Sonja Lang

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sonja Lang is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Lang has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Epidemiology, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Sonja Lang's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (30 papers), Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (12 papers) and Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (11 papers). Sonja Lang is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (30 papers), Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (12 papers) and Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (11 papers). Sonja Lang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Poland. Sonja Lang's co-authors include Münevver Demir, Bernd Schnabl, Hans‐Michael Steffen, Tobias Goeser, Anna Martin, Philipp Kasper, Fabian Kütting, Yi Duan, Bei Gao and Xinlian Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Gastroenterology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Lang

39 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases: a clinical review

2020 397 citations Philipp Kasper, Anna Martin et al. Clinical Research in Cardiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Lang Germany	20	974	490	378	283	263	45	1.4k
Roslyn M. London United States	16	647 0.7×	341 0.7×	272 0.7×	236 0.8×	239 0.9×	21	1.4k
Giuseppina Piazzolla Italy	23	377 0.4×	344 0.7×	316 0.8×	216 0.8×	186 0.7×	77	1.4k
Verena Wieser Austria	21	549 0.6×	568 1.2×	133 0.4×	345 1.2×	73 0.3×	47	1.7k
Ye Liu China	21	348 0.4×	330 0.7×	410 1.1×	76 0.3×	52 0.2×	47	1.1k
Tom Houben Netherlands	17	378 0.4×	452 0.9×	82 0.2×	209 0.7×	57 0.2×	40	1.0k
Zhou Zhou China	14	459 0.5×	197 0.4×	97 0.3×	59 0.2×	125 0.5×	26	864
Jianhua Liu China	16	468 0.5×	128 0.3×	72 0.2×	206 0.7×	213 0.8×	38	1.2k
Rocco Spagnuolo Italy	15	341 0.4×	225 0.5×	98 0.3×	69 0.2×	107 0.4×	59	777
Chunlin Wang China	16	204 0.2×	205 0.4×	126 0.3×	80 0.3×	69 0.3×	62	845

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Khurana, Amit, Jumpei Fujiki, T. Nakamura, et al.. (2025). Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Is Associated with Disease Severity in MASLD but Its Supplementation Does Not Improve Diet-Induced Steatohepatitis in Mice. Microorganisms. 13(3). 675–675. 4 indexed citations

Martin, Anna, Sonja Lang, Seung‐Hun Chon, et al.. (2025). Nocturnal hypertension represents an uncontrolled burden in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Journal of Hypertension. 43(5). 814–821.

Wang, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Extraction for Separation of Zn and Cu in Cyanide Gold Extraction Wastewater by Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvent. Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy. 11(4). 4284–4297.

Wang, Yixin, Yong‐Hui Song, Ning Yin, et al.. (2025). Molybdenum Carbide Electro‐Converted from CO ₂ and MoO ₃ for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ChemCatChem. 17(24).

Wang, Yifan, Yonghui Song, Xinwei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Study on the adsorption of precious metals from wastewater by XAD-2 resin loaded with functionalized deep eutectic solvent. Hydrometallurgy. 236. 106520–106520.

Zeng, Su-Ling, Yanhan Wang, Yi Duan, et al.. (2023). Engineered bacteria producing aryl‐hydrocarbon receptor agonists protect against ethanol‐induced liver disease in mice. Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research. 47(5). 856–867. 27 indexed citations

Kasper, Philipp, Sonja Lang, Hans‐Michael Steffen, & Münevver Demir. (2023). Management of alcoholic hepatitis: A clinical perspective. Liver International. 43(10). 2078–2095. 19 indexed citations

Hartmann, Phillipp, Yi Duan, Yukiko Miyamoto, et al.. (2022). Colesevelam ameliorates non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and obesity in mice. Hepatology International. 16(2). 359–370. 22 indexed citations

Kasper, Philipp, Christina Vohlen, Inga Bae‐Gartz, et al.. (2022). Perinatal Obesity Induces Hepatic Growth Restriction with Increased DNA Damage Response, Senescence, and Dysregulated Igf-1-Akt-Foxo1 Signaling in Male Offspring of Obese Mice. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(10). 5609–5609. 8 indexed citations

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Lang, Sonja, Fedja Farowski, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, et al.. (2022). Dietary omega-6/omega-3 ratio is not associated with gut microbiota composition and disease severity in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Nutrition Research. 107. 12–25. 3 indexed citations

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Martin, Anna, Sonja Lang, Tobias Goeser, et al.. (2022). Management of Dyslipidemia in Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Current Atherosclerosis Reports. 24(7). 533–546. 45 indexed citations

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Lang, Sonja, Anna Martin, Xinlian Zhang, et al.. (2021). Combined analysis of gut microbiota, diet and PNPLA3 polymorphism in biopsy‐proven non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease. Liver International. 41(7). 1576–1591. 22 indexed citations

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Lang, Sonja, Münevver Demir, Yi Duan, Anna Martin, & Bernd Schnabl. (2020). Cytolysin‐positive Enterococcus faecalis is not increased in patients with non‐alcoholic steatohepatitis. Liver International. 40(4). 860–865. 32 indexed citations

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Jiang, Lu, Huikuan Chu, Bei Gao, et al.. (2020). Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Novel Hepatic and Intestinal Genes Following Chronic Plus Binge Ethanol Feeding in Mice. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 65(12). 3592–3604. 15 indexed citations

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Kasper, Philipp, Anna Martin, Sonja Lang, et al.. (2020). NAFLD and cardiovascular diseases: a clinical review. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 110(7). 921–937. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Sonja, Münevver Demir, Anna Martin, et al.. (2020). Intestinal Virome Signature Associated With Severity of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Gastroenterology. 159(5). 1839–1852. 138 indexed citations

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Lang, Sonja, Fabian Kütting, Christoph Schramm, et al.. (2017). Performance of simple noninvasive scoring systems for the prediction of advanced fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B. European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 29(11). 1235–1240. 2 indexed citations

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Demir, Münevver, Sonja Lang, Christoph Schramm, et al.. (2016). Elevated liver fibrosis index FIB-4 is not reliable for HCC risk stratification in predominantly non-Asian CHB patients. Medicine. 95(38). e4602–e4602. 7 indexed citations

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Dimova, Ivanka, Ruslan Hlushchuk, Andrew N. Makanya, et al.. (2013). Inhibition of Notch signaling induces extensive intussusceptive neo-angiogenesis by recruitment of mononuclear cells. Angiogenesis. 16(4). 921–937. 53 indexed citations

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Steffen, Hans‐Michael, Münevver Demir, Sonja Lang, S Schulte, & Ulrich Töx. (2010). HIGH RATE OF UNDETECTED ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-ALCOHOLIC STEATOHEPATITIS (NASH): PP.34.356. Journal of Hypertension. 28. e557–e557. 2 indexed citations

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