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Neuroscience

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79
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38174
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1652
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147

Biology and Biochemistry

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38100
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4202
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311

Georg Auburger publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Georg Auburger sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 272 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Georg Auburger D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Georg Auburger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Georg Auburger is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus also on Medicine. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Genetics, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work centers around key topics including Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, and interferon and immune responses.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition), published in 2021 in Americanae (AECID Library)
  • Prodromal Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 Subjects Have Quantifiable Gait and Postural Sway Deficits, published in 2020 in Movement Disorders
  • Loss of Mitochondrial Protease CLPP Activates Type I IFN Responses through the Mitochondrial DNA-cGAS-STING Signaling Axis, published in 2021 in The Journal of Immunology
  • Atxn2-CAG100-KnockIn mouse spinal cord shows progressive TDP43 pathology associated with cholesterol biosynthesis suppression, published in 2021 in Neurobiology of Disease
  • Clinical and genetic differences between bipolar disorder type 1 and 2 in multiplex families, published in 2021 in Translational Psychiatry

Georg Auburger has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Jana Key, Suzana Gispert, Nesli-Ece Şen, Gabriele Koepf, and Júlia Canet-Pons.

The scientist's research output has often appeared in specific publication venues, such as:

  • Preprints.org
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Cerebellum
  • Cells
  • Movement Disorders

Best Publications

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

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

  • Hereditary Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Caused by Mutations in PINK1

    Eriza Maria Valente;Patrick M. Abou-Sleiman;Viviana Caputo;Miratul M K Muqit

  • The ubiquitin pathway in Parkinson's disease

    Elisabeth Leroy;Rebecca Boyer;Georg Auburger;Barbara Leube

  • OPA1, encoding a dynamin-related GTPase is mutated in autosomal dominant optic atrophy linked to chromosome 3q28

    C Alexander;M Votruba;U.E.A Pesch;D.L Thiselton

  • Ataxin-2 intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions are associated with increased risk for ALS

    Andrew C. Elden;Hyung Jun Kim;Michael P. Hart;Alice S. Chen-Plotkin

  • Moderate expansion of a normally biallelic trinucleotide repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2

    Stefan M. Pulst;Alex Nechiporuk;Alex Nechiporuk;Tamilla Nechiporuk;Tamilla Nechiporuk;Suzana Gispert

  • Levels of nerve growth factor and its mRNA in the central nervous system of the rat correlate with cholinergic innervation.

    Sigrun I. Korsching;G Auburger;Rolf Heumann;Jacqueline Scott

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

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

  • Loss-of-Function of Human PINK1 Results in Mitochondrial Pathology and Can Be Rescued by Parkin

    Nicole Exner;Bettina Treske;Dominik Paquet;Kira Holmström

  • Therapeutic reduction of ataxin-2 extends lifespan and reduces pathology in TDP-43 mice

    Lindsay A. Becker;Brenda Huang;Gregor Bieri;Rosanna Ma

  • Parkinson phenotype in aged PINK1-deficient mice is accompanied by progressive mitochondrial dysfunction in absence of neurodegeneration.

    Suzana Gispert;Filomena Ricciardi;Alexander Kurz;Mekhman Azizov

  • Clinical features, neurogenetics and neuropathology of the polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias type 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7.

    Udo Rüb;Ludger Schöls;Henry Paulson;Georg Auburger

  • Chromosomal assignment of the second locus for autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (SCA2) to chromosome 12q23–24.1

    Gispert S;Twells R;Orozco G;Brice A

  • Genome-wide association study of intracranial aneurysm identifies three new risk loci

    Katsuhito Yasuno;Kaya Bilguvar;Philippe Bijlenga;Siew Kee Low

  • Decreased expression of Drp1 and Fis1 mediates mitochondrial elongation in senescent cells and enhances resistance to oxidative stress through PINK1

    Sören Mai;Michael Klinkenberg;Georg Auburger;Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn

  • MPTP susceptibility in the mouse: behavioral, neurochemical, and histological analysis of gender and strain differences.

    Marco Sedelis;Katja Hofele;Georg W. Auburger;Sarah Morgan

  • The Brainstem Pathologies of Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    Kay Seidel;Josefine Mahlke;Sonny Siswanto;Reijko Krüger

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

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

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2).

    Isabel Lastres-Becker;Udo Rüb;Georg Auburger

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction, peroxidation damage and changes in glutathione metabolism in PARK6

    Hans-Hermann Hoepken;Suzana Gispert;Blas Morales;Oliver Wingerter

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Rüb
Udo Rüb Goethe University Frankfurt
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Thomas Deller
Thomas Deller Goethe University Frankfurt
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Horst-Werner Korf
Horst-Werner Korf Goethe University Frankfurt
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Katrin Bürk
Katrin Bürk Swissmedic
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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