Stefan Aigner

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Stefan Aigner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Aigner has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Stefan Aigner's work include RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Stefan Aigner is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Stefan Aigner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Austria. Stefan Aigner's co-authors include Fred H. Gage, G Yeo, Sebastian Jessberger, Beate Winner, Leah Boyer, Paula Desplats, Alice Soragni, Eliezer Masliah, Samir K. Maji and Roberto Jappelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Aigner

58 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

In vivo demonstration that α-synuclein oligomers are toxic

2011 1.2k citations Beate Winner, Leah Boyer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Aigner United States	27	1.7k	1.0k	812	676	320	60	3.5k
Elisabeth Kremmer Germany	22	1.3k 0.8×	468 0.5×	622 0.8×	727 1.1×	209 0.7×	32	2.9k
Rika Suzuki-Migishima Japan	14	2.1k 1.2×	604 0.6×	696 0.9×	527 0.8×	269 0.8×	17	4.5k
Miguel Lafarga Spain	40	3.6k 2.1×	697 0.7×	398 0.5×	962 1.4×	322 1.0×	174	5.8k
Qinwen Mao United States	24	2.5k 1.5×	506 0.5×	727 0.9×	719 1.1×	376 1.2×	102	4.0k
Jeffrey A. Loeb United States	38	1.6k 0.9×	416 0.4×	401 0.5×	1.8k 2.7×	272 0.8×	113	4.4k
Tudor A. Fulga United States	32	2.1k 1.2×	390 0.4×	886 1.1×	703 1.0×	223 0.7×	51	3.5k
Tilo Kunath United Kingdom	32	3.9k 2.3×	472 0.5×	447 0.6×	693 1.0×	177 0.6×	76	5.6k
Mahmoud A. Pouladi Canada	36	3.0k 1.7×	963 1.0×	603 0.7×	2.7k 4.0×	234 0.7×	82	4.7k
Peter G. Noakes Australia	39	3.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.2×	566 0.7×	1.7k 2.6×	611 1.9×	102	5.6k
Hosung Jung South Korea	27	1.8k 1.0×	215 0.2×	840 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	326 1.0×	56	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Aigner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Aigner

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Aigner, Stefan, Veronika Buxhofer‐Ausch, Marija Geroldinger‐Simić, et al.. (2025). Evidence of immunogenic cell death (ICD) and ICD-dependent dendritic cell activation induced by extracorporeal photopheresis in patients with leukaemic forms of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. British Journal of Dermatology. 193(2). 276–286. 1 indexed citations

Yee, Brian A., Pratik Joshi, Nicholas Wong, et al.. (2024). 3171 – IDENTIFYING STRESS GRANULES AS DETERMINANTS OF LEUKEMIA STEM CELL MAINTENANCE AND STRESS ADAPTATION. Experimental Hematology. 137. 104491–104491.

Busa, Veronica F., Yoshinari Ando, Stefan Aigner, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome regulation by PARP13 in basal and antiviral states in human cells. iScience. 27(4). 109251–109251. 4 indexed citations

Aigner, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Hereditary alpha tryptasemia: elevated tryptase, female sex, thyroid disorders, and anaphylaxis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 1461359–1461359. 1 indexed citations

Aigner, Stefan, En‐Ching Luo, Hakan Özadam, et al.. (2023). Pyruvate Kinase M (PKM) binds ribosomes in a poly-ADP ribosylation dependent manner to induce translational stalling. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(12). 6461–6478. 11 indexed citations

Yee, Brian A., et al.. (2020). TheThermus thermophilusDEAD-box protein Hera is a general RNA binding protein and plays a key role in tRNA metabolism. RNA. 26(11). 1557–1574. 4 indexed citations

Batra, Ranjan, David A. Nelles, Daniela Roth, et al.. (2020). The sustained expression of Cas9 targeting toxic RNAs reverses disease phenotypes in mouse models of myotonic dystrophy type 1. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(2). 157–168. 43 indexed citations

Webster, Lynn R., et al.. (2019). Relative Oral Bioavailability of an Abuse-Deterrent, Immediate-Release Formulation of Oxycodone, Oxycodone ARIR in a Randomized Study. Advances in Therapy. 36(7). 1730–1740. 1 indexed citations

Batra, Ranjan, David A. Nelles, Elaine Pirie, et al.. (2017). Elimination of Toxic Microsatellite Repeat Expansion RNA by RNA-Targeting Cas9. Cell. 170(5). 899–912.e10. 191 indexed citations

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Batra, Ranjan, Thomas Stark, Alex E. Clark, et al.. (2016). RNA-binding protein CPEB1 remodels host and viral RNA landscapes. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(12). 1101–1110. 42 indexed citations

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Grabole, Nils, Jitao David Zhang, Stefan Aigner, et al.. (2016). Genomic analysis of the molecular neuropathology of tuberous sclerosis using a human stem cell model. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 94–94. 37 indexed citations

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Conway, Anne E., Eric L. Van Nostrand, Gabriel A. Pratt, et al.. (2016). Enhanced CLIP Uncovers IMP Protein-RNA Targets in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Important for Cell Adhesion and Survival. Cell Reports. 15(3). 666–679. 107 indexed citations

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Vorstman, Jacob, Will Spooren, Antonio M. Persico, et al.. (2013). Using genetic findings in autism for the development of new pharmaceutical compounds. Psychopharmacology. 231(6). 1063–1078. 26 indexed citations

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Havlicek, Steven, Zacharias Kohl, Hemant Kumar Mishra, et al.. (2013). Gene dosage-dependent rescue of HSP neurite defects in SPG4 patients' neurons. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(10). 2527–2541. 98 indexed citations

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Lu, Yi-Chien, Magda Smielewska, Dasaradhi Palakodeti, et al.. (2009). Deep sequencing identifies new and regulated microRNAs in Schmidtea mediterranea. RNA. 15(8). 1483–1491. 43 indexed citations

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Thuret, Sandrine, Nicolas Toni, Stefan Aigner, G Yeo, & Fred H. Gage. (2009). Hippocampus‐dependent learning is associated with adult neurogenesis in MRL/MpJ mice. Hippocampus. 19(7). 658–669. 69 indexed citations

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Aigner, Stefan & Thomas R. Cech. (2004). The Euplotes telomerase subunit p43 stimulates enzymatic activity and processivity in vitro. RNA. 10(7). 1108–1118. 25 indexed citations

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Seiwert, Scott D., Theresa Stines Nahreini, Stefan Aigner, Natalie G. Ahn, & Olke C. Uhlenbeck. (2000). RNA aptamers as pathway-specific MAP kinase inhibitors. Chemistry & Biology. 7(11). 833–843. 56 indexed citations

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Schatz, Frederick, Csaba Papp, Stefan Aigner, et al.. (1997). Biological Mechanisms Underlying the Clinical Effects of RU 486: Modulation of Cultured Endometrial Stromal Cell Stromelysin-1 and Prolactin Expression¹. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 82(1). 188–193. 32 indexed citations

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Lockwood, Charles J., et al.. (1996). Corticotropin-releasing hormone and related pituitary-adrenal axis hormones in fetal and maternal blood during the second half of pregnancy. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 24(3). 243–251. 74 indexed citations

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