Alejandro Alfaro

443 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 223 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Alfaro is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Alfaro has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 223 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Surgery, 3 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Alfaro's work include Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (3 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (2 papers) and Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment (2 papers). Alejandro Alfaro is often cited by papers focused on Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (3 papers), Fungal Infections and Studies (2 papers) and Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment (2 papers). Alejandro Alfaro collaborates with scholars based in Peru, Chile and South Korea. Alejandro Alfaro's co-authors include Williams Fajardo, Joseph A. Pinto, Luis Saravia, Alejandra Zevallos, Jhajaira M. Araujo, Cristina Eunbee Cho, Robert H. Gilman, Eduardo Ticona, Cecilia Castro and Fernando Arévalo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Alfaro

5 papers receiving 221 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.

Characteristics of gastric cancer around the world

2022 175 citations Alejandro Alfaro, Luis Saravia et al. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Alfaro Peru	4	78	73	72	55	44	5	223
Dario Lipari Italy	5	83 1.1×	52 0.7×	50 0.7×	29 0.5×	36 0.8×	9	258
Gemma Ibáñez‐Sanz Spain	10	64 0.8×	94 1.3×	114 1.6×	97 1.8×	26 0.6×	31	316
Min Lan China	13	37 0.5×	115 1.6×	70 1.0×	108 2.0×	83 1.9×	20	329
Reza Taslimi Iran	10	45 0.6×	164 2.2×	48 0.7×	69 1.3×	67 1.5×	34	278
Ziwei Zhou China	9	133 1.7×	157 2.2×	68 0.9×	31 0.6×	56 1.3×	18	377
Zhixiang Xu China	7	59 0.8×	133 1.8×	70 1.0×	21 0.4×	24 0.5×	9	294
Luqman Mazlan Malaysia	10	33 0.4×	171 2.3×	92 1.3×	61 1.1×	23 0.5×	21	301
Geraldo Ishak Brazil	9	87 1.1×	79 1.1×	33 0.5×	121 2.2×	27 0.6×	26	249
Akanksha Anand Germany	7	46 0.6×	76 1.0×	99 1.4×	49 0.9×	34 0.8×	14	232
Maria Tzouvala Greece	8	39 0.5×	61 0.8×	64 0.9×	32 0.6×	66 1.5×	31	205

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Alfaro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Alfaro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alejandro Alfaro. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alejandro Alfaro. The network helps show where Alejandro Alfaro may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Alfaro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Alfaro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Alfaro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alejandro Alfaro. Alejandro Alfaro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Araujo, Jhajaira M., Alejandro Alfaro, Williams Fajardo, et al.. (2024). Socioeconomic disparities and the genomic landscape of gastric cancer. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 15070–15070. 1 indexed citations

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Alfaro, Alejandro, Luis Saravia, Jhajaira M. Araujo, et al.. (2022). Characteristics of gastric cancer around the world. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 181. 103841–103841. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Alfaro, Alejandro, et al.. (2018). Helicobacter pylori: History and facts in Peru. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 134. 22–30. 11 indexed citations

4.

Castro, Cecilia, Eduardo Ticona, Phabiola Herrera, et al.. (2006). Resultados post mórtem e infecciones oportunistas en pacientes VIH-positivos de un hospital público del Perú. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

5.

Moore, David, Cecilia Castro, Eduardo Ticona, et al.. (2006). Postmortem findings and opportunistic infections in HIV-positive patients from a public hospital in Peru. Pathology - Research and Practice. 202(11). 767–775. 33 indexed citations

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