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Chronic Kidney Disease: Research Leaders and Landscape

The most active researchers, institutions, and subtopics in Chronic Kidney Disease, from recent PubMed records. Public authorship only, every figure verifiable by PMID.

Analyzed 150 recent PubMed papers (2021-2026) matching "chronic kidney disease SGLT2 finerenone". Source: NLM PubMed. Generated July 2026.

Top research leaders (by recent publication volume)

#ResearcherAffiliationPapers
1Vaduganathan MuthiahBrigham and Women's Hospital7
2Agarwal RajivRichard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center7
3Rossing PeterSteno Diabetes Center Copenhagen6
4Ortiz AlbertoIIS-Fundacion Jimenez Diaz UAM5
5Schnell OliverForschergruppe Diabetes eV at the Helmholtz Centre5
6Liakopoulos VassiliosAHEPA Hospital5
7Brinker MeikeCardiology and Nephrology Clinical Development4
8Li LiGlobal Medical and Evidence4
9Fernández-Fernández BeatrizUniversity Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz4
10Marx NikolausClinic for Cardiology4
11Rydén LarsKarolinska Institutet4
12Standl EberhardForschergruppe Diabetes eV at the Helmholtz Centre4
13Perkovic VladoUniversity of New South Wales4
14Rosenstock JulioVelocity Clinical Research at Medical City3
15Nangaku MasaomiThe University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine3
16Scott CharlieClinical Statistics and Analytics3
17Li NaGlobal Medical and Evidence3
18Savarese GianluigiKarolinska Institutet3

Ranked by recent publication volume; names not yet disambiguated and not citation-weighted. The full brief adds ORCID disambiguation, citation weighting, and clinical-trial investigator data.

Leading institutions

University Medical Center Groningen (6), Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen (6), AHEPA Hospital (6), College of Medicine (4), University of North Carolina Kidney Center (4), Brigham and Women's Hospital (4), Cardiology and Nephrology Clinical Development (4), Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia (4), Karolinska Institutet (4), Bayer AG (4)

Active subtopics

Renal Insufficiency, Chronic (76), Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 (55), Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors (51), Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists (46), Diabetic Nephropathies (38), Naphthyridines (36), Cardiovascular Diseases (19), Heart Failure (17), Hypoglycemic Agents (16), Glomerular Filtration Rate (15)

Top journals

Journal of clinical medicine (7), Diabetes, obesity & metabolism (6), Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association (6), Cardiovascular diabetology (5), Biomedicines (4), ESC heart failure (4)

Representative recent papers

Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in non-diabetic kidney disease: a narrative review of mechanisms and clinical (2026) · PMID 42469710

Real-world study of finerenone in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in Spain. (2026) · PMID 42469612

Fatty Kidney Disease: From Renal Lipid Dysregulation to Fibrosis. (2026) · PMID 42450569

Emerging Strategies for Cardio-Renal Protection Beyond RAAS Blockade: (2026) · PMID 42445746

Newer and novel antidiabetic drug classes across the cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic continuum. (2026) · PMID 42440116

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