Verena Haage

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 960 citations indexed

About

Verena Haage is a scholar working on Neurology, Immunology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Verena Haage has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 960 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Neurology, 5 papers in Immunology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Verena Haage's work include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers), Immune cells in cancer (4 papers) and Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (2 papers). Verena Haage is often cited by papers focused on Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (11 papers), Immune cells in cancer (4 papers) and Adenosine and Purinergic Signaling (2 papers). Verena Haage collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Verena Haage's co-authors include Helmut Kettenmann, Daniel Pérez-Hernández, Philipp Mertins, Susanne A. Wolf, Jan Felix Drexler, Wendy K. Jo, Philip L. De Jager, Alice Buonfiglioli, Christian Drosten and Marcel A. Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry and Cell Reports.

In The Last Decade

Verena Haage

16 papers receiving 950 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.

  1. Comparison of seven commercial SARS-CoV-2 rapid point-of-care antigen tests: a single-centre laboratory evaluation study
    2021 226 citations Victor M. Corman, Verena Haage et al. The Lancet Microbe profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Verena Haage Germany 12 444 254 244 216 175 16 960
Raffaello Cimbro United States 20 369 0.8× 418 1.6× 147 0.6× 372 1.7× 36 0.2× 41 1.4k
Céline Louapre France 18 178 0.4× 95 0.4× 314 1.3× 185 0.9× 35 0.2× 67 1.4k
Grisilda Bakiasi United States 6 323 0.7× 175 0.7× 26 0.1× 303 1.4× 65 0.4× 6 693
Kiarash Saleki Iran 18 95 0.2× 153 0.6× 136 0.6× 283 1.3× 33 0.2× 46 851
Tommaso Croese Israel 11 245 0.6× 144 0.6× 24 0.1× 179 0.8× 28 0.2× 13 618
Mattia Gallizioli Spain 14 683 1.5× 411 1.6× 19 0.1× 245 1.1× 49 0.3× 18 1.1k
Carla Buttinelli Italy 22 111 0.3× 449 1.8× 96 0.4× 268 1.2× 32 0.2× 55 1.6k
Kathleen Borgmann United States 19 352 0.8× 152 0.6× 77 0.3× 368 1.7× 12 0.1× 39 986
Ji Hoon Ahn South Korea 8 151 0.3× 76 0.3× 117 0.5× 139 0.6× 29 0.2× 18 975
Domenico Marco Bonifati Italy 15 248 0.6× 243 1.0× 54 0.2× 223 1.0× 11 0.1× 31 947

Countries citing papers authored by Verena Haage

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Fields of papers citing papers by Verena Haage

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Verena Haage

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Haage, Verena, Charles C. White, Ronak Patel, et al.. (2025). HDAC inhibitors engage MITF and the disease-associated microglia signature to enhance amyloid β uptake. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 129. 279–293. 1 indexed citations
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Buonfiglioli, Alice, Raphael Kübler, Roy Missall, et al.. (2024). A microglia-containing cerebral organoid model to study early life immune challenges. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 123. 1127–1146. 13 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena & Philip L. De Jager. (2022). Neuroimmune contributions to Alzheimer’s disease: a focus on human data. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(8). 3164–3181. 43 indexed citations
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Fischer, Carlo, Wendy K. Jo, Verena Haage, et al.. (2021). Challenges towards serologic diagnostics of emerging arboviruses. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 27(9). 1221–1229. 27 indexed citations
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Corman, Victor M., Verena Haage, Tobias Bleicker, et al.. (2021). Comparison of seven commercial SARS-CoV-2 rapid point-of-care antigen tests: a single-centre laboratory evaluation study. The Lancet Microbe. 2(7). e311–e319. 226 indexed citations breakdown →
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Huang, Yimin, Baole Zhang, Verena Haage, et al.. (2021). Glial cell line‐derived neurotrophic factor increases matrix metallopeptidase 9 and 14 expression in microglia and promotes microglia‐mediated glioma progression. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 99(4). 1048–1063. 16 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, et al.. (2021). The need for sustainable leadership in academia. EMBO Reports. 22(12). e53592–e53592. 5 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, Edmilson Ferreira de Oliveira-Filho, Andrés Moreira‐Soto, et al.. (2021). Impaired performance of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-detecting rapid diagnostic tests at elevated and low temperatures. Journal of Clinical Virology. 138. 104796–104796. 23 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, Daniel Pérez-Hernández, Philipp Mertins, et al.. (2020). The VGF-derived Peptide TLQP21 Impairs Purinergic Control of Chemotaxis and Phagocytosis in Mouse Microglia. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(17). 3320–3331. 21 indexed citations
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Buonfiglioli, Alice, Verena Haage, Elizabeth C. Wright-Jin, et al.. (2020). Neurofibromatosis 1 - Mutant microglia exhibit sexually-dimorphic cyclic AMP-dependent purinergic defects. Neurobiology of Disease. 144. 105030–105030. 11 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, André Rex, Golo Kronenberg, et al.. (2020). Deletion of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 3 in microglia impacts brain ischemic injury. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 91. 89–104. 19 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, Lars Roll, Andréas Faissner, et al.. (2019). Tenascin C regulates multiple microglial functions involving TLR4 signaling and HDAC1. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 81. 470–483. 36 indexed citations
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Haage, Verena, Marcus Semtner, Ramón Vidal, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive gene expression meta-analysis identifies signature genes that distinguish microglia from peripheral monocytes/macrophages in health and glioma. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 7(1). 1–1. 111 indexed citations
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Güneykaya, Dilansu, Andranik Ivanov, Daniel Pérez-Hernández, et al.. (2018). Transcriptional and Translational Differences of Microglia from Male and Female Brains. Cell Reports. 24(10). 2773–2783.e6. 336 indexed citations
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Dzaye, Omar, Feng Hu, Katja Derkow, et al.. (2016). Glioma Stem Cells but Not Bulk Glioma Cells Upregulate IL-6 Secretion in Microglia/Brain Macrophages via Toll-like Receptor 4 Signaling. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 75(5). 429–440. 61 indexed citations

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