Patrick Waters

37.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
237 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

Patrick Waters is a scholar working on Neurology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Waters has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Neurology, 94 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 60 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Waters's work include Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (118 papers), Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (91 papers) and Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (74 papers). Patrick Waters is often cited by papers focused on Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (118 papers), Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (91 papers) and Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (74 papers). Patrick Waters collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Patrick Waters's co-authors include Angela Vincent, Sarosh R. Irani, Bethan Lang, Mark Woodhall, Maria Isabel Leite, Jacqueline Palace, Sven Jarius, Markus Reindl, Kazuo Fujihara and Philippa Pettingill and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Waters

226 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

2015 3.0k citations Dean M. Wingerchuk, Brenda Banwell et al. Neurology profile →
Antibodies to Kv1 potassium channel-complex proteins leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 protein and contactin-associated protein-2 in limbic encephalitis, Morvan’s syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia

2010 976 citations Sarosh R. Irani, Patrick Waters et al. Brain profile →
N-methyl-d-aspartate antibody encephalitis: temporal progression of clinical and paraclinical observations in a predominantly non-paraneoplastic disorder of both sexes

2010 784 citations Sarosh R. Irani, Patrick Waters et al. Brain profile →
Distinction between MOG antibody-positive and AQP4 antibody-positive NMO spectrum disorders

2014 620 citations Marco Aurélio Lana–Peixoto, Patrick Waters et al. Neurology profile →
Faciobrachial dystonic seizures precede Lgi1 antibody limbic encephalitis

2010 600 citations Sarosh R. Irani, Patrick Waters et al. Annals of Neurology profile →
Clinical presentation and prognosis in MOG-antibody disease: a UK study

2017 481 citations Maciej Juryńczyk, Mark Woodhall et al. Brain profile →
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders With Aquaporin-4 and Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibodies

2014 439 citations Patrick Waters, Mark Woodhall et al. JAMA Neurology profile →
Serologic diagnosis of NMO

2012 404 citations Patrick Waters, Maria Isabel Leite et al. Neurology profile →
Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies in neurological disease

2018 393 citations Patrick Waters et al. profile →
Glycine receptor antibodies in PERM and related syndromes: characteristics, clinical features and outcomes

2014 333 citations Maria Isabel Leite, Patrick Waters et al. Brain profile →
MOG cell-based assay detects non-MS patients with inflammatory neurologic disease

2015 271 citations Patrick Waters, Mark Woodhall et al. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Waters United Kingdom	62	14.3k	9.6k	3.8k	2.9k	2.1k	237	20.0k
Sean J. Pittock United States	86	22.8k 1.6×	18.4k 1.9×	6.9k 1.8×	4.9k 1.7×	2.8k 1.3×	425	31.4k
Vanda A. Lennon United States	97	26.2k 1.8×	15.4k 1.6×	5.9k 1.5×	7.9k 2.7×	5.7k 2.7×	395	41.5k
Francesc Graus Spain	99	28.3k 2.0×	4.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.5×	5.7k 1.9×	1.8k 0.8×	437	35.2k
B. E. Kendall United Kingdom	60	4.6k 0.3×	4.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	421 0.2×	283	13.1k
Antonio Uccelli Italy	58	1.8k 0.1×	3.4k 0.4×	1.0k 0.3×	4.2k 1.4×	3.8k 1.8×	236	16.7k
Fred H. Hochberg United States	74	5.2k 0.4×	3.4k 0.4×	515 0.1×	8.8k 3.0×	1.2k 0.6×	218	22.2k
Josep Dalmau United States	110	40.0k 2.8×	2.1k 0.2×	1.8k 0.5×	8.1k 2.8×	2.6k 1.2×	520	46.5k
Hannu Kalimo Finland	70	3.2k 0.2×	1.1k 0.1×	1.1k 0.3×	5.5k 1.9×	657 0.3×	312	15.4k
Paolo Gallo Italy	48	2.2k 0.2×	4.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	945 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	182	7.6k
Neil R. Miller United States	53	4.7k 0.3×	2.2k 0.2×	855 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	129 0.1×	368	11.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Waters

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Fox, Hannah, et al.. (2026). Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Clinical Features Associated With Seronegative Autoimmune Encephalitis. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 13(2). e200540–e200540.

Woodhall, Mark, et al.. (2025). Quantitative analysis of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibodies titres: correlation with relapses. Brain Communications. 7(5). fcaf312–fcaf312. 1 indexed citations

Crawford, Abbe, Iris Van Soens, Ine Cornelis, et al.. (2025). Case Series of Canine Myasthenia Gravis: A Classification Approach With Consideration of Seronegative Dogs. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 39(3). e70113–e70113.

Alves, Cesar, Julia O’Mahony, E. Ann Yeh, et al.. (2025). Spinal Cord Leptomeningeal Enhancement as a Marker of Extensive Spinal Cord Involvement in Children With MOGAD. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 13(1). e200449–e200449.

Fadda, Giulia, Carmen Yea, Julia O’Mahony, et al.. (2024). Epstein–Barr Virus Strongly Associates With Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis, But Not Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein‐Antibody‐Associated Disease. Annals of Neurology. 95(4). 700–705. 7 indexed citations

Fadda, Giulia, Brenda Banwell, Colm Elliott, et al.. (2024). Slowly Expanding Lesions Differentiate Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis from Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody Disease. Annals of Neurology. 96(6). 1086–1091. 2 indexed citations

Handel, Adam E., Jacqueline Palace, Elizabeth Bateman, Patrick Waters, & Sarosh R. Irani. (2023). Changes in the Rate of Leucine-Rich Glioma-Inactivated 1 Seropositivity During the COVID-19 Lockdown. JAMA Neurology. 80(4). 419–419. 3 indexed citations

Seok, Jin Myoung, Patrick Waters, Hye Lim Lee, et al.. (2023). Clinical Usefulness of a Cell-based Assay for Detecting Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibodies in Central Nervous System Inflammatory Disorders. Annals of Laboratory Medicine. 44(1). 56–63.

Lennox, Belinda, Patrick Waters, Alasdair Coles, et al.. (2022). The serum metabolomic profile of a distinct, inflammatory subtype of acute psychosis. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(11). 4722–4730. 4 indexed citations

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Fichtner, Miriam L., Kenneth B. Hoehn, Marina Mané-Damas, et al.. (2022). Reemergence of pathogenic, autoantibody-producing B cell clones in myasthenia gravis following B cell depletion therapy. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 10(1). 154–154. 26 indexed citations

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Fadda, Giulia, Patrick Waters, Mark Woodhall, et al.. (2022). Serum MOG-IgG in children meeting multiple sclerosis diagnostic criteria. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 28(11). 1697–1709. 15 indexed citations

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Fadda, Giulia, Brenda Banwell, Patrick Waters, et al.. (2020). Silent New Brain MRI Lesions in Children with MOG‐Antibody Associated Disease. Annals of Neurology. 89(2). 408–413. 34 indexed citations

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Stathopoulos, Panos, Patrick Waters, Sarosh R. Irani, et al.. (2019). Autoantibodies against Neurologic Antigens in Nonneurologic Autoimmunity. The Journal of Immunology. 202(8). 2210–2219. 21 indexed citations

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Juryńczyk, Maciej, Silvia Messina, Mark Woodhall, et al.. (2018). Clinical presentation and prognosis in MOG-antibody disease: a UK study (vol 140, pg 12, 2017). Brain. 141. 2 indexed citations

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Wingerchuk, Dean M., Brenda Banwell, Jeffrey L. Bennett, et al.. (2015). International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders. Neurology. 85(2). 177–189. 2985 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nytrová, Petra, Eliška Potluková, David Kemlink, et al.. (2014). Complement activation in patients with neuromyelitis optica. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 274(1-2). 185–191. 60 indexed citations

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Papadopoulos, Marios C., Samira Saadoun, Patrick Waters, et al.. (2011). Neutrophil protease inhibition reduces NMO-IgG-induced damage in mouse brain. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 17. 7 indexed citations

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Leite, Maria Isabel, Daniel Lashley, Andrew Weir, et al.. (2009). NEUROMYELITIS OPTICA SPECTRUM AND RELATIONSHIP WITH AQUAPORIN-4 ANTIBODY DISEASE: THE OXFORD COHORT. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 80. 2 indexed citations

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Akman‐Demir, Gülşen, Erdem Tüzün, Sven Jarius, et al.. (2008). Devic's neuromyelitis optica: Prognostic implications of NMO IgG status in Turkish patients. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 203. 184–184. 2 indexed citations

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Irani, Sarosh R., et al.. (2008). A novel antigenic target in Morvan's syndrome. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 203. 181–181. 1 indexed citations

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