Kurt Hoffmann

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Kurt Hoffmann is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Hoffmann has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 15 papers in Physiology and 13 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Kurt Hoffmann's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (25 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (14 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers). Kurt Hoffmann is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (25 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (14 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers). Kurt Hoffmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Kurt Hoffmann's co-authors include Heiner Boeing, Matthias B. Schulze, Anja Kroke, Manuela M. Bergmann, Joachim Spranger, Matthias Möhlig, Andreas Pfeiffer, Michael Ristow, Christin Heidemann and Cornelia Weikert and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Hoffmann

74 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

  1. Inflammatory Cytokines and the Risk to Develop Type 2 Diabetes
    2003 1.2k citations Anja Kroke, Kurt Hoffmann et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kurt Hoffmann 2.3k 1.6k 1.1k 1.0k 695 75 5.7k
Simona Bo 988 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 193 7.1k
Jakob Linseisen 1.8k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 874 0.8× 993 1.0× 1.6k 2.3× 298 8.6k
Kartik Shankar 879 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 791 0.8× 2.1k 3.0× 215 7.6k
Sylvia H. Ley 1.7k 0.7× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 2.4k 2.3× 1.6k 2.2× 78 8.0k
Gertraud Maskarinec 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 660 0.6× 882 0.9× 1.1k 1.5× 263 8.2k
Naval K. Vikram 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 2.0k 2.0× 341 0.5× 198 5.8k
Barbora de Courten 1.0k 0.5× 2.6k 1.6× 1.0k 0.9× 1.7k 1.6× 1.2k 1.7× 180 7.0k
Takashi Shimamoto 1.0k 0.4× 901 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 963 1.4× 259 6.8k
Flaminio Fidanza 2.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 385 0.4× 762 0.7× 283 0.4× 51 5.5k
Alireza Esteghamati 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 2.0k 1.8× 3.1k 3.0× 1.1k 1.7× 287 7.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Hoffmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Hoffmann

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fahey, Michael, Pietro Ferrari, Nadia Slimani, et al.. (2011). Identifying dietary patterns using a normal mixture model: application to the EPIC study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 66(1). 89–94. 13 indexed citations
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Pischon, Tobias, H. Boeing, & Kurt Hoffmann. (2009). General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 49(3). 811–812. 13 indexed citations
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Drogan, Dagmar, Kurt Hoffmann, Mandy Schulz, et al.. (2007). A Food Pattern Predicting Prospective Weight Change Is Associated with Risk of Fatal but Not with Nonfatal Cardiovascular Disease ,. Journal of Nutrition. 137(8). 1961–1967. 17 indexed citations
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Nöthlings, Ute, Kurt Hoffmann, Manuela M. Bergmann, & Heiner Boeing. (2007). Fitting Portion Sizes in a Self-Administered Food Frequency Questionnaire ,. Journal of Nutrition. 137(12). 2781–2786. 97 indexed citations
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Weikert, Cornelia, Klaus Berger, Christin Heidemann, et al.. (2007). Joint effects of risk factors for stroke and transient ischemic attack in a German population. Journal of Neurology. 254(3). 315–321. 36 indexed citations
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Schienkiewitz, Anja, Matthias B. Schulze, Kurt Hoffmann, Anja Kroke, & Heiner Boeing. (2006). Body mass index history and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)–Potsdam Study1–3. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 84(2). 427–433. 151 indexed citations
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Schienkiewitz, Anja, Matthias B. Schulze, Kurt Hoffmann, Anja Kroke, & Heiner Boeing. (2006). Body mass index history and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)–Potsdam Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 84(2). 427–433. 139 indexed citations
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Weikert, Cornelia, Kurt Hoffmann, Jutta Dierkes, et al.. (2005). A Homocysteine Metabolism–Related Dietary Pattern and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Two Independent German Study Populations. Journal of Nutrition. 135(8). 1981–1988. 65 indexed citations
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Schulz, Mandy, Ute Nöthlings, Kurt Hoffmann, Manuela M. Bergmann, & Heiner Boeing. (2005). Identification of a Food Pattern Characterized by High-Fiber and Low-Fat Food Choices Associated with Low Prospective Weight Change in the EPIC-Potsdam Cohort. Journal of Nutrition. 135(5). 1183–1189. 96 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt, Heiner Boeing, Jean‐Luc Volatier, & Wulf Becker. (2003). Evaluating the potential health gain of the World Health Organization's recommendation concerning vegetable and fruit consumption. Public Health Nutrition. 6(8). 765–772. 23 indexed citations
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Schulz, Mandy, et al.. (2002). Food Groups as Predictors for Short-Term Weight Changes in Men and Women of the EPIC-Potsdam Cohort. Journal of Nutrition. 132(6). 1335–1340. 103 indexed citations
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Kroke, Anja, et al.. (2002). Recent weight changes and weight cycling as predictors of subsequent two year weight change in a middle-aged cohort. International Journal of Obesity. 26(3). 403–409. 99 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt, Kerstin Becker, Christian Friedrich, et al.. (2000). The German Environmental Survey 1990/1992 (GerES II): cadmium in blood, urine and hair of adults and children. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 10(2). 126–135. 47 indexed citations
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Seifert, Bernd, Kerstin Becker, Kurt Hoffmann, Christian Krause, & Christine Schulz. (2000). The German Environmental Survey 1990/1992 (GerES II): a representative population study. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 10(2). 103–114. 54 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt. (1993). Generalized Bayes Stein-Type Estimators for Regression Parameters under Linear Constraints. Journal of Multivariate Analysis. 46(1). 120–130. 4 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt. (1992). Improved estimation of distribution parameters : Stein-type estimators. 7 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt, Donald B. Axworthy, & Thomas A. Baillie. (1990). Mechanistic studies on the metabolic activation of acetaminophen in vivo. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 3(3). 204–211. 15 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt, et al.. (1982). Characterizations of the exponential family by generating functions and recursion relations for moments. Series Statistics. 13(1). 79–90. 3 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Kurt. (1979). Characterization of minimax linear estimators in linear regression. Series Statistics. 10(1). 19–26. 40 indexed citations

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