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Martin Kurthen

Martin Kurthen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
9412
World Ranking
7096
National Ranking
594

Martin Kurthen 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 Martin Kurthen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 138 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Martin Kurthen 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 Martin Kurthen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Martin Kurthen is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and neuroscience. Their scholarly output spans 16 publications in medicine and 5 in neuroscience, with a variety of subfields covered including neurology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

Kurthen's research focuses on several main topics, reflecting a strong emphasis on neurological disorders and treatments. Key areas of work include:

  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Free Will and Agency

Their publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • "Routine diagnostics for neural antibodies, clinical correlates, treatment and functional outcome" (2020), published in Journal of Neurology
  • "Seizures associated with antibodies against cell surface antigens are acute symptomatic and not indicative of epilepsy: insights from long-term data" (2020), published in Journal of Neurology
  • "Dr. Strangelove demystified: Disconnection of hand and language dominance explains alien-hand syndrome after corpus callosotomy" (2021), published in Seizure
  • "Correction to: Routine diagnostics for neural antibodies, clinical correlates, treatment and functional outcome" (2021), published in Journal of Neurology
  • "Correction to: Routine diagnostics for neural antibodies, clinical correlates, treatment and functional outcome" (2020), published in Journal of Neurology

Martin Kurthen frequently collaborates with other researchers, notably including Christian G. Bien, Corinna Bien, Müjgan Dogan Onugoren, Désirée De Simoni, and Verena Eigler.

The venues where Kurthen has most regularly published are:

  • Journal of Neurology
  • Seizure
  • Familiendynamik

In addition to journal articles, Martin Kurthen has also contributed to book literature with the publication of Actor & Avatar (2023) through Transcript Verlag. This work adds to their academic contributions beyond peer-reviewed journal outputs.

Best Publications

  • Chronic epilepsy and cognition

    Christian E Elger;Christoph Helmstaedter;Martin Kurthen

  • 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

  • Comparative risk of major congenital malformations with eight different antiepileptic drugs: a prospective cohort study of the EURAP registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;Torbjörn Tomson;Dina Battino;Erminio Bonizzoni;John Craig

  • Where's the action? The pragmatic turn in cognitive science

    Andreas K. Engel;Alexander Maye;Martin Kurthen;Peter König;Peter König

  • Standard magnetic resonance imaging is inadequate for patients with refractory focal epilepsy

    J. von Oertzen;H. Urbach;S. Jungbluth;M. Kurthen

  • Cardiac asystole in epilepsy: clinical and neurophysiologic features.

    R Rocamora;M Kurthen;L Lickfett;J Von Oertzen

  • Neural Bases of Cognitive ERPs: More than Phase Reset

    Juergen Fell;Thomas Dietl;Thomas Grunwald;Martin Kurthen

  • Patterns of Language Dominance in Focal Left and Right Hemisphere Epilepsies: Relation to MRI Findings, EEG, Sex, and Age at Onset of Epilepsy

    C. Helmstaedter;M. Kurthen;D.B. Linke;C.E. Elger

  • Outcome of epilepsy surgery in focal cortical dysplasia

    T Kral;H Clusmann;I Blümcke;R Fimmers

  • Preoperative evaluation for epilepsy surgery (Bonn Algorithm).

    T. Kral;H. Clusmann;J. Urbach;J. Schramm

  • Localizing value of epileptic visual auras

    Christian G. Bien;Felix O. Benninger;Horst Urbach;Johannes Schramm

  • Memory and epilepsy: characteristics, course, and influence of drugs and surgery.

    Christoph Helmstaedter;Martin Kurthen

  • Evidence relating human verbal memory to hippocampal N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors

    Thomas Grunwald;Heinz Beck;Klaus Lehnertz;Ingmar Blümcke

  • Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy impairs advanced social cognition.

    Martina Schacher;Rebecca Winkler;Thomas Grunwald;Guenter Kraemer

  • Essential functions of the human self model are implemented in the prefrontal cortex.

    Kai Vogeley;Martin Kurthen;Peter Falkai;Wolfgang Maier

  • Subdural recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) in patients with focal epilepsy.

    Timm Rosburg;Peter Trautner;Thomas Dietl;Oleg A. Korzyukov

  • Long‐Term Seizure Outcome and Antiepileptic Drug Treatment in Surgically Treated Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients: A Controlled Study

    Christian G. Bien;Martin Kurthen;Karin Baron;Silke Lux

  • Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of patterns of cerebral language dominance. An amobarbital study.

    Martin Kurthen;Ch. Helmstaedter;D. B. Linke;A. Hufnagel

  • “Tell me how do I feel” – Emotion recognition and theory of mind in symptomatic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Sarah D. Broicher;Giorgi Kuchukhidze;Thomas Grunwald;Günter Krämer

  • The localizing value of ictal consciousness and its constituent functions: a video-EEG study in patients with focal epilepsy.

    S Lux;M Kurthen;C Helmstaedter;W Hartje

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Johannes Schramm
Johannes Schramm University of Bonn
Christoph Helmstaedter
Christoph Helmstaedter University Hospital Bonn
Horst Urbach
Horst Urbach University of Freiburg
Christian G. Bien
Christian G. Bien Bielefeld University
Markus Reuber
Markus Reuber University of Sheffield
Guillén Fernández
Guillén Fernández Radboud University
Andreas Hufnagel
Andreas Hufnagel University of Bonn
Klaus Lehnertz
Klaus Lehnertz University of Bonn
Hans-Jürgen Huppertz
Hans-Jürgen Huppertz Swiss Epilepsy Center

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