Ralf Thiele

3.2k total citations
57 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ralf Thiele is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Surgery and Nephrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Thiele has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Rheumatology, 18 papers in Surgery and 14 papers in Nephrology. Recurrent topics in Ralf Thiele's work include Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid (14 papers), Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments (12 papers) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (11 papers). Ralf Thiele is often cited by papers focused on Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid (14 papers), Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments (12 papers) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (11 papers). Ralf Thiele collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Ralf Thiele's co-authors include Naomi Schlesinger, Ralf Zimmer, Gurjit S. Kaeley, Soterios Gyftopoulos, Jonathan Samuels, Michael H. Pillinger, Christopher J. Swearingen, Lene Terslev, Marwin Gutiérrez and Judith F. Baumhauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Blood, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Thiele

54 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Thiele United States 23 723 664 663 212 171 57 1.6k
T. Ben Abdallah Tunisia 16 133 0.2× 139 0.2× 240 0.4× 104 0.5× 39 0.2× 198 1.0k
Albert Bové Spain 30 1.0k 1.4× 149 0.2× 362 0.5× 118 0.6× 15 0.1× 47 2.3k
Nicolas Kozakowski Austria 19 48 0.1× 292 0.4× 385 0.6× 156 0.7× 43 0.3× 63 1.2k
Vincenzo Montinaro Italy 24 256 0.4× 579 0.9× 158 0.2× 225 1.1× 8 0.0× 79 1.6k
A. Ting United Kingdom 24 93 0.1× 180 0.3× 455 0.7× 118 0.6× 67 0.4× 79 1.7k
Kuo‐Lung Lai Taiwan 20 470 0.7× 46 0.1× 125 0.2× 161 0.8× 39 0.2× 81 1.1k
H W Sollinger United States 18 72 0.1× 239 0.4× 646 1.0× 89 0.4× 19 0.1× 70 1.5k
Robert U. Ashford United Kingdom 23 319 0.4× 54 0.1× 766 1.2× 112 0.5× 230 1.3× 87 1.5k
Frank R. Schmid United States 24 728 1.0× 47 0.1× 290 0.4× 149 0.7× 45 0.3× 47 1.7k
Elisabeth Märker‐Hermann Germany 25 2.0k 2.8× 61 0.1× 205 0.3× 255 1.2× 259 1.5× 95 2.9k

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All Works

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Sirotti, Silvia, Tristan Pascart, Ralf Thiele, & Georgios Filippou. (2025). Imaging of crystal-induced arthropathies in 2025. Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology. 39(3). 102063–102063. 1 indexed citations
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Thiele, Ralf. (2024). New Developments in Imaging in Crystalline Arthritis. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America. 50(4). 683–700. 1 indexed citations
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Madea, Burkhard, et al.. (2023). Cost-Effective Next Generation Sequencing-Based STR Typing with Improved Analysis of Minor, Degraded and Inhibitor-Containing DNA Samples. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(4). 3382–3382. 3 indexed citations
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Sieber, Martin A., et al.. (2023). Pragmatic Considerations When Extracting DNA for Metagenomics Analyses of Clinical Samples. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11262–11262. 2 indexed citations
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Nchanji, Gordon Takop, Martin A. Sieber, Ralf Thiele, et al.. (2023). Tropical leg lymphedema caused by podoconiosis is associated with increased colonisation by anaerobic bacteria. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13785–13785. 4 indexed citations
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Sib, Esther, Martin A. Sieber, Ralf Thiele, et al.. (2023). Examining Different Analysis Protocols Targeting Hospital Sanitary Facility Microbiomes. Microorganisms. 11(1). 185–185. 7 indexed citations
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Torralba, Karina D., Robert Fairchild, Amy C. Cannella, et al.. (2022). North American musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning protocol of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand: update of a Delphi Consensus Study. Clinical Rheumatology. 41(12). 3825–3835. 4 indexed citations
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Falkowski, Anna L., Jon A. Jacobson, Vivek Kalia, et al.. (2020). Cartilage icing and chondrocalcinosis on knee radiographs in the differentiation between gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231508–e0231508. 6 indexed citations
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Torralba, Karina D., Lorena Salto, Robert Fairchild, et al.. (2019). Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Scanning Protocol Consensus Statements on Scanning Conventions and Documentation in the US. Arthritis Care & Research. 72(8). 1177–1184. 5 indexed citations
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Troum, O., Ewa Olech, Mikkel Østergaard, et al.. (2015). Proceedings from The 8th Annual International Society for Musculoskeletal Imaging in Rheumatology (ISEMIR) Conference. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 45(6). e17–e23.
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Nabhani, Schafiq, Sebastian Ginzel, Hagit Miskin, et al.. (2015). Deregulation of Fas ligand expression as a novel cause of autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome-like disease. Haematologica. 100(9). 1189–1198. 11 indexed citations
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Anandarajah, Allen, Ralf Thiele, Ellen Giampoli, et al.. (2014). Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Clinical Remission Manifest Persistent Joint Inflammation on Histology and Imaging Studies. The Journal of Rheumatology. 41(11). 2153–2160. 27 indexed citations
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Bakewell, Catherine, Ignazio Olivieri, Sibel Zehra Aydın, et al.. (2013). Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of Psoriatic Dactylitis: Status and Perspectives. The Journal of Rheumatology. 40(12). 1951–1957. 53 indexed citations
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Nazarian, Levon N., Jon A. Jacobson, Carol B. Benson, et al.. (2013). Imaging Algorithms for Evaluating Suspected Rotator Cuff Disease: Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound Consensus Conference Statement. Radiology. 267(2). 589–595. 67 indexed citations
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Linka, Yvonne, Sebastian Ginzel, Marcus Krüger, et al.. (2013). The impact of TEL-AML1 (ETV6-RUNX1) expression in precursor B cells and implications for leukaemia using three different genome-wide screening methods. Blood Cancer Journal. 3(10). e151–e151. 26 indexed citations
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Thiele, Ralf. (2012). Ultrasonography Applications in Diagnosis and Management of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America. 38(2). 259–275. 8 indexed citations
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Pillinger, Michael H., et al.. (2011). Reproducibility of musculoskeletal ultrasound for determining monosodium urate deposition: Concordance between readers. Arthritis Care & Research. 63(10). 1456–1462. 94 indexed citations
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Thiele, Ralf & Naomi Schlesinger. (2009). Ultrasonography shows disappearance of monosodium urate crystal deposition on hyaline cartilage after sustained normouricemia is achieved. Rheumatology International. 30(4). 495–503. 102 indexed citations
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Zimmer, Ralf, et al.. (1998). New scoring schemes for protein fold recognition based on Voronoi contacts.. Bioinformatics. 14(3). 295–308. 28 indexed citations

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