Ajay E. Kuriyan

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ajay E. Kuriyan is a scholar working on Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ajay E. Kuriyan has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Ophthalmology, 80 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ajay E. Kuriyan's work include Retinal Diseases and Treatments (49 papers), Intraocular Surgery and Lenses (46 papers) and Retinal and Macular Surgery (43 papers). Ajay E. Kuriyan is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Diseases and Treatments (49 papers), Intraocular Surgery and Lenses (46 papers) and Retinal and Macular Surgery (43 papers). Ajay E. Kuriyan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Ajay E. Kuriyan's co-authors include Jayanth Sridhar, Harry W. Flynn, Thomas A. Albini, Darlene Miller, Sana Idrees, Philip J. Rosenfeld, William E. Smiddy, Steven E. Feldon, Justin H. Townsend and Richard P. Phipps and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ajay E. Kuriyan

137 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Vision Loss after Intravitreal Injection of Autologous “Stem Cells” for AMD

2017 331 citations Ajay E. Kuriyan, Thomas A. Albini et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ajay E. Kuriyan United States	28	1.5k	951	528	180	158	150	2.4k
Yoshihiro Yonekawa United States	30	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	813 1.5×	168 0.9×	45 0.3×	262	3.4k
Aniruddha Agarwal India	34	3.2k 2.2×	991 1.0×	243 0.5×	191 1.1×	199 1.3×	232	3.9k
Colin A. McCannel United States	30	2.8k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	329 0.6×	230 1.3×	173 1.1×	95	3.4k
Ingrid Zimmer-Galler United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	158 0.3×	102 0.6×	81 0.5×	55	2.1k
Michael Mimouni Israel	27	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.7×	117 0.2×	601 3.3×	71 0.4×	244	2.6k
Sophie J. Bakri United States	39	5.0k 3.3×	2.9k 3.0×	756 1.4×	345 1.9×	58 0.4×	171	5.8k
Darius M. Moshfeghi United States	37	3.0k 2.0×	2.3k 2.4×	518 1.0×	371 2.1×	66 0.4×	221	4.6k
Steven T. Bailey United States	33	5.1k 3.4×	4.3k 4.6×	539 1.0×	93 0.5×	53 0.3×	114	6.1k
Abdelrahman M. Elhusseiny United States	20	898 0.6×	559 0.6×	88 0.2×	214 1.2×	36 0.2×	175	1.3k
Maria Vittoria Cicinelli Italy	32	2.4k 1.6×	1.7k 1.8×	635 1.2×	190 1.1×	50 0.3×	198	3.3k

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Gopal, Anand, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of Uveitis Specialists and Disparities in Geographic Access to Uveitis Care in the United States. Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases. 10(2). 294–302.

Mansour, Hana A., Ferhina S. Ali, Jayanth Sridhar, et al.. (2024). Disparities Between Clinical Trial Recruitment and Real-World Demographics in Macular Edema Secondary to Retinal Vein Occlusion. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 269. 429–434.

Momenaei, Bita, Taku Wakabayashi, Anthony Obeid, et al.. (2024). Retinal Tear and Retinal Detachment after Cataract Surgery in Eyes with a Previous History of Treated Phakic Retinal Tears. Ophthalmology. 131(12). 1416–1426.

Momenaei, Bita, Kristine Y. Wang, Taku Wakabayashi, et al.. (2023). Rates of Ocular Adverse Events after Intravitreal Faricimab Injections. Ophthalmology Retina. 8(3). 311–313. 5 indexed citations

Momenaei, Bita, Taku Wakabayashi, Hana A. Mansour, et al.. (2023). Clinical Outcomes of Faricimab in Patients with Previously Treated Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Ophthalmology Retina. 8(4). 360–366. 35 indexed citations

Salabati, Mirataollah, Samir Patel, Ankur Gupta, et al.. (2023). Risk factors for surgical failure after primary scleral buckling for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. 59(2). e155–e160. 2 indexed citations

Mahmoudzadeh, Raziyeh, Mirataollah Salabati, Louis Cai, et al.. (2022). Factors Associated with Fluctuations in Central Subfield Thickness in Patients with Diabetic Macular Edema Using Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Protocols T and V. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 100226–100226. 5 indexed citations

Cohen, Michael N., Michael J. Ammar, Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, et al.. (2022). Survey of Vitreoretinal Specialists in the United States Regarding Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health. 28(12). 1817–1822. 3 indexed citations

Sharpe, James, Qiang Zhang, Samir Patel, et al.. (2021). Effect of Taping Face Masks on Quantitative Particle Counts Near the Eye: Implications for Intravitreal Injections in the COVID-19 Era. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 225. 166–171. 17 indexed citations

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Mahmoudzadeh, Raziyeh, Mirataollah Salabati, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, et al.. (2021). Retinal Displacement Following Incisional Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment Repair. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 62(8). 3084–3084. 3 indexed citations

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Hinkle, John W., Raziyeh Mahmoudzadeh, & Ajay E. Kuriyan. (2021). Cell-based therapies for retinal diseases: a review of clinical trials and direct to consumer “cell therapy” clinics. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 12(1). 538–538. 31 indexed citations

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Kuriyan, Ajay E., et al.. (2020). <p>Analysis of Funding Source and Spin in the Reporting of Studies of Intravitreal Corticosteroid Therapy for Diabetic Macular Edema: A Systematic Review</p>. Clinical ophthalmology. Volume 14. 2383–2395. 2 indexed citations

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Ding, Li, et al.. (2020). Automated vessel density detection in fluorescein angiography images correlates with vision in proliferative diabetic retinopathy. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238958–e0238958. 8 indexed citations

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Idrees, Sana, et al.. (2020). Refractive outcomes of anterior chamber intraocular lens implantation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 1683–1683. 1 indexed citations

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Heffer, Alison, et al.. (2019). Cigarette smoke promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition in retinal pigment epithelial cells. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 5816–5816. 1 indexed citations

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Tian, Jing, William E. Smiddy, Wen-Hsiang Lee, et al.. (2018). Relationship between the morphology of the foveal avascular zone, retinal structure, and macular circulation in patients with diabetes mellitus. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5355–5355. 33 indexed citations

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Kuriyan, Ajay E., Delia Cabrera DeBuc, & William E. Smiddy. (2018). Reflectance and Thickness Analysis of Retinal Layers in Patients with Epiretinal Membranes Using Spectral-Domain OCT before and after Vitrectomy with Membrane Peeling. Ophthalmology Retina. 3(4). 371–378. 6 indexed citations

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Somfai, Gábor Márk, Jing Tian, Richard K. Lee, et al.. (2017). Outer retinal changes in patients with diabetes and no or mild non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 58(8). 101–101. 1 indexed citations

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Kuriyan, Ajay E., Jayanth Sridhar, Harry W. Flynn, et al.. (2017). Endophthalmitis Caused by Corynebacterium Species: Clinical Features, Antibiotic Susceptibility, and Treatment Outcomes. Ophthalmology Retina. 1(3). 200–205. 9 indexed citations

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Kuriyan, Ajay E., Delia Cabrera DeBuc, & William E. Smiddy. (2013). Analysis of Epiretinal Membranes Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). 3614–3614. 1 indexed citations

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