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Ozgur Kasapcopur is an expert in Rheumatology at Haseki Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi (Turkey). As of October 2026, ScienceLeadR ranks Ozgur Kasapcopur in the top 1% of experts worldwide for Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases, and in the top 1% of experts in Turkey for Coronavirus Infections. Ozgur Kasapcopur has authored 619 publications, the most recent in 2026, and is an investigator in 13 clinical trials, 1 of them ongoing. SLR score: 2,298 (community average: 125). How the SLR is computed.

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Rheumatology

Subspecialties: Pediatrics - Immunology - Cardiology

Full career – Last 3 years

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Publications and Clinical Studies

Publications – Clinical Studies

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Short Biography

Professor Özgür Kasapçopur is a Professor in Pediatrics at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatrics, and is currently Head of Pediatrics and Pediatric Rheumatology. He serves as the Chairman of Institutional Review Board and Clinical Research Ethical Committee of Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty (2000-2021). Professor Kasapçopur received his undergraduate education in Medicine at Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty and also completed here both his residency and fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics. Kasapcopur has been the Head of the Department of Pediatrics since 2024.

Professor Kasapçopur is a member of the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS), Pediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization (PRINTO), Turkish Pediatric Association and the Turkish National Society of Pediatric Rheumatology. Professor Kasapcopur is currently the former president of the Turkish Pediatric Rheumatology Association and Chairman of the Turkish Pediatric Association. He has been the secretary of the PReS Juvenile Scleroderma working party since 2018. Professor Kasapçopur’s research interests include vaccine response, cytokine pathway, and medical ethics, with clinical emphases on juvenile idiopathic arthritis, familial Mediterranean fever, autoinflammatory disease and juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis and scleroderma.

Professor Kasapçopur has published 103 book chapters in Turkish medical textbooks, and more than 403 original peer-reviewed articles (and case reports) in medical journals. The h factor of Professor Kasapçopur is 64 in Google Scholar, 52 in Scopus and 47 in web of science. He had more than 10000 citation in Web of Science.

Professor Kasapcopur is Editor-in-Chief of Turkish Archives Pediatrics. Additionally, Professor Kasapcopur is associate editor of Archives of Rheumatology, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Case Report in Pediatrics. He is also on the editorial board of many scientific national and international journals.


My Bibliography: https://avesis.istanbulc.edu.tr/ozgurkc

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Organizations

Career arc: 1991 - 2026
Source: PubMed

Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa

Publications Synthesis

Sources: PubMed, OpenAlex

Number : 619

Citations

Citations: 12 706 1st author: 21 Last author: 253 Unique author: 9

Main journals

Ann Rheum Dis 100
PEDIATR RHEUMATOL 36
Rheumatol Int 32
Clin Exp Rheumatol 28
Rheumatology (Oxford) 23

Best Journals

N Engl J Med 3
Sci Immunol 2
Lancet 1

Breakdown by type

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Latest Publications

5 most recent indexed articles

Source: Pubmed

Title Journal Year Citations
Performance of Large Language Models in Answering Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Questions: A Blinded Expert-based Comparative Study.
PMID 42848948 — rheumatology, language, lupus erythematosus, systemic, pediatrics, artificial intelligence		J Clin Rheumatol20260
Performance of lupus classification criteria in monogenic lupus: a national multicenter cohort study.
PMID 42834437 — cohort studies, classification, rheumatic diseases, nucleic acids		Rheumatology (Oxford)20260
Childhood-onset versus adult-onset Sjögren Syndrome: Clinical phenotype, disease activity, and predictors of organ damage in a national multicenter cohort.
PMID 42659937 — leukopenia, arthritis, phenotype, rheumatic diseases, signs and symptoms, sjogren's syndrome		Semin Arthritis Rheum20260
Neurological Complications in Pediatric Takayasu Arteritis: Insights from a Single-Center Experience.
PMID 42652737 — stroke, neuroimaging, takayasu arteritis, arteritis, signs and symptoms, hypertensive encephalopathy, brain diseases		J Clin Med20260
Association between canakinumab dose and long-term remission in Still's disease: insights from the AIDA network registry.
PMID 42639233 — registries, probability, arthritis, precision medicine, therapeutics, biological therapy		Front Pharmacol20260

Clinical Studies 13

Sources: ClinicalTrials, EU CTIS

Synthesis

Principal Investigator: 1

By phase:

Phase 3 6
N/A 3
Phase 2 2
Phase 2/Phase 3 1
Phase 4 1

By status:

Completed 11
Recruiting 2

By type:

Interventional 13

By Monocentric/Multicentric:

monocentric 5
multicentric2to4 0
multicentric5to9 0
multicentricup10 8

Main Topics

Cohort/Consortium Investigators 6

Ongoing Clinical Trials

Ongoing trial started since 2021, where this expert is an investigator

Source: ClinicalTrials

Study Phase Status Start
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
NCT05984316 — depression, exercise, genes, lupus erythematosus, systemic, signs and symptoms, cognition disorders, movement, cognition		N/ARecruiting2023

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Sources: PubMed, OpenAlex, ClinicalTrials, EU CTIS