Wouter Peelaerts

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Wouter Peelaerts is a scholar working on Neurology, Neurology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Peelaerts has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Neurology, 10 papers in Neurology and 8 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Wouter Peelaerts's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (13 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (6 papers). Wouter Peelaerts is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (13 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (8 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (6 papers). Wouter Peelaerts collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Wouter Peelaerts's co-authors include Veerle Baekelandt, Ronald Melki, Luc Bousset, Anke Van der Perren, Chris Van den Haute, Michèle Giugliano, Anastasiya Moskalyuk, Rocco Pulizzi, Patrik Brundin and Géraldine Gelders and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Peelaerts

16 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

α-Synuclein strains cause distinct synucleinopathies after local and systemic administration

2015 877 citations Wouter Peelaerts, Luc Bousset et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Peelaerts Belgium	10	1.1k	595	399	375	340	17	1.4k
Nishant N. Vaikath Qatar	17	974 0.9×	427 0.7×	269 0.7×	339 0.9×	267 0.8×	30	1.3k
Nour K. Majbour Qatar	21	1.5k 1.4×	668 1.1×	390 1.0×	538 1.4×	312 0.9×	36	1.9k
Amanda L. Woerman United States	17	988 0.9×	757 1.3×	584 1.5×	376 1.0×	744 2.2×	35	1.7k
Anastasiya Moskalyuk Belgium	6	690 0.6×	408 0.7×	244 0.6×	313 0.8×	273 0.8×	10	995
Rocco Pulizzi Belgium	4	690 0.6×	407 0.7×	242 0.6×	293 0.8×	259 0.8×	5	976
Zachary A. Sorrentino United States	18	740 0.7×	559 0.9×	290 0.7×	320 0.9×	276 0.8×	43	1.1k
Charles L. Graves United States	4	761 0.7×	641 1.1×	239 0.6×	293 0.8×	276 0.8×	6	1.1k
Shiji Varghese Australia	10	809 0.7×	446 0.7×	175 0.4×	214 0.6×	148 0.4×	17	1.0k
Noriko Ishigami Japan	11	542 0.5×	448 0.8×	189 0.5×	211 0.6×	243 0.7×	13	976
Mark S. Moehle United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	399 0.7×	492 1.2×	568 1.5×	610 1.8×	27	1.7k

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Plessers, Dieter, et al.. (2025). Development of convolutional neural networks for automated brain-wide histopathological analysis in mouse models of synucleinopathies. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 317–317.

Mercado, Gabriela, et al.. (2024). Infections in the Etiology of Parkinson’s Disease and Synucleinopathies: A Renewed Perspective, Mechanistic Insights, and Therapeutic Implications. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(7). 1301–1329. 2 indexed citations

Mercado, Gabriela, Dieter Plessers, Jennifer A. Steiner, et al.. (2024). Chronic urinary tract infections cause persistent microglial changes in a humanized ɑ-synuclein mouse model. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 14(8). 1559–1574. 1 indexed citations

Peelaerts, Wouter & Veerle Baekelandt. (2023). ⍺-Synuclein Structural Diversity and the Cellular Environment in ⍺-Synuclein Transmission Models and Humans. Neurotherapeutics. 20(1). 67–82. 9 indexed citations

Perren, Anke Van der, Audrey Coens, Géraldine Gelders, et al.. (2022). Host oligodendrogliopathy and α-synuclein strains dictate disease severity in multiple system atrophy. Brain. 146(1). 237–251. 13 indexed citations

George, Sonia, Trevor Tyson, Nolwen L. Rey, et al.. (2021). T Cells Limit Accumulation of Aggregate Pathology Following Intrastriatal Injection of α-Synuclein Fibrils. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 11(2). 585–603. 18 indexed citations

Peelaerts, Wouter, et al.. (2021). Widespread, Specific, and Efficient Transgene Expression in Oligodendrocytes After Intracerebral and Intracerebroventricular Delivery of Viral Vectors in Rodent Brain. Human Gene Therapy. 32(11-12). 616–627. 3 indexed citations

Marmion, David J., Wouter Peelaerts, & Jeffrey H. Kordower. (2021). A historical review of multiple system atrophy with a critical appraisal of cellular and animal models. Journal of Neural Transmission. 128(10). 1507–1527. 11 indexed citations

Peelaerts, Wouter, Sonia George, Michaela Johnson, et al.. (2020). Inhibiting the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier does not ameliorate synucleinopathy in the absence of inflammation or metabolic deficits. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 33–33. 4 indexed citations

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Perren, Anke Van der, Géraldine Gelders, Alexis Fenyi, et al.. (2020). The structural differences between patient-derived α-synuclein strains dictate characteristics of Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy and dementia with Lewy bodies. Acta Neuropathologica. 139(6). 977–1000. 171 indexed citations

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Mercado, Gabriela, et al.. (2019). Can infections trigger alpha-synucleinopathies?. Progress in molecular biology and translational science. 168. 299–322. 56 indexed citations

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Quansah, Emmanuel, Wouter Peelaerts, J. William Langston, et al.. (2018). Targeting energy metabolism via the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier as a novel approach to attenuate neurodegeneration. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 13(1). 28–28. 57 indexed citations

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Peelaerts, Wouter, Luc Bousset, Veerle Baekelandt, & Ronald Melki. (2018). ɑ-Synuclein strains and seeding in Parkinson’s disease, incidental Lewy body disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy: similarities and differences. Cell and Tissue Research. 373(1). 195–212. 96 indexed citations

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Peelaerts, Wouter & Tiago F. Outeiro. (2017). Disease-Modifying Targets in Neurodegenerative Disorders. 5 indexed citations

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Peelaerts, Wouter & Veerle Baekelandt. (2016). α-synuclein folds: the cards are on the table. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(5). 359–360. 7 indexed citations

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Peelaerts, Wouter & Veerle Baekelandt. (2016). ɑ‐Synuclein strains and the variable pathologies of synucleinopathies. Journal of Neurochemistry. 139(S1). 256–274. 67 indexed citations

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Peelaerts, Wouter, Luc Bousset, Anke Van der Perren, et al.. (2015). α-Synuclein strains cause distinct synucleinopathies after local and systemic administration. Nature. 522(7556). 340–344. 877 indexed citations breakdown →

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