Knut Liestøl

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
191 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Knut Liestøl is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Knut Liestøl has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Knut Liestøl's work include Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (19 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (18 papers) and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers). Knut Liestøl is often cited by papers focused on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (19 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (18 papers) and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers). Knut Liestøl collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and United Kingdom. Knut Liestøl's co-authors include Gunnar Erikssen, Harald Stenmark, Lars Walløe, Jan Erikssen, Kristian Gundersen, Jo C. Bruusgaard, Jørgen Vildershøj Bjørnholt, Ole Christian Lingjærde, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Håvard E. Danielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Knut Liestøl

188 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Deep learning for prediction of colorectal cancer outcome: a discovery and validation study

2020 393 citations Ole-Johan Skrede, Andreas Kleppe et al. profile →
Designing deep learning studies in cancer diagnostics

2021 210 citations Andreas Kleppe, Ole-Johan Skrede et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Knut Liestøl Norway	43	1.8k	1.1k	956	803	788	191	6.7k
Vivian Lee Hong Kong	43	1.2k 0.6×	758 0.7×	460 0.5×	520 0.6×	705 0.9×	309	6.6k
Yun Wang China	45	3.5k 1.9×	414 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	895 1.1×	908 1.2×	309	8.2k
Mark D. Johnson United States	40	2.1k 1.2×	404 0.4×	727 0.8×	265 0.3×	746 0.9×	157	6.0k
Rahul C. Deo United States	30	2.2k 1.2×	2.2k 2.0×	759 0.8×	323 0.4×	323 0.4×	61	7.3k
Hong Zhang China	47	3.1k 1.7×	389 0.4×	754 0.8×	430 0.5×	939 1.2×	361	8.9k
Daniel R. Goldstein United States	50	3.0k 1.7×	388 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	583 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	156	9.8k
Wei Chen China	40	3.2k 1.8×	446 0.4×	920 1.0×	978 1.2×	883 1.1×	311	7.2k
Mary J. Emond United States	44	4.1k 2.3×	685 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	338 0.4×	944 1.2×	117	10.0k
Clareann H. Bunker United Kingdom	52	1.5k 0.8×	860 0.8×	1.6k 1.7×	277 0.3×	1.2k 1.5×	408	9.9k
Johanne Tremblay Canada	46	3.4k 1.9×	2.3k 2.1×	514 0.5×	385 0.5×	406 0.5×	242	9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Knut Liestøl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Knut Liestøl

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All Works

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Søraas, Camilla Lund, Roland E. Schmieder, Kenneth Jamerson, et al.. (2025). Low Achieved Systolic Blood Pressure Related to Kidney Protection in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic High-Risk Hypertensive Patients. American Journal of Hypertension. 38(12). 1106–1119. 1 indexed citations

Mariampillai, Julian E., Roland E. Schmieder, Kenneth Jamerson, et al.. (2025). On-treatment systolic blood pressure and preserved kidney function in hypertensive patients with proteinuria. The VALUE Trial. Blood Pressure. 34(1). 2544715–2544715. 1 indexed citations

Kjær, Vibeke N., Knut Liestøl, Marit D. Solbu, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of adherent and non-adherent patients with hypertension in a Norwegian cross-sectional study. Exploration of Medicine.

Jamerson, Kenneth, Roland E. Schmieder, Camilla Lund Søraas, et al.. (2024). Effects of valsartan vs amlodipine and achieved lower blood pressure on the incidence of end-stage kidney disease: The VALUE Trial. European Journal of Internal Medicine. 133. 55–63. 3 indexed citations

Kleppe, Andreas, Ole-Johan Skrede, Knut Liestøl, David Kerr, & Håvard E. Danielsen. (2024). Guidelines for study protocols describing predefined validations of prediction models in medical deep learning and beyond. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(1). 2–3. 1 indexed citations

Erikssen, Gunnar, Knut Liestøl, Jamil Aboulhosn, et al.. (2023). Preoperative versus postoperative survival in patients with univentricular heart: a nationwide, retrospective study of patients born in 1990–2015. BMJ Open. 13(7). e069531–e069531. 1 indexed citations

Lobert, Viola Hélène, Lene Malerød, Thomas Fleischer, et al.. (2022). PHLPP1 regulates CFTR activity and lumen expansion through AMPK. Development. 149(20). 3 indexed citations

Plagemann, Thomas, Vera Goebel, Knut Liestøl, et al.. (2022). My Health Sensor, My Classifier – Adapting a Trained Classifier to Unlabeled End-User Data. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 3(4). 1–24. 1 indexed citations

Rusten, Leiv Sindre, Marit Slaaen, Erlend B. Smeland, et al.. (2021). A simplified frailty score predicts survival and can aid treatment-intensity decisions in older patients with DLBCL. Blood Advances. 5(22). 4771–4782. 17 indexed citations

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Falk, Ragnhild Sørum, Julian E. Mariampillai, Trond Heir, et al.. (2021). The Oslo Ischaemia Study: cohort profile. BMJ Open. 11(10). e049111–e049111. 1 indexed citations

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Mehlum, Maria H., Knut Liestøl, Sverre E. Kjeldsen, et al.. (2020). Blood Pressure–Lowering Profiles and Clinical Effects of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Versus Calcium Channel Blockers. Hypertension. 75(6). 1584–1592. 14 indexed citations

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Mariampillai, Julian E., Kristian Engeseth, Jan Erikssen, et al.. (2020). Change in Body Weight and Long-Term Risk of Stroke and Death in Healthy Men. Stroke. 51(5). 1435–1441. 12 indexed citations

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Malerød, Lene, Chloé B. Steen, Juliette Mathieu, et al.. (2015). ALIX and ESCRT-III Coordinately Control Cytokinetic Abscission during Germline Stem Cell Division In Vivo. PLoS Genetics. 11(1). e1004904–e1004904. 43 indexed citations

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Bruun, Jarle, Matthias Kolberg, Terje Ahlquist, et al.. (2015). Regulator of Chromosome Condensation 2 Identifies High-Risk Patients within Both Major Phenotypes of Colorectal Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 21(16). 3759–3770. 38 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Nina Marie, Eva M. Wenzel, Sebastian W. Schultz, et al.. (2015). Structure, Dynamics, and Functionality of Tankyrase Inhibitor-Induced Degradasomes. Molecular Cancer Research. 13(11). 1487–1501. 36 indexed citations

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Sveen, Anita, Trude H. Ågesen, Arild Nesbakken, et al.. (2012). ColoGuidePro: A Prognostic 7-Gene Expression Signature for Stage III Colorectal Cancer Patients. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(21). 6001–6010. 100 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Nina Marie, et al.. (2010). A phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase class III sub-complex containing VPS15, VPS34, Beclin 1, UVRAG and BIF-1 regulates cytokinesis and degradative endocytic traffic. Experimental Cell Research. 316(20). 3368–3378. 150 indexed citations

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Fugelseth, Drude, Rolf Lindemann, Knut Liestøl, Torvid Kiserud, & A Langslet. (1997). Ultrasonographic study of ductus venosus in healthy neonates. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal. 77(2). F131–F134. 42 indexed citations

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Borgan, Ørnulf & Knut Liestøl. (1990). A note on confidence intervals and bands for the survival function based on transformations. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 17(1). 35–41. 61 indexed citations

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Borgan, Ørnulf, et al.. (1986). Confidence intervals and confidence bands for the cumulative hazard rate function and their small sample properties. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 14(3). 221–233. 50 indexed citations

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