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Jürgen Winkler 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 Jürgen Winkler sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 250 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jürgen Winkler 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 Jürgen Winkler sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jürgen Winkler is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research activity spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a particular focus on Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, as well as Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Hereditary Neurological Disorders, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention.

Recent publications by Jürgen Winkler include:

  • Chronic Peripheral Inflammation Causes a Region-Specific Myeloid Response in the Central Nervous System, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Extrinsic immune cell-derived, but not intrinsic oligodendroglial factors contribute to oligodendroglial differentiation block in multiple sclerosis, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • A Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase Inhibitor Prevents Multiple Parkinson Disease Phenotypes in α-Synuclein Mice, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Connecting real-world digital mobility assessment to clinical outcomes for regulatory and clinical endorsement-the Mobilise-D study protocol, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Validation of a Sensor-Based Gait Analysis System with a Gold-Standard Motion Capture System in Patients with Parkinson's Disease, 2021, Sensors

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Winkler include:

  • Beate Winner
  • Martin Regensburger
  • Heiko Gaßner
  • Bjoern M. Eskofier
  • Jochen Klucken

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Best Publications

  • Transient expression of doublecortin during adult neurogenesis

    Jason P. Brown;Sébastien Couillard-Després;Christiana M. Cooper-Kuhn;Jürgen Winkler;Jürgen Winkler

  • Doublecortin expression levels in adult brain reflect neurogenesis.

    Sebastien Couillard-Despres;Beate Winner;Susanne Schaubeck;Robert Aigner

  • Enriched environment and physical activity stimulate hippocampal but not olfactory bulb neurogenesis.

    Jason Brown;Christiana M. Cooper-Kuhn;Gerd Kempermann;Henriette Van Praag;Henriette Van Praag

  • Proliferation and differentiation of progenitor cells throughout the intact adult rat spinal cord

    Philip J. Horner;Ann E. Power;Gerd Kempermann;Gerd Kempermann;H. Georg Kuhn

  • Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Brain Structure Changes during Extensive Learning

    Bogdan Draganski;Christian Gaser;Gerd Kempermann;Hans-Georg Kuhn

  • Directly Reprogrammed Human Neurons Retain Aging-Associated Transcriptomic Signatures and Reveal Age-Related Nucleocytoplasmic Defects

    Jerome Mertens;Apuã C.M. Paquola;Manching Ku;Emily Hatch

  • Analysis of neurogenesis and programmed cell death reveals a self-renewing capacity in the adult rat brain

    M Biebl;C M Cooper;J Winkler;J Winkler;H G Kuhn

  • Long‐term survival and cell death of newly generated neurons in the adult rat olfactory bulb

    Beate Winner;Christiana M. Cooper-Kuhn;Robert Aigner;Jürgen Winkler;Jürgen Winkler

  • Direct Stimulation of Adult Neural Stem Cells In Vitro and Neurogenesis In Vivo by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

    Anne Schänzer;Frank-Peter Wachs;Daniel Wilhelm;Till Acker

  • Adult Neurogenesis in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Beate Winner;Jürgen Winkler

  • Decreased neurogenesis after cholinergic forebrain lesion in the adult rat.

    Christiana M Cooper-Kuhn;Jürgen Winkler;Jürgen Winkler;H Georg Kuhn

  • Th17 Lymphocytes Induce Neuronal Cell Death in a Human iPSC-Based Model of Parkinson's Disease.

    Annika Sommer;Franz Marxreiter;Florian Krach;Tanja Fadler

  • Adult stem cell therapy in stroke.

    Sebastian Haas;Norbert Weidner;Jürgen Winkler

  • Accumulation of oligomer-prone α-synuclein exacerbates synaptic and neuronal degeneration in vivo.

    Edward Rockenstein;Silke Nuber;Cassia R. Overk;Kiren Ubhi

  • Increased generation of granule cells in adult Bcl-2-overexpressing mice: a role for cell death during continued hippocampal neurogenesis.

    H. Georg Kuhn;H. Georg Kuhn;Manfred Biebl;Daniel Wilhelm;Daniel Wilhelm;Mingwei Li

  • α-Synuclein oligomers induce early axonal dysfunction in human iPSC-based models of synucleinopathies

    Iryna Prots;Janina Grosch;Razvan-Marius Brazdis;Katrin Simmnacher

  • Neurodegeneration and Motor Dysfunction in a Conditional Model of Parkinson's Disease

    Silke Nuber;Elisabeth Petrasch-Parwez;Beate Winner;Jürgen Winkler

  • Transforming growth factor-beta1 is a negative modulator of adult neurogenesis.

    Frank-Peter Wachs;Beate Winner;Beate Winner;Sebastien Couillard-Despres;Sebastien Couillard-Despres;Thorsten Schiller;Thorsten Schiller

  • An autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2) with mild mental retardation is allelic to Walker–Warburg syndrome (WWS) caused by a mutation in the POMT1 gene

    Burcu Balci;Gökhan Uyanik;Pervin Dincer;Claudia Gross

  • Adult neurogenesis in Parkinson’s disease

    Unknown

  • Human Wild-Type α-Synuclein Impairs Neurogenesis

    Beate Winner;D. Chichung Lie;Edward Rockenstein;Robert Aigner

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate Winner
Beate Winner University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ulrich Bogdahn
Ulrich Bogdahn University of Regensburg
Bjoern M. Eskofier
Bjoern M. Eskofier University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ludwig Aigner
Ludwig Aigner Paracelsus Medical University
Albert C. Ludolph
Albert C. Ludolph University of Ulm
Eliezer Masliah
Eliezer Masliah National Institutes of Health
Sebastien Couillard-Despres
Sebastien Couillard-Despres Paracelsus Medical University
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Olaf Riess
Olaf Riess University of Tübingen
Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt
Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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