Kai Masur

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Kai Masur is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Epidemiology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Masur has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 17 papers in Epidemiology and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Masur's work include Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (44 papers), Burn Injury Management and Outcomes (16 papers) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (11 papers). Kai Masur is often cited by papers focused on Plasma Applications and Diagnostics (44 papers), Burn Injury Management and Outcomes (16 papers) and Plasma Diagnostics and Applications (11 papers). Kai Masur collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and South Korea. Kai Masur's co-authors include Klaus‐Dieter Weltmann, Thomas von Woedtke, Stephan Reuter, Kristian Wende, Bernd Niggemann, Frank Entschladen, Sander Bekeschus, J. Winter, Anke Schmidt and Sybille Hasse and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kai Masur

66 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Plasmas for medicine

2013 698 citations Thomas von Woedtke, Stephan Reuter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Masur Germany	39	3.4k	1.7k	1.1k	570	488	66	5.1k
Hiromasa Tanaka Japan	37	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	328 0.6×	718 1.5×	141	4.7k
Kae Nakamura Japan	38	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	255 0.4×	533 1.1×	102	4.6k
Cristobal G. dos Remedios Australia	52	393 0.1×	254 0.2×	4.9k 4.4×	438 0.8×	115 0.2×	254	9.1k
Kuo‐Chen Wei Taiwan	52	1.6k 0.5×	211 0.1×	1.6k 1.4×	636 1.1×	24 0.0×	229	8.0k
Lei Jiang China	29	773 0.2×	130 0.1×	1.1k 1.0×	201 0.4×	296 0.6×	182	3.4k
Pankaj Gupta United States	41	627 0.2×	633 0.4×	1.9k 1.7×	230 0.4×	14 0.0×	113	6.0k
Shihong Li China	34	559 0.2×	108 0.1×	2.2k 2.0×	164 0.3×	155 0.3×	165	4.5k
Henry C. Marsh United States	37	420 0.1×	104 0.1×	757 0.7×	238 0.4×	193 0.4×	93	4.5k
Oleg Lunov Czechia	35	483 0.1×	191 0.1×	1.1k 1.0×	284 0.5×	120 0.2×	77	4.0k
Michihiro Hide Japan	45	340 0.1×	214 0.1×	1.0k 0.9×	223 0.4×	23 0.0×	251	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Masur

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Masur

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ahmadi, Mohsen, Kai Masur, Sander Bekeschus, & Kristian Wende. (2025). Gas Plasma-Induced Oxidative Transformation of Glucose. Biomedicines. 13(11). 2833–2833. 1 indexed citations

Hahn, Olga, Susanne Staehlke, M. Thürling, et al.. (2024). Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Activated Medium Modulates Cellular Functions of Human Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells In Vitro. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(9). 4944–4944. 5 indexed citations

Gerling, Torsten, et al.. (2022). Development of a Mobile Sensory Device to Trace Treatment Conditions for Various Medical Plasma Source Devices. Sensors. 22(19). 7242–7242. 3 indexed citations

Bhartiya, Pradeep, et al.. (2021). Influence of Redox Stress on Crosstalk between Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes. Biology. 10(12). 1338–1338. 11 indexed citations

Daeschlein, Georg, et al.. (2020). Detecting Bacteria on Wounds with Hyperspectral Imaging in Fluorescence Mode. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(3). 264–267. 5 indexed citations

Woedtke, Thomas von, et al.. (2020). The HIPPO Transducer YAP and Its Targets CTGF and Cyr61 Drive a Paracrine Signalling in Cold Atmospheric Plasma-Mediated Wound Healing. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2020. 1–14. 58 indexed citations

Ki, Se Hoon, Kai Masur, Ku Youn Baik, & Eun Ha Choi. (2019). Effects of humidity on room disinfection by dielectric barrier discharge plasma. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(42). 425204–425204. 25 indexed citations

Ghimire, Bhagirath, Endre J. Szili, Pradeep Lamichhane, et al.. (2019). The role of UV photolysis and molecular transport in the generation of reactive species in a tissue model with a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet. Applied Physics Letters. 114(9). 84 indexed citations

Bekeschus, Sander, Anke Schmidt, Helena Jablonowski, et al.. (2017). Environmental Control of an Argon Plasma Effluent and Its Role in THP-1 Monocyte Function. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 45(12). 3336–3341. 10 indexed citations

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Wende, Kristian, Paul V. Williams, W Van Gaens, et al.. (2015). Identification of the biologically active liquid chemistry induced by a nonthermal atmospheric pressure plasma jet. Biointerphases. 10(2). 29518–29518. 243 indexed citations

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Masur, Kai, Sander Bekeschus, Klaus‐Dieter Weltmann, et al.. (2015). Synergistic Inhibition of Tumor Cell Proliferation by Cold Plasma and Gemcitabine. Plasma Processes and Polymers. 12(12). 1377–1382. 27 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Anke, Stephan Dietrich, A. Steuer, et al.. (2015). Non-thermal Plasma Activates Human Keratinocytes by Stimulation of Antioxidant and Phase II Pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(11). 6731–6750. 120 indexed citations

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Tresp, Helena, R. Bussiahn, Malte U. Hammer, et al.. (2014). Plasma Jet (V)UV-Radiation Impact on Biologically Relevant Liquids and Cell Suspension. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations

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Bundscherer, Lena, Sander Bekeschus, Helena Tresp, et al.. (2013). Viability of Human Blood Leukocytes Compared with Their Respective Cell Lines after Plasma Treatment. Plasma Medicine. 3(1-2). 71–80. 49 indexed citations

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Wende, Kristian, Beate Haertel, Manuela Harms, et al.. (2013). Atmospheric pressure plasma jet treatment evokes transient oxidative stress in HaCaT keratinocytes and influences cell physiology. Cell Biology International. 38(4). 412–425. 79 indexed citations

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Schmidt-Bleker, Ansgar, Sylvain Iséni, Annemarie Barton, et al.. (2013). Controlling the Effluent Chemistry of a CAP jet for Biomedical Applications: FTIR Diagnostics and Gas Phase Modeling. 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Anke, Kristian Wende, Sander Bekeschus, et al.. (2013). Non-thermal plasma treatment is associated with changes in transcriptome of human epithelial skin cells. Free Radical Research. 47(8). 577–592. 72 indexed citations

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Bundscherer, Lena, Kristian Wende, Katja Ottmüller, et al.. (2013). Impact of non-thermal plasma treatment on MAPK signaling pathways of human immune cell lines. Immunobiology. 218(10). 1248–1255. 91 indexed citations

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Tomas, Nicola M., et al.. (2012). Akt and phospholipase Cγ are involved in the regulation of growth and migration of MDA-MB-468 breast cancer and SW480 colon cancer cells when cultured with diabetogenic levels of glucose and insulin. BMC Research Notes. 5(1). 214–214. 41 indexed citations

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Masur, Kai, Céline Vetter, Nicola M. Tomas, et al.. (2010). Diabetogenic glucose and insulin concentrations modulate transcriptom and protein levels involved in tumour cell migration, adhesion and proliferation. British Journal of Cancer. 104(2). 345–352. 120 indexed citations

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