Andreas Schmeling

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
200 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Andreas Schmeling is a scholar working on Archeology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Schmeling has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Archeology, 68 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 38 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Andreas Schmeling's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (136 papers), Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (65 papers) and Dental Radiography and Imaging (37 papers). Andreas Schmeling is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (136 papers), Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (65 papers) and Dental Radiography and Imaging (37 papers). Andreas Schmeling collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and China. Andreas Schmeling's co-authors include Ronald Schulz, G. Geserick, W. Reisinger, Sven Schmidt, Andreas Olze, Volker Vieth, Heriberto Pfeiffer, F.W. Rösing, Klaus‐Dieter Wernecke and M Mühler and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, European Radiology and Forensic Science International.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Schmeling

192 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Criteria for age estimation in living individuals

2008 478 citations Andreas Schmeling, C. Grundmann et al. International Journal of Legal Medicine profile →
Forensic Age Estimation: Methods, Certainty, and the Law

2016 203 citations Andreas Schmeling, Volker Vieth et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andreas Schmeling Germany	48	6.5k	3.1k	2.3k	1.9k	1.3k	200	7.4k
Ronald Schulz Germany	36	3.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	777 0.3×	615 0.3×	833 0.7×	77	3.5k
G. Geserick Germany	26	3.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	398 0.3×	108	3.6k
W. Reisinger Germany	25	2.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	795 0.3×	682 0.4×	527 0.4×	36	2.9k
Frank Ramsthaler Germany	22	1.9k 0.3×	981 0.3×	516 0.2×	459 0.2×	292 0.2×	118	2.4k
Norbert Telmon France	31	1.6k 0.2×	1.0k 0.3×	630 0.3×	281 0.1×	163 0.1×	176	2.9k
Roberto Cameriere Italy	38	3.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	2.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	87 0.1×	136	4.2k
Rick R. van Rijn Netherlands	35	577 0.1×	827 0.3×	182 0.1×	457 0.2×	511 0.4×	240	4.5k
Andreas Olze Germany	27	2.2k 0.3×	735 0.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	113 0.1×	52	2.3k
Marija Djurić Serbia	29	577 0.1×	216 0.1×	586 0.3×	572 0.3×	212 0.2×	149	2.7k
Helen M. Liversidge United Kingdom	30	3.4k 0.5×	497 0.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	29 0.0×	73	4.1k

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Guo, Yu-cheng, et al.. (2025). The time frame of third molar mineralization in a northern chinese population. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology.

Streeter, Adam, Andreas Schmeling, & André Karch. (2024). How certainty is certain enough? Challenges in the statistical methodology for forensic age assessment of living individuals. Medicina Clínica. 163(9). e92–e97. 2 indexed citations

Schmeling, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Questionnaire survey for the International Journal of Legal Medicine on the occassion of the 26th triennal meeting of the International Academy of Legal Medicine. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 139(1). 285–291.

Timme, Maximilian, et al.. (2024). Age-related patterns in mandibular third molar eruption: presenting new forensic age assessment reference data from a Chinese population. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. 21(1). 173–182. 1 indexed citations

Schmeling, Andreas, Tony Fracasso, Heriberto Pfeiffer, & Ingo Wirth. (2023). From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International Journal of Legal Medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 137(2). 567–579. 4 indexed citations

Timme, Maximilian, et al.. (2023). Third Molar Eruption in Dental Panoramic Radiographs as a Feature for Forensic Age Assessment—Presentation of a New Non-Staging Method Based on Measurements. Biology. 12(11). 1403–1403. 1 indexed citations

Fracasso, Tony, Ingo Wirth, Heriberto Pfeiffer, & Andreas Schmeling. (2023). From Deutsche Zeitschrift to International journal of legal medicine—100 years of legal medicine through the lens of journal articles, Part 4: International journal of legal medicine from 1990 to 2022. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 138(2). 603–613. 4 indexed citations

Ottow, Christian, Sven Schmidt, Walter Heindel, et al.. (2022). Forensic age assessment by 3.0 T MRI of the wrist: adaption of the Vieth classification. European Radiology. 32(11). 7956–7964. 5 indexed citations

Vieth, Volker, Ronald Schulz, Walter Heindel, et al.. (2018). Forensic age assessment by 3.0T MRI of the knee: proposal of a new MRI classification of ossification stages. European Radiology. 28(8). 3255–3262. 52 indexed citations

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Ottow, Christian, Ronald Schulz, Heriberto Pfeiffer, et al.. (2017). Forensic age estimation by magnetic resonance imaging of the knee: the definite relevance in bony fusion of the distal femoral- and the proximal tibial epiphyses using closest-to-bone T1 TSE sequence. European Radiology. 27(12). 5041–5048. 48 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Sven, Ronald Schulz, Heriberto Pfeiffer, Andreas Schmeling, & G. Geserick. (2016). On the evidential value of a Messerer fracture sustained in a car-pedestrian traffic accident. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(6). 1593–1597. 7 indexed citations

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Wittschieber, Daniel, Christian Ottow, Ronald Schulz, et al.. (2015). Forensic age diagnostics using projection radiography of the clavicle: a prospective multi-center validation study. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(1). 213–219. 33 indexed citations

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Geserick, G., et al.. (2014). Age estimation based on pictures and videos presumably showing child or youth pornography. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 128(4). 649–652. 10 indexed citations

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Vieth, Volker, et al.. (2014). Age estimation in U-20 football players using 3.0 tesla MRI of the clavicle. Forensic Science International. 241. 118–122. 64 indexed citations

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Wittschieber, Daniel, Ronald Schulz, Volker Vieth, et al.. (2013). The value of sub-stages and thin slices for the assessment of the medial clavicular epiphysis: a prospective multi-center CT study. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. 10(2). 163–169. 95 indexed citations

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Olze, Andreas, et al.. (2012). [Application of a modified stage classification in evaluating wisdom tooth eruption in a German population].. PubMed. 229(5-6). 145–53. 6 indexed citations

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Schmeling, Andreas, Andreas Olze, Bruce R. Pynn, et al.. (2010). Dental age estimation based on third molar eruption in First Nation people of Canada.. PubMed. 28(1). 32–8. 36 indexed citations

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Schmeling, Andreas, et al.. (2005). Reference data for the Thiemann–Nitz method of assessing skeletal age for the purpose of forensic age estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 120(1). 1–4. 40 indexed citations

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Olze, Andreas, et al.. (2005). [Radiologically determined DMF index variations for forensic age estimation of young adults].. PubMed. 214(3-4). 103–11. 2 indexed citations

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Schmeling, Andreas, et al.. (2005). The impact of economic progress and modernization in medicine on the ossification of hand and wrist. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 120(2). 121–126. 142 indexed citations

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