Patrick Esser

20.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Patrick Esser is a scholar working on Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental health and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Esser has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, 20 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Esser's work include Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (17 papers), Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (16 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (16 papers). Patrick Esser is often cited by papers focused on Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (17 papers), Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (16 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (16 papers). Patrick Esser collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Patrick Esser's co-authors include Björn Ommer, Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Helen Dawes, Johnny Collett, Ken Howells, Heidi Johansen‐Berg, Parmida Atighehchian, Jonathan Granskog and Max G. Feltham and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Biomechanics and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Esser

65 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

2022 6.0k citations Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser et al. profile →
Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models

2023 150 citations Patrick Esser et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Esser United Kingdom	18	3.8k	1.6k	789	551	427	69	7.2k
Růžena Bajcsy United States	41	4.1k 1.1×	894 0.6×	362 0.5×	305 0.6×	226 0.5×	246	6.9k
Greg Welch United States	37	4.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	579 0.7×	196 0.4×	251 0.6×	196	9.4k
Ken Perlin United States	28	3.2k 0.8×	625 0.4×	1.8k 2.3×	1.2k 2.2×	200 0.5×	103	5.9k
Gaurav Sharma United States	42	4.5k 1.2×	497 0.3×	233 0.3×	223 0.4×	317 0.7×	326	11.7k
Antonio Criminisi United Kingdom	57	10.2k 2.7×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	585 1.1×	458 1.1×	153	13.6k
Dimitris Metaxas United States	40	3.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	669 0.8×	1.2k 2.1×	181 0.4×	181	6.0k
Gary Bishop United States	25	3.6k 0.9×	753 0.5×	1.5k 1.9×	530 1.0×	448 1.0×	65	6.6k
Hui Yu China	44	3.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	104 0.1×	156 0.3×	311 0.7×	341	8.8k
J.K. Aggarwal United States	53	11.5k 3.0×	3.0k 1.9×	470 0.6×	488 0.9×	754 1.8×	348	14.1k
Benoı̂t Macq Belgium	35	3.0k 0.8×	661 0.4×	189 0.2×	227 0.4×	752 1.8×	298	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Esser

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Esser

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Malmberg, Lars‐Erik, et al.. (2025). Intraindividual dynamics of primary school students' executive functioning: Accuracy and response-time. Learning and Individual Differences. 120. 102658–102658.

Esser, Patrick, Johnny Collett, Hooshang Izadi, et al.. (2024). The effects of cognitive-motor interference on walking performance in adolescents with low balance. Gait & Posture. 114. 202–207.

Esser, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Knee joint position sense and kinematic control in relation to motor competency in 13 to 14-year-old adolescents. The Italian Journal of Pediatrics/Italian journal of pediatrics. 50(1). 200–200. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Lixia, Zhidao Xia, Derick T Wade, et al.. (2024). Knee osteoarthritis pendulum therapy: In vivo evaluation and a randomised, single-blind feasibility clinical trial. Journal of Orthopaedic Translation. 45(229). 266–276. 2 indexed citations

Al-Yahya, Emad, Patrick Esser, Piergiorgio Salvan, et al.. (2023). Motor learning in developmental coordination disorder: behavioral and neuroimaging study. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1187790–1187790. 3 indexed citations

Dong, Lining, Yan‐Yun Hu, Lei Xu, et al.. (2023). Abnormal vibration perception threshold alters the gait features in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 13. 1092764–1092764. 2 indexed citations

Esser, Patrick, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Photobiomodulation on the Treatment of Hereditary Mitochondrial Diseases. Journal of lasers in medical sciences. 14. e41–e41. 5 indexed citations

Walsh, Gregory S., et al.. (2022). Perturbations during Gait: A Systematic Review of Methodologies and Outcomes. Sensors. 22(15). 5927–5927. 8 indexed citations

Pearce, Alan J., et al.. (2022). Evaluating the relationship between neurological function, neuromuscular fatigue, and subjective performance measures in professional rugby union players. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 4. 1058326–1058326.

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Beale, Nick, Anne Delextrat, Patrick Esser, et al.. (2021). Exploring activity levels in physical education lessons in the UK: a cross-sectional examination of activity types and fitness levels. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 7(1). e000924–e000924. 9 indexed citations

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Demnitz, Naiara, Afroditi Stathi, Janet Withall, et al.. (2021). Hippocampal maintenance after a 12-month physical activity intervention in older adults: The REACT MRI study. NeuroImage Clinical. 35. 102762–102762. 1 indexed citations

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Rombach, Robin, Patrick Esser, & Björn Ommer. (2020). Network Fusion for Content Creation with Conditional INNs.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Delextrat, Anne, Patrick Esser, Nick Beale, et al.. (2020). Effects of gender, activity type, class location and class composition on physical activity levels experienced during physical education classes in British secondary schools: a pilot cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 1590–1590. 9 indexed citations

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Tektonidis, Thanasis G., Susan G. Coe, Patrick Esser, et al.. (2019). Diet quality in late midlife is associated with faster walking speed in later life in women, but not men: findings from a prospective British birth cohort. British Journal Of Nutrition. 123(8). 913–921. 5 indexed citations

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Esser, Patrick, Johnny Collett, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, et al.. (2016). A systematic review of the current reporting quality of TBI rehabilitation interventions. Brain Injury. 30. 659–660. 1 indexed citations

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Collett, Johnny, Patrick Esser, Hanan Khalil, et al.. (2014). Insights into gait disorders: Walking variability using phase plot analysis, Huntington's disease. Gait & Posture. 40(4). 694–700. 38 indexed citations

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Reusken, Arnold & Patrick Esser. (2013). Analysis of time discretization methods for Stokes equations with a nonsmooth forcing term. Numerische Mathematik. 126(2). 293–319. 1 indexed citations

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Rhodes, J., et al.. (1994). Three-dimensional transient analysis capability in SIMULATE-3. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 71. 456–458. 7 indexed citations

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Esser, Patrick & Kord Smith. (1993). A semianalytic two-group nodal model for SIMULATE-3. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 68. 5 indexed citations

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Esser, Patrick. (1987). Second Microlocalization and Propagation Theorems for the Wave Front Sets. Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen. 6(6). 505–515. 1 indexed citations

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