Bianca Klee

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 492 citations indexed

About

Bianca Klee is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Bianca Klee has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 492 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Clinical Psychology, 7 papers in Neurology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Bianca Klee's work include COVID-19 and Mental Health (7 papers), Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (7 papers) and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (5 papers). Bianca Klee is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 and Mental Health (7 papers), Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (7 papers) and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (5 papers). Bianca Klee collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and South Korea. Bianca Klee's co-authors include Rafael Mikolajczyk, Michael Gekle, Cornelia Gottschick, Mascha Binder, Matthias Girndt, Thomas Frese, Daniel Sedding, Christoph Schultheiß, Lisa Paschold and Edith Willscher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Bianca Klee

18 papers receiving 485 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF cytokine triad is associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19
    2022 256 citations Christoph Schultheiß, Edith Willscher et al. Cell Reports Medicine profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bianca Klee Germany 8 255 208 92 78 56 18 492
Chiman Kumari India 12 206 0.8× 353 1.7× 45 0.5× 68 0.9× 41 0.7× 40 556
Divya P. Prajapati United States 7 469 1.8× 263 1.3× 97 1.1× 32 0.4× 42 0.8× 12 900
Bjarni á Steig Faroe Islands 9 290 1.1× 200 1.0× 147 1.6× 42 0.5× 14 0.3× 23 470
Marnar Fríðheim Kristiansen Faroe Islands 11 294 1.2× 249 1.2× 155 1.7× 33 0.4× 22 0.4× 19 479
Sérgio Siqueira Brazil 13 204 0.8× 136 0.7× 59 0.6× 46 0.6× 23 0.4× 48 676
Fridolin Steinbeis Germany 8 184 0.7× 85 0.4× 59 0.6× 38 0.5× 34 0.6× 12 396
Xiaojia Tang China 8 137 0.5× 160 0.8× 42 0.5× 50 0.6× 23 0.4× 16 368
Zhiguo Zhou China 6 173 0.7× 207 1.0× 57 0.6× 7 0.1× 16 0.3× 10 357
S.K. Jakaria Been Sayeed Bangladesh 7 118 0.5× 113 0.5× 75 0.8× 28 0.4× 14 0.3× 19 298
Suruchi Garg India 7 125 0.5× 67 0.3× 49 0.5× 20 0.3× 19 0.3× 21 298

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bianca Klee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bianca Klee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bianca Klee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bianca Klee based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bianca Klee. Bianca Klee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Klee, Bianca, Oliver Purschke, Mascha Binder, et al.. (2024). The contribution of SARS-CoV-2 to the burden of acute respiratory infections in winter season 2022/2023: results from the DigiHero study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 144. 107057–107057. 4 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Johannes Horn, D. Ortiz-Villalba, et al.. (2024). The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on community non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory infections in preschool children. BMC Pediatrics. 24(1). 231–231. 3 indexed citations
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Willscher, Edith, Lisa Paschold, Cornelia Gottschick, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may mitigate dysregulation of IL-1/IL-18 and gastrointestinal symptoms of the post-COVID-19 condition. npj Vaccines. 9(1). 23–23. 5 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Cornelia Gottschick, Oliver Purschke, et al.. (2024). Post-COVID recovery is faster after an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant: a population-based cohort study. Infection. 53(2). 657–665. 3 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Daniela Costa, Thomas Frese, et al.. (2024). To Remind or Not to Remind During Recruitment? An Analysis of an Online Panel in Germany. International Journal of Public Health. 69. 1606770–1606770. 4 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Cornelia Gottschick, Anja Broda, et al.. (2024). Insights into early recovery from Long COVID—results from the German DigiHero Cohort. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 8569–8569. 2 indexed citations
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Gottschick, Cornelia, Bianca Klee, Anja Broda, et al.. (2023). Mental health in Germany in the first weeks of the Russo-Ukrainian war. BJPsych Open. 9(3). e66–e66. 17 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Mascha Binder, Thomas Frese, et al.. (2023). Regional Differences in Uptake of Vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza in Germany: Results from the DigiHero Cohort. Vaccines. 11(11). 1640–1640. 5 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Cornelia Gottschick, Anja Broda, et al.. (2023). Anxiety, depressive symptoms, and distress over the course of the war in Ukraine in three federal states in Germany. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1167615–1167615. 13 indexed citations
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Klee, Bianca, Cornelia Gottschick, Anja Broda, et al.. (2023). Association between virus variants, vaccination, previous infections, and post-COVID-19 risk. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 136. 14–21. 31 indexed citations
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Paschold, Lisa, Cornelia Gottschick, Bianca Klee, et al.. (2023). T cell repertoire breadth is associated with the number of acute respiratory infections in the LoewenKIDS birth cohort. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9516–9516. 2 indexed citations
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Paschold, Lisa, Bianca Klee, Cornelia Gottschick, et al.. (2022). Rapid Hypermutation B Cell Trajectory Recruits Previously Primed B Cells Upon Third SARS-Cov-2 mRNA Vaccination. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 876306–876306. 13 indexed citations
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Schultheiß, Christoph, Edith Willscher, Lisa Paschold, et al.. (2022). The IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF cytokine triad is associated with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19. Cell Reports Medicine. 3(6). 100663–100663. 256 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klee, Bianca, et al.. (2022). Birth cohort studies using symptom diaries for assessing respiratory diseases–a scoping review. PLoS ONE. 17(2). e0263559–e0263559. 1 indexed citations
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Schultheiß, Christoph, Edith Willscher, Lisa Paschold, et al.. (2022). Liquid biomarkers of macrophage dysregulation and circulating spike protein illustrate the biological heterogeneity in patients with post‐acute sequelae of COVID‐19. Journal of Medical Virology. 95(1). e28364–e28364. 52 indexed citations
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Gottschick, Cornelia, Bianca Klee, Anja Broda, et al.. (2022). Mental Health in Germany in the First Weeks of the Russo-Ukrainian War. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Moritz, Stefan, Cornelia Gottschick, Johannes Horn, et al.. (2021). The risk of indoor sports and culture events for the transmission of COVID-19. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5096–5096. 73 indexed citations
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