Michael Rakotz

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Michael Rakotz is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Rakotz has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 14 papers in Surgery and 5 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Michael Rakotz's work include Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (33 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (13 papers) and Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy (10 papers). Michael Rakotz is often cited by papers focused on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (33 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (13 papers) and Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy (10 papers). Michael Rakotz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Michael Rakotz's co-authors include Gregory Wozniak, Daichi Shimbo, Karen L. Margolis, Nancy T. Artinian, Jan Basile, Lawrence R. Krakoff, Brent M. Egan, Susan E. Sutherland, Betty Wong and Jianing Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Rakotz

35 papers receiving 850 citations

Hit Papers

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home: A Joint ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home: A Joint Policy Statement From the American Heart Association and American Medical Association
    2020 220 citations Daichi Shimbo, Nancy T. Artinian et al. Circulation profile →

Peers

Michael Rakotz
James Hodgkinson United Kingdom
Lawrence Liao United States
Jordan B. King United States
Jam Chin Tay Singapore
Dan Gaiță Romania
Kate Lovibond United Kingdom
Andreas Wielgosz Canada
Alben Sigamani India
E. Chowdhury Australia
Andrew Sindone Australia
James Hodgkinson United Kingdom
Michael Rakotz
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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Rakotz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Rakotz

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Rakotz. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Rakotz based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Rakotz. Michael Rakotz is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Egan, Brent M., Daniel T. Lackland, Susan E. Sutherland, et al.. (2025). PERSPECTIVE – The Growing Global Benefits of Limiting Salt Intake: an urgent call from the World Hypertension League for more effective policy and public health initiatives. Journal of Human Hypertension. 39(4). 241–245.
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Kirley, Kate, et al.. (2025). Closing the Gap: Standardizing Blood Pressure Measurement Training for all Healthcare Students. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 27(8). e70104–e70104.
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Egan, Brent M., Susan E. Sutherland, Benjamin Martin, et al.. (2025). Does mean systolic blood pressure less than 130 mm Hg ensure high rates of control to <140/<90 mm Hg? A cross-sectional analysis of two cohorts. BMJ Open. 15(4). e090440–e090440. 4 indexed citations
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Rakotz, Michael, et al.. (2025). Treatment in the First Month After Hypertension Diagnosis Improves Blood Pressure Control. Hypertension. 82(6). 1129–1136. 1 indexed citations
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An, Jaejin, Teresa N. Harrison, Liang Ni, et al.. (2025). Factors Associated with Treatment Intensification for Uncontrolled Hypertension in a US Health System. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 1 indexed citations
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Fontil, Valy, Madelaine Faulkner Modrow, Rhonda M. Cooper‐DeHoff, et al.. (2023). Improvement in Blood Pressure Control in Safety Net Clinics Receiving 2 Versions of a Scalable Quality Improvement Intervention: BP MAP A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(3). e024975–e024975. 2 indexed citations
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Markossian, Talar, et al.. (2023). Age and Comorbidities Are Associated With Therapeutic Inertia Among Older Adults With Uncontrolled Blood Pressure. American Journal of Hypertension. 37(4). 280–289. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, Justin C., Sarah Linke, Madison Noble, et al.. (2023). Long-Term Results of a Digital Hypertension Self-Management Program: Retrospective Cohort Study. JMIR Cardio. 7. e43489–e43489. 7 indexed citations
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Ramsey, David J., Robert Wayne Davis, Susan E. Sutherland, et al.. (2023). Improvement in Hypertension Control Among Adults Seen in Federally Qualified Health Center Clinics in the Stroke Belt: Implementing a Program with a Dashboard and Process Metrics. Health Equity. 7(1). 89–99. 3 indexed citations
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Picone, Dean S., Raj Padwal, George S. Stergiou, et al.. (2022). How to find and use validated blood pressure measuring devices. Journal of Human Hypertension. 37(2). 108–114. 8 indexed citations
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Whelton, Paul K., Dean S. Picone, Raj Padwal, et al.. (2022). Global proliferation and clinical consequences of non-validated automated BP devices. Journal of Human Hypertension. 37(2). 115–119. 9 indexed citations
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Durazo-Arvizú, Ramón, Talar Markossian, Kiang Liu, et al.. (2021). Age and sex disparities in hypertension control: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100230–100230. 33 indexed citations
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Arrieta, Alejandro, et al.. (2021). Return on investment of self-measured blood pressure is associated with its use in preventing false diagnoses, not monitoring hypertension. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252701–e0252701. 3 indexed citations
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Shimbo, Daichi, Nancy T. Artinian, Jan Basile, et al.. (2020). Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring at Home: A Joint Policy Statement From the American Heart Association and American Medical Association. Circulation. 142(4). e42–e63. 220 indexed citations breakdown →
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Padwal, Raj, Norm R.C. Campbell, Aletta E. Schutte, et al.. (2019). Optimizing observer performance of clinic blood pressure measurement. Journal of Hypertension. 37(9). 1737–1745. 63 indexed citations
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Drawz, Paul E., Srinivasan Beddhu, Holly Kramer, et al.. (2019). Blood Pressure Measurement: A KDOQI Perspective. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 75(3). 426–434. 25 indexed citations
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Rakotz, Michael, Raymond R. Townsend, Jianing Yang, et al.. (2017). Medical students and measuring blood pressure: Results from the American Medical Association Blood Pressure Check Challenge. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 19(6). 614–619. 44 indexed citations
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Basch, Peter, et al.. (2013). Hypertension; detect, connect, control. 1 indexed citations

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