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Lukas Rüttiger

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D-Index
39
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5209
World Ranking
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Lukas Rüttiger 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 Lukas Rüttiger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 111 publications — 23rd percentile

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Lukas Rüttiger 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 Lukas Rüttiger sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Lukas Rüttiger is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and focuses their research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work encompasses various subfields including Sensory Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to auditory function and disorders. Major topics include Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics, with additional concentration on Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Vestibular and Auditory Disorders, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Noise Effects and Management, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, as well as Ion Channel Regulation and Function.

The scientist has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, with recent papers including:

  • The Neural Bases of Tinnitus: Lessons from Deafness and Cochlear Implants (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • Age-related hearing loss pertaining to potassium ion channels in the cochlea and auditory pathway (2020), Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
  • Disturbed Balance of Inhibitory Signaling Links Hearing Loss and Cognition (2022), Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Functional biomarkers that distinguish between tinnitus with and without hyperacusis (2021), Clinical and Translational Medicine
  • MET currents and otoacoustic emissions from mice with a detached tectorial membrane indicate the extracellular matrix regulates Ca2+ near stereocilia (2021), The Journal of Physiology

Lukas Rüttiger frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Marlies Knipper, Wibke Singer, Stephan Wolpert, Matthias H. Munk, and Philine Marchetta. These collaborations reflect a broad network within auditory neuroscience and related fields.

The scientist's research has been published in a range of venues, with repeated contributions to journals such as Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the Journal of Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Advances in the neurobiology of hearing disorders: recent developments regarding the basis of tinnitus and hyperacusis

    Marlies Knipper;Pim Van Dijk;Isidro Nunes;Lukas Rüttiger

  • A splice site mutation in the murine Opa1 gene features pathology of autosomal dominant optic atrophy.

    Marcel V Alavi;Stefanie Bette;Simone Schimpf;Frank Schuettauf

  • Deletion of the Ca2+-activated potassium (BK) α-subunit but not the BKβ1-subunit leads to progressive hearing loss

    Lukas Rüttiger;Matthias Sausbier;Ulrike Zimmermann;Harald Winter

  • Nuclear Localization of Ataxin-3 Is Required for the Manifestation of Symptoms in SCA3: In Vivo Evidence

    Ulrike Bichelmeier;Thorsten Schmidt;Jeannette Hübener;Jana Boy

  • The Reduced Cochlear Output and the Failure to Adapt the Central Auditory Response Causes Tinnitus in Noise Exposed Rats

    Lukas Rüttiger;Wibke Singer;Rama Panford-Walsh;Masahiro Matsumoto

  • A behavioral paradigm to judge acute sodium salicylate-induced sound experience in rats: a new approach for an animal model on tinnitus.

    Lukas Rüttiger;Jürgen Ciuffani;Hans Peter Zenner;Marlies Knipper

  • Chromatic sensitivity of ganglion cells in the peripheral primate retina

    Paul R. Martin;Barry B. Lee;Andrew J. R. White;Samuel G. Solomon

  • Two classes of outer hair cells along the tonotopic axis of the cochlea.

    J Engel;C Braig;L Rüttiger;S Kuhn

  • Eps8 regulates hair bundle length and functional maturation of mammalian auditory hair cells.

    Valeria Zampini;Lukas Rüttiger;Stuart L. Johnson;Christoph Franz

  • Tinnitus behavior and hearing function correlate with the reciprocal expression patterns of BDNF and Arg3.1/arc in auditory neurons following acoustic trauma.

    J. Tan;L. Rüttiger;R. Panford-Walsh;W. Singer

  • Loss of auditory sensitivity from inner hair cell synaptopathy can be centrally compensated in the young but not old brain.

    Dorit Möhrle;Kun Ni;Ksenya Varakina;Dan Bing

  • Noise-Induced Inner Hair Cell Ribbon Loss Disturbs Central Arc Mobilization: A Novel Molecular Paradigm for Understanding Tinnitus

    Wibke Singer;Annalisa Zuccotti;Mirko Jaumann;Sze Chim Lee

  • Synaptotagmin IV determines the linear Ca2+ dependence of vesicle fusion at auditory ribbon synapses

    Stuart L Johnson;Christoph Franz;Stephanie Kuhn;Stephanie Kuhn;David N Furness

  • Chromatic Organization of Ganglion Cell Receptive Fields in the Peripheral Retina

    Samuel G. Solomon;Barry B. Lee;Andrew J. R. White;Lukas Rüttiger

  • cGMP-Prkg1 signaling and Pde5 inhibition shelter cochlear hair cells and hearing function

    Mirko Jaumann;Juliane Dettling;Martin Gubelt;Ulrike Zimmermann

  • Orientation sensitivity of ganglion cells in primate retina.

    Christopher L Passaglia;John B Troy;Lukas Rüttiger;Lukas Rüttiger;Barry B Lee;Barry B Lee

  • Lack of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Hampers Inner Hair Cell Synapse Physiology, But Protects against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

    Annalisa Zuccotti;Stephanie Kuhn;Stuart L. Johnson;Christoph Franz

  • Processing of natural temporal stimuli by macaque retinal ganglion cells.

    J. H. van Hateren;L. Rüttiger;H. Sun;B. B. Lee;B. B. Lee

  • The Neural Bases of Tinnitus: Lessons from Deafness and Cochlear Implants.

    Marlies Knipper;Pim van Dijk;Pim van Dijk;Holger Schulze;Birgit Mazurek

  • Defective Gpsm2/Gαi3 signalling disrupts stereocilia development and growth cone actin dynamics in Chudley-McCullough syndrome.

    Stephanie A. Mauriac;Yeri E. Hien;Jonathan E. Bird;Steve Dos-Santos Carvalho

  • Deafness in LIMP2-deficient mice due to early loss of the potassium channel KCNQ1/KCNE1 in marginal cells of the stria vascularis

    Marlies Knipper;Cathrin Claussen;Lukas Rüttiger;Ulrike Zimmermann

  • Selective Color Constancy Deficits after Circumscribed Unilateral Brain Lesions

    Lukas Rüttiger;Doris I. Braun;Karl R. Gegenfurtner;Dirk Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Marlies Knipper
Marlies Knipper University of Tübingen
Peter Ruth
Peter Ruth University of Tübingen
Robert Feil
Robert Feil University of Tübingen
Walter Marcotti
Walter Marcotti University of Sheffield
Eckhard Friauf
Eckhard Friauf Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Christoph Braun
Christoph Braun University of Tübingen
Mireille Montcouquiol
Mireille Montcouquiol Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Andrew Forge
Andrew Forge University College London
David N. Furness
David N. Furness Keele University
Bernd Wissinger
Bernd Wissinger University of Tübingen

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