2026 Rainer Schulz: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	111	5362	5034	298	285	538	42101

Overview

Rainer Schulz is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a broad spectrum within these disciplines, with a significant focus on molecular biology and cardiology-related subfields.

The main areas of study for Schulz include molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pathology and forensic medicine, physiology, and developmental neuroscience. Their research particularly emphasizes topics related to cardiac ischemia and reperfusion, anesthesia and neurotoxicity, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, mitochondrial function and pathology, pulmonary hypertension research and treatments, cardiac fibrosis and remodeling, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Frequent publication venues for Schulz's work include the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, British Journal of Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Research, Basic Research in Cardiology, and Redox Biology. This range of journals reflects the interdisciplinary nature of their research contributions.

Key recent papers authored by or associated with Schulz cover a variety of cardiovascular and biochemical topics, including:

Effects of air pollution particles (ultrafine and fine particulate matter) on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress - Implications for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, 2020, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics
IMproving Preclinical Assessment of Cardioprotective Therapies (IMPACT) criteria: guidelines of the EU-CARDIOPROTECTION COST Action, 2021, Basic Research in Cardiology
Interaction of Cardiovascular Nonmodifiable Risk Factors, Comorbidities and Comedications With Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Cardioprotection by Pharmacological Treatments and Ischemic Conditioning, 2022, Pharmacological Reviews
Oxidative stress and inflammation contribute to traffic noise-induced vascular and cerebral dysfunction via uncoupling of nitric oxide synthases, 2020, Redox Biology
Health position paper and redox perspectives on reactive oxygen species as signals and targets of cardioprotection, 2023, Redox Biology

Schulz collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Péter Ferdinandy, Klaus-Dieter Schlüter, Susanne Rohrbach, Zoltán Giricz, and Jacqueline Heger. These collaborations reflect an active engagement in multidisciplinary research efforts within cardiovascular and molecular biology domains.

Best Publications

A Cathepsin D-Cleaved 16 kDa Form of Prolactin Mediates Postpartum Cardiomyopathy

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Karol Kaminski;Edith Podewski;Tomasz Bonda

1049
Citations
Interaction of Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury, Preconditioning, and Postconditioning

Peter Ferdinandy;Rainer Schulz;Gary F. Baxter

991
Citations
Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand? Position paper from the Working Group of Cellular Biology of the Heart of the European Society of Cardiology

Michel Ovize;Gary F. Baxter;Fabio Di Lisa;Péter Ferdinandy

715
Citations
Plasma nitrite reflects constitutive nitric oxide synthase activity in mammals.

Petra Kleinbongard;André Dejam;Thomas Lauer;Tienush Rassaf;Tienush Rassaf

685
Citations
Red blood cells express a functional endothelial nitric oxide synthase.

Petra Kleinbongard;Rainer Schulz;Tienush Rassaf;Thomas Lauer

645
Citations
Interaction of Risk Factors, Comorbidities, and Comedications with Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury and Cardioprotection by Preconditioning, Postconditioning, and Remote Conditioning

Peter Ferdinandy;Derek J. Hausenloy;Gerd Heusch;Gary Francis Baxter

645
Citations
Nitric oxide in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury.

Rainer Schulz;Malte Kelm;Gerd Heusch

607
Citations
Multitarget Strategies to Reduce Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury: JACC Review Topic of the Week.

Sean M. Davidson;Péter Ferdinandy;Ioanna Andreadou;Hans Erik Bøtker

591
Citations
High-Density Lipoproteins and Their Constituent, Sphingosine-1-Phosphate, Directly Protect the Heart Against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury In Vivo via the S1P3 Lysophospholipid Receptor

Gregor Theilmeier;Christoph Schmidt;Jörg Herrmann;Petra Keul

571
Citations
Cardioprotection Nitric Oxide, Protein Kinases, and Mitochondria

Gerd Heusch;Kerstin Boengler;Rainer Schulz

520
Citations
TNFα in atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion and heart failure

Petra Kleinbongard;Gerd Heusch;Rainer Schulz

507
Citations
Coronary microembolization: from bedside to bench and back to bedside.

Gerd Heusch;Petra Kleinbongard;Dirk Böse;Bodo Levkau

500
Citations
Measurement of regional myocardial blood flow with multiple colored microspheres.

P Kowallik;R Schulz;B D Guth;A Schade

462
Citations
Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 Is Required for Myocardial Capillary Growth, Control of Interstitial Matrix Deposition, and Heart Protection From Ischemic Injury

Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Andres Hilfiker;Martin Fuchs;Karol Kaminski

440
Citations
Inhibition of permeability transition pore opening by mitochondrial STAT3 and its role in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion

Kerstin Boengler;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Gerd Heusch;Rainer Schulz

436
Citations
ATP Release From Activated Neutrophils Occurs via Connexin 43 and Modulates Adenosine-Dependent Endothelial Cell Function

Holger K. Eltzschig;Tobias Eckle;Alice Mager;Natalie Küper

422
Citations
The myocardial JAK/STAT pathway: from protection to failure.

Kerstin Boengler;Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner;Helmut Drexler;Gerd Heusch

412
Citations
Signal transduction of ischemic preconditioning.

Rainer Schulz;Michael V Cohen;Matthias Behrends;James M Downey

404
Citations
Decreased plasma levels of nitric oxide derivatives in obstructive sleep apnoea: response to CPAP therapy

R Schulz;D Schmidt;A Blum;X Lopes-Ribeiro

400
Citations
Letter by Xia regarding article, "High-density lipoproteins and their constituent, sphingosine-1-phosphate, directly protect the heart against ischemia/reperfusion injury in vivo via the S1P3 lysophospholipid receptor".

Gregor Theilmeier;Christoph Schmidt;Jörg Herrmann;Petra Keul

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Heusch University of Duisburg-Essen

Péter Ferdinandy Semmelweis University

David Garcia-Dorado Autonomous University of Barcelona

Derek J. Hausenloy National University of Singapore

Fabio Di Lisa University of Padua

Raimund Erbel University of Duisburg-Essen

Malte Kelm Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Werner Seeger University of Giessen

Sean M. Davidson University College London

Derek M. Yellon University College London

External Links

Personal website of Rainer Schulz

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