Stefan Pittner

1.4k total citations
37 papers, 961 citations indexed

About

Stefan Pittner is a scholar working on Insect Science, Small Animals and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Pittner has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 961 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Insect Science, 8 papers in Small Animals and 8 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Stefan Pittner's work include Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies (18 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (8 papers) and Animal testing and alternatives (8 papers). Stefan Pittner is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies (18 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (8 papers) and Animal testing and alternatives (8 papers). Stefan Pittner collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Stefan Pittner's co-authors include Sagar Kamarthi, Angela Zissler, Fabio Monticelli, Peter Steinbacher, Walter Stoiber, Alexandra Maria Sänger, J. Schneid, Jens Amendt, L. Lutz and Valentina Bugelli and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Pittner

37 papers receiving 925 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefan Pittner Austria 15 397 178 154 132 110 37 961
Mingquan Zhou China 21 8 0.0× 216 1.2× 192 1.2× 126 1.0× 631 5.7× 222 1.5k
Guangyu Zhao China 22 243 0.6× 176 1.0× 351 2.3× 11 0.1× 63 1.8k
José Ismael De la Rosa Vargas Mexico 13 31 0.1× 32 0.2× 12 0.1× 8 0.1× 236 2.1× 81 592
Dı́bio Leandro Borges Brazil 14 17 0.0× 19 0.1× 22 0.1× 8 0.1× 200 1.8× 44 569
Guohua Geng China 14 6 0.0× 50 0.3× 23 0.1× 116 0.9× 296 2.7× 144 680
Xiaoyu Sun China 11 22 0.1× 24 0.1× 32 0.2× 38 0.3× 43 404
Scott E. Umbaugh United States 19 9 0.0× 37 0.2× 38 0.2× 1 0.0× 582 5.3× 60 1.5k
Chris Solomon United Kingdom 8 5 0.0× 14 0.1× 18 0.1× 29 0.2× 332 3.0× 10 726
José Fonseca Portugal 16 3 0.0× 60 0.3× 86 0.6× 22 0.2× 101 0.9× 94 682
Andrea Fossati Switzerland 15 4 0.0× 26 0.1× 130 0.8× 4 0.0× 697 6.3× 39 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Pittner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Pittner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Pittner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stefan Pittner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stefan Pittner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stefan Pittner. Stefan Pittner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Obermayer, Astrid, Walter Stoiber, Peter Steinbacher, et al.. (2025). Quantitative investigation of diatom dispersion in lung tissue of confirmed drowning incidents. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 139(4). 1597–1607. 1 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Effect of temporary freezing on postmortem protein degradation patterns. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 137(6). 1803–1814. 2 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Jian Zhao, Astrid Obermayer, et al.. (2023). Validation and optimization of the diatom L/D ratio as a diagnostic marker for drowning. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 137(3). 939–948. 6 indexed citations
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Amendt, Jens, et al.. (2023). Morphological changes and protein degradation during the decomposition process of pig cadavers placed outdoors or in tents—a pilot study. Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. 20(2). 508–517. 5 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Sven Anders, Jens Amendt, et al.. (2022). A standard protocol for the analysis of postmortem muscle protein degradation: process optimization and considerations for the application in forensic PMI estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 136(6). 1913–1923. 13 indexed citations
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Helm, Katharina, et al.. (2021). Suitability of specific soft tissue swabs for the forensic identification of highly decomposed bodies. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 135(4). 1319–1327. 6 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, et al.. (2020). Intra- and intermuscular variations of postmortem protein degradation for PMI estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 134(5). 1775–1782. 12 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Valentina Bugelli, M. Eric Benbow, et al.. (2020). The applicability of forensic time since death estimation methods for buried bodies in advanced decomposition stages. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0243395–e0243395. 38 indexed citations
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Adamec, J., Peter Höfer, Stefan Pittner, et al.. (2020). Biomechanical assessment of various punching techniques. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 135(3). 853–859. 12 indexed citations
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Zissler, Angela, et al.. (2020). Postmortem Protein Degradation as a Tool to Estimate the PMI: A Systematic Review. Diagnostics. 10(12). 1014–1014. 47 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Valentina Bugelli, Angela Zissler, et al.. (2020). A field study to evaluate PMI estimation methods for advanced decomposition stages. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 134(4). 1361–1373. 59 indexed citations
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Zissler, Angela, Eunjung Kim, Eunji Cho, et al.. (2019). Postmortem proteomics to discover biomarkers for forensic PMI estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 133(3). 899–908. 63 indexed citations
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Zissler, Angela, et al.. (2018). Does altered protein metabolism interfere with postmortem degradation analysis for PMI estimation?. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 132(5). 1349–1356. 17 indexed citations
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Zissler, Angela, et al.. (2017). Are animal models predictive for human postmortem muscle protein degradation?. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 131(6). 1615–1621. 30 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Fabio Monticelli, Angela Zissler, et al.. (2016). Postmortem muscle protein degradation in humans as a tool for PMI delimitation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(6). 1547–1555. 69 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Angela Zissler, Wolfgang Trutschnig, et al.. (2016). First application of a protein-based approach for time since death estimation. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 131(2). 479–483. 34 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, Fabio Monticelli, Angela Zissler, et al.. (2015). Postmortem degradation of skeletal muscle proteins: a novel approach to determine the time since death. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 130(2). 421–431. 66 indexed citations
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Kamarthi, Sagar & Stefan Pittner. (1999). Accelerating neural network training using weight extrapolations. Neural Networks. 12(9). 1285–1299. 89 indexed citations
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Pittner, Stefan, J. Schneid, & Christoph W. Ueberhuber. (1993). Wavelet literature survey. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 6 indexed citations

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