Ulrich Specks

36.6k citations

302 papers · 13.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Rheumatology top 0.05%
- Otitis Media and Relapsing Polychondritis
- Urticaria and Related Conditions
- Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
Nephrology top 0.1%
- Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies

Papers in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 243
- Vasculitis and related conditions 231
Genetics 78
- Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema 72

Co-authors: Fernando C. Fervenza Gary S. Hoffman Karina A. Keogh Peter A. Merkel Richard A. DeRemee Steven R. Ytterberg John H. Stone Robert Spiera
Journals: Arthritis & Rheumatology (14 papers)Lara D. Veeken (14 papers)Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (13 papers)Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (11 papers)CHEST Journal (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands France

In The Last Decade

Ulrich Specks

288 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

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ANCA-associated vasculitis 2020 · 499 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2017 New England Journal of Medicine
1989 Annals of Internal Medicine

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ulrich Specks, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Treatment With Avacopan in Patients With Respiratory Tract Manifestations of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–Associated Vasculitis ACR Open Rheumatology ·Ulrich Specks, Robert Spiera, Lynn A. Fussner, Robert S. Lebovics, Sarah Bray, Rachel E. Gurlin, Darcy Trimpe, David Jayne, Peter A. Merkel, (unknown)	2025	4
2	Aging in Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis and Microscopic Polyangiitis: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Management Drugs & Aging ·Baptiste Chevet, Giulia Boscato Sopetto, Christian Pagnoux, Ulrich Specks, Alvise Berti, Divi Cornec	2025	0
3	Challenges in the diagnosis, classification and prognosis of ANCA-associated vasculitis Nature Reviews Rheumatology ·Marta Casal Moura, Peter A. Merkel, David Jayne, María C. Cid, Neil Basu, Bernhard Hellmich, Benjamin Terrier, Abraham Rutgers, Jennifer Gordon, Peter Verhoeven, Joyce Kullman, Carol A. Langford, Ingeborg M. Bajema, Duvuru Geetha, Fernando C. Fervenza, A. Richard Kitching, John H. Stone, Ulrich Specks, Andreas Kronbichler	2025	0
4	“Normal” Glomerular Score Correlates With Outcomes in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody–Associated Vasculitis With Glomerulonephritis Kidney International Reports ·Marta Casal Moura, Fernando C. Fervenza, Ulrich Specks, Sanjeev Sethi	2024	1
5	FAT1 is a target antigen in a subset of de novo allograft membranous nephropathy associated with antibody mediated rejection Kidney International ·Sanjeev Sethi, Benjamin J. Madden, Marta Casal Moura, Samih H. Nasr, Mariam P. Alexander, Hanna Dêbiec, Nate Torrel, LouAnn Gross, Vivian Negron, Ulrich Specks, Fernando C. Fervenza, Mark Haas, Pierre Ronco, Ibrahim Batal	2024	7
6	Identification of the central tolerance checkpoint for autoreactive proteinase 3+ B cells in human bone marrow Journal of Autoimmunity ·Alvise Berti, Michele Tomasi, Isabella Pesce, Enrico Lista, Anna Guella, Roberto Bortolotti, Giuseppe Paolazzi, Sophie Hillion, Ulrich Specks, Guido Grandi, Divi Cornec	2024	1
7	Granulomatosis with polyangiitis with and without antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies: a case-control study Lara D. Veeken ·Marta Casal Moura, S. Falde, Sanjeev Sethi, Fernando C. Fervenza, Ulrich Specks, Misbah Baqir	2024	3
8	#5127 COMBINED ACTIVITY AND CHRONICITY SCORE FOR PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT IN ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS WITH GLOMERULONEPHRITIS Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation ·Marta Casal Moura, Fernando C. Fervenza, Kenneth J. Warrington, Ulrich Specks, Sanjeev Sethi	2023	0
9	Self-Reported Data and Physician-Reported Data in Patients With Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis: Comparative Analysis SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Irena Doubelt, Jason Springer, Tanaz A. Kermani, Antoine G. Sreih, Cristina Burroughs, David Cuthbertson, Simon Carette, Nader Khalidi, Curry L. Koening, Carol A. Langford, Carol A. McAlear, Larry W. Moreland, Paul A. Monach, Dianne G. Shaw, Philip Seo, Ulrich Specks, Kenneth J. Warrington, Kalen Young, Peter A. Merkel, Christian Pagnoux	2022	4
10	Improvement of constrictive bronchiolitis (bronchiolitis obliterans) after rituximab therapy in 2 patients with primary sjögren syndrome Respiratory Medicine Case Reports ·Kirill Lipatov, Aahd Kubbara, Laura E. Weerheim, Dante Schiavo, Ulrich Specks, Jay H. Ryu, Misbah Baqir	2021	0
11	ANCA-associated vasculitis Nature Reviews Disease Primers ·A. Richard Kitching, Hans‐Joachim Anders, Neil Basu, Elisabeth Brouwer, Jennifer Gordon, David Jayne, Joyce Kullman, Paul Lyons, Peter A. Merkel, Caroline O. S. Savage, Ulrich Specks, Renate Kain Hit paper breakdown →	2020	499
12	Efficacy of Rituximab and Plasma Exchange in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody–Associated Vasculitis with Severe Kidney Disease Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Marta Casal Moura, María V. Irazabal, Alfonso Eirin, Ladan Zand, Sanjeev Sethi, Bijan J. Borah, Jeffrey L. Winters, James P. Moriarty, Rodrigo Cartin‐Ceba, Alvise Berti, Misbah Baqir, Gwen Thompson, Ashima Makol, Kenneth J. Warrington, Viengneesee Thao, Ulrich Specks, Fernando C. Fervenza	2020	49
13	Fc receptor-like 5 and anti-CD20 treatment response in granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis JCI Insight ·Kasia Owczarczyk, Matthew D. Cascino, Cécile Holweg, Gaik W. Tew, Ward Ortmann, Timothy W. Behrens, Thomas H. Schindler, Carol A. Langford, E. William St. Clair, Peter A. Merkel, Robert Spiera, Philip Seo, Cees G. M. Kallenberg, Ulrich Specks, Noha Lim, John H. Stone, Paul Brunetta, Marco Prunotto	2020	9
14	Exostosin 1/Exostosin 2–Associated Membranous Nephropathy Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Sanjeev Sethi, Benjamin Madden, Hanna Dêbiec, M. Cristine Charlesworth, LouAnn Gross, Aishwarya Ravindran, Amber M. Hummel, Ulrich Specks, Fernando C. Fervenza, Pierre Ronco	2019	196
15	Evaluation of Potential Serum Biomarkers of Disease Activity in Diverse Forms of Vasculitis The Journal of Rheumatology ·Alicia Rodríguez-Pla, Roscoe L. Warner, David Cuthbertson, Simon Carette, Nader Khalidi, Curry L. Koening, Carol A. Langford, Carol A. McAlear, Larry W. Moreland, Christian Pagnoux, Philip Seo, Ulrich Specks, Antoine G. Sreih, Steven R. Ytterberg, Kent J. Johnson, Peter A. Merkel, Paul A. Monach	2019	21
16	Incidence, prevalence, mortality and chronic renal damage of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated glomerulonephritis in a 20-year population-based cohort Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation ·Alvise Berti, Émilie Cornec-Le Gall, Divi Cornec, Marta Casal Moura, Eric L. Matteson, Cynthia S. Crowson, Aishwarya Ravindran, Sanjeev Sethi, Fernando C. Fervenza, Ulrich Specks	2018	54
17	Efficacy Of Glucocorticoids To Treat Limited Flares In ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Eli M. Miloslavsky, Ulrich Specks, Peter A. Margolis, Philip Seo, Robert Spiera, Carol A. Langford, (unknown), (unknown), E. William St. Clair, Nadia K. Tchao, Linna Ding, David Iklé, Brett Jepson, (unknown), John H. Stone	2013	1
18	Comparison of disease activity measures for ANCA-associated vasculitis. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) ·Peter A. Merkel, David Cuthbertson, B. Hellmich, G S Hoffman, David Jayne, Kallenberg Cgm., Jeffrey Krischer, Raashid Luqmani, Alfred Mahr, Eric L. Matteson, Ulrich Specks, John H. Stone	2004	4
19	Cloning and functional expression of the murine homologue of proteinase 3: implications for the design of murine models of vasculitis FEBS Letters ·Dieter E. Jenne, Leopold F. Fröhlich, Amber M. Hummel, Ulrich Specks	1997	43
20	Lung Toxicity Associated With Cyclophosphamide Use. Two Distinct Patterns American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Shaheryar Malik, Jeffery L. Myers, Richard A. DeRemee, Ulrich Specks	1996	158

About Ulrich Specks

Ulrich Specks is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Genetics, Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy and Nephrology, having authored 302 papers that have together received 13.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Vasculitis and related conditions (231 papers), Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research (78 papers), Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema (72 papers), Urticaria and Related Conditions (39 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (38 papers), Otitis Media and Relapsing Polychondritis (36 papers), Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (32 papers) and Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes (30 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Rheumatology (5.0k citations), Nephrology (2.3k citations), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (10.2k citations), Genetics (2.9k citations) and Immunology and Allergy (1.2k citations). Ulrich Specks has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. Frequent co-authors include Fernando C. Fervenza, Gary S. Hoffman, Karina A. Keogh, Peter A. Merkel, Richard A. DeRemee, Steven R. Ytterberg, John H. Stone, Robert Spiera, E. William St. Clair and Philip Seo. Their work appears in journals such as Arthritis & Rheumatology, Lara D. Veeken, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and CHEST Journal.

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