Hanspeter Pircher

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

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Hanspeter Pircher is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hanspeter Pircher has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Immunology, 18 papers in Oncology and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Hanspeter Pircher's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (79 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (63 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (50 papers). Hanspeter Pircher is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (79 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (63 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (50 papers). Hanspeter Pircher collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Hanspeter Pircher's co-authors include Claudine Blaser, David Voehringer, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Hans Hengartner, Christine Zimmermann, Maike Hofmann, Susumu Tonegawa, Joseph R. Delaney, Luc Van Kaer and Philip G. Ashton‐Rickardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hanspeter Pircher

96 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Evidence for a differential avidity model of T cell selection in the thymus

1994 588 citations Philip G. Ashton‐Rickardt, António Bandeira et al. Cell profile →
CD57 defines a functionally distinct population of mature NK cells in the human CD56dimCD16+ NK-cell subset

2010 553 citations Hanspeter Pircher et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hanspeter Pircher Germany	49	6.5k	1.7k	1.1k	976	408	97	7.7k
Judith G. Giri United States	30	6.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	388 1.0×	43	8.7k
Ji‐Liang Gao United States	51	3.8k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	2.4k 2.2×	990 1.0×	236 0.6×	90	7.0k
Angela M. Thornton United States	39	8.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	859 0.9×	889 2.2×	66	11.2k
Adelheid Cerwenka Germany	57	8.3k 1.3×	3.7k 2.1×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	374 0.9×	115	10.4k
Elena Tomasello France	37	6.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	684 0.7×	207 0.5×	50	7.6k
Claudia Cantoni Italy	52	10.3k 1.6×	3.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	746 0.8×	242 0.6×	110	11.6k
Karsten Mahnke Germany	47	7.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	554 0.6×	398 1.0×	89	9.1k
Rachael A. Clark United States	43	5.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	927 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	195 0.5×	111	8.3k
Kimberly S. Schluns United States	35	8.5k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	871 0.9×	654 1.6×	59	10.0k
Yenan T. Bryceson Sweden	47	7.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	852 0.9×	337 0.8×	138	9.1k

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Wu, Richard C., Shujuan Liu, Jessica Chacon, et al.. (2012). Detection and Characterization of a Novel Subset of CD8+CD57+ T Cells in Metastatic Melanoma with an Incompletely Differentiated Phenotype. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(9). 2465–2477. 19 indexed citations

Maul‐Pavicic, Andrea, Samuel C. C. Chiang, Anne Rensing‐Ehl, et al.. (2011). ORAI1-mediated calcium influx is required for human cytotoxic lymphocyte degranulation and target cell lysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(8). 3324–3329. 165 indexed citations

Anichini, Andrea, Alessandra Molla, Claudia Vegetti, et al.. (2010). Tumor-Reactive CD8+ Early Effector T Cells Identified at Tumor Site in Primary and Metastatic Melanoma. Cancer Research. 70(21). 8378–8387. 38 indexed citations

Derré, Laurent, Petra Baumgaertner, Estelle Devêvre, et al.. (2007). In Vivo Persistence of Codominant Human CD8+ T Cell Clonotypes Is Not Limited by Replicative Senescence or Functional Alteration. The Journal of Immunology. 179(4). 2368–2379. 23 indexed citations

Gründemann, Carsten, Monika Bauer, Oliver Schweier, et al.. (2006). Cutting Edge: Identification of E-Cadherin as a Ligand for the Murine Killer Cell Lectin-Like Receptor G1. The Journal of Immunology. 176(3). 1311–1315. 126 indexed citations

Pircher, Hanspeter, et al.. (2005). Complex Memory T-Cell Phenotypes Revealed by Coexpression of CD62L and CCR7. Journal of Virology. 79(7). 4510–4513. 103 indexed citations

Roth, Evelyn & Hanspeter Pircher. (2004). IFN-γ Promotes Fas Ligand- and Perforin-Mediated Liver Cell Destruction by Cytotoxic CD8 T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 172(3). 1588–1594. 54 indexed citations

Roth, Evelyn, Johannes Schwartzkopff, & Hanspeter Pircher. (2002). CD40 Ligation in the Presence of Self-Reactive CD8 T Cells Leads to Severe Immunopathology. The Journal of Immunology. 168(10). 5124–5129. 20 indexed citations

Blohm, Ulrike, et al.. (2002). Lack of Effector Cell Function and Altered Tetramer Binding of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes. The Journal of Immunology. 169(10). 5522–5530. 57 indexed citations

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Voehringer, David, Claudine Blaser, Pierre Brawand, et al.. (2001). Viral Infections Induce Abundant Numbers of Senescent CD8 T Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 167(9). 4838–4843. 199 indexed citations

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Vabulas, R. Martin, Hanspeter Pircher, Grayson B. Lipford, Hans Häcker, & Hermann Wagner. (2000). CpG-DNA Activates In Vivo T Cell Epitope Presenting Dendritic Cells to Trigger Protective Antiviral Cytotoxic T Cell Responses. The Journal of Immunology. 164(5). 2372–2378. 110 indexed citations

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Voehringer, David, Claudine Blaser, Andrea Busse Grawitz, et al.. (2000). Break of T Cell Ignorance to a Viral Antigen in the Liver Induces Hepatitis. The Journal of Immunology. 165(5). 2415–2422. 68 indexed citations

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Reich, Arno, Heinrich Körner, Jonathon D. Sedgwick, & Hanspeter Pircher. (2000). Immune down-regulation and peripheral deletion of CD8 T cells does not require TNF receptor-ligand interactions nor CD95 (Fas, APO-1). European Journal of Immunology. 30(2). 678–682. 57 indexed citations

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Lee, Young‐Choon, Martina Kaufmann, Mari Kono, et al.. (1999). Molecular Cloning and Functional Expression of Two Members of Mouse NeuAcα2,3Galβ1,3GalNAc GalNAcα2,6-Sialyltransferase Family, ST6GalNAc III and IV. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(17). 11958–11967. 60 indexed citations

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Stemmer, Christine, Armelle Prévost‐Blondel, Christine Zimmermann, et al.. (1999). Protection against Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Infection Induced by a Reduced Peptide Bond Analogue of the H-2Db-restricted CD8+ T Cell Epitope GP33. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(9). 5550–5556. 26 indexed citations

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Barthlott, Thomas, Alexandre J. Potocnik, Hubertus Kohler, et al.. (1996). A novel mouse thymocyte antigen (F3Ag): down-regulation during the CD4⁺CD8⁺ double-positive stage indicates positive selection. International Immunology. 8(1). 101–113. 14 indexed citations

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Brduscha‐Riem, Karin, et al.. (1996). Visualization, characterization, and turnover of CD8+ memory T cells in virus-infected hosts.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 183(4). 1367–1375. 234 indexed citations

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Coyle, Anthony J., Claude Bertrand, S Tsuyuki, et al.. (1996). IL‐4 Differentiates Naive CD8+ T Cellsto a “Th2‐Like” Phenotype:A Link Between Viral Infections & Bronchial Asthma. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 796(1). 97–103. 26 indexed citations

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Ashton‐Rickardt, Philip G., António Bandeira, Joseph R. Delaney, et al.. (1994). Evidence for a differential avidity model of T cell selection in the thymus. Cell. 76(4). 651–663. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pircher, Hanspeter, et al.. (1987). Molecular analysis of the antigen receptor of virus‐specific cytotoxic T cells and identification of a new V_α family. European Journal of Immunology. 17(12). 1843–1846. 84 indexed citations

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