Nicole Ritz

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Nicole Ritz is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Ritz has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Infectious Diseases, 61 papers in Epidemiology and 35 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Nicole Ritz's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (43 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (22 papers) and Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders (19 papers). Nicole Ritz is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (43 papers), Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (22 papers) and Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders (19 papers). Nicole Ritz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and United Kingdom. Nicole Ritz's co-authors include Nigel Curtis, Marc Tebruegge, Petra Zimmermann, Tom Connell, Roy M. Robins‐Browne, Willem A. Hanekom, Victoria C. Ziesenitz, Julia Brandenberger, Warwick J. Britton and Thorkild Tylleskär and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Ritz

123 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole Ritz Switzerland	30	1.5k	1.1k	750	642	250	130	3.0k
Nancy F. Crum‐Cianflone United States	45	2.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.9×	360 0.5×	672 1.0×	388 1.6×	153	5.7k
Alessandra Bandera Italy	31	1.7k 1.1×	951 0.8×	442 0.6×	398 0.6×	195 0.8×	187	3.2k
Claudia A. Kozinetz United States	38	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	699 0.9×	486 0.8×	197 0.8×	129	4.7k
Merete Storgaard Denmark	25	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	252 0.3×	346 0.5×	144 0.6×	122	3.0k
Andrea Gori Italy	40	3.2k 2.2×	2.2k 2.0×	734 1.0×	810 1.3×	193 0.8×	300	5.8k
Eli Somekh Israel	27	520 0.4×	812 0.7×	300 0.4×	505 0.8×	127 0.5×	112	2.6k
Nikolaos V. Sipsas Greece	30	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	276 0.4×	375 0.6×	92 0.4×	150	3.3k
Mobeen H. Rathore United States	33	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	515 0.7×	439 0.7×	48 0.2×	141	3.7k
Saul N. Faust United Kingdom	33	861 0.6×	2.3k 2.0×	544 0.7×	497 0.8×	91 0.4×	170	4.3k
Avinash K. Shetty United States	34	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	175 0.2×	591 0.9×	189 0.8×	201	3.8k

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Bigi, Sandra, et al.. (2025). Rifampicin and its neuroprotective properties in humans – A systematic review. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 185. 117928–117928.

Paganini, Alessandro M., et al.. (2025). Comparative analysis of salivary cytokine profiles in newly diagnosed pediatric patients with cancer and healthy children. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 3544–3544.

Welzel, Tatjana, et al.. (2024). Borrelia burgdorferi infections in children and adolescents in Switzerland – a seroprevalence study 2023/2024 (BOBUINCA). Infection. 53(3). 893–903.

Mack, Ines, Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, Nicole Ritz, & Petra Zimmermann. (2023). A diagnostic algorithm for children presenting with peripheral facial nerve palsy and inconclusive diagnosis of neuroborreliosis. Acta Paediatrica. 112(8). 1644–1647.

Buettcher, Michael, Lisa Kottanattu, Anita Niederer-Loher, et al.. (2023). Cardiac involvement in children with paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS): data from a prospective nationwide surveillance study. Swiss Medical Weekly. 153(10). 40092–40092. 5 indexed citations

Brasier, Noé, Sabine Bélard, José Domínguez, et al.. (2022). Towards Accurate Point-of-Care Tests for Tuberculosis in Children. Pathogens. 11(3). 327–327. 13 indexed citations

Pittet, Laure F., Marc Tebruegge, Binita Dutta, et al.. (2022). Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Skin Reaction Predicts Enhanced Mycobacteria-Specific T-Cell Responses in Infants: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 205(7). 830–841. 6 indexed citations

Schmidt, Axel J., et al.. (2021). Pediatric Tuberculosis Disease during Years of High Refugee Arrivals: A 6-Year National Prospective Surveillance Study. Respiration. 100(11). 1050–1059. 9 indexed citations

Bamford, Alasdair, Garth Dixon, Nigel Klein, et al.. (2020). Preventing tuberculosis in paediatric kidney transplant recipients: is there a role for BCG immunisation pre-transplantation in low tuberculosis incidence countries?. Pediatric Nephrology. 36(10). 3023–3031. 2 indexed citations

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Brandenberger, Julia, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Florian Vogt, Thorkild Tylleskär, & Nicole Ritz. (2020). Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients. International Journal for Equity in Health. 19(1). 58–58. 11 indexed citations

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Ziesenitz, Victoria C., et al.. (2020). Intermediate monocytes exhibit higher levels of TLR2, TLR4 and CD64 early after congenital heart surgery. Cytokine. 133. 155153–155153. 2 indexed citations

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Brandenberger, Julia, et al.. (2019). Perspective of asylum-seeking caregivers on the quality of care provided by a Swiss paediatric hospital: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 9(9). e029385–e029385. 5 indexed citations

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Wagner, Noémie, et al.. (2017). Prise en charge des infections ostéo-articulaires aigües de l'enfant : recommandations des groupes suisses d'infectiologie pédiatrique (PIGS), d'orthopédie pédiatrique et de chirurgie pédiatrique. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva).

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Bernhard, Sara V., Ulrich Heininger, Johannes Trück, et al.. (2016). Leitlinie zur Abklärung und Vorbeugung von Infektionskrankheiten und Aktualisierung des Impfschutzes bei asymptomatischen asylsuchenden Kindern und Jugendlichen in der Schweiz. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 27. 11–18. 2 indexed citations

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Tebruegge, Marc, Nicole Ritz, Nigel Curtis, & Delane Shingadia. (2015). Diagnostic Tests for Childhood Tuberculosis. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 34(9). 1014–1019. 35 indexed citations

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Tebruegge, Marc, Binita Dutta, Susan Donath, et al.. (2015). Mycobacteria-Specific Cytokine Responses Detect Tuberculosis Infection and Distinguish Latent from Active Tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 192(4). 485–499. 82 indexed citations

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Ritz, Nicole, et al.. (2014). Aerococcus urinae: a possible reason for malodorous urine in otherwise healthy children. European Journal of Pediatrics. 173(8). 1115–1117. 15 indexed citations

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Ritz, Nicole, Binita Dutta, Susan Donath, et al.. (2011). The Influence of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine Strain on the Immune Response against Tuberculosis: A Randomized Trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 185(2). 213–222. 99 indexed citations

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Connell, Tom, Nicole Ritz, Georgia Paxton, et al.. (2008). A Three-Way Comparison of Tuberculin Skin Testing, QuantiFERON-TB Gold and T-SPOT.TB in Children. PLoS ONE. 3(7). e2624–e2624. 149 indexed citations

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Ritz, Nicole & Nigel Curtis. (2007). What the Paediatrician Needs to Know When Pandemic Influenza Arrives in Clinical Practice. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 609. 164–184. 1 indexed citations

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