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Ralf Küppers publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralf Küppers sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 349 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ralf Küppers D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralf Küppers sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ralf Küppers is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, focusing on research within medicine and immunology. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including immunology, pathology and forensic medicine, genetics, oncology, and molecular biology.

The research topics addressed by Küppers primarily include lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, chronic lymphocytic leukemia research, immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, viral-associated cancers and disorders, CAR-T cell therapy research, and cancer genomics and diagnostics.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Küppers include the following:

  • "Molecular biology of Hodgkin lymphoma," 2021, Leukemia
  • "Genomic and epigenomic insights into the origin, pathogenesis, and clinical behavior of mantle cell lymphoma subtypes," 2020, Blood
  • "The genomic and transcriptional landscape of primary central nervous system lymphoma," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "An atlas of cells in the human tonsil," 2024, Immunity
  • "Systematic memory B cell archiving and random display shape the human splenic marginal zone throughout life," 2021, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Küppers frequently publishes in journals such as Blood, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Leukemia, Frontiers in Immunology, and Haematologica.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Küppers include Marc A. Weniger, Bettina Budeus, Martin-Leo Hansmann, Reiner Siebert, and Marc Seifert.

Best Publications

  • The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

    Susanne N. Gröbner;Barbara C. Worst;Joachim Weischenfeldt;Joachim Weischenfeldt;Ivo Buchhalter

  • Mechanisms of B-cell lymphoma pathogenesis

    Ralf Küppers

  • Hypermutation of multiple proto-oncogenes in B-cell diffuse large-cell lymphomas

    Laura Pasqualucci;Peter Neumeister;Tina Goossens;Gouri Nanjangud

  • Human Immunoglobulin (Ig)M+IgD+ Peripheral Blood B Cells Expressing the CD27 Cell Surface Antigen Carry Somatically Mutated Variable Region Genes: CD27 as a General Marker for Somatically Mutated (Memory) B Cells

    Ulf Klein;Klaus Rajewsky;Ralf Küppers

  • Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in Hodgkin's disease represent the outgrowth of a dominant tumor clone derived from (crippled) germinal center B cells.

    H Kanzler;R Küppers;M L Hansmann;K Rajewsky

  • Cellular Origin of Human B-Cell Lymphomas

    Ralf Küppers;Ulf Klein;Martin-Leo Hansmann;Klaus Rajewsky

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Hodgkin disease: Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells picked from histological sections show clonal immunoglobulin gene rearrangements and appear to be derived from B cells at various stages of development.

    Ralf Kuppers;Klaus Rajewsky;Min Zhao;Gunther Simons

  • Tracing B cell development in human germinal centres by molecular analysis of single cells picked from histological sections.

    R. Küppers;Min Zhao;M.-L. Hansmann;K. Rajewsky

  • Mechanisms of chromosomal translocations in B cell lymphomas.

    Ralf Küppers;Ralf Küppers;Riccardo Dalla-Favera

  • The biology of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

    Ralf Küppers

  • From pathogenesis to treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

    Thorsten Zenz;Daniel Mertens;Ralf Küppers;Hartmut Döhner

  • B cells under influence: transformation of B cells by Epstein–Barr virus

    Ralf Küppers

  • BCL-6 mutations in normal germinal center B cells: Evidence of somatic hypermutation acting outside Ig loci

    Laura Pasqualucci;Anna Migliazza;Nicola Fracchiolla;Christopher William

  • TNFAIP3 (A20) is a tumor suppressor gene in Hodgkin lymphoma and primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma

    Roland Schmitz;Martin-Leo Hansmann;Verena Bohle;Jose Ignacio Martin-Subero

  • Loss of the B-lineage-specific gene expression program in Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin lymphoma.

    Ines Schwering;Andreas Bräuninger;Ulf Klein;Berit Jungnickel

  • Recurrent mutation of the ID3 gene in Burkitt lymphoma identified by integrated genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing

    Julia Richter;Matthias Schlesner;Steve Hoffmann;Markus Kreuz

  • Somatic hypermutation in normal and transformed human B cells

    U Klein;T Goossens;M Fischer;H Kanzler

  • Frequent occurrence of deletions and duplications during somatic hypermutation: Implications for oncogene translocations and heavy chain disease

    Tina Goossens;Ulf Klein;Ralf Küppers

  • THE ORIGIN OF HODGKIN AND REED/STERNBERG CELLS IN HODGKIN'S DISEASE

    Ralf Küppers;Klaus Rajewsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Rajewsky
Klaus Rajewsky Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Reiner Siebert
Reiner Siebert University of Ulm
Wolfram Klapper
Wolfram Klapper Kiel University
José I. Martín-Subero
José I. Martín-Subero University of Barcelona
Ulf Klein
Ulf Klein University of Leeds
Lorenz Trümper
Lorenz Trümper University of Göttingen
Michael Hummel
Michael Hummel Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Ulrich Dührsen
Ulrich Dührsen University of Duisburg-Essen
Stephan Stilgenbauer
Stephan Stilgenbauer University of Ulm
Ole Ammerpohl
Ole Ammerpohl University of Ulm

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