Alexander Dilthey

17.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Dilthey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Dilthey has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alexander Dilthey's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (11 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Alexander Dilthey is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (11 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Alexander Dilthey collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Alexander Dilthey's co-authors include Gil McVean, Sergey Koren, Adam M. Phillippy, Stephen Leslie, Chirag Jain, Loukas Moutsianas, Charles Cox, Matthew R. Nelson, Zamin Iqbal and Arang Rhie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Dilthey

42 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

De novo assembly of haplotype-resolved genomes with trio binning

2018 281 citations Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Emu: species-level microbial community profiling of full-length 16S rRNA Oxford Nanopore sequencing data

2022 169 citations Kristen Curry, Qi Wang et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Dilthey Germany	22	1.1k	568	555	330	150	45	2.1k
Jonathan Stephens United Kingdom	25	1.3k 1.2×	829 1.5×	277 0.5×	314 1.0×	86 0.6×	60	3.2k
G. Maslen United Kingdom	13	1.5k 1.3×	434 0.8×	237 0.4×	207 0.6×	90 0.6×	29	2.5k
Soumitra Ghosh United States	28	974 0.9×	1000 1.8×	691 1.2×	87 0.3×	190 1.3×	62	2.3k
Nicolas Vodovar France	24	962 0.9×	197 0.3×	710 1.3×	368 1.1×	165 1.1×	69	2.8k
Jason R. Myers United States	21	1.5k 1.4×	292 0.5×	188 0.3×	231 0.7×	167 1.1×	52	2.3k
Leslie A. Mitchell Canada	33	1.8k 1.6×	433 0.8×	380 0.7×	288 0.9×	354 2.4×	91	3.2k
Lin Li China	27	944 0.8×	411 0.7×	406 0.7×	378 1.1×	699 4.7×	178	2.6k
Yan Jaszczyszyn France	15	1.8k 1.6×	539 0.9×	140 0.3×	373 1.1×	149 1.0×	35	2.7k
Eleni Giannoulatou Australia	25	1.5k 1.3×	475 0.8×	322 0.6×	171 0.5×	151 1.0×	71	2.6k
Andrew J. Oler United States	20	978 0.9×	151 0.3×	494 0.9×	130 0.4×	140 0.9×	39	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Dilthey

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wetzke, Martin, Simon Ritter, Nadine Lübke, et al.. (2025). Prevalence of Resistance‐Associated Mutations in RSV F Protein Against Monoclonal Antibodies Prior to Widespread Implementation: Findings From a Prospective German Pediatric Cohort. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 19(9). e70164–e70164.

Peter, Wolfgang, Georg Rosenberger, Cécile L. Maire, et al.. (2025). Somatic Mutations in HLA Class Genes and Antigen-Presenting Molecules in Malignant Glioma. Cancer Immunology Research. 13(7). 1111–1123. 2 indexed citations

Scharf, Sebastian, Paul Jäger, Guido Kobbe, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Prediction of Mortality Risk Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

Curry, Kristen, Sirena Soriano, Michael Nute, et al.. (2024). Microbial Community Profiling Protocol with Full‐length 16S rRNA Sequences and Emu. Current Protocols. 4(3). e978–e978. 4 indexed citations

Scharf, Sebastian, Birgit Henrich, Paul Jäger, et al.. (2024). Insights into gut microbiomes in stem cell transplantation by comprehensive shotgun long-read sequencing. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 4068–4068. 5 indexed citations

Weber, Christian, Alexander Dilthey, & Patrick Finzer. (2023). The role of microbiome-host interactions in the development of Alzheimer´s disease. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 13. 1151021–1151021. 23 indexed citations

Houwaart, Torsten, Stephan Scholz, William Palmer, et al.. (2023). Complete sequences of six major histocompatibility complex haplotypes, including all the major MHC class II structures. HLA. 102(1). 28–43. 14 indexed citations

Scharf, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Characterisation of Type II DNA Methyltransferases of Metamycoplasma hominis. Microorganisms. 11(6). 1591–1591. 1 indexed citations

Curry, Kristen, Qi Wang, Michael Nute, et al.. (2022). Emu: species-level microbial community profiling of full-length 16S rRNA Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. Nature Methods. 19(7). 845–853. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dümcke, Sebastian, Saskia Gressel, Björn Schwalb, et al.. (2022). RNA transcription and degradation of Alu retrotransposons depends on sequence features and evolutionary history. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(5). 2 indexed citations

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Ebler, Jana, Peter Ebert, Wayne E. Clarke, et al.. (2022). Pangenome-based genome inference allows efficient and accurate genotyping across a wide spectrum of variant classes. Nature Genetics. 54(4). 518–525. 110 indexed citations

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Jensen, Björn‐Erik Ole, Torsten Feldt, Verena Keitel, et al.. (2021). Emergence of the E484K mutation in SARS-COV-2-infected immunocompromised patients treated with bamlanivimab in Germany. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 8. 100164–100164. 69 indexed citations

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Sallah, Neneh, Wendell Miley, Nazzarena Labò, et al.. (2020). Distinct genetic architectures and environmental factors associate with host response to the γ2-herpesvirus infections. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3849–3849. 23 indexed citations

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Dilthey, Alexander. (2020). State-of-the-art genome inference in the human MHC. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology. 131. 105882–105882. 19 indexed citations

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Henrich, Birgit, Sebastian Scharf, Karl Köhrer, et al.. (2020). Characterisation of mobile genetic elements in Mycoplasma hominis with the description of ICEHo-II, a variant mycoplasma integrative and conjugative element. Mobile DNA. 11(1). 30–30. 9 indexed citations

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Dilthey, Alexander, Alexander J. Mentzer, Raphaël Carapito, et al.. (2019). HLA*LA—HLA typing from linearly projected graph alignments. Bioinformatics. 35(21). 4394–4396. 70 indexed citations

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Jain, Chirag, Haowen Zhang, Alexander Dilthey, & Srinivas Aluru. (2019). Validating Paired-End Read Alignments in Sequence Graphs. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 13. 1 indexed citations

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Jain, Chirag, Sergey Koren, Alexander Dilthey, Adam M. Phillippy, & Srinivas Aluru. (2018). A fast adaptive algorithm for computing whole-genome homology maps. Bioinformatics. 34(17). i748–i756. 85 indexed citations

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Koren, Sergey, Arang Rhie, Brian P. Walenz, et al.. (2018). De novo assembly of haplotype-resolved genomes with trio binning. Nature Biotechnology. 36(12). 1174–1182. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cortés, Adrián, Calliope A. Dendrou, Allan Motyer, et al.. (2017). Bayesian analysis of genetic association across tree-structured routine healthcare data in the UK Biobank. Nature Genetics. 49(9). 1311–1318. 41 indexed citations

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