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Tobias Pischon 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 Tobias Pischon sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 359 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tobias Pischon 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 Tobias Pischon sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tobias Pischon is affiliated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a particular emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, general health professions, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields related to health and medical studies, nutritional studies and diet, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, obesity, physical activity and diet, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, diet and metabolism studies, as well as anesthesia and neurotoxicity research.

Frequent publication venues for Tobias Pischon's work include:

  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt international
  • Nutrients

Some of the recent research papers involving Tobias Pischon are:

  • Gut Microbiome Composition in Obese and Non-Obese Persons: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, Nutrients
  • A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO), 2022, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Simple Sugar and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake During Adolescence and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Precursors, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Die Basiserhebung der NAKO Gesundheitsstudie: Teilnahme an den Untersuchungsmodulen, Qualitätssicherung und Nutzung von Sekundärdaten, 2020, Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Annette Peters
  • Michael F. Leitzmann
  • Lilian Krist
  • Matthias B. Schulze
  • Karin Halina Greiser

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

  • General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

    T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann

  • Plasma adiponectin levels and risk of myocardial infarction in men

    T Pischon;C.J Girman;G.S Hotamisligil;N Rifai

  • Inflammatory markers and the risk of coronary heart disease in men and women.

    Jennifer K Pai;Tobias Pischon;Jing Ma;JoAnn E Manson

  • Obesity prevalence from a European perspective: a systematic review

    Anne Berghöfer;Tobias Pischon;Thomas Reinhold;Caroline M Apovian

  • Identification of Serum Metabolites Associated With Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Using a Targeted Metabolomic Approach

    Anna Floegel;Norbert Stefan;Zhonghao Yu;Kristin Mühlenbruch

  • Novel biomarkers for pre-diabetes identified by metabolomics

    Rui Wang-Sattler;Zhonghao Yu;Christian Herder;Ana C Messias

  • Habitual Dietary Intake of n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids in Relation to Inflammatory Markers Among US Men and Women

    Tobias Pischon;Susan E. Hankinson;Gökhan S. Hotamisligil;Nader Rifai

  • Non–High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Apolipoprotein B in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease in Men

    Tobias Pischon;Cynthia J. Girman;Frank M. Sacks;Nader Rifai

  • Body Size and Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)

    Tobias Pischon;Petra H. Lahmann;Heiner Boeing;Christine Friedenreich

  • Dietary intake of trans fatty acids and systemic inflammation in women

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Tobias Pischon;Susan E Hankinson;Nader Rifai

  • Obesity, Inflammation, and Periodontal Disease

    N. Pischon;N. Heng;J.-P. Bernimoulin;B.-M. Kleber

  • Association between pre-diagnostic circulating vitamin D concentration and risk of colorectal cancer in European populations:a nested case-control study

    Mazda Jenab;H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita;Pietro Ferrari;Franzel J.B. van Duijnhoven

  • Association Among Rheumatoid Arthritis, Oral Hygiene, and Periodontitis

    N. Pischon;T. Pischon;J. Kröger;E. Gülmez

  • Obesity and cancer.

    Tobias Pischon;Ute Nöthlings;Heiner Boeing

  • Hypothesis: β-Adrenergic Receptor Blockers and Weight Gain

    Arya M. Sharma;Tobias Pischon;Sandra Hardt;Iris Kunz

  • Alcohol attributable burden of incidence of cancer in eight European countries based on results from prospective cohort study

    Madlen Schütze;Heiner Boeing;Tobias Pischon;Jürgen Rehm

  • Plasma Fetuin-A Levels and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke

    Cornelia Weikert;Norbert Stefan;Matthias B. Schulze;Tobias Pischon

  • Obesity and colorectal cancer.

    Krasimira Aleksandrova;Katharina Nimptsch;Tobias Pischon

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiner Boeing
Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Elio Riboli
Elio Riboli Imperial College London
Rudolf Kaaks
Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center
Antonia Trichopoulou
Antonia Trichopoulou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Kay-Tee Khaw
Kay-Tee Khaw University of Cambridge
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Petra H.M. Peeters
Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London

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