Alejandro A. Díaz

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Alejandro A. Díaz is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro A. Díaz has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 25 papers in Physiology and 9 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Alejandro A. Díaz's work include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (80 papers), Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (30 papers) and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (23 papers). Alejandro A. Díaz is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (80 papers), Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (30 papers) and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (23 papers). Alejandro A. Díaz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Japan. Alejandro A. Díaz's co-authors include George R. Washko, Raúl San Jośe Estépar, James C. Ross, Edwin K. Silverman, Hiroto Hatabu, David A. Lynch, Tsuneo Yamashiro, Shin Matsuoka, MeiLan K. Han and Mark T. Dransfield and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro A. Díaz

103 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Lung Volumes and Emphysema in Smokers with Interstitial Lung Abnormalities

2011 384 citations George R. Washko, Yuka Okajima et al. profile →

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James C. Ross United States

Joyce Schroeder United States

Arjun Nair United Kingdom

Yasutaka Nakano Japan

Hrudaya Nath United States

Florian J. Fintelmann United States

John D. Newell United States

Suhail Raoof United States

Pallav L. Shah United Kingdom

Massimo Pistolesi Italy

James C. Ross United States

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181 ×0.9

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro A. Díaz

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Billatos, Ehab, et al.. (2025). Mucus plugs-associated gene expression identifies pathophysiology shared with chronic bronchitis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 212(2). 253–267.

Yen, Andrew, Scott Grumley, Sushilkumar K. Sonavane, et al.. (2025). A simple index for predicting mucus plugs in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 212(2). 277–280.

Wan, Emily S., et al.. (2025). Lower Lobe Mucus Plug Distribution is Associated With Increased Risk for Future Acute Exacerbations Among Tobacco-exposed Persons. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A2944–A2944. 1 indexed citations

Mai, Maxim, Rose L. Molina, Cristina Aguayo‐Mazzucato, et al.. (2025). A Standardized Clinical Case-Based Assessment for Evaluating Medical Students' Oral Spanish Communication Skills. MedEdPORTAL. 21. 11518–11518.

Ueki, Shigeharu, Eleanor M. Dunican, & Alejandro A. Díaz. (2025). Mucus Plugs and Eosinophilic Inflammation: Expanding the Paradigm to COPD. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice. 14(3). 575–582.

Estépar, R. San José, et al.. (2025). Comparing AI-detected Versus Visually Detected Airway Mucus Plugs in Predicting Mortality and Exacerbations in COPD. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A7380–A7380.

Ross, James C., Raúl San Jośe Estépar, Samuel Y. Ash, et al.. (2024). Dysanapsis is differentially related to lung function trajectories with distinct structural and functional patterns in COPD and variable risk for adverse outcomes. EClinicalMedicine. 68. 102408–102408. 9 indexed citations

Díaz, Alejandro A., R. San José Estépar, Gonzalo Vegas‐Sánchez‐Ferrero, et al.. (2024). CNNs trained with adult data are useful in pediatrics. A pneumonia classification example. PLoS ONE. 19(7). e0306703–e0306703. 1 indexed citations

Díaz, Alejandro A., Wei Wang, W.R. Dolliver, et al.. (2023). Suspected Bronchiectasis and Mortality in Adults With a History of Smoking Who Have Normal and Impaired Lung Function. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(10). 1340–1348. 4 indexed citations

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Dolliver, W.R., Wei Wang, Pietro Nardelli, et al.. (2022). Pulmonary arterial pruning is associated with CT-derived bronchiectasis progression in smokers. Respiratory Medicine. 202. 106971–106971. 1 indexed citations

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Saferali, Aabida, Dandi Qiao, Wonji Kim, et al.. (2022). CFTRvariants are associated with chronic bronchitis in smokers. European Respiratory Journal. 60(2). 2101994–2101994. 7 indexed citations

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Díaz, Alejandro A., Pietro Nardelli, Wei Wang, et al.. (2022). Artificial Intelligence–based CT Assessment of Bronchiectasis: The COPDGene Study. Radiology. 307(1). e221109–e221109. 21 indexed citations

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Díaz, Alejandro A., Laura A. Colangelo, Yuka Okajima, et al.. (2021). Association between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Bronchiectasis at CT: A Long-term Population-based Study of Healthy Young Adults Aged 18–30 Years in the CARDIA Study. Radiology. 300(1). 190–196. 1 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Surya P., George R. Washko, Eric A. Hoffman, et al.. (2018). Imaging Advances in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from the Genetic Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPDGene) Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 199(3). 286–301. 94 indexed citations

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González, Germán, Samuel Y. Ash, Gonzalo Vegas‐Sánchez‐Ferrero, et al.. (2017). Disease Staging and Prognosis in Smokers Using Deep Learning in Chest Computed Tomography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 197(2). 193–203. 193 indexed citations

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Díaz, Alejandro A., Víctor Pinto-Plata, Cristóbal Ramos, et al.. (2015). Emphysema and DLCO predict a clinically important difference for 6MWD decline in COPD. Respiratory Medicine. 109(7). 882–889. 38 indexed citations

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Washko, George R., Alejandro A. Díaz, R. Graham Barr, et al.. (2014). Computed tomographic measures of airway morphology in smokers and never-smoking normals. Journal of Applied Physiology. 116(6). 668–673. 46 indexed citations

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Estépar, Raúl San Jośe, Gregory L. Kinney, Jennifer L. Black‐Shinn, et al.. (2013). Computed Tomographic Measures of Pulmonary Vascular Morphology in Smokers and Their Clinical Implications. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 188(2). 231–239. 170 indexed citations

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Yamashiro, Tsuneo, Shin Matsuoka, Raúl San Jośe Estépar, et al.. (2011). Kurtosis and Skewness of Density Histograms on Inspiratory and Expiratory CT Scans in Smokers. COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 8(1). 13–20. 24 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Charles G., Eduardo O. Zappettini, Donald A. Singer, et al.. (2008). Pan-American quantitative mineral resource assessment of copper, molybdenum, gold, and silver in undiscovered porphyry copper deposits in the Andes mountains, South America.

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