Dirk Jäger

21.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
220 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Dirk Jäger is a scholar working on Oncology, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Jäger has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Oncology, 57 papers in Immunology and 56 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Jäger's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (44 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (42 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (36 papers). Dirk Jäger is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (44 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (42 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (36 papers). Dirk Jäger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Dirk Jäger's co-authors include Markus W. Büchler, Oliver Strobel, Alexander Knuth, John P. Neoptolemos, Niels Halama, Jürgen Debus, Elke Jäger, Christoph Springfeld, Thilo Hackert and Julia Karbach and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Jäger

211 papers receiving 11.7k 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.

⁶⁸Ga-FAPI PET/CT: Tracer Uptake in 28 Different Kinds of Cancer

2019 964 citations Hans‐Ulrich Kauczor, Dirk Jäger et al. profile →
Low-Dose Irradiation Programs Macrophage Differentiation to an iNOS+/M1 Phenotype that Orchestrates Effective T Cell Immunotherapy

2013 840 citations Niels Halama, Dirk Jäger et al. profile →
Deep learning can predict microsatellite instability directly from histology in gastrointestinal cancer

2019 798 citations Jakob Nikolas Kather, Niels Halama et al. profile →
Optimizing the outcomes of pancreatic cancer surgery

2018 618 citations John P. Neoptolemos, Dirk Jäger et al. profile →
Predicting survival from colorectal cancer histology slides using deep learning: A retrospective multicenter study

2019 611 citations Jakob Nikolas Kather, Johannes Krisam et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
Simultaneous Humoral and Cellular Immune Response against Cancer–Testis Antigen NY-ESO-1: Definition of Human Histocompatibility Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-A2–binding Peptide Epitopes

1998 594 citations Elke Jäger, Julia Karbach et al. profile →
Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

2016 353 citations Thilo Hackert, Christoph Springfeld et al. profile →
GPT-4 for Information Retrieval and Comparison of Medical Oncology Guidelines

2024 47 citations Dyke Ferber, Isabella C. Wiest et al. NEJM AI profile →
In-context learning enables multimodal large language models to classify cancer pathology images

2024 47 citations Dyke Ferber, Georg Wölflein et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Dirk Jäger	6.8k	3.4k	2.9k	2.2k	2.1k	220	11.8k
Caj Haglund	4.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.3×	3.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	363	11.5k
Julien Caldéraro	3.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	3.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	933 0.4×	164	10.2k
Albrecht Stenzinger	6.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	3.8k 1.3×	4.1k 1.9×	1.3k 0.6×	368	13.5k
Sunil Badve	6.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	5.5k 1.9×	4.6k 2.1×	897 0.4×	309	14.3k
Klaus J. Busam	16.6k 2.4×	4.2k 1.3×	9.3k 3.2×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	426	24.8k
Natale Cascinelli	8.2k 1.2×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	3.5k 1.6×	939 0.4×	123	12.1k
C. Blake Gilks	4.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	4.6k 1.6×	3.0k 1.4×	681 0.3×	291	16.7k
Barbara Burtness	8.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.6×	4.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	363	16.0k
Alistair J. Cochran	12.0k 1.8×	3.7k 1.1×	4.8k 1.7×	2.8k 1.3×	575 0.3×	182	16.6k
Chuong D. Hoang	4.6k 0.7×	3.9k 1.2×	5.5k 1.9×	3.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.5×	101	13.1k

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Roberti, María Paula, Pornpimol Charoentong, Stefan B. Eichmüller, et al.. (2025). Isolation of a tumor neoantigen specific CD8+ TCR from a skin biopsy of a vaccination site. OncoImmunology. 14(1). 2457793–2457793. 1 indexed citations

Böhm, H., et al.. (2024). Systematic profiling of primary invasive lobular breast carcinoma defines distinct candidates for PD-1/PD-L1 targeting immunotherapy. European Journal of Cancer. 200. 113833–113833.

Tosev, Georgi, Adam Kaczorowski, Constantin Schwab, et al.. (2024). PD-L1 as a Urine Biomarker in Renal Cell Carcinoma—A Case Series and Proof-of-Concept Study. Diagnostics. 14(7). 741–741.

Ferber, Dyke, Isabella C. Wiest, Georg Wölflein, et al.. (2024). GPT-4 for Information Retrieval and Comparison of Medical Oncology Guidelines. NEJM AI. 1(6). 47 indexed citations breakdown →

Klotz, Rosa, Nathalia A. Giese, Thilo Hackert, et al.. (2023). Sex Differences in the Systemic and Local Immune Response of Pancreatic Cancer Patients. Cancers. 15(6). 1815–1815. 8 indexed citations

Schütz, Viktoria, Huancai Lin, Adam Kaczorowski, et al.. (2023). Long-Term Survival of Patients with Stage T1N0M1 Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancers. 15(24). 5715–5715. 2 indexed citations

Schneider, F, Adam Kaczorowski, Martina Kirchner, et al.. (2023). Digital Spatial Profiling Identifies the Tumor Periphery as a Highly Active Biological Niche in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma. Cancers. 15(20). 5050–5050. 6 indexed citations

Leber, Mathias F., Sascha Bossow, Christine E. Engeland, et al.. (2021). MicroRNA-sensitive oncolytic measles virus for chemovirotherapy of pancreatic cancer. Molecular Therapy — Oncolytics. 21. 340–355. 14 indexed citations

Krauß, Jürgen, Dirk Jäger, Stefanie Zschäbitz, et al.. (2021). eHealth intervention to manage symptoms for patients with cancer on immunotherapy (SOFIA): a study protocol for a randomised controlled external pilot trial. BMJ Open. 11(7). e047277–e047277. 6 indexed citations

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Becker, Jürgen C., Annette Paschen, Dirk Jäger, et al.. (2021). Expression of Potential Targets for Cell-Based Therapies on Melanoma Cells. Life. 11(4). 269–269. 10 indexed citations

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Leber, Mathias F., Christine E. Engeland, Sascha Bossow, et al.. (2020). Sequencing of serially passaged measles virus affirms its genomic stability and reveals a nonrandom distribution of consensus mutations. Journal of General Virology. 101(4). 399–409. 5 indexed citations

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Nientiedt, Cathleen, Anette Duensing, Stefanie Zschäbitz, et al.. (2020). PARP inhibition in prostate cancer. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 60(5). 344–351. 6 indexed citations

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Bailey, Peter J., Daniel Hübschmann, Anne Berger, et al.. (2020). Poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase inhibition in pancreatic cancer. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 60(5). 373–384. 15 indexed citations

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Weber, Tim Frederik, Oliver Sedlaczek, Georg Martin Haag, et al.. (2020). Improving radiologic communication in oncology: a single-centre experience with structured reporting for cancer patients. Insights into Imaging. 11(1). 106–106. 10 indexed citations

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Berger, Anne, Sadaf S. Mughal, Michael Allgäuer, et al.. (2020). Metastatic adult pancreatoblastoma: Multimodal treatment and molecular characterization of a very rare disease. Pancreatology. 20(3). 425–432. 17 indexed citations

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Kather, Jakob Nikolas, Johannes Krisam, Pornpimol Charoentong, et al.. (2019). Predicting survival from colorectal cancer histology slides using deep learning: A retrospective multicenter study. PLoS Medicine. 16(1). e1002730–e1002730. 611 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muckenhuber, Alexander, Anne Berger, Anna Melissa Schlitter, et al.. (2017). Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Subtyping Using the Biomarkers Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-1A and Cytokeratin-81 Correlates with Outcome and Treatment Response. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(2). 351–359. 61 indexed citations

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Kather, Jakob Nikolas, Jan Poleszczuk, Meggy Suarez‐Carmona, et al.. (2017). In Silico Modeling of Immunotherapy and Stroma-Targeting Therapies in Human Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Research. 77(22). 6442–6452. 79 indexed citations

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Theurillat, Jean‐Philippe, Ursina Zürrer‐Härdi, Zsuzsanna Varga, et al.. (2007). NY-BR-1 protein expression in breast carcinoma: a mammary gland differentiation antigen as target for cancer immunotherapy. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 56(11). 1723–1731. 38 indexed citations

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Jäger, Elke, Julia Karbach, Sacha Gnjatic, et al.. (2002). Identification of a naturally processed NY-ESO-1 peptide recognized by CD8+ T cells in the context of HLA-B51. PubMed. 2. 12–12. 28 indexed citations

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