Christopher Werlein

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher Werlein is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Werlein has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 11 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Werlein's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (7 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (7 papers) and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (6 papers). Christopher Werlein is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (7 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (7 papers) and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (6 papers). Christopher Werlein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and France. Christopher Werlein's co-authors include Danny Jonigk, Maximilian Ackermann, Stijn E. Verleden, Florian Laenger, Helge Stark, Mark Kuehnel, Alexandar Tzankov, Tobias Welte, Axel Haverich and Steven J. Mentzer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Werlein

41 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Pulmonary Vascular Endothelialitis, Thrombosis, and Angiogenesis in Covid-19

2020 3.6k citations Maximilian Ackermann, Stijn E. Verleden et al. profile →
Imaging intact human organs with local resolution of cellular structures using hierarchical phase-contrast tomography

2021 162 citations Claire Walsh, Paul Tafforeau et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Werlein Germany	14	2.6k	1.5k	737	634	473	50	4.1k
Arno Vanstapel Belgium	13	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	846 1.1×	669 1.1×	472 1.0×	41	4.0k
Helge Stark Germany	13	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	758 1.0×	606 1.0×	478 1.0×	21	3.9k
Mark Kuehnel Germany	15	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	851 1.2×	634 1.0×	661 1.4×	35	4.4k
Vincent W. Li United States	13	2.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	680 0.9×	730 1.2×	705 1.5×	26	4.3k
Florian Laenger Germany	17	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	875 1.4×	693 1.5×	53	4.9k
Da Huang China	16	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	342 0.5×	496 0.8×	818 1.7×	78	4.0k
Peter I. Bonta Netherlands	27	924 0.4×	405 0.3×	946 1.3×	504 0.8×	349 0.7×	115	3.1k
Stefanie W. Benoit United States	20	1.9k 0.7×	937 0.6×	202 0.3×	473 0.7×	232 0.5×	51	2.9k
Moreno Tresoldi Italy	28	1.3k 0.5×	889 0.6×	483 0.7×	381 0.6×	431 0.9×	79	3.0k
Huan Han China	13	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	190 0.3×	423 0.7×	255 0.5×	36	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Werlein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Werlein

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mayr, Thomas, Saskia von Stillfried, Sarah Förster, et al.. (2025). Differential expression of viral entry protein neuropilin 1 (NRP1) and neuropilin 2 (NRP2) in fatal COVID-19. Journal of Virology. 99(11). e0138425–e0138425.

Aslani, Shahab, Moucheng Xu, Robert Chapman, et al.. (2024). Harnessing Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Microscopic Vessel Segmentation in Pulmonary Fibrosis Using Novel Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography Images. Methods of Information in Medicine. 63(03/04). 97–108.

Xiao, Ke, Maximilian Fuchs, Annette Just, et al.. (2024). Inhibition of miR-21: cardioprotective effects in human failing myocardium ex vivo. European Heart Journal. 45(22). 2016–2018. 12 indexed citations

Kamp, Jan C., Omid Madadi‐Sanjani, Christopher Werlein, et al.. (2024). Amyloid precursor protein as a fibrosis marker in infants with biliary atresia. Pediatric Research. 97(5). 1696–1705. 1 indexed citations

Perruzza, Lisa, Tanja Rezzonico Jost, Simone Guglielmetti, et al.. (2024). Postnatal supplementation with alarmins S100a8/a9 ameliorates malnutrition-induced neonate enteropathy in mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8623–8623.

Aslani, Shahab, Yashvardhan Jain, Joseph Brunet, et al.. (2024). Deep learning for 3D vascular segmentation in hierarchical phase contrast tomography: a case study on kidney. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 27258–27258. 7 indexed citations

Brunet, Joseph, Andrew C. Cook, Claire Walsh, et al.. (2024). Multidimensional Analysis of the Adult Human Heart in Health and Disease Using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography. Radiology. 312(1). e232731–e232731. 16 indexed citations

Schneider, Jan Philipp, Stefan A. Tschanz, Christopher Werlein, et al.. (2024). Distribution and volume of mitochondria in alveolar epithelial type 1 cells in infant and adult human lungs. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 163(1). 7–7.

Chung, Bomee, Fatemeh Rostami, Christian Bär, et al.. (2023). Pre-emptive iron supplementation prevents myocardial iron deficiency and attenuates adverse remodelling after myocardial infarction. Cardiovascular Research. 119(10). 1969–1980. 13 indexed citations

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Verleden, Stijn E., Mark Kühnel, Jan C. Kamp, et al.. (2023). Human lung virtual histology by multi-scale x-ray phase-contrast computed tomography. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 68(11). 115014–115014. 11 indexed citations

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Kamp, Jan C., Lavinia Neubert, Maximilian Ackermann, et al.. (2022). Time-Dependent Molecular Motifs of Pulmonary Fibrogenesis in COVID-19. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(3). 1583–1583. 13 indexed citations

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Werlein, Christopher, Maximilian Ackermann, Harshit Shah, et al.. (2022). INFLAMMATION AND VASCULAR REMODELING IN COVID-19 HEARTS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 79(9). 1823–1823. 2 indexed citations

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Jonigk, Danny, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 can lead to rapid progression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia by dysregulating the immune system: A hypothesis. Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 154. 103763–103763. 7 indexed citations

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Verleden, Stijn E., Peter Braubach, Christopher Werlein, et al.. (2022). From Macroscopy to Ultrastructure: An Integrative Approach to Pulmonary Pathology. Frontiers in Medicine. 9. 859337–859337. 2 indexed citations

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Wong, Dickson W.L., Barbara M. Klinkhammer, Sonja Djudjaj, et al.. (2021). Multisystemic Cellular Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 in Autopsies of COVID-19 Patients. Cells. 10(8). 1900–1900. 43 indexed citations

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Schubert, Stephanie, Christopher Werlein, Helge Stark, et al.. (2021). The Challenge of Long-Term Cultivation of Human Precision-Cut Lung Slices. American Journal Of Pathology. 192(2). 239–253. 25 indexed citations

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Werlein, Christopher, et al.. (2021). Fibrotischer Lungenparenchymumbau nach Lungen- und Stammzelltransplantation. Der Pathologe. 42(1). 17–24. 1 indexed citations

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Ackermann, Maximilian, Christopher Werlein, Florian Länger, Mark Kühnel, & Danny Jonigk. (2021). COVID-19: Auswirkungen auf Lunge und Herz. Der Pathologe. 42(2). 164–171. 15 indexed citations

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Länger, Florian, Christopher Werlein, B. Soudah, Nicolaus Schwerk, & Danny Jonigk. (2020). Nichtneoplastische Lungenerkrankungen des Säuglings und Kindesalters. Der Pathologe. 42(1). 25–34. 5 indexed citations

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Dahlmann, Julia, Jan Hegermann, Christopher Werlein, et al.. (2020). Dual Function of iPSC-Derived Pericyte-Like Cells in Vascularization and Fibrosis-Related Cardiac Tissue Remodeling In Vitro. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(23). 8947–8947. 18 indexed citations

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