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Birgit Ertl-Wagner

Birgit Ertl-Wagner

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Neuroscience

D-Index
61
Citations
14864
World Ranking
3654
National Ranking
206

Birgit Ertl-Wagner publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birgit Ertl-Wagner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 349 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Birgit Ertl-Wagner D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birgit Ertl-Wagner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Birgit Ertl-Wagner is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research spans several subfields including neurology, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and oncology.

The scientist has published within key areas such as glioma diagnosis and treatment, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, vestibular and auditory disorders, brain tumor detection and classification, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Frequent publication venues for Birgit Ertl-Wagner include:

  • Neuro-Oncology
  • American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ertl-Wagner are:

  • Matthias Wagner
  • Cynthia Hawkins
  • Uri Tabori
  • Farzad Khalvati
  • Daniel Keeser

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Birgit Ertl-Wagner include:

  • "Resting-state fMRI detects alterations in whole brain connectivity related to tumor biology in glioma patients," 2020, Neuro-Oncology
  • "Vestibular Disorders," 2020, Deutsches Ärzteblatt international
  • "Radiomics of Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas: Toward a Pretherapeutic Differentiation of BRAF-Mutated and BRAF-Fused Tumors," 2021, American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • "Improving 3D convolutional neural network comprehensibility via interactive visualization of relevance maps: evaluation in Alzheimer's disease," 2021, Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED)
  • "Small vessel disease more than Alzheimer's disease determines diffusion MRI alterations in memory clinic patients," 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Best Publications

  • The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards a large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain architecture in autism

    A Di Martino;C-G Yan;Q Li;E Denio

  • Hough-CNN: Deep learning for segmentation of deep brain regions in MRI and ultrasound

    Fausto Milletari;Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi;Christine Kroll;Annika Plate

  • A Novel Imaging Marker for Small Vessel Disease Based on Skeletonization of White Matter Tracts and Diffusion Histograms

    Ebru Baykara;Benno Gesierich;Ruth Adam;Anil Man Tuladhar

  • White matter integrity in the brains of professional soccer players without a symptomatic concussion.

    Inga Katharina Koerte;Birgit Ertl-Wagner;Maximilian Reiser;Ross Dennis Zafonte

  • Agenesis and dysgenesis of the corpus callosum: clinical, genetic and neuroimaging findings in a series of 41 patients.

    Chayim Can Schell-Apacik;Kristina Wagner;Moritz Bihler;Birgit Ertl-Wagner

  • Diagnostic value of multidetector-row CT angiography in the evaluation of thrombosis of the cerebral venous sinuses.

    Linn J;Ertl-Wagner B;Seelos Kc;Strupp M

  • Autoantibodies to MOG in a distinct subgroup of adult multiple sclerosis

    Melania Spadaro;Lisa Ann Gerdes;Markus Krumbholz;Birgit Ertl-Wagner

  • Histopathology and clinical course of MOG-antibody-associated encephalomyelitis.

    Melania Spadaro;Lisa Ann Gerdes;Marie C Mayer;Birgit Ertl-Wagner

  • Serum neurofilament light: A biomarker of neuroaxonal injury after ischemic stroke.

    Steffen Tiedt;Marco Duering;Christian Barro;Asli Gizem Kaya

  • Structural and functional connectivity mapping of the vestibular circuitry from human brainstem to cortex

    V Kirsch;D Keeser;T Hergenroeder;O Erat

  • Altered Neurochemistry in Former Professional Soccer Players without a History of Concussion.

    Inga Katharina Koerte;Alexander P. Lin;Marc Muehlmann;Marc Muehlmann;Sai Merugumala

  • Cortical thinning in former professional soccer players.

    Inga K. Koerte;Inga K. Koerte;Michael Mayinger;Michael Mayinger;Marc Muehlmann;Marc Muehlmann;David Kaufmann;David Kaufmann

  • Multi-detector row CT angiography of the brain at various kilovoltage settings.

    Birgit B. Ertl-Wagner;Ralf-Thorsten Hoffmann;Roland Bruning;Karin Herrmann

  • Subclinical Disease Burden as Assessed by Whole-Body MRI in Subjects With Prediabetes, Subjects With Diabetes, and Normal Control Subjects From the General Population: The KORA-MRI Study

    Fabian Bamberg;Fabian Bamberg;Holger Hetterich;Susanne Rospleszcz;Roberto Lorbeer

  • Diagnostic Value of Increased Diffusion Weighting of a Steady-state Free Precession Sequence for Differentiating Acute Benign Osteoporotic Fractures from Pathologic Vertebral Compression Fractures

    Andrea Baur;Armin Huber;Birgit Ertl-Wagner;Roland Dürr

  • Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment of Schizophrenia With Predominant Negative Symptoms: A Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Proof-of-Concept Study

    Ulrich Palm;Daniel Keeser;Alkomiet Hasan;Michael J. Kupka

  • Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age.

    Tommaso Ballarini;Debora Melo van Lent;Debora Melo van Lent;Julia Brunner;Alina Schröder

  • In vivo visualized endolymphatic hydrops and inner ear functions in patients with electrocochleographically confirmed Ménière's disease.

    Robert Gürkov;Wilhelm Flatz;Julia Louza;Michael Strupp

  • Radiomics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence-what the neuroradiologist needs to know.

    Matthias W. Wagner;Khashayar Namdar;Asthik Biswas;Suranna Monah

  • Endolymphatic hydrops in patients with vestibular migraine and auditory symptoms

    Robert Gürkov;Claudia Kantner;Michael Strupp;W. Flatz

  • Quantification of perfusion and permeability in multiple sclerosis: dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in 3D at 3T.

    Michael Ingrisch;Steven Sourbron;Dominik Morhard;Birgit Ertl-Wagner

  • Muscle biopsy substantiates long-term MRI alterations one year after a single dose of botulinum toxin injected into the lateral gastrocnemius muscle of healthy volunteers.

    A. Sebastian Schroeder;Birgit Ertl‐Wagner;Stefanie Britsch;J. Michael Schröder

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Keeser
Daniel Keeser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Maximilian F. Reiser
Maximilian F. Reiser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Josef Priller
Josef Priller Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Martin Dichgans
Martin Dichgans Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Michael T. Heneka
Michael T. Heneka University Hospital Bonn

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