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Janine Altmüller

Janine Altmüller

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
94
Citations
32564
World Ranking
935
National Ranking
79

Janine Altmüller publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Janine Altmüller sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 433 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Janine Altmüller D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Janine Altmüller sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Janine Altmüller is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Medicine. Their research spans key subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Immunology.

The primary research topics addressed by Janine Altmüller include:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Janine Altmüller has co-authored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Peter Nürnberg
  • Hölger Thiele
  • Bernd Wollnik
  • Christoph Dieterich
  • Niels H. Gehring

Their frequent publication venues highlight contributions to several scientific forums:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Nature Communications
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics

Examples of recent influential papers by Janine Altmüller include:

  • "Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning," 2021, Nature
  • "Early IFN-α signatures and persistent dysfunction are distinguishing features of NK cells in severe COVID-19," 2021, Immunity
  • "Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles," 2021, Cell Stem Cell
  • "Long-lived macrophage reprogramming drives spike protein-mediated inflammasome activation in COVID-19," 2021, EMBO Molecular Medicine
  • "Chromothripsis followed by circular recombination drives oncogene amplification in human cancer," 2021, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer

    Julie George;Jing Shan Lim;Se Jin Jang;Yupeng Cun

  • Integrative genome analyses identify key somatic driver mutations of small-cell lung cancer

    Martin Peifer;Lynnette Fernández-Cuesta;Martin L. Sos;Julie George

  • Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

    Richard J. O'Connell;Michael R. Thon;Stéphane Hacquard;Stefan G. Amyotte

  • Frequent and Focal FGFR1 Amplification Associates with Therapeutically Tractable FGFR1 Dependency in Squamous Cell Lung Cancer

    Jonathan Weiss;Martin L. Sos;Danila Seidel;Martin Peifer

  • Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Unnur S Bjornsdottir;Eva Halapi;Anna Helgadottir

  • Genomewide Scans of Complex Human Diseases: True Linkage Is Hard to Find

    Janine Altmüller;Lyle J. Palmer;Lyle J. Palmer;Guido Fischer;Hagen Scherb

  • Telomerase activation by genomic rearrangements in high-risk neuroblastoma

    Martin Peifer;Falk Hertwig;Frederik Roels;Daniel Dreidax

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning.

    Stefanie Warnat-Herresthal;Hartmut Schultze;Krishnaprasad Lingadahalli Shastry;Sathyanarayanan Manamohan

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Recessive mutations in DGKE cause atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome

    Mathieu Lemaire;Véronique Frémeaux-Bacchi;Franz Schaefer;Murim Choi

  • Mutations in GRIN2A cause idiopathic focal epilepsy with rolandic spikes

    Johannes R Lemke;Dennis Lal;Eva M Reinthaler;Isabelle Steiner

  • Germline Mutation Status, Pathological Complete Response, and Disease-Free Survival in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Secondary Analysis of the GeparSixto Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Eric Hahnen;Bianca Lederer;Jan Hauke;Sibylle Loibl

  • Mutational dynamics between primary and relapse neuroblastomas

    Alexander Schramm;Johannes Köster;Johannes Köster;Yassen Assenov;Kristina Althoff

  • A de novo gain-of-function mutation in SCN11A causes loss of pain perception

    Enrico Leipold;Lutz Liebmann;G Christoph Korenke;Theresa Heinrich

  • Integrative genomic profiling of large-cell neuroendocrine carcinomas reveals distinct subtypes of high-grade neuroendocrine lung tumors

    Julie George;Vonn Walter;Vonn Walter;Martin Peifer;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • Frequent mutations in chromatin-remodelling genes in pulmonary carcinoids

    Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta;Martin Peifer;Xin Lu;Ruping Sun

  • A mechanistic classification of clinical phenotypes in neuroblastoma

    Sandra Ackermann;Sandra Ackermann;Maria Cartolano;Barbara Hero;Anne Welte;Anne Welte

  • CD74-NRG1 fusions in lung adenocarcinoma

    Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta;Dennis Plenker;Hirotaka Osada;Ruping Sun

  • Heterozygous de-novo mutations in ATP1A3 in patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood: a whole-exome sequencing gene-identification study

    Hendrik Rosewich;Holger Thiele;Andreas Ohlenbusch;Ulrike Maschke

  • Heterogeneous mechanisms of primary and acquired resistance to third-generation EGFR inhibitors

    Sandra Ortiz-Cuaran;Matthias Scheffler;Dennis Plenker;llona Dahmen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Nürnberg
Peter Nürnberg University of Cologne
Holger Thiele
Holger Thiele Leipzig University
Bernd Wollnik
Bernd Wollnik University of Göttingen
Christian Becker
Christian Becker University of Cologne
Gudrun Nürnberg
Gudrun Nürnberg University of Cologne
Mohammad R. Toliat
Mohammad R. Toliat University of Cologne
Christian Kubisch
Christian Kubisch Universität Hamburg
Roman K. Thomas
Roman K. Thomas University of Cologne
Hanns Hatt
Hanns Hatt Ruhr University Bochum
Michael Hallek
Michael Hallek University of Cologne

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