Leonhard Held

17.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
212 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Leonhard Held is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonhard Held has authored 212 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Statistics and Probability, 38 papers in Epidemiology and 31 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Leonhard Held's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (41 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (31 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (28 papers). Leonhard Held is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (41 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (31 papers) and Statistical Methods and Inference (28 papers). Leonhard Held collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Leonhard Held's co-authors include Håvard Rue, Andrea Riebler, Volker Schmid, Tilmann Gneiting, Daniel Sabanés Bové, Chris Holmes, Alan D López, Sonia Buist, Anna Hansell and Chalapati Rao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Leonhard Held

201 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Gaussian Markov Random Fi... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2006 2005 2017 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Gaussian Markov Random Fields
    2005 1.2k citations Leonhard Held et al. profile →
  2. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: current burden and future projections
    2006 977 citations Leonhard Held et al. profile →
  3. Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications
    2005 805 citations Leonhard Held et al. profile →
  4. Projecting the future burden of cancer: Bayesian age–period–cohort analysis with integrated nested Laplace approximations
    2017 325 citations Leonhard Held et al. Biometrical Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Leonhard Held 1.8k 1.3k 1.2k 1.2k 1.1k 212 8.8k
Xihong Lin 3.2k 1.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 2.4k 2.1× 1.1k 0.9× 320 19.9k
Nicky Best 3.2k 1.7× 1.5k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 477 0.4× 1.7k 1.4× 117 14.2k
Kerrie Mengersen 1.7k 0.9× 813 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 2.4k 2.1× 1.1k 1.0× 562 16.9k
Stephen P. Brooks 2.0k 1.1× 592 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 271 0.2× 939 0.8× 121 11.0k
Aki Vehtari 1.5k 0.8× 352 0.3× 1.9k 1.5× 802 0.7× 653 0.6× 153 11.0k
David Clayton 4.6k 2.5× 2.3k 1.8× 1.3k 1.1× 666 0.6× 2.1k 1.9× 214 28.1k
Sylvia Richardson 4.3k 2.4× 1.4k 1.1× 4.1k 3.4× 302 0.3× 1.9k 1.7× 236 19.0k
Ryan J. Tibshirani 2.5k 1.4× 633 0.5× 1.7k 1.4× 209 0.2× 863 0.8× 70 12.0k
Thomas A. Louis 4.0k 2.2× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 1.7k 1.5× 242 15.2k
Michael G. Kenward 4.5k 2.4× 1.5k 1.2× 929 0.8× 826 0.7× 1.4k 1.2× 167 21.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leonhard Held

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonhard Held

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mansmann, Ulrich, et al.. (2026). Reply to Trinquart and Stockler's comments on clinical trial data sharing.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Voelkl, Bernhard, Sarah McCann, Leonhard Held, et al.. (2025). A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility: a multitude of questions leads to a multitude of metrics. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 242076–242076. 1 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2025). Closed-Form Power and Sample Size Calculations for Bayes Factors. The American Statistician. 79(3). 330–344. 1 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2025). A comparison of combined p-value functions for meta-analysis. Research Synthesis Methods. 16(5). 758–785.
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2024). The Replication of Equivalence Studies. Biometrical Journal. 66(8). 1 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2024). The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Switzerland and its impact on disease spread. Epidemics. 47. 100745–100745. 1 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2024). Replication of null results: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence?. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2024). The assessment of replicability using the sum of p -values. Royal Society Open Science. 11(8). 240149–240149. 2 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2024). Design differences and variation in results between randomised trials and non-randomised emulations: meta-analysis of RCT-DUPLICATE data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e000709–e000709. 14 indexed citations
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Deforth, Manja, et al.. (2023). Combining evidence from clinical trials in conditional or accelerated approval. Pharmaceutical Statistics. 22(4). 707–720. 2 indexed citations
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Aust, Frederik, et al.. (2023). Normalized power priors always discount historical data. Stat. 12(1). 6 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2023). Replication of null results: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence?. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Consonni, Guido, et al.. (2023). Bayesian approaches to designing replication studies.. Psychological Methods. 6 indexed citations
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Aust, Frederik, et al.. (2023). Power priors for replication studies. Test. 33(1). 127–154. 5 indexed citations
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Rüegger, Christoph M., Dominic Gascho, Peter K. Bode, et al.. (2022). Post-mortem magnetic resonance imaging with computed tomography-guided biopsy for foetuses and infants: a prospective, multicentre, cross-sectional study. BMC Pediatrics. 22(1). 464–464. 7 indexed citations
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Schwab, Simon, et al.. (2021). Assessing treatment effects and publication bias across different specialties in medicine: a meta-epidemiological study. BMJ Open. 11(9). e045942–e045942. 20 indexed citations
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Ssentongo, Paddy, Claudio Fronterrè, Andrew Geronimo, et al.. (2021). Pan-African evolution of within- and between-country COVID-19 dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(28). 21 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2021). Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis. Research Synthesis Methods. 13(3). 295–314. 11 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard & Simon Schwab. (2020). Improving The Reproducibility of Science. Significance. 17(1). 10–11. 8 indexed citations
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Held, Leonhard, et al.. (2020). Probabilistic forecasting of replication studies. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231416–e0231416. 22 indexed citations

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