Ahsan R. Akram

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ahsan R. Akram is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahsan R. Akram has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 26 papers in Epidemiology and 13 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ahsan R. Akram's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (22 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (10 papers). Ahsan R. Akram is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (22 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (10 papers). Ahsan R. Akram collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sri Lanka. Ahsan R. Akram's co-authors include James D. Chalmers, Aran Singanayagam, Adam T. Hill, Gourab Choudhury, P. Mandal, A. T. Hill, Kevin Dhaliwal, Joanne Taylor, David Baldwin and Mathias Prokop and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ahsan R. Akram

73 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ahsan R. Akram United Kingdom	28	1.2k	1.0k	516	428	368	75	2.9k
Bruno Hochhegger Brazil	32	1.7k 1.4×	765 0.8×	768 1.5×	164 0.4×	173 0.5×	330	3.4k
Santiago E. Rossi United States	22	1.5k 1.2×	515 0.5×	492 1.0×	117 0.3×	163 0.4×	44	2.5k
Thomas S. Kickler United States	38	457 0.4×	575 0.6×	193 0.4×	261 0.6×	299 0.8×	174	5.6k
Francis Zech Belgium	25	493 0.4×	853 0.8×	334 0.6×	180 0.4×	145 0.4×	84	3.1k
Chih‐Yen Tu Taiwan	30	1.4k 1.2×	387 0.4×	345 0.7×	501 1.2×	70 0.2×	164	2.8k
Seth Kligerman United States	30	1.4k 1.2×	469 0.5×	1.5k 2.8×	442 1.0×	137 0.4×	113	3.5k
Robert Gilkeson United States	32	1.4k 1.2×	476 0.5×	1.6k 3.1×	186 0.4×	214 0.6×	186	3.5k
Michael Spannagl Germany	36	477 0.4×	814 0.8×	147 0.3×	504 1.2×	234 0.6×	130	5.8k
Jeremy J. Erasmus United States	31	2.2k 1.9×	497 0.5×	1.1k 2.1×	91 0.2×	146 0.4×	90	3.6k
Muriel Fartoukh France	36	2.6k 2.2×	823 0.8×	67 0.1×	681 1.6×	303 0.8×	157	4.0k

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Koppensteiner, Lilian, et al.. (2025). IFN γ and TNF α drive an inflammatory secretion profile in cancer‐associated fibroblasts from human non‐small cell lung cancer. FEBS Letters. 599(5). 713–723. 2 indexed citations

Jones, P H Morris, et al.. (2025). Patient derived cancer-associated fibroblasts from non-small cell lung cancer undergo phenotypic drift in culture. PubMed. 3(1). 50–50. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Deep learning-based virtual H& E staining from label-free autofluorescence lifetime images. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 17–17. 3 indexed citations

O’Connor, Richard A., et al.. (2023). Cancer-associated fibroblasts drive CXCL13 production in activated T cells via TGF-beta. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1221532–1221532. 30 indexed citations

Koppensteiner, Lilian, et al.. (2023). Location of CD39⁺ T cell subpopulations within tumors predict differential outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 11(8). e006770–e006770. 19 indexed citations

Yerolatsitis, Stephanos, Irene Young, Katie Hamilton, et al.. (2023). Computational Fluorescence Suppression in Shifted Excitation Raman Spectroscopy. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 70(8). 2374–2383. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Qiang, Gareth Williams, Neil Finlayson, et al.. (2022). Deep learning-assisted co-registration of full-spectral autofluorescence lifetime microscopic images with H&E-stained histology images. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1119–1119. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Qiang, James R. Hopgood, Neil Finlayson, et al.. (2022). A layer-level multi-scale architecture for lung cancer classification with fluorescence lifetime imaging endomicroscopy. Neural Computing and Applications. 34(21). 18881–18894. 7 indexed citations

Yerolatsitis, Stephanos, Tom Quinn, Irene Young, et al.. (2022). Tri‐mode optical biopsy probe with fluorescence endomicroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and time‐resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Biophotonics. 16(2). e202200141–e202200141. 4 indexed citations

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Dobie, Ross, Beth E. P. Henderson, John R. Wilson‐Kanamori, et al.. (2021). Deciphering Mesenchymal Drivers of Human Dupuytren’s Disease at Single-Cell Level. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 142(1). 114–123.e8. 14 indexed citations

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Megía-Fernández, Alicia, Adam Marshall, Ahsan R. Akram, et al.. (2021). Optical Detection of Distal Lung Enzyme Activity in Human Inflammatory Lung Disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021(2021). 9834163–9834163. 12 indexed citations

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Akram, Ahsan R., Sunay V. Chankeshwara, Emma Scholefield, et al.. (2018). In situ identification of Gram-negative bacteria in human lungs using a topical fluorescent peptide targeting lipid A. Science Translational Medicine. 10(464). 69 indexed citations

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Mendive‐Tapia, Lorena, Can Zhao, Ahsan R. Akram, et al.. (2016). Spacer-free BODIPY fluorogens in antimicrobial peptides for direct imaging of fungal infection in human tissue. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10940–10940. 127 indexed citations

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Akram, Ahsan R., Nicolaos Avlonitis, Thomas Craven, et al.. (2016). Structural modifications of the antimicrobial peptide ubiquicidin for pulmonary imaging of bacteria in the alveolar space. The Lancet. 387. S17–S17. 4 indexed citations

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Chankeshwara, Sunay V., Alicia Megía-Fernández, Ahsan R. Akram, et al.. (2015). Optical molecular imaging of lysyl oxidase activity – detection of active fibrogenesis in human lung tissue. Chemical Science. 6(8). 4946–4953. 25 indexed citations

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Chalmers, James D., Joanne Taylor, Aran Singanayagam, et al.. (2011). Epidemiology, Antibiotic Therapy, and Clinical Outcomes in Health Care-Associated Pneumonia: A UK Cohort Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 53(2). 107–113. 185 indexed citations

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Chalmers, James D., Aran Singanayagam, Ahsan R. Akram, et al.. (2011). Lactate is an independent marker of severity in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia. European Respiratory Journal. 38(Suppl 55). p1463–p1463. 1 indexed citations

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Mandal, P., James D. Chalmers, Gourab Choudhury, Ahsan R. Akram, & Adam T. Hill. (2011). Vascular complications are associated with poor outcome in community-acquired pneumonia. QJM. 104(6). 489–495. 52 indexed citations

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Chalmers, James D., Ahsan R. Akram, & A. T. Hill. (2010). Increasing outpatient treatment of mild community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis. European Respiratory Journal. 37(4). 858–864. 39 indexed citations

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Akram, Ahsan R., Aran Singanayagam, Gourab Choudhury, et al.. (2010). Incidence and Prognostic Implications of Acute Kidney Injury on Admission in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. CHEST Journal. 138(4). 825–832. 62 indexed citations

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