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Michael Hoffmeister 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 Michael Hoffmeister sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 692 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Hoffmeister 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 Michael Hoffmeister sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael Hoffmeister is affiliated with the German Cancer Research Center in Germany. Their research primarily intersects medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broad fields, they focus extensively on oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, genetics, and molecular biology as primary subfields.

Their research topics cover various aspects of cancer, with a significant emphasis on colorectal cancer. Key areas of study include colorectal cancer screening and detection, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, gastric cancer management and outcomes, genetic associations and epidemiology, colorectal cancer surgical treatments, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, and the application of artificial intelligence in cancer detection.

Michael Hoffmeister has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations (2020, Nature Cancer)
  • Colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distribution in European countries in the colorectal cancer screening era: an international population-based study (2021, The Lancet Oncology)
  • Clinical-Grade Detection of Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Tumors by Deep Learning (2020, Gastroenterology)
  • Characteristics of Early-Onset vs Late-Onset Colorectal Cancer (2021, JAMA Surgery)

Their frequent co-authors include Hermann Brenner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Peter T. Campbell, Tabitha A. Harrison, and Andrew T. Chan.

Michael Hoffmeister's work appears in various scientific publication venues. Notable journals and repositories where they have published multiple articles are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, UNC Libraries, and Cancer Research.

Best Publications

  • Deep learning can predict microsatellite instability directly from histology in gastrointestinal cancer.

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Alexander T. Pearson;Niels Halama;Dirk Jäger

  • Protection From Colorectal Cancer After Colonoscopy: A Population-Based, Case–Control Study

    Hermann Brenner;Jenny Chang-Claude;Christoph M. Seiler;Alexander Rickert

  • Predicting survival from colorectal cancer histology slides using deep learning: A retrospective multicenter study.

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Johannes Krisam;Pornpimol Charoentong;Pornpimol Charoentong;Tom Luedde

  • Genome-wide association scan identifies a colorectal cancer susceptibility locus on 11q23 and replicates risk loci at 8q24 and 18q21.

    Albert Tenesa;Susan M Farrington;James G D Prendergast;Mary E Porteous

  • Protection From Right- and Left-Sided Colorectal Neoplasms After Colonoscopy: Population-Based Study

    Hermann Brenner;Michael Hoffmeister;Volker Arndt;Christa Stegmaier

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies four new susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer

    Richard S. Houlston;Emily Webb;Peter Broderick;Alan M. Pittman

  • Pan-cancer image-based detection of clinically actionable genetic alterations

    Jakob Nikolas Kather;Jakob Nikolas Kather;Lara R. Heij;Lara R. Heij;Heike I. Grabsch;Heike I. Grabsch;Chiara Loeffler

  • Measurement of the inclusive W+-and Z/gamma cross sections in the electron and muon decay channels in pp collisions at sqrt (s)= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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  • Risk of progression of advanced adenomas to colorectal cancer by age and sex: estimates based on 840 149 screening colonoscopies

    Hermann Brenner;Michael Hoffmeister;Christa Stegmaier;Gerhard Brenner

  • Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

    Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

  • Search for Scalar Diphoton Resonances in the Mass Range 65–600�GeV with the ATLAS Detector in Collision Data at

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  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer : a Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Nikos Papadimitriou;Niki Dimou;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Konstantinos K. Tsilidis;Barbara Banbury

  • Search for top squark pair production in final states with one isolated lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS�…

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  • Identification of Genetic Susceptibility Loci for Colorectal Tumors in a Genome-Wide Meta-analysis

    Ulrike Peters;Ulrike Peters;Shuo Jiao;Fredrick R. Schumacher;Carolyn M. Hutter;Carolyn M. Hutter

  • Reduced Risk of Colorectal Cancer Up to 10 Years After Screening, Surveillance, or Diagnostic Colonoscopy

    Hermann Brenner;Jenny Chang-Claude;Lina Jansen;Phillip Knebel

  • Colorectal cancer incidence, mortality, and stage distribution in European countries in the colorectal cancer screening era: an international population-based study

    Rafael Cardoso;Rafael Cardoso;Feng Guo;Feng Guo;Thomas Heisser;Thomas Heisser;Monika Hackl

  • Endothelial Notch1 Activity Facilitates Metastasis

    Elfriede Wieland;Juan Rodriguez-Vita;Sven S. Liebler;Sven S. Liebler;Carolin Mogler

  • Clinical-Grade Detection of Microsatellite Instability in Colorectal Tumors by Deep Learning.

    Amelie Echle;Heike Irmgard Grabsch;Heike Irmgard Grabsch;Philip Quirke;Piet A. van den Brandt

  • Gender differences in colorectal cancer: implications for age at initiation of screening

    H Brenner;M Hoffmeister;V Arndt;U Haug

  • Protection From Colorectal Cancer After Colonoscopy

    Hermann Brenner;Jenny Chang-Claude;Christoph M. Seiler;Alexander Rickert

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Brenner
Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Ulrike Peters
Ulrike Peters University of Washington
Andrew T. Chan
Andrew T. Chan Harvard University
John D. Potter
John D. Potter Massey University
Martha L. Slattery
Martha L. Slattery University of Utah
Cornelia M. Ulrich
Cornelia M. Ulrich University of Utah
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Emily White
Emily White Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Mark A. Jenkins
Mark A. Jenkins University of Melbourne

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