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Christian E. Elger

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Medicine
Germany
2026
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Neuroscience
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
163
Citations
103393
World Ranking
684
National Ranking
30

Neuroscience

D-Index
163
Citations
103550
World Ranking
98
National Ranking
3

Christian E. Elger 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 Christian E. Elger sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 1,109 publications — 100th percentile

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Christian E. Elger 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 Christian E. Elger sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 163 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Christian E. Elger is affiliated with the University Hospital Bonn in Germany. Their research activity centers significantly on epilepsy, intersecting with several medical and neuroscience-related disciplines. They have contributed extensively to the field of medicine with a total of 132 publications, including 48 specifically in neuroscience. Their subfield expertise spans psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and genetics.

Elger's body of work prominently involves epilepsy research and treatment, which features in 82 of their publications. Their interests also include pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and RNA regulation and disease.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Elger include:

  • Rainer Surges
  • Albert J. Becker
  • Christoph Helmstaedter
  • Theodor Rüber
  • Angela M. Kaindl

The primary venues for Elger's research publications are:

  • Epilepsia
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Seizure
  • Brain
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Christian E. Elger include:

  • "Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study", 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • "GWAS meta-analysis of over 29,000 people with epilepsy identifies 26 risk loci and subtype-specific genetic architecture", 2023, Nature Genetics
  • "Deep Brain Stimulation of the Anterior Nucleus of the Thalamus in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in the MORE Multicenter Patient Registry", 2023, Neurology
  • "Epilepsy subtype-specific copy number burden observed in a genome-wide study of 17,458 subjects", 2020, Brain
  • "External validation of automated focal cortical dysplasia detection using morphometric analysis", 2021, Epilepsia

Best Publications

  • ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy

    Robert S. Fisher;Carlos Acevedo;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Alicia Bogacz

  • Epileptic Seizures and Epilepsy: Definitions Proposed by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE)

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  • Indications of nonlinear deterministic and finite-dimensional structures in time series of brain electrical activity: dependence on recording region and brain state.

    Ralph G. Andrzejak;Klaus Lehnertz;Florian Mormann;Christoph Rieke

  • Mean phase coherence as a measure for phase synchronization and its application to the EEG of epilepsy patients

    Florian Mormann;Klaus Lehnertz;Peter David;Christian E. Elger

  • Seizure prediction: the long and winding road.

    Florian Mormann;Ralph G. Andrzejak;Christian E. Elger;Klaus Lehnertz

  • Cross-frequency coupling supports multi-item working memory in the human hippocampus

    Nikolai Axmacher;Melanie M. Henseler;Ole Jensen;Ilona Weinreich

  • Chronic epilepsy and cognition

    Christian E Elger;Christoph Helmstaedter;Martin Kurthen

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Human memory formation is accompanied by rhinal-hippocampal coupling and decoupling.

    Jürgen Fell;Peter Klaver;Klaus Lehnertz;Thomas Grunwald

  • Hierarchical nesting of slow oscillations, spindles and ripples in the human hippocampus during sleep

    Bernhard P Staresina;Bernhard P Staresina;Til Ole Bergmann;Mathilde Bonnefond;Roemer van der Meij

  • Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum

    Klaus Fliessbach;Bernd Weber;P. Trautner;Thomas Dohmen

  • Chronic epilepsy and cognition: a longitudinal study in temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Christoph Helmstaedter;Martin Kurthen;Silke Lux;Markus Reuber

  • Pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of Rasmussen encephalitis A European consensus statement

    C. G. Bien;T. Granata;C. Antozzi;J. H. Cross

  • Reward expectation modulates feedback-related negativity and EEG spectra

    Michael X. Cohen;Christian Erich Elger;Charan Ranganath

  • Can Epileptic Seizures be Predicted? Evidence from Nonlinear Time Series Analysis of Brain Electrical Activity

    Klaus Lehnertz;Christian E. Elger

  • A robust method for detecting interdependences: application to intracranially recorded EEG

    J. Arnhold;P. Grassberger;K. Lehnertz;C. E. Elger

  • 15q13.3 microdeletions increase risk of idiopathic generalized epilepsy

    Ingo Helbig;Heather C. Mefford;Andrew J. Sharp;Michel Guipponi

  • On the predictability of epileptic seizures.

    Florian Mormann;Thomas Kreuz;Christoph Rieke;Ralph G. Andrzejak

  • Characterization of Superoxide-producing Sites in Isolated Brain Mitochondria

    Alexei P. Kudin;Nana Yaw B. Bimpong-Buta;Stefan Vielhaber;Christian E. Elger

  • Memory formation by neuronal synchronization.

    Nikolai Axmacher;Florian Mormann;Guillen Fernández;Christian E. Elger

  • Diagnostic delay in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

    M. Reuber;G.S.E. Fernandez;J. Bauer;C. Helmstaedter

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Helmstaedter
Christoph Helmstaedter University Hospital Bonn
Johannes Schramm
Johannes Schramm University of Bonn
Klaus Lehnertz
Klaus Lehnertz University of Bonn
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Guillén Fernández
Guillén Fernández Radboud University
Rainer Surges
Rainer Surges University Hospital Bonn
Martin Kurthen
Martin Kurthen University of Bonn
Albert J. Becker
Albert J. Becker University Hospital Bonn
Nikolai Axmacher
Nikolai Axmacher Ruhr University Bochum
Ingmar Blümcke
Ingmar Blümcke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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