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Volker Bigl 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 Volker Bigl sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 137 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Volker Bigl 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 Volker Bigl sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Volker Bigl was affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their professional career was associated with this institution, where their academic work was conducted.

Information on Volker Bigl's recent papers includes no recorded publications.

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Volker Bigl is deceased. All the information available relates to their historical academic presence rather than ongoing research activities.

Best Publications

  • Loss of neurons in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in Alzheimer's disease, paralysis agitans and Korsakoff's Disease.

    T Arendt;V Bigl;A Arendt;A Tennstedt

  • Cholinergic projections from the basal forebrain to frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, and cingulate cortices: A combined fluorescent tracer and acetylcholinesterase analysis

    Volker Bigl;Nancy J. Woolf;Larry L. Butcher

  • Neuronal loss in different parts of the nucleus basalis is related to neuritic plaque formation in cortical target areas in alzheimer's disease

    T. Arendt;V. Bigl;A. Tennstedt;A. Arendt

  • Plastic Neuronal Remodeling Is Impaired in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease Carrying Apolipoprotein ε4 Allele

    Thomas Arendt;Cornelia Schindler;Martina K. Brückner;Klaus Eschrich

  • Cholinergic projections from magnocellular nuclei of the basal forebrain to cortical areas in rats

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  • Changes in acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase in Alzheimer's disease resemble embryonic development--a study of molecular forms.

    Thomas Arendt;Martina K. Brückner;Matthias Lange;Volker Bigl

  • The regulation of amyloid precursor protein metabolism by cholinergic mechanisms and neurotrophin receptor signaling.

    Steffen Roßner;Uwe Ueberham;Reinhard Schliebs;J. Regino Perez-Polo

  • Systemic administration of defined extracts from Withania somnifera (Indian Ginseng) and shilajit differentially affects cholinergic but not glutamatergic and gabaergic markers in rat brain

    Reinhard Schliebs;André Liebmann;Salil K. Bhattacharya;Ashok Kumar

  • Activities of key glycolytic enzymes in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

    M. Bigl;M. K. Brückner;T. Arendt;V. Bigl

  • Astrocytic expression of the Alzheimer's disease β-secretase (BACE1) is stimulus-dependent

    Maike Hartlage-Rübsamen;Ulrike Zeitschel;Jenny Apelt;Ulrich Gärtner

  • Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-immunoreactivity of lectin-labeled perineuronal nets around parvalbumin-containing neurons.

    Wolfgang Ha¨rtig;Kurt Brauer;Volker Bigl;Gert Bru¨ckner

  • Cortical areas are revealed by distribution patterns of proteoglycan components and parvalbumin in the Mongolian gerbil and rat.

    Gert Brückner;Gudrun Seeger;Kurt Brauer;Wolfgang Härtig

  • Developmental patterns of proteoglycan-containing extracellular matrix in perineuronal nets and neuropil of the postnatal rat brain.

    Gerlinde Köppe;Gert Brückner;Kurt Brauer;Wolfgang Härtig

  • Neuronal and glial β‐secretase (BACE) protein expression in transgenic Tg2576 mice with amyloid plaque pathology

    Steffen Roßner;Jenny Apelt;Reinhard Schliebs;J. Regino Perez-Polo

  • DENDRITIC REORGANISATION IN THE BASAL FOREBRAIN UNDER DEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS AND ITS DEFECTS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. II: AGEING, KORSAKOFF'S DISEASE, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    Thomas Arendt;Martina K. Brückner;Volker Bigl;Lena Marcova

  • Subcellular localization suggests novel functions for prolyl endopeptidase in protein secretion.

    Ingo Schulz;Ulrike Zeitschel;Thomas Rudolph;David Ruiz-Carrillo

  • Phylogenetic diversity of the expression of the microtubule-associated protein tau: implications for neurodegenerative disorders

    Carsten Janke;Mike Beck;Tobias Stahl;Max Holzer

  • Characterization of proteoglycan-containing perineuronal nets by enzymatic treatments of rat brain sections

    Gerlinde Koppe;Gert Bruckner;Wolfgang Hartig;Bertrand Delpech

  • DIFFERENTIAL CHANGES IN CHOLINERGIC MARKERS FROM SELECTED BRAIN REGIONS AFTER SPECIFIC IMMUNOLESION OF THE RAT CHOLINERGIC BASAL FOREBRAIN SYSTEM

    S. Rossner;R. Schliebs;J. R. Perez-Polo;R. G. Wiley

  • Correlation between cortical plaque count and neuronal loss in the nucleus basalis in Alzheimer's disease

    Thomas Arendt;Volker Bigl;Adalbert Tennstedt;Alexander Arendt

  • Distribution of parvalbumin-containing neurons and lectin-binding perineuronal nets in the rat basal forebrain

    K Brauer;W Härtig;V Bigl;G Brückner

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Schliebs
Reinhard Schliebs Leipzig University
Wolfgang Härtig
Wolfgang Härtig Leipzig University
Thomas Arendt
Thomas Arendt Leipzig University
Gert Brückner
Gert Brückner Leipzig University
Kurt Brauer
Kurt Brauer Leipzig University
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Jean-Marc Fritschy University of Zurich
Carsten Janke
Carsten Janke Institute Curie
Robert D. Burgoyne
Robert D. Burgoyne University of Liverpool
Hans-Ulrich Demuth
Hans-Ulrich Demuth Fraunhofer Society
Ryan J. Uitti
Ryan J. Uitti Mayo Clinic

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