Heiner Schaal

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Heiner Schaal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Virology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Heiner Schaal has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Virology and 20 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Heiner Schaal's work include RNA Research and Splicing (42 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (29 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers). Heiner Schaal is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (42 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (29 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers). Heiner Schaal collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Singapore. Heiner Schaal's co-authors include Steffen Erkelenz, Andreas Scheid, Marcel Freund, Marek Widera, Ortwin Adams, Lisa Müller, Susanne Kammler, P. Spreyer, H. Georg Kuhn and Stephan Theiss and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Genetics and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Heiner Schaal

101 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Age-dependent Immune Response to the Biontech/Pfizer BNT162b2 Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination

2021 329 citations Lisa Müller, Marcel Andrée et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heiner Schaal Germany	29	1.8k	661	558	346	314	102	3.2k
Agustı́n Valenzuela-Fernández Spain	26	1.2k 0.6×	467 0.7×	583 1.0×	704 2.0×	157 0.5×	51	2.7k
Johnny J. He United States	32	1.4k 0.8×	414 0.6×	1.5k 2.7×	662 1.9×	154 0.5×	93	3.0k
William A. McEwan United Kingdom	26	1.5k 0.8×	568 0.9×	584 1.0×	1.1k 3.1×	297 0.9×	53	3.2k
Vanessa Brès United States	14	1.0k 0.5×	366 0.6×	317 0.6×	274 0.8×	79 0.3×	19	1.8k
Seiichi Hashida Japan	26	1.2k 0.6×	230 0.3×	328 0.6×	261 0.8×	196 0.6×	138	2.7k
Daniel Hicks United Kingdom	20	808 0.4×	437 0.7×	220 0.4×	184 0.5×	315 1.0×	45	2.0k
John L. Foster United States	24	781 0.4×	389 0.6×	787 1.4×	552 1.6×	141 0.4×	39	1.9k
Tamás Oravecz United States	28	1.5k 0.8×	301 0.5×	735 1.3×	1.0k 2.9×	180 0.6×	47	3.0k
Andrew J. Mouland Canada	38	2.4k 1.3×	766 1.2×	1.4k 2.5×	573 1.7×	231 0.7×	90	3.5k
Guochun Jiang United States	23	1.1k 0.6×	499 0.8×	702 1.3×	321 0.9×	124 0.4×	42	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Heiner Schaal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heiner Schaal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heiner Schaal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heiner Schaal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heiner Schaal. Heiner Schaal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Parthasarathy, Srinivas, Marco Preußner, Mateusz C. Ambrozkiewicz, et al.. (2023). Srsf1 and Elavl1 act antagonistically on neuronal fate choice in the developing neocortex by controlling TrkC receptor isoform expression. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(19). 10218–10237. 1 indexed citations

Müller, Lisa, Marcel Andrée, Wiebke Moskorz, et al.. (2021). Age-dependent Immune Response to the Biontech/Pfizer BNT162b2 Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(11). 2065–2072. 329 indexed citations breakdown →

Müller, Lisa, Marcel Andrée, Philipp Niklas Ostermann, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Fully Vaccinated Individuals of Old Age Strongly Boosts the Humoral Immune Response. Frontiers in Medicine. 8. 746644–746644. 8 indexed citations

Xu, Haifeng C., Ruifeng Wang, Prashant V. Shinde, et al.. (2021). Slow viral propagation during initial phase of infection leads to viral persistence in mice. Communications Biology. 4(1). 508–508. 7 indexed citations

Ptok, Johannes, Lisa Müller, Stephan Theiss, & Heiner Schaal. (2019). Context matters: Regulation of splice donor usage. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1862(11-12). 194391–194391. 12 indexed citations

Erkelenz, Steffen, Stephan Theiss, Wolfgang Kaisers, et al.. (2018). Ranking noncanonical 5′ splice site usage by genome-wide RNA-seq analysis and splicing reporter assays. Genome Research. 28(12). 1826–1840. 15 indexed citations

Erkelenz, Steffen, et al.. (2017). A purine-rich element in foamy virus pol regulates env splicing and gag/pol expression. Retrovirology. 14(1). 10–10. 3 indexed citations

Kaisers, Wolfgang, Petra Boukamp, Holger Schwender, et al.. (2017). Age, gender and UV-exposition related effects on gene expression in in vivo aged short term cultivated human dermal fibroblasts. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0175657–e0175657. 28 indexed citations

Schöneweis, Katrin, Lara Walotka, Linda Hartmann, et al.. (2016). Succession of splicing regulatory elements determines cryptic 5′ss functionality. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(7). gkw1317–gkw1317. 15 indexed citations

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Otte, Marianne, et al.. (2016). Differential hnRNP D isoform incorporation may confer plasticity to the ESSV-mediated repressive state across HIV-1 exon 3. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1860(2). 205–217. 11 indexed citations

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Haendeler, Judith, et al.. (2014). Critical Regulators of Endothelial Cell Functions: For a Change Being Alternative. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 22(14). 1212–1229. 3 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Tanya, Steffen Erkelenz, Marek Widera, Heiner Schaal, & Valerie Bosch. (2013). Mutational analysis of the internal membrane proximal domain of the HIV glycoprotein C-terminus. Virology. 440(1). 31–40. 2 indexed citations

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Erkelenz, Steffen, et al.. (2012). The HIV-1 major splice donor D1 is activated by splicing enhancer elements within the leader region and the p17-inhibitory sequence. Virology. 432(1). 133–145. 17 indexed citations

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Erkelenz, Steffen, William F. Mueller, Anke Busch, et al.. (2012). Position-dependent splicing activation and repression by SR and hnRNP proteins rely on common mechanisms. RNA. 19(1). 96–102. 164 indexed citations

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Schaal, Heiner, et al.. (2010). Neutralization of X4- and R5-tropic HIV-1 NL4-3 variants by HOCl-modified serum albumins. BMC Research Notes. 3(1). 155–155. 7 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Linda, Kornelia Neveling, Marcel Freund, et al.. (2010). Correct mRNA Processing at a Mutant TT Splice Donor in FANCC Ameliorates the Clinical Phenotype in Patients and Is Enhanced by Delivery of Suppressor U1 snRNAs. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 87(4). 480–493. 51 indexed citations

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Zychlinski, Daniela, et al.. (2009). Limited complementarity between U1 snRNA and a retroviral 5′ splice site permits its attenuation via RNA secondary structure. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(22). 7429–7440. 18 indexed citations

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Adams, Ortwin, Heiner Schaal, & Andreas Scheid. (2000). Natural Variation in the Amino Acid Sequence around the HIV Type 1 Glycoprotein 160 Cleavage Site and Its Effect on Cleavability, Subunit Association, and Membrane Fusion. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 16(13). 1235–1245. 4 indexed citations

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Henrich, Birgit, et al.. (1998). Cloning and Expression of P60, a Conserved Surface-Localized Protein of Mycoplasma hominis, in Escherichia coli. Biological Chemistry. 379(8-9). 1143–1150. 3 indexed citations

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Wille, Wolfgang, et al.. (1984). Construction and characterization of 3 age specific and region specific complementary dna expression libraries of the mouse brain. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 10(1). 374. 1 indexed citations

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