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D-Index
93
Citations
38541
World Ranking
10755
National Ranking
587

Stephan Baldus 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 Stephan Baldus sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 799 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephan Baldus 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 Stephan Baldus sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 93 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephan Baldus is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany, contributing extensively to medical research with a focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their scholarly output encompasses 856 publications primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

They have addressed a range of main research topics, including:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments

Baldus has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Matti Adam
  • Roman Pfister
  • Volker Rudolph
  • Victor Mauri
  • Christos Iliadis

Their publications have appeared in various venues, with the highest number of articles in:

  • Clinical Research in Cardiology
  • European Heart Journal
  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • EuroIntervention

Among the recent papers associated with Baldus, the following are notable for their relevance and citation counts:

  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • European Society of Cardiology: cardiovascular disease statistics 2021, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, 2021, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease: Developed by the Task Force for the management of valvular heart disease of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), 2022, Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition)
  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease, 2022, EuroIntervention

Best Publications

  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.

    Alec Vahanian;Friedhelm Beyersdorf;Fabien Praz;Milan Milojevic

  • Sensitive Troponin I Assay in Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Till Keller;Tanja Zeller;Dirk Peetz;Stergios Tzikas

  • Myeloperoxidase Serum Levels Predict Risk in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Stephan Baldus;Christopher Heeschen;Thomas Meinertz;Andreas M. Zeiher

  • Percutaneous Mitral Valve Interventions in the Real World: Early and 1-Year Results From the ACCESS-EU, A Prospective, Multicenter, Nonrandomized Post-Approval Study of the MitraClip Therapy in Europe

    Francesco Maisano;Olaf Franzen;Stephan Baldus;Ulrich Schäfer

  • Myeloperoxidase, a Leukocyte-Derived Vascular NO Oxidase

    Jason P. Eiserich;Stephan Baldus;Marie Luise Brennan;Wenxin Ma

  • Nickel and molybdenum contact allergies in patients with coronary in-stent restenosis

    Ralf Köster;Dieter Vieluf;Margret Kiehn;Martin Sommerauer

  • Prevalence and Heterogeneity of KRAS, BRAF, and PIK3CA Mutations in Primary Colorectal Adenocarcinomas and Their Corresponding Metastases

    Stephan E Baldus;Karl-L Schaefer;Rainer Engers;Dinah Hartleb

  • Serial changes in highly sensitive troponin I assay and early diagnosis of myocardial infarction.

    Till Keller;Tanja Zeller;Francisco Ojeda;Stergios Tzikas

  • Myeloperoxidase mediates neutrophil activation by association with CD11b/CD18 integrins

    Denise Lau;Hanke Mollnau;Jason P. Eiserich;Bruce A. Freeman

  • Histomorphologic Tumor Regression and Lymph Node Metastases Determine Prognosis Following Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy for Esophageal Cancer: Implications for Response Classification

    Paul M. Schneider;Stephan E. Baldus;Ralf Metzger;Martin Kocher

  • 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease.

    Alec Vahanian;Friedhelm Beyersdorf;Fabien Praz;Milan Milojevic

  • Acute outcomes of MitraClip therapy for mitral regurgitation in high-surgical-risk patients: emphasis on adverse valve morphology and severe left ventricular dysfunction

    Olaf Franzen;Stephan Baldus;Volker Rudolph;Sven Meyer

  • Copeptin improves early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.

    Till Keller;Stergios Tzikas;Tanja Zeller;Ewa Czyz

  • MitraClip® therapy in patients with end-stage systolic heart failure.

    Olaf Franzen;Jan van der Heyden;Stephan Baldus;Michael Schlüter

  • Endothelial transcytosis of myeloperoxidase confers specificity to vascular ECM proteins as targets of tyrosine nitration.

    Stephan Baldus;Jason P. Eiserich;Alireza Mani;Laura Castro

  • Myeloperoxidase acts as a profibrotic mediator of atrial fibrillation.

    Volker Rudolph;René P. Andrié;Tanja K. Rudolph;Kai Friedrichs

  • Impact of the 3D microenvironment on phenotype, gene expression, and EGFR inhibition of colorectal cancer cell lines.

    Anna C. Luca;Sabrina Mersch;René Deenen;Stephan Schmidt

  • High rate of lymph-node metastasis in submucosal esophageal squamous-cell carcinomas and adenocarcinomas.

    E. Bollschweiler;S. E. Baldus;W. Schröder;K. Prenzel

  • MitraClip therapy in daily clinical practice: initial results from the German transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TRAMI) registry.

    Stephan Baldus;Wolfgang Schillinger;Olaf Franzen;Raffi Bekeredjian

  • MUC1 and the MUCs: a family of human mucins with impact in cancer biology.

    Stephan E. Baldus;Katja Engelmann;Franz-Georg Hanisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Blankenberg
Stefan Blankenberg Universität Hamburg
Thomas Meinertz
Thomas Meinertz Universität Hamburg
Stephan Rosenkranz
Stephan Rosenkranz University of Cologne
Thomas Münzel
Thomas Münzel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Karl-Heinz Kuck
Karl-Heinz Kuck Universität Hamburg
Francesco Maisano
Francesco Maisano University of Zurich
Tanja Zeller
Tanja Zeller Universität Hamburg
Franz-Georg Hanisch
Franz-Georg Hanisch University of Cologne
Georg Nickenig
Georg Nickenig University of Bonn
Christian W. Hamm
Christian W. Hamm University of Giessen

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