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2024

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Roland Eils publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roland Eils sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 569 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Roland Eils D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 120 D-Index — 92nd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine

Overview

Roland Eils is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, producing extensive work in these disciplines.

The scientist's subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Immunology.

The main topics of their work cover Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

Frequent publication venues where Roland Eils has contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Nature Mental Health

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Roland Eils encompass:

  • Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium-immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers, 2020, Nature
  • SARS -CoV-2 receptor ACE 2 and TMPRSS 2 are primarily expressed in bronchial transient secretory cells, 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • SARS-CoV-2 infection triggers profibrotic macrophage responses and lung fibrosis, 2021, Cell

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roland Eils include:

  • Naveed Ishaque
  • Christian Conrad
  • Matthias Schlesner
  • Robert Lorenz Chua
  • Soeren Lukassen

Roland Eils received the award from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2018 in the area of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;David C. Wedge;Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio

  • Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data

    Zuguang Gu;Roland Eils;Matthias Schlesner

  • circlize Implements and enhances circular visualization in R.

    Zuguang Gu;Lei Gu;Roland Eils;Matthias Schlesner

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

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

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • Systemic spread is an early step in breast cancer.

    Yves Hüsemann;Jochen B. Geigl;Falk Schubert;Piero Musiani

  • Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19.

    Jenny Meinhardt;Josefine Radke;Carsten Dittmayer;Jonas Franz;Jonas Franz

  • COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium-immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis.

    Robert Lorenz Chua;Soeren Lukassen;Saskia Trump;Bianca P. Hennig

  • The Microarray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models

    Leming Shi;Gregory Campbell;Wendell D. Jones;Fabien Campagne

  • SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are primarily expressed in bronchial transient secretory cells.

    Soeren Lukassen;Robert Lorenz Chua;Timo Trefzer;Nicolas C Kahn

  • Three-Dimensional Maps of All Chromosomes in Human Male Fibroblast Nuclei and Prometaphase Rosettes

    Andreas Bolzer;Gregor Kreth;Irina Solovei;Daniela Koehler

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

    Moritz Gerstung;Moritz Gerstung;Clemency Jolly;Ignaty Leshchiner;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro

  • The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

    Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;Ivo Buchhalter;Ivo Buchhalter;A. Sorana Morrissy;Volker Hovestadt

  • Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes

    Beate Neumann;Thomas Walter;Jean Karim Hériché;Jutta Bulkescher

  • New Brain Tumor Entities Emerge from Molecular Classification of CNS-PNETs

    Dominik Sturm;Dominik Sturm;Brent A. Orr;Umut H. Toprak;Volker Hovestadt

  • Dissecting the genomic complexity underlying medulloblastoma

    David T. W. Jones;Natalie Jäger;Marcel Kool;Thomas Zichner

  • Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations

    Tobias Rausch;David T.W. Jones;Marc Zapatka;Adrian M. Stütz

  • Recurrent somatic alterations of FGFR1 and NTRK2 in pilocytic astrocytoma

    David T W Jones;Barbara Hutter;Natalie Jäger;Andrey Korshunov;Andrey Korshunov

Frequent Co-Authors

Benedikt Brors
Benedikt Brors German Cancer Research Center
Matthias Schlesner
Matthias Schlesner University of Augsburg
Karl Rohr
Karl Rohr Heidelberg University
Peter Lichter
Peter Lichter German Cancer Research Center
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Marc Zapatka
Marc Zapatka German Cancer Research Center
Andrey Korshunov
Andrey Korshunov German Cancer Research Center
David T. W. Jones
David T. W. Jones German Cancer Research Center
Paul A. Northcott
Paul A. Northcott St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Jan O. Korbel
Jan O. Korbel European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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