Donald M. Bers

61.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
523 papers, 44.5k citations indexed

About

Donald M. Bers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald M. Bers has authored 523 papers receiving a total of 44.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 435 papers in Molecular Biology, 434 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 166 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Donald M. Bers's work include Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (399 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (358 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (103 papers). Donald M. Bers is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (399 papers), Ion channel regulation and function (358 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (103 papers). Donald M. Bers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Donald M. Bers's co-authors include Thomas R. Shannon, José Wilson Magalhães Bassani, Lars S. Maier, Kenneth S. Ginsburg, Steven M. Pogwizd, Rosana A. Bassani, Sanda Despa, Weilong Yuan, Joan Heller Brown and Eleonora Grandi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Donald M. Bers

510 papers receiving 43.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Cardiac excitation–contraction coupling

2002 3.4k citations Donald M. Bers profile →
Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Cardiac Contractile Force

2001 1.2k citations Donald M. Bers profile →
Calcium Cycling and Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes

2007 975 citations Donald M. Bers profile →
Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Cardiac Contractile Force

1993 668 citations Donald M. Bers profile →
Arrhythmogenesis and Contractile Dysfunction in Heart Failure

2001 592 citations Steven M. Pogwizd, Donald M. Bers et al. Circulation Research profile →
Ca ²⁺ /Calmodulin–Dependent Protein Kinase Modulates Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor Phosphorylation and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca ²⁺ Leak in Heart Failure

2005 553 citations Xun Ai, Jerry Curran et al. Circulation Research profile →
Relaxation in rabbit and rat cardiac cells: species‐dependent differences in cellular mechanisms.

1994 531 citations Donald M. Bers et al. The Journal of Physiology profile →
Excitation-Contraction Coupling and Cardiac Contractile Force

2010 514 citations Donald M. Bers et al. profile →
Diabetic hyperglycaemia activates CaMKII and arrhythmias by O-linked glycosylation

2013 467 citations Laëtitia Pereira, Crystal M. Ripplinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald M. Bers United States	109	33.7k	32.2k	11.2k	3.0k	2.6k	523	44.5k
Walter J. Koch United States	97	22.1k 0.7×	13.0k 0.4×	4.9k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	3.5k 1.4×	507	32.3k
Stanley Nattel Canada	119	17.8k 0.5×	41.8k 1.3×	4.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	632	49.4k
Eduardo Marbán United States	120	26.5k 0.8×	21.2k 0.7×	7.2k 0.6×	7.8k 2.6×	2.6k 1.0×	526	45.9k
Arthur Brown United States	92	19.4k 0.6×	12.1k 0.4×	11.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	383	27.5k
Heping Cheng China	77	16.3k 0.5×	10.5k 0.3×	6.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	236	21.1k
James N. Weiss United States	79	12.7k 0.4×	13.8k 0.4×	3.3k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	994 0.4×	345	22.2k
Kenneth R. Chien United States	110	29.4k 0.9×	15.0k 0.5×	2.7k 0.2×	1.7k 0.6×	3.1k 1.2×	303	41.1k
Martin J. Lohse Germany	91	22.2k 0.7×	5.5k 0.2×	10.9k 1.0×	844 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	355	29.4k
Colin G. Nichols United States	67	12.3k 0.4×	5.8k 0.2×	4.6k 0.4×	5.6k 1.9×	1.2k 0.5×	311	19.0k
Gerhard Meissner United States	71	16.2k 0.5×	7.8k 0.2×	5.8k 0.5×	520 0.2×	2.9k 1.1×	229	19.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald M. Bers

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Sato, Daisuke, et al.. (2025). Positive feedback between RyR phosphorylation and Ca2+ leak promotes heterogeneous Ca2+ release. Biophysical Journal. 124(5). 717–721.

Sato, Daisuke, Asuka Hatano, Donald M. Bers, Ye Chen‐Izu, & Leighton T. Izu. (2025). Dynamical effects of mechano-chemo-transduction on cardiac alternans. Biophysical Journal. 124(4). 693–703. 1 indexed citations

Habecker, Beth A., Donald M. Bers, Susan J. Birren, et al.. (2024). Molecular and cellular neurocardiology in heart disease. The Journal of Physiology. 603(7). 1689–1728. 13 indexed citations

Bossuyt, Julie, et al.. (2022). Protein Kinase D1 Regulates Cardiac Hypertrophy, Potassium Channel Remodeling, and Arrhythmias in Heart Failure. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(19). e027573–e027573. 13 indexed citations

Voglhuber, Julia, Michael Holzer, Snježana Radulović, et al.. (2022). Functional remodelling of perinuclear mitochondria alters nucleoplasmic Ca ²⁺ signalling in heart failure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1864). 1–99. 10 indexed citations

Hegyi, Bence, Christopher Y. Ko, Junyoung Hong, et al.. (2022). Diabetes and Excess Aldosterone Promote Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(23). e027164–e027164. 19 indexed citations

Thai, Phung N., Michael King, Saul Schaefer, et al.. (2021). Ketone Ester D‐β‐Hydroxybutyrate‐(R)‐1,3 Butanediol Prevents Decline in Cardiac Function in Type 2 Diabetic Mice. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(19). e020729–e020729. 35 indexed citations

Turner, Matthew D., David E. Anderson, Peter H. Bartels, et al.. (2020). α‐Actinin‐1 promotes activity of the L‐type Ca ²⁺ channel Ca _v 1.2. The EMBO Journal. 39(18). 10 indexed citations

Turner, Matthew, David E. Anderson, Peter H. Bartels, et al.. (2020). α‐Actinin‐1 promotes activity of the L‐type Ca ²⁺ channel Ca _v 1.2. The EMBO Journal. 39(5). e102622–e102622. 20 indexed citations

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Izu, Leighton T., Peter Köhl, Penelope A. Boyden, et al.. (2019). Mechano‐electric and mechano‐chemo‐transduction in cardiomyocytes. The Journal of Physiology. 598(7). 1285–1305. 32 indexed citations

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Lang, Di, Daisuke Sato, Yanyan Jiang, et al.. (2017). Calcium-Dependent Arrhythmogenic Foci Created by Weakly Coupled Myocytes in the Failing Heart. Circulation Research. 121(12). 1379–1391. 14 indexed citations

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Uchinoumi, Hitoshi, Yi Yang, Tetsuro Oda, et al.. (2016). CaMKII-dependent phosphorylation of RyR2 promotes targetable pathological RyR2 conformational shift. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 98. 62–72. 85 indexed citations

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Hoeker, Gregory S., et al.. (2015). Reduced Arrhythmia Inducibility With Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II Inhibition in Heart Failure Rabbits. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 67(3). 260–265. 14 indexed citations

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Hwang, Hyun Seok, Florentin R. Nitu, Yi Yang, et al.. (2014). Divergent Regulation of Ryanodine Receptor 2 Calcium Release Channels by Arrhythmogenic Human Calmodulin Missense Mutants. Circulation Research. 114(7). 1114–1124. 105 indexed citations

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Ljubojević-Holzer, Senka, Snježana Radulović, Gerd Leitinger, et al.. (2014). Early Remodeling of Perinuclear Ca ²⁺ Stores and Nucleoplasmic Ca ²⁺ Signaling During the Development of Hypertrophy and Heart Failure. Circulation. 130(3). 244–255. 62 indexed citations

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Guo, Tao, Rǎzvan L. Cornea, Sabine Huke, et al.. (2010). Kinetics of FKBP12.6 Binding to Ryanodine Receptors in Permeabilized Cardiac Myocytes and Effects on Ca Sparks. Circulation Research. 106(11). 1743–1752. 117 indexed citations

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Zima, Aleksey V., Elisa Bovo, Donald M. Bers, & Lothar A. Blatter. (2010). Ca ²⁺ spark-dependent and -independent sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca ²⁺ leak in normal and failing rabbit ventricular myocytes. The Journal of Physiology. 588(23). 4743–4757. 149 indexed citations

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Bers, Donald M.. (2006). Altered Cardiac Myocyte Ca Regulation In Heart Failure. Physiology. 21(6). 380–387. 269 indexed citations

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Ai, Xun, Jerry Curran, Thomas R. Shannon, Donald M. Bers, & Steven M. Pogwizd. (2005). Ca ²⁺ /Calmodulin–Dependent Protein Kinase Modulates Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor Phosphorylation and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca ²⁺ Leak in Heart Failure. Circulation Research. 97(12). 1314–1322. 553 indexed citations breakdown →

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Despa, Sanda, Julie Bossuyt, Fei Han, et al.. (2005). Phospholemman-Phosphorylation Mediates the β-Adrenergic Effects on Na/K Pump Function in Cardiac Myocytes. Circulation Research. 97(3). 252–259. 149 indexed citations

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