Nils Eling

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Nils Eling is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Eling has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Nils Eling's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (11 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (3 papers). Nils Eling is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (11 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (3 papers). Nils Eling collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Nils Eling's co-authors include John C. Marioni, John Hazin, Anne Hamacher‐Brady, Nathan Brady, Duncan T. Odom, Celia Pilar Martinez‐Jimenez, Bernd Bodenmiller, Michael D. Morgan, Daniel Schulz and Tobias Hoch and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Nils Eling

22 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Identification of artesunate as a specific activator of ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells

2015 442 citations Nils Eling, John Hazin et al. Oncoscience profile →
Multiplexed imaging mass cytometry of the chemokine milieus in melanoma characterizes features of the response to immunotherapy

2022 156 citations Tobias Hoch, Daniel Schulz et al. Science Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Eling Switzerland	13	969	398	397	292	272	23	1.6k
Päivi Östling Finland	22	1.4k 1.4×	240 0.6×	689 1.7×	110 0.4×	361 1.3×	44	2.0k
Raúl Catena Spain	24	1.3k 1.4×	223 0.6×	459 1.2×	445 1.5×	679 2.5×	30	2.2k
Christopher G. Hubert United States	18	1.1k 1.1×	201 0.5×	510 1.3×	193 0.7×	612 2.3×	30	2.0k
Fabian Coscia Germany	17	1.1k 1.2×	127 0.3×	266 0.7×	184 0.6×	332 1.2×	29	1.7k
F. Hernán Espinoza United States	11	1.8k 1.8×	450 1.1×	248 0.6×	136 0.5×	458 1.7×	14	2.3k
Kristina Warton Australia	15	1.1k 1.2×	164 0.4×	480 1.2×	107 0.4×	266 1.0×	33	1.6k
Marc Aubry France	22	866 0.9×	150 0.4×	412 1.0×	125 0.4×	187 0.7×	50	1.5k
Cem Elbi United States	23	1.4k 1.4×	323 0.8×	219 0.6×	197 0.7×	462 1.7×	38	2.2k
David R. Croucher Australia	24	1.3k 1.3×	145 0.4×	486 1.2×	232 0.8×	507 1.9×	47	2.1k
Shenghong Ma United States	12	1.2k 1.2×	107 0.3×	331 0.8×	109 0.4×	211 0.8×	12	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Eling

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Jackson, Hartland W., Nils Eling, Shan Zhao, et al.. (2025). A stratification system for breast cancer based on basoluminal tumor cells and spatial tumor architecture. Cancer Cell. 43(9). 1637–1655.e9. 1 indexed citations

Kuett, Laura, Alina Bollhagen, Sandra Tietscher, et al.. (2024). Distant Metastases of Breast Cancer Resemble Primary Tumors in Cancer Cell Composition but Differ in Immune Cell Phenotypes. Cancer Research. 85(1). 15–31. 5 indexed citations

Watson, Spencer S., Ziqi Kang, Nils Eling, et al.. (2024). Microenvironmental reorganization in brain tumors following radiotherapy and recurrence revealed by hyperplexed immunofluorescence imaging. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3226–3226. 25 indexed citations

Panten, Jasper, Tobias Heinen, Christina Ernst, et al.. (2024). The dynamic genetic determinants of increased transcriptional divergence in spermatids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1272–1272.

Eling, Nils, et al.. (2024). cytoviewer: an R/Bioconductor package for interactive visualization and exploration of highly multiplexed imaging data. BMC Bioinformatics. 25(1). 2 indexed citations

Morfouace, Marie, Daniel Schulz, Nils Eling, et al.. (2023). 2266P IMMUcan consortium: Focus on the first results of the non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cohort. Annals of Oncology. 34. S1164–S1164. 2 indexed citations

Windhager, Jonas, Vito Riccardo Tomaso Zanotelli, Daniel Schulz, et al.. (2023). An end-to-end workflow for multiplexed image processing and analysis. Nature Protocols. 18(11). 3565–3613. 88 indexed citations

Hoch, Tobias, Daniel Schulz, Nils Eling, et al.. (2022). Multiplexed imaging mass cytometry of the chemokine milieus in melanoma characterizes features of the response to immunotherapy. Science Immunology. 7(70). eabk1692–eabk1692. 156 indexed citations breakdown →

Nowicki-Osuch, Karol, Lizhe Zhuang, Sriganesh Jammula, et al.. (2021). Molecular phenotyping reveals the identity of Barrett’s esophagus and its malignant transition. Science. 373(6556). 760–767. 92 indexed citations

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Eling, Nils, Nicolas Damond, Tobias Hoch, & Bernd Bodenmiller. (2020). cytomapper : an R/Bioconductor package for visualization of highly multiplexed imaging data. Bioinformatics. 36(24). 5706–5708. 42 indexed citations

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Eling, Nils, Michael D. Morgan, & John C. Marioni. (2019). Challenges in measuring and understanding biological noise. Nature Reviews Genetics. 20(9). 536–548. 154 indexed citations

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Eling, Nils, Michael D. Morgan, & John C. Marioni. (2019). Author Correction: Challenges in measuring and understanding biological noise. Nature Reviews Genetics. 20(9). 562–562. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Hung‐Chang, Nils Eling, Celia Pilar Martinez‐Jimenez, et al.. (2019). IL ‐7‐dependent compositional changes within the γδ T cell pool in lymph nodes during ageing lead to an unbalanced anti‐tumour response. EMBO Reports. 20(8). e47379–e47379. 47 indexed citations

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Ernst, Christina, Nils Eling, Celia Pilar Martinez‐Jimenez, John C. Marioni, & Duncan T. Odom. (2019). Staged developmental mapping and X chromosome transcriptional dynamics during mouse spermatogenesis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1251–1251. 174 indexed citations

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Eling, Nils, Arianne C. Richard, Sylvia Richardson, John C. Marioni, & Catalina A. Vallejos. (2018). Correcting the Mean-Variance Dependency for Differential Variability Testing Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data. Cell Systems. 7(3). 284–294.e12. 48 indexed citations

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Achim, Kaia, Nils Eling, Hernando Martínez Vergara, et al.. (2018). Whole-Body Single-Cell Sequencing Reveals Transcriptional Domains in the Annelid Larval Body. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(5). 1047–1062. 38 indexed citations

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Martinez‐Jimenez, Celia Pilar, Nils Eling, Hung‐Chang Chen, et al.. (2017). Aging increases cell-to-cell transcriptional variability upon immune stimulation. Science. 355(6332). 1433–1436. 212 indexed citations

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Ernst, Christina, Jeremy A. Pike, Sarah J. Aitken, et al.. (2016). Successful transmission and transcriptional deployment of a human chromosome via mouse male meiosis. eLife. 5. 3 indexed citations

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Giry-Laterrière, Marc, Andreia V. Pinho, Nils Eling, Lorraine A. Chantrill, & Ilse Rooman. (2015). Emerging Drug Target In Pancreatic Cancer: Placing Sirtuin 1 on the Canvas. Current Cancer Drug Targets. 15(6). 463–468. 5 indexed citations

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Eling, Nils, et al.. (2015). Identification of artesunate as a specific activator of ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells. Oncoscience. 2(5). 517–532. 442 indexed citations breakdown →

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