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128
Citations
54989
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2734
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136

Markus M. Lerch publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus M. Lerch sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 877 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Markus M. Lerch D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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This scientist: 128 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Markus M. Lerch is affiliated with Greifswald University Hospital in Germany. Their research focuses predominantly within the field of medicine, with a particular emphasis on surgery, oncology, molecular biology, materials chemistry, and physiology. Their work intersects multiple important medical topics including pancreatitis pathology and treatment, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, nutrition and health in aging, gut microbiota and health, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Their publication record includes papers in a variety of established journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations, 2020, Cell
  • Chronic pancreatitis, 2020, The Lancet
  • Genome-wide association study in 8,956 German individuals identifies influence of ABO histo-blood groups on gut microbiome, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Cohort Profile Update: The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP), 2022, International Journal of Epidemiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Markus M. Lerch include:

  • Frank Ulrich Weiß
  • Ali A. Aghdassi
  • Julia Mayerle
  • Matthias Sendler
  • Fabian Frost

Lerch's research has been disseminated across multiple publication venues, with a significant number of articles appearing in:

  • Pancreatology
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin
  • Gut

Their scientific work engages deeply with topics covering:

  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Markus M. Lerch was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016, which is one of the noted acknowledgments in their academic career.

Best Publications

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

  • International consensus diagnostic criteria for autoimmune pancreatitis: guidelines of the International Association of Pancreatology.

    Tooru Shimosegawa;Suresh T. Chari;Luca Frulloni;Terumi Kamisawa

  • Adjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil plus folinic acid vs gemcitabine following pancreatic cancer resection: a randomized controlled trial

    John P. Neoptolemos;Deborah D. Stocken;Claudio Bassi;Paula Ghaneh

  • Cohort Profile: The Study of Health in Pomerania

    Henry Völzke;Dietrich Alte;Carsten Oliver Schmidt;Dörte Radke

  • International Consensus Guidance Statement on the Management and Treatment of IgG4-Related Disease

    A. Khosroshahi;Z. S. Wallace;J. L. Crowe;T. Akamizu

  • European evidence-based guidelines on pancreatic cystic neoplasms

    Marco Del Chiaro;Marc G. Besselink;Lianne Scholten;Marco J. Bruno

  • Histopathologic and clinical subtypes of autoimmune pancreatitis: the honolulu consensus document.

    Suresh T. Chari;Guenter Kloeppel;Lizhi Zhang;Kenji Notohara

  • Role of cathepsin B in intracellular trypsinogen activation and the onset of acute pancreatitis

    Walter Halangk;Markus M. Lerch;Barbara Brandt-Nedelev;Wera Roth

  • Association of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Giovanni Musso;Roberto Gambino;James H. Tabibian;Mattias Ekstedt

  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations.

    Ming-Huei Chen;Laura M Raffield;Abdou Mousas;Saori Sakaue

  • United European Gastroenterology evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and therapy of chronic pancreatitis (HaPanEU)

    J Matthias Löhr;Enrique Dominguez-Munoz;Jonas Rosendahl;Marc Besselink

  • Clinical and genetic characteristics of hereditary pancreatitis in Europe

    Nathan Howes;Markus M. Lerch;William Greenhalf;Deborah D. Stocken

  • Long-term outcomes of autoimmune pancreatitis: a multicentre, international analysis

    Phil A. Hart;Terumi Kamisawa;William R. Brugge;Jae Bock Chung

  • Effect of adjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil plus folinic acid or gemcitabine vs observation on survival in patients with resected periampullary adenocarcinoma: the ESPAC-3 periampullary cancer randomized trial.

    John P. Neoptolemos;Malcolm J. Moore;Trevor F. Cox;Juan W. Valle

  • A genome-wide association study confirms PNPLA3 and identifies TM6SF2 and MBOAT7 as risk loci for alcohol-related cirrhosis

    Stephan Buch;Felix Stickel;Eric Trépo;Michael Way

  • European experts consensus statement on cystic tumours of the pancreas.

    Marco Del Chiaro;Caroline Verbeke;Roberto Salvia;Gunter Klöppel

  • Models of Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis

    Markus M. Lerch;Fred S. Gorelick

  • FOLFIRI plus cetuximab versus FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab for metastatic colorectal cancer (FIRE-3): a post-hoc analysis of tumour dynamics in the final RAS wild-type subgroup of this randomised open-label phase 3 trial.

    Sebastian Stintzing;Sebastian Stintzing;Dominik P Modest;Dominik P Modest;Lisa Rossius;Markus M Lerch

  • Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis

    David C. Whitcomb;Jessica LaRusch;Alyssa M. Krasinskas;Lambertus Klei

  • Effect of adjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil plus folinic acid or gemcitabine vs observation on survival in patients with resected periampullary adenocarcinoma: the ESPAC-3 periampullary cancer randomized trial

    JP Neoptolemos;MJ Moore;TF Cox;JW Valle

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Mayerle
Julia Mayerle Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Henry Völzke
Henry Völzke Greifswald University Hospital
Wolfram Domschke
Wolfram Domschke University of Münster
John P. Neoptolemos
John P. Neoptolemos Heidelberg University
Georg Homuth
Georg Homuth Greifswald University Hospital
Uwe Völker
Uwe Völker University of Greifswald
Jochen Hampe
Jochen Hampe TU Dresden
Matthias Nauck
Matthias Nauck Greifswald University Hospital
Andre Franke
Andre Franke Kiel University
Ashok K. Saluja
Ashok K. Saluja University of Miami

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