Frank Martens

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Frank Martens is a scholar working on Urology, Rheumatology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Martens has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Urology, 32 papers in Rheumatology and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Frank Martens's work include Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (32 papers), Pelvic floor disorders treatments (31 papers) and Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (10 papers). Frank Martens is often cited by papers focused on Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research (32 papers), Pelvic floor disorders treatments (31 papers) and Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (10 papers). Frank Martens collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Frank Martens's co-authors include Hans Pottel, Liesbeth Hoste, John Heesakkers, V. de Souza, Laurence Dubourg, Luciano da Silva Selistre, B. Mahieu, Kathleen Croes, Nicolas Vrydags and Pierre Delanaye and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Frank Martens

68 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

An estimated glomerular filtration rate equation for the full age spectrum

2016 322 citations Hans Pottel, Liesbeth Hoste et al. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Martens Netherlands	20	671	326	280	249	200	73	1.6k
Süleyman Türk Türkiye	25	580 0.9×	70 0.2×	94 0.3×	323 1.3×	116 0.6×	67	1.8k
S. Dorph Denmark	17	133 0.2×	85 0.3×	106 0.4×	122 0.5×	105 0.5×	79	862
Harvey A. Ziessman United States	32	377 0.6×	178 0.5×	34 0.1×	427 1.7×	331 1.7×	103	3.4k
Jung‐Woo Noh South Korea	23	886 1.3×	21 0.1×	58 0.2×	154 0.6×	76 0.4×	71	1.7k
A. Piepsz Belgium	26	420 0.6×	418 1.3×	28 0.1×	358 1.4×	1.1k 5.6×	101	2.4k
Ali İhsan Taşçı Türkiye	24	100 0.1×	566 1.7×	308 1.1×	49 0.2×	283 1.4×	115	1.6k
J Zazgórnik Austria	21	363 0.5×	29 0.1×	50 0.2×	157 0.6×	166 0.8×	158	1.3k
Cecil H. Coggins United States	21	547 0.8×	18 0.1×	42 0.1×	154 0.6×	101 0.5×	47	1.9k
Michael J. Wolk United States	21	104 0.2×	110 0.3×	39 0.1×	114 0.5×	43 0.2×	43	3.7k
J. M. Malins United Kingdom	28	103 0.2×	25 0.1×	53 0.2×	195 0.8×	177 0.9×	64	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Martens

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Martens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frank Martens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frank Martens based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Frank Martens. Frank Martens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Thiruchelvam, Nikesh, John Heesakkers, Rizwan Hamid, et al.. (2025). SATURN: A Multinational, Multicentre, Prospective Surgical Registry for Male Urinary Incontinence Surgery Across Europe with Planned 10-year Follow-up. European Urology Focus. 11(2). 187–189. 1 indexed citations

Heesakkers, John, Philip Toozs‐Hobson, Suzette E. Sutherland, et al.. (2024). A prospective study to assess the effectiveness and safety of the BlueWind System in the treatment of patients diagnosed with urgency urinary incontinence. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 43(7). 1491–1503. 4 indexed citations

Digesu, Alex, Philip Van Kerrebroeck, Sohier Elneil, et al.. (2022). Patient‐tailored healthcare and tibial nerve neuromodulation in the treatment of patients with overactive bladder symptoms. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 41(2). 679–684. 4 indexed citations

Cobussen‐Boekhorst, Hanny, et al.. (2021). Patients living ≥25 years with a non‐continent urinary diversion: What can we learn?. International Journal of Urological Nursing. 16(1). 5–11. 1 indexed citations

Martens, Frank, Roman Zachoval, Javier Otero, et al.. (2020). Prospective registry for patients undergoing surgery for male stress urinary incontinence in multiple European centres. an update of the registry ‘SATURN’. European Urology Open Science. 19. e464–e464. 1 indexed citations

Gammie, Andrew, Fernando Antônio de Almeida, Marcus J. Drake, et al.. (2019). Is the value of urodynamics undermined by poor technique?: ICI‐RS 2018. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 38(S5). S35–S39. 13 indexed citations

Janssen, Dick, et al.. (2017). Clinical utility of neurostimulation devices in the treatment of overactive bladder: current perspectives. Medical Devices Evidence and Research. Volume 10. 109–122. 21 indexed citations

Pottel, Hans, Liesbeth Hoste, Laurence Dubourg, et al.. (2016). An estimated glomerular filtration rate equation for the full age spectrum. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 31(5). 798–806. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

Farag, Fawzy, et al.. (2016). Subject-Controlled, On-demand, Dorsal Genital Nerve Stimulation to Treat Urgency Urinary Incontinence; a Pilot. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 24–24. 14 indexed citations

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Hoste, Liesbeth, Laurence Dubourg, Luciano da Silva Selistre, et al.. (2013). A new equation to estimate the glomerular filtration rate in children, adolescents and young adults. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 29(5). 1082–1091. 126 indexed citations

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Farag, Fawzy, Frank Martens, Nico Rijkhoff, & John Heesakkers. (2012). Dorsal Genital Nerve Stimulation in Patients with Detrusor Overactivity: A Systematic Review. Current Urology Reports. 13(5). 385–388. 17 indexed citations

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Farag, Fawzy, Frank Martens, Wout Feitz, & John Heesakkers. (2011). Feasibility of Noninvasive Near-Infrared Spectroscopy to Diagnose Detrusor Overactivity. Urologia Internationalis. 87(3). 330–335. 4 indexed citations

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Farag, Fawzy, Frank Martens, Kathleen D’Hauwers, Wout Feitz, & John Heesakkers. (2010). Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: A Novel, Noninvasive, Diagnostic Method for Detrusor Overactivity in Patients with Overactive Bladder Symptoms—A Preliminary and Experimental Study. European Urology. 59(5). 757–762. 33 indexed citations

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Snoek, Govert J., et al.. (2009). The Brindley bladder stimulator improves quality of life and clinical outcomes in spinal cord injured patients as compared to a matched control group. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 1 indexed citations

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Martens, Frank, et al.. (2009). Limited value of bladder sensation as a trigger for conditional neurostimulation in spinal cord injury patients. Neurourology and Urodynamics. 29(3). 395–400. 13 indexed citations

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Pottel, Hans & Frank Martens. (2009). Are eGFR equations better than IDMS-traceable serum creatinine in classifying chronic kidney disease?. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 69(5). 550–561. 11 indexed citations

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Pottel, Hans, et al.. (2008). Establishing age/sex related serum creatinine reference intervals from hospital laboratory data based on different statistical methods. Clinica Chimica Acta. 396(1-2). 49–55. 154 indexed citations

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Killian, Jill M., Olaf H. Drummer, Henrik Druid, et al.. (2007). Résumés du Congrès TIAFT - ICADTS (28-30 août 2007, Seattle, USA). Annales de Toxicologie Analytique. 19(4). 256–424.

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Buckendahl, Ann‐Christin, et al.. (2005). Acute myocardial infarction caused by coronary tumor thromboembolism: a rare primary manifestation of malignant tumor disease. Human Pathology. 37(2). 236–238. 2 indexed citations

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Haas, N., Frank Martens, & B. M. Henz. (2004). Miliaria crystallina in an intensive care setting. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 29(1). 32–34. 18 indexed citations

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