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Serkalem Demissie

Serkalem Demissie

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
79
Citations
28867
World Ranking
17409
National Ranking
8715

Serkalem Demissie 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 Serkalem Demissie sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 202 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Serkalem Demissie 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 Serkalem Demissie sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 14th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Serkalem Demissie is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus, neurosurgical procedures and complications, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage research, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, acute ischemic stroke management, cerebrovascular and genetic disorders, and cardiovascular function and risk factors.

Serkalem Demissie has frequently published in a number of venues, including:

  • Stroke
  • UNC Libraries
  • Neurology
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Brain Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Demissie cover diverse topics in neurology and cardiovascular medicine. Notable recent publications include:

  • Genetic architecture of heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction, 2022, Nature Communications
  • MRI-Visible Perivascular Spaces and Risk of Incident Dementia, 2022, Neurology
  • Sleep Duration, Chronotype, and Insomnia and the Risk of Lung Cancer: United Kingdom Biobank Cohort, 2022, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Aging, prevalence and risk factors of MRI-visible enlarged perivascular spaces, 2022, Aging
  • Relation of plasma β-amyloid, clusterin, and tau with cerebral microbleeds: Framingham Heart Study, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with significant joint work alongside José R. Romero, Sudha Seshadri, Adlin Pinheiro, Alexa Beiser, and Oluchi Ekenze.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Cristen J. Willer;Gina M. Peloso;Serkalem Demissie

  • Twenty bone mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Fernando Rivadeneira;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Karol Estrada;Bjarni V. Halldorsson

  • Insulin resistance, oxidative stress, hypertension, and leukocyte telomere length in men from the Framingham Heart Study

    S. Demissie;D. Levy;E. J. Benjamin;L. A. Cupples

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • High-Density Lipoprotein Subpopulation Profile and Coronary Heart Disease. Prevalence in Male Participants of the Framingham Offspring Study

    Bela F. Asztalos;L. Adrienne Cupples;Serkalem Demissie;Katalin V. Horvath

  • Association between estrogen receptor α gene variation and cardiovascular disease

    Amanda M. Shearman;L. Adrienne Cupples;Serkalem Demissie;Inga Peter

  • Association of low-frequency and rare coding-sequence variants with blood lipids and coronary heart disease in 56,000 whites and blacks.

    Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;Joshua C. Bis;Arend Voorman

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study For Blood Lipid Phenotypes in the Framingham Heart Study

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Alisa K. Manning;Serkalem Demissie;Ralph B. D'Agostino

  • Adjuvant Tamoxifen: Predictors of Use, Side Effects, and Discontinuation in Older Women

    Serkalem Demissie;Rebecca A. Silliman;Timothy L. Lash

  • Value of High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) Subpopulations in Predicting Recurrent Cardiovascular Events in the Veterans Affairs HDL Intervention Trial

    Bela F. Asztalos;Dorothea Collins;L. Adrienne Cupples;Serkalem Demissie

  • Cortical and trabecular bone microarchitecture as an independent predictor of incident fracture risk in older women and men in the Bone Microarchitecture International Consortium (BoMIC): a prospective study

    Elizabeth J Samelson;Kerry E Broe;Hanfei Xu;Laiji Yang

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Analysis Identifies Novel Variants for Coronary Artery Disease

    Adam S. Butterworth;Peter S. Braund;Martin Farrall;Robert J. Hardwick

  • Offspring's Leukocyte Telomere Length, Paternal Age, and Telomere Elongation in Sperm

    Masayuki Kimura;Lynn F Cherkas;Bernet S Kato;Serkalem Demissie

  • Genome-wide association with bone mass and geometry in the Framingham Heart Study

    Douglas P Kiel;Serkalem Demissie;Josée Dupuis;Kathryn L Lunetta

  • Dietary fat intake determines the effect of a common polymorphism in the hepatic lipase gene promoter on high-density lipoprotein metabolism: evidence of a strong dose effect in this gene-nutrient interaction in the Framingham Study.

    Jose M. Ordovas;Dolores Corella;Serkalem Demissie;L. Adrienne Cupples

  • Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies From the CHARGE Consortium Identifies Common Variants Associated With Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Plaque

    Joshua C. Bis;Maryam Kavousi;Nora Franceschini;Aaron Isaacs

  • Leukocyte Telomere Length and Carotid Artery Intimal Medial Thickness: The Framingham Heart Study

    Christopher J. O’Donnell;Serkalem Demissie;Masayuki Kimura;Daniel Levy

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Adrienne Cupples
L. Adrienne Cupples Boston University
Douglas P. Kiel
Douglas P. Kiel Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David Karasik
David Karasik Bar-Ilan University
Jose M. Ordovas
Jose M. Ordovas Tufts University
Christopher J. O'Donnell
Christopher J. O'Donnell Harvard Medical School
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Yi-Hsiang Hsu
Yi-Hsiang Hsu Harvard University
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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