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D-Index
99
Citations
45878
World Ranking
8466
National Ranking
330

Stephane Heymans 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 Stephane Heymans sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 395 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephane Heymans 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 Stephane Heymans sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephane Heymans is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive body of research primarily within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Oncology.

The scientist's research interests cover diverse topics related to cardiovascular health, including:

  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

Frequent publication venues for Stephane Heymans highlight a focus on highly regarded cardiology journals. These include:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • European Heart Journal
  • Circulation
  • Cardiovascular Research
  • ESC Heart Failure

Stephane Heymans has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Job A.J. Verdonschot
  • Michiel T.H.M. Henkens
  • Mark R. Hazebroek
  • Anne G. Raafs
  • John G.F. Cleland

Significant recent publications by Stephane Heymans span important guidelines and reviews related to heart failure and heart disease, such as:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2022, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of adult congenital heart disease, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • 2023 Focused Update of the 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2023, European Heart Journal
  • Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy: current evidence and future directions, 2020, Nature Reviews Cardiology

Best Publications

  • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases.

    Alida L. P. Caforio;Sabine Pankuweit;Eloisa Arbustini;Cristina Basso

  • How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology

    Walter J. Paulus;Carsten Tschöpe;John E. Sanderson;Cesare Rusconi

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of adult congenital heart disease.

    Helmut Baumgartner;Julie De Backer;Sonya V Babu-Narayan;Werner Budts

  • Deletion of the hypoxia-response element in the vascular endothelial growth factor promoter causes motor neuron degeneration

    B. Oosthuyse;L. Moons;E. Storkebaum;H. Beck

  • Proposal for a revised definition of dilated cardiomyopathy, hypokinetic non-dilated cardiomyopathy, and its implications for clinical practice : a position statement of the ESC working group on myocardial and pericardial diseases

    Yigal M Pinto;Perry M Elliott;Eloisa Arbustini;Yehuda Adler

  • miR-133 and miR-30 Regulate Connective Tissue Growth Factor Implications for a Role of MicroRNAs in Myocardial Matrix Remodeling

    Rudy F. Duisters;Anke J. Tijsen;Blanche Schroen;Joost J. Leenders

  • Inhibition of plasminogen activators or matrix metalloproteinases prevents cardiac rupture but impairs therapeutic angiogenesis and causes cardiac failure.

    Stephane Heymans;Aernout Luttun;Dieter Nuyens;G Theilmeier

  • Circulating MicroRNA-208b and MicroRNA-499 Reflect Myocardial Damage in Cardiovascular Disease

    Maarten F. Corsten;Robert Dennert;Sylvia Jochems;Tatiana Kuznetsova

  • Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathy: current evidence and future directions.

    Carsten Tschöpe;Enrico Ammirati;Biykem Bozkurt;Biykem Bozkurt;Alida L.P. Caforio

  • Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloidosis: a position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

    Pablo Garcia-Pavia;Claudio Rapezzi;Yehuda Adler;Michael Arad

  • Acute viral myocarditis

    Robert Dennert;Harry J. Crijns;Stephane Heymans

  • Cardiovascular side effects of cancer therapies: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Thomas Eschenhagen;Thomas Force;Michael S. Ewer;Gilles W. De Keulenaer

  • Myocardial Extracellular Matrix An Ever-Changing and Diverse Entity

    Marieke Rienks;Anna Pia Papageorgiou;Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis;Stephane Heymans

  • Non-coding RNAs in cardiovascular diseases: diagnostic and therapeutic perspectives.

    Wolfgang Poller;Stefanie Dimmeler;Stephane Heymans;Tanja Zeller

  • Relevance of matrix metalloproteinases and their inhibitors after myocardial infarction: a temporal and spatial window.

    Davy Vanhoutte;Mark Schellings;Yigal Pinto;Stephane Heymans;Stephane Heymans

  • Long noncoding RNAs in cardiac development and ageing

    Yvan Devaux;Jennifer Zangrando;Blanche Schroen;Esther E. Creemers

  • Right heart dysfunction and failure in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: mechanisms and management. Position statement on behalf of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Thomas M. Gorter;Dirk J. van Veldhuisen;Johann Bauersachs;Barry A. Borlaug

  • The Quest for New Approaches in Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy

    Stephane Heymans;Urs Eriksson;Jukka Lehtonen;Leslie T. Cooper

  • Pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Johann Bauersachs;Tobias König;Peter van der Meer;Mark C Petrie

  • Inflammation as a therapeutic target in heart failure? A scientific statement from the Translational Research Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

    Stephane Heymans;Emilio Hirsch;Stefan D. Anker;Pal Aukrust

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
Han G. Brunner
Han G. Brunner Radboud University
Yigal M. Pinto
Yigal M. Pinto University of Amsterdam
Javier Díez
Javier Díez University of Navarra
Rudolf A. de Boer
Rudolf A. de Boer University Medical Center Groningen
Alexander R. Lyon
Alexander R. Lyon Imperial College London
Johann Bauersachs
Johann Bauersachs Hannover Medical School
Mauro Giacca
Mauro Giacca King's College London

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