Rainer U. Pliquett

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rainer U. Pliquett is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology and Nephrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer U. Pliquett has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 11 papers in Epidemiology and 8 papers in Nephrology. Recurrent topics in Rainer U. Pliquett's work include Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (8 papers), Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (6 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (4 papers). Rainer U. Pliquett is often cited by papers focused on Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (8 papers), Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (6 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (4 papers). Rainer U. Pliquett collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Rainer U. Pliquett's co-authors include Irving H. Zucker, Kurtis G. Cornish, Ralf P. Brandes, Jacob D. Peuler, Anja Mieth, Sebastian Benkhoff, Stefanie Dimmeler, Christoph Kruse, Norbert Weißmann and Peter Luedike and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rainer U. Pliquett

37 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Nox4 Is a Protective Reactive Oxygen Species Generating Vascular NADPH Oxidase

2012 510 citations Katrin Schröder, Min Zhang et al. Circulation Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rainer U. Pliquett Germany	17	539	364	299	230	198	40	1.4k
Ralf Labugger Switzerland	15	608 1.1×	514 1.4×	469 1.6×	149 0.6×	143 0.7×	16	1.5k
G. Noll Switzerland	20	635 1.2×	501 1.4×	230 0.8×	95 0.4×	218 1.1×	49	1.4k
Alexander Breitenstein Switzerland	21	565 1.0×	251 0.7×	262 0.9×	181 0.8×	341 1.7×	116	1.6k
Daniel W. Trott United States	15	293 0.5×	362 1.0×	243 0.8×	274 1.2×	71 0.4×	29	1.2k
Csaba Mátyás Hungary	22	476 0.9×	148 0.4×	348 1.2×	102 0.4×	221 1.1×	37	1.4k
Dan Ungureanu-Longrois France	17	468 0.9×	698 1.9×	385 1.3×	171 0.7×	134 0.7×	22	1.4k
Olaf Grisk Germany	22	536 1.0×	319 0.9×	326 1.1×	101 0.4×	134 0.7×	67	1.4k
Ray Stidwill United Kingdom	18	390 0.7×	342 0.9×	345 1.2×	168 0.7×	248 1.3×	31	1.6k
Hans‐Reinhard Zerkowski Germany	22	826 1.5×	358 1.0×	726 2.4×	313 1.4×	358 1.8×	62	2.0k
Bianca Marmontel de Souza Brazil	19	291 0.5×	558 1.5×	497 1.7×	151 0.7×	254 1.3×	41	1.4k

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Soukup, Jens & Rainer U. Pliquett. (2025). Acute Kidney Injury During Sepsis and Prognostic Role of Coexistent Chronic Heart Failure. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(3). 964–964. 3 indexed citations

Wienke, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Continuous glucose monitoring in non-insulin-dependent type-2 diabetes – rationale for CGM-NIDDM study. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome. 17(1). 397–397.

Soukup, Jens, et al.. (2022). Therapeutic Plasma Exchanges in Combination with High-Dose Steroid-Induced Immunosuppression as an Ultima Ratio Therapy in Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Case-Series Report. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

Pliquett, Rainer U. & Ralf P. Brandes. (2022). Experimental uninephrectomy associates with less parasympathetic modulation of heart rate and facilitates sodium-dependent arterial hypertension. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265086–e0265086. 1 indexed citations

Freiwald, Tilo, Stefan Büttner, Simon S. Martin, et al.. (2020). CD4⁺ T cell lymphopenia predicts mortality from Pneumocystis pneumonia in kidney transplant patients. Clinical Transplantation. 34(9). e13877–e13877. 16 indexed citations

Bartling, Babett, et al.. (2020). Simultaneous influence of sex and age on blood pressure difference between supine and sitting body positions. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. 54(6). 597–604. 2 indexed citations

Bartling, Babett, et al.. (2018). Altered gene expression pattern indicates the differential regulation of the immune response system as an important factor in cardiac aging. Experimental Gerontology. 117. 13–20. 17 indexed citations

Pliquett, Rainer U., et al.. (2018). Hyperglycemia-related central pontine demyelinization after a binge-eating attack in a patient with type-2 diabetes: a case report. BMC Endocrine Disorders. 18(1). 18–18. 9 indexed citations

Betz, Christoph, Oliver Jung, Stefan Gauer, et al.. (2017). How to Prevent Renal Cachexia? A Clinical Randomized Pilot Study Testing Oral Supplemental Nutrition in Hemodialysis Patients With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Journal of Renal Nutrition. 28(1). 37–44. 11 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U. & Nicholas Obermüller. (2014). Endocrine testing for the Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone Secretion (SIADH). 8 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U., Sebastian Benkhoff, Oliver Jung, & Ralf P. Brandes. (2014). Sympathoactivation and rho-kinase-dependent baroreflex function in experimental renovascular hypertension with reduced kidney mass. BMC Physiology. 14(1). 4–4. 9 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U., et al.. (2014). Oliguric acute kidney injury as a main symptom of bradycardia and arteriosclerosis resolved by pacemaker implantation: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 8(1). 289–289. 4 indexed citations

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Girndt, Matthias, et al.. (2014). A case of granulomatosis with polyangiitis complicated by cyclophosphamide toxicity and opportunistic infections: choosing between Scylla and Charybdis. BMC Nephrology. 15(1). 28–28. 3 indexed citations

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Schröder, Katrin, Min Zhang, Sebastian Benkhoff, et al.. (2012). Nox4 Is a Protective Reactive Oxygen Species Generating Vascular NADPH Oxidase. Circulation Research. 110(9). 1217–1225. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pliquett, Rainer U., Philippe M. Hauser, Libera Lo Presti, et al.. (2012). A Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia outbreak in a single kidney-transplant center: role of cytomegalovirus co-infection. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 31(9). 2429–2437. 37 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U., et al.. (2011). Lack of evidence for systemic cytomegalovirus reactivation in maintenance hemodialysis patients. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 30(12). 1557–1560. 5 indexed citations

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Jung, Oliver, Felix Jansen, Anja Mieth, et al.. (2010). Inhibition of the Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Promotes Albuminuria in Mice with Progressive Renal Disease. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e11979–e11979. 51 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U., et al.. (2003). Calciphylaxis in chronic, non-dialysis-dependent renal disease. BMC Nephrology. 4(1). 8–8. 15 indexed citations

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Pliquett, Rainer U., Kurtis G. Cornish, & Irving H. Zucker. (2003). Statin therapy restores sympathovagal balance in experimental heart failure. Journal of Applied Physiology. 95(2). 700–704. 71 indexed citations

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Zucker, Irving H., et al.. (2001). The Regulation of Sympathetic Outflow in Heart Failure. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 940(1). 431–443. 81 indexed citations

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