Ahsan Alam

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ahsan Alam is a scholar working on Surgery, Nephrology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahsan Alam has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Surgery, 14 papers in Nephrology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ahsan Alam's work include Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (13 papers), Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (10 papers) and Renal and related cancers (10 papers). Ahsan Alam is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (13 papers), Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (10 papers) and Renal and related cancers (10 papers). Ahsan Alam collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Ahsan Alam's co-authors include Ronald D. Perrone, Émilie Cornec-Le Gall, Marcelo Cantarovich, Lilyanna Trpeski, Frank Ivis, Anton Emmanuel, Navdeep Tangri, Steve Halligan, David Atkinson and Freddy Odille and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Ahsan Alam

50 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
    2019 351 citations Émilie Cornec-Le Gall, Ahsan Alam et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ahsan Alam Canada 19 533 317 313 265 173 54 1.2k
Takashi Yagisawa Japan 20 109 0.2× 483 1.5× 106 0.3× 237 0.9× 470 2.7× 114 1.3k
Alexander C. Wiseman United States 25 104 0.2× 843 2.7× 149 0.5× 240 0.9× 944 5.5× 72 1.7k
Atsushi Aikawa Japan 19 60 0.1× 338 1.1× 102 0.3× 341 1.3× 346 2.0× 114 1.2k
Jin Ho Hwang South Korea 18 65 0.1× 161 0.5× 161 0.5× 349 1.3× 35 0.2× 69 880
Jonathan Morris United States 17 124 0.2× 502 1.6× 68 0.2× 47 0.2× 298 1.7× 36 1.2k
G Giuffrida Italy 21 94 0.2× 250 0.8× 86 0.3× 33 0.1× 133 0.8× 65 1.2k
Manfred Stangl Germany 22 59 0.1× 497 1.6× 175 0.6× 85 0.3× 389 2.2× 104 1.4k
Matthias Büchler France 21 75 0.1× 448 1.4× 97 0.3× 229 0.9× 836 4.8× 60 1.5k
Lutz Liefeldt Germany 25 77 0.1× 712 2.2× 266 0.8× 391 1.5× 1.1k 6.6× 103 2.2k
Kyoung Hee Han South Korea 19 59 0.1× 100 0.3× 259 0.8× 348 1.3× 20 0.1× 74 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ahsan Alam

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All Works

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Alam, Ahsan, et al.. (2023). Dialysis and Transplant Considerations in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. PubMed. 30(5). 461–467. 1 indexed citations
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Sandal, Shaifali, Ian Schiller, Nandini Dendukuri, et al.. (2022). Identifying Modifiable System-Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation. Kidney International Reports. 7(11). 2410–2420. 5 indexed citations
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Mavrakanas, Thomas A., Nadia Giannetti, Ruth Sapir‐Pichhadze, & Ahsan Alam. (2019). Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists and Renal Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients with and without Chronic Kidney Disease. Cardiorenal Medicine. 10(1). 32–41. 4 indexed citations
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Gall, Émilie Cornec-Le, Ahsan Alam, & Ronald D. Perrone. (2019). Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The Lancet. 393(10174). 919–935. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mavrakanas, Thomas A., Ahsan Alam, Jean‐Luc Reny, & Pierre Fontana. (2017). Platelet reactivity in stable cardiovascular patients with chronic kidney disease. Platelets. 29(5). 455–462. 9 indexed citations
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Soroka, Steven, Ahsan Alam, Louis Girard, et al.. (2017). Assessing Risk of Disease Progression and Pharmacological Management of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 4. 2245574952–2245574952. 24 indexed citations
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Mavrakanas, Thomas A., et al.. (2016). High Ultrafiltration Rates Increase Troponin Levels in Stable Hemodialysis Patients. American Journal of Nephrology. 43(3). 173–178. 11 indexed citations
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Alam, Ahsan, Neera K. Dahl, Joshua H. Lipschutz, et al.. (2015). Total Kidney Volume in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Biomarker of Disease Progression and Therapeutic Efficacy. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 66(4). 564–576. 52 indexed citations
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Trinh, Emilie, Ahsan Alam, Jean Tchervenkov, & Marcelo Cantarovich. (2014). Impact of Acute Kidney Injury Following Liver Transplantation On Long-Term Outcomes.. Transplantation. 98. 754–755. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, Sonia M., Ngan N. Lam, Anjie Huang, et al.. (2014). Risk of serious gastrointestinal bleeding in living kidney donors. Clinical Transplantation. 28(5). 530–539. 12 indexed citations
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Alam, Ahsan & Ronald D. Perrone. (2013). Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in ADPKD: Changing Demographics. Current Hypertension Reviews. 9(1). 27–31. 20 indexed citations
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Menys, Alex, Stuart A. Taylor, Anton Emmanuel, et al.. (2013). Global Small Bowel Motility: Assessment with Dynamic MR Imaging. Radiology. 269(2). 443–450. 27 indexed citations
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Tangri, Navdeep, Ahsan Alam, Eric C. Wooten, & Gordon S. Huggins. (2011). Lack of association of Klotho gene variants with valvular and vascular calcification in Caucasians: a candidate gene study of the Framingham Offspring Cohort. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 26(12). 3998–4002. 17 indexed citations
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Molnar, Miklos Z., Ádám G. Tabák, Ahsan Alam, et al.. (2011). Serum Erythropoietin Level and Mortality in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 6(12). 2879–2886. 21 indexed citations
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Sniderman, Allan D., Amirreza Solhpour, Ahsan Alam, Ken Williams, & James A. Sloand. (2010). Cardiovascular Death in Dialysis Patients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 5(2). 335–340. 30 indexed citations
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Alam, Ahsan & Ronald D. Perrone. (2010). Management of ESRD in Patients With Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. 17(2). 164–172. 36 indexed citations
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Cantarovich, Marcelo, A. Hirsh, Ahsan Alam, et al.. (2008). The Clinical Impact of an Early Decline in Kidney Function in Patients Following Heart Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 9(2). 348–354. 29 indexed citations
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Tangri, Navdeep, et al.. (2008). Predicting Glomerular Filtration Rate in Heart Transplant Recipients Using Serum Creatinine–based Equations With Cimetidine. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 27(8). 905–909. 5 indexed citations
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Alam, Ahsan, et al.. (2007). The Outcome of Heart Transplant Recipients Following the Development of End-Stage Renal Disease: Analysis of the Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR). American Journal of Transplantation. 7(2). 461–465. 76 indexed citations

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