Stefan Kirsch

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Stefan Kirsch is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Kirsch has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Stefan Kirsch's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (16 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Stefan Kirsch is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (16 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). Stefan Kirsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Poland. Stefan Kirsch's co-authors include Katarzyna Warszawska, Robert Sabat, Ellen Witte, Kerstin Wolk, Jens Geginat, Gerald Grütz, Gudrun Rappold, Birgit Weiß, Tsutomu Ogata and Beate Niesler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Kirsch

33 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biology of interleukin-10

2010 806 citations Robert Sabat, Gerald Grütz et al. Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews profile →
Pseudoautosomal deletions encompassing a novel homeobox gene cause growth failure in idiopathic short stature and Turner syndrome

1997 701 citations Birgit Weiß, Maki Fukami et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Kirsch Germany	15	1.2k	1.2k	498	318	292	33	2.5k
Joshua Starmer United States	28	1.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	359 0.7×	331 1.0×	189 0.6×	43	3.1k
Patricia Taillon‐Miller United States	21	895 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	318 0.6×	187 0.6×	378 1.3×	35	2.0k
Carlos Alberto Moreira‐Filho Brazil	28	622 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	218 0.4×	241 0.8×	140 0.5×	113	2.4k
Yvonne Boyd United Kingdom	28	1.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	511 1.0×	190 0.6×	32 0.1×	84	3.1k
Maris Laan Estonia	32	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	432 0.9×	112 0.4×	951 3.3×	108	3.3k
Lee D. Spate United States	28	1.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	236 0.5×	50 0.2×	337 1.2×	83	2.8k
David W. Silversides Canada	33	983 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	195 0.4×	65 0.2×	368 1.3×	73	2.5k
Preben D. Thomsen Denmark	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	98 0.2×	361 1.1×	293 1.0×	126	3.0k
Jean‐Paul Renard France	40	2.0k 1.7×	3.9k 3.3×	456 0.9×	213 0.7×	925 3.2×	148	7.3k
Anna T. Grazul‐Bilska United States	37	649 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	636 1.3×	63 0.2×	630 2.2×	126	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Kirsch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Kirsch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Kirsch

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kirsch, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Single Cell Micro RNA Sequencing Library Preparation. Methods in molecular biology. 189–199. 1 indexed citations

Scheuermann, Stefan, et al.. (2024). A novel approach to generate enzyme-free single cell suspensions from archived tissues for miRNA sequencing. SLAS TECHNOLOGY. 29(3). 100133–100133. 2 indexed citations

Bakhshandeh, Sadra, Adithi R. Varadarajan, Xin Lü, et al.. (2024). Dormancy-inducing 3D engineered matrix uncovers mechanosensitive and drug-protective FHL2-p21 signaling axis. Science Advances. 10(45). eadr3997–eadr3997. 8 indexed citations

Czyż, Zbigniew T., Stefan Kirsch, & Bernhard Polzer. (2015). Principles of Whole-Genome Amplification. Methods in molecular biology. 1347. 1–14. 12 indexed citations

Wolk, Kerstin, Katrin Witte, Ellen Witte, et al.. (2013). IL-29 Is Produced by T _H 17 Cells and Mediates the Cutaneous Antiviral Competence in Psoriasis. Science Translational Medicine. 5(204). 204ra129–204ra129. 108 indexed citations

Sabat, Robert, Gerald Grütz, Katarzyna Warszawska, et al.. (2010). Biology of interleukin-10. Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews. 21(5). 331–344. 806 indexed citations breakdown →

Kirsch, Stefan, Juan J. Pasantes, Nadja Bogdanova, et al.. (2009). Correction: Chromosomal evolution of the PKD1 gene family in primates (vol 8, pg 263, 2008). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2 indexed citations

Henegariu, Octavian, P.N. Hirschmann, K. Kilian, et al.. (2009). Rapid screening of the Y chromosome in idiopathic sterile men, diagnostic for deletions in AZF, a genetic Y factor expressed during spermatogenesis. Andrologia. 26(2). 97–106. 12 indexed citations

Schmidt, Julia, Stefan Kirsch, Gudrun Rappold, & W. Schempp. (2009). Complex Evolution of a Y-Chromosomal Double Homeobox 4 (DUX4)-Related Gene Family in Hominoids. PLoS ONE. 4(4). e5288–e5288. 7 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, et al.. (2009). A Non-Human Primate BAC Resource to Study Interchromosomal Segmental Duplications. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 125(4). 253–259. 1 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, Juan J. Pasantes, Andreas Wolf, et al.. (2008). Chromosomal evolution of the PKD1 gene family in primates. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 263–263. 9 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, Claudia Münch, Zhaoshi Jiang, et al.. (2008). Evolutionary dynamics of segmental duplications from human Y-chromosomal euchromatin/heterochromatin transition regions. Genome Research. 18(7). 1030–1042. 26 indexed citations

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Münch, Claudia, et al.. (2008). Evolutionary analysis of the highly dynamic CHEK2duplicon in anthropoids. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 269–269. 6 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, Birgit Weiß, Tracie L. Miner, et al.. (2005). Interchromosomal segmental duplications of the pericentromeric region on the human Y chromosome. Genome Research. 15(2). 195–204. 28 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, et al.. (2004). Molecular and evolutionary analysis of the growth-controlling region on the human Y chromosome. Human Genetics. 114(2). 173–181. 16 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, Sandra E. Kleiman, Kenneth P. Roberts, et al.. (2002). Localisation of the Y chromosome stature gene to a 700 kb interval in close proximity to the centromere. Journal of Medical Genetics. 39(7). 507–513. 13 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, et al.. (2002). The Azoospermia region AZFa: An evolutionar y view. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 99(1-4). 146–150. 9 indexed citations

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Fukami, Maki, Stefan Kirsch, Simone Schiller, et al.. (2000). A Member of a Gene Family on Xp22.3, VCX-A, Is Deleted in Patients with X-Linked Nonspecific Mental Retardation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(3). 563–573. 85 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Stefan, et al.. (2000). FISH deletion mapping defines a single location for the Y chromosome stature gene, GCY. Journal of Medical Genetics. 37(8). 593–599. 26 indexed citations

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Ma, Keyi, Andrew Sharkey, Stefan Kirsch, et al.. (1992). Towards the molecular localisation of the AZF locus: mapping of microdeletions in azoospermic men within 14 subintervals of interval 6 of the human Y chromosome. Human Molecular Genetics. 1(1). 29–33. 177 indexed citations

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