Andreas Leithner

13.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
386 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Andreas Leithner is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Leithner has authored 386 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Surgery, 139 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 115 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Andreas Leithner's work include Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (131 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (91 papers) and Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (90 papers). Andreas Leithner is often cited by papers focused on Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (131 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (91 papers) and Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (90 papers). Andreas Leithner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Netherlands. Andreas Leithner's co-authors include Patrick Sadoghi, Reinhard Windhager, Bernadette Liegl‐Atzwanger, Werner Maurer-Ertl, Mathias Glehr, Birgit Lohberger, Roman Radl, Joanna Szkandera, Maria Anna Smolle and Gerald Gruber and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Leithner

364 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Revision Surgery After Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Complication-Based Analysis Using Worldwide Arthroplasty Registers

2013 337 citations Patrick Sadoghi, Andreas Leithner et al. The Journal of Arthroplasty profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Leithner Austria	40	3.4k	2.2k	1.8k	1.3k	720	386	7.0k
Andreas F. Mavrogenis Greece	43	4.3k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	736 0.6×	931 1.3×	461	7.5k
Atsumasa Uchida Japan	45	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	740 1.0×	239	6.8k
Reinhard Windhager Austria	54	6.3k 1.9×	3.6k 1.6×	2.9k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	923 1.3×	517	11.7k
Akihiro Sudo Japan	40	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	911 1.3×	459	7.5k
Victor Fornasier Canada	43	2.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	456 0.6×	155	5.2k
Winfried Winkelmann Germany	51	4.2k 1.2×	6.9k 3.1×	3.8k 2.1×	1.5k 1.1×	954 1.3×	162	10.2k
Gernot Jundt Switzerland	39	1.3k 0.4×	2.9k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	2.2k 1.7×	958 1.3×	136	6.9k
R. Kotz Austria	53	5.0k 1.5×	6.8k 3.1×	3.9k 2.2×	2.0k 1.5×	771 1.1×	216	11.3k
R. Biagini Italy	38	2.2k 0.7×	3.4k 1.5×	2.9k 1.6×	773 0.6×	712 1.0×	208	5.8k
Pietro Ruggieri Italy	56	5.3k 1.6×	6.8k 3.1×	5.4k 3.0×	1.9k 1.4×	849 1.2×	443	12.4k

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Leithner, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Ulnar shortening osteotomy for ulna impaction syndrome with positive ulnar variance: retrospective outcome analysis. Acta Orthopaedica. 96. 235–242. 1 indexed citations

Smolle, Maria Anna, Markus G. Seidel, Karl Kashofer, et al.. (2025). Precision medicine in diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring of bone and soft tissue sarcomas using liquid biopsy: a systematic review. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 145(1). 121–121.

Sadoghi, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Delayed Meniscus Repair Lowers the Functional Outcome of Primary ACL Reconstruction. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(5). 1325–1325.

Smolle, Maria Anna, et al.. (2023). Restoring tibial obliquity for kinematic alignment in total knee arthroplasty: conventional versus patient-specific instrumentation. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 143(9). 5867–5872. 3 indexed citations

Hauer, Georg, et al.. (2023). Less Induction Time and Postoperative Pain Using Spinal Anesthesia Versus General Anesthesia With or Without the Use of Peripheral Nerve Blocks in Total Knee Arthroplasty. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 39(4). 904–909. 4 indexed citations

Leithner, Andreas, Ines Vielgut, Markus Köstenberger, et al.. (2022). Combined femoral and popliteal nerve block is superior to local periarticular infiltration anaesthesia for postoperative pain control after total knee arthroplasty. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 30(12). 4046–4053. 5 indexed citations

Bergovec, Marko, Maria Anna Smolle, Jörg Lindenmann, et al.. (2022). High complication rate with titanium plates for chest wall reconstruction following tumour resection. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 62(6). 7 indexed citations

Smolle, Maria Anna, Iva Brčić, Marko Bergovec, et al.. (2021). T-regulatory cells predict clinical outcome in soft tissue sarcoma patients: a clinico-pathological study. British Journal of Cancer. 125(5). 717–724. 22 indexed citations

Hauer, Georg, Gerwin A. Bernhardt, Gloria Hohenberger, et al.. (2020). Similar revision rates in clinical studies and arthroplasty registers and no bias for developer publications in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 140(4). 537–544. 7 indexed citations

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Hauer, Georg, Gerwin A. Bernhardt, Lukas Leitner, et al.. (2020). Mid‐term results show no significant difference in postoperative clinical outcome, pain and range of motion between a well‐established total knee arthroplasty design and its successor: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 29(3). 827–831. 11 indexed citations

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Mastboom, M.J.L., Eric L. Staals, F.G.M. Verspoor, et al.. (2019). Surgical Treatment of Localized-Type Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumors of Large Joints. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 101(14). 1309–1318. 28 indexed citations

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Majoor, B.C.J., Michiel A. J. van de Sande, Natasha M. Appelman‐Dijkstra, et al.. (2019). Prevalence and Clinical Features of Mazabraud Syndrome. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 101(2). 160–168. 18 indexed citations

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Sadoghi, Patrick, Gerald Gruber, Lukas Leitner, et al.. (2018). Impact of a new cryotherapy device on early rehabilitation after primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA): a prospective randomised controlled trial. International Orthopaedics. 42(6). 1265–1273. 31 indexed citations

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Lohberger, Birgit, Susanne Wagner, Heike Kaltenegger, et al.. (2018). Periplocin, the most anti-proliferative constituent of Periploca sepium, specifically kills liposarcoma cells by death receptor mediated apoptosis. Phytomedicine. 51. 162–170. 25 indexed citations

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Lohberger, Birgit, Heike Kaltenegger, Nicole Stuendl, et al.. (2015). Impact of cyclic mechanical stimulation on the expression of extracellular matrix proteins in human primary rotator cuff fibroblasts. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 24(12). 3884–3891. 19 indexed citations

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Bollen, L., Christine Wibmer, Miao Wang, et al.. (2014). Molecular phenotype is associated with survival in breast cancer patients with spinal bone metastases. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. 32(1). 1–5. 18 indexed citations

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Lohberger, Birgit, Michael Payer, Beate Rinner, et al.. (2011). Human Intraoral Harvested Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Characterization, Multilineage Differentiation Analysis, and 3-Dimensional Migration of Natural Bone Mineral and Tricalcium Phosphate Scaffolds. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 70(10). 2309–2315. 6 indexed citations

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Shalaby, Asem, Nadège Presneau, Hongtao Ye, et al.. (2010). The role of epidermal growth factor receptor in chordoma pathogenesis: a potential therapeutic target. The Journal of Pathology. 223(3). 336–346. 86 indexed citations

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Kinov, Plamen, Roman Radl, Maximilian Zacherl, Andreas Leithner, & Rein hard Windhager. (2007). Correlation between thigh pain and radiological findings with a proximally porous-coated stem.. PubMed. 73(5). 618–24. 22 indexed citations

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Windhager, Rein hard, Andreas Leithner, & M. Hochegger. (2006). Revision of tumour endoprostheses around the knee joint. Review and own results. Der Orthopäde. 35(2). 176–183. 4 indexed citations

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