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18021
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Robert S. Kass 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 Robert S. Kass sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 234 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert S. Kass 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 Robert S. Kass sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert S. Kass is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as subfields.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics including:

  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Neuroscience and neural engineering
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Peptidase inhibition and analysis

Notable publication venues where they have frequently contributed include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Nature Communications
  • The Journal of Physiology

Recent published papers with publication year and venue are as follows:

  • Reengineering an Antiarrhythmic Drug Using Patient hiPSC Cardiomyocytes to Improve Therapeutic Potential and Reduce Toxicity, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • Potassium Channels as Therapeutic Targets in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, 2022, Biomolecules
  • Divergent Regulation of KCNQ1/E1 by Targeted Recruitment of Protein Kinase A to Distinct Sites on the Channel Complex, 2023, eLife
  • Antiarrhythmic Hit to Lead Refinement in a Dish Using Patient-Derived iPSC Cardiomyocytes, 2021, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Human iPSC-derived Cardiomyocytes and Pyridyl-Phenyl Mexiletine Analogs, 2021, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, with common coauthors including:

  • Xinle Zou
  • Sri Karthika Shanmugam
  • Henry M. Colecraft
  • Kevin J. Sampson
  • Papiya Choudhury

Best Publications

  • Proposed diagnostic criteria for the Brugada syndrome: consensus report.

    Arthur A.M. Wilde;Charles Antzelevitch;Martin Borggrefe;Josep Brugada

  • Intracoronary thrombolysis in evolving myocardial infarction

    William Ganz;Neil Buchbinder;Harold Marcus;Avinash Mondkar

  • Requirement of a Macromolecular Signaling Complex for β Adrenergic Receptor Modulation of the KCNQ1-KCNE1 Potassium Channel

    Steven O. Marx;Junko Kurokawa;Steven Reiken;Howard Motoike

  • Voltage-dependent block of calcium channel current in the calf cardiac Purkinje fiber by dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists.

    M C Sanguinetti;R S Kass

  • Variant of SCN5A sodium channel implicated in risk of cardiac arrhythmia.

    Igor Splawski;Katherine W. Timothy;Michihiro Tateyama;Colleen E. Clancy

  • A novel channelopathy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Lijiang Ma;Danilo Roman-Campos;Eric D. Austin;Mélanie Eyries

  • Comparison of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stents for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

    Michael S. Lee;Nikhil Kapoor;Faizi Jamal;Lawrence Czer

  • Proposed Diagnostic Criteria for the Brugada Syndrome

    Arthur A M Wilde;C. Antzelevitch;M. Borggrefe;J. Brugada

  • Mutation of an A-kinase-anchoring protein causes long-QT syndrome

    Lei Chen;Michelle L. Marquardt;David J. Tester;Kevin J. Sampson

  • Inactivation of calcium channel current in the calf cardiac Purkinje fiber. Evidence for voltage- and calcium-mediated mechanisms.

    R S Kass;M C Sanguinetti

  • Stabilization of cardiac ryanodine receptor prevents intracellular calcium leak and arrhythmias

    Stephan E. Lehnart;Cecile Terrenoire;Steven Reiken;Xander H.T. Wehrens

  • Developmental Changes in Ionic Channel Activity in the Embryonic Murine Heart

    M.P. Davies;R.H. An;P. Doevendans;S. Kubalak

  • Voltage-dependent modulation of Ca channel current in heart cells by Bay K8644.

    M C Sanguinetti;D S Krafte;R S Kass

  • Regulation of Endocytic Recycling of KCNQ1/KCNE1 Potassium Channels

    Guiscard Seebohm;Nathalie Strutz-Seebohm;Ria Birkin;Ria Birkin;Ghislaine Dell

  • Inherited Brugada and Long QT-3 Syndrome Mutations of a Single Residue of the Cardiac Sodium Channel Confer Distinct Channel and Clinical Phenotypes

    Ilaria Rivolta;Hugues Abriel;Michihiro Tateyama;Huajun Liu

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells used to reveal drug actions in a long QT syndrome family with complex genetics.

    Cecile Terrenoire;Kai Wang;Kelvin W. Chan Tung;Wendy K. Chung

  • Mutation of sodium channel SCN3A in a patient with cryptogenic pediatric partial epilepsy.

    Katherine D. Holland;Jennifer A. Kearney;Tracy A. Glauser;Gerri Buck

  • Autonomous beating rate adaptation in human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.

    George Eng;Benjamin W. Lee;Lev Protas;Mark Gagliardi

  • Long QT syndrome: novel insights into the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias

    Robert S. Kass;Arthur J. Moss

  • A novel channelopathy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

    Andrea Olschewski;Chandran Nagaraj;Horst Olschewski

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy K. Chung
Wendy K. Chung Columbia University
Gordon Keller
Gordon Keller University of Toronto
Colin G. Nichols
Colin G. Nichols Washington University in St. Louis
Virginia W. Cornish
Virginia W. Cornish Columbia University
Kai Wang
Kai Wang Hebei University
Richard C. Trembath
Richard C. Trembath King's College London
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Columbia University
Yufeng Shen
Yufeng Shen Columbia University
Florent Soubrier
Florent Soubrier Université Paris Cité
Darrell N. Kotton
Darrell N. Kotton Boston University

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