Anna Francis

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Anna Francis is a scholar working on Nephrology, Transplantation and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Francis has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nephrology, 19 papers in Transplantation and 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Anna Francis's work include Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (19 papers), Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (12 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (7 papers). Anna Francis is often cited by papers focused on Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (19 papers), Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (12 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (7 papers). Anna Francis collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Anna Francis's co-authors include Germaine Wong, David W. Johnson, Jonathan C. Craig, Vivekanand Jha, Steven McTaggart, Peter Trnka, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, Prabir Roy‐Chaudhury, Charu Malik and Ifeoma Ulasi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Kidney International and Transplantation.

In The Last Decade

Anna Francis

45 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Chronic kidney disease and the global public health agenda: an international consensus

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna Francis Australia	16	418	185	142	138	127	50	1.1k
Nasrollah Ghahramani United States	20	593 1.4×	218 1.2×	263 1.9×	284 2.1×	82 0.6×	102	1.6k
Bénédicte Sautenet France	18	263 0.6×	154 0.8×	123 0.9×	144 1.0×	85 0.7×	74	860
Ekamol Tantisattamo United States	14	396 0.9×	178 1.0×	145 1.0×	214 1.6×	81 0.6×	100	1.1k
Marc H. Hemmelder Netherlands	19	532 1.3×	84 0.5×	199 1.4×	104 0.8×	54 0.4×	71	1.2k
Jamie P. Traynor United Kingdom	22	994 2.4×	125 0.7×	124 0.9×	361 2.6×	105 0.8×	69	2.0k
Mitra Mahdavi‐Mazdeh Iran	20	475 1.1×	146 0.8×	214 1.5×	224 1.6×	96 0.8×	90	1.3k
Halle Marie Patrice Cameroon	5	995 2.4×	101 0.5×	171 1.2×	218 1.6×	119 0.9×	12	1.5k
Ming‐Hui Zhao China	4	973 2.3×	101 0.5×	171 1.2×	218 1.6×	117 0.9×	8	1.5k
Evi Nagler Belgium	14	443 1.1×	322 1.7×	228 1.6×	337 2.4×	78 0.6×	33	1.3k
Milda R. Saunders United States	15	317 0.8×	130 0.7×	199 1.4×	84 0.6×	53 0.4×	49	839

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vassalotti, Joseph A., Anna Francis, Augusto César Soares dos Santos, et al.. (2025). Are your kidneys ok? Detect early to protect kidney health. Nefrología (English Edition). 45(7). 501344–501344.

Vassalotti, Joseph A., Anna Francis, Augusto César Soares dos Santos, et al.. (2025). Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health. American Journal of Hypertension. 38(8). 612–619.

Vinson, Amanda J., Mourad Dahhou, Caner Süsal, et al.. (2024). Differences in excess mortality by recipient sex after heart transplant: An individual patient data meta-analysis. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 43(7). 1162–1173. 3 indexed citations

Kim, Siah, Anita van Zwieten, Melanie Wyld, et al.. (2023). Sociodemographic Drivers of Donor and Recipient Gender Disparities in Living Kidney Donation in Australia. Kidney International Reports. 8(8). 1553–1561. 4 indexed citations

Cho, Yeoungjee, et al.. (2023). Epidemiology and Outcomes of Children with Kidney Failure Receiving Kidney Replacement Therapy in Australia and New Zealand. Kidney International Reports. 8(10). 1951–1964. 6 indexed citations

Vinson, Amanda J., Xun Zhang, Mourad Dahhou, et al.. (2023). A multinational cohort study uncovered sex differences in excess mortality after kidney transplant. Kidney International. 103(6). 1131–1143. 15 indexed citations

Zwieten, Anita van, Siah Kim, Madeleine Didsbury, et al.. (2022). Association between socioeconomic status and academic performance in children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Nephrology. 37(12). 3195–3204. 4 indexed citations

Au, Eric, Germaine Wong, Allison Tong, et al.. (2022). Scope and Consistency of Cancer Outcomes Reported in Randomized Trials in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Kidney International Reports. 8(2). 274–281. 1 indexed citations

Francis, Anna, Kim M. O’Sullivan, Pinika Patel, et al.. (2022). Equity and diversity in the nephrology workforce in Australia and New Zealand. Internal Medicine Journal. 52(11). 1900–1909. 8 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, Udeme E. Ekrikpo, Titi Chen, et al.. (2022). Barriers to accessing essential medicines for kidney disease in low- and lower middle–income countries|. Kidney International. 102(5). 969–973. 21 indexed citations

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Wyld, Melanie, Nicole De La Mata, Andrea K. Viecelli, et al.. (2022). Sex-Based Differences in Risk Factors and Complications of Chronic Kidney Disease. Seminars in Nephrology. 42(2). 153–169. 23 indexed citations

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Kim, Siah, Anita van Zwieten, Jennifer Lorenzo, et al.. (2022). Cognitive and academic outcomes in children with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Nephrology. 37(11). 2715–2724. 8 indexed citations

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Larkins, Nicholas, Germaine Wong, Stephen I. Alexander, et al.. (2021). Survival and transplant outcomes among young children requiring kidney replacement therapy. Pediatric Nephrology. 36(8). 2443–2452. 6 indexed citations

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Au, Eric, Anna Francis, Amélie Bernier-Jean, & Armando Teixeira‐Pinto. (2020). Prediction modeling—part 1: regression modeling. Kidney International. 97(5). 877–884. 27 indexed citations

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Parker, Christina, et al.. (2019). Methods for chronic wound research — A scoping systematic review of the recommendations, guidelines and standards. 27(2). 1 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, Madeleine Didsbury, Anita van Zwieten, et al.. (2018). Quality of life of children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 104(2). 134–140. 55 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, David W. Johnson, Jonathan C. Craig, Armando Teixeira‐Pinto, & Germaine Wong. (2018). Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease may be an adverse risk factor for patient survival but not graft loss in kidney transplant recipients. Kidney International. 94(4). 809–817. 18 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, David W. Johnson, Jonathan C. Craig, & Germaine Wong. (2017). Incidence and Predictors of Cancer Following Kidney Transplantation in Childhood. American Journal of Transplantation. 17(10). 2650–2658. 34 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, Peter Trnka, & Steven McTaggart. (2016). Long-Term Outcome of Kidney Transplantation in Recipients with Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 11(11). 2041–2046. 58 indexed citations

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Francis, Anna, et al.. (2013). Outcome of Primary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Australian and New Zealand Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 28(8). 1517–1517. 1 indexed citations

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