Thomas Eschenhagen

30.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
323 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Eschenhagen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Eschenhagen has authored 323 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 192 papers in Molecular Biology, 150 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 102 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Thomas Eschenhagen's work include Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (88 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (70 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (65 papers). Thomas Eschenhagen is often cited by papers focused on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (88 papers), Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies (70 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (65 papers). Thomas Eschenhagen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Thomas Eschenhagen's co-authors include Arne Hansen, Wolfram‐Hubertus Zimmermann, Michael Didié, Wolfram H. Zimmermann, Marc N. Hirt, Hasso Scholz, Lucie Carrier, Ali El‐Armouche, Joachim Weil and Alexandra Eder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Eschenhagen

316 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

Engineered heart tissue grafts improve systolic and diast... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 2002 2003 2017 1999 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Engineered heart tissue grafts improve systolic and diastolic function in infarcted rat hearts
    2006 733 citations Wolfram‐Hubertus Zimmermann, Hiroshi Naito et al. profile →
  2. Tissue Engineering of a Differentiated Cardiac Muscle Construct
    2002 695 citations Wolfram‐Hubertus Zimmermann, Thomas Eschenhagen et al. Circulation Research profile →
  3. What Is the Role of β-Adrenergic Signaling in Heart Failure?
    2003 582 citations Thomas Eschenhagen et al. Circulation Research profile →
  4. Cardiomyocyte Regeneration
    2017 351 citations Thomas Eschenhagen et al. Circulation profile →
  5. Coupling of β2-Adrenoceptor to GiProteins and Its Physiological Relevance in Murine Cardiac Myocytes
    1999 317 citations Thomas Eschenhagen et al. Circulation Research profile →
  6. Cardiomyocyte Regeneration: A Consensus Statement.
    2017 315 citations Thomas Eschenhagen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Eschenhagen Germany 72 10.2k 7.2k 6.9k 4.2k 3.9k 323 19.1k
Timothy J. Kamp United States 52 9.6k 0.9× 4.1k 0.6× 4.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 2.5k 0.6× 165 12.9k
Douglas W. Losordo United States 84 13.9k 1.4× 3.6k 0.5× 7.6k 1.1× 2.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 232 23.9k
Siân E. Harding United Kingdom 59 5.5k 0.5× 6.1k 0.9× 2.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.4× 1.8k 0.5× 266 12.5k
Bernd K. Fleischmann Germany 58 8.9k 0.9× 2.8k 0.4× 3.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 1.4k 0.4× 201 13.3k
Jan Kajstura United States 75 15.8k 1.5× 8.7k 1.2× 12.9k 1.9× 4.5k 1.1× 1.4k 0.4× 167 29.0k
Ryuichi Morishita Japan 81 11.1k 1.1× 4.1k 0.6× 5.7k 0.8× 1.0k 0.2× 1.5k 0.4× 586 25.4k
Roger J. Hajjar United States 90 17.5k 1.7× 14.6k 2.0× 4.3k 0.6× 811 0.2× 1.8k 0.5× 500 28.9k
Mark L. Entman United States 88 10.4k 1.0× 10.0k 1.4× 6.0k 0.9× 1.0k 0.2× 1.3k 0.3× 295 23.9k
Jürgen Hescheler Germany 59 8.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.2× 2.7k 0.4× 898 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 366 12.8k
Piero Anversa United States 94 20.4k 2.0× 15.2k 2.1× 15.9k 2.3× 5.4k 1.3× 1.9k 0.5× 331 40.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schröder, Lena, Susanne Hille, Anca Remes, et al.. (2025). Directed Evolution of AAV9 for Efficient Gene Expression in Cardiomyocytes In Vitro and In Vivo. Human Gene Therapy. 36(3-4). 101–115. 1 indexed citations
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Shibamiya, Aya, Andrea Bähr, Birgit Geertz, et al.. (2023). Immature human engineered heart tissues engraft in a guinea pig chronic injury model. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 16(5). 6 indexed citations
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Krause, Julia, Edzard Schwedhelm, Bangfen Pan, et al.. (2023). A critical role of retinoic acid concentration for the induction of a fully human-like atrial action potential phenotype in hiPSC-CM. Stem Cell Reports. 18(11). 2096–2107. 8 indexed citations
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Geertz, Birgit, Aya Shibamiya, Antonius Wiehler, et al.. (2022). Contractile Force of Transplanted Cardiomyocytes Actively Supports Heart Function After Injury. Circulation. 146(15). 1159–1169. 21 indexed citations
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Pecha, Simon, Birgit Geertz, Arne Hansen, et al.. (2019). Human iPS cell-derived engineered heart tissue does not affect ventricular arrhythmias in a guinea pig cryo-injury model. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 9831–9831. 19 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Andreas, Y. Schneeberger, Steven Schulz, et al.. (2019). Analysis of fibrosis in control or pressure overloaded rat hearts after mechanical unloading by heterotopic heart transplantation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5710–5710. 8 indexed citations
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Castro, Liesa, Birgit Geertz, Marina Reinsch, et al.. (2019). Implantation of hiPSC-derived Cardiac-muscle Patches after Myocardial Injury in a Guinea Pig Model. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 12 indexed citations
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Biermann, Daniel, Alexandra Eder, Hermann Reichenspurner, et al.. (2016). Towards a Tissue-Engineered Contractile Fontan-Conduit: The Fate of Cardiac Myocytes in the Subpulmonary Circulation. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0166963–e0166963. 12 indexed citations
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Fiedler, Jan, Andrea Stöhr, Shashi Kumar Gupta, et al.. (2013). Functional MicroRNA Library Screening Identifies the HypoxaMiR MiR-24 as a Potent Regulator of Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Vascularization. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 21(8). 1167–1176. 43 indexed citations
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Bertrand, A., Saskia Schlossarek, Søren Skov Jensen, et al.. (2013). Heterozygous LmnadelK32 mice develop dilated cardiomyopathy through a combined pathomechanism of haploinsufficiency and peptide toxicity. Human Molecular Genetics. 22(15). 3152–3164. 54 indexed citations
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Donzelli, Sonia, Jenna F. DuMond, Jörg Heeren, et al.. (2012). Pharmacological Characterization of 1-Nitrosocyclohexyl Acetate, a Long-Acting Nitroxyl Donor That Shows Vasorelaxant and Antiaggregatory Effects. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 344(2). 339–347. 13 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Felix W., Gilles Dilanian, Denise Juhr, et al.. (2012). A Novel Genetic Variant in the Transcription Factor Islet-1 Exerts Gain of Function on Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2C Promoter Activity. European Journal of Heart Failure. 15(3). 267–276. 21 indexed citations
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Schlossarek, Saskia, et al.. (2011). Adrenergic stress reveals septal hypertrophy and proteasome impairment in heterozygous Mybpc3-targeted knock-in mice. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility. 33(1). 5–15. 36 indexed citations
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Naito, Hiroshi, Yoshiko Dohi, Wolfram‐Hubertus Zimmermann, et al.. (2011). The Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteoblastic Differentiation on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Bone-Like Tissue. Tissue Engineering Part A. 17(17-18). 2321–2329. 33 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Felix W., Gisèle Bonne, Lucie Carrier, et al.. (2010). Distinction Between Two Populations of Islet-1-Positive Cells in Hearts of Different Murine Strains. Stem Cells and Development. 20(6). 1043–1052. 27 indexed citations
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Hansen, Arne, Alexandra Eder, Marlene Bönstrup, et al.. (2010). Development of a Drug Screening Platform Based on Engineered Heart Tissue. Circulation Research. 107(1). 35–44. 367 indexed citations
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Zolk, Oliver, et al.. (2008). Activation of negative regulators of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) pathway in human end-stage heart failure. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 376(2). 315–320. 42 indexed citations
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Ring, Johannes, Knut Brockow, D. Duda, et al.. (2007). Akuttherapie anaphylaktischer Reaktionen Leitlinie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allergologie und klinische Immunologie (DGAKI), des Ärzteverbandes Deutscher Allergologen (ÄDA), der Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Allergologie und Umwelt- medizin (GPA) und der Deutschen Akademie für Allergologie und Umweltmedizin (DAAU). Allergologie. 30(12). 469–486. 9 indexed citations
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Eschenhagen, Thomas & Wolfram H. Zimmermann. (2005). Engineering Myocardial Tissue. Circulation Research. 97(12). 1220–1231. 188 indexed citations

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