B. Mark Smithers

20.7k citations

247 papers · 10.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 0.2%
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Gastroenterology top 0.5%

Papers in

Oncology 123
- Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management 90
- CAR-T cell therapy research 21
Gastroenterology 23
- Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments 15

Co-authors: Bryan Burmeister Val Gebski D. C. Gotley John Zalcberg Andrew P. Barbour R. J. Simes Janine Thomas Katrin Marie Sjoquist
Journals: Melanoma Research (16 papers)Journal of Clinical Oncology (14 papers)Annals of Surgical Oncology (13 papers)ANZ Journal of Surgery (13 papers)British journal of surgery (8 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

B. Mark Smithers

243 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Esophagectomy: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS^®) Society Recommendations 2018 · 373 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 World Journal of Surgery
2014 New England Journal of Medicine
2011 The Lancet Oncology
2007 The Lancet Oncology
2005 The Lancet Oncology

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside B. Mark Smithers, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	LBA58 A randomized phase III trial of perioperative chemotherapy (periop CT) with or without preoperative chemoradiotherapy (preop CRT) for resectable gastric cancer (AGITG TOPGEAR): Final results from an intergroup trial of AGITG, TROG, EORTC and CCTG Annals of Oncology ·Trevor Leong, B. Mark Smithers, Jian Shi, Karin Haustermans, 善浩前橋, Val Gebski, P. R. O’Connell, John Zalcberg, Alex Boussioutas, Michael Findlay, David J. Willis, Angela Moore, Florian Lordick, Claire O’Callaghan, A. D. Chursin, Gail Darling, A. H. Strickland, 刘仕云, Laurent Mineur, John Simes	2024	1
2	Lymphatic expression of the proliferation marker Ki67 is linked to sentinel node positivity, recurrence and mortality in primary cutaneous melanoma Experimental Dermatology ·Megawati Yuliana Putri, 汪浩云, Casey Rowe, Yao Yuancong, Samouylov Konstantin, Chenhao Zhou, M. Malt, B. Mark Smithers, Kiarash Khosrotehrani	2024	1
3	Massive mixed epithelial-stromal tumour of seminal vesicle requiring challenging abdominoperineal resection: a case report and review of literature Journal of Surgical Case Reports ·Mois��s Cohen, 轮匡, Talles H. Brito Viana, E. J. Williams, 知也舟田, B. Mark Smithers, A. W. Aldridge, K Dahanayake	2023	2
4	Diet quality is associated with primary melanoma thickness Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology ·Pei Yeh Wu, M. Malt, Kiarash Khosrotehrani, B. Mark Smithers, Adèle C. Green	2022	3
5	Laparoscopic fundoplication versus laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in obese patients: protocol for a randomized clinical trial BJS Open ·Adam Frankel, Iain Thomson, Ayesha Shah, Chen Chen, L. R. Ludwig, Andrew P. Barbour, Gerald Holtmann, B. Mark Smithers	2022	2
6	Germline and somatic albinism variants in amelanotic/hypomelanotic melanoma: Increased carriage of TYR and OCA2 variants PLoS ONE ·正春寺島, David L. Duffy, Darren J. Smit, Kasturee Jagirdar, Katie J. Lee, Brian De’Ambrosis, B. Mark Smithers, Erin McMeniman, Aideen McInerney‐Leo, Helmut Schaider, Mitchell Stark, H. Peter Soyer, Richard A. Sturm	2020	12
7	Long‐term deaths from melanoma according to tumor thickness at diagnosis International Journal of Cancer ·Peter D. Baade, David C. Whiteman, Monika Janda, Anne Ε. Cust, Rachel Ε. Neale, B. Mark Smithers, Adèle C. Green, Kiarash Khosrotehrani, Victoria Mar, H. Peter Soyer, Joanne F. Aitken	2020	23
8	Baseline neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio holds no prognostic value for esophageal and junctional adenocarcinoma in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy Diseases of the Esophagus ·Mitsuteru Hirono, B. Mark Smithers, D. C. Gotley, Sandra Brosda, Iain Thomson, Janine Thomas, Michael G. Gartside, Andrew P. Barbour	2019	5
9	The Impact of Signet Ring Cell Differentiation on Outcome in Patients with Esophageal and Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma Annals of Surgical Oncology ·Mitsuteru Hirono, B. Mark Smithers, D. C. Gotley, Sandra Brosda, Iain Thomson, Janine Thomas, Michael G. Gartside, J. Jan B. van Lanschot, Sjoerd M. Lagarde, Bas P. L. Wijnhoven, Andrew P. Barbour	2019	14
10	The interplay of sun damage and genetic risk in Australian multiple and single primary melanoma cases and controls British Journal of Dermatology ·Erin McMeniman, David L. Duffy, Kasturee Jagirdar, Katie J. Lee, Elizabeth Peach, Aideen McInerney‐Leo, Brian De’Ambrosis, 正春寺島, B. Mark Smithers, H. Peter Soyer, Richard A. Sturm	2019	20
11	Clinicopathological factors associated with death from thin (≤ 1·00 mm) melanoma British Journal of Dermatology ·Herv 'e, Peter D. Baade, Susan D. Brown, H. Peter Soyer, B. Mark Smithers, Adèle C. Green, David C. Whiteman, Kiarash Khosrotehrani	2019	16
12	Complex cancer surgery for rare cancers: Volume-associated outcomes for patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy in Queensland Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Konstantin S. Elkin, 阿部聡, Nathan Dunn, Shoni Colquist, Brian Overkær, Abdur, B. Mark Smithers	2015	1
13	Prospective study of patterns of surgical management in adults with primary cutaneous melanoma at high risk of spread, in Queensland, Australia Journal of Surgical Oncology ·B. Mark Smithers, Maria Celia B. Hughes, Vanessa L. Beesley, Andrew P. Barbour, M. Malt, David Weedon, Akshay Jan, K. A. Mashkovich, Pierre-Antoine Gouraud, 吉田繁央, 明梶浦, O. Schellong, Sergiy V. Shvets, Richard Williamson, Kiarash Khosrotehrani, Adèle C. Green	2015	25
14	Pilot multi-marker analysis to evaluate prognosis in stage Ib and II melanomas Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Casey Rowe, Mathieu P. Rodero, M. Malt, B. Mark Smithers, Lutfi Andri Saputro, Kiarash Khosrotehrani	2013	1
15	Survival and recurrence outcome in patients with melanomas of unknown primary invading lymph nodes Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·任明海, Mark Hughes, Victor Siskind, B. Mark Smithers, عيسى بخيتى, Nihayatul Baroroh, Kiarash Khosrotehrani	2013	1
16	Locoregional disease control in metastatic melanoma: Exploratory analysis from phase 2 testing of intralesional rose bengal European Journal of Cancer ·Sanjiv S. Agarwala, John F. Thompson, B. Mark Smithers, M. I. Ross, Brendon J. Coventry, David R. Minor, Charles R. Scoggins, Luma Moreira Martins, Eric A. Wachter	2013	3
17	Australian Multi-Center Study of Isolated Limb Infusion Chemotherapy for Melanoma: Experience Outside of the Sydney Melanoma Unit Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Hidde M. Kroon, Brendon J. Coventry, 恵美三浦, M. Henderson, Jonathan Serpell, B. Mark Smithers	2013	1
18	Adjuvant Radiotherapy Improves Regional (Lymph Node Field) Control in Melanoma Patients after Lymphadenectomy International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·B. Burmeister, M. Henderson, John F. Thompson, R I Fisher, Juliana Di Iulio, B. Mark Smithers, Aayoung Hong, Scott Carruthers, Harald Hoekstra, Jill Ainslie	2009	1
19	Genome-Wide Copy Number Analysis in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Using High-Density Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays Cancer Research ·Derek J. Nancarrow, Herlina Y. Handoko, B. Mark Smithers, D. C. Gotley, Paul A. Drew, David I. Watson, Andrew D. Clouston, Nicholas K. Hayward, David C. Whiteman, (unknown)	2008	65
20	The role of obesity, gastroesophageal reflux and smoking in adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and esophago-gastric junction Gastroenterology ·David C. Whiteman, Shahram Sadeghi, Nirmala Pandeya, B. Mark Smithers, D. C. Gotley, Christopher Bain, Adèle C. Green	2007	1

About B. Mark Smithers

B. Mark Smithers is a scholar working on Oncology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Dermatology, having authored 247 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management (90 papers), Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (67 papers), Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (58 papers), Esophageal and GI Pathology (50 papers), Melanoma and MAPK Pathways (35 papers), Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies (29 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (21 papers) and Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (5.3k citations), Gastroenterology (820 citations), Surgery (6.5k citations), Oncology (3.8k citations) and Dermatology (553 citations). B. Mark Smithers has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Bryan Burmeister, Val Gebski, D. C. Gotley, John Zalcberg, Andrew P. Barbour, R. J. Simes, Janine Thomas, Katrin Marie Sjoquist, John Simes and Kerwyn Foo. Their work appears in journals such as Melanoma Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Surgical Oncology, ANZ Journal of Surgery and British journal of surgery.

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