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Heribert Schunkert 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 Heribert Schunkert sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,160 publications — 97th percentile

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

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

Heribert Schunkert 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 Heribert Schunkert sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 157 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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 Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Heribert Schunkert is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research contributions primarily lie within the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work covers a range of subfields including Surgery, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. These areas reflect a multidisciplinary approach to cardiovascular health and related biomedical sciences.

Key topics in Schunkert's research portfolio include:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Schunkert has frequently published in prestigious journals, contributing extensively to:

  • European Heart Journal
  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Adnan Kastrati
  • Salvatore Cassese
  • Erion Xhepa
  • Thorsten Kessler
  • Sebastian Kufner

Significant recent publications exemplify Schunkert's research focus:

  • Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: pathophysiological, genetic, and therapeutic insights: a consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Global perspective of familial hypercholesterolaemia: a cross-sectional study from the EAS Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Studies Collaboration (FHSC), 2021, The Lancet
  • Atrial Fibrillation Burden and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure, 2021, JACC. Clinical electrophysiology
  • P2Y12 Inhibitor or Aspirin Monotherapy for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Events, 2023, Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. 1. Evidence from genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical studies. A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel

    Brian A Ference;Henry N Ginsberg;Ian T. Graham;Kausik K Ray

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

  • Clinical Features and Outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy

    Christian Templin;Jelena R. Ghadri;Johanna Diekmann;L. Christian Napp

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation with Heart Failure

    Nassir F. Marrouche;Johannes Brachmann;Dietrich Andresen;Jürgen Siebels

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: pathophysiological, genetic, and therapeutic insights: a consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel

    Jan Borén;M. John Chapman;M. John Chapman;Ronald M. Krauss;Chris J. Packard

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme in the Human Heart: Effect of the Deletion/Insertion Polymorphism

    A.H. Jan Danser;Maarten A.D.H. Schalekamp;Willem A. Bax;Antoinette Maassen van den Brink

  • Association between a deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme gene and left ventricular hypertrophy.

    Heribert Schunkert;Hans-Werner Hense;Stephan R. Holmer;Monica Stender

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna
Adnan Kastrati
Adnan Kastrati Technical University of Munich
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alistair S. Hall
Alistair S. Hall University of Leeds

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