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Wolfram H. Gerlich

Wolfram H. Gerlich

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
67
Citations
16337
World Ranking
2272
National Ranking
167

Wolfram H. Gerlich publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfram H. Gerlich sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 232 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Wolfram H. Gerlich D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wolfram H. Gerlich is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany and specializes primarily in Medicine, with a focus on Epidemiology and Hepatology. Their research portfolio includes numerous studies related to hepatitis viruses, particularly Hepatitis B and C, along with work in Immunology, Molecular Biology, and public health aspects of vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

The main topics Gerlich has explored include:

  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gerlich are:

  • Dieter Glebe
  • Felix Lehmann
  • Christian G. Schüttler
  • Heiko Slanina
  • John Ziebuhr

Gerlich's contributions have been published in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • Virus Genes
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
  • EBioMedicine
  • Vaccines

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and focus of Gerlich's work:

  • "Composition of HBsAg is predictive of HBsAg loss during treatment in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B," 2020, Journal of Hepatology
  • "Peculiarities in the designations of hepatitis B virus genes, their products, and their antigenic specificities: a potential source of misunderstandings," 2020, Virus Genes
  • "Efficacy of Birth Dose Vaccination in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Engerix-B and Sci-B-Vac," 2021, Vaccines
  • "A Novel Insertion in the Hepatitis B Virus Surface Protein Leading to Hyperglycosylation Causes Diagnostic and Immune Escape," 2023, Viruses
  • "Hepatitis-B-Impfstoffe - Geschichte, Erfolge, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven," 2022, Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz

Best Publications

  • Large surface proteins of hepatitis B virus containing the pre-s sequence.

    K H Heermann;U Goldmann;W Schwartz;T Seyffarth

  • Statements from the Taormina expert meeting on occult hepatitis B virus infection.

    Giovanni Raimondo;Jean Pierre Allain;Maurizia R. Brunetto;Marie Annick Buendia

  • Short statement of the first European Consensus Conference on the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C in HIV co-infected patients.

    Alfredo Alberti;Nathan Clumeck;Simon Collins;Wolfram Gerlich

  • Nucleic Acid Testing to Detect HBV Infection in Blood Donors

    Susan L. Stramer;Ulrike Wend;Daniel Candotti;Gregory A. Foster

  • Hepatitis delta virus: protein composition of delta antigen and its hepatitis B virus-derived envelope.

    F Bonino;K H Heermann;M Rizzetto;W H Gerlich

  • Medical Virology of Hepatitis B: how it began and where we are now

    Wolfram H Gerlich

  • Phosphorylation-dependent Binding of Hepatitis B Virus Core Particles to the Nuclear Pore Complex

    Michael Kann;Beate Sodeik;Angelika Vlachou;Wolfram H. Gerlich

  • Serological pattern "anti-HBc alone": report on a workshop.

    P. Grob;W. Jilg;H. Bornhak;G. Gerken

  • An international collaborative study to establish a World Health Organization international standard for hepatitis B virus DNA nucleic acid amplification techniques

    J. Saldanha;W. Gerlich;N. Lelie;P. Dawson

  • Malignant transformation of immortalized transgenic hepatocytes after transfection with hepatitis B virus DNA.

    M. Höhne;S. Schaefer;M. Seifer;M.A. Feitelson

  • Hepatitis B virus contains protein attached to the 5′ terminus of its complete DNA strand

    Wolfram H. Gerlich;William S. Robinson

  • Mapping of the Hepatitis B Virus Attachment Site by Use of Infection-Inhibiting preS1 Lipopeptides and Tupaia Hepatocytes

    Dieter Glebe;Stephan Urban;Eva V Knoop;Nilgün Cag

  • Variant of hepatitis B virus with primary resistance to adefovir

    Oliver Schildgen;Hueseyin Sirma;Anneke Funk;Cynthia Olotu

  • Post-translational alterations in transmembrane topology of the hepatitis B virus large envelope protein.

    V. Bruss;Xuanyong Lu;R. Thomssen;W. H. Gerlich

  • Structural relationships between minor and major proteins of hepatitis B surface antigen.

    Werner Stibbe;Wolfram H. Gerlich

  • Secretion of human hepatitis B virus is inhibited by the imino sugar N-butyldeoxynojirimycin.

    Timothy M. Block;Xuanyong Lu;Frances M. Platt;Graham R. Foster

  • Pre-s1 antigen-dependent infection of Tupaia hepatocyte cultures with human hepatitis B virus

    Dieter Glebe;Mehriar Aliakbari;Peter Krass;Eva V. Knoop

  • Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

    Jan Felix Drexler;Andreas Geipel;Alexander König;Victor M. Corman

  • Suppression of hepatitis B virus enhancer 1 and 2 by hepatitis C virus core protein.

    Christian G Schüttler;Nicola Fiedler;Katja Schmidt;Reinald Repp

  • Effect of core protein phosphorylation by protein kinase C on encapsidation of RNA within core particles of hepatitis B virus.

    M Kann;W H Gerlich

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfredo Alberti
Alfredo Alberti University of Padua
K.-H. Meyer zum Büschenfelde
K.-H. Meyer zum Büschenfelde Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Werner Creutzfeldt
Werner Creutzfeldt University of Göttingen
Claudio Tiribelli
Claudio Tiribelli Fondazione Italiana Fegato
Swan N. Thung
Swan N. Thung Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Christian Bréchot
Christian Bréchot Institut Pasteur
Ola Weiland
Ola Weiland Karolinska University Hospital
Rodolphe Thiébaut
Rodolphe Thiébaut University of Bordeaux
Peter Reiss
Peter Reiss University of Amsterdam
Nathan Clumeck
Nathan Clumeck Université Libre de Bruxelles

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