Wesley Abplanalp

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Wesley Abplanalp is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley Abplanalp has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 9 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Wesley Abplanalp's work include Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling (10 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 papers). Wesley Abplanalp is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling (10 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (7 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 papers). Wesley Abplanalp collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Wesley Abplanalp's co-authors include Aruni Bhatnagar, Daniel J. Conklin, Timothy E. O’Toole, Stefanie Dimmeler, C. Arden Pope, Andreas M. Zeiher, David John, Sebastian Cremer, Jedrzej Hoffmann and Petra Haberzettl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wesley Abplanalp

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution Is Associated With Endothelial Injury and Systemic Inflammation

2016 530 citations Aruni Bhatnagar, Wesley Abplanalp et al. Circulation Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley Abplanalp Germany	19	607	512	256	246	230	40	1.8k
Hong Sun United States	27	219 0.4×	919 1.8×	261 1.0×	562 2.3×	249 1.1×	44	2.6k
Liliana Moreno‐Vinasco United States	31	250 0.4×	1.0k 2.0×	112 0.4×	369 1.5×	183 0.8×	43	2.2k
Yining Huang China	22	315 0.5×	214 0.4×	196 0.8×	74 0.3×	42 0.2×	75	1.7k
Valeria Pegoraro Italy	16	558 0.9×	391 0.8×	52 0.2×	71 0.3×	172 0.7×	48	1.5k
Faming Pan China	26	252 0.4×	501 1.0×	58 0.2×	707 2.9×	169 0.7×	175	2.4k
Paolo Grillo Italy	19	751 1.2×	262 0.5×	51 0.2×	151 0.6×	160 0.7×	57	1.8k
Lirong Qu United States	18	452 0.7×	282 0.6×	37 0.1×	84 0.3×	107 0.5×	22	1.5k
Min Sun China	24	187 0.3×	808 1.6×	77 0.3×	161 0.7×	541 2.4×	111	2.3k
Kang‐Yun Lee Taiwan	22	202 0.3×	305 0.6×	63 0.2×	284 1.2×	125 0.5×	51	1.3k
Alison D. Schecter United States	25	87 0.1×	510 1.0×	451 1.8×	578 2.3×	201 0.9×	31	2.2k

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Zewinger, Stephen, Tina Rasper, Sebastian Cremer, et al.. (2025). Mosaic loss of Y chromosome and mortality after coronary angiography. European Heart Journal. 46(17). 1603–1616. 7 indexed citations

Fischer, Ariane, Katja Schmitz, David John, et al.. (2025). Beneficial effects of vascular endothelial growth factor B gene transfer in the aged heart. Cardiovascular Research. 121(10). 1594–1608.

Cremer, Sebastian, Moritz von Scheidt, Klara Kirschbaum, et al.. (2025). Prognostic Significance of Somatic Mutations in Myeloid Cells of Men with Chronic Heart Failure – Interaction Between Loss of Y Chromosome and Clonal Haematopoiesis. European Journal of Heart Failure. 27(12). 3219–3234. 2 indexed citations

Luxán, Guillermo, Christine Bodemer, Mariana Shumliakivska, et al.. (2025). Ageing-associated endothelial decorin induction and the impact of non-glycanated decorin on cardiac inflammation. Cardiovascular Research. 121(10). 1623–1634.

Abplanalp, Wesley, et al.. (2025). Loss of Y chromosome: proteomic signatures in human cardiovascular disease. European Heart Journal. 46(48). 5237–5239.

Fleck, Fiona, et al.. (2024). Loss of Y-chromosomal genes in macrophages induces paracrine phenotypic alterations in cardiac cells. European Heart Journal. 45(Supplement_1).

Tombor, Lukas, Ariane Fischer, Marion Muhly-Reinholz, et al.. (2024). Age-Dependent RGS5 Loss in Pericytes Induces Cardiac Dysfunction and Fibrosis. Circulation Research. 134(10). 1240–1255. 14 indexed citations

Tombor, Lukas, Mani Arsalan, Tomáš Holubec, et al.. (2024). Improved integration of single-cell transcriptome data demonstrates common and unique signatures of heart failure in mice and humans. GigaScience. 13. 2 indexed citations

Kattih, Badder, Lukas Tombor, Luka Nicin, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of miR-92a normalizes vascular gene expression and prevents diastolic dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 198. 89–98. 4 indexed citations

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Mas‐Peiró, Silvia, Wesley Abplanalp, Tina Rasper, et al.. (2023). Mosaic loss of Y chromosome in monocytes is associated with lower survival after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. European Heart Journal. 44(21). 1943–1952. 34 indexed citations

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Kattih, Badder, Mariana Shumliakivska, Lukas Tombor, et al.. (2023). Single-nuclear transcriptome profiling identifies persistent fibroblast activation in hypertrophic and failing human hearts of patients with longstanding disease. Cardiovascular Research. 119(15). 2550–2562. 17 indexed citations

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Abplanalp, Wesley, Bianca Schuhmacher, Sebastian Cremer, et al.. (2023). Cell-intrinsic effects of clonal hematopoiesis in heart failure. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 2(9). 819–834. 26 indexed citations

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Warwick, Timothy, Christoph Schürmann, Wesley Abplanalp, et al.. (2023). Acute injury to the mouse carotid artery provokes a distinct healing response. Frontiers in Physiology. 14. 1125864–1125864. 4 indexed citations

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Moll, Franziska, Timothy Warwick, Jeremy Epah, et al.. (2022). Nox4 promotes endothelial differentiation through chromatin remodeling. Redox Biology. 55. 102381–102381. 11 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Jedrzej, Guillermo Luxán, Wesley Abplanalp, et al.. (2021). Post-myocardial infarction heart failure dysregulates the bone vascular niche. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3964–3964. 27 indexed citations

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Nicin, Luka, Wesley Abplanalp, Badder Kattih, et al.. (2020). Cell type-specific expression of the putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in human hearts. European Heart Journal. 41(19). 1804–1806. 206 indexed citations

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Glaser, Simone-Franziska, Andreas W. Heumüller, Lukas Tombor, et al.. (2020). The histone demethylase JMJD2B regulates endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 4180–4187. 41 indexed citations

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Nicin, Luka, Wesley Abplanalp, David John, et al.. (2020). Single nuclei sequencing reveals novel insights into cardiac cell signatures in human pediatric dilated cardiopathy. European Heart Journal. 41(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations

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Abplanalp, Wesley, Silvia Mas‐Peiró, Sebastian Cremer, et al.. (2020). Association of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential With Inflammatory Gene Expression in Patients With Severe Degenerative Aortic Valve Stenosis or Chronic Postischemic Heart Failure. JAMA Cardiology. 5(10). 1170–1170. 102 indexed citations

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Abplanalp, Wesley, Daniel J. Conklin, Joseph M. Cantor, et al.. (2016). Enhanced Integrin α4β1–Mediated Adhesion Contributes to a Mobilization Defect of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Diabetes. Diabetes. 65(11). 3505–3515. 18 indexed citations

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