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D-Index
72
Citations
18647
World Ranking
2215
National Ranking
153

Torsten Witte publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Torsten Witte sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 394 publications — 80th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Torsten Witte D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Torsten Witte is affiliated with Hannover Medical School in Germany and has a substantial publication record primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on rheumatology, physiology, immunology, pathology and forensic medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research topics are notably concentrated on:

  • Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
  • Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders

Witte has contributed frequently to several academic journals, with multiple publications in:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • RMD Open

Their recent notable papers include:

  • A new molecular classification to drive precision treatment strategies in primary Sjögren's syndrome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Perceived versus proven SARS-CoV-2-specific immune responses in health-care professionals, 2020, Infection
  • S2k-Leitlinie: Management der Großgefäßvaskulitiden, 2020, Zeitschrift für Rheumatologie
  • Humoral and cellular immune responses following BNT162b2 XBB.1.5 vaccination, 2023, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Experience in Multiple Sclerosis Patients with COVID-19 and Disease-Modifying Therapies: A Review of 873 Published Cases, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine

Frequent co-authors in Witte's collaborations are:

  • Diana Ernst
  • Thomas Skripuletz
  • Tabea Seeliger
  • Thea Thiele
  • Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka

Best Publications

  • The EUROclass trial: defining subgroups in common variable immunodeficiency

    Claudia Wehr;Teemu Kivioja;Christian Schmitt;Berne Ferry

  • Autosomal dominant immune dysregulation syndrome in humans with CTLA4 mutations.

    Desireé Schubert;Desireé Schubert;Claudia Bode;Rupert Kenefeck;Tie Zheng Hou

  • Clinical picture and treatment of 2212 patients with common variable immunodeficiency

    Benjamin Gathmann;Nizar Mahlaoui;Laurence Gérard;Eric Oksenhendler

  • International recommendations for the assessment of autoantibodies to cellular antigens referred to as anti-nuclear antibodies

    Nancy Agmon-Levin;Nancy Agmon-Levin;Jan Damoiseaux;Cornelis Kallenberg;Ulrich Sack

  • Variants at multiple loci implicated in both innate and adaptive immune responses are associated with Sjogren's syndrome.

    Christopher J. Lessard;Christopher J. Lessard;He Li;He Li;Indra Adrianto;John A. Ice

  • Functional variants in the B-cell gene BANK1 are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus

    Sergey V. Kozyrev;Anna Karin Abelson;Jerome Wojcik;Ammar Zaghlool

  • Genome-wide association study of systemic sclerosis identifies CD247 as a new susceptibility locus

    Timothy R.D.J. Radstake;Olga Y Gorlova;Blanca Rueda;Jose Ezequiel Martin

  • Cancer risk in systemic lupus: An updated international multi-centre cohort study

    Sasha Bernatsky;Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman;Jeremy Labrecque;Lawrence Joseph

  • Identification of novel genetic markers associated with clinical phenotypes of systemic sclerosis through a genome-wide association strategy

    Olga Gorlova;Jose Ezequiel Martin;Blanca Rueda;Bobby P C Koeleman

  • Immunochip Analysis Identifies Multiple Susceptibility Loci for Systemic Sclerosis

    Maureen D. Mayes;Lara Bossini-Castillo;Olga Gorlova;José Ezequiel Martin

  • Defective removal of ribonucleotides from DNA promotes systemic autoimmunity

    Claudia Günther;Barbara Kind;Martin A.M. Reijns;Nicole Berndt

  • Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with scleroderma.

    T. Momot;S. Koch;N. Hunzelmann;T. Krieg

  • The mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphisms and systemic lupus erythematosus: two case-control studies and a meta-analysis.

    Young Ho Lee;Torsten Witte;Tanja Momot;Reinhold E. Schmidt

  • A large-scale genetic analysis reveals a strong contribution of the HLA class II region to giant cell arteritis susceptibility.

    F. David Carmona;Sarah L. Mackie;Jose Ezequiel Martín;John C. Taylor

  • X Chromosome Dose and Sex Bias in Autoimmune Diseases: Increased Prevalence of 47,XXX in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Sjögren's Syndrome.

    Ke Liu;Biji T. Kurien;Sarah L. Zimmerman;Kenneth M. Kaufman

  • STAT4 associates with systemic lupus erythematosus through two independent effects that correlate with gene expression and act additively with IRF5 to increase risk

    Anna-Karin Abelson;Angélica Maria Delgado-Vega;Sergey V Kozyrev;Elena Sánchez

  • Depletion of functionally active CD20+ T cells by rituximab treatment.

    Esther Wilk;Torsten Witte;Nicole Marquardt;Tibor Horvath

  • Replication of recently identified systemic lupus erythematosus genetic associations: a case–control study

    Marian Suarez-Gestal;Manuel Calaza;Emoeke Endreffy;Rudolf Pullmann

  • Genetic association of miRNA-146a with systemic lupus erythematosus in Europeans through decreased expression of the gene

    S. E. Lofgren;J. Frostegard;Lennart Truedsson;B. A. Pons-Estel

  • Integrative Analysis Reveals a Molecular Stratification of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases.

    Guillermo Barturen;Sepideh Babaei;Francesc Català-Moll;Manuel Martínez-Bueno

  • Prognostic parameters for flare in systemic lupus erythematosus

    M J Mirzayan;R E Schmidt;T Witte

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhold E. Schmidt
Reinhold E. Schmidt Hannover Medical School
Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme
Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme University of Granada
Javier Martín
Javier Martín Spanish National Research Council
Timothy R D J Radstake
Timothy R D J Radstake Utrecht University
Jane Worthington
Jane Worthington University of Manchester
John B. Harley
John B. Harley United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Miguel A. González-Gay
Miguel A. González-Gay University of Cantabria
Roland Jonsson
Roland Jonsson University of Bergen
Ariane L. Herrick
Ariane L. Herrick University of Manchester
Claudio Lunardi
Claudio Lunardi University of Verona

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