Peter Klimek

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Klimek is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Klimek has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Epidemiology, 21 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Klimek's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (12 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (10 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (10 papers). Peter Klimek is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (12 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (10 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (10 papers). Peter Klimek collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Sweden. Peter Klimek's co-authors include Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel, Elma Dervić, Nils Haug, Alessandro Londei, Lukas Geyrhofer, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Vittorio Loreto, Beate Pinior and Alexandra Kautzky‐Willer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter Klimek

112 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 governmen... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 250 500 750
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. Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions
    2020 897 citations Nils Haug, Lukas Geyrhofer et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Klimek Austria 23 689 575 345 332 294 123 2.9k
Odd O. Aalen Norway 38 165 0.2× 802 1.4× 542 1.6× 180 0.5× 178 0.6× 121 6.4k
Luca Rossi Italy 22 2.2k 3.2× 958 1.7× 636 1.8× 408 1.2× 306 1.0× 82 4.8k
Tao Hu China 29 290 0.4× 196 0.3× 298 0.9× 419 1.3× 803 2.7× 143 3.2k
Chia-Hung Yang United States 3 1.3k 1.9× 663 1.2× 366 1.1× 201 0.6× 222 0.8× 7 2.0k
Ruoran Li China 11 1.5k 2.2× 732 1.3× 487 1.4× 227 0.7× 285 1.0× 28 2.5k
Hazhir Rahmandad United States 27 373 0.5× 309 0.5× 122 0.4× 187 0.6× 118 0.4× 68 2.5k
Brennan Klein United States 12 1.3k 2.0× 679 1.2× 388 1.1× 234 0.7× 234 0.8× 29 2.3k
Michael Parker United Kingdom 45 952 1.4× 552 1.0× 585 1.7× 751 2.3× 338 1.1× 239 7.7k
Jessica T. Davis United States 10 1.8k 2.6× 968 1.7× 528 1.5× 532 1.6× 388 1.3× 19 3.4k
Jon Wakefield United States 41 238 0.3× 505 0.9× 566 1.6× 213 0.6× 83 0.3× 133 5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Klimek

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Klimek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Klimek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Klimek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Klimek 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 Peter Klimek. Peter Klimek 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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Dervić, Elma, et al.. (2025). Comorbidity Networks From Population-Wide Health Data: Aggregated Data of 8.9M Hospital Patients (1997–2014). Scientific Data. 12(1). 215–215. 1 indexed citations
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Leutner, Michael, Peter Klimek, Noémi Pávó, et al.. (2024). Sex differences in the diagnostic algorithm of screening for heart failure by symptoms and NT-proBNP in patients with type 2 diabetes. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 23(1). 280–280. 3 indexed citations
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Klimek, Peter, et al.. (2024). Effects of Different Loading Programs on Finger Strength in Rock Climbers. Sports Medicine - Open. 10(1). 125–125.
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Klimek, Peter, et al.. (2024). A key-feature-based clustering approach to assess the impact of technology integration on cow health in Austrian dairy farms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 2 indexed citations
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Baumgartner‐Parzer, Sabina, et al.. (2023). The Interplay of Adipokines, Body Composition and Glucose Homeostasis in Pregnant Women with a History of RYGB Operation. Nutrients. 15(11). 2498–2498. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiaying, Ellenor Mittendorfer‐Rutz, Lisa Berg, et al.. (2023). Association of common mental disorders and related multimorbidity with subsequent labor market marginalization among refugee and Swedish-born young adults. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1054261–1054261. 1 indexed citations
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Lampoltshammer, Thomas J., et al.. (2023). Challenges toward Evidence-Based Policymaking Using Agent-Based Modeling for Federal Sports Grants: A Self-Reflection from a Transdisciplinary Project. Sustainability. 15(4). 2853–2853. 4 indexed citations
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Bicher, Martin, Martin Zuba, Florian Bachner, et al.. (2022). Supporting COVID-19 policy-making with a predictive epidemiological multi-model warning system. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 157–157. 8 indexed citations
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Klimek, Peter, Martin Brunner, Gerhard Garhöfer, et al.. (2022). Quality Criteria for Real-world Data in Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care Decision-making: Austrian Expert Consensus. JMIR Medical Informatics. 10(6). e34204–e34204. 5 indexed citations
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Lasser, Jana, Elma Dervić, Johannes Sorger, et al.. (2022). Stress-testing the resilience of the Austrian healthcare system using agent-based simulation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4259–4259. 5 indexed citations
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Grilz, Ella, Florian Posch, Stephan Nopp, et al.. (2021). Relative risk of arterial and venous thromboembolism in persons with cancer vs. persons without cancer—a nationwide analysis. European Heart Journal. 42(23). 2299–2307. 83 indexed citations
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Strauss, Markus J., Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Stefan Thurner, Alexandra Kautzky‐Willer, & Peter Klimek. (2021). Data-driven identification of complex disease phenotypes. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(180). 20201040–20201040. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiaying, Ellenor Mittendorfer‐Rutz, Lisa Berg, et al.. (2021). Associations between Multimorbidity Patterns and Subsequent Labor Market Marginalization among Refugees and Swedish-Born Young Adults—A Nationwide Registered-Based Cohort Study. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 11(12). 1305–1305. 3 indexed citations
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Taipale, Heidi, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Antti Tanskanen, et al.. (2021). Persistence of antidepressant use among refugee youth with common mental disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 294. 831–837. 5 indexed citations
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Dervić, Elma, Carola Deischinger, Nils Haug, et al.. (2021). The Effect of Cardiovascular Comorbidities on Women Compared to Men: Longitudinal Retrospective Analysis. JMIR Cardio. 5(2). e28015–e28015. 7 indexed citations
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Haug, Nils, Lukas Geyrhofer, Alessandro Londei, et al.. (2020). Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(12). 1303–1312. 897 indexed citations breakdown →
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Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, Ellenor Mittendorfer‐Rutz, Stefan Thurner, Gottfried Endel, & Peter Klimek. (2019). Healthcare utilization, psychiatric medication and risk of rehospitalization in suicide-attempting patients with common mental disorders. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 54(4). 409–422. 5 indexed citations

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