2026 Martin Weigert: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	72	2184	2006	1058	960	167	23102

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Martin Weigert is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Media Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cell Biology.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, prominently featuring Cell Image Analysis Techniques, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Image Processing Techniques and Applications, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, AI in Cancer Detection, Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications, and Gene Expression and Cancer Classification.

Recent scholarly contributions illustrate this diverse focus. Selected publications include:

EASI-FISH for thick tissue defines lateral hypothalamus spatio-molecular organization, 2021, Cell
A convolutional neural network segments yeast microscopy images with high accuracy, 2020, Nature Communications
Deep learning-enhanced light-field imaging with continuous validation, 2021, Nature Methods
3D FIB-SEM reconstruction of microtubule-organelle interaction in whole primary mouse β cells, 2020, The Journal of Cell Biology
Event-driven acquisition for content-enriched microscopy, 2022, Nature Methods

Martin Weigert has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Uwe Schmidt, Eugene W. Myers, Suliana Manley, Willi L. Stepp, and Matthias Minder.

Their publications have appeared regularly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Methods, and The Journal of Cell Biology. These outlets reflect a balance between preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals relevant to imaging, microscopy, and computational biology.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Martin Weigert was named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Best Publications

Receptor editing: an approach by autoreactive B cells to escape tolerance.

Thomas Saunders;Sally Camper;Martin Weigert

1194
Citations
The role of clonal selection and somatic mutation in autoimmunity.

Mark J. Shlomchik;Ann Marshak-Rothstein;Claudia B. Wolfowicz;Thomas L. Rothstein

835
Citations
Anti-DNA antibodies from autoimmune mice arise by clonal expansion and somatic mutation.

M Shlomchik;M Mascelli;H Shan;M Z Radic

795
Citations
Variability in the lambda light chain sequences of mouse antibody.

Martin G. Weigert;Italo M. Cesari;Shirlee J. Yonkovich;Melvin Cohn

726
Citations
Generation of antibody diversity in the immune response of BALB/c mice to influenza virus hemagglutinin

David McKean;Konrad Huppi;Michael Bell;Louis Staudt

688
Citations
Expression of anti-DNA immunoglobulin transgenes in non-autoimmune mice.

Jan Erikson;Marko Z. Radic;Sally A. Camper;Richard R. Hardy

602
Citations
Structure and function of anti-DNA autoantibodies derived from a single autoimmune mouse

Mark J. Shlomchik;Ann H. Aucoin;David S. Pisetsky;Martin G. Weigert

564
Citations
Genetic and Structural Evidence for Antigen Selection of Anti-DNA Antibodies

M Z Radic;M Weigert

557
Citations
B lymphocytes may escape tolerance by revising their antigen receptors.

Marko Z. Radic;Jan Erikson;Samuel Litwin;Martin Weigert

495
Citations
Immunoglobulin heavy chain gene replacement: A mechanism of receptor editing

Ching Chen;Zoltan Nagy;Eline Luning Prak;Martin Weigert

472
Citations
Genetics of the antibody response to dextran in mice.

Bonnie B Blomberg;William R. Geckeler;Martin Weigert

465
Citations
Aberrant rearrangements contribute significantly to the allelic exclusion of immunoglobulin gene expression

Christopher Coleclough;Robert P. Perry;Klaus Karjalainen;Martin Weigert

409
Citations
Identification and nucleotide sequence of a diversity DNA segment (D) of immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes

Hitoshi Sakano;Yoshikazu Kurosawa;Martin Weigert;Susumu Tonegawa

394
Citations
Inter- and intraclonal diversity in the antibody response to influenza hemagglutinin.

Stephen H. Clarke;Konrad Huppi;Diane Ruezinsky;Louis Staudt

386
Citations
Autoreactive B Cells in the Marginal Zone that Express Dual Receptors

Yijin Li;Hui Li;Martin Weigert

381
Citations
Recombination between an expressed immunoglobulin heavy-chain gene and a germline variable gene segment in a Ly 1+ B-cell lymphoma

Robert Kleinfield;Richard R. Hardy;David Tarlinton;Jeffery Dangl

374
Citations
The site and stage of anti-DNA B-cell deletion

Ching Chen;Zoltan Nagy;Marko Z. Radic;Richard R. Hardy

351
Citations
Revising B Cell Receptors

David Nemazee;Martin Weigert

326
Citations
Editing Disease-Associated Autoantibodies

Ching Chen;Eline Luning Prak;Martin Weigert

315
Citations
Residues that mediate DNA binding of autoimmune antibodies.

M Z Radic;J Mackle;J Erikson;C Mol

301
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene W. Myers Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Marko Z. Radic University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Eline T. Luning Prak University of Pennsylvania

Mark J. Shlomchik University of Pittsburgh

Melvin Cohn Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Robert P. Perry Fox Chase Cancer Center

Sally A. Camper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Walter Gerhard The Wistar Institute

Louis M. Staudt National Institutes of Health

Michael Potter National Institutes of Health

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