Christoph Maack

19.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
165 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Christoph Maack is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Maack has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 81 papers in Molecular Biology and 26 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christoph Maack's work include Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (48 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (43 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (31 papers). Christoph Maack is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (48 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (43 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (31 papers). Christoph Maack collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Christoph Maack's co-authors include Edoardo Bertero, Brian O’Rourke, Michael Kohlhaas, Michael Böhm, Alexander Nickel, Thomas Münzel, Miguel A. Aon, Sonia Cortassa, Ting Liu and Pietro Ameri and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Maack

159 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Metabolic remodelling in heart failure

2018 466 citations Edoardo Bertero, Christoph Maack Nature Reviews Cardiology profile →
Calcium Signaling and Reactive Oxygen Species in Mitochondria

2018 445 citations Edoardo Bertero, Christoph Maack Circulation Research profile →
Impact of Oxidative Stress on the Heart and Vasculature

2017 428 citations Christoph Maack et al. profile →
Pathophysiological role of oxidative stress in systolic and diastolic heart failure and its therapeutic implications

2015 296 citations Christoph Maack et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Mitochondrial NNT Promotes Diastolic Dysfunction in Cardiometabolic HFpEF 2025 ·Circulation Research ·Mark E. Pepin, (unknown), Sumra Nazir, (unknown), Christoph Maack, Alexander Nickel, Joshua Gorham, Mathias Hohl, (unknown), Matthias Dewenter, Adriano B. Chaves‐Filho, Almut Schulze, Anja Karlstaedt, Norbert Frey, Christine E. Seidman, Jonathan G. Seidman, Johannes Backs	5
2	Cardiac intermediary metabolism in heart failure: substrate use, signalling roles and therapeutic targets 2025 ·Nature Reviews Cardiology ·Mathias Mericskay, Coert J. Zuurbier, Lisa C. Heather, Anja Karlstaedt, J INSERTE, Luc Bertrand, Georgios Kararigas, Marisol Ruiz‐Meana, Christoph Maack, Gabriele G. Schiattarella	6
3	Investigating the Anrep Effect in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy With Invasive Pressure-Volume Analysis 2025 ·JACC Advances ·Jan‐Christian Reil, Vasco Sequeira, Gert‐Hinrich Reil, Smita Scholtz, Volker Rudolph, Christoph Maack, (unknown), Paul Steendijk	1
4	A new approach to characterize cardiac sodium storage by combining fluorescence photometry and magnetic resonance imaging in small animal research 2024 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael Kohlhaas, Paula-Anahi Arias-Loza, Michelle Hofmann, (unknown), (unknown), Christoph Maack, Wolfgang R. Bauer	2
5	Tafazzin deficiency causes substantial remodeling in the lipidome of a mouse model of Barth Syndrome cardiomyopathy 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), R. Rajendran, Marcus Höring, Gerhard Liebisch, Akash Bachhuka, Michael Kohlhaas, Christoph Maack, Süleyman Ergün, Jan Dudek, Srikanth Karnati	4
6	Association of inflammatory markers with incident heart failure or cancer in the HUNT3 and Health ABC population studies 2024 ·European Journal of Preventive Cardiology ·Edoardo Bertero, Luca Carmisciano, Christian Jonasson, Javed Butler, Christoph Maack, Pietro Ameri	6
7	Determinants and reference values of the 6-min walk distance in the general population—results of the population-based STAAB cohort study 2024 ·Clinical Research in Cardiology ·Caroline Morbach, (unknown), Vladimir Cejka, Michael Stach, (unknown), (unknown), Stefan Frantz, Rüdiger Pryss, Götz Gelbrich, Peter U. Heuschmann, Stefan Störk, Christoph Maack, Georg Ertl, Martin Faßnacht, C. Wanner, Rainer Leyh, Jens Volkmann, Jürgen Deckert, Hermann Faller, Roland Jahns	2
8	Physiologists as medical scientists: An early warning from the German academic system 2024 ·Physiological Reports ·Katrin Streckfuß‐Bömeke, N Kraenkel, Christoph Maack, Renate B. Schnabel, Laura C. Zelarayán, Norbert Frey, Peter Jezzard, Martina Krüger, Nico Lachmann, Susanne Lutz, Claudia Noack, Eric Schoger, Katrin Schröder, (unknown), Sabine Steffens, Holger Winkels, (unknown), Tanja Zeller, Eva A. Rog‐Zielinska, Peter Köhl	2
9	Gpr55 deficiency crucially alters cardiomyocyte homeostasis and counteracts angiotensin II induced maladaption in female mice 2024 ·British Journal of Pharmacology ·B. Schopohl, Michael Kohlhaas, Alexander Nickel, (unknown), Sanne L. Maas, Emiel P. C. van der Vorst, (unknown), Christoph Maack, Sabine Steffens, Sarah‐Lena Puhl	1
10	Semaglutide Normalizes Increased Cardiomyocyte Calcium Transients in a Rat Model of High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity 2024 ·ESC Heart Failure ·Vasco Sequeira, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jan Dudek, Martin Faßnacht, Alexander Nickel, Michael Kohlhaas, Christoph Maack, Ulrich Dischinger	1
11	Mitochondrial function in macrophages controls cardiac repair after myocardial infarction 2023 ·Journal of Clinical Investigation ·(unknown), Christoph Maack	23
12	Mechanistic Insights of the LEMD2 p.L13R Mutation and Its Role in Cardiomyopathy 2023 ·Circulation Research ·Ruping Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Paula-Anahi Arias-Loza, Michael Kohlhaas, Nicole Wagner, (unknown), Alexander Nickel, (unknown), Tatjana Williams, Christoph Maack, Süleyman Ergün, Stefan Frantz, Brenda Gerull	13
13	Tachycardiomyopathy entails a dysfunctional pattern of interrelated mitochondrial functions 2022 ·Basic Research in Cardiology ·(unknown), Kathrin Renner, Alexander Nickel, Christoph Brochhausen, (unknown), (unknown), Maria J. Baier, Steffen Pabel, Stefan Wallner, Christoph Birner, Andreas Luchner, Christoph Magnes, Peter J. Oefner, Klaus Stark, Stefan Wagner, Christoph Maack, Lars S. Maier, Katrin Streckfuß‐Bömeke, Samuel Sossalla, Alexander Dietl	11
14	Pharmacological inhibition of GLUT1 as a new immunotherapeutic approach after myocardial infarction 2021 ·Biochemical Pharmacology ·(unknown), Jan Dudek, Christoph Maack, Ulrich Hofmann	20
15	Cancer Mortality in Trials of Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis 2020 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Giacomo Tini, Edoardo Bertero, Alessio Signori, Maria Pia Sormani, Christoph Maack, Rudolf A. de Boer, Marco Canepa, Pietro Ameri	27
16	Cathepsin A contributes to left ventricular remodeling by degrading extracellular superoxide dismutase in mice 2020 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Mathias Hohl, Manuel Mayr, Lisa A. Lang, Alexander Nickel, Javier Barallobre‐Barreiro, Xiaoke Yin, Thimoteus Speer, Simina‐Ramona Selejan, Claudia Goettsch, Katharina Erb, Claudia Fecher‐Trost, Jan‐Christian Reil, Benedikt Linz, Sven Ruf, Thomas Hübschle, Christoph Maack, Michael Böhm, Thorsten Sadowski, Dominik Linz	16
17	Cardiac CaM Kinase II Genes δ and γ Contribute to Adverse Remodeling but Redundantly Inhibit Calcineurin-Induced Myocardial Hypertrophy 2014 ·Circulation ·Michael M. Kreußer, Lorenz Lehmann, Stanislav Keranov, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Kohlhaas, (unknown), K. Neumann, Michael Schneider, Joseph A. Hill, Dobromir Dobrev, Christoph Maack, Lars S. Maier, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Hugo A. Katus, Eric N. Olson, Johannes Backs	133
18	Elevated Cytosolic Na ⁺ Increases Mitochondrial Formation of Reactive Oxygen Species in Failing Cardiac Myocytes 2010 ·Circulation ·Michael Kohlhaas, Ting Liu, Andreas Knopp, Tanja Zeller, Mei Fang Ong, Michael Böhm, Brian O’Rourke, Christoph Maack	259
19	β-Adrenergic Stimulation of L-type Ca ²⁺ Channels in Cardiac Myocytes Requires the Distal Carboxyl Terminus of α _1C but Not Serine 1928 2006 ·Circulation Research ·Anand N. Ganesan, Christoph Maack, David C. Johns, Agnieszka Sidor, Brian O’Rourke	88
20	Evolutionary Conservation of Vitellogenin Genes 1982 ·DNA ·Tharappel C. James, Ursula Bond, Christoph Maack, Shalom W. Applebaum, Jamshed R. Tata	9

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