Kai Kretzschmar

7.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
58 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Kretzschmar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Urology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Kretzschmar has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Urology and 13 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Kai Kretzschmar's work include Hair Growth and Disorders (14 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (11 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (8 papers). Kai Kretzschmar is often cited by papers focused on Hair Growth and Disorders (14 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (11 papers) and Skin and Cellular Biology Research (8 papers). Kai Kretzschmar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Kai Kretzschmar's co-authors include Hans Clevers, Fiona M. Watt, Else Driehuis, Ryan R. Driskell, Esther Hoste, Beate M. Lichtenberger, Yotam E. Bar‐Ephraïm, Anne C. Ferguson‐Smith, Sacri R. Ferrón and Guillaume Pavlovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kai Kretzschmar

57 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Distinct fibroblast lineages determine dermal architecture in skin development and repair

2013 894 citations Ryan R. Driskell, Beate M. Lichtenberger et al. Nature profile →
Lineage Tracing

2012 514 citations Kai Kretzschmar, Fiona M. Watt Cell profile →
Establishment of patient-derived cancer organoids for drug-screening applications

2020 437 citations Kai Kretzschmar, Hans Clevers et al. profile →
Replacement of Lost Lgr5-Positive Stem Cells through Plasticity of Their Enterocyte-Lineage Daughters

2016 412 citations Kai Kretzschmar, Hans Clevers et al. profile →
Organoids in immunological research

2019 250 citations Yotam E. Bar‐Ephraïm, Kai Kretzschmar et al. Nature reviews. Immunology profile →

Peers

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Kim B. Jensen Denmark

Christian F. Guerrero‐Juarez United States

Maria Kasper Sweden

Robert G. Vries Netherlands

Cristina Lo Celso United Kingdom

Andrea Haegebarth Germany

Thomas Andl United States

Carien M. Niessen Germany

Raúl Ramos United States

Uffe Birk Jensen Denmark

Kim B. Jensen Denmark

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Countries citing papers authored by Kai Kretzschmar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Kretzschmar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Kretzschmar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Kretzschmar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Kretzschmar 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 Kai Kretzschmar. Kai Kretzschmar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kretzschmar, Kai, et al.. (2025). Establishment and Characterization of Patient-Derived Oral Cancer Organoids. Methods in molecular biology. 1 indexed citations

Hörner, Manfredo, Natalie Burkard, Matthias Kelm, et al.. (2024). Glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) induces mucosal healing via intestinal stem cell niche activation. Cell Proliferation. 58(2). e13758–e13758. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Annie, Devanjali Dutta, Kai Kretzschmar, et al.. (2023). Development of Plasmodium falciparum liver-stages in hepatocytes derived from human fetal liver organoid cultures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4631–4631. 13 indexed citations

Meir, Michael, Kai Kretzschmar, Sven Flemming, et al.. (2023). Human organoids are superior to cell culture models for intestinal barrier research. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 11. 1223032–1223032. 8 indexed citations

Kretzschmar, Kai, et al.. (2022). Modelling adult stem cells and their niche in health and disease with epithelial organoids. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 144. 20–30. 9 indexed citations

Kretzschmar, Kai, Arne van Hoeck, Henk W. P. van den Toorn, et al.. (2020). Single-cell derived tumor organoids display diversity in HLA class I peptide presentation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5338–5338. 50 indexed citations

Kretzschmar, Kai. (2020). Cancer research using organoid technology. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 99(4). 501–515. 80 indexed citations

Bar‐Ephraïm, Yotam E., Kai Kretzschmar, & Hans Clevers. (2019). Organoids in immunological research. Nature reviews. Immunology. 20(5). 279–293. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Donati, Giacomo, Emanuel Rognoni, Toru Hiratsuka, et al.. (2017). Wounding induces dedifferentiation of epidermal Gata6+ cells and acquisition of stem cell properties. Nature Cell Biology. 19(6). 603–613. 125 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai & Hans Clevers. (2017). Wnt/β-catenin signaling in adult mammalian epithelial stem cells. Developmental Biology. 428(2). 273–282. 108 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai, Christine Weber, Ryan R. Driskell, Eduardo Calonje, & Fiona M. Watt. (2016). Compartmentalized Epidermal Activation of β-Catenin Differentially Affects Lineage Reprogramming and Underlies Tumor Heterogeneity. Cell Reports. 14(2). 269–281. 52 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai & Hans Clevers. (2016). Organoids: Modeling Development and the Stem Cell Niche in a Dish. Developmental Cell. 38(6). 590–600. 324 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai, Denny L. Cottle, Giacomo Donati, et al.. (2014). BLIMP1 Is Required for Postnatal Epidermal Homeostasis but Does Not Define a Sebaceous Gland Progenitor under Steady-State Conditions. Stem Cell Reports. 3(4). 620–633. 43 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai & Fiona M. Watt. (2014). Markers of Epidermal Stem Cell Subpopulations in Adult Mammalian Skin. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 4(10). a013631–a013631. 87 indexed citations

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Driskell, Ryan R., et al.. (2013). Sox2 modulates the function of two distinct cell lineages in mouse skin. Developmental Biology. 382(1). 15–26. 48 indexed citations

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Driskell, Ryan R., Beate M. Lichtenberger, Esther Hoste, et al.. (2013). Distinct fibroblast lineages determine dermal architecture in skin development and repair. Nature. 504(7479). 277–281. 894 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cottle, Denny L., Kai Kretzschmar, Pawel J. Schweiger, et al.. (2013). c-MYC-Induced Sebaceous Gland Differentiation Is Controlled by an Androgen Receptor/p53 Axis. Cell Reports. 3(2). 427–441. 59 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Kai & Fiona M. Watt. (2012). Lineage Tracing. Cell. 148(1-2). 33–45. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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Driskell, Ryan R., Vikram R. Juneja, John T. Connelly, et al.. (2011). Clonal Growth of Dermal Papilla Cells in Hydrogels Reveals Intrinsic Differences between Sox2-Positive and -Negative Cells In Vitro and In Vivo. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 132(4). 1084–1093. 61 indexed citations

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Wende, S., A. Aulich, Kai Kretzschmar, et al.. (1977). [Computer tomography in intracranial tumors. A cooperative study of 1658 neoplasms (author's transl)].. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 17(4). 149–56. 10 indexed citations

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