Jan Hillert

36.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
365 papers, 14.3k citations indexed

About

Jan Hillert is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Hillert has authored 365 papers receiving a total of 14.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 276 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 120 papers in Immunology and 55 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Jan Hillert's work include Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (270 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (61 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (52 papers). Jan Hillert is often cited by papers focused on Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (270 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (61 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (52 papers). Jan Hillert collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and Denmark. Jan Hillert's co-authors include Tomas Olsson, Olle Olerup, Lars Alfredsson, Thomas Masterman, Ingrid Kockum, Anna Karin Hedström, Ali Manouchehrinia, Wenxin Huang, Fredrik Piehl and Bing He and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Jan Hillert

359 papers receiving 14.0k 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.

Infection Risks Among Patients With Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Fingolimod, Natalizumab, Rituximab, and Injectable Therapies

2019 346 citations Peter Alping, Joachim Burman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Hillert Sweden	63	8.5k	4.8k	2.5k	2.4k	2.3k	365	14.3k
Stephen L. Hauser United States	70	8.4k 1.0×	5.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.4×	2.3k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	275	16.9k
Tanuja Chitnis United States	64	11.2k 1.3×	3.8k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	5.7k 2.4×	365	17.6k
Bruce Cree United States	61	8.3k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	3.2k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.5×	279	13.0k
Peter Rieckmann Germany	64	6.8k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	266	13.1k
Alasdair Coles United Kingdom	43	9.1k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	3.3k 1.4×	199	13.4k
D. A. S. Compston United Kingdom	63	7.7k 0.9×	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	4.3k 1.8×	180	13.5k
Alastair Compston United Kingdom	45	6.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	128	12.0k
Krzysztof Selmaj Poland	61	9.5k 1.1×	5.4k 1.1×	4.5k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	338	17.7k
Jorge R. Oksenberg United States	64	6.3k 0.7×	8.0k 1.7×	4.3k 1.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	244	17.6k
Stephen L. Hauser United States	44	5.6k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	98	10.4k

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Guo, Jie, Tomas Olsson, Jan Hillert, Lars Alfredsson, & Anna Karin Hedström. (2025). Lifestyle factors associated with benign multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 96(10). 947–952.

Tremlett, Helen, Feng Zhu, Karl Everett, et al.. (2025). Healthcare use is elevated two decades before a first demyelinating event and differs by age and sex. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 12(2). 415–432. 4 indexed citations

Wu, Jing, Tomas Olsson, Jan Hillert, Lars Alfredsson, & Anna Karin Hedström. (2024). Association Between Alcohol Consumption and Disability Accumulation in Multiple Sclerosis. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 11(5). e200289–e200289. 2 indexed citations

Piehl, Fredrik, Peter Alping, Simon Englund, et al.. (2024). COMBAT‐MS: A Population‐Based Observational Cohort Study Addressing the Benefit–Risk Balance of Multiple Sclerosis Therapies Compared with Rituximab. Annals of Neurology. 96(4). 678–693. 3 indexed citations

Machado, Alejandra, et al.. (2024). Exploring the working life of people with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 1389–1389.

Wu, Jing, Lars Alfredsson, Tomas Olsson, Jan Hillert, & Anna Karin Hedström. (2024). Obesity Affects Disease Activity and Progression, Cognitive Functioning, and Quality of Life in People With Multiple Sclerosis. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 12(1). e200334–e200334. 10 indexed citations

Teni, Fitsum Sebsibe, Alejandra Machado, Katharina Fink, et al.. (2024). Recent trends in disease-modifying therapy use and associated sickness absence and disability pension among people with multiple sclerosis in Sweden. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 30(3). 419–431. 1 indexed citations

Merki‐Feld, Gabriele S., Riley Bove, Lisa B. Haddad, et al.. (2024). Family planning and contraception in people with multiple sclerosis: perspectives for obstetricians, gynaecologists, and other health care professionals involved in reproductive planning. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care. 30(2). 59–73.

Teni, Fitsum Sebsibe, Alejandra Machado, Katharina Fink, et al.. (2023). Self‐reported restrictions in different life domains and associated factors among people with multiple sclerosis in Sweden. European Journal of Neurology. 30(7). 1843–1853. 3 indexed citations

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Machado, Alejandra, et al.. (2023). Gender differences in earnings among people with multiple sclerosis and associations with type of occupation and family composition: A population-based study with matched references. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0288998–e0288998. 1 indexed citations

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Piehl, Fredrik, Tomas Olsson, Lars Alfredsson, et al.. (2022). Spasticity treatment patterns among people with multiple sclerosis: a Swedish cohort study. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 94(5). 337–348. 4 indexed citations

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Ellenberger, David, Tina Parciak, Waldemar Brola, et al.. (2022). Comparison of employment among people with Multiple Sclerosis across Europe. Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental Translational and Clinical. 8(2). 3090453853–3090453853. 6 indexed citations

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Tinghög, Petter, Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Alejandra Machado, et al.. (2022). Excess costs of multiple sclerosis: a register-based study in Sweden. The European Journal of Health Economics. 24(8). 1357–1371. 1 indexed citations

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Machado, Alejandra, et al.. (2022). Self‐employment, sickness absence, and disability pension in multiple sclerosis. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 146(3). 283–294. 4 indexed citations

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Teni, Fitsum Sebsibe, Alejandra Machado, Anna He, et al.. (2022). Trajectories of disease-modifying therapies and associated sickness absence and disability pension among 1923 people with multiple sclerosis in Sweden. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 69. 104456–104456. 2 indexed citations

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Stridh, Pernilla, Jesse Huang, AK Hedström, et al.. (2021). Season of birth is associated with multiple sclerosis and disease severity. Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental Translational and Clinical. 7(4). 3080428930–3080428930. 3 indexed citations

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Ramanujam, Ryan, Feng Zhu, Katharina Fink, et al.. (2020). Accurate classification of secondary progression in multiple sclerosis using a decision tree. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 27(8). 1240–1249. 17 indexed citations

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McKay, Kyla A., Jan Hillert, & Ali Manouchehrinia. (2019). Long-term disability progression of pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 92(24). e2764–e2773. 75 indexed citations

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Hedström, Anna Karin, Malin Ryner, Anna Fogdell‐Hahn, et al.. (2013). Smoking and risk of treatment-induced neutralizing antibodies to interferon β-1a. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 20(4). 445–450. 36 indexed citations

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Ramagopalan, S V, Jenny Link, Jake Byrnes, et al.. (2009). HLA-DRB1 and month of birth in multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 73(24). 2107–2111. 38 indexed citations

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