Rainer Surges

13.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
216 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Rainer Surges is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Surges has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 70 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 61 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rainer Surges's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (127 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (62 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Rainer Surges is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (127 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (62 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Rainer Surges collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Rainer Surges's co-authors include Josemir W. Sander, Roland D. Thijs, Terence J. O’Brien, Christian E. Elger, Christoph Helmstaedter, Matthew C. Walker, Robert D. Nass, Marije van der Lende, Hanno L. Tan and Thomas J. Feuerstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Surges

205 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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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.

Epilepsy in adults

2019 1.4k citations Roland D. Thijs, Rainer Surges et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rainer Surges Germany	39	3.2k	1.9k	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	216	6.0k
Sunao Kaneko Japan	46	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	897 0.6×	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	317	7.6k
Manjari Tripathi India	40	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	1000 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	385	6.6k
Berten Ceulemans Belgium	41	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	988 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	155	5.5k
Jeffrey Buchhalter United States	32	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	748 0.6×	2.6k 2.1×	143	6.7k
Piero Perucca Australia	29	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	712 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	139	4.7k
Steven C. Schachter United States	43	3.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.7×	764 0.6×	2.1k 1.7×	193	8.0k
Antonio Gambardella Italy	48	4.3k 1.3×	3.4k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.7×	1.7k 1.4×	329	8.8k
Sylvain Rheims France	36	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	404 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	152	4.7k
Yushi Inoue Japan	35	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	222	4.3k
Peter Wolf Brazil	33	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	527 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	170	4.1k

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Hoppe, Christian, Anna Tietze, Valeri Borger, et al.. (2025). Association of Cortical Atrophy Patterns With Clinical Phenotypes and Histopathological Findings in Patients With Rasmussen Syndrome. Neurology. 104(10). e213629–e213629. 1 indexed citations

Serlin, Yonatan, Timothy Bardouille, Dan Z. Milikovsky, et al.. (2025). Paroxysmal cortical slowing linked to drug-resistant epilepsy. EBioMedicine. 116. 105780–105780.

Sabir, Hemmen, Tobias Baumgartner, Áttila Rácz, et al.. (2025). Portable ultra‐low‐field magnetic resonance imaging enables postictal seizure imaging. Epilepsia. 66(4). e60–e65. 1 indexed citations

Menon, Alessandra, Tobias Baumgartner, Alexander Isaak, et al.. (2025). Glenoid bony anatomy in patients with epilepsy is influenced by their tonic-clonic seizure burden. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.

Wrede, Randi von, et al.. (2024). Short-term effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation on T-wave alternans in people with focal epilepsy – An exploratory pilot study. Epilepsy & Behavior Reports. 26. 100657–100657. 1 indexed citations

Gnatkovsky, Vadym, Bastian David, Fee Keil, et al.. (2024). Detection of focal cortical dysplasia: Development and multicentric evaluation of artificial intelligence models. Epilepsia. 66(4). 1165–1176. 1 indexed citations

Schmidt, Markus H., M. S. Kehl, Johannes Schultz, et al.. (2024). Olfactory Dysfunction and Limbic Hypoactivation in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Human Brain Mapping. 45(16). e70061–e70061. 1 indexed citations

Surges, Rainer, et al.. (2023). Digital health applications in the self‐management of epilepsy—A survey on patients' perspective. Epilepsia Open. 8(4). 1288–1299. 6 indexed citations

Zsurka, Gábor, Kerstin Hallmann, Niels Hansen, et al.. (2023). Loss of the Immunomodulatory Transcription Factor BATF2 in Humans Is Associated with a Neurological Phenotype. Cells. 12(2). 227–227. 4 indexed citations

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Adler, Sophie, Konrad Wagstyl, Leonie Henschel, et al.. (2023). Artificial intelligence for the detection of focal cortical dysplasia: Challenges in translating algorithms into clinical practice. Epilepsia. 64(5). 1093–1112. 21 indexed citations

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Diers, Kersten, Juri‐Alexander Witt, Valeri Borger, et al.. (2023). A novel geometry‐based analysis of hippocampal morphometry in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Human Brain Mapping. 44(12). 4467–4479. 1 indexed citations

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Cucchi, Davide, Sebastian G. Walter, Tobias Baumgartner, et al.. (2023). Poor midterm clinical outcomes and a high percentage of unsatisfying results are reported after seizure-related shoulder injuries, especially after posterior proximal humerus fracture-dislocations. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 33(6). 1340–1351. 3 indexed citations

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Wrede, Randi von, et al.. (2023). Volumetric gray matter findings in autonomic network regions of people with focal epilepsy. Journal of Neuroimaging. 34(1). 55–60. 1 indexed citations

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Borger, Valeri, et al.. (2023). Distinct neuronal representation of small and large numbers in the human medial temporal lobe. Nature Human Behaviour. 7(11). 1998–2007. 14 indexed citations

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Peltola, Jukka, Rainer Surges, Berthold Voges, & Tim J. von Oertzen. (2023). Expert opinion on diagnosis and management of epilepsy‐associated comorbidities. Epilepsia Open. 9(1). 15–32. 10 indexed citations

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Wrede, Randi von, Christoph Helmstaedter, & Rainer Surges. (2021). Cannabidiol in the Treatment of Epilepsy. Clinical Drug Investigation. 41(3). 211–220. 38 indexed citations

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Surges, Rainer, et al.. (2021). Autorisierte Übersetzung Zusammenfassung der Praxisleitlinien: Inzidenzraten und Risikofaktoren des plötzlichen unerwarteten Todes bei Epilepsie. Zeitschrift für Epileptologie. 34(2). 202–208. 1 indexed citations

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Chaieb, Leila, Thomas P. Reber, Valeri Borger, et al.. (2021). Auditory Beat Stimulation Modulates Memory-Related Single-Neuron Activity in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Brain Sciences. 11(3). 364–364. 6 indexed citations

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Thijs, Roland D., Rainer Surges, Terence J. O’Brien, & Josemir W. Sander. (2019). Epilepsy in adults. The Lancet. 393(10172). 689–701. 1352 indexed citations breakdown →

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Surges, Rainer, Thomas M. Freiman, & Thomas J. Feuerstein. (2002). K+-induced changes in the properties of the hyperpolarization-activated cation current Ih in rat CA1 pyramidal cells. Neuroscience Letters. 332(2). 136–140. 6 indexed citations

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