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Andreas Linkermann

Andreas Linkermann

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
46337
World Ranking
5784
National Ranking
413

Andreas Linkermann publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andreas Linkermann sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 191 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Andreas Linkermann D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andreas Linkermann sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Andreas Linkermann is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has a significant research presence in the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Epidemiology.

The central themes in Linkermann's scientific investigations focus on key biomedical topics such as ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, inflammasome and immune disorders, RNA modifications and cancer, interferon and immune responses, epigenetics and DNA methylation, diabetes and associated disorders, and cell death mechanisms and regulation.

Frequent co-authors in Linkermann's research include Wulf Tonnus, Stefan R. Bornstein, Francesca Maremonti, Alexia Belavgeni, and Anne von Mäßenhausen. Their collaboration with these researchers highlights interdisciplinary approaches that span clinical and molecular studies.

Their research has been published in several well-regarded scientific journals, with multiple contributions to the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Cell Death and Disease, and Nature.

Notable recent papers by Linkermann include:

  • Loss of Cardiac Ferritin H Facilitates Cardiomyopathy via Slc7a11-Mediated Ferroptosis (2020, Circulation Research)
  • A non-canonical vitamin K cycle is a potent ferroptosis suppressor (2022, Nature)
  • Ferroptosis and Necroptosis in the Kidney (2020, Cell chemical biology)
  • COVID-19 and metabolic disease: mechanisms and clinical management (2021, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • Dysfunction of the key ferroptosis-surveilling systems hypersensitizes mice to tubular necrosis during acute kidney injury (2021, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease

    Brent R. Stockwell;José Pedro Friedmann Angeli;Hülya Bayir;Ashley I. Bush

  • Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018

    Lorenzo Galluzzi;Ilio Vitale;Stuart A. Aaronson;John M. Abrams

  • Regulated necrosis: the expanding network of non-apoptotic cell death pathways

    Tom Vanden Berghe;Andreas Linkermann;Sandrine Jouan-Lanhouet;Henning Walczak

  • Ferroptosis as a target for protection against cardiomyopathy.

    Xuexian Fang;Hao Wang;Hao Wang;Dan Han;Enjun Xie

  • Essential versus accessory aspects of cell death: recommendations of the NCCD 2015

    L. Galluzzi;J. M. Bravo-San Pedro;I. Vitale;S. A. Aaronson

  • Synchronized renal tubular cell death involves ferroptosis

    Andreas Linkermann;Rachid Skouta;Nina Himmerkus;Shrikant R. Mulay

  • Ferrostatins inhibit oxidative lipid damage and cell death in diverse disease models.

    Rachid Skouta;Scott J. Dixon;Jianlin Wang;Denise E. Dunn

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Two independent pathways of regulated necrosis mediate ischemia–reperfusion injury

    Andreas Linkermann;Jan Hinrich Bräsen;Maurice Darding;Mi Kyung Jin

  • ESCRT-III Acts Downstream of MLKL to Regulate Necroptotic Cell Death and Its Consequences

    Yi-Nan Gong;Cliff Guy;Hannes Olauson;Jan Ulrich Becker

  • Regulated cell death and inflammation: an auto-amplification loop causes organ failure

    Andreas Linkermann;Brent R. Stockwell;Stefan Krautwald;Hans-Joachim Anders

  • Loss of Cardiac Ferritin H Facilitates Cardiomyopathy via Slc7a11-Mediated Ferroptosis.

    Xuexian Fang;Xuexian Fang;Xuexian Fang;Zhaoxian Cai;Hao Wang;Dan Han

  • Regulated Cell Death in AKI

    Andreas Linkermann;Guochun Chen;Guie Dong;Ulrich Kunzendorf

  • Rip1 (Receptor-interacting protein kinase 1) mediates necroptosis and contributes to renal ischemia/reperfusion injury

    Andreas Linkermann;Jan H. Bräsen;Nina Himmerkus;Shuya Liu

  • Ferroptotic cell death and TLR4/Trif signaling initiate neutrophil recruitment after heart transplantation

    Wenjun Li;Guoshuai Feng;Jason M. Gauthier;Inessa Lokshina

  • Ferroptosis, but Not Necroptosis, Is Important in Nephrotoxic Folic Acid–Induced AKI

    Diego Martin-Sanchez;Olga Ruiz-Andres;Jonay Poveda;Susana Carrasco

  • Noncanonical autophagy inhibits the autoinflammatory, lupus-like response to dying cells

    Jennifer Martinez;Larissa D. Cunha;Sunmin Park;Mao Yang

  • RIP3, a kinase promoting necroptotic cell death, mediates adverse remodelling after myocardial infarction

    Mark Luedde;Matthias Lutz;Natalie Carter;Justyna Sosna

  • Widespread Mitochondrial Depletion via Mitophagy Does Not Compromise Necroptosis

    Stephen W.G. Tait;Andrew Oberst;Giovanni Quarato;Sandra Milasta

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas R. Green
Douglas R. Green St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele Ghent University
Brent R. Stockwell
Brent R. Stockwell Columbia University
Tom Vanden Berghe
Tom Vanden Berghe University of Antwerp
Simone Fulda
Simone Fulda Goethe University Frankfurt
Oliver Kepp
Oliver Kepp Institut Gustave Roussy
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Hans-Joachim Anders
Hans-Joachim Anders Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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