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Bente Klarlund Pedersen

Bente Klarlund Pedersen

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Medicine

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165
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121236
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625
National Ranking
9

Bente Klarlund Pedersen publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bente Klarlund Pedersen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 813 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Bente Klarlund Pedersen D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 165 D-Index — 97th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Bente Klarlund Pedersen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Physiology, Epidemiology, Rehabilitation, Oncology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Exercise and Physiological Responses
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Cardiovascular and exercise physiology

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Kristian Karstoft, Mathias Ried-Larsen, Mark Lyngbæk, Helga Ellingsgaard, and Rikke Krogh-Madsen.

Their work has been published often in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • Nature Metabolism
  • Cell Reports Medicine
  • Trials

Recent papers document diverse aspects of metabolism and exercise physiology, including:

  • Muscle-Organ Crosstalk: The Emerging Roles of Myokines, 2020, Endocrine Reviews
  • Exerkines in health, resilience and disease, 2022, Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • Interleukin 6 as an energy allocator in muscle tissue, 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • Pharmacological but not physiological GDF15 suppresses feeding and the motivation to exercise, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Human thermogenic adipocyte regulation by the long noncoding RNA LINC00473, 2020, Nature Metabolism

Best Publications

  • The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise

    Anne Marie W. Petersen;Bente Klarlund Pedersen

  • Gut Microbiota in Human Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Differs from Non-Diabetic Adults

    Nadja Larsen;Finn K. Vogensen;Frans W. J. van den Berg;Dennis Sandris Nielsen

  • Exercise as medicine – evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases

    B. K. Pedersen;B. Saltin

  • IL-6 mediates hypoferremia of inflammation by inducing the synthesis of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin

    Elizabeta Nemeth;Seth Rivera;Victoria Gabayan;Charlotte Keller

  • Muscles, exercise and obesity: skeletal muscle as a secretory organ

    Bente Klarlund Pedersen;Mark A. Febbraio

  • Muscle as an endocrine organ: focus on muscle-derived interleukin-6.

    Bente K. Pedersen;Mark A. Febbraio

  • Exercise and the Immune System: Regulation, Integration, and Adaptation

    Bente Klarlund Pedersen;Laurie Hoffman-Goetz

  • Evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in chronic disease.

    B. K. Pedersen;B. Saltin

  • Position statement. Part one: Immune function and exercise.

    Walsh Np;Gleeson M;Shephard Rj;Woods Ja

  • IL-6 enhances plasma IL-1ra, IL-10, and cortisol in humans

    Adam Steensberg;Christian P. Fischer;Charlotte Keller;Kirsten Møller

  • Pro‐ and anti‐inflammatory cytokine balance in strenuous exercise in humans

    Kenneth Ostrowski;Thomas Rohde;Sven Asp;Peter Schjerling

  • Production of interleukin‐6 in contracting human skeletal muscles can account for the exercise‐induced increase in plasma interleukin‐6

    Adam Steensberg;Gerrit van Hall;Takuya Osada;Massimo Sacchetti

  • Muscle-derived interleukin-6: mechanisms for activation and possible biological roles

    Mark A. Febbraio;Bente Klarlund Pedersen

  • Evidence for a release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor from the brain during exercise.

    Peter Rasmussen;Patrice Brassard;Helle Adser;Martin V. Pedersen

  • Interleukin-6 Increases Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Disposal in Humans and Glucose Uptake and Fatty Acid Oxidation In Vitro via AMP-Activated Protein Kinase

    Andrew L Carey;Gregory R Steinberg;S Lance Macaulay;Walter G Thomas

  • The diseasome of physical inactivity - and the role of myokines in muscle-fat cross talk.

    Bente K. Pedersen

  • Exercise and IL-6 infusion inhibit endotoxin-induced TNF-alpha production in humans.

    Rebecca Starkie;Sisse Rye Ostrowski;Sune Jauffred;Mark Febbraio

  • Role of myokines in exercise and metabolism.

    Bente Klarlund Pedersen;Thorbjörn C.A Akerstrom;Anders Rinnov Nielsen;Christian Philip Fischer

  • Interleukin-6 stimulates lipolysis and fat oxidation in humans.

    Gerrit van Hall;Adam Steensberg;Massimo Sacchetti;Christian Fischer

  • Evidence that interleukin-6 is produced in human skeletal muscle during prolonged running

    K. Ostrowski;T. Rohde;M. Zacho;S. Asp

Frequent Co-Authors

Helle Bruunsgaard
Helle Bruunsgaard Rigshospitalet
Henrik Ullum
Henrik Ullum Statens Serum Institut
Mark A. Febbraio
Mark A. Febbraio Monash University
Peter Skinhøj
Peter Skinhøj Copenhagen University Hospital
Jan Gerstoft
Jan Gerstoft Rigshospitalet
Niels H. Secher
Niels H. Secher University of Copenhagen
Allan Vaag
Allan Vaag Steno Diabetes Center
Bengt Saltin
Bengt Saltin University of Copenhagen
Robin Christensen
Robin Christensen University of Southern Denmark
Peter Schjerling
Peter Schjerling University of Copenhagen

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