Raban Heller

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

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Raban Heller is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Raban Heller has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Surgery, 18 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 14 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Raban Heller's work include Spinal Cord Injury Research (14 papers), Trace Elements in Health (13 papers) and Bone fractures and treatments (8 papers). Raban Heller is often cited by papers focused on Spinal Cord Injury Research (14 papers), Trace Elements in Health (13 papers) and Bone fractures and treatments (8 papers). Raban Heller collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and France. Raban Heller's co-authors include Arash Moghaddam, Lutz Schomburg, Joachim Diegmann, Manuel Bachmann, Qian Sun, Julian Hackler, Julian Seelig, Maximilian Pilz, Petra Seemann and Patrick Haubruck and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Brain and Frontiers in Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Raban Heller

45 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Selenium Deficiency Is Associated with Mortality Risk from COVID-19

2020 270 citations Arash Moghaddam, Raban Heller et al. Nutrients profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raban Heller Germany	18	464	249	221	177	176	47	1.0k
Т. Л. Каронова Russia	18	397 0.9×	846 3.4×	110 0.5×	167 0.9×	137 0.8×	113	1.4k
Marco Infante Italy	18	217 0.5×	284 1.1×	212 1.0×	154 0.9×	97 0.6×	49	1.2k
Maria Aparecida Dalboni Brazil	23	288 0.6×	239 1.0×	219 1.0×	49 0.3×	215 1.2×	90	1.7k
Yongyan Shi China	18	294 0.6×	422 1.7×	178 0.8×	182 1.0×	198 1.1×	41	1.1k
Radan Brůha Czechia	20	586 1.3×	103 0.4×	215 1.0×	58 0.3×	392 2.2×	73	1.3k
Slavica Dodig Croatia	19	152 0.3×	40 0.2×	125 0.6×	157 0.9×	196 1.1×	102	1.3k
Rildo Aparecido Volpini Brazil	26	116 0.3×	242 1.0×	272 1.2×	49 0.3×	124 0.7×	60	1.6k
Yiheng Chen Canada	10	86 0.2×	108 0.4×	158 0.7×	59 0.3×	171 1.0×	32	874
Angelos M. Kappas Greece	20	63 0.1×	261 1.0×	565 2.6×	65 0.4×	223 1.3×	53	1.8k
Lian‐Sheng Wang China	16	59 0.1×	78 0.3×	114 0.5×	169 1.0×	133 0.8×	32	879

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Heller, Raban, Maria Maares, Thilo Samson Chillon, et al.. (2025). Total and Free Zinc Dynamics as Biomarkers for Neurological Impairment in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Nutrients. 17(3). 496–496.

Haubruck, Patrick, Raban Heller, Elizabeth Clarke, et al.. (2023). Streamlining quantitative joint-wide medial femoro-tibial histopathological scoring of mouse post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis models. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 31(12). 1602–1611. 6 indexed citations

Chillon, Thilo Samson, Kamil Demircan, Julian Hackler, et al.. (2023). Combined copper and zinc deficiency is associated with reduced SARS-CoV-2 immunization response to BNT162b2 vaccination. Heliyon. 9(10). e20919–e20919. 3 indexed citations

Chillon, Thilo Samson, Maria Maares, Kamil Demircan, et al.. (2022). Serum Free Zinc Is Associated With Vaccination Response to SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 906551–906551. 15 indexed citations

Maares, Maria, Julian Hackler, Raban Heller, et al.. (2022). Free Zinc as a Predictive Marker for COVID-19 Mortality Risk. Nutrients. 14(7). 1407–1407. 25 indexed citations

Seelig, Julian, Raban Heller, Patrick Haubruck, et al.. (2021). Selenium-Binding Protein 1 (SELENBP1) as Biomarker for Adverse Clinical Outcome After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 680240–680240. 7 indexed citations

Heller, Raban, Qian Sun, Julian Hackler, et al.. (2020). Prediction of survival odds in COVID-19 by zinc, age and selenoprotein P as composite biomarker. Redox Biology. 38. 101764–101764. 131 indexed citations

Haubruck, Patrick, Raban Heller, & Michael C. Tanner. (2020). Femoral neck fractures: Current evidence, controversies and arising challenges. Orthopaedics & Traumatology Surgery & Research. 106(4). 597–600. 16 indexed citations

Trentzsch, Heiko, et al.. (2020). Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung in der Traumaversorgung. Der Unfallchirurg. 123(11). 843–848. 4 indexed citations

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Seelig, Julian, Raban Heller, Julian Hackler, et al.. (2019). Selenium and copper status - potential signposts for neurological remission after traumatic spinal cord injury. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology. 57. 126415–126415. 21 indexed citations

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Moghaddam, Arash, et al.. (2019). Use of Masquelet technique in treatment of septic and atrophic fracture nonunion. Injury. 50. 40–54. 51 indexed citations

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Doll, J., Arash Moghaddam, Volker Daniel, et al.. (2019). LIPUS vs. reaming in non-union treatment: Cytokine expression course as a tool for evaluation and differentiation of non-union therapy. Journal of Orthopaedics. 17. 208–214. 1 indexed citations

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Heller, Raban, Julian Seelig, Patrick Haubruck, et al.. (2018). Relation of selenium status to neuro-regeneration after traumatic spinal cord injury. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology. 51. 141–149. 21 indexed citations

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Haubruck, Patrick, Raban Heller, Volker Daniel, et al.. (2018). Chemokine analysis as a novel diagnostic modality in the early prediction of the outcome of non-union therapy: a matched pair analysis. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 13(1). 249–249. 4 indexed citations

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Tanner, Michael C., Raban Heller, Fabian Westhauser, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of bioactive glass (S53P4) in the treatment of non-unions of the tibia and femur: study protocol of a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial. Trials. 19(1). 299–299. 17 indexed citations

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Westhauser, Fabian, et al.. (2018). Combining advantages: Direct correlation of two‐dimensional microcomputed tomography datasets onto histomorphometric slides to quantify three‐dimensional bone volume in scaffolds. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 106(7). 1812–1821. 5 indexed citations

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Moghaddam, Arash, Raban Heller, Kevin Kunzmann, et al.. (2016). Elevated Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Levels in Patients with Neurological Remission after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0159764–e0159764. 26 indexed citations

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Mulley, John F., Adam D Hargreaves, Matthew Hegarty, Raban Heller, & Martin Swain. (2014). Transcriptomic analysis of the lesser spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) pancreas, liver and brain reveals molecular level conservation of vertebrate pancreas function. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 1074–1074. 33 indexed citations

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Martinot, M., et al.. (2014). Contribution of systematic RT-PCR screening for influenza during the epidemic season. Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses. 44(3). 123–127. 4 indexed citations

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Heller, Raban, et al.. (2001). Schlafentzug als Prädiktor für das Ansprechen auf Lichttherapie bei Major Depression. Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie. 69(4). 156–163. 1 indexed citations

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