Thomas Thiele

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Thiele is a scholar working on Hematology, Surgery and Internal Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Thiele has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Hematology, 34 papers in Surgery and 21 papers in Internal Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas Thiele's work include Platelet Disorders and Treatments (41 papers), Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis (31 papers) and Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management (21 papers). Thomas Thiele is often cited by papers focused on Platelet Disorders and Treatments (41 papers), Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis (31 papers) and Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management (21 papers). Thomas Thiele collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Thomas Thiele's co-authors include Andreas Greinacher, Theodore E. Warkentin, Karin Weißer, Paul A. Kyrle, Sabine Eichinger, Leif Steil, Stefan Handtke, Uwe Völker, Kathleen Selleng and Elke Hammer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Thiele

92 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination

2021 1.4k citations Andreas Greinacher, Thomas Thiele et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Thiele Germany	28	1.5k	1.5k	813	639	482	99	3.6k
Cheng‐Hock Toh United Kingdom	35	864 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	653 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	411 0.9×	116	6.5k
Elizabeth M. Van Cott United States	33	757 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	173 0.2×	1.3k 2.0×	264 0.5×	124	4.0k
Harvey G. Klein United States	43	688 0.5×	2.5k 1.7×	438 0.5×	197 0.3×	347 0.7×	189	7.9k
Samuel J. Machin United Kingdom	53	1.1k 0.7×	4.4k 3.0×	280 0.3×	1.2k 1.9×	244 0.5×	205	9.5k
Ronald G. Strauss United States	40	658 0.4×	2.0k 1.4×	186 0.2×	165 0.3×	364 0.8×	217	5.6k
Brian S. Bull United States	33	938 0.6×	842 0.6×	93 0.1×	450 0.7×	239 0.5×	130	4.0k
Barbara J. Bain United Kingdom	41	672 0.4×	3.1k 2.1×	279 0.3×	141 0.2×	768 1.6×	390	7.1k
Jerard Seghatchian United Kingdom	36	341 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	351 0.4×	128 0.2×	131 0.3×	247	3.9k
James P. AuBuchon United States	37	446 0.3×	1.9k 1.3×	303 0.4×	154 0.2×	189 0.4×	129	5.0k
Hiroshi Tanaka Japan	33	701 0.5×	347 0.2×	216 0.3×	164 0.3×	777 1.6×	168	4.0k

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Müller, Luisa, et al.. (2025). Anti-Platelet factor 4 immunothrombosis—not just heparin and vaccine triggers. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 9(2). 102729–102729. 2 indexed citations

Thiele, Thomas, Johan W. M. Heemskerk, & Andrew L. Frelinger. (2025). Clinical and research methods for analysis and study of platelet populations. Blood. 146(24). 2889–2901.

Wesche, Jan, et al.. (2025). Streptococcus pyogenes Activates Human Platelets via Streptolysin S-Mediated Calcium Ion Influx. Journal of Innate Immunity. 17(1). 198–210. 1 indexed citations

Wesche, Jan, Michael Berger, Hideo A. Baba, et al.. (2025). Challenges of Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia–Related Kidney Transplantation: Venous Graft Thrombosis in a Pediatric Recipient. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 86(3). 408–412.

Walter, Uwe, Thomas Thiele, Daniel Dubinski, et al.. (2024). Cranioplasty after Decompressive Craniectomy (DC) in a Patient with Intracerebral Hemorrhage after SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination-Related Vaccine-Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT)—Proposal of a Management Protocol for This Rare Pathological Condition. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(16). 4778–4778.

Moritz, Eileen, Katja Lehmann, Karsten Becker, et al.. (2023). Pro-inflammatory sensitization of platelets after a mild course of COVID-19 infection. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2).

Thiele, Thomas, Stefan Handtke, Johannes Rath, et al.. (2023). PB1338 Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Syndrome after vaccination against COVID-19 Associated with Antiplatelet Antibodies. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 7. 101447–101447. 1 indexed citations

Helms, Julie, Corinne Frère, Thomas Thiele, et al.. (2023). Anticoagulation in adult patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: guidance from the Scientific and Standardization Committees on Perioperative and Critical Care Haemostasis and Thrombosis of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 21(2). 373–396. 37 indexed citations

Schönborn, Linda, Thomas Thiele, Jan Wesche, et al.. (2022). Quantitative interpretation of PF4/heparin‐EIA optical densities in predicting platelet‐activating VITT antibodies. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 20(11). 2579–2586. 14 indexed citations

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Vayne, Caroline, Raghavendra Palankar, Stefan Handtke, et al.. (2022). The deglycosylated form of 1E12 inhibits platelet activation and prothrombotic effects induced by VITT antibodies. Haematologica. 107(10). 2445–2453. 10 indexed citations

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Thiele, Thomas, Karin Weißer, Linda Schönborn, et al.. (2021). Laboratory confirmed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia: Retrospective analysis of reported cases after vaccination with ChAdOx-1 nCoV-19 in Germany. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 12. 100270–100270. 32 indexed citations

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Walter, Uwe, Annette Großmann, Michael Walter, et al.. (2021). Adenovirus-Vectored COVID-19 Vaccine–Induced Immune Thrombosis of Carotid Artery. Neurology. 97(15). 716–719. 28 indexed citations

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Handtke, Stefan, Leif Steil, Andreas Greinacher, & Thomas Thiele. (2018). Toward the Relevance of Platelet Subpopulations for Transfusion Medicine. Frontiers in Medicine. 5. 17–17. 36 indexed citations

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Schubert, Peter, Brankica Culibrk, Katherine Serrano, et al.. (2017). Altered timing of riboflavin and ultraviolet light pathogen inactivation improves platelet in vitro quality. Transfusion. 57(8). 2026–2034. 9 indexed citations

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Neumann, Thomas, Laila Schneidewind, Thomas Thiele, et al.. (2016). Reduced platelet transfusions and earlier platelet engraftment using alemtuzumab-based conditioning regimen in allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 142(5). 1091–1097. 4 indexed citations

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Hron, Gregor, Folke Knutson, Thomas Thiele, et al.. (2013). Alternative diagnosis to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in two critically ill patients despite a positive PF4/heparin-antibody test. Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences. 118(4). 279–284. 4 indexed citations

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Busemann, Christoph, Thomas Neumann, Anne F. Klenner, et al.. (2013). Low-dose alemtuzumab vs. standard policy for prevention of graft-versus-host disease in unrelated and related allogeneic stem cell transplantation—a matched pair analysis. Annals of Hematology. 92(7). 945–952. 5 indexed citations

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Thiele, Thomas, Frank Siebe, & Ali Gülhan. (2011). SHEFEX II Flight Instrumentation and Preparation of Post Flight Analysis. elib (German Aerospace Center). 692. 98. 3 indexed citations

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Thiele, Thomas, Gregor Hron, Christina Wasner, et al.. (2011). Storage of thawed plasma for a liquid plasma bank: impact of temperature and methylene blue pathogen inactivation. Transfusion. 52(3). 529–536. 23 indexed citations

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Thiele, Thomas, Leif Steil, Christian Scharf, et al.. (2007). Profiling of alterations in platelet proteins during storage of platelet concentrates. Transfusion. 47(7). 1221–1233. 90 indexed citations

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