Thomas Höfer

18.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
184 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas Höfer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Höfer has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 60 papers in Immunology and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Höfer's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (41 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (33 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers). Thomas Höfer is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (41 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (33 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (16 papers). Thomas Höfer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Thomas Höfer's co-authors include Carlos Salazar, Michael Floßdorf, Hans-Reimer Rodewald, Andreas Radbruch, Stefan Schuster, Katrin Busch, Antonio Z. Politi, Marko Marhl, Kay Klapproth and Roland H. Wenger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Höfer

178 papers receiving 10.1k 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.

Fundamental properties of unperturbed haematopoiesis from stem cells in vivo

2015 513 citations Katrin Busch, Michael Floßdorf et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Höfer Germany	60	4.8k	3.2k	1.5k	912	763	184	10.3k
Nir Yosef United States	46	7.8k 1.6×	4.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.8×	218 0.3×	116	13.4k
Peter J. van der Spek Netherlands	55	7.0k 1.4×	1.0k 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.9×	1.4k 1.8×	252	12.6k
Mauno Vihinen Finland	52	6.3k 1.3×	2.6k 0.8×	884 0.6×	630 0.7×	706 0.9×	273	10.6k
Guo‐Cheng Yuan United States	58	11.9k 2.5×	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	2.0k 2.2×	685 0.9×	145	15.2k
Charles Auffray France	48	4.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	817 0.5×	436 0.5×	228 0.3×	182	9.4k
Frank L. Heppner Germany	68	5.5k 1.1×	4.6k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	216 0.3×	258	17.9k
Qing Nie United States	51	7.8k 1.6×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	151 0.2×	288	14.5k
Evan W. Newell United States	52	4.5k 0.9×	5.5k 1.7×	2.2k 1.5×	708 0.8×	227 0.3×	149	11.2k
Satoru Miyano Japan	58	10.5k 2.2×	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	2.7k 3.0×	814 1.1×	523	15.5k
David A. Guertin United States	39	14.8k 3.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	2.2k 2.4×	505 0.7×	63	21.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Höfer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Höfer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Höfer

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Uckeley, Zina M., Patricio Doldan, Benno Kuropka, et al.. (2024). The population context is a driver of the heterogeneous response of epithelial cells to interferons. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(3). 242–275. 1 indexed citations

Hegazy, Ahmed N., Caroline Peine, Isabel Panse, et al.. (2024). Plasticity and lineage commitment of individual T_H1 cells are determined by stable T-bet expression quantities. Science Advances. 10(23). eadk2693–eadk2693. 6 indexed citations

Ruggieri, Alessia, Volker Lohmann, Thomas Höfer, et al.. (2023). Extended methods for spatial cell classification with DBSCAN-CellX. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18868–18868. 3 indexed citations

Günther, Matthias, Günter Stier, Cristina‐Maria Cruciat, et al.. (2023). DEAD box RNA helicases act as nucleotide exchange factors for casein kinase 2. Science Signaling. 16(782). eabp8923–eabp8923. 5 indexed citations

Busch, Katrin, et al.. (2023). Differentiation tracing identifies hematopoietic regeneration from multipotent progenitors but not stem cells. PubMed. 175. 203861–203861. 2 indexed citations

Sacirbegovic, Faruk, Matthias Günther, Alessandro Greco, et al.. (2023). Graft-versus-host disease is locally maintained in target tissues by resident progenitor-like T cells. Immunity. 56(2). 369–385.e6. 22 indexed citations

Becker, Nils B., et al.. (2023). Quantitating CD8+ T cell memory development. Trends in Immunology. 44(7). 519–529. 2 indexed citations

Klaus, Severina, Marta Machado, Charlotta Funaya, et al.. (2022). Asynchronous nuclear cycles in multinucleated Plasmodium falciparum facilitate rapid proliferation. Science Advances. 8(13). eabj5362–eabj5362. 34 indexed citations

Bolkestein, Michiel, John Wong, Verena Thewes, et al.. (2020). Chromothripsis in Human Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 80(22). 4918–4931. 17 indexed citations

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Grassmann, Simon, Kilian Schober, Justin Leube, et al.. (2020). Early emergence of T central memory precursors programs clonal dominance during chronic viral infection. Nature Immunology. 21(12). 1563–1573. 37 indexed citations

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Mende, Nicole, Gülce Itır Perçin, Maria Rostovskaya, et al.. (2019). Prospective isolation of nonhematopoietic cells of the niche and their differential molecular interactions with HSCs. Blood. 134(15). 1214–1226. 20 indexed citations

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Henrich, Kai-Oliver, Sebastian Bender, Maral Saadati, et al.. (2016). Integrative Genome-Scale Analysis Identifies Epigenetic Mechanisms of Transcriptional Deregulation in Unfavorable Neuroblastomas. Cancer Research. 76(18). 5523–5537. 73 indexed citations

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Mende, Nicole, Erika E Kuchen, Mathias Lesche, et al.. (2015). CCND1–CDK4–mediated cell cycle progression provides a competitive advantage for human hematopoietic stem cells in vivo. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 212(8). 1171–1183. 49 indexed citations

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Höfer, Thomas, et al.. (2009). SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING FOR ALUMINUM PRODUCTION. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6. 489–504. 3 indexed citations

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Schulz, Edda G., Luca Mariani, Andreas Radbruch, & Thomas Höfer. (2009). Sequential Polarization and Imprinting of Type 1 T Helper Lymphocytes by Interferon-γ and Interleukin-12. Immunity. 30(5). 673–683. 227 indexed citations

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Höfer, Thomas, et al.. (2006). Control of Signal Transduction Cycles. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 17(1). 152–162. 1 indexed citations

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Salazar, Carlos & Thomas Höfer. (2004). Activation of the transcription factor NFAT1: concerted or modular regulation?. FEBS Letters. 579(3). 621–626. 10 indexed citations

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Giaume, Christian, Laurent Venance, & Thomas Höfer. (2003). Les vagues calciques entre cellules gliales: une voie alternative de transmission d’informations. médecine/sciences. 19(3). 278–281. 2 indexed citations

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Sherratt, Jonathan A., Thomas Höfer, & Philip K. Maini. (1995). Dictyostelium discoideum: cellular self-organisation in an excitable biological medium. 249–257. 8 indexed citations

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Höfer, Thomas, et al.. (1995). Dictyostelium discoideum: Cellular self-organisation in an excitable medium. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 1 indexed citations

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