Leonard Achenbach

906 total citations
44 papers, 567 citations indexed

About

Leonard Achenbach is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonard Achenbach has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 567 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 28 papers in Surgery and 13 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Leonard Achenbach's work include Sports injuries and prevention (34 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (16 papers) and Shoulder Injury and Treatment (16 papers). Leonard Achenbach is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (34 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (16 papers) and Shoulder Injury and Treatment (16 papers). Leonard Achenbach collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Leonard Achenbach's co-authors include Werner Krutsch, Michael Nerlich, Oliver Loose, Peter Angele, Patrick Luig, Volker Krutsch, Florian Zeman, Volker Alt, Lior Laver and Dominik Szymski and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nutrients and British Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Achenbach

41 papers receiving 540 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonard Achenbach Germany 15 482 359 136 94 88 44 567
Steffan Griffin United Kingdom 7 546 1.1× 365 1.0× 106 0.8× 80 0.9× 80 0.9× 16 656
Mikkel Bek Clausen Denmark 13 522 1.1× 369 1.0× 179 1.3× 121 1.3× 66 0.8× 42 664
Stig Haugsboe Andersson Norway 6 514 1.1× 412 1.1× 106 0.8× 132 1.4× 203 2.3× 8 637
Mike England United Kingdom 10 380 0.8× 156 0.4× 87 0.6× 182 1.9× 119 1.4× 25 471
Volker Krutsch Germany 12 311 0.6× 167 0.5× 118 0.9× 86 0.9× 46 0.5× 24 355
Karen aus der Fünten Germany 15 632 1.3× 198 0.6× 272 2.0× 230 2.4× 109 1.2× 28 702
Ajay S. Padaki United States 12 221 0.5× 269 0.7× 77 0.6× 43 0.5× 71 0.8× 29 384
John Bjørneboe Norway 11 671 1.4× 341 0.9× 204 1.5× 189 2.0× 48 0.5× 28 720
Caitlin M. Rugg United States 10 206 0.4× 244 0.7× 53 0.4× 67 0.7× 249 2.8× 21 477
Sailesh V. Tummala United States 13 344 0.7× 349 1.0× 41 0.3× 46 0.5× 60 0.7× 68 521

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rudert, Maximilian, et al.. (2025). High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Patients Undergoing Total Shoulder or Elbow Arthroplasty. Nutrients. 17(16). 2635–2635.
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Krutsch, Werner, et al.. (2024). High incidence of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in professional men's handball: Analysis of the ‘ACL registry in German Sports’ over seven consecutive seasons. Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics. 12(1). e70132–e70132. 1 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, et al.. (2024). Tennis Injuries Among German League Players: Investigating Patterns and Epidemiology of Acute and Chronic Injuries. Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine. Volume 15. 67–75. 1 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, et al.. (2024). Four distinct patterns of anterior cruciate ligament injury in women’s professional football (soccer): a systematic video analysis of 37 match injuries. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 58(13). 709–716. 9 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, Leonard Achenbach, Stephan Gerling, et al.. (2023). Playing Football as a Risk Factor for Lower Leg Malalignment?—Comparing Lower Leg Axis of Male Adolescent Football Players and Referees. Applied Sciences. 13(13). 7928–7928. 2 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, Matthias Koch, Florian Zeman, et al.. (2021). Lessons from establishing a football-specific registry of anterior cruciate ligament injuries - data collection and first epidemiological data. Science and Medicine in Football. 6(4). 446–451. 7 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, Leonard Achenbach, Volker Krutsch, et al.. (2021). Injury epidemiology in men’s professional team sports: is media analysis helpful?. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 141(4). 655–661. 12 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, Leonard Achenbach, Werner Krutsch, et al.. (2021). Injury Epidemiology of 626 Athletes in Surfing, Wind Surfing and Kite Surfing. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. Volume 12. 99–107. 6 indexed citations
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Szymski, Dominik, Volker Krutsch, Leonard Achenbach, et al.. (2021). Epidemiological analysis of injury occurrence and current prevention strategies on international amateur football level during the UEFA Regions Cup 2019. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 142(2). 271–280. 10 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, et al.. (2021). Collision with opponents—but not foul play—dominates injury mechanism in professional men’s basketball. BMC Sports Science Medicine and Rehabilitation. 13(1). 94–94. 6 indexed citations
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Krutsch, Volker, Stephan Grechenig, Oliver Loose, et al.. (2020). <p>Injury Analysis in Professional Soccer by Means of Media Reports – Only Severe Injury Types Show High Validity</p>. Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine. Volume 11. 123–131. 23 indexed citations
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Krutsch, Volker, et al.. (2020). <p>Injury Profile and Sex-Specific Differences in Bubble-Soccer – A First Scientific Survey of a Dangerous New Sports Trend</p>. Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine. Volume 11. 161–168. 1 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, et al.. (2019). Decreased external rotation strength is a risk factor for overuse shoulder injury in youth elite handball athletes. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 28(4). 1202–1211. 55 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, Werner Krutsch, Matthias Koch, et al.. (2018). Contact times of change-of-direction manoeuvres are influenced by age and the type of sports: a novel protocol using the SpeedCourt® system. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 27(3). 991–999. 5 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, Oliver Loose, Lior Laver, et al.. (2018). Beach handball is safer than indoor team handball: injury rates during the 2017 European Beach Handball Championships. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 26(7). 1909–1915. 23 indexed citations
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Loose, Oliver, Leonard Achenbach, Jennifer Lehmann, et al.. (2018). Injury prevention and return to play strategies in elite football: no consent between players and team coaches. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 138(7). 985–992. 30 indexed citations
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Luig, Patrick, Werner Krutsch, Michael Nerlich, et al.. (2018). Increased injury rates after the restructure of Germany’s national second league of team handball. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 26(7). 1884–1891. 37 indexed citations
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Koch, Matthias, Berardo Di Matteo, Jürgen Eichhorn, et al.. (2018). Intra-ligamentary autologous conditioned plasma and healing response to treat partial ACL ruptures. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 138(5). 675–683. 11 indexed citations
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Achenbach, Leonard, Volker Krutsch, Michael Nerlich, et al.. (2017). Neuromuscular exercises prevent severe knee injury in adolescent team handball players. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 26(7). 1901–1908. 76 indexed citations

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