Paul Pumpens

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Paul Pumpens is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Ecology and Hepatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Pumpens has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Epidemiology, 29 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Hepatology. Recurrent topics in Paul Pumpens's work include Hepatitis B Virus Studies (52 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (29 papers) and Hepatitis C virus research (26 papers). Paul Pumpens is often cited by papers focused on Hepatitis B Virus Studies (52 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (29 papers) and Hepatitis C virus research (26 papers). Paul Pumpens collaborates with scholars based in Latvia, Germany and United States. Paul Pumpens's co-authors include Elmars Grens, Peter Pushko, Velta Ose, Dace Skrastiņa, Martin F. Bachmann, Irina Sominskaya, Galina Borisova, Andrea Jegerlehner, Andris Kazāks and Andris Dišlers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Paul Pumpens

81 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Development of Virus-Like Particle Technology from Small Highly Symmetric to Large Complex Virus-Like Particle Structures

2013 4.3k citations Peter Pushko, Paul Pumpens et al. Intervirology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Pumpens Latvia	36	2.9k	2.2k	2.1k	1.7k	1.3k	81	7.3k
Peter Pushko United States	33	3.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	3.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	823 0.6×	65	8.0k
Thomas R. Fuerst United States	33	2.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	651 0.5×	74	8.0k
Elmars Grens Latvia	15	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	761 0.6×	18	5.2k
Ian M. Jones United Kingdom	51	1.7k 0.6×	3.3k 1.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	552 0.4×	177	8.1k
Guido Grandi Italy	53	3.3k 1.1×	4.5k 2.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	875 0.7×	190	11.1k
Marc Girard France	46	1.8k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	654 0.5×	215	8.2k
Patricia L. Earl United States	54	3.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	3.5k 2.0×	639 0.5×	131	9.4k
Britta Wahrén Sweden	56	5.4k 1.8×	3.1k 1.4×	3.3k 1.5×	4.5k 2.6×	316 0.2×	491	13.7k
Margaret A. Liu United States	31	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	4.2k 2.4×	312 0.2×	56	7.6k
Rogier W. Sanders Netherlands	60	2.1k 0.7×	4.6k 2.1×	4.0k 1.9×	4.6k 2.6×	825 0.6×	212	11.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Pumpens

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Fiedler, Melanie, Dorothea Bankwitz, William O. Osburn, et al.. (2014). Hepatitis C Virus Hypervariable Region 1 Variants Presented on Hepatitis B Virus Capsid-Like Particles Induce Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e102235–e102235. 7 indexed citations

Cielēns, Indulis, et al.. (2014). Mosaic RNA Phage VLPs Carrying Domain III of the West Nile Virus E Protein. Molecular Biotechnology. 56(5). 459–469. 15 indexed citations

Ling, Song, et al.. (2010). Identification of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Shared Epitope Binding Site on Calreticulin. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11703–e11703. 36 indexed citations

Rabe, Birgit, Andreas Bischof, Michael Foss, et al.. (2009). Nuclear Entry of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids Involves Disintegration to Protein Dimers followed by Nuclear Reassociation to Capsids. PLoS Pathogens. 5(8). e1000563–e1000563. 80 indexed citations

Bessa, Juliana, Andrea Jegerlehner, Heather Hinton, et al.. (2009). Alveolar Macrophages and Lung Dendritic Cells Sense RNA and Drive Mucosal IgA Responses. The Journal of Immunology. 183(6). 3788–3799. 62 indexed citations

Sendi, Hossein, Saeid Shahraz, Heléne Norder, et al.. (2009). CTL escape mutations of core protein are more frequent in strains of HBeAg negative patients with low levels of HBV DNA. Journal of Clinical Virology. 46(3). 259–264. 24 indexed citations

Kazāks, Andris, et al.. (2008). Melanoma vaccine candidates from chimeric hepatitis B core virus‐like particles carrying a tumor‐associated MAGE‐3 epitope. Biotechnology Journal. 3(11). 1429–1436. 33 indexed citations

Ling, Song, et al.. (2007). The rheumatoid arthritis shared epitope increases cellular susceptibility to oxidative stress by antagonizing an adenosine-mediated anti-oxidative pathway. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 9(1). R5–R5. 36 indexed citations

Zajakina, Anna, et al.. (2004). Synthesis of all hepatitis B structural proteins in the Semliki Forest virus expression system. 1 indexed citations

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Pumpens, Paul, Elmars Grens, & Michael Nassal. (2002). Molecular Epidemiology and Immunology of Hepatitis B Virus Infection – An Update. Intervirology. 45(4-6). 218–232. 38 indexed citations

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Kazāks, Andris, Velta Ose, Dace Skrastiņa, et al.. (2002). Chimeric Bacteriophage fr Virus-Like Particles Harboring the Immunodominant C-Terminal Region of Hamster Polyomavirus VP1 Induce a Strong VP1-Specific Antibody Response in Rabbits and Mice. Viral Immunology. 15(4). 627–643. 16 indexed citations

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Sominskaya, Irina, Wilma P. Paulij, Juris Jansons, et al.. (2002). Fine-mapping of the B-cell epitope domain at the N-terminus of the preS2 region of the hepatitis B surface antigen. Journal of Immunological Methods. 260(1-2). 251–261. 9 indexed citations

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Jegerlehner, Andrea, Tazio Storni, Gerd Lipowsky, et al.. (2002). Regulation of IgG antibody responses by epitope density and CD21-mediated costimulation. European Journal of Immunology. 32(11). 3305–3314. 173 indexed citations

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Pumpens, Paul & Elmars Grens. (2001). HBV Core Particles as a Carrier for B Cell/T Cell Epitopes. Intervirology. 44(2-3). 98–114. 229 indexed citations

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Borisova, Galina, Dace Skrastiņa, Andris Dišlers, et al.. (1999). Behavior of a Short preS1 Epitope on the Surface of Hepatitis B Core Particles. Biological Chemistry. 380(3). 315–24. 28 indexed citations

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Cielēns, Indulis, et al.. (1998). Mosaic Qβ coats as a new presentation model. FEBS Letters. 431(1). 7–11. 41 indexed citations

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Ulrich, Rainer G., Diana Koletzki, Andreas Zankl, et al.. (1997). A new strategy to generate mosaic HBcAg particles presenting foreign epitopes. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 235–240. 3 indexed citations

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Grene, Edith, et al.. (1997). Relationship between Antigenicity and Immunogenicity of Chimeric Hepatitis B Virus Core Particles Carrying HIV Type 1 Epitopes. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 13(1). 41–51. 12 indexed citations

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Liljas, Lars, K. Fridborg, K. Valegård, M. F. Bundule, & Paul Pumpens. (1994). Crystal Structure of Bacteriophage fr Capsids at 3.5 Å Resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 244(3). 279–290. 49 indexed citations

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Pushko, Peter, Matti Sällberg, Galina Borisova, et al.. (1994). Identification of Hepatitis B Virus Core Protein Regions Exposed or internalized at the Surface of HBcAg Particles by Scanning with Monoclonal Antibodies. Virology. 202(2). 912–920. 59 indexed citations

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