Martina Sester

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
147 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Martina Sester is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Martina Sester has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Epidemiology, 59 papers in Immunology and 47 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Martina Sester's work include Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research (46 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (38 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (29 papers). Martina Sester is often cited by papers focused on Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research (46 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (38 papers) and Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments (29 papers). Martina Sester collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Martina Sester's co-authors include Urban Sester, Matthias Girndt, Hans Köhler, Harald Kaul, Barbara C. Gärtner, Tina Schmidt, Andreas Meyerhans, Gunnar H. Heine, Hans-Gerhard Burgert and Hans Köhler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Martina Sester

141 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Immunogenicity and reactogenicity of heterologous ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/mRNA vaccination

2021 216 citations Tina Schmidt, Verena Klemis et al. profile →
The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation

2024 49 citations Camille N. Kotton, Nassim Kamar et al. Transplantation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martina Sester Germany	43	2.4k	1.9k	1.5k	942	926	147	5.5k
Urban Sester Germany	38	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	520 0.6×	621 0.7×	99	3.7k
Ineke J. M. ten Berge Netherlands	48	2.8k 1.2×	978 0.5×	3.8k 2.5×	858 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	189	7.7k
Simone A. Joosten Netherlands	41	1.5k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.6×	854 0.9×	356 0.4×	110	4.9k
Nina Babel Germany	40	953 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	651 0.7×	1.7k 1.8×	199	4.9k
Thomas Fehr Switzerland	40	1.4k 0.6×	697 0.4×	2.1k 1.4×	921 1.0×	788 0.9×	148	6.3k
Jeffrey Laurence United States	40	935 0.4×	2.4k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	391 0.4×	617 0.7×	130	5.4k
Ali H. Hajeer Saudi Arabia	47	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	2.5k 1.6×	524 0.6×	720 0.8×	220	7.6k
Luca Vago Italy	49	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	3.6k 2.4×	756 0.8×	2.4k 2.6×	182	8.4k
Rita Carsetti Italy	44	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	4.5k 3.0×	1.0k 1.1×	648 0.7×	165	8.3k
F Gudat Switzerland	41	4.2k 1.7×	626 0.3×	932 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	2.0k 2.2×	167	9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Martina Sester

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martina Sester

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Abu‐Omar, Amina, Danilo Fliser, Tina Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Cellular and humoral immunogenicity of respiratory syncytial virus vaccination in solid organ transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 26(3). 499–511.

Fousse, Mathias, Verena Klemis, Rebecca Urschel, et al.. (2025). De Novo Immune Induction After COVID‐19 Vaccination Under B‐Cell Depletion Is Characterized by Robust T‐Cellular Immunity in Patients With Inflammatory Central Nervous System Disease. Brain and Behavior. 15(9). e70849–e70849. 1 indexed citations

Blaas, Stefan, Michael Pfeifer, Maximilian Malfertheiner, et al.. (2025). Hyper-reactivity of CD8+ T cells and high expression of IL-3 correlates with occurrence and severity of Long-COVID. Clinical Immunology. 277. 110502–110502. 2 indexed citations

Melchior, Patrick, et al.. (2025). PD-L1+ CD49f+ CD133+ Circulating tumor cells predict outcome of patients with vulvar or cervical cancer after radio- and chemoradiotherapy. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 321–321. 1 indexed citations

Kotton, Camille N., Nassim Kamar, David Wojciechowski, et al.. (2024). The Second International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of BK Polyomavirus in Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation. 108(9). 1834–1866. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

Melchior, Patrick, et al.. (2023). Immune landscape of vulvar cancer patients treated with surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy revealed restricted T cell functionality and increased IL‐17 expression associated with cancer relapse. International Journal of Cancer. 154(2). 343–358. 2 indexed citations

Ziegler, Laura, Verena Klemis, Tina Schmidt, et al.. (2023). Differences in SARS-CoV-2 specific humoral and cellular immune responses after contralateral and ipsilateral COVID-19 vaccination. EBioMedicine. 95. 104743–104743. 15 indexed citations

Maxeiner, Stephan, Martina Sester, & Gabriela Krasteva‐Christ. (2019). Novel human sex-typing strategies based on the autism candidate gene NLGN4X and its male-specific gametologue NLGN4Y. Biology of Sex Differences. 10(1). 62–62. 8 indexed citations

Abdellrazeq, Gaber S., et al.. (2017). Evaluation of antigen specific interleukin-1β as a biomarker to detect cattle infected with Mycobacterium bovis. Tuberculosis. 105. 53–59. 13 indexed citations

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Windheim, Mark, Jennifer H. Southcombe, Elisabeth Kremmer, et al.. (2013). A unique secreted adenovirus E3 protein binds to the leukocyte common antigen CD45 and modulates leukocyte functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(50). E4884–93. 41 indexed citations

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Zawada, Adam M., Kyrill S. Rogacev, Stephan H. Schirmer, et al.. (2012). Monocyte heterogeneity in human cardiovascular disease. Immunobiology. 217(12). 1273–1284. 106 indexed citations

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Lange, Christoph, Martina Sester, Giovanni Sotgiu, et al.. (2011). Interferon-γ release assays for diagnosis of active pleural tuberculosis: a developing world perspective. European Respiratory Journal. 38(3). 747–748. 5 indexed citations

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Sester, Urban, Heinrike Wilkens, Mahavir Singh, et al.. (2009). Impaired detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisimmunity in patients using high levels of immunosuppressive drugs. European Respiratory Journal. 34(3). 702–710. 34 indexed citations

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Sester, Urban, Martina Sester, Hans Köhler, et al.. (2007). Maintenance of HIV-Specific Central and Effector Memory CD4 and CD8 T Cells Requires Antigen Persistence. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 23(4). 549–553. 9 indexed citations

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Sester, Martina, Urban Sester, H.W. Pees, et al.. (2007). Estimation of Human Herpesvirus 8 Prevalence in High-Risk Patients by Analysis of Humoral and Cellular Immunity. Transplantation. 84(1). 40–45. 8 indexed citations

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Dinser, Robert, Mathias Fousse, Urban Sester, et al.. (2007). Evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection in patients with inflammatory arthropathies before treatment with TNF- blocking drugs using a novel flow-cytometric interferon- release assay. Lara D. Veeken. 47(2). 212–218. 37 indexed citations

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Türeci, Özlem, Ulrich Mack, Ulrich Luxemburger, et al.. (2005). Humoral immune responses of lung cancer patients against tumor antigen NY-ESO-1. Cancer Letters. 236(1). 64–71. 66 indexed citations

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Girndt, Matthias, Harald Kaul, Urban Sester, et al.. (2002). Anti-inflammatory interleukin-10 genotype protects dialysis patients from cardiovascular events. Kidney International. 62(3). 949–955. 111 indexed citations

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Girndt, Matthias, Martina Sester, Urban Sester, Harald Kaul, & Hans Köhler. (2001). Defective expression of B7-2 (CD86) on monocytes of dialysis patients correlates to the uremia-associated immune defect. Kidney International. 59(4). 1382–1389. 84 indexed citations

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Sester, Urban, et al.. (2000). T‐cell activation follows Th1 rather than Th2 pattern in haemodialysis patients. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 15(8). 1217–1223. 129 indexed citations

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