Sekhar Pillai

1.8k total citations
17 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sekhar Pillai is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sekhar Pillai has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Neurology, 6 papers in Epidemiology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sekhar Pillai's work include Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (10 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (6 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (6 papers). Sekhar Pillai is often cited by papers focused on Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments (10 papers), Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders (6 papers) and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (6 papers). Sekhar Pillai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Sekhar Pillai's co-authors include Russell C. Dale, Fabienne Brilot, Deepak Gill, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Tim D. Aumann, Vera Merheb, Richard Webster, Angela Vincent, Hilla Ben‐Pazi and Sophia Varadkar and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Brain and Annals of Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Sekhar Pillai

17 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sekhar Pillai Australia 14 881 221 196 177 153 17 1.1k
Stefan Blum Australia 19 685 0.8× 120 0.5× 162 0.8× 179 1.0× 166 1.1× 61 1.1k
Ignacio Málaga Spain 13 563 0.6× 235 1.1× 203 1.0× 95 0.5× 77 0.5× 47 950
Rebecca Davis United States 11 1.1k 1.2× 255 1.2× 179 0.9× 121 0.7× 244 1.6× 20 1.4k
Bianca Teegen Germany 17 627 0.7× 228 1.0× 170 0.9× 48 0.3× 118 0.8× 50 1.0k
Kavitha Kothur Australia 13 349 0.4× 107 0.5× 113 0.6× 144 0.8× 70 0.5× 33 873
Margherita Nosadini Italy 21 962 1.1× 257 1.2× 221 1.1× 125 0.7× 138 0.9× 73 1.4k
Katarzyna D. Bera United Kingdom 4 743 0.8× 253 1.1× 110 0.6× 77 0.4× 123 0.8× 9 824
Oliver Stich Germany 24 954 1.1× 145 0.7× 155 0.8× 95 0.5× 150 1.0× 65 1.6k
Mary Gable United States 7 682 0.8× 241 1.1× 216 1.1× 145 0.8× 82 0.5× 11 821
Christine Klingbeil Germany 6 604 0.7× 154 0.7× 138 0.7× 65 0.4× 130 0.8× 7 736

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sekhar Pillai

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All Works

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Cheung, Andrew, Tejaswi Kandula, Michael Cardamone, et al.. (2022). Urgent computed tomography angiography in paediatric stroke. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 65(1). 126–135. 3 indexed citations
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Koirala, Archana, Philip N Britton, William D . Rawlinson, et al.. (2018). CSF neopterin, a useful biomarker in children presenting with influenza associated encephalopathy?. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 23(1). 204–213. 12 indexed citations
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Mohammad, Shekeeb S., Sekhar Pillai, Esther Tantsis, et al.. (2017). High sensitivity and specificity in proposed clinical diagnostic criteria for anti‐N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 59(12). 1256–1260. 40 indexed citations
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Kothur, Kavitha, Louise Wienholt, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, et al.. (2016). Utility of CSF Cytokine/Chemokines as Markers of Active Intrathecal Inflammation: Comparison of Demyelinating, Anti-NMDAR and Enteroviral Encephalitis. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161656–e0161656. 101 indexed citations
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Mohammad, Shekeeb S., Sekhar Pillai, Margherita Nosadini, et al.. (2016). Etiological associations and outcome predictors of acute electroencephalography in childhood encephalitis. Clinical Neurophysiology. 127(10). 3217–3224. 24 indexed citations
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Pillai, Sekhar, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Yael Hacohen, et al.. (2015). Postencephalitic epilepsy and drug‐resistant epilepsy after infectious and antibody‐associated encephalitis in childhood: Clinical and etiologic risk factors. Epilepsia. 57(1). e7–e11. 50 indexed citations
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Mohammad, Shekeeb S., Hannah Jones, Martin Hong, et al.. (2015). Symptomatic treatment of children with anti‐NMDAR encephalitis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 58(4). 376–384. 47 indexed citations
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Pillai, Sekhar, Esther Tantsis, Kristina Prelog, et al.. (2014). Confirmed enterovirus encephalitis with associated steroid-responsive acute disseminated encephalomyelitis: An overlapping infection and inflammation syndrome. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 19(2). 266–270. 5 indexed citations
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Mohammad, Shekeeb S., Victor S.C. Fung, Padraic J. Grattan‐Smith, et al.. (2014). Movement disorders in children with anti‐NMDAR encephalitis and other autoimmune encephalopathies. Movement Disorders. 29(12). 1539–1542. 65 indexed citations
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Mohammad, Shekeeb S., Kate Sinclair, Sekhar Pillai, et al.. (2013). Herpes simplex encephalitis relapse with chorea is associated with autoantibodies to N ‐Methyl‐ D ‐aspartate receptor or dopamine‐2 receptor. Movement Disorders. 29(1). 117–122. 131 indexed citations
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Dale, Russell C., Sekhar Pillai, & Fabienne Brilot. (2012). Cerebrospinal fluid CD19+ B‐cell expansion in N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor encephalitis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 55(2). 191–193. 30 indexed citations
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Dale, Russell C., Vera Merheb, Sekhar Pillai, et al.. (2012). Antibodies to surface dopamine-2 receptor in autoimmune movement and psychiatric disorders. Brain. 135(11). 3453–3468. 262 indexed citations
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Pillai, Sekhar, Deepak Gill, Richard Webster, Robert Howman‐Giles, & Russell C. Dale. (2010). Cortical Hypometabolism Demonstrated by PET in Relapsing NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. Pediatric Neurology. 43(3). 217–220. 43 indexed citations
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Dale, Russell C., et al.. (2010). A prospective study of acute movement disorders in children. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 52(8). 739–748. 44 indexed citations
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Dale, Russell C., Sarosh R. Irani, Fabienne Brilot, et al.. (2009). N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate receptor antibodies in pediatric dyskinetic encephalitis lethargica. Annals of Neurology. 66(5). 704–709. 155 indexed citations
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Dale, Russell C. & Sekhar Pillai. (2007). Early relapse risk after a first CNS inflammatory demyelination episode: examining international consensus definitions. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 49(12). 887–893. 50 indexed citations

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