Oliver Hofmann

33.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
80 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Oliver Hofmann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Hofmann has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cancer Research and 14 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Oliver Hofmann's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (11 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (10 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (10 papers). Oliver Hofmann is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (11 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (10 papers) and Hemoglobin structure and function (10 papers). Oliver Hofmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Oliver Hofmann's co-authors include Brad Chapman, Ling Yang, Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, Ping Li, Xihong Lin, Steven M. Watkins, Suneng Fu, Alexander R. Ivanov, Lee H. Dicker and David Mittelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Hofmann

78 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Aberrant lipid metabolism disrupts calcium homeostasis causing liver endoplasmic reticulum stress in obesity

2011 826 citations Oliver Hofmann et al. profile →
Clonal dynamics of native haematopoiesis

2014 574 citations Brad Chapman, Oliver Hofmann et al. profile →
VarDict: a novel and versatile variant caller for next-generation sequencing in cancer research

2016 497 citations Brad Chapman, Oliver Hofmann et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Integrating human sequence data sets provides a resource of benchmark SNP and indel genotype calls

2014 458 citations Brad Chapman, Oliver Hofmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Hofmann United States	26	3.0k	1.3k	662	647	625	80	4.9k
Elena Feinstein United States	40	4.2k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	806 1.2×	656 1.0×	331 0.5×	63	6.7k
Sampsa Hautaniemi Finland	49	4.9k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	529 0.8×	510 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	186	7.6k
Shuichi Tsutsumi Japan	43	4.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	452 0.7×	261 0.4×	606 1.0×	83	5.8k
Crispin Miller United Kingdom	38	3.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	460 0.7×	372 0.6×	365 0.6×	94	5.4k
Dung‐Fang Lee United States	36	4.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	660 1.0×	416 0.6×	368 0.6×	87	6.3k
Haidi Yang China	13	2.0k 0.7×	547 0.4×	556 0.8×	425 0.7×	228 0.4×	32	3.5k
Vladimir Lazar France	46	4.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.7×	974 1.5×	441 0.7×	581 0.9×	133	7.4k
Ceshi Chen China	49	5.2k 1.7×	1.6k 1.2×	525 0.8×	656 1.0×	915 1.5×	182	6.8k
Takao Takahashi Japan	33	2.6k 0.9×	557 0.4×	397 0.6×	652 1.0×	395 0.6×	189	5.1k
Carlos Evangelista United States	10	5.2k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	902 1.4×	284 0.4×	601 1.0×	12	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Hofmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Hofmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Hofmann

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20 of 20 papers shown

McGahan, Eugene, Tatiane Yanes, Jennifer Berkman, et al.. (2025). Utility of Germline, Somatic and ctDNA Testing in Adults With Cancer. Cancer Medicine. 14(15). e71080–e71080.

Prokopenko, Dmitry, Eric Cunningham, Peter I. Song, et al.. (2020). Aβ-accelerated neurodegeneration caused by Alzheimer’s-associated ACE variant R1279Q is rescued by angiotensin system inhibition in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 12(563). 33 indexed citations

Dahlberg, Johan, Claes Ladenvall, Roman Valls Guimerà, et al.. (2019). Arteria: An automation system for a sequencing core facility. GigaScience. 8(12). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Leo D., Scott B. Ficarro, John N. Hutchinson, et al.. (2016). Phosphoproteomic profiling of mouse primary HSPCs reveals new regulators of HSPC mobilization. Blood. 128(11). 1465–1474. 13 indexed citations

Grasso, Carole, Matthew Anaka, Oliver Hofmann, et al.. (2016). Iterative sorting reveals CD133+ and CD133- melanoma cells as phenotypically distinct populations. BMC Cancer. 16(1). 726–726. 15 indexed citations

Lindström, Sara, Brad Chapman, Alexander Gusev, et al.. (2016). Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer susceptibility regions in 4611 women across four different ethnicities. Breast Cancer Research. 18(1). 109–109. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jing, A. Michaela Krautzberger, Shannan Ho Sui, et al.. (2014). Cell-specific translational profiling in acute kidney injury. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 124(3). 1242–1254. 142 indexed citations

Altschuler, Gabriel, Oliver Hofmann, Irina Kalatskaya, et al.. (2013). Pathprinting: An integrative approach to understand the functional basis of disease. Genome Medicine. 5(7). 68–68. 12 indexed citations

Schwede, Matthew, Dimitrios Spentzos, Stefan Bentink, et al.. (2013). Stem Cell-Like Gene Expression in Ovarian Cancer Predicts Type II Subtype and Prognosis. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57799–e57799. 30 indexed citations

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Froehlich, John W., et al.. (2013). An in-depth comparison of the male pediatric and adult urinary proteomes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1844(5). 1044–1050. 23 indexed citations

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Lai, Peggy S., Miguel Pinilla-Vera, Alvaro A. Macias, et al.. (2012). Chronic Endotoxin Exposure Produces Airflow Obstruction and Lung Dendritic Cell Expansion. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 47(2). 209–217. 24 indexed citations

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Mazumdar, Maitreyi, Weiming Xia, Oliver Hofmann, et al.. (2012). Prenatal Lead Levels, Plasma Amyloid β Levels, and Gene Expression in Young Adulthood. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(5). 702–707. 46 indexed citations

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Sui, Shannan J. Ho, Kimberly Begley, Dorothy Reilly, et al.. (2011). The Stem Cell Discovery Engine: an integrated repository and analysis system for cancer stem cell comparisons. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D984–D991. 19 indexed citations

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Rocca‐Serra, Philippe, Marco Brandizi, Eamonn Maguire, et al.. (2010). ISA software suite: supporting standards-compliant experimental annotation and enabling curation at the community level. Bioinformatics. 26(18). 2354–2356. 171 indexed citations

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Lister, Allyson, Ruchira S. Datta, Oliver Hofmann, et al.. (2010). Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. PLoS Computational Biology. 6. 2 indexed citations

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Lister, Allyson, Ruchira S. Datta, Oliver Hofmann, et al.. (2010). Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2009. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(1). e1000640–e1000640. 3 indexed citations

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Kaur, Mandeep, Sebastian Schmeier, Cameron Ross MacPherson, et al.. (2008). Prioritizing genes of potential relevance to diseases affected by sex hormones: an example of Myasthenia Gravis. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 481–481. 7 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Oliver. (2003). Web-Services in serviceorientierten IT-Architekturkonzepten.. Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik. 234. 1 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Oliver & T Brittain. (1998). Partitioning of Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide in the Three Human Embryonic Hemoglobins. Hemoglobin. 22(4). 313–319. 5 indexed citations

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Hofmann, Oliver, Thomas Brittain, & R.M.G. Wells. (1997). The control of oxygen affinity in the three human embryonic haemoglobins by respiration linked metabolites. IUBMB Life. 42(3). 553–566. 2 indexed citations

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