Florian Pfaff

1.7k total citations
57 papers, 728 citations indexed

About

Florian Pfaff is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Pfaff has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 728 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Epidemiology, 21 papers in Infectious Diseases and 15 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Florian Pfaff's work include Virology and Viral Diseases (13 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (13 papers). Florian Pfaff is often cited by papers focused on Virology and Viral Diseases (13 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (13 papers) and Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (13 papers). Florian Pfaff collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Florian Pfaff's co-authors include Martin Beer, Dirk W. Höper, Bernd Hoffmann, Andreas Sauerbrei, Roland Zell, Rainer G. Ulrich, Donata Hoffmann, Kore Schlottau, Peter Wutzler and S. F. E. Scholes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Florian Pfaff

52 papers receiving 717 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Pfaff Germany	15	351	289	204	149	110	57	728
Zhiyu Wang China	16	510 1.5×	342 1.2×	100 0.5×	74 0.5×	166 1.5×	64	854
Erhard F. Kaleta Germany	15	380 1.1×	274 0.9×	143 0.7×	246 1.7×	53 0.5×	23	764
Yoshihiro Kaku Japan	18	357 1.0×	679 2.3×	120 0.6×	281 1.9×	207 1.9×	45	1.1k
Michael Lauck United States	18	193 0.5×	323 1.1×	184 0.9×	244 1.6×	92 0.8×	31	785
Shannon M. Beaty United States	10	513 1.5×	297 1.0×	85 0.4×	65 0.4×	87 0.8×	15	659
Andrea Vögtlin Switzerland	14	199 0.6×	171 0.6×	79 0.4×	74 0.5×	65 0.6×	31	542
Hélder Cortes Portugal	24	243 0.7×	357 1.2×	78 0.4×	114 0.8×	48 0.4×	48	1.3k
G. Sironi Italy	16	198 0.6×	200 0.7×	93 0.5×	134 0.9×	89 0.8×	67	744
Ian H. Mendenhall Singapore	18	353 1.0×	787 2.7×	100 0.5×	146 1.0×	141 1.3×	57	1.2k
Tibor Papp Hungary	18	170 0.5×	277 1.0×	138 0.7×	124 0.8×	125 1.1×	51	812

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Wernike, Kerstin, Jörn Gethmann, Florian Pfaff, Carola Sauter‐Louis, & Martin Beer. (2025). Bovine viral diarrhea virus eradication in Germany: A never-ending success story or just the last 46 PI animals?. Veterinary Microbiology. 309. 110697–110697.

Forth, Leonie F., et al.. (2025). Distinct mutations emerge in the genome of serotype O foot-and-mouth disease virus during persistence in cattle. Journal of Virology. 99(3). e0142224–e0142224.

Jacob, Jens, Michael Brecht, Julia Sehl‐Ewert, et al.. (2024). Detection of novel orthoparamyxoviruses, orthonairoviruses and an orthohepevirus in European white-toothed shrews. Microbial Genomics. 10(8).

Yebra, Gonzalo, Daniel M. Mrochen, Stefan Fischer, et al.. (2024). Bacteriophage-driven emergence and expansion of Staphylococcus aureus in rodent populations. PLoS Pathogens. 20(7). e1012378–e1012378.

Wernike, Kerstin, Florian Pfaff, & Martin Beer. (2024). “Fading out” - genomic epidemiology of the last persistently infected BVDV cattle in Germany. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 10. 1339248–1339248. 5 indexed citations

Rubbenstroth, Dennis, et al.. (2023). Diving deep into fish bornaviruses: Uncovering hidden diversity and transcriptional strategies through comprehensive data mining. Virus Evolution. 9(2). vead062–vead062. 1 indexed citations

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

Pfaff, Florian, Lorenz Ulrich, Nico Joël Halwe, et al.. (2023). SARS‐CoV‐2 variants of concern elicit divergent early immune responses in hACE2 transgenic mice. European Journal of Immunology. 53(12). e2250332–e2250332. 3 indexed citations

Rubbenstroth, Dennis, Arnt Ebinger, Donata Hoffmann, et al.. (2023). Continuous presence of genetically diverse rustrela virus lineages in yellow-necked field mouse reservoir populations in northeastern Germany. Virus Evolution. 9(2). vead048–vead048. 5 indexed citations

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Zaeck, Luca M., Tobias Nolden, Kati Franzke, et al.. (2021). Point Mutations in the Glycoprotein Ectodomain of Field Rabies Viruses Mediate Cell Culture Adaptation through Improved Virus Release in a Host Cell Dependent and Independent Manner. Viruses. 13(10). 1989–1989. 7 indexed citations

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Joseph, Sunitha, Jöerg Kinne, P. Nagy, et al.. (2021). Outbreak of a Systemic Form of Camelpox in a Dromedary Herd (Camelus dromedarius) in the United Arab Emirates. Viruses. 13(10). 1940–1940. 11 indexed citations

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Bertzbach, Luca D., et al.. (2021). Marek’s disease virus prolongs survival of primary chicken B-cells by inducing a senescence-like phenotype. PLoS Pathogens. 17(10). e1010006–e1010006. 7 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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Hassan, Kareem E., Salama A.S. Shany, Magdy F. El‐Kady, et al.. (2020). Genotyping and reassortment analysis of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses H5N8 and H5N2 from Egypt reveals successive annual replacement of genotypes. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 84. 104375–104375. 23 indexed citations

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Sultan, Hesham, Kareem E. Hassan, Salama A.S. Shany, et al.. (2020). Emerging infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) in Egypt: Evidence for an evolutionary advantage of a new S1 variant with a unique gene 3ab constellation. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 85. 104433–104433. 20 indexed citations

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Pfaff, Florian, Thomas Müller, Conrad M. Freuling, et al.. (2018). In-depth genome analyses of viruses from vaccine-derived rabies cases and corresponding live-attenuated oral rabies vaccines. Vaccine. 37(33). 4758–4765. 14 indexed citations

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Vos, Ad, Peter Clausen, Susan M. Moore, et al.. (2018). Experimental screening studies on rabies virus transmission and oral rabies vaccination of the Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16599–16599. 10 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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Nolden, Tobias, Florian Pfaff, Conrad M. Freuling, et al.. (2016). Reverse genetics in high throughput: rapid generation of complete negative strand RNA virus cDNA clones and recombinant viruses thereof. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 23887–23887. 24 indexed citations

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Sauerbrei, Andreas, Florian Pfaff, Roland Zell, & Peter Wutzler. (2012). Prevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein G (gG) and gI genotypes in patients with different herpetic diseases during the last four decades. Journal of Medical Virology. 84(4). 651–656. 4 indexed citations

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