2026 Gernot Plank: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	56	2850	2727	9	9	313	10819

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Gernot Plank is affiliated with the Medical University of Graz in Austria and conducts research primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their work encompasses various subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, biomedical engineering, surgery, and neurology.

Their research topics cover multiple aspects of cardiac function and treatment. These topics include:

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Cardiovascular function and risk factors
Cardiac arrhythmias and treatments
Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
ECG monitoring and analysis
Atrial fibrillation management and outcomes
Elasticity and material modeling

Their recent publications include:

The openCARP simulation environment for cardiac electrophysiology, 2021, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
A Framework for the generation of digital twins of cardiac electrophysiology from clinical 12-leads ECGs, 2021, Medical Image Analysis
A publicly available virtual cohort of four-chamber heart meshes for cardiac electro-mechanics simulations, 2020, PLoS ONE
Simulating ventricular systolic motion in a four-chamber heart model with spatially varying robin boundary conditions to model the effect of the pericardium, 2020, Journal of Biomechanics
Creation and application of virtual patient cohorts of heart models, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Gernot Plank has frequently published in the following venues:

Heart Rhythm
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Computing in cardiology
EP Europace
arXiv (Cornell University)

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include:

Karli Gillette
Steven Niederer
Christoph M. Augustin
Edward J. Vigmond
Martin J. Bishop

Best Publications

A Novel Rule-Based Algorithm for Assigning Myocardial Fiber Orientation to Computational Heart Models

J. D. Bayer;R. C. Blake;G. Plank;N. A. Trayanova

594
Citations
Solvers for the cardiac bidomain equations.

E.J. Vigmond;R. Weber dos Santos;A.J. Prassl;M. Deo

428
Citations
Computational tools for modeling electrical activity in cardiac tissue

Edward J Vigmond;Matt Hughes;G Plank;L.Joshua Leon

365
Citations
The Swarm Satellite Constellation Application and Research Facility (SCARF) and Swarm data products

Nils Olsen;Eigil Friis-Christensen;Rune Floberghagen;Patrick Alken;Patrick Alken

363
Citations
Verification of cardiac tissue electrophysiology simulators using an N-version benchmark

Steven Alexander Niederer;Eric Kerfoot;Alan P. Benson;Miguel O. Bernabeu

322
Citations
The openCARP simulation environment for cardiac electrophysiology.

Gernot Plank;Axel Loewe;Aurel Neic;Christoph M. Augustin

233
Citations
Development of an anatomically detailed MRI-derived rabbit ventricular model and assessment of its impact on simulations of electrophysiological function

Martin John Bishop;Gernot Plank;Rebecca A.B. Burton;Jurgen E. Schneider

210
Citations
Anatomically accurate high resolution modeling of human whole heart electromechanics

Christoph M. Augustin;Aurel Neic;Manfred Liebmann;Anton J. Prassl

195
Citations
Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioner for the Cardiac Bidomain Model

G. Plank;M. Liebmann;R.W. dos Santos;E.J. Vigmond

187
Citations
From mitochondrial ion channels to arrhythmias in the heart: computational techniques to bridge the spatio-temporal scales

Gernot Plank;Lufang Zhou;Joseph L Greenstein;Sonia Cortassa

177
Citations
A Framework for the generation of digital twins of cardiac electrophysiology from clinical 12-leads ECGs.

Karli Gillette;Matthias A.F. Gsell;Anton J. Prassl;Elias Karabelas;Elias Karabelas

175
Citations
Efficient computation of electrograms and ECGs in human whole heart simulations using a reaction-eikonal model

Aurel Neic;Fernando Otaviano Campos;Anton J. Prassl;Steven A. Niederer

174
Citations
Parallel multigrid preconditioner for the cardiac bidomain model

R.W. dos Santos;G. Plank;S. Bauer;E.J. Vigmond

167
Citations
Automatically Generated, Anatomically Accurate Meshes for Cardiac Electrophysiology Problems

A.J. Prassl;F. Kickinger;H. Ahammer;V. Grau

157
Citations
Mechanistic Inquiry into the Role of Tissue Remodeling in Fibrotic Lesions in Human Atrial Fibrillation

Kathleen S. McDowell;Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Robert Blake;Joshua Blauer

152
Citations
Image-based models of cardiac structure in health and disease

Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Hermenegild Arevalo;Anton J. Prassl;Junjie Chen

146
Citations
Three-dimensional models of individual cardiac histoanatomy: tools and challenges.

Rebecca A.B. Burton;Gernot Plank;Jürgen E. Schneider;Vicente Grau

143
Citations
Influence of myocardial fiber/sheet orientations on left ventricular mechanical contraction:

Thomas Eriksson;Thomas Eriksson;A.J. Prassl;Gernot Plank;Gerhard Holzapfel;Gerhard Holzapfel

137
Citations
Verification of cardiac mechanics software: benchmark problems and solutions for testing active and passive material behaviour

Sander Land;Viatcheslav Gurev;Sander Arens;Christoph M. Augustin

134
Citations
Towards predictive modelling of the electrophysiology of the heart

Edward Vigmond;Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Viatcheslav Gurev;Hermenegild Arevalo

129
Citations
Modeling atrial fiber orientation in patient-specific geometries: a semi-automatic rule-based approach

Martin W. Krueger;Viktor Schmidt;Catalina Tobón;Frank M. Weber

120
Citations
Image-based models of cardiac structure with applications in arrhythmia and defibrillation studies.

Fijoy Vadakkumpadan;Lukas J. Rantner;Brock Tice;Patrick Boyle

119
Citations
Assessment of three numerical solution strategies for gravity field recovery from GOCE satellite gravity gradiometry implemented on a parallel platform

R. Pail;G. Plank

118
Citations