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Holger J. Schünemann

Holger J. Schünemann

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Medicine
Italy
2026

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Citations
213248
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6

Medicine

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183
Citations
235016
World Ranking
319
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Holger J. Schünemann is affiliated with Humanitas University in Italy and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research output spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Internal Medicine.

The main topics addressed in Schünemann's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life, Clinical Practice Guidelines Implementation, Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews, Health Policy Implementation Science, Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management, the Delphi Technique in Research, and Healthcare Cost, Quality, and Practices.

Schünemann has contributed to numerous scientific articles published across multiple venues. Frequent publication sites include the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology with 107 publications, Blood Advances with 29 publications, Annals of Internal Medicine and SSRN Electronic Journal both with 13 publications, and Allergy with 9 publications.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on epidemiological and clinical topics published between 2020 and 2024. Key publications include:

  • Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020) in The Lancet
  • American Society of Hematology 2020 Guidelines for Management of Venous Thromboembolism: Treatment of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism (2020) in Blood Advances
  • A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E) (2024) in Environment International
  • American Society of Hematology 2021 guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19 (2021) in Blood Advances
  • GRADE Guidelines 28: Use of GRADE for the assessment of evidence about prognostic factors: rating certainty in identification of groups of patients with different absolute risks (2020) in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Collaborations have been frequent with other researchers, including Elie A. Akl, Reem A. Mustafa, Ignacio Neumann, Wojtek Wiercioch, and Robby Nieuwlaat, reflecting a pattern of interdisciplinary and team-based work.

Best Publications

  • GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew David Oxman;Gunn Elisabeth Vist;Regina Kunz

  • ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions.

    Jonathan A. C. Sterne;Miguel A Hernan;Barnaby C Reeves;Jelena Savovic;Jelena Savovic

  • GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

    Gordon Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Elie A Akl;Regina Kunz

  • An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management

    Ganesh Raghu;Harold R. Collard;Jim J. Egan;Fernando J. Martinez

  • Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA): Achievements in 10 years and future needs

    J. Bousquet;H. J. Schünemann;B. Samolinski;P. Demoly

  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

    David Atkins;Dana Best;Peter A Briss;Martin Eccles

  • GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence

    Howard Balshem;Mark Helfand;Mark Helfand;Holger J. Schünemann;Andrew D. Oxman

  • Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Derek K Chu;Elie A Akl;Elie A Akl;Stephanie Duda;Karla Solo

  • What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Gunn E Vist

  • GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology △

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Holger J. Schünemann;Peter Tugwell

  • Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines—2016 revision

    Jan L. Brożek;Jean Bousquet;Ioana Agache;Arnav Agarwal

  • GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Gunn Vist;Regina Kunz

  • GRADE guidelines: 6. Rating the quality of evidence-imprecision

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;Jan Brozek

  • GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

  • Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines: 2010 Revision

    Jan L. Brożek;Jean Bousquet;Carlos E. Baena-Cagnani;Sergio Bonini

  • Going from evidence to recommendations

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Yngve Falck-Ytter

  • GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;David Atkins

  • GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

  • GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Victor Manuel Montori;Gunn Vist

  • Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Derek K Chu;Elie A Akl;Stephanie Duda;Karla Solo

Frequent Co-Authors

Elie A. Akl
Elie A. Akl American University of Beirut
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Reem A. Mustafa
Reem A. Mustafa University of Kansas
Jan Brozek
Jan Brozek McMaster University
Andrew D Oxman
Andrew D Oxman Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Jean Bousquet
Jean Bousquet University of Montpellier
Paola Muti
Paola Muti University of Milan
Roman Jaeschke
Roman Jaeschke McMaster University

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