantitative podocyte parameters predict human native kidney and allograft half-lives. JCI Insight. 1(7). 24 indexed citations
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Fukuda, Akihiro, Mahboob A. Chowdhury, Madhusudan Venkatareddy, et al.. (2012). Growth-Dependent Podocyte Failure Causes Glomerulosclerosis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 23(8). 1351–1363. 135 indexed citations
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Miller, Douglas L., Chunyan Dou, & Roger C. Wiggins. (2009). Glomerular Capillary Hemorrhage Induced in Rats by Diagnostic Ultrasound with Gas–Body Contrast Agent Produces Intratubular Obstruction. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 35(5). 869–877. 20 indexed citations
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Miller, Douglas L., Chunyan Dou, & Roger C. Wiggins. (2007). Doppler Mode Pulse Sequences Mitigate Glomerular Capillary Hemorrhage in Contrast-Aided Diagnostic Ultrasound of Rat Kidney. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 54(9). 1802–1810. 5 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Jocelyn, Meera Goyal, Bryan L. Wharram, & Roger C. Wiggins. (2006). Antioxidant Ceruloplasmin Is Expressed by Glomerular Parietal Epithelial Cells and Secreted into Urine in Association with Glomerular Aging and High-Calorie Diet. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 17(5). 1382–1387. 32 indexed citations
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Wharram, Bryan L., Meera Goyal, Jocelyn Wiggins, et al.. (2005). Podocyte Depletion Causes Glomerulosclerosis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 16(10). 2941–2952. 586 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schultheiß, Michael, Rainer Ruf, Bettina E. Mucha, et al.. (2004). No evidence for genotype/phenotype correlation in NPHS1 and NPHS2 mutations. Pediatric Nephrology. 19(12). 1340–1348. 39 indexed citations
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Royland, Joyce E., G. Konat�, & Roger C. Wiggins. (1993). Abnormal upregulation of myelin genes underlies the critical period of myelination in undernourished developing rat brain. Brain Research. 607(1-2). 113–116. 20 indexed citations
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Noh, Jung‐Woo, Roger C. Wiggins, & Sem H. Phan. (1993). Urine Transforming Growth Factor-β Activity is Related to the Degree of Scarring in Crescentic Nephritis in the Rabbit. ˜The œNephron journals/Nephron journals. 63(1). 73–78. 29 indexed citations
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Zhu, Wei, et al.. (1992). Retinoic acid‐regulated expression of proteolipid protein and myelin‐associated glycoprotein genes in C6 glioma cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 31(4). 745–750. 24 indexed citations
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Kanoh, Makoto, et al.. (1992). Cyclic AMP‐induced upregulation of proteolipid protein and myelin associated glycoprotein gene expression in C6 cells. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 31(3). 578–583. 42 indexed citations
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Qiao, Jie, Patrick M. Dougherty, Roger C. Wiggins, & Nachum Dafny. (1990). Effects of microiontophoretic application of cocaine, alone and with receptor antagonists, upon the neurons of the medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens and caudate nucleus of rats. Neuropharmacology. 29(4). 379–385. 24 indexed citations
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Strieter, Robert M., Roger C. Wiggins, Sem H. Phan, et al.. (1989). Monocyte chemotactic protein gene expression by cytokine-treated human fibroblasts and endothelial cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 162(2). 694–700. 214 indexed citations
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Fuller, Gregory N., et al.. (1988). Dose-Related Differential Accumulation of Morphine in Specific Regions of Rat Brain Determined by Mass Fragmentography. International Journal of Neuroscience. 38(1-2). 31–38. 5 indexed citations
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Konat�, G., et al.. (1986). Peroxidative aggregation of myelin membrane proteins. Metabolic Brain Disease. 1(3). 177–185. 6 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Roger C., et al.. (1982). Hageman factor mechanisms and consequences of activation. 1–12. 1 indexed citations

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