Beat Foerster

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Beat Foerster is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Urology. According to data from OpenAlex, Beat Foerster has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Surgery, 21 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 15 papers in Urology. Recurrent topics in Beat Foerster's work include Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (39 papers), Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies (29 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (14 papers). Beat Foerster is often cited by papers focused on Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (39 papers), Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies (29 papers) and Urological Disorders and Treatments (14 papers). Beat Foerster collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Switzerland and United States. Beat Foerster's co-authors include Shahrokh F. Shariat, Mohammad Abufaraj, Shoji Kimura, David D‘Andrea, Pierre I. Karakiewicz, Andrea Mari, Marco Moschini, Alberto Briganti, Paolo Gontero and Francesco Soria and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Urology, European Urology and Cancers.

In The Last Decade

Beat Foerster

52 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Repeat Transurethral Resection in Non–muscle-invasive Bla... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Repeat Transurethral Resection in Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review
    2018 218 citations Beat Foerster, Shahrokh F. Shariat et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Beat Foerster Austria 20 974 332 327 310 146 55 1.3k
H.M. Bruins Netherlands 14 1.4k 1.5× 343 1.0× 582 1.8× 343 1.1× 233 1.6× 24 1.7k
Anja Lorch Switzerland 9 1.3k 1.3× 351 1.1× 367 1.1× 343 1.1× 293 2.0× 28 1.5k
Peter J. Goebell Germany 19 932 1.0× 271 0.8× 179 0.5× 314 1.0× 431 3.0× 62 1.3k
Padraic O’Malley United States 15 616 0.6× 178 0.5× 293 0.9× 277 0.9× 185 1.3× 46 983
J.L. Domínguez Escrig Spain 5 1.6k 1.6× 347 1.0× 478 1.5× 292 0.9× 368 2.5× 13 1.8k
Yasunobu Hashimoto Japan 20 563 0.6× 265 0.8× 169 0.5× 630 2.0× 283 1.9× 84 1.2k
Harman Max Bruins Netherlands 13 2.0k 2.1× 474 1.4× 664 2.0× 490 1.6× 326 2.2× 17 2.2k
Marek Babjuk Czechia 23 1.6k 1.7× 478 1.4× 541 1.7× 378 1.2× 424 2.9× 93 2.1k
Ilaria Lucca Switzerland 23 744 0.8× 456 1.4× 223 0.7× 492 1.6× 258 1.8× 70 1.4k
Andreas Boehle Germany 10 949 1.0× 260 0.8× 195 0.6× 209 0.7× 145 1.0× 15 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Beat Foerster

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Fields of papers citing papers by Beat Foerster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beat Foerster

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Beat Foerster. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Beat Foerster 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 Beat Foerster. Beat Foerster is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Morsy, Yasser, Michael Scharl, Jan H. Rüschoff, et al.. (2024). Towards Reliable Methodology: Microbiome Analysis of Fresh Frozen vs. Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Bladder Tissue Samples: A Feasibility Study. Microorganisms. 12(12). 2594–2594. 1 indexed citations
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Abufaraj, Mohammad, Abdelmuez Siyam, Rodrigo Suarez-Ibarrola, et al.. (2021). Functional Outcomes after Local Salvage Therapies for Radiation-Recurrent Prostate Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review. Cancers. 13(2). 244–244. 10 indexed citations
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Foerster, Beat, Mohammad Abufaraj, Andrea Mari, et al.. (2020). The Performance of Tumor Size as Risk Stratification Parameter in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma (UTUC). Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 19(3). 272.e1–272.e7. 11 indexed citations
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Pradère, Benjamin, David D‘Andrea, Victor M. Schuettfort, et al.. (2020). Pre-therapy serum albumin-to-globulin ratio in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma. World Journal of Urology. 39(7). 2567–2577. 6 indexed citations
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Foerster, Beat, David D‘Andrea, Mohammad Abufaraj, et al.. (2019). Endocavitary treatment for upper tract urothelial carcinoma: A meta-analysis of the current literature. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 37(7). 430–436. 44 indexed citations
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Kimura, Shoji, Francesco Soria, David D‘Andrea, et al.. (2018). Prognostic Value of Serum Cholinesterase in Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 16(6). e1123–e1132. 17 indexed citations
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Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin, Shoji Kimura, Matteo Ferro, et al.. (2018). The impact of moderate wine consumption on the risk of developing prostate cancer. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 10. 431–444. 19 indexed citations
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Mari, Andrea, Shoji Kimura, Beat Foerster, et al.. (2018). A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the impact of lymphovascular invasion in bladder cancer transurethral resection specimens. British Journal of Urology. 123(1). 11–21. 46 indexed citations
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Kimura, Shoji, Francesco Soria, Beat Foerster, et al.. (2018). Prognostic value of modified Glasgow Prognostic Score in non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 37(3). 179.e19–179.e28. 19 indexed citations
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Mari, Andrea, Shoji Kimura, Beat Foerster, et al.. (2018). A systematic review and meta-analysis of lymphovascular invasion in patients treated with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 36(6). 293–305. 39 indexed citations
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Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin, David D‘Andrea, Daher Chade, et al.. (2018). Role of serum cholinesterase in patients treated with salvage radical prostatectomy. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 37(2). 123–129. 11 indexed citations
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Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin, Matteo Ferro, Romain Mathiéu, et al.. (2018). Prognostic role of pretreatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC): A systematic review and meta-analysis. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 36(9). 389–399. 77 indexed citations
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Soria, Francesco, Marco Moschini, David D‘Andrea, et al.. (2018). Comparative Effectiveness in Perioperative Outcomes of Robotic versus Open Radical Cystectomy: Results from a Multicenter Contemporary Retrospective Cohort Study. European Urology Focus. 6(6). 1233–1239. 28 indexed citations
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D‘Andrea, David, Francesco Soria, Mohammad Abufaraj, et al.. (2018). Clinical value of cholinesterase in the prediction of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 36(12). 528.e7–528.e13. 12 indexed citations
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Rieken, Malte, Stephen A. Boorjian, Luis A. Kluth, et al.. (2018). Development and external validation of a pathological nodal staging score for patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma. World Journal of Urology. 37(8). 1631–1637. 4 indexed citations
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Foerster, Beat, Marco Moschini, Mohammad Abufaraj, et al.. (2017). Predictive and Prognostic Value of Preoperative Thrombocytosis in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 15(6). e1039–e1045. 11 indexed citations
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Soria, Francesco, Ilaria Lucca, Marco Moschini, et al.. (2017). Caveolin-1 as prognostic factor of disease recurrence and survival in patients treated with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 35(6). 356–362. 4 indexed citations
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Foerster, Beat, Shoji Kimura, Mihai Dorin Vartolomei, et al.. (2017). Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy. Current Opinion in Urology. 28(2). 123–131.
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Abufaraj, Mohammad, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Beat Foerster, et al.. (2017). Accuracy and prognostic value of variant histology and lymphovascular invasion at transurethral resection of bladder. World Journal of Urology. 36(2). 231–240. 31 indexed citations

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