Alejandro Jara

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Jara is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Jara has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 25 papers in Statistics and Probability and 9 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Jara's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (27 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (17 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers). Alejandro Jara is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (27 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (17 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (16 papers). Alejandro Jara collaborates with scholars based in Chile, United States and Belgium. Alejandro Jara's co-authors include Fernando A. Quintana, Timothy Hanson, Rafael Araos, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Alejandra Pizarro, Heriberto García-Escorza, Paulina Leighton, Johanna Acevedo, Pamela Suárez and M. Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Jara

59 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Effectiveness of an Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in Chile

2021 537 citations Alejandro Jara, Eduardo A. Undurraga et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Jara Chile	20	583	543	531	307	207	61	1.9k
Bart Spiessens Belgium	18	197 0.3×	368 0.7×	57 0.1×	104 0.3×	464 2.2×	43	2.5k
Samuel Mwalili Kenya	18	174 0.3×	226 0.4×	86 0.2×	22 0.1×	108 0.5×	81	1.1k
Kung‐Jong Lui United States	19	362 0.6×	770 1.4×	88 0.2×	94 0.3×	65 0.3×	146	2.2k
Steve Bennett United Kingdom	25	888 1.5×	447 0.8×	87 0.2×	59 0.2×	166 0.8×	41	2.7k
Victor DeGruttola United States	32	1.9k 3.3×	703 1.3×	222 0.4×	79 0.3×	146 0.7×	100	3.4k
Laura B. Balzer United States	20	645 1.1×	206 0.4×	87 0.2×	66 0.2×	71 0.3×	91	1.6k
Henry Mwambi South Africa	21	297 0.5×	91 0.2×	128 0.2×	39 0.1×	119 0.6×	116	1.7k
Robin Henderson United Kingdom	26	92 0.2×	715 1.3×	148 0.3×	22 0.1×	159 0.8×	113	2.5k
Youyi Fong United States	20	460 0.8×	215 0.4×	84 0.2×	69 0.2×	379 1.8×	68	1.7k
Marco Carone United States	25	122 0.2×	268 0.5×	191 0.4×	40 0.1×	77 0.4×	81	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Jara

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Castro, Luis M., et al.. (2024). Identifying outbreaks in sewer networks: An adaptive sampling scheme under network’s uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(14). e2316616121–e2316616121. 1 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, Nestor de la Cruz‐Muñoz, Carlos Milovic, et al.. (2023). Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping MRI in Deep-Brain Nuclei in First-Episode Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 49(5). 1355–1363. 4 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). Textura e material no pensamento musical contemporâneo. 23(1). 617–629. 1 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, Cristóbal Cuadrado, Eduardo A. Undurraga, et al.. (2023). Effectiveness of the second COVID-19 booster against Omicron: a large-scale cohort study in Chile. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6836–6836. 6 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, Eduardo A. Undurraga, & Rafael Araos. (2021). Tool for Estimating the Probability of Having COVID-19 With 1 or More Negative RT-PCR Results. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 8(8). ofab382–ofab382. 2 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, et al.. (2018). A Bayesian semiparametric partially PH model for clustered time‐to‐event data. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 45(4). 1016–1035. 4 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro. (2016). Theory and computations for the Dirichlet process and related models: An overview. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. 81. 128–146. 6 indexed citations

García‐Zattera, María José, Alejandro Jara, & Arnošt Komárek. (2015). A Flexible AFT Model for Misclassified Clustered Interval-Censored Data. Biometrics. 72(2). 473–483. 11 indexed citations

Jara, Alejandro, et al.. (2015). Bayesian density estimation for compositional data using random Bernstein polynomials. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 166. 116–125. 11 indexed citations

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Zhou, Haiming, Timothy Hanson, Alejandro Jara, & Jiajia Zhang. (2015). Modeling county level breast cancer survival data using a covariate-adjusted frailty proportional hazards model. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 9(1). 43–68. 11 indexed citations

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Jara, Alejandro, et al.. (2013). Bayesian Nonparametric ROC Regression Modeling. Bayesian Analysis. 8(3). 39 indexed citations

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Ji, Yuan, Riten Mitra, Fernando A. Quintana, et al.. (2012). BM-BC: a Bayesian method of base calling for Solexa sequence data. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(S13). S6–S6. 6 indexed citations

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Jara, Alejandro, Timothy Hanson, Fernando A. Quintana, Péter Müller, & Gary L. Rosner. (2011). DPpackage: Bayesian Semi- and Nonparametric Modeling in R. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Leroy, Roos, Alejandro Jara, Luc Martens, & Dominique Declerck. (2011). Oral hygiene and gingival health in Flemish pre-school children.. PubMed. 28(1). 75–81. 24 indexed citations

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Jara, Alejandro & Timothy Hanson. (2011). A class of mixtures of dependent tail-free processes. Biometrika. 98(3). 553–566. 38 indexed citations

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Jara, Alejandro, Emmanuel Lesaffre, Maria De Iorio, & Fernando A. Quintana. (2010). Bayesian semiparametric inference for multivariate doubly-interval-censored data. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 4(4). 42 indexed citations

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Buyse, Gunnar, Gerry Van der Mieren, Michael A. Erb, et al.. (2008). Long-term blinded placebo-controlled study of SNT-MC17/idebenone in the dystrophin deficient mdx mouse: cardiac protection and improved exercise performance. European Heart Journal. 30(1). 116–124. 82 indexed citations

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Martens, Luc, et al.. (2007). Variables associated with longitudinally registered plaque accumulation in a cohort of Flemish schoolchildren.. PubMed. 38(7). 555–64. 1 indexed citations

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Leroy, Roos, Karel Hoppenbrouwers, Alejandro Jara, & Dominique Declerck. (2007). Parental smoking behavior and caries experience in preschool children. Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology. 36(3). 249–257. 42 indexed citations

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Elzo, Mauricio A., et al.. (2004). Genetic Parameters and Trends in the Chilean Multibreed Dairy Cattle Population. Journal of Dairy Science. 87(5). 1506–1518. 17 indexed citations

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