Elvira Mass

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Elvira Mass is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elvira Mass has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Immunology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Elvira Mass's work include Immune cells in cancer (14 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers) and Immune responses and vaccinations (4 papers). Elvira Mass is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (14 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (6 papers) and Immune responses and vaccinations (4 papers). Elvira Mass collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Elvira Mass's co-authors include Andreas Schlitzer, Frédéric Geissmann, Joachim L. Schultze, Katrin Kierdorf, Falk Nimmerjahn, Christian E. Jacome-Galarza, Lucile Crozet, Kristian Händler, Marc Beyer and Matthias Farlik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Elvira Mass

30 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Specification of tissue-resident macrophages during organogenesis

2016 602 citations Elvira Mass, Iván Ballesteros et al. Science profile →
Developmental origin, functional maintenance and genetic rescue of osteoclasts

2019 342 citations Christian E. Jacome-Galarza, Elvira Mass et al. profile →
Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology

2023 309 citations Elvira Mass, Falk Nimmerjahn et al. Nature reviews. Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elvira Mass Germany	15	1.1k	731	370	243	170	36	1.9k
Laura G. Schuettpelz United States	16	986 0.9×	609 0.8×	257 0.7×	358 1.5×	103 0.6×	34	2.2k
Joseph R. Podojil United States	28	1.2k 1.1×	606 0.8×	333 0.9×	420 1.7×	162 1.0×	55	2.4k
Yu-Min Huang Sweden	27	1.2k 1.1×	517 0.7×	371 1.0×	334 1.4×	167 1.0×	80	2.5k
Francisca F. Almeida Australia	9	1.4k 1.3×	427 0.6×	338 0.9×	161 0.7×	113 0.7×	9	1.8k
Bishan Wu United Kingdom	4	1.3k 1.3×	469 0.6×	650 1.8×	134 0.6×	168 1.0×	5	1.9k
Amanda K. Huber United States	26	894 0.8×	498 0.7×	196 0.5×	264 1.1×	151 0.9×	49	2.3k
Emanuele Azzoni Italy	14	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	514 1.4×	213 0.9×	215 1.3×	24	2.5k
Anna E. Beaudin United States	19	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	372 1.0×	198 0.8×	230 1.4×	36	3.2k
Christian E. Jacome-Galarza United States	9	671 0.6×	626 0.9×	194 0.5×	270 1.1×	81 0.5×	11	1.3k
Michael Afentoulis United States	12	1.1k 1.0×	486 0.7×	824 2.2×	419 1.7×	261 1.5×	19	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elvira Mass

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Seep, Lea, Margret H. Bülow, Katrin Kierdorf, et al.. (2025). Developmental programming by maternal obesity alters offspring lifespan and immune responses in a diet- and sex-specific manner. PubMed. 183. 204040–204040.

Blank, Nelli, Lorenzo Bonaguro, Christoph Thiele, et al.. (2025). Kupffer cells control neonatal hepatic metabolism via Igf1 signaling. Development. 153(2).

Jux, Bettina, Elena De Domenico, Marc Beyer, et al.. (2025). Impaired primitive erythropoiesis and defective vascular development in Trim71-KO embryos. Life Science Alliance. 8(4). e202402956–e202402956.

Mass, Elvira, Valentin Stein, Thorsten Lang, et al.. (2025). Glucose tasting depletes intracellular calcium stores and impairs macrophage functionality. iScience. 28(11). 113770–113770.

Ashraf, Azhaar, et al.. (2025). Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease. Journal of Cell Science. 138(20).

Bejarano, David Alejandro, Hao Huang, Kevin Baßler, et al.. (2024). Fetal liver macrophages contribute to the hematopoietic stem cell niche by controlling granulopoiesis. eLife. 13. 19 indexed citations

Müller, Linda, Bettina Jux, Susanne V. Schmidt, et al.. (2024). Differential impact of high-salt levels in vitro and in vivo on macrophage core functions. Molecular Biology Reports. 51(1). 343–343. 2 indexed citations

Toquet, Claire, Séverine Remy, Ignacio Anegón, et al.. (2024). Abstract 4139829: New Insights in Non-syndromic Mitral Valve Dystrophy: Role of Inflammation and Macrophages. Circulation. 150(Suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

Mass, Elvira, Falk Nimmerjahn, Katrin Kierdorf, & Andreas Schlitzer. (2023). Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology. Nature reviews. Immunology. 23(9). 563–579. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

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Feistel, Kerstin, Benjamin M. Friedrich, Anne Grapin‐Botton, et al.. (2023). Emerging principles of primary cilia dynamics in controlling tissue organization and function. The EMBO Journal. 42(21). e113891–e113891. 25 indexed citations

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Mass, Elvira, et al.. (2023). Fate-Mapping of Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Derived Macrophages. Methods in molecular biology. 2713. 139–148. 1 indexed citations

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Hauschild, Robert, Lili Zhang, Thomas Quast, et al.. (2022). Multiple centrosomes enhance migration and immune cell effector functions of mature dendritic cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 221(12). 13 indexed citations

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Skowron, Margaretha A., Katharina Raba, Patrick Petzsch, et al.. (2022). Profiling the 3D interaction between germ cell tumors and microenvironmental cells at the transcriptome and secretome level. Molecular Oncology. 16(17). 3107–3127. 9 indexed citations

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Mass, Elvira & Rebecca Gentek. (2021). Fetal-Derived Immune Cells at the Roots of Lifelong Pathophysiology. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 9. 648313–648313. 33 indexed citations

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Blank, Nelli, M Mayer, & Elvira Mass. (2021). The development and physiological and pathophysiological functions of resident macrophages and glial cells. Advances in immunology. 151. 1–47. 2 indexed citations

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Bonaguro, Lorenzo, Nadine Spielmann, Patricia da Silva‐Buttkus, et al.. (2021). Creld1 regulates myocardial development and function. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 156. 45–56. 11 indexed citations

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Schultze, Joachim L., Elvira Mass, & Andreas Schlitzer. (2019). Emerging Principles in Myelopoiesis at Homeostasis and during Infection and Inflammation. Immunity. 50(2). 288–301. 96 indexed citations

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Mass, Elvira, Christian E. Jacome-Galarza, Thomas Blank, et al.. (2017). A somatic mutation in erythro-myeloid progenitors causes neurodegenerative disease. Experimental Hematology. 53. S79–S79. 11 indexed citations

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Mass, Elvira, Iván Ballesteros, Matthias Farlik, et al.. (2016). Specification of tissue-resident macrophages during organogenesis. Science. 353(6304). 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mass, Elvira, Dagmar Wachten, Anna C. Aschenbrenner, André Voelzmann, & Michael Hoch. (2014). Murine Creld1 Controls Cardiac Development through Activation of Calcineurin/NFATc1 Signaling. Developmental Cell. 28(6). 711–726. 24 indexed citations

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