Heinz Jacobs

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Heinz Jacobs is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heinz Jacobs has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Immunology and 25 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Heinz Jacobs's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (35 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (34 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (29 papers). Heinz Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (35 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (34 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (29 papers). Heinz Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Heinz Jacobs's co-authors include Jannie Borst, Klaus Rajewsky, Yosho Fukita, Petra Langerak, Bas Pilzecker, Anton Berns, Yanling Xiao, Paul C.M. van den Berk, Ton N. Schumacher and Ji‐Ying Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Heinz Jacobs

96 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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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.

Skin-resident memory CD8 ⁺ T cells trigger a state of tissue-wide pathogen alert

2014 415 citations Marc A. Hogenbirk, Ji‐Ying Song et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heinz Jacobs Netherlands	38	2.5k	2.4k	1.2k	576	388	98	4.9k
Jayanta Chaudhuri United States	37	3.8k 1.5×	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	497 0.9×	385 1.0×	84	6.0k
Bernardo Reina‐San‐Martin France	33	3.5k 1.4×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	677 1.2×	295 0.8×	57	5.2k
Kevin M. McBride United States	29	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	554 1.0×	271 0.7×	53	3.9k
André Nussenzweig United States	26	2.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	955 0.8×	478 0.8×	377 1.0×	39	4.0k
Monica Rodolfo Italy	33	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	852 1.5×	392 1.0×	89	4.0k
Ferenc A. Scheeren Netherlands	26	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	596 1.0×	224 0.6×	49	3.4k
Martin Oft United States	26	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 2.0×	490 0.9×	297 0.8×	74	4.8k
David L. Wiest United States	42	2.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	396 0.7×	302 0.8×	124	5.3k
Lorena Landuzzi Italy	37	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	545 0.9×	535 1.4×	131	4.2k
Barbara A. Malynn United States	34	2.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.4×	815 0.7×	1.3k 2.2×	489 1.3×	48	5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Heinz Jacobs

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heinz Jacobs

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Teun van den Brand, Bram van den Broek, et al.. (2025). Histone methyltransferase DOT1L maintains cell state and restricts cytotoxic potential of CD8 T cells. Science Advances. 11(50). eadw1289–eadw1289.

Groot, Marnix H. P. de, Joleen J.H. Traets, Daan J. Kloosterman, et al.. (2025). Targeting DOT1L and EZH2 synergizes in breaking the germinal center identity of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Blood. 145(16). 1802–1813. 2 indexed citations

Drakaki, Alexandra, Natalie Proost, Cor Lieftink, et al.. (2024). ADARp150 counteracts whole genome duplication. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(17). 10370–10384. 1 indexed citations

Pilzecker, Bas, Aldo Spanjaard, Stefan Preković, et al.. (2023). Mammalian life depends on two distinct pathways of DNA damage tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(4). e2216055120–e2216055120. 4 indexed citations

Urbanus, Jos, Jason Cosgrove, Joost B. Beltman, et al.. (2023). DRAG in situ barcoding reveals an increased number of HSPCs contributing to myelopoiesis with age. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2184–2184. 11 indexed citations

Spanjaard, Aldo, et al.. (2023). Chromosomal Rearrangements and Chromothripsis: The Alternative End Generation Model. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(1). 794–794. 6 indexed citations

Kos, Kevin, Muhammad Assad Aslam, Rieneke van de Ven, et al.. (2022). Tumor-educated Tregs drive organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer by impairing NK cells in the lymph node niche. Cell Reports. 38(9). 110447–110447. 39 indexed citations

Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Bingtao Hao, et al.. (2020). The Ig heavy chain protein but not its message controls early B cell development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49). 31343–31352. 2 indexed citations

Aslam, Muhammad Assad, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Teun van den Brand, et al.. (2020). The histone methyltransferase DOT1L prevents antigen-independent differentiation and safeguards epigenetic identity of CD8 ⁺ T cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20706–20716. 32 indexed citations

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Berk, Paul van den, Cesare Lancini, Michela Serresi, et al.. (2020). USP15 Deubiquitinase Safeguards Hematopoiesis and Genome Integrity in Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia Cells. Cell Reports. 33(13). 108533–108533. 17 indexed citations

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Kruijsbergen, Ila van, Monique P. C. Mulder, Michael Uckelmann, et al.. (2020). Strategy for Development of Site-Specific Ubiquitin Antibodies. Frontiers in Chemistry. 8. 111–111. 9 indexed citations

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Coquet, Jonathan M., Julie C. Ribot, Nikolina Bąbała, et al.. (2013). Epithelial and dendritic cells in the thymic medulla promote CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cell development via the CD27–CD70 pathway. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210(4). 715–728. 116 indexed citations

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Gerlach, Carmen, Jan Rohr, Leïla Perié, et al.. (2013). Heterogeneous Differentiation Patterns of Individual CD8 ⁺ T Cells. Science. 340(6132). 635–639. 269 indexed citations

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Coquet, Jonathan M., Sabine Middendorp, Gerda Horst, et al.. (2012). The CD27 and CD70 Costimulatory Pathway Inhibits Effector Function of T Helper 17 Cells and Attenuates Associated Autoimmunity. Immunity. 38(1). 53–65. 83 indexed citations

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Krijger, Peter H.L., Kyoo‐young Lee, Niek Wit, et al.. (2011). HLTF and SHPRH are not essential for PCNA polyubiquitination, survival and somatic hypermutation: Existence of an alternative E3 ligase. DNA repair. 10(4). 438–444. 52 indexed citations

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Jansen, Jacob G., Petra Langerak, Anastasia Tsaalbi‐Shtylik, et al.. (2006). Strand-biased defect in C/G transversions in hypermutating immunoglobulin genes in Rev1-deficient mice. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(2). 319–323. 171 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yanling, Jenny Hendriks, Petra Langerak, Heinz Jacobs, & Jannie Borst. (2004). CD27 Is Acquired by Primed B Cells at the Centroblast Stage and Promotes Germinal Center Formation. The Journal of Immunology. 172(12). 7432–7441. 119 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Heinz, et al.. (2003). DNA Double Strand Breaks Occur Independent of AID in Hypermutating Ig Genes. Journal of Immunology Research. 10(2-4). 83–89. 14 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Heinz, John Iacomini, Marieke van de Ven, Susumu Tonegawa, & Anton Berns. (1996). Domains of the TCR beta-chain required for early thymocyte development.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 184(5). 1833–1843. 29 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Heinz, et al.. (1993). Detection of an oestrogen receptor-like protein in human meningiomas by band shift assay using a synthetic oestrogen responsive element (ERE). British Journal of Cancer. 68(2). 290–294. 17 indexed citations

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