Tim Bartels

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Tim Bartels is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Bartels has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Neurology, 14 papers in Physiology and 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tim Bartels's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (8 papers). Tim Bartels is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (8 papers). Tim Bartels collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Tim Bartels's co-authors include Dennis J. Selkoe, Eric S. Luth, Ulf Dettmer, Soyon Hong, Sebastiaan De Schepper, Andrew J Newman, Klaus Beyer, Nora C. Kim, Frits Kamp and Christian Haass and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim Bartels

28 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

α-Synuclein occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation

2011 1.0k citations Tim Bartels, Dennis J. Selkoe et al. Nature profile →
Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

2020 289 citations Tim Bartels, Sebastiaan De Schepper et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Bartels United States	19	2.4k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	608	30	3.6k
Abid Oueslati Canada	21	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	506 0.8×	39	3.6k
Karin M. Danzer Germany	30	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	61	4.7k
Jacqueline Burré United States	23	2.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	488 0.8×	38	4.5k
Tomas T. Ding United States	10	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	994 0.8×	820 0.8×	409 0.7×	13	2.9k
Katerina E. Paleologou United Kingdom	22	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	871 0.7×	928 0.9×	445 0.7×	23	3.4k
Elisa Greggio Italy	41	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	2.4k 2.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	89	5.2k
Rili Ahmad United States	13	2.0k 0.8×	647 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	928 0.9×	517 0.9×	14	3.0k
Katherine E. Strathearn United States	11	1.7k 0.7×	925 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	881 0.9×	311 0.5×	12	3.4k
Kostas Vekrellis Greece	30	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	836 1.4×	58	4.8k
Emma Deas United Kingdom	23	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	2.1k 1.8×	942 0.9×	546 0.9×	27	4.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bartels, Tim, et al.. (2024). Acute introduction of monomeric or multimeric α‐synuclein induces distinct impacts on synaptic vesicle trafficking at lamprey giant synapses. The Journal of Physiology. 603(20). 6207–6227.

Fazzari, Maria, Erika Di Biase, Alexandre Henriques, et al.. (2023). GM1 oligosaccharide efficacy against α-synuclein aggregation and toxicity in vitro. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1868(9). 159350–159350. 7 indexed citations

Yaqubi, Moein, Konstantin Senkevich, Adam MacDonald, et al.. (2023). MerTK is a mediator of alpha-synuclein fibril uptake by human microglia. Brain. 147(2). 427–443. 10 indexed citations

Boni, Laura de, John Sanderson, Haiyang Jiang, et al.. (2022). Brain region-specific susceptibility of Lewy body pathology in synucleinopathies is governed by α-synuclein conformations. Acta Neuropathologica. 143(4). 453–469. 14 indexed citations

Bartels, Tim, Sebastiaan De Schepper, & Soyon Hong. (2020). Microglia modulate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Science. 370(6512). 66–69. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

Rovere, Matteo, Haiyang Jiang, Luis Fonseca‐Ornelas, et al.. (2019). E46K-like α-synuclein mutants increase lipid interactions and disrupt membrane selectivity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(25). 9799–9812. 34 indexed citations

Rovere, Matteo, et al.. (2018). pTSara-NatB, an improved N-terminal acetylation system for recombinant protein expression in E. coli. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0198715–e0198715. 2 indexed citations

Rovere, Matteo, et al.. (2018). Refolding of helical soluble α‐synuclein through transient interaction with lipid interfaces. FEBS Letters. 592(9). 1464–1472. 37 indexed citations

Schapansky, Jason, Saurabh Khasnavis, Mark P. DeAndrade, et al.. (2017). Familial knockin mutation of LRRK2 causes lysosomal dysfunction and accumulation of endogenous insoluble α-synuclein in neurons. Neurobiology of Disease. 111. 26–35. 101 indexed citations

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Dettmer, Ulf, Dennis J. Selkoe, & Tim Bartels. (2015). New insights into cellular α-synuclein homeostasis in health and disease. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 36. 15–22. 77 indexed citations

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Dettmer, Ulf, Andrew J Newman, Frank Soldner, et al.. (2015). Parkinson-causing α-synuclein missense mutations shift native tetramers to monomers as a mechanism for disease initiation. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7314–7314. 245 indexed citations

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Luth, Eric S., Irina G. Stavrovskaya, Tim Bartels, Bruce S. Kristal, & Dennis J. Selkoe. (2014). Soluble, Prefibrillar α-Synuclein Oligomers Promote Complex I-dependent, Ca2+-induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(31). 21490–21507. 233 indexed citations

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Hong, Soyon, Beth L. Ostaszewski, Ting Yang, et al.. (2014). Soluble Aβ Oligomers Are Rapidly Sequestered from Brain ISF In Vivo and Bind GM1 Ganglioside on Cellular Membranes. Neuron. 82(2). 308–319. 167 indexed citations

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Dettmer, Ulf, Andrew J Newman, Eric S. Luth, Tim Bartels, & Dennis J. Selkoe. (2013). In Vivo Cross-linking Reveals Principally Oligomeric Forms of α-Synuclein and β-Synuclein in Neurons and Non-neural Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(9). 6371–6385. 184 indexed citations

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Selkoe, Dennis J., et al.. (2013). Defining the Native State of α-Synuclein. Neurodegenerative Diseases. 13(2-3). 114–117. 37 indexed citations

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Bartels, Tim & Dennis J. Selkoe. (2013). Bartels & Selkoe reply. Nature. 498(7453). E6–E7. 8 indexed citations

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Bartels, Tim, et al.. (2011). α-Synuclein occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation. Nature. 477(7362). 107–110. 1008 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bartels, Tim, Logan S. Ahlstrom, Avigdor Leftin, et al.. (2010). The N-Terminus of the Intrinsically Disordered Protein α-Synuclein Triggers Membrane Binding and Helix Folding. Biophysical Journal. 99(7). 2116–2124. 236 indexed citations

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Kamp, Frits, Nicole Exner, A. Kathrin Lutz, et al.. (2010). Inhibition of mitochondrial fusion by α‐synuclein is rescued by PINK1, Parkin and DJ‐1. The EMBO Journal. 29(20). 3571–3589. 392 indexed citations

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Bartels, Tim, Han Zhang, Klaus Beyer, S. Scott Saavedra, & Michael F. Brown. (2009). Plasmon Waveguide Resonance Shows Preferential Binding of Oligomeric alpha-Synuclein to Raft-Like Lipid Mixtures. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 206a–206a. 1 indexed citations

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