Heiko Gaßner

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Heiko Gaßner is a scholar working on Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Neurology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Heiko Gaßner has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, 34 papers in Neurology and 32 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Heiko Gaßner's work include Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (38 papers), Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (32 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (30 papers). Heiko Gaßner is often cited by papers focused on Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (38 papers), Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (32 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (30 papers). Heiko Gaßner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. Heiko Gaßner's co-authors include Bjoern M. Eskofier, Jochen Klucken, Jürgen Winkler, Cristian Pasluosta, Franz Marxreiter, Felix Kluge, Zacharias Kohl, Julius Hannink, Jens Barth and Samuel Reinfelder and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Heiko Gaßner

66 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Wearable sensors objectively measure gait parameters in Parkinson’s disease

2017 248 citations Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, Jens Barth et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heiko Gaßner Germany	23	729	629	605	509	216	70	1.8k
Clint Hansen Germany	23	722 1.0×	528 0.8×	564 0.9×	409 0.8×	133 0.6×	142	1.9k
Eran Gazit Israel	24	732 1.0×	580 0.9×	576 1.0×	318 0.6×	118 0.5×	79	1.8k
Samuel Stuart United Kingdom	27	867 1.2×	586 0.9×	661 1.1×	426 0.8×	156 0.7×	112	2.1k
Cris Zampieri United States	19	1.4k 2.0×	847 1.3×	332 0.5×	1.0k 2.0×	136 0.6×	44	2.2k
Claudia Mazzà United Kingdom	29	1.3k 1.8×	452 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	679 1.3×	334 1.5×	123	3.1k
Pieter Ginis Belgium	19	889 1.2×	722 1.1×	479 0.8×	603 1.2×	127 0.6×	50	1.7k
Jens Barth Germany	14	596 0.8×	402 0.6×	550 0.9×	252 0.5×	206 1.0×	25	1.2k
Mahmoud El‐Gohary United States	17	595 0.8×	338 0.5×	422 0.7×	385 0.8×	75 0.3×	50	1.4k
H. Russmann Switzerland	14	426 0.6×	671 1.1×	549 0.9×	186 0.4×	132 0.6×	20	1.5k
Lisa Alcock United Kingdom	24	791 1.1×	500 0.8×	390 0.6×	512 1.0×	87 0.4×	59	1.6k

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Kirk, Cameron, Ashley Polhemus, Harry E. Bailey, et al.. (2025). A systematic review of real-world gait-related digital mobility outcomes in Parkinson’s disease. npj Digital Medicine. 8(1). 585–585. 1 indexed citations

Raccagni, Cecilia, Anisoara Paraschiv-Ionescu, Nils Roth, et al.. (2024). Effects of physiotherapy and home-based training in parkinsonian syndromes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (MobilityAPP). BMJ Open. 14(5). e081317–e081317. 3 indexed citations

Klebe, Stephan, Rebecca Schüle, Bjoern M. Eskofier, et al.. (2024). Mobile digital gait analysis captures effects of botulinum toxin in hereditary spastic paraplegia. European Journal of Neurology. 31(8). e16367–e16367. 2 indexed citations

Raschka, Tamara, Zexin Li, Heiko Gaßner, et al.. (2024). Unraveling progression subtypes in people with Huntington’s disease. The EPMA Journal. 15(2). 275–287. 3 indexed citations

Adler, Werner, et al.. (2023). Association between cognition and gait in multiple sclerosis: A smartphone-based longitudinal analysis. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 177. 105145–105145. 2 indexed citations

Brückner, Stefan, Fabian Michler, Robert Schober, et al.. (2023). A Wireless Joint Communication and Localization EMG-Sensing Concept for Movement Disorder Assessment. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. 7(4). 440–449. 4 indexed citations

Brittain, Gavin, Ellen Buckley, Veit Rothhammer, et al.. (2023). Mobilise-D: The largest observational trial of digital mobility outcome measures in multiple sclerosis. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 455. 121059–121059. 1 indexed citations

Küderle, Arne, et al.. (2022). MaD GUI: An Open-Source Python Package for Annotation and Analysis of Time-Series Data. Sensors. 22(15). 5849–5849. 9 indexed citations

Roth, Nils, Martin Ullrich, Arne Küderle, et al.. (2022). Real-World Stair Ambulation Characteristics Differ Between Prospective Fallers and Non-Fallers in Parkinson’s Disease. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 26(9). 4733–4742. 8 indexed citations

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Gaßner, Heiko, Sabine Stallforth, Martin Regensburger, et al.. (2022). The Effects of an Individualized Smartphone-Based Exercise Program on Self-defined Motor Tasks in Parkinson Disease: Pilot Interventional Study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. 9(4). e38994–e38994. 9 indexed citations

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Roth, Nils, et al.. (2021). An Inertial Sensor-Based Gait Analysis Pipeline for the Assessment of Real-World Stair Ambulation Parameters. Sensors. 21(19). 6559–6559. 10 indexed citations

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Küderle, Arne, Felix Kluge, Jochen Klucken, et al.. (2021). Validation of a Sensor-Based Gait Analysis System with a Gold-Standard Motion Capture System in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Sensors. 21(22). 7680–7680. 39 indexed citations

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Kluge, Felix, Silvia Del Din, Andrea Cereatti, et al.. (2021). Consensus based framework for digital mobility monitoring. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256541–e0256541. 23 indexed citations

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Riemenschneider, Markus J., Heiko Gaßner, Franz Marxreiter, et al.. (2021). Human alpha-synuclein overexpressing MBP29 mice mimic functional and structural hallmarks of the cerebellar subtype of multiple system atrophy. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 9(1). 68–68. 9 indexed citations

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Küderle, Arne, et al.. (2020). Inertial sensor-based gait parameters reflect patient-reported fatigue in multiple sclerosis. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 17(1). 165–165. 37 indexed citations

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Gaßner, Heiko, Dennis Jensen, Franz Marxreiter, et al.. (2020). Gait variability as digital biomarker of disease severity in Huntington’s disease. Journal of Neurology. 267(6). 1594–1601. 37 indexed citations

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Winterholler, Martin, Heiko Gaßner, Jürgen Winkler, et al.. (2020). Acute exercise following skill practice promotes motor memory consolidation in Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 178. 107366–107366. 8 indexed citations

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Steib, Simon, Heiko Gaßner, Cristian Pasluosta, et al.. (2019). Exploring gait adaptations to perturbed and conventional treadmill training in Parkinson’s disease: Time-course, sustainability, and transfer. Human Movement Science. 64. 123–132. 6 indexed citations

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Marxreiter, Franz, Heiko Gaßner, Jens Barth, et al.. (2018). Sensor-based gait analysis of individualized improvement during apomorphine titration in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurology. 265(11). 2656–2665. 31 indexed citations

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Gaßner, Heiko, Franz Marxreiter, Simon Steib, et al.. (2017). Gait and Cognition in Parkinson’s Disease: Cognitive Impairment Is Inadequately Reflected by Gait Performance during Dual Task. Frontiers in Neurology. 8. 550–550. 34 indexed citations

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