Saskia Hemmers

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Saskia Hemmers is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Saskia Hemmers has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Saskia Hemmers's work include Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (15 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers). Saskia Hemmers is often cited by papers focused on Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (15 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (5 papers). Saskia Hemmers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Saskia Hemmers's co-authors include Alexander Y. Rudensky, Bruno Moltedo, Piper M. Treuting, Aaron Arvey, Kerri Mowen, Jesse A. Green, Shaopeng Yuan, Nicholas Arpaia, Sanja Arandjelovic and John R. Teijaro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Saskia Hemmers

26 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

A Distinct Function of Regulatory T Cells in Tissue Prote... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. A Distinct Function of Regulatory T Cells in Tissue Protection
    2015 708 citations Nicholas Arpaia, Jesse A. Green et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Saskia Hemmers United States 22 2.1k 600 449 196 179 27 2.8k
Jonathan Sherlock United Kingdom 12 2.8k 1.3× 446 0.7× 495 1.1× 181 0.9× 251 1.4× 20 3.6k
Meriem Garfa‐Traoré France 15 1.4k 0.6× 568 0.9× 305 0.7× 131 0.7× 174 1.0× 21 2.3k
Machteld M. Tiemessen Netherlands 18 1.2k 0.6× 662 1.1× 351 0.8× 223 1.1× 130 0.7× 29 2.4k
Amy E. Juedes United States 16 1.9k 0.9× 482 0.8× 479 1.1× 150 0.8× 196 1.1× 22 2.8k
Xiaodi Wu China 20 1.8k 0.9× 647 1.1× 370 0.8× 178 0.9× 82 0.5× 38 2.6k
Alexander D. Barrow United States 25 2.0k 0.9× 645 1.1× 556 1.2× 118 0.6× 87 0.5× 38 2.8k
Anneli Jäger United States 7 2.6k 1.2× 356 0.6× 515 1.1× 212 1.1× 209 1.2× 8 3.3k
Brahma V. Kumar United States 15 1.6k 0.7× 534 0.9× 467 1.0× 103 0.5× 128 0.7× 16 2.3k
Theresa T. Lu United States 29 2.3k 1.1× 1000 1.7× 696 1.6× 154 0.8× 117 0.7× 70 3.7k
Takashi Yahata Japan 25 1.5k 0.7× 809 1.3× 599 1.3× 157 0.8× 210 1.2× 65 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Saskia Hemmers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Saskia Hemmers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saskia Hemmers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Saskia Hemmers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Saskia Hemmers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Saskia Hemmers. Saskia Hemmers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Miggelbrink, Alexandra, Jessica Waibl Polania, Lucas P. Wachsmuth, et al.. (2025). Upregulation of TNFR2 Precedes TOX Expression by Exhausted T cells and Restricts Antitumor and Antiviral Immunity. Clinical Cancer Research. 32(4). 782–800. 1 indexed citations
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Deep, Deeksha, Herman Gudjonson, Chrysothemis C. Brown, et al.. (2024). Precursor central memory versus effector cell fate and naïve CD4+ T cell heterogeneity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(10). 3 indexed citations
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Hemmers, Saskia, Michail Schizas, & Alexander Y. Rudensky. (2020). T reg cell–intrinsic requirements for ST2 signaling in health and neuroinflammation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 218(2). 45 indexed citations
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Fleskens, Veerle, Carlos M. Minutti, Xingmei Wu, et al.. (2019). Nemo-like Kinase Drives Foxp3 Stability and Is Critical for Maintenance of Immune Tolerance by Regulatory T Cells. Cell Reports. 26(13). 3600–3612.e6. 39 indexed citations
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Hemmers, Saskia, Michail Schizas, Elham Azizi, et al.. (2019). IL-2 production by self-reactive CD4 thymocytes scales regulatory T cell generation in the thymus. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 216(11). 2466–2478. 66 indexed citations
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Liu, Yudong, Carmelo Carmona‐Rivera, Erica Moore, et al.. (2018). Myeloid-Specific Deletion of Peptidylarginine Deiminase 4 Mitigates Atherosclerosis. Frontiers in Immunology. 9. 1680–1680. 94 indexed citations
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Levine, Andrew G., Saskia Hemmers, António P. Baptista, et al.. (2017). Suppression of lethal autoimmunity by regulatory T cells with a single TCR specificity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 214(3). 609–622. 29 indexed citations
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Bolotin, Dmitriy A., S. Poslavskii, Alexey N. Davydov, et al.. (2017). Antigen receptor repertoire profiling from RNA-seq data. Nature Biotechnology. 35(10). 908–911. 170 indexed citations
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Levine, Andrew G., Alejandra Mendoza, Saskia Hemmers, et al.. (2017). Stability and function of regulatory T cells expressing the transcription factor T-bet. Nature. 546(7658). 421–425. 284 indexed citations
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Veeken, Joris van der, Álvaro González, Hyunwoo Cho, et al.. (2016). Memory of Inflammation in Regulatory T Cells. Cell. 166(4). 977–990. 143 indexed citations
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Hemmers, Saskia & Alexander Y. Rudensky. (2015). The Cell-Intrinsic Circadian Clock Is Dispensable for Lymphocyte Differentiation and Function. Cell Reports. 11(9). 1339–1349. 83 indexed citations
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Arpaia, Nicholas, Jesse A. Green, Bruno Moltedo, et al.. (2015). A Distinct Function of Regulatory T Cells in Tissue Protection. Cell. 162(5). 1078–1089. 708 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moltedo, Bruno, Saskia Hemmers, & Alexander Y. Rudensky. (2014). Regulatory T Cell Ablation Causes Acute T Cell Lymphopenia. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e86762–e86762. 15 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Amanda S., Saskia Hemmers, Olivia Garijo, et al.. (2013). Dendritic epidermal T cells regulate skin antimicrobial barrier function. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 123(10). 4364–4374. 118 indexed citations
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Gasteiger, Georg, Saskia Hemmers, Paula D. Bos, Joseph C. Sun, & Alexander Y. Rudensky. (2013). IL-2–dependent adaptive control of NK cell homeostasis. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210(6). 1179–1187. 103 indexed citations
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Rohrbach, Amanda, Saskia Hemmers, Sanja Arandjelovic, Maripat Corr, & Kerri Mowen. (2012). PAD4 is not essential for disease in the K/BxN murine autoantibody-mediated model of arthritis. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 14(3). R104–R104. 66 indexed citations
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Hemmers, Saskia, John R. Teijaro, Sanja Arandjelovic, & Kerri Mowen. (2011). PAD4-Mediated Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation Is Not Required for Immunity against Influenza Infection. PLoS ONE. 6(7). e22043–e22043. 210 indexed citations
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Frenz, Theresa, et al.. (2010). Building a zoo of mice for genetic analyses: A comprehensive protocol for the rapid generation of BAC transgenic mice. genesis. 48(4). 264–280. 28 indexed citations
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Bonham, Kevin S., et al.. (2010). Effects of a novel arginine methyltransferase inhibitor on T‐helper cell cytokine production. FEBS Journal. 277(9). 2096–2108. 53 indexed citations
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Cruite, Justin T., Anne Bellon, Saskia Hemmers, et al.. (2008). Identifying Key Components of the PrPC-PrPSc Replicative Interface. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(49). 34021–34028. 25 indexed citations

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