A. Sun

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

A. Sun is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Sun has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 55 papers in Oncology and 44 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in A. Sun's work include Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (64 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (44 papers) and Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (41 papers). A. Sun is often cited by papers focused on Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (64 papers), Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (44 papers) and Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (41 papers). A. Sun collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Netherlands. A. Sun's co-authors include Andrea Bezjak, David Hodgson, Richard Tsang, Andrew Hope, Mary Gospodarowicz, Anthony Brade, Woodrow Wells, Melania Pintilie, Elizabeth Gore and John Cho and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

A. Sun

159 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Oxygenation predicts radiation response and survival in patients with cervix cancer

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Sun Canada	37	2.5k	1.7k	1.1k	935	891	162	4.9k
Christian Rübe Germany	38	3.4k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	2.3k 2.1×	614 0.7×	936 1.1×	150	7.0k
Michael MacManus Australia	36	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.3k 2.1×	668 0.7×	920 1.0×	148	4.5k
Richard Cowan United Kingdom	40	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	776 0.7×	667 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	138	5.2k
Bin S. Teh United States	48	4.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	685 0.7×	1.9k 2.2×	374	8.4k
Lorenzo Livi Italy	36	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	814 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	391	6.0k
Mathias Bressel Australia	35	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	545 0.6×	701 0.8×	184	3.8k
Brenda Shank United States	23	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	668 0.7×	1.9k 2.1×	55	5.5k
Chaitanya Divgi United States	43	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	3.5k 3.2×	544 0.6×	356 0.4×	140	5.8k
Gerhard Glatting Germany	46	2.7k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	5.2k 4.8×	544 0.6×	997 1.1×	215	7.9k
Takashi Uno Japan	40	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	739 0.7×	497 0.5×	460 0.5×	282	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Sun

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Patel, Tirth, Mattea Welch, Xiang Y. Ye, et al.. (2025). Association of artificial intelligence-screened interstitial lung disease with radiation pneumonitis in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 212. 111144–111144. 1 indexed citations

Yao, Xiaomei, Tara Baetz, Alexandra Easson, et al.. (2024). Surveillance evaluations in patients with stage I, II, III, or resectable IV melanoma who were treated with curative intent: A systematic review. Surgical Oncology. 54. 102077–102077. 3 indexed citations

Lok, Benjamin H., Andrea Bezjak, Srinivas Raman, et al.. (2024). Phase I Trial of Concurrent Talazoparib and Consolidative Thoracic Radiotherapy for Patients with Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 120(2). S93–S94.

Sun, A., Bassam Abdulkarim, Normand Blais, et al.. (2023). Use of radiation therapy among patients with Extensive-stage Small-cell lung cancer receiving Immunotherapy: Canadian consensus recommendations. Lung Cancer. 179. 107166–107166. 13 indexed citations

Melosky, Barbara, Natasha B. Leighl, David E. Dawe, et al.. (2023). Canadian Consensus Recommendations on the Management of Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Current Oncology. 30(7). 6289–6315. 6 indexed citations

Hope, Andrew, Chris McIntosh, Sonja Kandel, et al.. (2023). OC-0509 Prospective assessment of AI screening for interstitial lung disease (ILD) in radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 182. S417–S418. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Xiang Y., Anna Spreafico, Samuel D. Saibil, et al.. (2023). The Role of Adjuvant Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Resected High-Risk Stage III Cutaneous Melanoma in the Era of Modern Systemic Therapies. Cancers. 15(24). 5867–5867. 1 indexed citations

Chan, Matthew, et al.. (2021). Current Evidence for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Lung Metastases. Current Oncology. 28(4). 2560–2578. 12 indexed citations

Bissonnette, Jean‐Pierre, A. Sun, Inga S. Grills, et al.. (2021). Non-small cell lung cancer stage migration as a function of wait times from diagnostic imaging: A pooled analysis from five international centres. Lung Cancer. 155. 136–143. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, A., et al.. (2018). Guideline for the Initial Management of Small Cell Lung Cancer (Limited and Extensive Stage) and the Role of Thoracic Radiotherapy and First-line Chemotherapy. Clinical Oncology. 30(10). 658–666. 21 indexed citations

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Raman, Srinivas, Jean‐Pierre Bissonnette, Andrew Warner, et al.. (2018). Rationale and Protocol for a Canadian Multicenter Phase II Randomized Trial Assessing Selective Metabolically Adaptive Radiation Dose Escalation in Locally Advanced Non–small-cell Lung Cancer (NCT02788461). Clinical Lung Cancer. 19(5). e699–e703. 13 indexed citations

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Raman, Srinivas, Sandra Pineda, Lisa W. Le, et al.. (2018). Ultracentral Tumors Treated With Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Single-Institution Experience. Clinical Lung Cancer. 19(5). e803–e810. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Winnie, et al.. (2018). Comparison of residual geometric errors obtained for lung SBRT under static beams and VMAT techniques: Implications for PTV margins. Physica Medica. 52. 129–132. 5 indexed citations

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Hahn, Ezra, Haiyan Jiang, Angela Ng, et al.. (2017). Late Cardiac Toxicity After Mediastinal Radiation Therapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma: Contributions of Coronary Artery and Whole Heart Dose-Volume Variables to Risk Prediction. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 98(5). 1116–1123. 91 indexed citations

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Rishi, Anupam, Shao Hui Huang, Brian O’Sullivan, et al.. (2017). Outcome following radiotherapy for head and neck basal cell carcinoma with ‘aggressive’ features. Oral Oncology. 72. 157–164. 15 indexed citations

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Yap, Mei Ling, A. Sun, Jane Higgins, et al.. (2016). Adaptive Dose Escalation using Serial Four-dimensional Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scans during Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Oncology. 28(12). e199–e205. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, A., Nathan Becker, Jane Higgins, et al.. (2015). Predicting Radiation Esophagitis Using 18F-FDG PET During Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 11(2). 213–221. 20 indexed citations

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Brade, Anthony, Robert M. MacRae, Scott A. Laurie, et al.. (2015). Phase II Study of Concurrent Pemetrexed, Cisplatin, and Radiation Therapy for Stage IIIA/B Unresectable Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Lung Cancer. 17(2). 133–141. 8 indexed citations

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Kong, Feng‐Ming, Kyle C. Cuneo, Li Wang, et al.. (2013). Patterns of practice in radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer among members of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. Practical Radiation Oncology. 4(2). e133–e141. 14 indexed citations

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Bezjak, Andrea, Thomas G. Purdie, Mojgan Taremi, et al.. (2009). Intrafractional Target Position Accuracy for Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) using Cone-beam CT (CBCT). International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 75(3). S160–S161. 3 indexed citations

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