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 Australia. 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

Hit Papers

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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.

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 Max Hirshkowitz, Meir H. Kryger 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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas Penzel	9.7k	6.3k	6.2k	4.0k	3.4k	584	17.5k
Conrad Iber	12.1k 1.2×	6.7k 1.1×	9.1k 1.5×	4.9k 1.2×	5.0k 1.5×	96	18.8k
Daniel J. Gottlieb	17.8k 1.8×	5.9k 0.9×	12.3k 2.0×	6.8k 1.7×	7.5k 2.2×	146	24.7k
Steven A. Shea	6.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.4×	6.6k 1.1×	3.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	252	17.0k
Naresh M. Punjabi	11.1k 1.1×	3.8k 0.6×	7.8k 1.3×	4.8k 1.2×	4.6k 1.3×	207	17.2k
Atul Malhotra	23.5k 2.4×	7.8k 1.2×	17.6k 2.9×	6.3k 1.6×	9.8k 2.9×	609	32.7k
Christian Guilleminault	14.4k 1.5×	5.5k 0.9×	11.3k 1.8×	4.9k 1.2×	6.5k 1.9×	345	21.8k
Kingman P. Strohl	18.2k 1.9×	5.4k 0.9×	14.7k 2.4×	4.8k 1.2×	7.9k 2.3×	357	25.7k
Meir H. Kryger	7.7k 0.8×	4.1k 0.7×	6.1k 1.0×	4.2k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	204	13.4k
Allan I Pack	16.0k 1.6×	8.8k 1.4×	14.9k 2.4×	8.0k 2.0×	6.6k 1.9×	416	29.1k
Reena Mehra	10.7k 1.1×	2.7k 0.4×	7.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.6×	4.4k 1.3×	171	14.0k

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Duong‐Quy, Sy, et al.. (2025). Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Its Physio-Mechanical Effects on Sleep Breathing Disorder: A Systematic Review. Pulmonary Therapy. 12(1). 39–55.

Jahrami, Haitham, Waqar Husain, Khaled Trabelsi, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence and sleep medicine II: A scoping review of applications, advancements, and future directions. Sleep Medicine Reviews. 85. 102212–102212.

Dong, Xiaohong, et al.. (2024). The difference between hypoxic ventilatory response in highlanders and lowlanders with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Medicine. 115. S391–S392.

Fouda, J.S. Armand Eyebe, Wolfram Koepf, Norbert Marwan, Jürgen Kurths, & Thomas Penzel. (2024). Complexity from ordinal pattern positioned slopes (COPPS). Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 181. 114708–114708. 3 indexed citations

Partinen, Eemil, Yuichi Inoue, Mariusz Siemiński, et al.. (2024). Restless legs symptoms increased during COVID-19 pandemic. International ICOSS-survey. Sleep Medicine. 119. 389–398. 2 indexed citations

Haghi, Mostafa, et al.. (2024). Evolution of Bed-Based Sensor Technology in Unobtrusive Sleep Monitoring: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(19). 29545–29563. 3 indexed citations

Mazzotti, Diego R., Ulysses J. Magalang, Brendan T Keenan, et al.. (2024). OSA symptom subtypes and hypoxic burden independently predict distinct cardiovascular outcomes. ERJ Open Research. 11(1). 511–2024. 2 indexed citations

Ramezani, Amin, Amir Sharafkhaneh, Arash Maghsoudi, et al.. (2024). Age modifies the association between severe sleep apnea and all-cause mortality. Sleep Medicine. 121. 18–24. 6 indexed citations

Nath, Rajdeep Kumar, Sami Nikkonen, Samu Kainulainen, et al.. (2024). Temporal and sleep stage‐dependent agreement in manual scoring of respiratory events. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(3). e14391–e14391. 1 indexed citations

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ElMoaqet, Hisham, et al.. (2023). A CNN-BiLSTM Deep Learning Model for Automatic Scoring of EEG Signals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 642–645. 2 indexed citations

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Glos, Martin, et al.. (2023). Automatic sleep-stage classification of heart rate and actigraphy data using deep and transfer learning approaches. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 163. 107193–107193. 12 indexed citations

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Scarpelli, Serena, A. De Santis, Valentina Alfonsi, et al.. (2022). The role of sleep and dreams in long‐COVID. Journal of Sleep Research. 32(3). e13789–e13789. 15 indexed citations

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Keenan, Brendan T, Diego R. Mazzotti, Fernando Vaquerizo-Villar, et al.. (2021). Heart rate variability during wakefulness as a marker of obstructive sleep apnea severity. SLEEP. 44(5). 42 indexed citations

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Пономаренко, В. И., Anatoly S. Karavaev, Ekaterina I. Borovkova, et al.. (2021). Decrease of coherence between the respiration and parasympathetic control of the heart rate with aging. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 31(7). 73105–73105. 8 indexed citations

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Bonsignore, Maria R., Winfried Randerath, Sofia Schiza, et al.. (2020). European Respiratory Society statement on sleep apnoea, sleepiness and driving risk. European Respiratory Journal. 57(2). 2001272–2001272. 49 indexed citations

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Mendonça, Fábio, Sheikh Shanawaz Mostafa, Antonio G. Ravelo‐García, Fernando Morgado‐Dias, & Thomas Penzel. (2018). A Review of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Detection Approaches. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 23(2). 825–837. 155 indexed citations

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Karimi, Mahssa, Jan Hedner, Carolina Lombardi, et al.. (2014). Driving habits and risk factors for traffic accidents among sleep apnea patients – a E uropean multi‐centre cohort study. Journal of Sleep Research. 23(6). 689–699. 36 indexed citations

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Amra, Babak, et al.. (2013). Validation of the Persian Version of Berlin Sleep Questionnaire for Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations

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Kushida, Clete A., Alexander Blau, Tami Crabtree, et al.. (2011). Positive Airway Pressure Initiation: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Impact of Therapy Mode and Titration Process on Efficacy, Adherence, and Outcomes. SLEEP. 34(8). 1083–92. 56 indexed citations

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Amra, Babak, Mohammad Golshan, Ingo Fietze, Thomas Penzel, & Tobias Welte. (2011). Correlation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in a general population in Iran. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations

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