Rolf Heumann

16.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
158 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

About

Rolf Heumann is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Heumann has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 81 papers in Molecular Biology and 35 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rolf Heumann's work include Nerve injury and regeneration (55 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers). Rolf Heumann is often cited by papers focused on Nerve injury and regeneration (55 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (32 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers). Rolf Heumann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Rolf Heumann's co-authors include H. Thoenen, Sigrun I. Korsching, Dan Lindholm, Christine E. Bandtlow, Michaël Meyer, C. E. Bandtlow, Jenny Scott, H. Gnahn, Franz Hefti and Martin E. Schwab and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Heumann

157 papers receiving 13.8k 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.

Changes of nerve growth factor synthesis in nonneuronal cells in response to sciatic nerve transection.

1987 893 citations Rolf Heumann, C. E. Bandtlow et al. profile →
Interleukin-1 regulates synthesis of nerve growth factor in non-neuronal cells of rat sciatic nerve

1987 868 citations Dan Lindholm, Rolf Heumann et al. profile →
Erythropoietin prevents neuronal apoptosis after cerebral ischemia and metabolic stress

2001 819 citations Rolf Heumann et al. profile →
Levels of nerve growth factor and its mRNA in the central nervous system of the rat correlate with cholinergic innervation.

1985 816 citations Rolf Heumann, H. Thoenen et al. profile →
NGF-Mediated increase of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in the neonatal rat forebrain: Evidence for a physiological role of NGF in the brain?

1983 639 citations Rolf Heumann, H. Thoenen et al. profile →
Differential regulation of mRNA encoding nerve growth factor and its receptor in rat sciatic nerve during development, degeneration, and regeneration: role of macrophages.

1987 613 citations Rolf Heumann, Dan Lindholm et al. profile →
Nerve growth factor increases choline acetyl-transferase but not survival or fiber outgrowth of cultured fetal septal cholinergic neurons

1985 415 citations Rolf Heumann et al. Neuroscience profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Rolf Heumann	8.6k	5.0k	3.9k	1.9k	1.3k	158	14.2k
Stanley J. Wiegand	7.3k 0.8×	13.8k 2.8×	3.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	150	29.2k
John A. Kessler	5.7k 0.7×	9.3k 1.9×	3.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	258	18.7k
William D. Snider	9.4k 1.1×	7.6k 1.5×	4.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	132	18.0k
Éva Mezey	5.8k 0.7×	6.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.3×	2.1k 1.1×	822 0.7×	205	18.7k
Perry F. Bartlett	5.2k 0.6×	6.6k 1.3×	4.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	229	16.1k
Elisabeth Bock	4.7k 0.5×	7.8k 1.6×	2.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	335	13.9k
David R. Kaplan	11.0k 1.3×	16.4k 3.3×	5.3k 1.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	202	27.9k
Freda D. Miller	7.9k 0.9×	10.3k 2.1×	5.1k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	186	19.5k
Jean de Vellis	5.2k 0.6×	7.2k 1.4×	4.5k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	3.2k 2.6×	237	15.0k
Silvio Varon	11.9k 1.4×	6.1k 1.2×	5.7k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	237	16.9k

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Turner, Monica G., et al.. (2025). Reburning Before Recovery: Effects of Short-Interval Fire on Subalpine Forest Nitrogen Stocks and Fluxes. Ecosystems. 28(2). 1 indexed citations

Neumann, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Neuronal Protection by Ha-RAS-GTPase Signaling through Selective Downregulation of Plasmalemmal Voltage-Dependent Anion Channel-1. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(5). 3030–3030. 1 indexed citations

Chun, Elizabeth M., Rasem Fattah, Lakmali M. Silva, et al.. (2021). Imaging of anthrax intoxication in mice reveals shared and individual functions of surface receptors CMG-2 and TEM-8 in cellular toxin entry. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(1). 101467–101467. 4 indexed citations

Kohl, Bastian, et al.. (2018). Molecular Basis of Class III Ligand Recognition by PDZ3 in Murine Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PTPN13. Journal of Molecular Biology. 430(21). 4275–4292. 5 indexed citations

Novkovic, Tanja, Rolf Heumann, & Denise Manahan‐Vaughan. (2015). Ras does not contribute to the facilitation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity enabled by environmental enrichment. Neuroscience. 309. 214–223. 8 indexed citations

Manns, Martina, et al.. (2011). Role of Neuronal Ras Activity in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Cognition. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 5. 18–18. 9 indexed citations

Heumann, Rolf, et al.. (2010). Sequence-specific 1H, 13C, and 15N assignment of the extended PDZ3 domain of the protein tyrosine phosphatase basophil-like PTP-BL. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 4(2). 199–202. 2 indexed citations

Ganesan, Kathirvel, Anna Kovtun, Sebastian Neumann, Rolf Heumann, & Matthias Epple. (2008). Calcium phosphate nanoparticles: colloidally stabilized and made fluorescent by a phosphate-functionalized porphyrin. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 18(31). 3655–3655. 35 indexed citations

Mann, Stefan A., et al.. (2008). Corticosteroids reverse cytokine-induced block of survival and differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells from rats. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 5(1). 39–39. 38 indexed citations

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Schwarten, Melanie, et al.. (2007). Sequence-specific 1H, 13C, and 15N backbone assignment of the GTPase rRheb in its GDP-bound form. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 1(1). 45–47. 9 indexed citations

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Sandoval, Mauricio, Rodrigo Sandoval, Ulrich Thomas, et al.. (2007). Antagonistic effects of TrkB and p75^NTR on NMDA receptor currents in post‐synaptic densities transplanted into Xenopus oocytes. Journal of Neurochemistry. 101(6). 1672–1684. 17 indexed citations

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Borgmann, Sabine, Ina Radtke, Thomas Erichsen, et al.. (2006). Electrochemical High‐Content Screening of Nitric Oxide Release from Endothelial Cells. ChemBioChem. 7(4). 662–668. 35 indexed citations

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Sokolova, Viktoriya, Anna Kovtun, Rolf Heumann, & Matthias Epple. (2006). Tracking the pathway of calcium phosphate/DNA nanoparticles during cell transfection by incorporation of red-fluorescing tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate–bovine serum albumin into these nanoparticles. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 12(2). 174–179. 36 indexed citations

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Dzietko, Mark, Ursula Felderhoff‐Mueser, Marco Sifringer, et al.. (2004). Erythropoietin protects the developing brain against N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist neurotoxicity. Neurobiology of Disease. 15(2). 177–187. 115 indexed citations

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Palmer, Amparo, Manuel Zimmer, Kai S. Erdmann, et al.. (2002). EphrinB Phosphorylation and Reverse Signaling. Molecular Cell. 9(4). 725–737. 248 indexed citations

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Anneser, Johanna, et al.. (2001). Immunosuppressant FK506 does not exert beneficial effects in symptomatic G93A superoxide dismutase-1 transgenic mice. Neuroreport. 12(12). 2663–2665. 18 indexed citations

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Markus, Annette, Alexander von Holst, Hermann Rohrer, & Rolf Heumann. (1997). NGF-Mediated Survival Depends on p21ras in Chick Sympathetic Neurons from the Superior Cervical but Not from Lumbosacral Ganglia. Developmental Biology. 191(2). 306–310. 10 indexed citations

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Thoenen, H., C. E. Bandtlow, Rolf Heumann, et al.. (1988). Nerve growth factor. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 1 indexed citations

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Thoenen, H., Christine E. Bandtlow, Rolf Heumann, et al.. (1988). Nerve growth factor: Cellular localization and regulation of synthesis. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. 8(1). 35–40. 53 indexed citations

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Heumann, Rolf, Mücella Öcalan, & Bernd Hamprecht. (1979). Factors from glial cells regulate choline acetyltransferase and tyrosine hydroxylase activities in a hybrid‐hybrid cell line. FEBS Letters. 107(1). 37–41. 10 indexed citations

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