Holger Winkels

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Holger Winkels is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Holger Winkels has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Immunology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Holger Winkels's work include Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (30 papers), Immune cells in cancer (12 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Holger Winkels is often cited by papers focused on Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (30 papers), Immune cells in cancer (12 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Holger Winkels collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Holger Winkels's co-authors include Klaus Ley, Ryosuke Saigusa, Dennis Wolf, Alma Zernecke, Clément Cochain, Ehsan Vafadarnejad, Antoine‐Emmanuel Saliba, Jaroslav Pelisek, Panagiota Arampatzi and Norbert Gerdes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Immunology and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Holger Winkels

42 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals the Transcriptional Landscape... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 2018 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals the Transcriptional Landscape and Heterogeneity of Aortic Macrophages in Murine Atherosclerosis
    2018 609 citations Jaroslav Pelisek, Holger Winkels et al. profile →
  2. T cell subsets and functions in atherosclerosis
    2020 476 citations Ryosuke Saigusa, Holger Winkels et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology profile →
  3. Atlas of the Immune Cell Repertoire in Mouse Atherosclerosis Defined by Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing and Mass Cytometry
    2018 381 citations Holger Winkels, Erik Ehinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Holger Winkels Germany 20 1.9k 1.1k 522 268 249 46 2.7k
Carlos Silvestre-Roig Germany 17 1.5k 0.8× 801 0.7× 356 0.7× 223 0.8× 250 1.0× 25 2.6k
Tin Kyaw Australia 27 2.0k 1.1× 648 0.6× 601 1.2× 289 1.1× 276 1.1× 38 2.7k
Peter Kanellakis Australia 35 1.7k 0.9× 972 0.9× 580 1.1× 582 2.2× 586 2.4× 58 3.3k
Louisa M.S. Gerhardt United States 12 957 0.5× 677 0.6× 316 0.6× 371 1.4× 260 1.0× 19 1.8k
Annette E. Neele Netherlands 20 1.0k 0.5× 785 0.7× 302 0.6× 117 0.4× 253 1.0× 29 1.8k
Bishuang Cai United States 20 1.2k 0.6× 951 0.9× 691 1.3× 148 0.6× 363 1.5× 34 2.7k
Dirk Lievens Germany 19 1.4k 0.7× 555 0.5× 347 0.7× 303 1.1× 328 1.3× 22 2.3k
Linda Beckers Netherlands 22 1.2k 0.6× 514 0.5× 417 0.8× 213 0.8× 195 0.8× 46 2.0k
Stéphane Potteaux France 19 2.6k 1.4× 1.0k 0.9× 751 1.4× 281 1.0× 499 2.0× 34 3.7k
Tom Seijkens Netherlands 24 1.1k 0.6× 444 0.4× 342 0.7× 318 1.2× 152 0.6× 52 1.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Holger Winkels

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Picard, Felix S.R., et al.. (2024). Macrophage mediators and mechanisms in cardiovascular disease. The FASEB Journal. 38(2). e23424–e23424. 9 indexed citations
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Streckfuß‐Bömeke, Katrin, N Kraenkel, Christoph Maack, et al.. (2024). Physiologists as medical scientists: An early warning from the German academic system. Physiological Reports. 12(21). e70055–e70055. 2 indexed citations
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Berghausen, Eva, Felix S.R. Picard, Apostolos Polykratis, et al.. (2024). Hematopoietic PI3Kδ deficiency aggravates murine atherosclerosis through impairment of Tregs. JCI Insight. 9(22).
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Lang, Alexander, Raphael Romano Bruno, Georg Wolff, et al.. (2024). Acute and short-term fluctuations in gravity are associated with changes in circulatory plasma protein levels. npj Microgravity. 10(1). 4 indexed citations
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Picard, Felix S.R., Harshal Nemade, Dennis Mehrkens, et al.. (2024). Olfactory receptor 2 signaling drives abdominal aortic aneurysm formation. Atherosclerosis. 395. 118390–118390. 1 indexed citations
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Picard, Felix S.R., et al.. (2024). Cancer Development and Progression in Patients with Heart Failure. Current Heart Failure Reports. 21(6). 515–529.
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Roy, Payel, Sunil Kumar, Marco Orecchioni, et al.. (2023). Identification of human exTreg cells as CD16+CD56+ cytotoxic CD4+ T cells. Nature Immunology. 24(10). 1748–1761. 31 indexed citations
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Picard, Felix S.R., Harshal Nemade, Dennis Mehrkens, et al.. (2023). Olfactory receptor 2 signaling drives experimental abdominal aortic aneurysm formation. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2). 2 indexed citations
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Winther, Menno P.J. de, Magnus Bäck, Paul C. Evans, et al.. (2022). Translational opportunities of single-cell biology in atherosclerosis. European Heart Journal. 44(14). 1216–1230. 50 indexed citations
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Jansen, Nicole, H. Baurmann, Gereon Lauer, et al.. (2022). Vaccines against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 provide T cell memory to the B.1.1.529 variant. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 140–140. 3 indexed citations
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Mollenhauer, Martin, et al.. (2022). Myeloid leukocytes’ diverse effects on cardiovascular and systemic inflammation in chronic kidney disease. Basic Research in Cardiology. 117(1). 38–38. 7 indexed citations
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Nettersheim, Felix Sebastian, Simon Braumann, Kouji Kobiyama, et al.. (2022). Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) Deficiency Does Not Affect Atherosclerosis and CD4 T Cell Immune Tolerance to Apolipoprotein B. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 8. 812769–812769. 5 indexed citations
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Winkels, Holger, Yanal Ghosheh, Kouji Kobiyama, et al.. (2021). Thymus-Derived CD4+CD8+ Cells Reside in Mediastinal Adipose Tissue and the Aortic Arch. The Journal of Immunology. 207(11). 2720–2732. 1 indexed citations
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Padgett, Lindsey E., Huy Q. Dinh, Runpei Wu, et al.. (2020). Naive CD8 + T Cells Expressing CD95 Increase Human Cardiovascular Disease Severity. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 40(12). 2845–2859. 15 indexed citations
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Orecchioni, Marco, Kouji Kobiyama, Holger Winkels, et al.. (2020). Olfactory receptor 2 (Olfr2) and its human ortholog OR6A2 expressed in macrophages drive NLRP3 inflammasome activation and exacerbate atherosclerosis in mice. The Journal of Immunology. 204(1_Supplement). 68.22–68.22.
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Saigusa, Ryosuke, Holger Winkels, & Klaus Ley. (2020). T cell subsets and functions in atherosclerosis. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 17(7). 387–401. 476 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bianchini, Mariaelvy, Johan Duchêne, Donato Santovito, et al.. (2019). PD-L1 expression on nonclassical monocytes reveals their origin and immunoregulatory function. Science Immunology. 4(36). 44 indexed citations
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Kusters, Pascal, Tom Seijkens, Christina Bürger, et al.. (2017). Constitutive CD40 Signaling in Dendritic Cells Limits Atherosclerosis by Provoking Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Ensuing Cholesterol Malabsorption. American Journal Of Pathology. 187(12). 2912–2919. 10 indexed citations
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Pfeiler, Susanne, Holger Winkels, Malte Kelm, & Norbert Gerdes. (2017). IL-1 family cytokines in cardiovascular disease. Cytokine. 122. 154215–154215. 68 indexed citations
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Spitz, Charlotte, Holger Winkels, Christina Bürger, et al.. (2015). Regulatory T cells in atherosclerosis: critical immune regulatory function and therapeutic potential. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 73(5). 901–922. 97 indexed citations

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