Markus Leitinger

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Markus Leitinger is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Leitinger has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 34 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Markus Leitinger's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (40 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (28 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (19 papers). Markus Leitinger is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (40 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (28 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (19 papers). Markus Leitinger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Italy. Markus Leitinger's co-authors include Eugen Trinka, Julia Höfler, Gudrun Kalss, Alexandra Rohracher, Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Judith Dobesberger, Francesco Brigo, Helmut F. Novak, Georg Zimmermann and Sándor Beniczky and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Lancet Neurology and British Journal of Pharmacology.

In The Last Decade

Markus Leitinger

52 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epi... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus – approach to clinical application
    2015 304 citations Markus Leitinger, Sándor Beniczky et al. Epilepsy & Behavior profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Markus Leitinger Austria 25 1.7k 1.2k 751 394 273 53 2.1k
Giorgi Kuchukhidze Austria 26 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 729 1.0× 546 1.4× 310 1.1× 70 2.3k
Julia Höfler Austria 23 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 837 1.1× 355 0.9× 182 0.7× 41 2.1k
Judith Dobesberger Austria 26 1.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.2× 780 1.0× 478 1.2× 263 1.0× 54 2.2k
Alexandra Rohracher Austria 17 1.3k 0.8× 965 0.8× 584 0.8× 258 0.7× 152 0.6× 22 1.4k
Dong Wook Kim South Korea 25 1.2k 0.7× 824 0.7× 468 0.6× 249 0.6× 190 0.7× 119 1.7k
Gudrun Kalss Austria 16 1.2k 0.7× 937 0.8× 537 0.7× 278 0.7× 165 0.6× 33 1.4k
L.K. Garnett United States 8 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 686 0.9× 457 1.2× 301 1.1× 8 2.2k
Cees A. van Donselaar Netherlands 27 1.6k 1.0× 1.3k 1.1× 427 0.6× 338 0.9× 249 0.9× 41 2.0k
Rainer Boor Germany 31 1.5k 0.9× 744 0.6× 583 0.8× 890 2.3× 194 0.7× 71 2.5k
Aidan Neligan United Kingdom 21 1.2k 0.7× 944 0.8× 403 0.5× 149 0.4× 160 0.6× 65 1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Leitinger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leitinger, Markus, Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Ursula Leitner, et al.. (2025). Seminars in epileptology: How to diagnose status epilepticus in adults and children. Epileptic Disorders. 27(4). 530–549.
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Leitinger, Markus, Christoph Kellinghaus, Adam Strzelczyk, et al.. (2024). Sustained effort network for treatment of status epilepticus/European academy of neurology registry on adult refractory status epilepticus (SENSE-II/AROUSE). BMC Neurology. 24(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations
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Moser, Tobias, Joachim Gruber, Daniel Schwarzenhofer, et al.. (2024). Autoimmune and infectious encephalitis: development of a discriminative tool for early diagnosis and initiation of therapy. Journal of Neurology. 271(12). 7583–7591. 2 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Jonathan J. Halford, Kollencheri Puthenveettil Vinayan, et al.. (2023). Routine and sleep EEG: Minimum recording standards of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology and the International League Against Epilepsy. Epilepsia. 64(3). 602–618. 30 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Nicolas Gaspard, Lawrence J. Hirsch, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing nonconvulsive status epilepticus: Defining electroencephalographic and clinical response to diagnostic intravenous antiseizure medication trials. Epilepsia. 64(9). 2351–2360. 22 indexed citations
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Mauritz, Matthias, Markus Leitinger, Gudrun Kalss, et al.. (2023). A case report: New-onset refractory status epilepticus in a patient with FASTKD2-related mitochondrial disease. Frontiers in Neurology. 13. 1063733–1063733. 5 indexed citations
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Lattanzi, Simona, Markus Leitinger, Chiara Rocchi, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the enigma of new‐onset refractory status epilepticus: a systematic review of aetiologies. European Journal of Neurology. 29(2). 626–647. 46 indexed citations
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Romagna, Alexander, Markus Leitinger, Gudrun Kalss, et al.. (2021). VarioGuide® frameless neuronavigation-guided stereoelectroencephalography in adult epilepsy patients: technique, accuracy and clinical experience. Acta Neurochirurgica. 163(5). 1355–1364. 6 indexed citations
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Boon, Paul, Evelien Carrette, Beate Diehl, et al.. (2019). Diagnostic accuracy of interictal source imaging in presurgical epilepsy evaluation: A systematic review from the E-PILEPSY consortium. Clinical Neurophysiology. 130(5). 845–855. 35 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Eugen Trinka, Giada Giovannini, et al.. (2018). Epidemiology of status epilepticus in adults: A population‐based study on incidence, causes, and outcomes. Epilepsia. 60(1). 53–62. 174 indexed citations
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Giovannini, Giada, Giulia Monti, Manuela Tondelli, et al.. (2017). Mortality, morbidity and refractoriness prediction in status epilepticus: Comparison of STESS and EMSE scores. Seizure. 46. 31–37. 63 indexed citations
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Höller, Yvonne, Aljoscha Thomschewski, Elisabeth Schmid, et al.. (2017). Reliability of EEG Interactions Differs between Measures and Is Specific for Neurological Diseases. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11. 350–350. 14 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Eugen Trinka, Elena Gardella, et al.. (2016). Diagnostic accuracy of the Salzburg EEG criteria for non-convulsive status epilepticus: a retrospective study. The Lancet Neurology. 15(10). 1054–1062. 203 indexed citations
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Hauer, Larissa, Martin W. Dünser, Tobias Moser, et al.. (2016). Autoimmune Encephalitis at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit: Etiologies, Reasons for Admission and Survival. Neurocritical Care. 27(1). 82–89. 32 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Sándor Beniczky, Alexandra Rohracher, et al.. (2015). Salzburg Consensus Criteria for Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus – approach to clinical application. Epilepsy & Behavior. 49. 158–163. 304 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trinka, Eugen, Julia Höfler, Markus Leitinger, & Francesco Brigo. (2015). Pharmacotherapy for Status Epilepticus. Drugs. 75(13). 1499–1521. 148 indexed citations
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Leitinger, Markus, Yvonne Höller, Gudrun Kalss, et al.. (2014). Epidemiology-Based Mortality Score in Status Epilepticus (EMSE). Neurocritical Care. 22(2). 273–282. 183 indexed citations
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Kalss, Gudrun, Markus Leitinger, Judith Dobesberger, et al.. (2013). Ictal unilateral eye blinking and contralateral blink inhibition — A video-EEG study and review of the literature. Epilepsy & Behavior Case Reports. 1. 161–165. 10 indexed citations

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