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Jan-Willem Taanman

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
13199
World Ranking
13094
National Ranking
1025

Jan-Willem Taanman 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 Jan-Willem Taanman sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 169 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan-Willem Taanman 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 Jan-Willem Taanman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jan-Willem Taanman is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans 31 publications in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and 26 in Medicine. The scientist has also contributed significantly to subfields including Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Cancer Research.

The main topics covered in Taanman's work focus on mitochondrial function and pathology, metabolism and genetic disorders, ATP synthase and ATPases research, cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism, autophagy in disease and therapy, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and lysosomal storage disorders research. These areas reflect a sustained interest in understanding cellular processes at a molecular level and their implications for human disease.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Taanman include Jeries Abu-Hanna, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Micol Falabella, Luis Carlos Tabara, and Shanti Lu, each having coauthored multiple papers with them.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Mitochondria as target to inhibit proliferation and induce apoptosis of cancer cells: the effects of doxycycline and gemcitabine, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Sirtuin 5 depletion impairs mitochondrial function in human proximal tubular epithelial cells, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Exploring the impact of the PNPLA3 I148M variant on primary human hepatic stellate cells using 3D extracellular matrix models, 2024, Journal of Hepatology
  • Huntington's disease affects mitochondrial network dynamics predisposing to pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations, 2024, Brain
  • Ambroxol reverses tau and α-synuclein accumulation in a cholinergic N370S GBA1 mutation model, 2022, Human Molecular Genetics

Taanman's research has been published frequently in venues such as the Journal of Hepatology, PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Brain, and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, with multiple contributions to each.

Best Publications

  • The mitochondrial genome: structure, transcription, translation and replication

    Jan Willem Taanman

  • Mitofusin 1 and mitofusin 2 are ubiquitinated in a PINK1/parkin-dependent manner upon induction of mitophagy

    Matthew E. Gegg;J. Mark Cooper;Kai-Yin Chau;Manuel Rojo

  • Biochemical abnormalities and excitotoxicity in Huntington's disease brain

    S. J. Tabrizi;M. W. J. Cleeter;J. Xuereb;J.-W. Taanman

  • Parkinson's disease induced pluripotent stem cells with triplication of the α-synuclein locus

    Michael J. Devine;Mina Ryten;Petr Vodicka;Alison J. Thomson

  • Mitochondrial DNA transmission of the mitochondrial defect in Parkinson's disease.

    M. Gu;J. M. Cooper;J. W. Taanman;A. H. V. Schapira

  • A mutant mitochondrial respiratory chain assembly protein causes complex III deficiency in patients with tubulopathy, encephalopathy and liver failure

    Pascale De Lonlay;Isabelle Valnot;Antoni Barrientos;Marina Gorbatyuk

  • A mutation in the human heme A:farnesyltransferase gene (COX10 ) causes cytochrome c oxidase deficiency

    Isabelle Valnot;Jürgen Christoph Von Kleist-Retzow;Antonio Barrientos;Marina Gorbatyuk

  • Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit I microdeletion in a patient with motor neuron disease

    Giacomo P. Comi;Andreina Bordoni;Sabrina Salani;Liliana Franceschina

  • Assembly of cytochrome‐c oxidase in cultured human cells

    Leo G. J. Nijtmans;Jan-Willem Taanman;Anton O. Muijsers;Dave Speijer

  • Mitochondria in the etiology and pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease

    A. H. V. Schapira;M. Gu;J.-W. Taanman;S. J. Tabrizi

  • Silencing of PINK1 expression affects mitochondrial DNA and oxidative phosphorylation in dopaminergic cells.

    Matthew E. Gegg;J. Mark Cooper;Anthony H. V. Schapira;Jan-Willem Taanman

  • Expression of mutant α-synuclein causes increased susceptibility to dopamine toxicity

    Sarah J. Tabrizi;Michael Orth;J. Max Wilkinson;Jan-Willem Taanman

  • Mammalian cytochrome-c oxidase: characterization of enzyme and immunological detection of subunits in tissue extracts and whole cells.

    Roderick A. Capaldi;Michael F. Marusich;Jan-Willem Taanman

  • Cytochrome c Oxidase Subassemblies in Fibroblast Cultures from Patients Carrying Mutations in COX10, SCO1, or SURF1

    Siôn L. Williams;Isabelle Valnot;Pierre Rustin;Jan Willem Taanman

  • Dominant inheritance of premature ovarian failure associated with mutant mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma

    Alistair T Pagnamenta;Jan-Willem Taanman;Callum J Wilson;Neil E Anderson

  • Molecular Mechanisms in Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome

    J.-W. Taanman;A. G. Bodnar;J. M. Cooper;A. A. M. Morris

  • Status epilepticus in children with Alpers' disease caused by POLG1 mutations: EEG and MRI features.

    Nicole I. Wolf;Shamima Rahman;Bernhard Schmitt;Jan-Willem Taanman

  • Expression of mtDNA and nDNA encoded respiratory chain proteins in chemically and genetically-derived Rho0 human fibroblasts: a comparison of subunit proteins in normal fibroblasts treated with ethidium bromide and fibroblasts from a patient with mtDNA depletion syndrome.

    Michael F Marusich;Brian H Robinson;Jan-Willem Taanman;Soo Jin Kim

  • A missense mutation of cytochrome oxidase subunit II causes defective assembly and myopathy.

    Shamima Rahman;Jan-Willem Taanman;J. Mark Cooper;Isabelle Nelson

  • NDUFA4 mutations underlie dysfunction of a cytochrome c oxidase subunit linked to human neurological disease.

    Robert D.S. Pitceathly;Shamima Rahman;Shamima Rahman;Yehani Wedatilake;James M. Polke

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony H.V. Schapira
Anthony H.V. Schapira University College London
Shamima Rahman
Shamima Rahman University College London
Michael G. Hanna
Michael G. Hanna University College London
Michael Orth
Michael Orth University of Ulm
Peter E. Clayton
Peter E. Clayton University of Manchester
Janice L. Holton
Janice L. Holton University College London
Roderick A. Capaldi
Roderick A. Capaldi University of Oregon
Iain P. Hargreaves
Iain P. Hargreaves Liverpool John Moores University
Henry Houlden
Henry Houlden University College London
Massimo Zeviani
Massimo Zeviani University of Padua

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Best Scientists Citing Jan-Willem Taanman

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Publications: 89

Massimo Zeviani

Massimo Zeviani

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Salvatore DiMauro

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David R. Thorburn

David R. Thorburn

Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Publications: 50

M. Flint Beal

M. Flint Beal

Cornell University

Publications: 49

Shamima Rahman

Shamima Rahman

University College London

Publications: 47

Robert W. Taylor

Robert W. Taylor

Newcastle University

Publications: 47

Douglass M. Turnbull

Douglass M. Turnbull

Newcastle University

Publications: 40

Patrick F. Chinnery

Patrick F. Chinnery

University of Cambridge

Publications: 38

Eric A. Shoubridge

Eric A. Shoubridge

Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Publications: 36

Jan A.M. Smeitink

Jan A.M. Smeitink

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Publications: 34

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Lee-Jun C. Wong

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Publications: 32

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Rita Horvath

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Publications: 32

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Pierre Rustin

Inserm

Publications: 30

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