Dirk W. Höper

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
174 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Dirk W. Höper is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk W. Höper has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Infectious Diseases, 55 papers in Epidemiology and 55 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Dirk W. Höper's work include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (55 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (40 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (39 papers). Dirk W. Höper is often cited by papers focused on Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (55 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (40 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (39 papers). Dirk W. Höper collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Dirk W. Höper's co-authors include Martin Beer, Bernd Hoffmann, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Michael Hecker, Claudia Wylezich, Angele Breithaupt, Katja V. Goller, Horst Schirrmeier, Kerstin Wernike and Sandra Blome and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dirk W. Höper

170 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Novel Orthobunyavirus in Cattle, Europe, 2011 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Novel Orthobunyavirus in Cattle, Europe, 2011
    2012 533 citations Bernd Hoffmann, Dirk W. Höper et al. Emerging infectious diseases profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk W. Höper Germany 43 3.5k 1.9k 1.6k 1.4k 1.1k 174 6.2k
Jüergen A. Richt United States 46 3.0k 0.9× 2.2k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 2.5k 1.8× 1.2k 1.1× 238 7.0k
Arjan Stegeman Netherlands 48 2.8k 0.8× 3.8k 2.0× 1.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.8× 282 8.2k
Emmanuel Albina France 39 2.6k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 1.8k 1.7× 128 5.1k
Amauri Alcindo Alfieri Brazil 39 2.6k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 1.8k 1.6× 385 6.3k
Zhigao Bu China 45 3.2k 0.9× 3.6k 1.9× 1.4k 0.9× 3.8k 2.7× 1.1k 1.0× 216 7.6k
Giovanni Cattoli Italy 46 3.7k 1.1× 2.9k 1.5× 613 0.4× 4.4k 3.1× 2.1k 1.9× 240 7.3k
Bryan T. Eaton Australia 42 5.0k 1.4× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 3.3k 2.4× 1.4k 1.3× 110 7.6k
Edward J. Dubovi United States 54 3.9k 1.1× 4.0k 2.1× 2.6k 1.6× 3.3k 2.3× 2.2k 2.0× 227 9.7k
Francisco J. Salguero United Kingdom 37 2.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 772 0.5× 863 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 188 4.4k
Guangzhi Tong China 42 3.9k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 438 0.3× 1.9k 1.4× 3.8k 3.4× 245 6.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk W. Höper

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rubbenstroth, Dennis, Martin Beer, Dirk W. Höper, et al.. (2025). Retrospective analysis of clustered neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases in captive lions in the early 1970s. Veterinary Pathology. 62(4). 564–580.
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Fuchs, Walter, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Hussein M. Abkallo, et al.. (2025). A synthetic genomics-based African swine fever virus engineering platform. Science Advances. 11(13). eadu7670–eadu7670. 2 indexed citations
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Wylezich, Claudia, Kerstin Mätz‐Rensing, Dirk W. Höper, et al.. (2023). Reemergence of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Mammarenavirus, Germany. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(3). 631–634. 5 indexed citations
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Selinka, Hans‐Christoph, Claudia Wylezich, Hartmut Hellmer, et al.. (2023). Investigating Environmental Matrices for Use in Avian Influenza Virus Surveillance—Surface Water, Sediments, and Avian Fecal Samples. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2). e0266422–e0266422. 14 indexed citations
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Schön, Jacob, Angele Breithaupt, Dirk W. Höper, et al.. (2021). Neuraminidase-associated plasminogen recruitment enables systemic spread of natural avian Influenza viruses H3N1. PLoS Pathogens. 17(4). e1009490–e1009490. 5 indexed citations
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Santos, Pauline Dianne, Friederike Michel, Claudia Wylezich, et al.. (2021). Co‐infections: Simultaneous detections of West Nile virus and Usutu virus in birds from Germany. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(2). 776–792. 36 indexed citations
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Tammiranta, Niina, Tiina Nokireki, Tuija Gadd, et al.. (2021). Genetic and Antigenetic Characterization of the Novel Kotalahti Bat Lyssavirus (KBLV). Viruses. 13(1). 69–69. 25 indexed citations
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Begeman, Lineke, Beate K. Straub, Mariana Boadella, et al.. (2021). The Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus)—Small Animal Model for Hepacivirus Infection. Viruses. 13(12). 2421–2421. 3 indexed citations
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Naguib, Mahmoud M., Dirk W. Höper, Magdy F. El‐Kady, et al.. (2021). Comparison of genomic and antigenic properties of Newcastle Disease virus genotypes II, XXI and VII from Egypt do not point to antigenic drift as selection marker. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. 69(2). 849–863. 14 indexed citations
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Smreczak, Marcin, Anna Orłowska, Conrad M. Freuling, et al.. (2020). Population- and Variant-Based Genome Analyses of Viruses from Vaccine-Derived Rabies Cases Demonstrate Product Specific Clusters and Unique Patterns. Viruses. 12(1). 115–115. 6 indexed citations
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Bennett, Andrew J., Arnt Ebinger, Florian Pfaff, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals. Nature. 588(7836). E2–E2. 5 indexed citations
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Forth, Jan H., Leonie F. Forth, Jacqueline King, et al.. (2019). A Deep-Sequencing Workflow for the Fast and Efficient Generation of High-Quality African Swine Fever Virus Whole-Genome Sequences. Viruses. 11(9). 846–846. 45 indexed citations
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Schulz, Claudia, Christine Fast, U. Wernery, et al.. (2019). Camelids and Cattle Are Dead-End Hosts for Peste-des-Petits-Ruminants Virus. Viruses. 11(12). 1133–1133. 26 indexed citations
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Forth, Leonie F., Andréa Cristina Konrath, Kristin Klose, et al.. (2018). A Novel Squirrel Respirovirus with Putative Zoonotic Potential. Viruses. 10(7). 373–373. 9 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Ute, Renke Lühken, Markus Keller, et al.. (2018). West Nile virus epizootic in Germany, 2018. Antiviral Research. 162. 39–43. 120 indexed citations
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Hanke, Dennis, Anne Pohlmann, Carola Sauter‐Louis, et al.. (2017). Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea in Europe: In-Detail Analyses of Disease Dynamics and Molecular Epidemiology. Viruses. 9(7). 177–177. 62 indexed citations
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Pfaff, Florian, Stefan Finke, Dirk W. Höper, et al.. (2017). Comparative analysis of European bat lyssavirus 1 pathogenicity in the mouse model. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(6). e0005668–e0005668. 13 indexed citations
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Götz, Veronika, Dominik Dornfeld, Sebastian Giese, et al.. (2016). Influenza A viruses escape from MxA restriction at the expense of efficient nuclear vRNP import. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 23138–23138. 155 indexed citations

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