Jan Kajstura

43.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
167 papers, 29.0k citations indexed

About

Jan Kajstura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Kajstura has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 29.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 69 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Jan Kajstura's work include Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (61 papers), Congenital heart defects research (44 papers) and Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling (32 papers). Jan Kajstura is often cited by papers focused on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (61 papers), Congenital heart defects research (44 papers) and Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling (32 papers). Jan Kajstura collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Poland. Jan Kajstura's co-authors include Piero Anversa, Annarosa Leri, Bernardo Nadal‐Ginard, Stefano Chimenti, Konrad Urbanek, Donald Orlic, Federico Quaini, Wei Cheng, Federica Limana and Marcello Rota and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Jan Kajstura

165 papers receiving 28.2k citations

Hit Papers

Bone marrow cells regenerate infarcted myocardium 1995 2026 2005 2015 2001 2003 2001 1997 2002 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Bone marrow cells regenerate infarcted myocardium
    2001 3.9k citations Donald Orlic, Jan Kajstura et al. profile →
  2. Adult Cardiac Stem Cells Are Multipotent and Support Myocardial Regeneration
    2003 2.6k citations Antonio Paolo Beltrami, Daniele Torella et al. profile →
  3. Mobilized bone marrow cells repair the infarcted heart, improving function and survival
    2001 1.6k citations Donald Orlic, Jan Kajstura et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Apoptosis in the Failing Human Heart
    1997 1.4k citations G Olivetti, Federico Quaini et al. profile →
  5. Chimerism of the Transplanted Heart
    2002 916 citations Federico Quaini, Konrad Urbanek et al. profile →
  6. Apoptotic and necrotic myocyte cell deaths are independent contributing variables of infarct size in rats.
    1996 866 citations Jan Kajstura, Wei Cheng et al. PubMed profile →
  7. Myocardial Cell Death in Human Diabetes
    2000 665 citations Jan Kajstura, Annarosa Leri et al. Circulation Research profile →
  8. Stretch-induced programmed myocyte cell death.
    1995 517 citations Wei Cheng, Jan Kajstura et al. Journal of Clinical Investigation profile →
  9. Recombinant human erythropoietin protects the myocardium from ischemia-reperfusion injury and promotes beneficial remodeling
    2003 501 citations Jan Kajstura, Annarosa Leri et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Kajstura United States 75 15.8k 12.9k 8.7k 8.0k 4.5k 167 29.0k
Annarosa Leri United States 70 13.6k 0.9× 12.7k 1.0× 6.6k 0.8× 8.3k 1.0× 4.6k 1.0× 136 25.0k
Piero Anversa United States 94 20.4k 1.3× 15.9k 1.2× 15.2k 1.7× 8.9k 1.1× 5.4k 1.2× 331 40.7k
Bernardo Nadal‐Ginard United States 70 16.7k 1.1× 9.5k 0.7× 6.3k 0.7× 6.3k 0.8× 3.4k 0.8× 150 26.1k
Charles E. Murry United States 84 17.7k 1.1× 14.1k 1.1× 5.7k 0.7× 4.2k 0.5× 5.9k 1.3× 227 34.8k
Richard D. Weisel Canada 81 5.2k 0.3× 11.0k 0.9× 8.9k 1.0× 3.1k 0.4× 3.6k 0.8× 399 24.0k
Douglas W. Losordo United States 84 13.9k 0.9× 7.6k 0.6× 3.6k 0.4× 4.0k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 232 23.9k
Takayuki Asahara Japan 73 25.9k 1.6× 10.4k 0.8× 4.0k 0.5× 8.5k 1.1× 3.7k 0.8× 262 38.2k
Mark L. Entman United States 88 10.4k 0.7× 6.0k 0.5× 10.0k 1.2× 2.1k 0.3× 1.0k 0.2× 295 23.9k
Marcy Silver United States 47 17.2k 1.1× 6.3k 0.5× 2.4k 0.3× 5.5k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 60 24.6k
Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis United States 88 13.6k 0.9× 6.9k 0.5× 17.7k 2.0× 1.3k 0.2× 1.3k 0.3× 178 30.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chugh, Atul, Garth M. Beache, John Loughran, et al.. (2012). Administration of Cardiac Stem Cells in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: The SCIPIO Trial. Circulation. 126(11_suppl_1). S54–64. 325 indexed citations
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Bai, Yingnan, Donato Cappetta, Domenico D’Amario, et al.. (2011). Abstract 16420: Human Cardiac Stem Cells (hCSCs) Carrying the Mother DNA Constitute a Novel Class of Resident Stem Cells With Markedly Superior Growth Reserve. Circulation. 124.
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Zhang, Hongyu, Xiongwen Chen, Erhe Gao, et al.. (2010). Increasing Cardiac Contractility After Myocardial Infarction Exacerbates Cardiac Injury and Pump Dysfunction. Circulation Research. 107(6). 800–809. 33 indexed citations
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Bolli, Roberto, Hani Jneid, Xian‐Liang Tang, et al.. (2006). Abstract 1267: Intracoronary Administration of Cardiac Stem Cells Improves Cardiac Function in Pigs with Old Infarction. Circulation. 114. 4 indexed citations
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Bearzi, Claudia, Patrick Müller, Katsuya Amano, et al.. (2006). Abstract 730: Identification and Characterization of Cardiac Stem Cells in the Pig Heart. Circulation. 114. 1 indexed citations
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Rota, Marcello, Nicole LeCapitaine, Toru Hosoda, et al.. (2006). Diabetes Promotes Cardiac Stem Cell Aging and Heart Failure, Which Are Prevented by Deletion of the p66 shc Gene. Circulation Research. 99(1). 42–52. 267 indexed citations
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Bearzi, Claudia, Stefano Cascapera, Angelo Nascimbene, et al.. (2005). Characterization and growth of human cardiac stem cells. Circulation. 111. 5 indexed citations
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Leri, Annarosa, Jan Kajstura, & Piero Anversa. (2005). Identity Deception: Not a Crime for a Stem Cell. Physiology. 20(3). 162–168. 12 indexed citations
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Urbanek, Konrad, Daniele Torella, Farooq H. Sheikh, et al.. (2005). Myocardial regeneration by activation of multipotent cardiac stem cells in ischemic heart failure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(24). 8692–8697. 442 indexed citations
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Anversa, Piero, Konrad Urbanek, Marcello Rota, et al.. (2005). Cardiac Stem Cells in the Failing Human Heart. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 11(S02). 1 indexed citations
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Leri, Annarosa, Jan Kajstura, Federico Quaini, et al.. (2005). Repair of the damaged heart. Kidney International. 68(5). 1962–1962. 1 indexed citations
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Orlic, Donald, Jan Kajstura, Stefano Chimenti, et al.. (2003). Bone marrow stem cells regenerate infarcted myocardium. Pediatric Transplantation. 7(s3). 86–88. 231 indexed citations
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Leri, Annarosa, Yu Liu, Pier Paolo Claudio, et al.. (1999). Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Induces Mdm2 and Down-Regulates p53, Attenuating the Myocyte Renin-Angiotensin System and Stretch-Mediated Apoptosis. American Journal Of Pathology. 154(2). 567–580. 99 indexed citations
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Anversa, Piero & Jan Kajstura. (1998). Ventricular Myocytes Are Not Terminally Differentiated in the Adult Mammalian Heart. Circulation Research. 83(1). 1–14. 291 indexed citations
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Li, Q, B Li, Xiaohui Wang, et al.. (1997). Overexpression of insulin-like growth factor-1 in mice protects from myocyte death after infarction, attenuating ventricular dilation, wall stress, and cardiac hypertrophy.. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 100(8). 1991–1999. 390 indexed citations
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Anversa, Piero, Jan Kajstura, & G Olivetti. (1996). Myocyte death in heart failure. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 11(3). 245–251. 94 indexed citations
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Dostal, David E., Krzysztof Reiss, Wei Cheng, et al.. (1995). Identification and activation of autocrine renin-angiotensin system in adult ventricular myocytes. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 269(5). H1791–H1802. 67 indexed citations
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Kajstura, Jan & Jürgen Bereiter‐Hahn. (1989). Loss of focal contacts accompanies The density dependent inhibition of cell growth. Cell Biology International Reports. 13(4). 377–383. 3 indexed citations
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Kajstura, Jan & Jürgen Bereiter‐Hahn. (1987). Scanning microfluorometric measurement of immunofluorescently labelled microtubules in cultured cells. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 88(1). 53–55. 3 indexed citations
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Reiss, Krzysztof, et al.. (1985). Stimulation of myogenesis by 2,2'-thiodiethanol in suboptimal tissue culture conditions.. PubMed. 23(3). 109–16. 3 indexed citations

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