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Ludger Schöls publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

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

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 448 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ludger Schöls D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ludger Schöls is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and neuroscience, with a focus on molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, genetics, and physiology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Hereditary Neurological Disorders
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ludger Schöls include:

  • Matthis Synofzik
  • Holger Hengel
  • Thomas Klockgether
  • Dagmar Timmann
  • Rebecca Schüle

The scientist has extensively published their work in various venues, with the most common being:

  • Movement Disorders (20 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (17 publications)
  • Journal of Neurology (10 publications)
  • Brain (9 publications)
  • Neurology (8 publications)

Some recent notable publications authored or coauthored by Ludger Schöls are:

  • "Deep Intronic FGF14 GAA Repeat Expansion in Late-Onset Cerebellar Ataxia," 2022, published in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Developmental Consequences of Defective ATG7-Mediated Autophagy in Humans," 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Natural History, Phenotypic Spectrum, and Discriminative Features of Multisystemic RFC1 Disease," 2021, Neurology
  • "Delineating MT-ATP6 -associated disease," 2020, Neurology Genetics
  • "Neurofilaments in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3: blood biomarkers at the preataxic and ataxic stage in humans and mice," 2020, EMBO Molecular Medicine

Best Publications

  • Scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia: development of a new clinical scale.

    T Schmitz-Hübsch;S Tezenas du Montcel;L Baliko;J Berciano

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias: clinical features, genetics, and pathogenesis.

    Ludger Schöls;Peter Bauer;Thorsten Schmidt;Thorsten Schulte

  • Senataxin, the ortholog of a yeast RNA helicase, is mutant in ataxia-ocular apraxia 2

    M C Moreira;S Klur;M Watanabe;A H Nemeth

  • Leitlinien für Diagnostik und Therapie in der Neurologie

    H. C. Diener;C. Weimar;P. Berlit;G. Deuschl

  • The natural history of degenerative ataxia: a retrospective study in 466 patients.

    T Klockgether;R Lüdtke;B Kramer;M Abele

  • 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

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia: Phenotypic differences in genetically defined subtypes?

    Ludger Schöls;Georgios Amoiridis;Thomas Büttner;Horst Przuntek

  • Intensive coordinative training improves motor performance in degenerative cerebellar disease.

    Winfried Ilg;Matthis Synofzik;Doris Brötz;Susanne Burkard

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia: Clinicogenetic lessons from 608 patients.

    Rebecca Schüle;Sarah Wiethoff;Peter Martus;Kathrin N. Karle;Kathrin N. Karle

  • Diagnosis and treatment of Friedreich ataxia: a European perspective

    Jörg B. Schulz;Sylvia Boesch;Katrin Bürk;Alexandra Dürr

  • Increased susceptibility to sporadic Parkinson's disease by a certain combined alpha-synuclein/apolipoprotein E genotype.

    Rejko Krüger;Ana Maria Menezes Vieira‐Saecker;Wilfried Kuhn;Daniela Berg

  • De novo loss-or gain-of-function mutations in KCNA2 cause epileptic encephalopathy

    Steffen Syrbe;Ulrike B.S. Hedrich;Erik Riesch;Tania Djémié

  • Oxidative stress in patients with Friedreich ataxia

    J.B. Schulz;T. Dehmer;L. Schöls;H. Mende

  • The Spastic Paraplegia Rating Scale (SPRS): A reliable and valid measure of disease severity

    R. Schüle;T. Holland-Letz;S. Klimpe;J. Kassubek

  • A Pan‐European Study of the C9orf72 Repeat Associated with FTLD: Geographic Prevalence, Genomic Instability, and Intermediate Repeats

    Julie van der Zee;Ilse Gijselinck;Lubina Dillen;Tim Van Langenhove

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, and 6 Disease severity and nonataxia symptoms

    T Schmitz-Hübsch;M Coudert;Peter Bauer;P Giunti

  • The aetiology of sporadic adult‐onset ataxia

    M. Abele;K. Bürk;L. Schöls;S. Schwartz

  • Clinical features and neuropathology of autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA17)

    Arndt Rolfs;Arnulf H. Koeppen;Ingrid Bauer;Peter Bauer

  • Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2: clinical, biological and genotype/phenotype correlation study of a cohort of 90 patients

    M. Anheim;B. Monga;B. Monga;M. Fleury;P. Charles

  • Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor.

    Hreinn Stefansson;Stacy Steinberg;Hjorvar Petursson;Omar Gustafsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Schüle
Rebecca Schüle University of Tübingen
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Thomas Klopstock
Thomas Klopstock Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alexandra Durr
Alexandra Durr Sorbonne University
Olaf Riess
Olaf Riess University of Tübingen
Stephan Züchner
Stephan Züchner University of Miami
Jörg B. Schulz
Jörg B. Schulz RWTH Aachen University
Paola Giunti
Paola Giunti University College London
Tobias B. Haack
Tobias B. Haack University of Tübingen

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