Sofia Lövestam

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 788 citations indexed

About

Sofia Lövestam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sofia Lövestam has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 788 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Sofia Lövestam's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (10 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (8 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (4 papers). Sofia Lövestam is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (10 papers), Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (8 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (4 papers). Sofia Lövestam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Sofia Lövestam's co-authors include Sjors H. W. Scheres, Michel Goedert, Alexey G. Murzin, Abhay Kotecha, Manuel Schweighauser, Bernardino Ghetti, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, Dari Kimanius, Rubén Vidal and Holly J. Garringer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Sofia Lövestam

12 papers receiving 786 citations

Hit Papers

Cryo-EM structures of amyloid-β 42 filaments from human b... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2024 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Cryo-EM structures of amyloid-β 42 filaments from human brains
    2022 310 citations Yang Yang, Diana Arseni et al. UCL Discovery (University College London) profile →
  2. Data-driven regularization lowers the size barrier of cryo-EM structure determination
    2024 88 citations Dari Kimanius, Kiarash Jamali et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sofia Lövestam United Kingdom 9 497 454 150 93 70 15 788
Catherine K. Xu United Kingdom 17 465 0.9× 466 1.0× 276 1.8× 71 0.8× 101 1.4× 29 1.0k
Claudia Parrini Italy 7 453 0.9× 513 1.1× 84 0.6× 43 0.5× 59 0.8× 7 741
Rodrigo Díaz‐Espinoza Chile 14 377 0.8× 607 1.3× 77 0.5× 215 2.3× 39 0.6× 22 808
Mantas Mališauskas Sweden 13 347 0.7× 392 0.9× 64 0.4× 63 0.7× 45 0.6× 21 643
Nadine Ait‐Bouziad Switzerland 9 362 0.7× 324 0.7× 342 2.3× 95 1.0× 158 2.3× 10 892
Therése Klingstedt Sweden 16 616 1.2× 444 1.0× 152 1.0× 109 1.2× 115 1.6× 33 1.1k
Alexander M. Barclay United States 5 438 0.9× 333 0.7× 412 2.7× 69 0.7× 94 1.3× 9 822
Dhiman Ghosh Switzerland 13 289 0.6× 456 1.0× 324 2.2× 56 0.6× 86 1.2× 22 878
Ruitian Liu United States 10 292 0.6× 269 0.6× 52 0.3× 50 0.5× 53 0.8× 13 530

Countries citing papers authored by Sofia Lövestam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sofia Lövestam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sofia Lövestam

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Qi, Chao, Sofia Lövestam, Alexey G. Murzin, et al.. (2026). The Pick fold in tau filaments from human MAPT mutants. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
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Lövestam, Sofia, Lindsay Meyerdirk, Jacob A. McPhail, et al.. (2025). Seed structure and phosphorylation in the fuzzy coat impact tau seeding competency. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9240–9240.
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Lövestam, Sofia, Michael A. Metrick, Thomas Löhr, et al.. (2025). Serial amplification of tau filaments using Alzheimer's brain homogenates and C322A or C322S recombinant tau. FEBS Letters. 599(19). 2768–2778.
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Qi, Chao, Sofia Lövestam, Alexey G. Murzin, et al.. (2025). Tau filaments with the Alzheimer fold in human MAPT mutants V337M and R406W. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(7). 1297–1304. 7 indexed citations
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Lövestam, Sofia & Sjors H. W. Scheres. (2025). Cryo-EM structure of the vault from human brain reveals symmetry mismatch at its caps. Structure. 33(10). 1643–1648.e1. 2 indexed citations
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Bacioglu, Mehtap, Manuel Schweighauser, Sofia Lövestam, et al.. (2024). Cleaved TMEM106B forms amyloid aggregates in central and peripheral nervous systems. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 12(1). 99–99. 5 indexed citations
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Kimanius, Dari, Kiarash Jamali, Max E. Wilkinson, et al.. (2024). Data-driven regularization lowers the size barrier of cryo-EM structure determination. Nature Methods. 21(7). 1216–1221. 88 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tarutani, Airi, Sofia Lövestam, Xianjun Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cryo‐EM structures of tau filaments from SH‐SY5Y cells seeded with brain extracts from cases of Alzheimer's disease and corticobasal degeneration. FEBS Open Bio. 13(8). 1394–1404. 32 indexed citations
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Lövestam, Sofia, David Li, Jane L. Wagstaff, et al.. (2023). Disease-specific tau filaments assemble via polymorphic intermediates. Nature. 625(7993). 119–125. 83 indexed citations
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Dimou, Eleni, Panagiotis Katsinelos, Georg Meisl, et al.. (2023). Super-resolution imaging unveils the self-replication of tau aggregates upon seeding. Cell Reports. 42(7). 112725–112725. 21 indexed citations
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Yang, Yang, Holly J. Garringer, Yue‐De Yang, et al.. (2023). New SNCA mutation and structures of α-synuclein filaments from juvenile-onset synucleinopathy. Acta Neuropathologica. 145(5). 561–572. 48 indexed citations
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Yang, Yang, Wenjuan Zhang, Alexey G. Murzin, et al.. (2023). Cryo-EM structures of amyloid-β filaments with the Arctic mutation (E22G) from human and mouse brains. Acta Neuropathologica. 145(3). 325–333. 49 indexed citations
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Yang, Yang, Diana Arseni, Wenjuan Zhang, et al.. (2022). Cryo-EM structures of amyloid-β 42 filaments from human brains. UCL Discovery (University College London). 310 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lövestam, Sofia & Sjors H. W. Scheres. (2022). High-throughput cryo-EM structure determination of amyloids. Faraday Discussions. 240(0). 243–260. 31 indexed citations
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Lövestam, Sofia, Manuel Schweighauser, Tomoyasu Matsubara, et al.. (2021). Seeded assembly in vitro does not replicate the structures of α‐synuclein filaments from multiple system atrophy. FEBS Open Bio. 11(4). 999–1013. 112 indexed citations

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