Christoph Hess

17.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Christoph Hess is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Hess has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Immunology, 18 papers in Oncology and 17 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Christoph Hess's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (35 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (24 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers). Christoph Hess is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (35 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (24 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers). Christoph Hess collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Christoph Hess's co-authors include Glenn R. Bantug, Sarah Dimeloe, Olivier Gasser, Guido Kroemer, Lorenzo Galluzzi, Salima Sadallah, Marco Fischer, Claudia Kemper, Jürg‐Alfred Schifferli and Bojana Müller-Durovic and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Hess

92 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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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.

A transcriptionally and functionally distinct PD-1+ CD8+ T cell pool with predictive potential in non-small-cell lung cancer treated with PD-1 blockade

2018 733 citations Sarah Dimeloe, Christoph Hess et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Hess Switzerland	37	3.0k	1.6k	1.3k	689	633	95	5.5k
Onno J. de Boer Netherlands	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	948 0.7×	435 0.6×	768 1.2×	132	5.3k
Sergio Rutella Italy	47	3.0k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.5×	530 0.8×	506 0.8×	239	8.2k
Margaret L. Hibbs Australia	49	4.3k 1.5×	2.8k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	463 0.7×	602 1.0×	128	8.2k
Philipp von Hundelshausen Germany	35	2.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	407 0.6×	411 0.6×	61	5.7k
Vito Racanelli Italy	47	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	513 0.7×	590 0.9×	151	6.5k
Élie Haddad Canada	46	3.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	992 0.7×	208 0.3×	503 0.8×	179	6.9k
Alice Mui Canada	40	3.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.6×	2.6k 1.9×	747 1.1×	336 0.5×	92	6.5k
Mikael C. I. Karlsson Sweden	39	3.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	593 0.9×	276 0.4×	104	5.4k
Michael Kurrer Switzerland	45	3.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	945 0.7×	367 0.5×	641 1.0×	87	7.3k
Michael D. Rosenblum United States	36	4.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	298 0.4×	335 0.5×	74	6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Hess

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Hess

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Pereira, Milton, Joy Edwards-Hicks, Christine Hinz, et al.. (2024). Arachidonic acid inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome is a mechanism to explain the anti-inflammatory effects of fasting. Cell Reports. 43(2). 113700–113700. 34 indexed citations

Bantug, Glenn R. & Christoph Hess. (2023). The immunometabolic ecosystem in cancer. Nature Immunology. 24(12). 2008–2020. 28 indexed citations

Künzli, Marco, David Schreiner, Tamara C. Pereboom, et al.. (2020). Long-lived T follicular helper cells retain plasticity and help sustain humoral immunity. Science Immunology. 5(45). 78 indexed citations

Brykczynska, Urszula, Erez Dror, Marianne Böni‐Schnetzler, et al.. (2020). Distinct Transcriptional Responses across Tissue-Resident Macrophages to Short-Term and Long-Term Metabolic Challenge. Cell Reports. 30(5). 1627–1643.e7. 38 indexed citations

Li, Qingxue, Wei Bu, Erin E. Gabriel, et al.. (2017). HLA-DQ β1 alleles associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infectivity and EBV gp42 binding to cells. JCI Insight. 2(4). e85687–e85687. 10 indexed citations

Bantug, Glenn R. & Christoph Hess. (2017). The Burgeoning World of Immunometabolites: Th17 Cells Take Center Stage. Cell Metabolism. 26(4). 588–590. 8 indexed citations

Dimeloe, Sarah, Anne‐Valérie Burgener, Jasmin Grählert, & Christoph Hess. (2016). T‐cell metabolism governing activation, proliferation and differentiation; a modular view. Immunology. 150(1). 35–44. 150 indexed citations

Kolev, Martin, Sarah Dimeloe, Gaëlle Le Friec, et al.. (2015). Complement Regulates Nutrient Influx and Metabolic Reprogramming during Th1 Cell Responses. Immunity. 42(6). 1033–1047. 192 indexed citations

Mehling, Matthias, Patricia Hafner, Tomomi Yonekawa, et al.. (2013). Preserved Antigen-Specific Immune Response in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Responding to IFNβ-Therapy. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e78532–e78532. 35 indexed citations

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Stern, M., Gideon Hönger, Pierre‐Yves Martin, et al.. (2011). Telomeric Rather than Centromeric Activating KIR Genes Protect from Cytomegalovirus Infection after Kidney Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 11(6). 1302–1307. 46 indexed citations

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Gasser, Olivier, Florian Bihl, Sonali Sanghavi, et al.. (2009). Treatment-dependent Loss of Polyfunctional CD8+ T-cell Responses in HIV-infected Kidney Transplant Recipients Is Associated with Herpesvirus Reactivation. American Journal of Transplantation. 9(4). 794–803. 32 indexed citations

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Gasser, Olivier, et al.. (2009). Regulatory Allospecific NK Cell Function Is Differentially Associated with HLA C Allotypes. American Journal of Transplantation. 9(11). 2624–2630. 7 indexed citations

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Berger, Christoph T., Marcel Wolbers, Peter Meyer, Thomas Daikeler, & Christoph Hess. (2009). High incidence of severe ischaemic complications in patients with giant cell arteritis irrespective of platelet count and size, and platelet inhibition. Lara D. Veeken. 48(3). 258–261. 66 indexed citations

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Cantoni, Nathan, Peter Meyer, Mira Katan, et al.. (2009). A confusing patient’s history: small or large vessel vasculitis?. Rheumatology International. 30(12). 1681–1683. 1 indexed citations

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Gasser, Olivier, et al.. (2006). Cyclooxygenase Regulates Cell Surface Expression of CXCR3/1-Storing Granules in Human CD4+ T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 177(12). 8806–8812. 11 indexed citations

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Gasser, Olivier, Anna Missiou, Ceylan Eken, & Christoph Hess. (2005). Human CD8+ T cells store CXCR1 in a distinct intracellular compartment and up-regulate it rapidly to the cell surface upon activation. Blood. 106(12). 3718–3724. 24 indexed citations

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Woodberry, Tonia, Todd J. Suscovich, Leah M. Henry, et al.. (2005). αEβ7 (CD103) Expression Identifies a Highly Active, Tonsil-Resident Effector-Memory CTL Population. The Journal of Immunology. 175(7). 4355–4362. 52 indexed citations

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Regamey, Nicolas, Viviane Hess, Jakob Passweg, et al.. (2004). INFECTION WITH HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8 AND TRANSPLANT-ASSOCIATED GAMMOPATHY. Transplantation. 77(10). 1551–1554. 13 indexed citations

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Thomas, Seddon Y., Runhua Hou, Jonathan E. Boyson, et al.. (2003). CD1d-Restricted NKT Cells Express a Chemokine Receptor Profile Indicative of Th1-Type Inflammatory Homing Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 171(5). 2571–2580. 186 indexed citations

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Sadallah, Salima, Christoph Hess, Sylvie Miot, et al.. (1999). Elastase and metalloproteinase activities regulate soluble complement receptor 1 release. European Journal of Immunology. 29(11). 3754–3761. 38 indexed citations

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