Carsten Skurk

14.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
133 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Carsten Skurk is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Skurk has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 35 papers in Surgery and 35 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Carsten Skurk's work include Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (23 papers), Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (19 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (19 papers). Carsten Skurk is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (23 papers), Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (19 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (19 papers). Carsten Skurk collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Carsten Skurk's co-authors include Kenneth Walsh, Marco Sandri, Alfred L. Goldberg, Stewart H. Lecker, Anne Picard, Stefano Schiaffino, Elisa Calabria, Claudia Sandri, Wolfgang Poller and Henrike Maatz and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Skurk

119 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Foxo Transcription Factors Induce the Atrophy-Related Ubiquitin Ligase Atrogin-1 and Cause Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

2004 2.4k citations Carsten Skurk et al. profile →
Cardiac Inflammation Contributes to Changes in the Extracellular Matrix in Patients With Heart Failure and Normal Ejection Fraction

2010 484 citations Dirk Westermann, Mario Kašner et al. profile →
A prospective observational study of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue syndrome following the first pandemic wave in Germany and biomarkers associated with symptom severity

2022 169 citations Claudia Kedor, Helma Freitag et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Carsten Skurk

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Terence E. Ryan United States

Sonia M. Najjar United States

Mattia Albiero Italy

Tim J. Schulz Germany

Kaori Sato Japan

Koji Maemura Japan

Michael T. Crow United States

Massimiliano Mirabella Italy

Carlos M. Isales United States

Josiah N. Wilcox United States

Terence E. Ryan United States

Carsten Skurk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carsten Skurk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carsten Skurk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carsten Skurk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carsten Skurk. Carsten Skurk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Thevathasan, Tharusan, Ulf Landmesser, Carsten Skurk, et al.. (2025). Effect of timing of coronary angiography on mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in elderly patients: a substudy of the TOMAHAWK trial. European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care.

Freund, Anne, Tharusan Thevathasan, Carsten Skurk, et al.. (2025). Quality of life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a TOMAHAWK sub-study. European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care. 14(9). 511–519.

Kresoja, Karl‐Patrik, Tienush Rassaf, Amir A. Mahabadi, et al.. (2024). Identifying prognostic factors in patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing VA-ECMO treatment: insights from ECLS-SHOCK using machine learning. European Heart Journal. 45(Supplement_1).

Skurk, Carsten, Zehra Karadeniz, Henrike Maatz, et al.. (2024). The transcription factor foxo3 regulates cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction. European Heart Journal. 45(Supplement_1).

Barbieri, Fabian, Niklas Beyhoff, Tharusan Thevathasan, et al.. (2023). Procedural success of transcatheter annuloplasty in ventricular and atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 10. 1189920–1189920. 5 indexed citations

Thevathasan, Tharusan, et al.. (2023). Utilisation of artificial intelligence to predict early readmission to the cardiac intensive care unit in critically ill patients. European Heart Journal. 44(Supplement_2).

Thevathasan, Tharusan, et al.. (2023). Mortality and healthcare resource utilisation after cardiac arrest in the United States – A 10-year nationwide analysis prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Resuscitation. 193. 109946–109946. 2 indexed citations

Thevathasan, Tharusan, Phillip Suwalski, Wolfgang Poller, et al.. (2023). Application of Magnetocardiography to Screen for Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy and Monitor Treatment Response. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(4). e027619–e027619. 31 indexed citations

Caratti, Giorgio, Thibaut Desgeorges, Gaëtan Juban, et al.. (2022). Macrophagic AMPKα1 orchestrates regenerative inflammation induced by glucocorticoids. EMBO Reports. 24(2). e55363–e55363. 18 indexed citations

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Kedor, Claudia, Helma Freitag, Lil Meyer‐Arndt, et al.. (2022). A prospective observational study of post-COVID-19 chronic fatigue syndrome following the first pandemic wave in Germany and biomarkers associated with symptom severity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5104–5104. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Skurk, Carsten, Karl Georg Häusler, Matthias Endres, Thorsten Lewalter, & Ulf Landmesser. (2022). Perkutaner Vorhofohrverschluss nach Schlaganfall. Nervenheilkunde. 41(6). 417–425.

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Cepas‐Guillén, Pedro, Boris Schmidt, Sérgio Berti, et al.. (2022). Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in Nonagenarians. The Journal of invasive cardiology. 34(4). E296–E298. 1 indexed citations

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Abdelwahed, Youssef S., Barbara E. Stähli, Himanshu Rai, et al.. (2021). Coexistence of calcified- and lipid-containing plaque components and their association with incidental rupture points in acute coronary syndrome-causing culprit lesions: results from the prospective OPTICO-ACS study. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging. 23(12). 1598–1605. 6 indexed citations

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Abdelwahed, Youssef S., Carsten Skurk, Patrick T. Siegrist, Ulf Landmesser, & Gerald S. Werner. (2021). Full Moon Coronary calcium seen on cardiac Tomography, can it change PCI decision-making and procedure?. Cardiovascular Medicine. 1 indexed citations

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Böhm, Felix, Matthias Riedel, Youssef S. Abdelwahed, et al.. (2020). Impact of real-time angiographic co-registered optical coherence tomography on percutaneous coronary intervention: the OPTICO-integration II trial. Clinical Research in Cardiology. 110(2). 249–257. 11 indexed citations

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Leistner, David M., Julia Steiner, Youssef S. Abdelwahed, et al.. (2020). Association of left ventricular end‐diastolic pressure with mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 96(4). E439–E446. 12 indexed citations

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Alushi, Brunilda, Thomas Wurster, David M. Leistner, et al.. (2019). Impella versus IABP in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock. Open Heart. 6(1). e000987–e000987. 57 indexed citations

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Rillig, Andreas, Carsten Skurk, David M. Leistner, et al.. (2018). Long‐term follow up of 3 T MRI‐detected brain lesions after percutaneous catheter‐based left atrial appendage closure. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 92(2). 327–333. 8 indexed citations

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Leistner, David M., Matthias Riedel, Lisa Steinbeck, et al.. (2017). Real‐time optical coherence tomography coregistration with angiography in percutaneous coronary intervention–impact on physician decision‐making: The OPTICO‐integration study. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 92(1). 30–37. 18 indexed citations

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Escher, Felicitas, Uwe Kühl, Dirk Laßner, et al.. (2014). Presence of Perforin in Endomyocardial Biopsies of Patients with Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy Predicts Poor Outcome. European Journal of Heart Failure. 16(10). 1066–1072. 29 indexed citations

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