Wim Robberecht

Active 1989–2024

131
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27,482
Citations
94
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Citations

Citations per year for Wim Robberecht1951: 3 citations1967: 2 citations1989: 1 citations1990: 1 citations1991: 1 citations1992: 1 citations1993: 2 citations1994: 6 citations1995: 14 citations1996: 11 citations1997: 16 citations1998: 6 citations1999: 10 citations2000: 30 citations2001: 25 citations2002: 76 citations2003: 85 citations2004: 161 citations2005: 175 citations2006: 183 citations2007: 193 citations2008: 220 citations2009: 299 citations2010: 294 citations2011: 329 citations2012: 332 citations2013: 355 citations2014: 352 citations2015: 291 citations2016: 340 citations2017: 387 citations2018: 341 citations2019: 1,042 citations2020: 1,247 citations2021: 1,155 citations2022: 773 citations2023: 602 citations2024: 787 citations2025: 380 citations2026: 12 citations1952–1966: no citations, so these years are not shown1968–1988: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,926 citing papers, 24.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,036 citing papers, 8.8% of this breakdownItaly: 819 citing papers, 7% of this breakdownGermany: 801 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownChina: 667 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownCanada: 516 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownBelgium: 478 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownFrance: 445 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 441 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 408 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownJapan: 333 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSpain: 286 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine59.4%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.2%
  • Neuroscience12.4%
  • Immunology and Microbiology0.8%
  • Nursing0.4%
  • Computer Science0.4%
  • Other1.4%

Topics

  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research16.6%
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research8.4%
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments4.1%
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments3.7%
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases3.7%
  • RNA Research and Splicing3.6%
  • Other59.9%

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  1. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2017 cited by 1,382

  2. The phenotypic variability of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , - Nature Reviews Neurology 2014 cited by 595

  3. HDAC6 inhibition reverses axonal transport defects in motor neurons derived from FUS-ALS patients

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Communications 2017 cited by 380

  4. Phase Separation of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats Perturbs Stress Granule Dynamics

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Molecular Cell 2017 cited by 545

  5. Neuroinflammation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: role of glial activation in motor neuron disease

    Authors: , - The Lancet Neurology 2011 cited by 639

  6. The changing scene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , - Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2013 cited by 963

  7. Genome-wide identification of the genetic basis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Philippe Couratier, Orla Hardiman, Russell McLaughin, Marc Gotkine, Vivian E. Drory, Nicola Ticozzi, Vincenzo Silani, Jan H. Veldink, Leonard H. van den Berg, Mamede de Carvalho, Jesús S. Mora Pardina, Mónica Povedano, Peter M. Andersen, Markus Weber, Nazlı Başak, Ammar Al‐Chalabi, Christopher E. Shaw, Pamela J. Shaw, Karen Morrison, John E. Landers, Jonathan D. Glass, Jan H. Veldink, Laura Ferraiuolo, Pamela J. Shaw, M Snyder - Neuron 2022 cited by 122

  8. The role of excitotoxicity in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease 2006 cited by 482

  9. Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Neuroscience 2015 cited by 636

  10. HDAC6 inhibitors reverse axonal loss in a mouse model of mutant HSPB1–induced Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - Nature Medicine 2011 cited by 461

  11. NEK1 variants confer susceptibility to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Frank Baas, Anneke J. van der Kooi, Marianne de Visser, Anneloor L.M.A. ten Asbroek, Peter C. Sapp, Diane McKenna‐Yasek, Meraida Polak, Seneshaw Asress, José Luís Muñoz-Blanco, Tim M. Strom, Thomas Meitinger, Karen Morrison, Giuseppe Lauria, Kelly L. Williams, P. Nigel Leigh, Garth A. Nicholson, Ian P. Blair, Claire S. Leblond, Patrick A. Dion, Guy A. Rouleau, Hardev Pall, Pamela J. Shaw, Martin R. Turner, Kevin Talbot, Franco Taroni, Khrista Boylan, Marka van Blitterswijk, Rosa Rademakers, Jesús Esteban‐Pérez, Alberto García‐Redondo, Phillip Van Damme, Wim Robberecht, Adriano Chiò, Cinzia Gellera, Carsten Drepper, Michael Sendtner, Antonia Ratti, Jonathan D. Glass, Jesús S. Mora, Nazlı Başak, Orla Hardiman, Albert C. Ludolph, Peter M. Andersen, Jochen H. Weishaupt, Robert H. Brown, Ammar Al‐Chalabi, Vincenzo Silani, Christopher E. Shaw, Leonard H. van den Berg, Jan H. Veldink, John E. Landers - Nature Genetics 2016 cited by 294

  12. A revision of the El Escorial criteria - 2015

    Authors: , , , , , , , - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration 2015 cited by 478

  13. Correction: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Nature Reviews Disease Primers 2017 cited by 359

  14. Oligodendrocyte dysfunction in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Brain 2013 cited by 250

  15. Project MinE: study design and pilot analyses of a large-scale whole-genome sequencing study in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ian P. Blair, Jonathan D. Glass, Orla Hardiman, Winston Hide, Pamela J. Shaw, Jesus S. Mora, Karen E. Morrison, Naomi R. Wray - European Journal of Human Genetics 2018 cited by 198

  16. Genome-wide association study identifies 19p13.3 (UNC13A) and 9p21.2 as susceptibility loci for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Shaun Purcell, Sven Cichon, Markus M. Nöthen, H‐Erich Wichmann, Stefan Schreiber, Sita H. Vermeulen, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, John H. J. Wokke, Simon Cronin, Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Katsumi Fumoto, R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Vincent Meininger, Judith Melki, P. Nigel Leigh, Christopher E. Shaw, John E. Landers, Ammar Al‐Chalabi, Robert H. Brown, Wim Robberecht, Peter M. Andersen, Roel A. Ophoff, Leonard H. van den Berg - Nature Genetics 2009 cited by 404

  17. RNA toxicity in non‐coding repeat expansion disorders

    Authors: , , - The EMBO Journal 2019 cited by 169

  18. Modelling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: progress and possibilities

    Authors: , , - Disease Models & Mechanisms 2017 cited by 199

  19. ATXN2 trinucleotide repeat length correlates with risk of ALS

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Wim Robberecht, Guy A. Rouleau, Owen A. Ross, François Salachas, Katie Sidle, Bradley Smith, Bing‐Wen Soong, Gianni Sorarú, Giovanni Stévanin, Edor Kabashi, Claire Troakes, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Jan H. Veldink, Leonard H. van den Berg, Christopher E. Shaw, John Powell, Ammar Al‐Chalabi - Neurobiology of Aging 2016 cited by 130

  20. HDAC6 is a therapeutic target in mutant GARS-induced Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Brain 2017 cited by 122

  21. The SOD1-mediated ALS phenotype shows a decoupling between age of symptom onset and disease duration

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Russell L. McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Leonard van den Berg, Jan H. Veldink, Phillippe Corcia, Zorica Stević, Nailah Siddique, Vincenzo Silani, Ian P. Blair, Dongsheng Fan, Florence Esselin, Elisa De La Cruz, William Camu, Nazlı Başak, Teepu Siddique, Jonathan Mill, Robert H. Brown, Ammar Al‐Chalabi, Christopher E. Shaw - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 56

  22. A C9orf72 promoter repeat expansion in a Flanders-Belgian cohort with disorders of the frontotemporal lobar degeneration-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum: a gene identification study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Patrick Cras, Jean‐Jacques Martin, Peter P. De Deyn, Marc Cruts, Christine Van Broeckhoven - The Lancet Neurology 2011 cited by 628

  23. Progranulin functions as a neurotrophic factor to regulate neurite outgrowth and enhance neuronal survival

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - The Journal of Cell Biology 2008 cited by 418

  24. Disrupted function and axonal distribution of mutant tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase in dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Genetics 2006 cited by 376