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Animal Science and Veterinary
Germany
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

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102
Citations
40522
World Ranking
15
National Ranking
1

Immunology

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101
Citations
40419
World Ranking
702
National Ranking
42

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Martin Beer is affiliated with the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany. Their research work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, they focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's main research topics include Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Animal Virus Infections Studies, Influenza Virus Research Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, as well as Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Martin Beer has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Donata Hoffmann
  • Kerstin Wernike
  • Dirk W. Höper
  • Timm Harder
  • Anne Pohlmann

Their research output appears frequently in notable scientific venues with the highest number of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Viruses
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Emerging infectious diseases

Among recent papers associated with their research, the following are noteworthy by title, year, and venue:

  • The evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 2023, published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Animal models for COVID-19, 2020, published in Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G change enhances replication and transmission, 2021, published in Nature
  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study, 2020, published in The Lancet Microbe
  • African swine fever - A review of current knowledge, 2020, published in Virus Research

Best Publications

  • The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

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  • Animal models for COVID-19.

    César Muñoz-Fontela;William E. Dowling;Simon G.P. Funnell;Pierre S. Gsell

  • Novel orthobunyavirus in Cattle, Europe, 2011.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Matthias Scheuch;Dirk Höper;Ralf Jungblut

  • A universal heterologous internal control system for duplex real-time RT-PCR assays used in a detection system for pestiviruses

    Bernd Hoffmann;Klaus Robert Depner;Horst Schirrmeier;Martin Beer

  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study.

    Kore Schlottau;Melanie Rissmann;Annika Graaf;Jacob Schön

  • SARS-CoV-2 spike D614G change enhances replication and transmission.

    Bin Zhou;Tran Thi Nhu Thao;Donata Hoffmann;Adriano Taddeo

  • Role for migratory wild birds in the global spread of avian influenza H5N8

    S.J. Lycett;R. Bodewes;Anne Pohlmann

  • Human infection with MERS coronavirus after exposure to infected camels, Saudi Arabia, 2013.

    Ziad A. Memish;Matthew Cotten;Benjamin Meyer;Simon J. Watson

  • Pathogenesis of African swine fever in domestic pigs and European wild boar

    Sandra Blome;Claudia Gabriel;Martin Beer

  • African swine fever - A review of current knowledge.

    Sandra Blome;Kati Franzke;Martin Beer

  • Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales : update 2019

    Abulikemu Abudurexiti;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Genetic and antigenic characterization of an atypical pestivirus isolate, a putative member of a novel pestivirus species.

    Horst Schirrmeier;Günter Strebelow;Klaus Robert Depner;Bernd Hoffmann

  • Validation of a real-time RT-PCR assay for sensitive and specific detection of classical swine fever.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Martin Beer;C. Schelp;Horst Schirrmeier

  • ‘Schmallenberg virus’ – a novel orthobunyavirus emerging in Europe

    Martin Beer;Franz Josef Conraths;W.H.M. van der Poel

  • Taxonomy of the order Mononegavirales: update 2017

    Gaya K. Amarasinghe;Yīmíng Bào;Christopher F. Basler;Sina Bavari

  • A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis

    Bernd Hoffmann;Dennis Tappe;Dirk Höper;Christiane Herden

  • Insights in ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT).

    Andreas Greinacher;Kathleen Selleng;Raghavendra Palankar;Jan Wesche

  • First occurrence of Culicoides obsoletus-transmitted Bluetongue virus epidemic in Central Europe

    Heinz Mehlhorn;Volker Walldorf;Sven Klimpel;Birgit Jahn

  • Classical Swine Fever-An Updated Review.

    Sandra Blome;Christoph Staubach;Julia Henke;Jolene Carlson

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Organ distribution of Schmallenberg virus RNA in malformed newborns.

    S. Bilk;C. Schulze;Melina Fischer;Martin Beer

  • A review of RT-PCR technologies used in veterinary virology and disease control: sensitive and specific diagnosis of five livestock diseases notifiable to the World Organisation for Animal Health.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Martin Beer;S M Reid;Peter P C Mertens

  • Age-Dependent Progression of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Syrian Hamsters

    Nikolaus Osterrieder;Luca D. Bertzbach;Kristina Dietert;Azza Abdelgawad

  • Course and transmission characteristics of oral low-dose infection of domestic pigs and European wild boar with a Caucasian African swine fever virus isolate.

    Jana Pietschmann;Claire Guinat;Martin Beer;Valery Pronin

  • Pathogenesis and transmission of the novel swine-origin influenza virus A/H1N1 after experimental infection of pigs.

    Elke Lange;Donata Kalthoff;Ulrike Blohm;Jens P. Teifke

  • Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Alexander N. Lukashev

  • Epizootic emergence of Usutu virus in wild and captive birds in Germany

    Norbert Becker;Hanna Jöst;Hanna Jöst;Ute Ziegler;Martin Eiden

  • Iota-Carrageenan Is a Potent Inhibitor of Influenza A Virus Infection

    Andreas Leibbrandt;Christiane Meier;Marielle König-Schuster;Regina Weinmüllner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Hoffmann
Bernd Hoffmann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Dirk Höper
Dirk Höper Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Timm C. Harder
Timm C. Harder Kiel University
Thomas C. Mettenleiter
Thomas C. Mettenleiter Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Franz Josef Conraths
Franz Josef Conraths Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Martin Schwemmle
Martin Schwemmle University of Freiburg
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Christoph Staubach
Christoph Staubach Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Nikolaus Osterrieder
Nikolaus Osterrieder Freie Universität Berlin
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg

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