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Thomas Boehm 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 Thomas Boehm sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 229 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Boehm 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 Thomas Boehm sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Boehm is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has explored various subfields, including immunology, molecular biology, oncology, cell biology, and genetics.

Their main topics of research cover T-cell and B-cell immunology, immune cell function and interaction, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, CAR-T cell therapy research, and immune response and inflammation.

Thomas Boehm has published extensively, with frequent appearances in publication venues such as Communications Biology, Nature, European Journal of Immunology, Nature Communications, and Science Immunology. Their recent papers include:

  • The immunogenetics of sexual parasitism, 2020, Science
  • Developmental dynamics of two bipotent thymic epithelial progenitor types, 2022, Nature
  • Co-evolution of mutagenic genome editors and vertebrate adaptive immunity, 2020, Current Opinion in Immunology
  • Cytidine deaminase 2 is required for VLRB antibody gene assembly in lampreys, 2020, Science Immunology
  • Pervasive changes of mRNA splicing in upf1 -deficient zebrafish identify rpl10a as a regulator of T cell development, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Michael Schorpp, Norimasa Iwanami, Jeremy B. Swann, Ryo Morimoto, and Connor P. O'Meara.

Best Publications

  • Endostatin: an endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis and tumor growth.

    Michael S O'Reilly;Thomas Boehm;Yuen Shing;Naomi Fukai

  • New member of the winged-helix protein family disrupted in mouse and rat nude mutations

    Michael Nehls;Dietmar Pfeifer;Michael Schorpp;Hans Hedrich;Hans Hedrich

  • Human immunoglobulin M memory B cells controlling Streptococcus pneumoniae infections are generated in the spleen.

    Stephanie Kruetzmann;M. Manuela Rosado;Holger Weber;Ulrich Germing

  • Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution

    Byrappa Venkatesh;Byrappa Venkatesh;Alison P. Lee;Vydianathan Ravi;Ashish K. Maurya

  • MHC Class I Peptides as Chemosensory Signals in the Vomeronasal Organ

    Trese Leinders-Zufall;Peter Brennan;Patricia Widmayer;Prashanth Chandramani S.

  • Two genetically separable steps in the differentiation of thymic epithelium.

    Michael Nehls;Bruno Kyewski;Martin Messerle;Ralph Waldschütz

  • Formation of a functional thymus initiated by a postnatal epithelial progenitor cell.

    Conrad C. Bleul;Tatiana Corbeaux;Alexander Reuter;Alexander Reuter;Paul Fisch

  • The rhombotin family of cysteine-rich LIM-domain oncogenes: distinct members are involved in T-cell translocations to human chromosomes 11p15 and 11p13.

    T Boehm;L Foroni;Y Kaneko;M F Perutz

  • Thymic Medullary Epithelial Cell Differentiation, Thymocyte Emigration, and the Control of Autoimmunity Require Lympho–Epithelial Cross Talk via LTβR

    Thomas Boehm;Stefanie Scheu;Klaus Pfeffer;Conrad C. Bleul

  • Mate choice decisions of stickleback females predictably modified by MHC peptide ligands

    Manfred Milinski;Sian Wyn Griffiths;K. Mathias Wegner;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • B-1a B Cells that Link the Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses Are Lacking in the Absence of the Spleen

    Hedda Wardemann;Thomas Boehm;Neil Dear;Rita Carsetti

  • Essential Role of the Main Olfactory System in Social Recognition of Major Histocompatibility Complex Peptide Ligands

    Marc Spehr;Kevin R. Kelliher;Xiao-Hong Li;Thomas Boehm

  • HOX11, a homeobox-containing T-cell oncogene on human chromosome 10q24.

    M A Kennedy;R Gonzalez-Sarmiento;U R Kees;F Lampert

  • Chemokines define distinct microenvironments in the developing thymus.

    Conrad C. Bleul;Thomas Boehm

  • The mechanism of chromosomal translocation t(11;14) involving the T-cell receptor C delta locus on human chromosome 14q11 and a transcribed region of chromosome 11p15.

    T. Boehm;R. Baer;I. Lavenir;A. Forster

  • Immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene rearrangements in Hodgkin's disease and Ki-1-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma: dissociation between phenotype and genotype.

    Hermann Herbst;Gerald Tippelmann;Ioannis Anagnostopoulos;Johannes Gerdes

  • Female sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus use self-reference to optimize MHC allele number during mate selection

    P. B. Aeschlimann;M. A. Häberli;T. B. H. Reusch;Thomas Boehm

  • A thymus candidate in lampreys

    Baubak Bajoghli;Peng Guo;Narges Aghaallaei;Masayuki Hirano

  • VLR-Based Adaptive Immunity

    Thomas Boehm;Nathanael McCurley;Yoichi Sutoh;Michael Schorpp

  • Reticular dysgenesis (aleukocytosis) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding mitochondrial adenylate kinase 2

    Ulrich Pannicke;Manfred Hönig;Manfred Hönig;Isabell Hess;Claudia Friesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Milinski
Manfred Milinski Max Planck Society
Byrappa Venkatesh
Byrappa Venkatesh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Max D. Cooper
Max D. Cooper Emory University
Terence H. Rabbitts
Terence H. Rabbitts Institute of Cancer Research
Dietmar Pfeifer
Dietmar Pfeifer University of Freiburg
Wesley C. Warren
Wesley C. Warren University of Missouri
Masanori Kasahara
Masanori Kasahara Hokkaido University
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner Agency for Science, Technology and Research
L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health

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