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Jörn Walter 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 Jörn Walter sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 231 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jörn Walter 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 Jörn Walter sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Jörn Walter is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and is active in research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research intersects multiple subfields, particularly Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Cancer Research, and Epidemiology.

The main topics of Walter's research work include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Immune responses and vaccinations

Walter has contributed extensively to various scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Immunology

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Dnmt1 has de novo activity targeted to transposable elements" (2021) published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • "A meta-analysis of epigenome-wide association studies in Alzheimer's disease highlights novel differentially methylated loci across cortex" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Transmission of trained immunity and heterologous resistance to infections across generations" (2021) published in Nature Immunology
  • "GeneTrail 3: advanced high-throughput enrichment analysis" (2020) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Genetically determined NLRP3 inflammasome activation associates with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular mortality" (2021) published in European Heart Journal

Throughout their research career, Walter has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Gilles Gasparoni
  • Abdulrahman Salhab
  • Karl Nordström
  • Sascha Tierling
  • Kathrin Kattler

Walter's work has been recognized by election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Epigenetic Reprogramming in Mammalian Development

    Wolf Reik;Wendy Dean;Jörn Walter

  • Genomic imprinting: parental influence on the genome

    Wolf Reik;Jörn Walter;Jörn Walter

  • Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome

    Wolfgang Mayer;Alain Niveleau;Jörn Walter;Reinald Fundele

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells.

    Petra Hajkova;Sylvia Erhardt;Natasha Lane;Thomas Haaf

  • Active demethylation of the paternal genome in the mouse zygote.

    J. Oswald;S Engemann;N Lane;W. Mayer

  • Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos.

    Wendy Dean;Fátima Santos;Miodrag Stojkovic;Valeri Zakhartchenko

  • Dynamic Readers for 5-(Hydroxy)Methylcytosine and Its Oxidized Derivatives

    Cornelia G. Spruijt;Felix Gnerlich;Arne H. Smits;Toni Pfaffeneder

  • The Dynamics of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells

    Stefanie Seisenberger;Simon Andrews;Felix Krueger;Julia Arand

  • 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian zygote is linked with epigenetic reprogramming

    Mark Wossidlo;Toshinobu Nakamura;Konstantin Lepikhov;C. Joana Marques

  • Resistance of IAPs to methylation reprogramming may provide a mechanism for epigenetic inheritance in the mouse

    Natasha Lane;Wendy Dean;Sylvia Erhardt;Petra Hajkova

  • BiQ Analyzer: visualization and quality control for DNA methylation data from bisulfite sequencing

    Christoph Bock;Sabine Reither;Thomas Mikeska;Martina Paulsen

  • Recognition of position-specific properties of tectal cell membranes by retinal axons in vitro.

    J. Walter;B. Kern-Veits;J. Huf;B. Stolze

  • Promiscuous gene expression in thymic epithelial cells is regulated at multiple levels.

    Jens Derbinski;Jana Gäbler;Benedikt Brors;Sascha Tierling

  • Comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data with RnBeads

    Yassen Assenov;Fabian Müller;Pavlo Lutsik;Jörn Walter

  • The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery

    Hendrik G. Stunnenberg;Martin Hirst

  • A modified and improved method for bisulphite based cytosine methylation analysis.

    Alexander Olek;Joachim Oswald;Jörn Walter

  • Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing of two distinct interconvertible DNA methylomes of mouse embryonic stem cells

    Ehsan Habibi;Arie B. Brinkman;Julia Arand;Leonie I. Kroeze

  • In vivo Control of CpG and Non-CpG DNA Methylation by DNA Methyltransferases

    Julia Arand;David Spieler;Tommy Karius;Miguel R. Branco;Miguel R. Branco

  • FGF Signaling Inhibition in ESCs Drives Rapid Genome-wide Demethylation to the Epigenetic Ground State of Pluripotency

    Gabriella Ficz;Timothy A. Hore;Fátima Santos;Heather J. Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik Babraham Institute
Thomas Lengauer
Thomas Lengauer Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Christoph Bock
Christoph Bock Austrian Academy of Sciences
Philip Rosenstiel
Philip Rosenstiel Kiel University
Benedikt Brors
Benedikt Brors German Cancer Research Center
Jan G. Hengstler
Jan G. Hengstler TU Dortmund University
Wendy Dean
Wendy Dean Babraham Institute
Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller Saarland University
Alf Hamann
Alf Hamann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Nikolaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

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