Thomas Penzel

28.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
584 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas Penzel is a scholar working on Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Penzel has authored 584 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 312 papers in Physiology, 195 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 181 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Thomas Penzel's work include Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research (308 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (160 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (137 papers). Thomas Penzel is often cited by papers focused on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research (308 papers), Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (160 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (137 papers). Thomas Penzel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Russia. Thomas Penzel's co-authors include Jan W. Kantelhardt, Ingo Fietze, Ludger Grote, Martin Glos, J. H. Peter, Armin Bunde, Atul Malhotra, Raphaël Heinzer, Heinrich F. Becker and Sérgio Tufik and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Penzel

547 papers receiving 17.0k 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.

Estimation of the global prevalence and burden of obstructive sleep apnoea: a literature-based analysis

2019 2.4k citations Thomas Penzel et al. profile →
The Visual Scoring of Sleep in Adults

2007 751 citations Meir H. Kryger, Thomas Penzel et al. profile →
Effect of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment on Blood Pressure in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

2003 658 citations Ludger Grote, Thomas Penzel et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Its Physio-Mechanical Effects on Sleep Breathing Disorder: A Systematic Review 2025 ·Pulmonary Therapy ·Sy Duong‐Quy, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Penzel, Clete A. Kushida, Timothy Craig	0
2	The difference between hypoxic ventilatory response in highlanders and lowlanders with obstructive sleep apnea 2024 ·Sleep Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiaohong Dong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shi Jing-shan, Fang Han, Thomas Penzel	0
3	Complexity from ordinal pattern positioned slopes (COPPS) 2024 ·Chaos Solitons & Fractals ·J.S. Armand Eyebe Fouda, Wolfram Koepf, Norbert Marwan, Jürgen Kurths, Thomas Penzel	3
4	Restless legs symptoms increased during COVID-19 pandemic. International ICOSS-survey 2024 ·Sleep Medicine ·Eemil Partinen, Yuichi Inoue, Mariusz Siemiński, Ilona Merikanto, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Courtney J. Bolstad, Frances Chung, Luigi De Gennaro, Colin A. Espie, Brigitte Holzinger, Kentaro Matsui, Sérgio Mota‐Rolim, Charles M. Morin, Michael R. Nadorff, Thomas Penzel, Giuseppe Plazzi, Yun Kwok Wing, Yves Dauvilliers, Markku Partinen	2
5	Temporal and sleep stage‐dependent agreement in manual scoring of respiratory events 2024 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Rajdeep Kumar Nath, Sami Nikkonen, Samu Kainulainen, Henri Korkalainen, (unknown), Erna Sif Arnardóttir, (unknown), Thomas Penzel, Francesco Fanfulla, Ulla Anttalainen, Tarja Saaresranta, Ludger Grote, Jan Hedner, Richard Staats, Juha Töyräs, Timo Leppänen	1
6	Age modifies the association between severe sleep apnea and all-cause mortality 2024 ·Sleep Medicine ·Amin Ramezani, (unknown), Amir Sharafkhaneh, Arash Maghsoudi, Melissa B. Jones, Thomas Penzel, Javad Razjouyan	6
7	Automatic sleep-stage classification of heart rate and actigraphy data using deep and transfer learning approaches 2023 ·Computers in Biology and Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), Martin Glos, (unknown), Thomas Penzel, Jan W. Kantelhardt, Ronny P. Bartsch	12
8	A CNN-BiLSTM Deep Learning Model for Automatic Scoring of EEG Signals 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Hisham ElMoaqet, (unknown), Mutaz Ryalat, Thomas Penzel	2
9	Chronic Insomnia Disorder across Europe: Expert Opinion on Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Care 2023 ·Healthcare ·Jason Ellis, Luigi Ferini‐Strambi, Diego García‐Borreguero, Anna Heidbreder, David O’Regan, Liborio Parrino, Hugh Selsick, Thomas Penzel	14
10	Mechanisms of Activation of Brain’s Drainage during Sleep: The Nightlife of Astrocytes 2023 ·Cells ·Dmitry E. Postnov, Oxana Semyachkina‐Glushkovskaya, (unknown), Jürgen Kurths, Thomas Penzel	9
11	Obstructive sleep apnoea-related respiratory events and desaturation severity are associated with the cardiac response 2022 ·ERJ Open Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Raquel Bailón, Thomas Penzel, Juha Töyräs, Timo Leppänen, Sami Myllymaa, Samu Kainulainen	9
12	The role of sleep and dreams in long‐COVID 2022 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·Serena Scarpelli, A. De Santis, Valentina Alfonsi, Maurizio Gorgoni, Charles M. Morin, Colin A. Espie, Ilona Merikanto, Frances Chung, Thomas Penzel, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Yves Dauvilliers, Brigitte Holzinger, Yun Kwok Wing, Markku Partinen, Giuseppe Plazzi, Luigi De Gennaro	15
13	Heart rate variability during wakefulness as a marker of obstructive sleep apnea severity 2021 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), Brendan T Keenan, Diego R. Mazzotti, Fernando Vaquerizo-Villar, Jan F. Kraemer, Niels Wessel, Sérgio Tufik, Lia Bittencourt, Peter A. Cistulli, Philip de Chazal, Kate Sutherland, Bhajan Singh, Allan I Pack, Ning‐Hung Chen, Ingo Fietze, Þórarinn Gíslason, Steven Holfinger, Ulysses J. Magalang, Thomas Penzel	42
14	Sleep quality of subjects with and without sleep-disordered breathing based on the cyclic alternating pattern rate estimation from single-lead ECG 2019 ·Physiological Measurement ·Fábio Mendonça, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, Fernando Morgado‐Dias, Antonio G. Ravelo‐García, Thomas Penzel	6
15	Time domain characterization for sleep apnea in oronasal airflow signal: a dynamic threshold classification approach 2018 ·Physiological Measurement ·Jungyoon Kim, Hisham ElMoaqet, Dawn M. Tilbury, Satya Krishna Ramachandran, Thomas Penzel	16
16	A Review of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection Approaches 2018 ·IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics ·Fábio Mendonça, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, Antonio G. Ravelo‐García, Fernando Morgado‐Dias, Thomas Penzel	155
17	Driving habits and risk factors for traffic accidents among sleep apnea patients – a E uropean multi‐centre cohort study 2014 ·Journal of Sleep Research ·Mahssa Karimi, Jan Hedner, Carolina Lombardi, Walter T. McNicholas, Thomas Penzel, Renata L. Riha, Daniel Rodenstein, Ludger Grote, (unknown)	36
18	Validation of the Persian Version of Berlin Sleep Questionnaire for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea 2013 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Babak Amra, (unknown), Mohammad Golshan, Ingo Fietze, Thomas Penzel	22
19	Positive Airway Pressure Initiation: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Therapy Mode and Titration Process on Efficacy, Adherence, and Outcomes 2011 ·SLEEP ·Clete A. Kushida, (unknown), Alexander Blau, Tami Crabtree, Ingo Fietze, Meir H. Kryger, Samuel T. Kuna, G. Vernon Pegram, Thomas Penzel	56
20	Correlation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in a general population in Iran 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Babak Amra, Mohammad Golshan, Ingo Fietze, Thomas Penzel, Tobias Welte	9

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