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Jan T. Kielstein

Jan T. Kielstein

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
79
Citations
20099
World Ranking
17693
National Ranking
925

Jan T. Kielstein 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 Jan T. Kielstein sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 392 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan T. Kielstein 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 Jan T. Kielstein sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 79 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Jan T. Kielstein is affiliated with Hannover Medical School in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Nephrology, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

Their research contributions encompass a range of main topics such as:

  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Poisoning and overdose treatments

Kielstein's recent notable publications include:

  • Management of Hyperuricemia in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: a Focus on Renal Protection, 2020, Current Hypertension Reports
  • Artificial hallucination: GPT on LSD?, 2023, Critical Care
  • Hyperuricaemia and gout in cardiovascular, metabolic and kidney disease, 2020, European Journal of Internal Medicine
  • Plasma exchange in the intensive care unit: a narrative review, 2022, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Heparin 2.0: A New Approach to the Infection Crisis, 2020, Blood Purification

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kielstein include:

  • Julius J. Schmidt
  • Gabriele Eden
  • Gernot Beutel
  • Stefan Borgmann
  • Lisa Pilgram

The main journals and venues in which Kielstein regularly publishes are:

  • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Kidney International
  • Critical Care
  • Clinical Kidney Journal

Overall, Jan T. Kielstein's research emphasizes kidney-related diseases, infectious conditions, and critical care topics, with a particular focus on clinical and pharmacological aspects across multiple interdisciplinary domains.

Best Publications

  • Cardiovascular Effects of Systemic Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibition With Asymmetrical Dimethylarginine in Humans

    Jan T. Kielstein;Burcu Impraim;Solveig Simmel;Stefanie M. Bode-Böger

  • Asymmetric dimethylarginine plasma concentrations differ in patients with end-stage renal disease: relationship to treatment method and atherosclerotic disease.

    Jan T. Kielstein;Rainer H. Böger;Stefanine M. Bode-Böger;Jürgen Schäffer

  • Marked Increase of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine in Patients with Incipient Primary Chronic Renal Disease

    Jan T. Kielstein;Rainer H. Böger;Stefanie M. Bode-Böger;Jürgen C. Frölich

  • Drug dosing consideration in patients with acute and chronic kidney disease-a clinical update from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO).

    Gary R. Matzke;George R. Aronoff;Arthur J. Atkinson;William M. Bennett

  • Asymmetric Dimethylarginine and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease: The Mild to Moderate Kidney Disease Study

    Danilo Fliser;Florian Kronenberg;Jan T. Kielstein;Christian Morath

  • Renal Insulin Resistance Syndrome, Adiponectin and Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Kidney Disease: The Mild and Moderate Kidney Disease Study

    Bjoern Becker;Florian Kronenberg;Jan T Kielstein;Hermann Haller

  • Serum uric acid and the risk of cardiovascular and renal disease.

    Claudio Borghi;Enrico Agabiti Rosei;Thomas Bardin;Jesse Dawson

  • Symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) as endogenous marker of renal function—a meta-analysis

    Jan T. Kielstein;Shelley R. Salpeter;Stefanie M. Bode-Boeger;John P. Cooke

  • Symmetrical Dimethylarginine: A New Combined Parameter for Renal Function and Extent of Coronary Artery Disease

    Stefanie M. Bode-Böger;Fortunato Scalera;Jan T. Kielstein;Jens Martens-Lobenhoffer

  • Efficacy and cardiovascular tolerability of extended dialysis in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled study.

    Jan T Kielstein;Ulrich Kretschmer;Thomas Ernst;Carsten Hafer

  • Validation of treatment strategies for enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 induced haemolytic uraemic syndrome: case-control study.

    Jan Menne;Martin Nitschke;Robert Stingele;Mariam Abu-Tair

  • Asymmetrical Dimethylarginine in Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Jan T. Kielstein;Stefanie M. Bode-Böger;Gerrit Hesse;Jens Martens-Lobenhoffer

  • Asymmetric Dimethylarginine, Blood Pressure, and Renal Perfusion in Elderly Subjects

    Jan T. Kielstein;Stefanie M. Bode-Böger;Jürgen C. Frölich;Eberhard Ritz

  • Best supportive care and therapeutic plasma exchange with or without eculizumab in Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 induced haemolytic–uraemic syndrome: an analysis of the German STEC-HUS registry

    Jan T. Kielstein;Gernot Beutel;Susanne Fleig;Jürgen Steinhoff

  • ADMA Increases Arterial Stiffness and Decreases Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans

    Jan T. Kielstein;Jan T. Kielstein;Frank Donnerstag;Sandra Gasper;Jan Menne

  • Circulating miR-210 Predicts Survival in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Kidney Injury

    Johan M. Lorenzen;Jan T. Kielstein;Carsten Hafer;Shashi K. Gupta

  • Management of patients at risk of acute kidney injury

    Jill Vanmassenhove;Jan Kielstein;Achim Jörres;Wim Van Biesen

  • Hyperuricaemia and gout in cardiovascular, metabolic and kidney disease.

    Claudio Borghi;Enrico Agabiti-Rosei;Richard J. Johnson;Jan T. Kielstein

  • Asymmetric Dimethylarginine: A Cardiovascular Risk Factor and a Uremic Toxin Coming of Age?

    Jan T. Kielstein;Carmine Zoccali

  • Letter by Kielstein et al regarding article, "High-dose allopurinol improves endothelial function by profoundly reducing vascular oxidative stress and not by lowering uric acid".

    Jan T. Kielstein;Alexander Woywodt;Shelley R. Salpeter

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Haller
Hermann Haller Hannover Medical School
Danilo Fliser
Danilo Fliser Saarland University
Tobias Welte
Tobias Welte University of Hannover
Marius M. Hoeper
Marius M. Hoeper Hannover Medical School
Alexander Zarbock
Alexander Zarbock University of Münster
Kai-Uwe Eckardt
Kai-Uwe Eckardt Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
John P. Cooke
John P. Cooke Houston Methodist
Florian Kronenberg
Florian Kronenberg Innsbruck Medical University
Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo Monash University

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