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31584
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Stefan Kääb 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 Stefan Kääb sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 356 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Kääb 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 Stefan Kääb sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stefan Kääb is affiliated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the field of medicine, with a strong concentration in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Within these areas, their work spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, neurology, surgery, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's main research topics cover a broad spectrum related to cardiac health and disease. Key areas include:

  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Kääb has contributed to several frequently cited publications in respected journals. Selected recent papers include:

  • 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death, 2022, European Heart Journal
  • Immunothrombotic Dysregulation in COVID-19 Pneumonia Is Associated With Respiratory Failure and Coagulopathy, 2020, Circulation
  • Subcutaneous or Transvenous Defibrillator Therapy, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • 2020 APHRS/HRS expert consensus statement on the investigation of decedents with sudden unexplained death and patients with sudden cardiac arrest, and of their families, 2020, Heart Rhythm
  • Preventive or Deferred Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy and Implantable Defibrillator (BERLIN VT), 2020, Circulation

Kääb frequently collaborates with several co-authors whose repeated partnerships indicate ongoing research linkages. These co-authors include:

  • Moritz F. Sinner
  • Steffen Maßberg
  • Sebastian Clauß
  • Paulus Kirchhof
  • Clemens Scherer

The scientist's research output is commonly published in a core set of journals, underpinning their focus and expertise in the field. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Heart Rhythm
  • European Heart Journal
  • EP Europace
  • Circulation
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments

Best Publications

  • Five-Year Outcomes with PCI Guided by Fractional Flow Reserve

    P. Xaplanteris;S. Fournier;N. H. J. Pijls;W. F. Fearon

  • Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium

    Alvaro Alonso;Bouwe P. Krijthe;Thor Aspelund;Katherine A. Stepas

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Meta-analysis identifies six new susceptibility loci for atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T Ellinor;Kathryn L Lunetta;Christine M Albert;Christine M Albert;Nicole L Glazer

  • Ionic Mechanism of Action Potential Prolongation in Ventricular Myocytes From Dogs With Pacing-Induced Heart Failure

    Stefan Kääb;H. Bradley Nuss;Nipavan Chiamvimonvat;Brian O'Rourke

  • Recent advances in the molecular pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation

    Reza Wakili;Niels Voigt;Stefan Kääb;Dobromir Dobrev

  • A common genetic variant in the NOS1 regulator NOS1AP modulates cardiac repolarization.

    Dan E. Arking;Arne Pfeufer;Wendy Post;Wendy Post;W. H.Linda Kao

  • Women and men with stable coronary artery disease have similar clinical outcomes: insights from the international prospective CLARIFY registry.

    Ph Gabriel Steg;Ph Gabriel Steg;Nicola Greenlaw;Jean-Claude Tardif;Michal Tendera

  • Guided de-escalation of antiplatelet treatment in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (TROPICAL-ACS): a randomised, open-label, multicentre trial

    Dirk Sibbing;Dániel Aradi;Claudius Jacobshagen;Lisa Gross

  • Sodium channel β1 subunit mutations associated with Brugada syndrome and cardiac conduction disease in humans

    Hiroshi Watanabe;Hiroshi Watanabe;Tamara T. Koopmann;Solena Le Scouarnec;Solena Le Scouarnec;Solena Le Scouarnec;Tao Yang

  • Common variants at SCN5A-SCN10A and HEY2 are associated with Brugada syndrome, a rare disease with high risk of sudden cardiac death

    Connie R Bezzina;Julien Barc;Yuka Mizusawa;Carol Ann Remme

  • Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T. Ellinor;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Nicole L. Glazer;Arne Pfeufer

  • Immunothrombotic Dysregulation in COVID-19 Pneumonia Is Associated With Respiratory Failure and Coagulopathy.

    Leo Nicolai;Alexander Leunig;Sophia Brambs;Rainer Kaiser

  • Molecular Basis of Transient Outward Potassium Current Downregulation in Human Heart Failure A Decrease in Kv4.3 mRNA Correlates With a Reduction in Current Density

    S. Kääb;J. Dixon;J. Duc;D. Ashen

  • Genome-wide association study of PR interval

    Arne Pfeufer;Charlotte Van Noord;Kristin D. Marciante;Dan E. Arking

  • Risk stratification for sudden cardiac death: current status and challenges for the future

    Hein J.J. Wellens;Peter J. Schwartz;Fred W. Lindemans;Alfred E Buxton

  • Worldwide experience with a totally subcutaneous implantable defibrillator: early results from the EFFORTLESS S-ICD Registry.

    Pier D Lambiase;Craig Barr;Dominic A M J Theuns;Reinoud Knops

  • Common variants at ten loci modulate the QT interval duration in the QTSCD Study

    Arne Pfeufer;Serena Sanna;Dan E. Arking;Martina Müller

  • Variants in ZFHX3 are associated with atrial fibrillation in individuals of European ancestry.

    Emelia J. Benjamin;Emelia J. Benjamin;Kenneth M. Rice;Dan E. Arking;Arne Pfeufer

  • Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants

    Lia Crotti;Christopher N. Johnson;Elisabeth Graf;Gaetano M. De Ferrari

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick T. Ellinor
Patrick T. Ellinor Harvard University
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich
Arne Pfeufer
Arne Pfeufer Technical University of Munich
Steven A. Lubitz
Steven A. Lubitz Harvard University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Christopher Newton-Cheh
Christopher Newton-Cheh Harvard University
Susan R. Heckbert
Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alvaro Alonso
Alvaro Alonso Emory University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

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