Göran Bergström

15.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
271 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Göran Bergström is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Göran Bergström has authored 271 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 67 papers in Physiology and 48 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Göran Bergström's work include Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (23 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (22 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (20 papers). Göran Bergström is often cited by papers focused on Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (23 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (22 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (20 papers). Göran Bergström collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Australia. Göran Bergström's co-authors include Fredrik Bäckhed, Valentina Tremaroli, Björn Fagerberg, Carl Johan Behre, Fredrik Karlsson, Jens Nielsen, Intawat Nookaew, Caroline Schmidt, Björn Fagerberg and Lars Barregård and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Göran Bergström

258 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Gut metagenome in European women with normal, impaired and diabetic glucose control

2013 2.2k citations Göran Bergström, Björn Fagerberg et al. profile →
Microbially Produced Imidazole Propionate Impairs Insulin Signaling through mTORC1

2018 539 citations Caroline Schmidt, Göran Bergström et al. profile →
The Gut Microbiota in Prediabetes and Diabetes: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

2020 337 citations Caroline Schmidt, Annika Lundqvist et al. profile →
Gut bacterial metabolism contributes to host global purine homeostasis

2023 118 citations Göran Bergström, Fredrik Bäckhed et al. profile →
Dynamics of the normal gut microbiota: A longitudinal one-year population study in Sweden

2022 106 citations Anders Gummesson, Linn Fagerberg et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Göran Bergström	4.1k	2.8k	1.5k	1.0k	988	271	9.2k
Olivieri Fabiola	6.0k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	914 0.6×	757 0.7×	2.1k 2.1×	264	15.9k
Anders Larsson	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	2.1k 2.1×	592	16.2k
Hooman Allayee	5.5k 1.4×	3.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	150	12.0k
Huilin Li	5.2k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	583 0.4×	498 0.5×	977 1.0×	231	9.7k
Tamàs Fülöp	3.2k 0.8×	4.3k 1.5×	481 0.3×	768 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	300	14.5k
Ivor J. Benjamin	5.6k 1.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	921 0.9×	738 0.7×	122	9.9k
Derek W. Gilroy	5.1k 1.3×	1.9k 0.7×	557 0.4×	588 0.6×	2.0k 2.0×	143	17.2k
Annalisa Santucci	3.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	501 0.5×	814 0.8×	303	10.4k
Brian J. Bennett	6.3k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	655 0.4×	542 0.5×	929 0.9×	104	10.6k
Andreas K. Nüssler	4.8k 1.2×	3.4k 1.2×	727 0.5×	725 0.7×	1.7k 1.7×	365	16.2k

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Molnár, Dénes, Ola Hjelmgren, Carl Johan Östgren, et al.. (2025). Head-to-Head Comparison between MRI and CT in the Evaluation of Volume and Quality of Epicardial Adipose Tissue. Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging. 7(4). e240531–e240531. 1 indexed citations

Molnár, Dénes, Elias Björnson, Ola Hjelmgren, et al.. (2025). Coronary artery calcifications are not associated with epicardial adipose tissue volume and attenuation on computed tomography in 1,945 individuals with various degrees of glucose disorders. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 56. 101613–101613. 1 indexed citations

Rosengren, E., Lars Barregård, Gerd Sällsten, et al.. (2025). Exposure to Lead and Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis: A Swedish Cross‐Sectional Population‐Based Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(5). e037633–e037633. 1 indexed citations

Johansson, Madeleine, Göran Bergström, Tomas Jernberg, et al.. (2025). Severe-extensive coronary atherosclerosis in low-risk individuals and absence of coronary atherosclerosis in high-risk individuals: the SCAPIS extremes project. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Ericson, Ulrika, Ulrika Ericson, Sophie Hellstrand, et al.. (2024). A Swedish dietary guideline index, gut microbial α-diversity and prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS). 22(5).

Björnson, Elias, et al.. (2024). Large-scale plasma proteomics in the UK Biobank modestly improves prediction of major cardiovascular events in a population without previous cardiovascular disease. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 31(14). 1681–1689. 13 indexed citations

Lönnblom, Erik, Outi Sareila, Lei Cheng, et al.. (2023). Autoantibodies to Disease‐Related Proteins in Joints as Novel Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 75(7). 1110–1119. 22 indexed citations

Fagman, Erika, Daniel Arvidsson, Örjan Ekblom, et al.. (2023). Eveningness is associated with coronary artery calcification in a middle-aged Swedish population. Sleep Medicine. 113. 370–377. 5 indexed citations

Fridolfsson, Jonatan, et al.. (2023). Fundament for a methodological standard to process hip accelerometer data to a measure of physical activity intensity in middle‐aged individuals. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 34(1). e14541–e14541. 4 indexed citations

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Barregård, Lars, Gerd Sällsten, Niklas Forsgard, et al.. (2023). Low-level exposure to lead and atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries: Results from the Swedish population-based cohort SCAPIS. Environmental Research. 244. 117900–117900. 4 indexed citations

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Sällsten, Gerd, Péter Molnár, Eva M. Andersson, et al.. (2022). Long-term exposure to air pollution, coronary artery calcification, and carotid artery plaques in the population-based Swedish SCAPIS Gothenburg cohort. Environmental Research. 214(Pt 2). 113926–113926. 10 indexed citations

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Mohammad, Moman A., Gregg W. Stone, Sasha Koul, et al.. (2022). On the Natural History of Coronary Artery Disease: A Longitudinal Nationwide Serial Angiography Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(21). e026396–e026396. 13 indexed citations

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Rawshani, Araz, Naveed Sattar, Darren K. McGuire, et al.. (2022). Left-Sided Degenerative Valvular Heart Disease in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Circulation. 146(5). 398–411. 19 indexed citations

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Zhong, Wen, Fredrik Edfors, Anders Gummesson, et al.. (2021). Next generation plasma proteome profiling to monitor health and disease. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2493–2493. 75 indexed citations

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Gummesson, Anders, Elias Björnson, Linn Fagerberg, et al.. (2020). Longitudinal plasma protein profiling of newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. EBioMedicine. 63. 103147–103147. 18 indexed citations

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Dodig‐Crnković, Tea, Mun‐Gwan Hong, Cecilia Engel Thomas, et al.. (2020). Facets of individual-specific health signatures determined from longitudinal plasma proteome profiling. EBioMedicine. 57. 102854–102854. 18 indexed citations

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Gummesson, Anders, Ulf Strömberg, Caroline Schmidt, et al.. (2018). Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a strong predictor of coronary artery calcification in metabolically healthy subjects: A cross-sectional, population-based study in middle-aged subjects. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202666–e0202666. 27 indexed citations

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Blomqvist, Sandra Rodrigo, Hilmar Viđarsson, Sharyn M. Fitzgerald, et al.. (2004). Distal renal tubular acidosis in mice that lack the forkhead transcription factor Foxi1. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 113(11). 1560–1570. 152 indexed citations

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Bohlooly‐Y, Mohammad, Lars A. Carlson, Bob Olsson, et al.. (2001). Vascular Function and Blood Pressure in GH Transgenic Mice. Endocrinology. 142(8). 3317–3323. 45 indexed citations

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Thien, Leonard B., Olle Pellmyr, L. Y. Yatsu, Göran Bergström, & Gordon McPherson. (1990). Polysaccharide food-bodies as pollinator rewards in Exospermum stipitatum and other Winteraceae. 12(2). 191–197. 6 indexed citations

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