Johann Willeit

40.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
220 papers, 19.0k citations indexed

About

Johann Willeit is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Johann Willeit has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 19.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Epidemiology, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 43 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Johann Willeit's work include Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (25 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (23 papers) and Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (23 papers). Johann Willeit is often cited by papers focused on Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (25 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (23 papers) and Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (23 papers). Johann Willeit collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Italy and United Kingdom. Johann Willeit's co-authors include Stefan Kiechl, Friedrich Oberhollenzer, Georg Egger, Enzo Bonora, Manuel Mayr, Qingbo Xu, Peter Willeit, Werner Poewe, Agnes Mayr and Michele Muggeo and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Johann Willeit

215 papers receiving 18.4k 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.

Plasma MicroRNA Profiling Reveals Loss of Endothelial MiR-126 and Other MicroRNAs in Type 2 Diabetes

2010 1.2k citations Anna Zampetaki, Stefan Kiechl et al. Circulation Research profile →
Toll-like Receptor 4 Polymorphisms and Atherogenesis

2002 820 citations Stefan Kiechl, Markus Reindl et al. profile →
Prevalence of insulin resistance in metabolic disorders: the Bruneck Study.

1998 686 citations Stefan Kiechl, Johann Willeit et al. profile →
Lipidomics Profiling and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Prospective Population-Based Bruneck Study

2014 418 citations Raimund Pechlaner, Peter Willeit et al. Circulation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johann Willeit Austria	74	5.5k	4.2k	3.4k	2.9k	2.8k	220	19.0k
Stefan Kiechl Austria	76	5.9k 1.1×	4.2k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	265	19.9k
Angelika Bierhaus Germany	74	6.2k 1.1×	2.4k 0.6×	4.5k 1.3×	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	247	22.7k
Peter P. Nawroth Germany	95	9.8k 1.8×	4.0k 1.0×	6.5k 1.9×	3.6k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	494	36.3k
Katsumi Eguchi Japan	72	3.3k 0.6×	3.3k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	5.2k 1.9×	714	19.7k
Edwin K. Jackson United States	71	5.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.3×	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	3.0k 1.1×	502	19.4k
Irshad H. Chaudry United States	73	5.2k 0.9×	6.4k 1.5×	6.7k 1.9×	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	510	23.1k
Christoph Thiemermann United Kingdom	84	7.8k 1.4×	2.9k 0.7×	4.6k 1.3×	3.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	434	26.1k
Nikolaus Marx Germany	63	6.5k 1.2×	3.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	4.4k 1.5×	5.8k 2.1×	530	20.8k
Hirofumi Makino Japan	74	7.0k 1.3×	2.7k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	672	23.6k
Harry van Goor Netherlands	73	5.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	6.5k 2.2×	2.6k 0.9×	626	27.0k

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Willeit, Karin, et al.. (2026). Effect of in-hospital and post-discharge complications on 1-year functional outcome after stroke and transient ischemic attack. European Stroke Journal. 11(1).

Gutmann, Clemens, Temo Barwari, Christian Schulte, et al.. (2025). Platelets and inflammation—insights from platelet non-coding RNA content and release in the Bruneck study and the PACMAN-AMI trial. Cardiovascular Research. 121(9). 1392–1406.

Willeit, Karin, Christian Boehme, Thomas Toell, et al.. (2024). High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T and Cardiovascular Risk After Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack. JACC Advances. 3(7). 101022–101022. 3 indexed citations

Pechlaner, Raimund, Oliver Fiehn, Kimberly Malloy, et al.. (2024). Longitudinal Lipidomic Signature of Coronary Heart Disease in American Indian People. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(3). e031825–e031825. 1 indexed citations

Clarke, Robert, Lukas Schmidt, Xiaoke Yin, et al.. (2023). Apolipoprotein Proteomics for Residual Lipid-Related Risk in Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation Research. 132(4). 452–464. 25 indexed citations

Si, Jiyeon, Jorge F. Vázquez‐Castellanos, Ann Gregory, et al.. (2022). Long-term life history predicts current gut microbiome in a population-based cohort study. Nature Aging. 2(10). 885–895. 18 indexed citations

Boehme, Christian, Thomas Toell, Lukas Mayer‐Suess, et al.. (2019). The dimension of preventable stroke in a large representative patient cohort. Neurology. 93(23). e2121–e2132. 17 indexed citations

Mayer, L, et al.. (2017). Collet Sicard Syndrome. 2(1).

Barwari, Temo, Seda Eminaga, Paul C. Armstrong, et al.. (2017). Abstract 19935: MicroRNA-21 Regulates Transforming Growth Factor Beta-1 Release From Platelets: A Novel Mechanism for the Anti-Fibrotic Effects of MicroRNA-21 Inhibition. Circulation. 1 indexed citations

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Sarnowski, Bettina von, Ulf Schminke, Ulrike Grittner, et al.. (2015). Cervical Artery Dissection in Young Adults in the Stroke in Young Fabry Patients (sifap1) Study. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 39(2). 110–121. 17 indexed citations

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Willeit, Peter, Stefan Kiechl, Florian Kronenberg, et al.. (2014). Discrimination and Net Reclassification of Cardiovascular Risk With Lipoprotein(a). Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 64(9). 851–860. 210 indexed citations

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Topakian, Raffi, Michael Brainin, Stefan Kiechl, et al.. (2010). Thrombolytic therapy for acute stroke in Austria: data from the Safe Implementation of Thrombolysis in Stroke (SITS) register. European Journal of Neurology. 18(2). 306–311. 6 indexed citations

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Ehrlenbach, Silvia, Peter Willeit, Stefan Kiechl, et al.. (2009). Influences on the reduction of relative telomere length over 10 years in the population-based Bruneck Study: introduction of a well-controlled high-throughput assay. International Journal of Epidemiology. 38(6). 1725–1734. 152 indexed citations

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Matošević, Benjamin, Alexandra Zangerle, Martin Furtner, et al.. (2009). Einsatz der Thrombolyse beim akut ischämischen Schlaganfall: 10-Jahres-Ergebnisse an der Stroke Unit Innsbruck. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 121(23). 750–756. 2 indexed citations

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Zangerle, Alexandra, Stefan Kiechl, Michael Spiegel, et al.. (2007). Recanalization after thrombolysis in stroke patients. Neurology. 68(1). 39–44. 169 indexed citations

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Ruttmann, Elfriede, Johann Willeit, Hanno Ulmer, et al.. (2006). Neurological Outcome of Septic Cardioembolic Stroke After Infective Endocarditis. Stroke. 37(8). 2094–2099. 180 indexed citations

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Tsimikas, Sotirios, Stefan Kiechl, Johann Willeit, et al.. (2006). Oxidized Phospholipids Predict the Presence and Progression of Carotid and Femoral Atherosclerosis and Symptomatic Cardiovascular Disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 47(11). 2219–2228. 160 indexed citations

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Wenning, Gregor K., Stefan Kiechl, Klaus Seppi, et al.. (2005). Prevalence of movement disorders in men and women aged 50–89 years (Bruneck Study cohort): a population-based study. The Lancet Neurology. 4(12). 815–820. 209 indexed citations

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Kiechl, Stefan, Georg Schett, Gregor K. Wenning, et al.. (2004). Osteoprotegerin Is a Risk Factor for Progressive Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation. 109(18). 2175–2180. 426 indexed citations

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Willeit, Johann, Stefan Kiechl, Ursula Kiechl‐Kohlendorfer, et al.. (2001). Juvenile asymmetric segmental spinal muscular atrophy (Hirayama's disease) Three cases without evidence of “flexion myelopathy”. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 104(5). 320–322. 43 indexed citations

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