2026 Björn E. Clausen: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	65	2806	2587	185	172	143	22240

Overview

Björn E. Clausen is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of immunology and microbiology, contributing a significant body of work within these disciplines. They have also contributed to medicine through various studies. Subfields of study in which Björn E. Clausen specializes include immunology, molecular biology, immunology and allergy, epidemiology, and oncology.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass immunotherapy and immune responses, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immune cell function and interaction, immune response and inflammation, cell adhesion molecules research, immune cells in cancer, and pathways involving IL-33, ST2, and innate lymphoid cells (ILC).

Björn E. Clausen has frequently published in several scientific venues, with notable recurring publications in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, European Journal of Immunology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Vaccines.

Frequent collaborators documented in their work include Ronald A. Backer, Hans Christian Probst, Anna Brand, Diana Dudziak, and Emmanuel L. Gautier, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Björn E. Clausen include:

"Impaired Kupffer Cell Self-Renewal Alters the Liver Response to Lipid Overload during Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis" (2020, Immunity)
"Skin Sodium Accumulates in Psoriasis and Reflects Disease Severity" (2021, Journal of Investigative Dermatology)
"Classical DC2 subsets and monocyte-derived DC: Delineating the developmental and functional relationship" (2023, European Journal of Immunology)
"Revisiting Current Concepts on the Tolerogenicity of Steady-State Dendritic Cell Subsets and Their Maturation Stages" (2021, The Journal of Immunology)
"β-Catenin signaling in alveolar macrophages enhances lung metastasis through a TNF-dependent mechanism" (2023, JCI Insight)

Best Publications

Conditional gene targeting in macrophages and granulocytes using LysMcre mice.

B. E. Clausen;C. Burkhardt;Walter Reith;R. Renkawitz

2492
Citations
HIF-1α Is Essential for Myeloid Cell-Mediated Inflammation

Thorsten Cramer;Yuji Yamanishi;Björn E Clausen;Irmgard Förster

2468
Citations
Enhanced Th1 activity and development of chronic enterocolitis in mice devoid of Stat3 in macrophages and neutrophils.

Kiyoshi Takeda;Björn E Clausen;Tsuneyasu Kaisho;Tohru Tsujimura

1541
Citations
SOCS3 negatively regulates IL-6 signaling in vivo.

Ben A Croker;Danielle L Krebs;Jian-Guo Zhang;Sam Wormald

1005
Citations
Clearance of influenza virus from the lung depends on migratory langerin+CD11b− but not plasmacytoid dendritic cells

Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel;Monique A.M. Willart;Leonie S. van Rijt;Femke Muskens

590
Citations
The Cytokine GM-CSF Drives the Inflammatory Signature of CCR2+ Monocytes and Licenses Autoimmunity.

Andrew L. Croxford;Margit Lanzinger;Felix J. Hartmann;Bettina Schreiner

537
Citations
Langerhans cells and more: langerin-expressing dendritic cell subsets in the skin

Nikolaus Romani;Björn E. Clausen;Patrizia Stoitzner

536
Citations
Inducible ablation of mouse Langerhans cells diminishes but fails to abrogate contact hypersensitivity

Clare L. Bennett;Erwin van Rijn;Steffen Jung;Kayo Inaba

496
Citations
BRAF-V600E expression in precursor versus differentiated dendritic cells defines clinically distinct LCH risk groups

Marie-Luise Berres;Karen Phaik Har Lim;Tricia Peters;Jeremy Price

476
Citations
Inhibition of NF-kappaB activation in macrophages increases atherosclerosis in LDL receptor-deficient mice.

Edwin Kanters;Manolis Pasparakis;Marion J.J. Gijbels;Monique N. Vergouwe

424
Citations
Distinct and Nonredundant In Vivo Functions of TNF Produced by T Cells and Macrophages/Neutrophils: Protective and Deleterious Effects

Sergei I. Grivennikov;Alexei V. Tumanov;Alexei V. Tumanov;Dmitry J. Liepinsh;Andrei A. Kruglov

407
Citations
Rac1 Deletion in Mouse Neutrophils Has Selective Effects on Neutrophil Functions

Michael Glogauer;Christophe C. Marchal;Fei Zhu;Aelaf Worku

375
Citations
Impaired Kupffer Cell Self-Renewal Alters the Liver Response to Lipid Overload during Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Sophie Tran;Ines Baba;Lucie Poupel;Sébastien Dussaud

363
Citations
IRF8 Transcription Factor Controls Survival and Function of Terminally Differentiated Conventional and Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells, Respectively

Dorine Sichien;Charlotte L Scott;Liesbet Martens;Matthias Vanderkerken

351
Citations
Stress-induced production of chemokines by hair follicles regulates the trafficking of dendritic cells in skin

Keisuke Nagao;Tetsuro Kobayashi;Kazuyo Moro;Manabu Ohyama

345
Citations
Comparable T helper 1 (Th1) and CD8 T-cell immunity by targeting HIV gag p24 to CD8 dendritic cells within antibodies to Langerin, DEC205, and Clec9A

Juliana Idoyaga;Ashira Lubkin;Christopher Fiorese;Mireille H. Lahoud;Mireille H. Lahoud

330
Citations
Macrophages and neutrophils are the targets for immune suppression by glucocorticoids in contact allergy

Jan P. Tuckermann;Anna Kleiman;Anna Kleiman;Richard Moriggl;Rainer Spanbroek

301
Citations
Dendritic cells as gatekeepers of tolerance

Ari Waisman;Dominika Lukas;Björn E. Clausen;Nir Yogev

267
Citations
Murine epidermal Langerhans cells and langerin-expressing dermal dendritic cells are unrelated and exhibit distinct functions

Keisuke Nagao;Florent Ginhoux;Wolfgang W. Leitner;Sei-Ichiro Motegi

264
Citations
Nicotinic acid-induced flushing is mediated by activation of epidermal Langerhans cells

Zoltán Benyó;Andreas Gille;Clare L. Bennett;Björn E. Clausen

262
Citations
Alternative macrophage activation is essential for survival during schistosomiasis and downmodulates T helper 1 responses and immunopathology (vol 20, pg 623, 2004)

D. R. Herbert;C. Holscher;M. Mohrs;B. Arendse

17
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrizia Stoitzner Innsbruck Medical University

Irmgard Förster University of Bonn

Bart N. Lambrecht Ghent University

Ari Waisman Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Boris Reizis New York University

Daniel H. Kaplan University of Pittsburgh

Louis Boon University of Amsterdam

Hamida Hammad Ghent University

Tim Sparwasser Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Ira Mellman Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

External Links

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