Thomas Hankeln

13.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
191 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Hankeln is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Hankeln has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Molecular Biology, 95 papers in Cell Biology and 42 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Hankeln's work include Hemoglobin structure and function (91 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (38 papers) and Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (22 papers). Thomas Hankeln is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobin structure and function (91 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (38 papers) and Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (22 papers). Thomas Hankeln collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Thomas Hankeln's co-authors include Thorsten Burmester, Bettina Weich, Luc Moëns, Sigrid Reinhardt, Sylvia Dewilde, Marc Schmidt, Bettina Ebner, Frank Gerlach, Tilmann Laufs and Anja Roesner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Hankeln

188 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

A p16 ^INK4a -Insensitive CDK4 Mutant Targeted by Cytolytic T Lymphocytes in a Human Melanoma

1995 900 citations Thomas Hankeln et al. profile →
A vertebrate globin expressed in the brain

2000 843 citations Thorsten Burmester, Bettina Weich et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Hankeln Germany	48	5.9k	5.1k	2.7k	1.6k	1.4k	191	10.0k
Thorsten Burmester Germany	55	5.8k 1.0×	4.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	180	10.6k
Seth L. Alper United States	71	1.1k 0.2×	9.8k 1.9×	3.6k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	430 0.3×	323	16.3k
Joseph Bonaventura United States	43	3.6k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	777 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	164	8.0k
Else K. Hoffmann Denmark	54	2.0k 0.3×	6.5k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	412 0.3×	730 0.5×	168	9.6k
Sally J. Leevers United Kingdom	35	1.8k 0.3×	8.0k 1.6×	1.2k 0.5×	222 0.1×	462 0.3×	52	12.1k
Jerry B. Lingrel United States	73	1.3k 0.2×	13.5k 2.6×	1.5k 0.6×	411 0.3×	553 0.4×	254	17.4k
Uwe Strähle Germany	63	3.7k 0.6×	7.6k 1.5×	462 0.2×	405 0.3×	306 0.2×	194	12.9k
Nicholas S. Foulkes Germany	48	757 0.1×	3.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	502 0.3×	469 0.3×	121	8.9k
Roy E. Weber Denmark	46	3.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	563 0.4×	3.0k 2.1×	183	6.9k
Bonnie Ullmann United States	11	4.1k 0.7×	6.0k 1.2×	379 0.1×	345 0.2×	549 0.4×	12	10.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Hankeln

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Hankeln

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Schmidt, Hanno, Jürgen Podlech, Angélique Renzaho, et al.. (2025). Adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during a persistent infection for 521 days in an immunocompromised patient. npj Genomic Medicine. 10(1). 4–4.

Herlyn, Holger, Juan Pablo Tosar, Hanno Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Substantial Hierarchical Reductions of Genetic and Morphological Traits in the Evolution of Rotiferan Parasites. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(7).

Hewel, Charlotte, Hanno Schmidt, Stefan Runkel, et al.. (2024). Nanopore adaptive sampling of a metagenomic sample derived from a human monkeypox case. Journal of Medical Virology. 96(5). e29610–e29610. 2 indexed citations

Schmidt, Hanno, Niels A. W. Lemmermann, Matthias Linke, et al.. (2024). SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in a hospital and control of an outbreak on a geriatric ward using whole genome sequencing. Infection Prevention in Practice. 6(3). 100383–100383. 1 indexed citations

Hankeln, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Nuclear genome annotation of wheel animals and thorny-headed worms: inferences about the last common ancestor of Syndermata (Rotifera s.l.). Hydrobiologia. 851(12-13). 2827–2844. 4 indexed citations

Schmidt, Hanno, et al.. (2022). Host-dependent impairment of parasite development and reproduction in the acanthocephalan model. Cell & Bioscience. 12(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations

Bicker, Anne, Thomas Hager, Thomas Hankeln, et al.. (2022). Knockout of Factor-Inhibiting HIF (Hif1an) in Colon Epithelium Attenuates Chronic Colitis but Does Not Reduce Colorectal Cancer in Mice. The Journal of Immunology. 208(5). 1280–1291. 5 indexed citations

Hankeln, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Transcriptomes of Clusterin- and S100B-transfected neuronal cells elucidate protective mechanisms against hypoxia and oxidative stress in the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) brain. BMC Neuroscience. 23(1). 59–59. 1 indexed citations

Tzovaras, Bastian Greshake, Francisca H. I. D. Segers, Anne Bicker, et al.. (2020). What Is in Umbilicaria pustulata? A Metagenomic Approach to Reconstruct the Holo-Genome of a Lichen. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(4). 309–324. 34 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hanno, et al.. (2020). A High-Quality Genome Assembly from Short and Long Reads for the Non-biting Midge Chironomus riparius (Diptera). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(4). 1151–1157. 18 indexed citations

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Randi, Elisa B., Benjamin A. Vervaet, Maria Tsachaki, et al.. (2020). The Antioxidative Role of Cytoglobin in Podocytes: Implications for a Role in Chronic Kidney Disease. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 32(16). 1155–1171. 27 indexed citations

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Waldvogel, Ann‐Marie, Tilman Schell, Hanno Schmidt, et al.. (2018). The genomic footprint of climate adaptation in Chironomus riparius. Molecular Ecology. 27(6). 1439–1456. 49 indexed citations

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Quarta, Alessandra, Kristien Reekmans, Erik Fransén, et al.. (2018). Loss of Neuroglobin Expression Alters Cdkn1a/Cdk6-Expression Resulting in Increased Proliferation of Neural Stem Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 27(6). 378–390. 9 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hanno, Bettina Weich, Urs Schmidt‐Ott, et al.. (2017). Chironomus riparius (Diptera) genome sequencing reveals the impact of minisatellite transposable elements on population divergence. Molecular Ecology. 26(12). 3256–3275. 14 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hanno, Assaf Malik, Anne Bicker, et al.. (2017). Hypoxia tolerance, longevity and cancer-resistance in the mole rat Spalax – a liver transcriptomics approach. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14348–14348. 40 indexed citations

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Schülke, Stefan, Daniel Dreidax, Assaf Malik, et al.. (2012). Living with stress: Regulation of antioxidant defense genes in the subterranean, hypoxia-tolerant mole rat, Spalax. Gene. 500(2). 199–206. 64 indexed citations

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Perseke, Marleen, Thomas Hankeln, Bettina Weich, et al.. (2007). The mitochondrial DNA of Xenoturbella bocki: genomic architecture and phylogenetic analysis. Theory in Biosciences. 126(1). 35–42. 23 indexed citations

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Hamdane, Djemel, Laurent Kiger, Sylvia Dewilde, et al.. (2005). Hyperthermal stability of neuroglobin and cytoglobin. FEBS Journal. 272(8). 2076–2084. 47 indexed citations

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Wolfrum, Uwe, Andreas Gießl, Marc Schmidt, et al.. (2003). How Does the Eye Breathe? Evidence for Neuroglobin-mediated Oxygen Supply in the Mammalian Retina. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 44(13). 3266–3266. 17 indexed citations

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Amid, Clara, A. Bahr, Alejandro O. Mujica, et al.. (2001). Comparative genomic sequencing reveals a strikingly similar architecture of a conserved syntenic region on human chromosome 11p15.3 (including gene ST5) and mouse chromosome 7. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 93(3-4). 284–290. 18 indexed citations

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