Simon Hametner

5.7k citations

66 papers · 4.0k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

Neurology top 0.5%
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
Pathology and Forensic Medicine top 0.2%
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies

Papers in ⓘ

Pathology and Forensic Medicine 40
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies 38
Neurology 16
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms 14
- Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders 7

Co-authors: Hans Lassmann (31 shared papers)Isabella Wimmer (8 shared papers)Lukas Haider (8 shared papers)Tobias Zrzavy (6 shared papers)Wolfgang Brück (7 shared papers)Francesca Bagnato (8 shared papers)Sabine Pfeifenbring (3 shared papers)Siegfried Trattnig (9 shared papers)
Journals: Brain Pathology (6 papers)Brain (6 papers)Acta Neuropathologica (5 papers)Journal of Neuroimaging (3 papers)NMR in Biomedicine (3 papers)
Partner nations: Austria United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Simon Hametner

63 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Loss of ‘homeostatic’ microglia and patterns of their activation in active multiple sclerosis 2017 · 483 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Brain
2016 Acta Neuropathologica
2013 Annals of Neurology

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1	Loss of ‘homeostatic’ microglia and patterns of their activation in active multiple sclerosis Brain ·Tobias Zrzavy, Simon Hametner, Isabella Wimmer, Oleg Butovsky, Howard L. Weiner, Hans Lassmann Hit paper breakdown →	2017	483
2	Iron and neurodegeneration in the multiple sclerosis brain Annals of Neurology ·Simon Hametner, Isabella Wimmer, Lukas Haider, Sabine Pfeifenbring, Wolfgang Brück, Hans Lassmann Hit paper breakdown →	2013	391
3	Slow expansion of multiple sclerosis iron rim lesions: pathology and 7 T magnetic resonance imaging Acta Neuropathologica ·Assunta Dal‐Bianco, Günther Grabner, Claudia Kronnerwetter, Michael Weber, Romana Höftberger, Thomas Berger, Eduard Auff, Fritz Leutmezer, Siegfried Trattnig, Hans Lassmann, Francesca Bagnato, Simon Hametner Hit paper breakdown →	2016	313
4	The topograpy of demyelination and neurodegeneration in the multiple sclerosis brain Brain ·Lukas Haider, Tobias Zrzavy, Simon Hametner, Romana Höftberger, Francesca Bagnato, Günther Grabner, Siegfried Trattnig, Sabine Pfeifenbring, Wolfgang Brück, Hans Lassmann	2016	300
5	Tracking iron in multiple sclerosis: a combined imaging and histopathological study at 7 Tesla Brain ·Francesca Bagnato, Simon Hametner, Bin Yao, Peter van Gelderen, Hellmut Merkle, F. K. Cantor, Hans Lassmann, J.H. Duyn	2011	280
6	Multiple sclerosis deep grey matter: the relation between demyelination, neurodegeneration, inflammation and iron Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ·Lukas Haider, Constantina Simeonidou, Günther Steinberger, Simon Hametner, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Georgia Deretzi, Gábor G. Kovács, Alexandra Kutzelnigg, Hans Lassmann, Josa M. Frischer	2014	276
7	Disease-specific molecular events in cortical multiple sclerosis lesions Brain ·M Fischer, Isabella Wimmer, Romana Höftberger, Susanna Gerlach, Lukas Haider, Tobias Zrzavy, Simon Hametner, Don Mahad, Christoph J. Binder, Markus Krumbholz, Jan Bauer, Monika Bradl, Hans Lassmann	2013	234
8	Long-term evolution of multiple sclerosis iron rim lesions in 7 T MRI Brain ·Assunta Dal‐Bianco, Günther Grabner, Claudia Kronnerwetter, Michael Weber, Barbara Kornek, Gregor Kasprian, Thomas Berger, Fritz Leutmezer, Paulus Rommer, Siegfried Trattnig, Hans Lassmann, Simon Hametner	2020	159
9	Association between pathological and MRI findings in multiple sclerosis The Lancet Neurology ·Massimo Filippi, Wolfgang Brück, Declan Chard, Franz Fazekas, Jeroen J.G. Geurts, Christian Enzinger, Simon Hametner, Tanja Kuhlmann, Paolo Preziosa, Àlex Rovira, Klaus Schmierer, Christine Stadelmann, Maria A. Rocca	2019	155
10	The influence of brain iron and myelin on magnetic susceptibility and effective transverse relaxation - A biochemical and histological validation study NeuroImage ·Simon Hametner, Verena Endmayr, Andreas Deistung, Pilar Palmrich, Max Prihoda, Evelin Haimburger, Christian Menard, Xiang Feng, Thomas Haider, Marianne Leisser, Ulrike Köck, Alexandra Kaider, Romana Höftberger, Simon Robinson, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Hans Lassmann, Hannes Traxler, Siegfried Trattnig, Günther Grabner	2018	115
11	Pathogenic implications of distinct patterns of iron and zinc in chronic MS lesions Acta Neuropathologica ·Bogdan F. Gh. Popescu, Josa M. Frischer, Samuel M. Webb, Mylyne Tham, Reginald C. Adiele, Christopher A. Robinson, Patrick D. Fitz‐Gibbon, Stephen D. Weigand, Imke Metz, Susan Nehzati, Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering, Wolfgang Brück, Simon Hametner, Hans Lassmann, Joseph E. Parisi, Yong Guo, Claudia F. Lucchinetti	2017	97
12	Oxidative tissue injury in multiple sclerosis is only partly reflected in experimental disease models Acta Neuropathologica ·Cornelia Schuh, Isabella Wimmer, Simon Hametner, Lukas Haider, Anne‐Marie van Dam, Roland Liblau, Kenneth J. Smith, Lesley Probert, Christoph J. Binder, Jan Bauer, Monika Bradl, Don Mahad, Hans Lassmann	2014	92
13	Mapping of thalamic magnetic susceptibility in multiple sclerosis indicates decreasing iron with disease duration: A proposed mechanistic relationship between inflammation and oligodendrocyte vitality NeuroImage ·Ferdinand Schweser, Ana Luiza Raffaini Duarte Martins, Jesper Hagemeier, Fuchun Lin, Jannis Hanspach, Bianca Weinstock‐Guttman, Simon Hametner, Niels Bergsland, Michael G. Dwyer, Robert Zivadinov	2017	72
14	7 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect Cortical Pathology in Multiple Sclerosis PLoS ONE ·Bing Yao, Simon Hametner, Peter van Gelderen, Hellmuth Merkle, Christina Chen, Hans Lassmann, Jeff H. Duyn, Francesca Bagnato	2014	65
15	Microglia damage precedes major myelin breakdown in X‐linked adrenoleukodystrophy and metachromatic leukodystrophy Glia ·Caroline G. Bergner, Franziska van der Meer, Anne Winkler, Claudia Wrzos, Mevlude Türkmen, Emil Valizada, Dirk Fitzner, Simon Hametner, Christian Hartmann, Sabine Pfeifenbring, Gisela Stoltenburg‐Didinger, Wolfgang Brück, Stefan Nessler, Christine Stadelmann	2019	62
16	Iron homeostasis, complement, and coagulation cascade as CSF signature of cortical lesions in early multiple sclerosis Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology ·Roberta Magliozzi, Simon Hametner, Francesco Facchiano, Damiano Marastoni, Stefania Rossi, Marco Castellaro, Alberto Poli, Federico Lattanzi, Andrea Visconti, Richard Nicholas, Richard Reynolds, Salvatore Monaco, Hans Lassmann, Massimiliano Calabrese	2019	55
17	Acute microglia ablation induces neurodegeneration in the somatosensory system Nature Communications ·Stephen Rubino, Lior Mayo, Isabella Wimmer, Victoria Siedler, Florian Brunner, Simon Hametner, Asaf Madi, Amanda J. Lanser, Thaís G. Moreira, Dustin J. Donnelly, Laura M. Cox, Rafael M. Rezende, Oleg Butovsky, Hans Lassmann, Howard L. Weiner	2018	54
18	Complement C3 on microglial clusters in multiple sclerosis occur in chronic but not acute disease: Implication for disease pathogenesis Glia ·Iliana Michailidou, Daphne M. P. Naessens, Simon Hametner, Willemijn Guldenaar, Evert-Jan Kooi, Jeroen J.G. Geurts, Frank Baas, Hans Lassmann, Valeria Ramaglia	2016	48
19	Untangling the R2* contrast in multiple sclerosis: A combined MRI-histology study at 7.0 Tesla PLoS ONE ·Francesca Bagnato, Simon Hametner, Emma C. Boyd, Verena Endmayr, Yaping Shi, Vasiliki N. Ikonomidou, Guanhua Chen, Siddharama Pawate, Hans Lassmann, Seth A. Smith, E. Brian Welch	2018	46
20	Iron related changes in MS lesions and their validity to characterize MS lesion types and dynamics with Ultra‐high field magnetic resonance imaging Brain Pathology ·Simon Hametner, Assunta Bianco, Siegfried Trattnig, Hans Lassmann	2018	46

About Simon Hametner

Simon Hametner is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Neurology, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, having authored 66 papers that have together received 4.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (38 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (16 papers), RNA regulation and disease (15 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (14 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (14 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (7 papers), Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (5 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (1.2k citations), Pathology and Forensic Medicine (2.2k citations), Developmental Neuroscience (400 citations), Neurology (780 citations) and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (825 citations). Simon Hametner has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Hans Lassmann, Isabella Wimmer, Lukas Haider, Tobias Zrzavy, Wolfgang Brück, Francesca Bagnato, Sabine Pfeifenbring, Siegfried Trattnig, Romana Höftberger and Oleg Butovsky. Their work appears in journals such as Brain Pathology, Brain, Acta Neuropathologica, Journal of Neuroimaging and NMR in Biomedicine.

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