Thomas Ach

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Ach is a scholar working on Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Ach has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Ophthalmology, 42 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 32 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Ach's work include Retinal Diseases and Treatments (59 papers), Retinal Imaging and Analysis (36 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (32 papers). Thomas Ach is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Diseases and Treatments (59 papers), Retinal Imaging and Analysis (36 papers) and Retinal Development and Disorders (32 papers). Thomas Ach collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Thomas Ach's co-authors include Christine A. Curcio, Jeffrey D. Messinger, Emma C. Zanzottera, K. Bailey Freund, R. Theodore Smith, Stefan Dithmar, Kenneth R. Sloan, Carrie Huisingh, Rainer Heintzmann and Alexandra E. Hoeh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Ach

85 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a Mathematically Tractable Disease

2024 35 citations Christine A. Curcio, Kenneth R. Sloan et al. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Ach Germany	22	1.7k	1.1k	786	114	82	91	2.0k
Almut Bindewald-Wittich Germany	16	1.6k 0.9×	896 0.9×	740 0.9×	86 0.8×	64 0.8×	33	1.7k
D G Goger United States	15	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	996 1.3×	99 0.9×	41 0.5×	21	2.2k
Jeffrey D. Messinger United States	35	3.3k 2.0×	2.2k 2.1×	1.5k 2.0×	221 1.9×	60 0.7×	78	3.8k
Michael J. Allingham United States	17	799 0.5×	758 0.7×	447 0.6×	217 1.9×	26 0.3×	33	1.6k
Priyatham S. Mettu United States	18	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	303 0.4×	316 2.8×	34 0.4×	37	1.6k
Mirjam E. J. van Velthoven Netherlands	15	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	347 0.4×	279 2.4×	24 0.3×	33	2.1k
Maximilian Pfau Germany	29	2.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.6×	649 0.8×	135 1.2×	31 0.4×	124	2.6k
Muneeswar Gupta Nittala United States	29	2.4k 1.4×	2.1k 2.0×	424 0.5×	157 1.4×	8 0.1×	134	2.6k
Conceição Lobo Portugal	23	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	271 0.3×	106 0.9×	8 0.1×	69	1.9k
Bingyao Tan Singapore	22	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	148 0.2×	427 3.7×	63 0.8×	116	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Ach

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Ach

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

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Weber, Christian, Karl Mercieca, Julia M. Weller, et al.. (2025). SD-OCT-histopathologic correlation in Schnabel’s cavernous optic nerve atrophy. Eye. 39(6). 1203–1210. 1 indexed citations

Saßmannshausen, Marlene, et al.. (2024). Bilaterale Aderhautamotio und Hypotonie unter Therapie mit Checkpointinhibitoren. Die Ophthalmologie. 121(12). 985–989.

Saßmannshausen, Marlene, Leon von der Emde, Kenneth R. Sloan, et al.. (2024). Spatially Resolved Association of Structural Biomarkers on Retinal Function in Non-Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration Over 4 Years. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 65(4). 45–45. 1 indexed citations

Saßmannshausen, Marlene, et al.. (2024). Assessment of local sensitivity in incomplete retinal pigment epithelium and outer retinal atrophy (iRORA) lesions in intermediate age-related macular degeneration (iAMD). BMJ Open Ophthalmology. 9(1). e001638–e001638. 7 indexed citations

Saßmannshausen, Marlene, Leon von der Emde, Kenneth R. Sloan, et al.. (2023). Hyper-Reflective Foci in Intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Spatial Abundance and Impact on Retinal Morphology. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 64(1). 20–20. 9 indexed citations

Berlin, Andreas, Jost Hillenkamp, Frank G. Holz, et al.. (2023). Quantitative Fundus Autofluorescence in Systemic Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine Therapy: One Year Follow-Up. Translational Vision Science & Technology. 12(7). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Emde, Leon von der, et al.. (2023). A Workflow to Quantitatively Determine Age-Related Macular Degeneration Lesion-Specific Variations in Fundus Autofluorescence. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Emde, Leon von der, et al.. (2023). Reliability of Retinal Layer Annotation with a Novel, High-Resolution Optical Coherence Tomography Device: A Comparative Study. Bioengineering. 10(4). 438–438. 13 indexed citations

Ach, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Near infrared autofluorescence (NIR-AF) of the human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 62(8). 2710–2710. 1 indexed citations

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Berlin, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Quantitative fundus autofluorescence (QAF) in chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine (CQ/HCQ) patients: one-year follow-up.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 5262–5262. 1 indexed citations

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Hong, Sung‐Min, Thomas Ach, Yiannis Koutalos, et al.. (2019). Tensor decomposition of hyperspectral images to study autofluorescence in age-related macular degeneration. Medical Image Analysis. 56. 96–109. 11 indexed citations

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Hammer, Martin, et al.. (2017). Fundus autofluorescence from drusen is spectrally different from that of lipofuscin. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 48–48. 1 indexed citations

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Ach, Thomas, Sung‐Min Hong, Rainer Heintzmann, et al.. (2017). High-resolution and multispectral imaging of autofluorescent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) granules. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 3382–3382. 1 indexed citations

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Zanzottera, Emma C., Thomas Ach, Carrie Huisingh, et al.. (2016). VISUALIZING RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM PHENOTYPES IN THE TRANSITION TO ATROPHY IN NEOVASCULAR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION. Retina. 36(Supplement 1). S26–S39. 54 indexed citations

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Curcio, Christine A., Emma C. Zanzottera, Jeffrey D. Messinger, et al.. (2015). Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) transdifferentiation and death in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), seen in the Project MACULA grading system. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 56(7). 893–893. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, R. Theodore, Robert B. Post, Michele Lee, et al.. (2014). Simultaneous decomposition of multiple hyperspectral data sets: signal recovery of unknown fluorophores in the retinal pigment epithelium. Biomedical Optics Express. 5(12). 4171–4171. 22 indexed citations

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Dithmar, Stefan, et al.. (2013). Structured illumination ophthalmoscope for high-resolution fluorescence imaging of retinal pigment epithelium. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). 1464–1464. 1 indexed citations

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Roßberger, Sabrina, Thomas Ach, Gerrit Best, Christoph Cremer, & Stefan Dithmar. (2012). High Resolution Analysis of autofluorescent Granules within Drusen using Structured Illumination Microscopy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 53(14). 4784–4784. 1 indexed citations

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Ach, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Effekt von Bevacizumab auf die Abhebung des retinalen Pigmentepithels bei okkulter choroidaler Neovaskularisation. Der Ophthalmologe. 107(9). 827–830. 2 indexed citations

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Dawczynski, Jens, et al.. (2008). Measurement of the Real Size of Fundus Objects With the Retina-Stripe-Projector (RSP). Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 49(13). 1438–1438. 1 indexed citations

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