Kristian Händler

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kristian Händler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristian Händler has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kristian Händler's work include Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (4 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers). Kristian Händler is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Vibrio bacteria research studies (4 papers) and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (4 papers). Kristian Händler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Kristian Händler's co-authors include Joachim L. Schultze, Marc Beyer, Jay C. D. Hinton, Elvira Mass, Frédéric Geissmann, Carsten Kröger, Patrick Günther, Shabarinath Srikumar, Aoife Colgan and Yasuhiro Kobayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The EMBO Journal and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Kristian Händler

32 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Specification of tissue-resident macrophages during organogenesis

2016 602 citations Elvira Mass, Iván Ballesteros et al. Science profile →
An Infection-Relevant Transcriptomic Compendium for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

2013 372 citations Carsten Kröger, Aoife Colgan et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kristian Händler	859	792	325	295	246	34	2.1k
Roberto Montes‐de‐Oca‐Luna	840 1.0×	292 0.4×	298 0.9×	458 1.6×	253 1.0×	98	2.5k
Sylvie Mémet	1.5k 1.8×	1.5k 1.8×	259 0.8×	198 0.7×	124 0.5×	54	3.6k
Zbigniew Mikulski	950 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	122 0.4×	174 0.6×	140 0.6×	53	2.3k
Carsten Kuenne	2.3k 2.7×	341 0.4×	54 0.2×	374 1.3×	585 2.4×	53	3.5k
Roi Avraham	1.4k 1.6×	422 0.5×	55 0.2×	184 0.6×	82 0.3×	48	2.8k
Christian Schwerk	1.2k 1.3×	408 0.5×	400 1.2×	169 0.6×	57 0.2×	82	2.6k
Amanda M. Marchiando	1.1k 1.3×	388 0.5×	878 2.7×	202 0.7×	97 0.4×	17	2.2k
Abigail Betanzos	1.4k 1.6×	198 0.3×	1.1k 3.5×	171 0.6×	69 0.3×	48	2.5k
David M. Alvarado	997 1.2×	342 0.4×	212 0.7×	422 1.4×	57 0.2×	55	2.4k
Aleksandr Stotland	1.3k 1.5×	264 0.3×	97 0.3×	148 0.5×	45 0.2×	44	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristian Händler

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20 of 20 papers shown

Händler, Kristian, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive androgen-dependent transcriptome analysis in human genital tissue. PubMed. 26(1). 1047–1047.

Sarlus, Heela, Kavi Bhalla, Sergio Castro‐Gomez, et al.. (2025). Proliferating Microglia Exhibit Unique Transcriptional and Functional Alterations in Alzheimer’s Disease. ASN NEURO. 17(1). 2506406–2506406. 1 indexed citations

Assmann, Julian C., Helge Müller‐Fielitz, Kristian Händler, et al.. (2025). Diet modulates the therapeutic effects of dimethyl fumarate mediated by the immunometabolic neutrophil receptor HCAR2. eLife. 14. 2 indexed citations

Kakar, Naseebullah, Asmat Ali, Nathalie Kruse, et al.. (2024). Further evidence of biallelic NAV3 variants associated with recessive neurodevelopmental disorder with dysmorphism, developmental delay, intellectual disability, and behavioral abnormalities. Human Genetics. 144(1). 55–65.

Pozojevic, Jelena, Joanne Trinh, Naseebullah Kakar, et al.. (2024). LINE1-mediated epigenetic repression of androgen receptor transcription causes androgen insensitivity syndrome. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 16302–16302. 2 indexed citations

Piazzesi, Antonia, Lena Wischhof, Viktoria V. Zeisler‐Diehl, et al.. (2022). CEST‐2.2 overexpression alters lipid metabolism and extends longevity of mitochondrial mutants. EMBO Reports. 23(5). e52606–e52606. 7 indexed citations

Wischhof, Lena, Michael Peitz, Oliver Brüstle, et al.. (2022). BCL7A ‐containing SWI/SNF/BAF complexes modulate mitochondrial bioenergetics during neural progenitor differentiation. The EMBO Journal. 41(23). e110595–e110595. 15 indexed citations

Bonaguro, Lorenzo, Jonas Schulte-Schrepping, Benedikt Reiz, et al.. (2022). Human variation in population-wide gene expression data predicts gene perturbation phenotype. iScience. 25(11). 105328–105328. 2 indexed citations

Wischhof, Lena, Yiru Wang, Antonia Piazzesi, et al.. (2022). SGPL1 stimulates VPS39 recruitment to the mitochondria in MICU1 deficient cells. Molecular Metabolism. 61. 101503–101503. 6 indexed citations

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Zocher, Sara, Rupert W. Overall, Nicole Rund, et al.. (2021). De novo DNA methylation controls neuronal maturation during adult hippocampal neurogenesis. The EMBO Journal. 40(18). e107100–e107100. 37 indexed citations

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Kummer, Markus P., Christina Ising, Christiane Kummer, et al.. (2021). Microglial PD‐1 stimulation by astrocytic PD‐L1 suppresses neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease pathology. The EMBO Journal. 40(24). e108662–e108662. 68 indexed citations

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Fernández, Lucia Torres, Sibylle Mitschka, Thomas Ulas, et al.. (2021). The stem cell–specific protein TRIM71 inhibits maturation and activity of the prodifferentiation miRNA let-7 via two independent molecular mechanisms. RNA. 27(7). 805–828. 16 indexed citations

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Fujii, Wataru, Theodore S. Kapellos, Kevin Baßler, et al.. (2021). Alveolar macrophage transcriptomic profiling in COPD shows major lipid metabolism changes. ERJ Open Research. 7(3). 915–2020. 34 indexed citations

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Hatzioannou, Aikaterini, Aggelos Banos, Maren Köhne, et al.. (2019). An intrinsic role of IL-33 in Treg cell–mediated tumor immunoevasion. Nature Immunology. 21(1). 75–85. 107 indexed citations

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Rabold, Katrin, Thomas Ulas, Dennis M. de Graaf, et al.. (2019). Interplay between thyroid cancer cells and macrophages: effects on IL-32 mediated cell death and thyroid cancer cell migration. Cellular Oncology. 42(5). 691–703. 9 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Franziska, Michael Blank, Kristian Händler, et al.. (2018). Systematic evaluation of error rates and causes in short samples in next-generation sequencing. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10950–10950. 202 indexed citations

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Mass, Elvira, Iván Ballesteros, Matthias Farlik, et al.. (2016). Specification of tissue-resident macrophages during organogenesis. Science. 353(6304). 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shahbazi, Ebrahim, Sharif Moradi, Shiva Nemati, et al.. (2016). Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Stably Self-Renewing Neural Stem Cells with a Single Zinc-Finger Transcription Factor. Stem Cell Reports. 6(4). 539–551. 54 indexed citations

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Condell, Orla, Karen A. Power, Kristian Händler, et al.. (2014). Comparative analysis of Salmonella susceptibility and tolerance to the biocide chlorhexidine identifies a complex cellular defense network. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 373–373. 23 indexed citations

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Kröger, Carsten, Aoife Colgan, Shabarinath Srikumar, et al.. (2013). An Infection-Relevant Transcriptomic Compendium for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium. Cell Host & Microbe. 14(6). 683–695. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

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