Jürgen Schmitz

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Jürgen Schmitz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Schmitz has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Plant Science and 34 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Schmitz's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (40 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (32 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers). Jürgen Schmitz is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (40 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (32 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers). Jürgen Schmitz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Australia. Jürgen Schmitz's co-authors include Jürgen Brosius, Gennady Churakov, Hans Zischler, Andrzej Dzionek, Jan Ole Kriegs, Stefan Miltenyi, Petra Schmidt, David Buck, Anja Fuchs and Lukas Schrader and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Schmitz

103 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

BDCA-2, BDCA-3, and BDCA-4: Three Markers for Distinct Subsets of Dendritic Cells in Human Peripheral Blood

2000 1.0k citations Jürgen Schmitz et al. The Journal of Immunology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jürgen Schmitz Germany	45	2.7k	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	797	105	5.7k
Yoko Satta Japan	43	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	193 0.2×	138	5.7k
Héctor N. Seuánez Brazil	30	1.7k 0.6×	818 0.5×	424 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	538 0.7×	160	4.1k
Wesley C. Warren United States	41	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	430 0.3×	3.0k 2.5×	388 0.5×	155	6.5k
Kazuho Ikeo Japan	45	4.5k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	648 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	500 0.6×	171	7.2k
David M. Irwin Canada	41	3.8k 1.4×	417 0.3×	770 0.5×	3.3k 2.7×	635 0.8×	249	8.6k
Naoyuki Takahata Japan	53	3.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	4.4k 3.6×	423 0.5×	126	8.5k
Marilyn B. Renfree Australia	48	4.4k 1.7×	642 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	4.6k 3.8×	419 0.5×	382	10.2k
Tomàs Marquès‐Bonet Spain	46	3.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	357 0.2×	3.3k 2.7×	295 0.4×	144	6.3k
Hans Zischler Germany	34	2.0k 0.7×	894 0.6×	289 0.2×	1.1k 0.9×	239 0.3×	95	3.7k
Shigehiro Kuraku Japan	38	2.9k 1.1×	766 0.5×	314 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	455 0.6×	143	5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürgen Schmitz

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Steffen, Johannes, et al.. (2025). Group 2 innate lymphoid cells drive inhibitory synapse formation with lasting effects on learning and memory. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 163–163.

Frankenberg, Stephen, Sarah Lucas, Liliya Doronina, et al.. (2025). Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole. Science Advances. 11(1). eado4140–eado4140. 1 indexed citations

Grundmann, Norbert, et al.. (2024). NewickTreeModifier: A simple web tool to prune and modify Newick trees. Journal of Heredity. 115(2). 183–187.

Doronina, Liliya, et al.. (2023). Homoplasy of Retrotransposon Insertions in Toothed Whales. Genes. 14(9). 1830–1830. 2 indexed citations

Doronina, Liliya, et al.. (2022). Reunion of Australasian Possums by Shared SINE Insertions. Systematic Biology. 71(5). 1045–1053. 8 indexed citations

Grundmann, Norbert, et al.. (2022). paPAML: An Improved Computational Tool to Explore Selection Pressure on Protein-Coding Sequences. Genes. 13(6). 1090–1090. 4 indexed citations

Doronina, Liliya, et al.. (2022). Euarchontoglires Challenged by Incomplete Lineage Sorting. Genes. 13(5). 774–774. 3 indexed citations

Doronina, Liliya, Graham M. Hughes, Diana D. Moreno-Santillán, et al.. (2022). Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone. Genes. 13(5). 766–766. 8 indexed citations

Churakov, Gennady, et al.. (2022). A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees. Systematic Biology. 72(3). 649–661. 4 indexed citations

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Doronina, Liliya, et al.. (2021). Gene Conversion amongst Alu SINE Elements. Genes. 12(6). 905–905. 5 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Jürgen, et al.. (2021). Evolution of Renal-Disease Factor APOL1 Results in Cis and Trans Orientations at the Endoplasmic Reticulum That Both Show Cytotoxic Effects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(11). 4962–4976. 14 indexed citations

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Churakov, Gennady, Fengjun Zhang, Norbert Grundmann, et al.. (2020). The multicomparative 2-n-way genome suite. Genome Research. 30(10). 1508–1516. 11 indexed citations

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Schrader, Lukas & Jürgen Schmitz. (2018). The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1537–1549. 201 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Jürgen, et al.. (2017). T3SS-Independent Uptake of the Short-Trip Toxin-Related Recombinant NleC Effector of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Leads to NF-κB p65 Cleavage. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 7. 119–119. 14 indexed citations

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Mason, Victor C., Gang Li, Patrick Minx, et al.. (2016). Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates. Science Advances. 2(8). e1600633–e1600633. 62 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Jürgen, et al.. (2007). CD303 (BDCA-2) mediated inhibition of interferon type I production in plasmacytoid dendritic cells is linked to SYK, BLNK and PKC delta signaling (89.25). The Journal of Immunology. 178(1_Supplement). S153–S153. 1 indexed citations

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Kriegs, Jan Ole, Gennady Churakov, Martin Kiefmann, et al.. (2006). Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals. PLoS Biology. 4(4). e91–e91. 206 indexed citations

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Zink, Dorothea, Jürgen Schmitz, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, et al.. (2006). An anthropoid-specific segmental duplication on human chromosome 1q22. Genomics. 88(2). 143–151. 21 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Jürgen & Hans Zischler. (2003). A novel family of tRNA-derived SINEs in the colugo and two new retrotransposable markers separating dermopterans from primates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 28(2). 341–349. 38 indexed citations

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Schmitz, Jürgen, C. Stussi-Garaud, Eckhard Tacke, et al.. (1997). In SituLocalization of the Putative Movement Protein (pr17) from Potato Leafroll Luteovirus (PLRV) in Infected and Transgenic Potato Plants. Virology. 235(2). 311–322. 62 indexed citations

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