2026 Roberto Caraballo: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	49	5958	5483	10	9	210	9400

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Roberto Caraballo is affiliated with Garrahan Hospital in Argentina and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, particularly focusing on epilepsy and related neurological conditions. Their work spans various subfields including psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, molecular biology, genetics, and pharmacology.

Their research topics frequently address epilepsy research and treatment, with significant contributions to pharmacological effects and toxicity studies. They also explore cannabis and cannabinoid research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, metabolism and genetic disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

Roberto Caraballo's recent papers include:

Keeping people with epilepsy safe during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in Neurology
Updated classification of epileptic seizures: Position paper of the International League Against Epilepsy (2025), published in Epilepsia
Telemedicine, drug-resistant epilepsy, and ketogenic dietary therapies: A patient survey of a pediatric remote-care program during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), published in Epilepsy & Behavior
Telemedicine and epilepsy: A patient satisfaction survey of a pediatric remote care program (2020), published in Epilepsy Research
Levetiracetam vs Lamotrigine as First-Line Antiseizure Medication in Female Patients With Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (2023), published in JAMA Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Caraballo include Gabriela Reyes Valenzuela, Gabriela Reyes, Alberto Espeche, Adolfo Gallo, and Mariana Loos. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers focused on epilepsy and related neurological studies.

The primary venues for Roberto Caraballo's publications are:

Epilepsy & Behavior (12 publications)
Epilepsia (8 publications)
Epilepsy Research (8 publications)
Epileptic Disorders (8 publications)
Seizure (6 publications)

Their overall scholarly output is chiefly positioned within the field of medicine, with a substantive portion of work intersecting biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. This multidisciplinary approach supports comprehensive investigations into neurological disorders, focusing on both clinical and molecular perspectives.

Best Publications

Optimal clinical management of children receiving the ketogenic diet: Recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group

Eric H. Kossoff;Beth A. Zupec-Kania;Per E. Amark;Karen R. Ballaban-Gil

718
Citations
Optimal clinical management of children receiving dietary therapies for epilepsy: Updated recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group

Eric H. Kossoff;Beth A. Zupec‐Kania;Stéphane Auvin;Karen R. Ballaban‐Gil

700
Citations
Mutations in GRIN2A cause idiopathic focal epilepsy with rolandic spikes

Johannes R Lemke;Dennis Lal;Eva M Reinthaler;Isabelle Steiner

501
Citations
Mutations in the Gene PRRT2 Cause Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia with Infantile Convulsions

Hsien Yang Lee;Yong Huang;Yong Huang;Nadine Bruneau;Patrice Roll

306
Citations
Medical treatment of Rasmussen's syndrome (chronic encephalitis and epilepsy) : effect of high-dose steroids or immunoglobulins in 19 patients

Y. M. Hart;M. Cortez;F. Andermann;P. Hwang

289
Citations
GRIN2B mutations in West syndrome and intellectual disability with focal epilepsy.

Johannes R Lemke;Rik Hendrickx;Kirsten Geider;Bodo Laube

254
Citations
Atypical evolutions of benign localization-related epilepsies in children: are they predictable?

Natalio Fejerman;Roberto Caraballo;Silvia N. Tenembaum

215
Citations
Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a consensus view

Colin Ferrie;Roberto Caraballo;Athanasios Covanis;Veysi Demirbilek

212
Citations
Ketogenic Diet in Patients with Dravet Syndrome

Roberto Horacio Caraballo;Ricardo Oscar Cersósimo;Diego Sakr;Araceli Cresta

202
Citations
Treatment of electrical status epilepticus in sleep: A pooled analysis of 575 cases.

Bart van den Munckhof;Violet van Dee;Liora Sagi;Roberto H. Caraballo

181
Citations
Linkage of benign familial infantile convulsions to chromosome 16p12-q12 suggests allelism to the infantile convulsions and choreoathetosis syndrome

Roberto Caraballo;Sylvana Pavek;Arnaud Lemainque;Marguerite Gastaldi

174
Citations
Keeping people with epilepsy safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jacqueline A. French;Martin J. Brodie;Roberto Caraballo;Orrin Devinsky

156
Citations
Long-term follow-up of the ketogenic diet for refractory epilepsy: multicenter Argentinean experience in 216 pediatric patients.

Roberto Caraballo;María Vaccarezza;Ricardo Cersósimo;Viviana Rios

156
Citations
Autonomic status epilepticus in panayiotopoulos syndrome and other childhood and adult epilepsies: A consensus view

Colin D. Ferrie;Roberto Caraballo;Athanasios Covanis;Veysi Demirbilek

148
Citations
Landau–Kleffner syndrome: A study of 29 patients

Roberto Horacio Caraballo;Natalia Cejas;Noelia Chamorro;María C. Kaltenmeier

135
Citations
Panayiotopoulos-type benign childhood occipital epilepsy: a prospective study.

Roberto Caraballo;Ricardo Cersosimo;Carlos Medina;Natalio Fejerman

132
Citations
The role of EEG in the diagnosis and classification of the epilepsy syndromes: a tool for clinical practice by the ILAE Neurophysiology Task Force (Part 1)†

Michalis Koutroumanidis;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Roberto Caraballo;Sushma Goyal

128
Citations
Nonpharmacologic treatments of Dravet syndrome: Focus on the ketogenic diet

Roberto Horacio Caraballo

124
Citations
Dravet syndrome: A study of 53 patients

Roberto Horacio Caraballo;Natalio Fejerman

123
Citations
Ketogenic diet in patients with myoclonic-astatic epilepsy.

Roberto Horacio Caraballo;Ricardo Oscar Cersósimo;Diego Sakr;Araceli Cresta

123
Citations
Panayiotopoulos syndrome: a prospective study of 192 patients.

Roberto Caraballo;Ricardo Cersósimo;Natalio Fejerman

119
Citations
PRRT2 links infantile convulsions and paroxysmal dyskinesia with migraine

Robin Cloarec;Robin Cloarec;Robin Cloarec;Nadine Bruneau;Nadine Bruneau;Nadine Bruneau;Gabrielle Rudolf;Annick Massacrier;Annick Massacrier;Annick Massacrier

116
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