Nilüfer Kale

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nilüfer Kale is a scholar working on Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Neurology and Ophthalmology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nilüfer Kale has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 19 papers in Neurology and 13 papers in Ophthalmology. Recurrent topics in Nilüfer Kale's work include Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (20 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (12 papers) and Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome (9 papers). Nilüfer Kale is often cited by papers focused on Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (20 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (12 papers) and Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome (9 papers). Nilüfer Kale collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and Lebanon. Nilüfer Kale's co-authors include Claudia F. Lucchinetti, Istvan Pirko, Yong Guo, Jay Mandrekar, Imke Metz, Joseph E. Parisi, Josa M. Frischer, Hans Lassmann, Wolfgang Brück and Stephan Bramow and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Neurology and Annals of Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Nilüfer Kale

36 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Clinical and pathological insights into the dynamic nature of the white matter multiple sclerosis plaque
    2015 508 citations Nilüfer Kale et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nilüfer Kale Türkiye 14 990 470 296 266 243 42 1.4k
Fahmy Aboul‐Enein Austria 20 905 0.9× 645 1.4× 257 0.9× 296 1.1× 332 1.4× 26 1.6k
Sonja Hochmeister Austria 20 612 0.6× 436 0.9× 351 1.2× 165 0.6× 376 1.5× 44 1.4k
Irena Dujmović Serbia 23 1.0k 1.1× 656 1.4× 142 0.5× 389 1.5× 279 1.1× 65 1.6k
Carolyn Bevan United States 15 831 0.8× 293 0.6× 174 0.6× 163 0.6× 189 0.8× 20 1.3k
Francisco Pérez‐Miralles Spain 20 910 0.9× 445 0.9× 140 0.5× 261 1.0× 198 0.8× 60 1.3k
María Sepúlveda Spain 23 1.4k 1.4× 985 2.1× 161 0.5× 431 1.6× 246 1.0× 66 2.1k
Christina Azevedo United States 17 920 0.9× 432 0.9× 116 0.4× 218 0.8× 116 0.5× 28 1.2k
Annabel M. Ruiter Netherlands 7 1.0k 1.0× 882 1.9× 130 0.4× 309 1.2× 153 0.6× 12 1.4k
Byoung Joon Kim South Korea 23 728 0.7× 806 1.7× 138 0.5× 271 1.0× 283 1.2× 114 1.6k
Leonora Fisniku United Kingdom 9 1.2k 1.2× 432 0.9× 113 0.4× 398 1.5× 166 0.7× 14 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nilüfer Kale

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nilüfer Kale

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2025). Autoimmune Rarities: Myasthenia Gravis and Parkinson's disease after inflammatory myopathy. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 134. 107681–107681.
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2023). Pain-Related Cognitive Processes, Pain Interference, and Alexithymia in Patients With Primary Headaches. Cureus. 15(5). e39688–e39688. 1 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2021). A variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: AMSAN. Ideggyógyászati Szemle. 74(7-8). 286–288. 20 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2021). Mild Encephalitis/Encephalopathy with a Reversible Lesion in The Splenium: A Case Series. Nöro Psikiyatri Arşivi. 60(1). 90–96. 1 indexed citations
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Şahin, İrfan, Adem Atıcı, Hasan Ali Barman, et al.. (2021). Prognostic Significance of Fragmented QRS in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 30(9). 105986–105986. 3 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2021). Sars-Cov-2 infection related inflammatory and demyelinating disease; a brief case series. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 51. 102900–102900. 3 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2021). Parry-Romberg syndrome: is it a “relapsing-remitting” disease?. Ideggyógyászati Szemle. 74(11-12). 409–412.
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Altıntaş, Ayşe, et al.. (2020). The use of Modified Rio score for determining treatment failure in patients with multiple sclerosis: retrospective descriptive case series study. Acta Neurologica Belgica. 121(6). 1693–1698. 5 indexed citations
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Boz, Cavit, Sabahattin Saip, Nilüfer Kale, et al.. (2019). Susac Syndrome: Clinical characteristics, diagnostic findings and treatment in 19 cases. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 33. 94–99. 20 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2018). Multiple sclerosis: Diagnosis and Differrential Diagnosis. Nöro Psikiyatri Arşivi. 55(Suppl 1). S1–S9. 43 indexed citations
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Soysal, Aysun, et al.. (2017). Comparing Coloured and Black-White Visual Evoked Potentials Vep in Multiple Sclerosis Patients. Nöro Psikiyatri Arşivi. 57(2). 93–97. 2 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer. (2016). Optic neuritis as an early sign of multiple sclerosis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. Volume 8. 195–202. 97 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer. (2012). Management of optic neuritis as a clinically first event of multiple sclerosis. Current Opinion in Ophthalmology. 23(6). 472–476. 11 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer & Eric Eggenberger. (2010). Optical Coherence Tomography-A New Diagnostic Tool to Evaluate Axonal Degeneration in Multiple Sclerosis: A Review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2009). Correlation between disability and transcranial magnetic stimulation abnormalities in patients with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 16(11). 1439–1442. 40 indexed citations
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Kale, Nilüfer, et al.. (2009). Neuropsychiatric manifestations in multiple sclerosis: correlation of fatigue and depression with disease progression. Neurological Research. 32(2). 221–223. 12 indexed citations

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