Stefan Prokop

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Stefan Prokop is a scholar working on Physiology, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Prokop has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Physiology, 31 papers in Neurology and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Stefan Prokop's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (55 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (25 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (13 papers). Stefan Prokop is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (55 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (25 papers) and Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (13 papers). Stefan Prokop collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. Stefan Prokop's co-authors include Frank L. Heppner, Kelly R. Miller, Harald Steiner, Christian Haass, Dieter Edbauer, Jorge Trejo‐Lopez, Anthony T. Yachnis, Benoit I. Giasson, Yuxing Xia and Roland E. Kälin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Medicine and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Prokop

69 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease

2021 218 citations Jorge Trejo‐Lopez, Anthony T. Yachnis et al. Neurotherapeutics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Prokop United States	26	2.3k	1.5k	1.2k	501	487	72	3.8k
Yungui Zhou United States	22	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	533 1.1×	706 1.4×	29	4.3k
J. Colleen Karlo United States	15	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	685 1.4×	589 1.2×	15	4.0k
Wenjie Luo United States	21	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	416 0.8×	349 0.7×	34	2.9k
Paramita Chakrabarty United States	33	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	349 0.7×	638 1.3×	90	3.5k
Eloïse Hudry United States	28	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	302 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	49	4.1k
Carlo Condello United States	22	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	590 1.2×	430 0.9×	37	3.0k
Izumi Maezawa United States	33	1.4k 0.6×	997 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	293 0.6×	572 1.2×	82	3.5k
Timothy Y. Huang United States	26	1.2k 0.5×	883 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	381 0.8×	498 1.0×	43	3.2k
Peng Yuan China	18	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	708 0.6×	661 1.3×	453 0.9×	51	3.3k
Erika Maus United States	11	2.4k 1.0×	934 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	179 0.4×	856 1.8×	12	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Prokop

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Prokop

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

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McKenna, Robert W., et al.. (2025). Acetylation Mimetic and Null Mutations Within the Filament Core of P301L Tau Have Varied Effects on Susceptibility to Seeding and Aggregation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 169(9). e70221–e70221. 1 indexed citations

Philips, J., et al.. (2025). Brain Region-Specific Accumulation of Amyloidosis-Associated Proteins in Postmortem Brain Tissues of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients. Molecular Neurobiology. 62(12). 15759–15778.

Guo, Shu, Sally Ng, Gita Massey, et al.. (2025). PolyGR-containing aggregates link with pathology and clinical features of Alzheimer’s disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 150(1). 49–49.

Gutierrez‐Monreal, Miguel A., et al.. (2024). Targeted brain-specific tauopathy compromises peripheral skeletal muscle integrity and function. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100110–100110. 2 indexed citations

Gorion, Kimberly-Marie M., et al.. (2023). Novel Conformation-Dependent Tau Antibodies Are Modulated by Adjacent Phosphorylation Sites. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(18). 13676–13676. 1 indexed citations

Ravi, Sakthivel, Marangelie Criado‐Marrero, John Koren, et al.. (2023). Fixed Time-Point Analysis Reveals Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Effects on Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Connectivity and Neuro-Spatial Protein Profiles. Journal of Neurotrauma. 40(19-20). 2037–2049. 5 indexed citations

Prokop, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Neuritic Plaques — Gateways to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease. Molecular Neurobiology. 61(5). 2808–2821. 26 indexed citations

Nilsson, K. Peter R., Per Hammarström, Mikaël Lindgren, et al.. (2023). Alzheimer’s Disease A<i>β</i>-Amyloid Plaque Morphology Varies According to <i>APOE</i> Isotype. World Journal of Neuroscience. 13(3). 118–133. 1 indexed citations

Xia, Yuxing, Stefan Prokop, Kimberly-Marie M. Gorion, et al.. (2022). Pathogenic tau recruits wild-type tau into brain inclusions and induces gut degeneration in transgenic SPAM mice. Communications Biology. 5(1). 446–446. 13 indexed citations

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McFarland, Karen N., Guilian Xu, Daniel Ryu, et al.. (2021). Combinatorial model of amyloid β and tau reveals synergy between amyloid deposits and tangle formation. Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology. 48(2). e12779–e12779. 9 indexed citations

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Xia, Yuxing, Stefan Prokop, & Benoit I. Giasson. (2021). “Don’t Phos Over Tau”: recent developments in clinical biomarkers and therapies targeting tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 16(1). 37–37. 134 indexed citations

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Trejo‐Lopez, Jorge, Anthony T. Yachnis, & Stefan Prokop. (2021). Neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease. Neurotherapeutics. 19(1). 173–185. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sorrentino, Zachary A., et al.. (2021). Disease-, region- and cell type specific diversity of α-synuclein carboxy terminal truncations in synucleinopathies. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 9(1). 146–146. 21 indexed citations

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Cseresnyés, Zoltán, et al.. (2020). The Amyloid-beta rich CNS environment alters myeloid cell functionality independent of their origin. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7152–7152. 2 indexed citations

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Prokop, Stefan, Virginia M.‐Y. Lee, & John Q. Trojanowski. (2019). Neuroimmune interactions in Alzheimer's disease—New frontier with old challenges?. Progress in molecular biology and translational science. 168. 183–201. 17 indexed citations

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Prokop, Stefan, Kelly R. Miller, Sneha Narasimhan, et al.. (2019). Impact of TREM2 risk variants on brain region-specific immune activation and plaque microenvironment in Alzheimer’s disease patient brain samples. Acta Neuropathologica. 138(4). 613–630. 73 indexed citations

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Åslund, Andreas, Frédéric Lerouge, Sofie Nyström, et al.. (2018). Two-Photon Fluorescence and Magnetic Resonance Specific Imaging of Aβ Amyloid Using Hybrid Nano-GdF₃ Contrast Media. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 1(2). 462–472. 19 indexed citations

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Prokop, Stefan, Frank L. Heppner, Peter Konradsson, et al.. (2013). Enhanced Fluorescent Assignment of Protein Aggregates by an Oligothiophene–Porphyrin‐Based Amyloid Ligand. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 34(9). 723–730. 25 indexed citations

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Opitz, E., Annett Koch, Karin Klingel, et al.. (2011). Impairment of Immunoproteasome Function by β5i/LMP7 Subunit Deficiency Results in Severe Enterovirus Myocarditis. PLoS Pathogens. 7(9). e1002233–e1002233. 72 indexed citations

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Polymenidou, Magdalini, Stefan Prokop, Hans H. Jung, et al.. (2010). Atypical Prion Protein Conformation in Familial Prion Disease with PRNP P105T Mutation. Brain Pathology. 21(2). 209–214. 18 indexed citations

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