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D-Index
47
Citations
14790
World Ranking
1240
National Ranking
23

Leonhard Held publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Leonhard Held sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 199 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Leonhard Held D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leonhard Held is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on mathematics, with a substantial number of publications in the subfields of statistics and probability, statistics, probability and uncertainty, modeling and simulation, economics and econometrics, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics covered in their work include statistical methods applied in clinical trials, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, advanced causal inference techniques, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, statistical methods and inference broadly, and health systems with economic evaluations and assessments of quality of life.

Leonhard Held has authored numerous papers across a variety of scientific venues. Recent publications include:

  • Ten simple rules for good research practice, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Probabilistic forecasting of replication studies, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Different Worlds Confirmatory Versus Exploratory Research, 2020, Significance
  • Pan-African evolution of within- and between-country COVID-19 dynamics, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Assessing treatment effects and publication bias across different specialties in medicine: a meta-epidemiological study, 2021, BMJ Open

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Samuel Pawel
  • Charlotte Micheloud
  • Rachel Heyard
  • Simon Schwab
  • Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar

Leonhard Held's publications appear often in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich), Significance, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

They have also contributed to academic books, with publications under the University of Zurich and the Statistics for Biology and Health publisher. Among these is the work titled Likelihood and Bayesian Inference: With Applications in Biology and Medicine published in 2020, as well as Likelihood and Bayesian Inference, also from 2020.

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications

    Håvard Rue;Leonhard Held

  • Bayesian auxiliary variable models for binary and multinomial regression

    Chris C. Holmes;Leonhard Held

  • Predictive model assessment for count data.

    Claudia Czado;Tilmann Gneiting;Leonhard Held

  • Projecting the future burden of cancer: Bayesian age–period–cohort analysis with integrated nested Laplace approximations

    Andrea Riebler;Leonhard Held

  • On p-Values and Bayes Factors

    Leonhard Held;Manuela Ott

  • Assessing probabilistic forecasts of multivariate quantities, with an application to ensemble predictions of surface winds

    Tilmann Gneiting;Larissa I. Stanberry;Eric P. Grimit;Leonhard Held

  • A statistical framework for the analysis of multivariate infectious disease surveillance counts

    Leonhard Held;Michael Höhle;Mathias Hofmann

  • Power-law models for infectious disease spread

    Sebastian Meyer;Leonhard Held

  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Epidemic Phenomena Using the R Package surveillance

    Sebastian Meyer;Leonhard Held;Michael Höhle

  • Spatio-temporal disease mapping using INLA†

    Birgit Schrödle;Leonhard Held

  • Posterior and Cross-validatory Predictive Checks: A Comparison of MCMC and INLA

    Leonhard Held;Birgit Schrödle;Håvard Rue

  • Towards joint disease mapping

    Leonhard H Held;Isabel Natario;Sarah Elaine Fenton;Havard Rue

  • Sensitivity analysis in Bayesian generalized linear mixed models for binary data

    Małgorzata Roos;Leonhard Held

  • Multivariate modelling of infectious disease surveillance data

    M. Paul;L. Held;A. M. Toschke

  • Predictive assessment of a non-linear random effects model for multivariate time series of infectious disease counts.

    M. Paul;L. Held

  • Effect of Early Prophylactic High-Dose Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in Very Preterm Infants on Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 2 Years: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Giancarlo Natalucci;Giancarlo Natalucci;Beatrice Latal;Brigitte Koller;Christoph Rüegger

  • Statistical methods for spatio-temporal systems

    Barbel Finkenstadt;Leonhard Held;Valerie Isham

  • A primer on disease mapping and ecological regression using $${ exttt{INLA}}$$

    Birgit Schrödle;Leonhard Held

  • Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory And Applications (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)

    Havard Rue;Leonhard Held

Frequent Co-Authors

Håvard Rue
Håvard Rue King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bruno Ledergerber
Bruno Ledergerber University of Zurich
Gerhard Rogler
Gerhard Rogler University of Zurich
Volker Schmid
Volker Schmid Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Enos Bernasconi
Enos Bernasconi Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Huldrych F. Günthard
Huldrych F. Günthard University of Zurich
Thomas Klimkait
Thomas Klimkait University of Basel
Sabine Yerly
Sabine Yerly University of Geneva
Manuel Battegay
Manuel Battegay University Hospital of Basel
Jürg Böni
Jürg Böni University of Zurich

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