Kurt Højlund

15.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
214 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Kurt Højlund is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Højlund has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Physiology, 79 papers in Molecular Biology and 67 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Kurt Højlund's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (69 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (35 papers) and Muscle metabolism and nutrition (26 papers). Kurt Højlund is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (69 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (35 papers) and Muscle metabolism and nutrition (26 papers). Kurt Højlund collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom. Kurt Højlund's co-authors include Henning Beck‐Nielsen, Birgitte F. Vind, Pontus Boström, Maria Cristina Zingaretti, Kyle A. Rasbach, Saverio Cinti, Jun Wu, Anisha Korde, Jonathan Z. Long and Mark P. Jedrychowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Højlund

204 papers receiving 11.3k 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.

A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis

2012 3.7k citations Mark P. Jedrychowski, Jonathan Z. Long et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kurt Højlund	6.6k	4.9k	2.4k	1.7k	1.6k	214	11.5k
Clinton R. Bruce	4.6k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	895 0.6×	110	8.7k
Matthijs K. C. Hesselink	8.3k 1.3×	4.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.6×	1.0k 0.6×	198	12.4k
Anna Krook	5.2k 0.8×	6.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	174	11.9k
Jürgen Eckel	5.1k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	3.6k 1.5×	903 0.5×	2.0k 1.3×	212	11.8k
Andrea L. Hevener	5.0k 0.8×	5.3k 1.1×	3.7k 1.5×	827 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	80	12.0k
Matthew J. Watt	7.3k 1.1×	6.1k 1.2×	4.4k 1.8×	2.6k 1.5×	1.9k 1.2×	215	14.9k
Nora Klöting	5.3k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	4.7k 1.9×	717 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	203	11.7k
Christoph Handschin	9.4k 1.4×	11.3k 2.3×	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	880 0.5×	141	17.9k
Paul Cohen	7.2k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	4.4k 1.8×	916 0.5×	780 0.5×	83	12.7k
Deborah M. Muoio	8.2k 1.2×	8.9k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	133	16.1k

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Kjøbsted, Rasmus, et al.. (2025). Effect of acute exercise and exercise training on the ability of insulin to clear branched-chain amino acids from plasma in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 68(8). 1789–1800.

Andersen, Marianne, Christina Anne Vinter, Fidelma Dunne, et al.. (2025). The cardio‐metabolic protein profile is associated with development of type 2 diabetes at long term follow‐up after gestational diabetes mellitus: Results from the OGFUS study. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 27(3). 1456–1465. 2 indexed citations

Kolnes, Kristoffer J., Per Bendix Jeppesen, Øyvind Skattebo, et al.. (2025). Effects of seven days’ fasting on physical performance and metabolic adaptation during exercise in humans. Nature Communications. 16(1). 122–122. 13 indexed citations

Grauslund, Jakob, et al.. (2024). Once-weekly semaglutide doubles the five-year risk of nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in a Danish cohort of 424,152 persons with type 2 diabetes. International Journal of Retina and Vitreous. 10(1). 97–97. 29 indexed citations

Stokholm, Lonny, Nis Andersen, Jens Andresen, et al.. (2024). Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy According to Subtype of Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. 73(6). 977–982. 3 indexed citations

Brøns, Charlotte, Verena Hirschberg, Torben Hansen, et al.. (2024). 1357-P: High Plasma Leptin Levels Are Associated with Low Birth Weight and Disease Severity in People with Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. 73(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Hageman, Steven H J, Björn Eliasson, Naveed Sattar, et al.. (2024). Lifetime and 10‐year cardiovascular risk prediction in individuals with type 1 diabetes: The LIFE‐T1D model. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 26(6). 2229–2238. 4 indexed citations

Sabaratnam, Rugivan, Jonas M. Kristensen, Andreas James Thestrup Pedersen, et al.. (2024). Acute Exercise Increases GDF15 and Unfolded Protein Response/Integrated Stress Response in Muscle in Type 2 Diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 109(7). 1754–1764. 8 indexed citations

Madsen, Søren, A. Augusto Peluso, Caio Yogi Yonamine, et al.. (2024). Rapid downregulation of DICER is a hallmark of adipose tissue upon high-fat diet feeding. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 595. 112413–112413. 2 indexed citations

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Kobæk-Larsen, Morten, et al.. (2024). Effect of carrot intake on glucose tolerance, microbiota, and gene expression in a type 2 diabetes mouse model. Clinical and Translational Science. 17(12). e70090–e70090. 1 indexed citations

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Gram-Kampmann, Eva-Marie, Thomas Bastholm Olesen, Camilla Dalby Hansen, et al.. (2023). A six-month low-carbohydrate diet high in fat does not adversely affect endothelial function or markers of low-grade inflammation in patients with type 2 diabetes: an open-label randomized controlled trial. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 22(1). 212–212. 10 indexed citations

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Møller, Lisbeth L. V., Jonathan R. Davey, Steffen H. Raun, et al.. (2023). The Rho guanine dissociation inhibitor α inhibits skeletal muscle Rac1 activity and insulin action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(27). e2211041120–e2211041120. 5 indexed citations

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Højlund, Kurt, et al.. (2023). Low Bone Turnover Associates With Lower Insulin Sensitivity in Newly Diagnosed Drug-Naïve Persons With Type 2 Diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 108(7). e371–e379. 7 indexed citations

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Valvi, Damaskini, David C. Christiani, Brent A. Coull, et al.. (2023). Gene–environment interactions in the associations of PFAS exposure with insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function in a Faroese cohort followed from birth to adulthood. Environmental Research. 226. 115600–115600. 15 indexed citations

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Stokholm, Lonny, Ryo Kawasaki, Kurt Højlund, et al.. (2022). Inter grader agreement in the Danish screening program for diabetic retinopathy. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet). 3 indexed citations

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Andersen, Marianne, et al.. (2022). Long-Term Metabolic Outcomes after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): Results from the Odense GDM Follow-Up Study (OGFUS). Journal of Diabetes Research. 2022. 1–11. 5 indexed citations

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Andersen, Nis, Toke Bek, Steffen Heegaard, et al.. (2022). Attendance in a national screening program for diabetic retinopathy: a population-based study of 205,970 patients. Acta Diabetologica. 59(11). 1493–1503. 13 indexed citations

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Valvi, Damaskini, Kurt Højlund, Brent A. Coull, et al.. (2021). Life-course Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Relation to Markers of Glucose Homeostasis in Early Adulthood. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 106(8). 2495–2504. 27 indexed citations

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Jensen, Rikke Beck, Sine Knorr, Morten Frost Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Impact of Lean Body Mass and Insulin Sensitivity on the IGF-1–Bone Mass Axis in Adolescence: the EPICOM Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 106(2). e772–e781. 5 indexed citations

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Siméon, S., Ziad A. Massy, Kurt Højlund, et al.. (2018). Renal function markers and insulin sensitivity after 3 years in a healthy cohort, the EGIR-RISC study. BMC Nephrology. 19(1). 124–124. 1 indexed citations

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