His research has been published in over 450 peer-reviewed cardiology journals, and he is an associate editor of Circulation and an editorial board member for the European Heart Journal, and American Heart Journal. He is a expert grant reviewer for the British Heart foundation, Swedish heart and lung foundation and Region Stockholm.
Stefan James has served as PI on steering committees for numerous international trials in cardiology. He has served as the chairman of the Swedish Coronary and Angioplasty registry of SWEDEHEART and the president of the Swedish Cardiac society.
Stefan James has received numerous reseach prizes and awards- among them the ATHENA price for clinical reseach, ‘hjärnäpplet’ for innovation and is Wallenberg clinical scholar. For several years, he was named by Thomson Reuters as a ‘Highly Cited Researcher’, ranking him among the top 1% most cited in clinical medicine.