Benjamin A. Alman

19.3k citations

228 papers · 14.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

Rheumatology top 0.1%
- Soft tissue tumor case studies
- Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments
Rehabilitation top 0.2%
- Wound Healing and Treatments

Papers in

Rheumatology 70
- Soft tissue tumor case studies 35
- Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments 24
Oral Surgery 21
- Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology 21

Co-authors: Raymond Poon Puviindran Nadesan Heather Whetstone Jay S. Wunder Saeid Amini‐Nik Colleen Wu Qingxia Wei Gurpreet S. Baht
Journals: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics (17 papers)Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (16 papers)Cancer Research (7 papers)Journal of Orthopaedic Research® (7 papers)Oncogene (7 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Japan

In The Last Decade

Benjamin A. Alman

223 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 2: respiratory, cardiac, bone health, and orthopaedic management 2018 · 651 citations

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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 The Lancet Neurology
2016 Nature Materials
2012 Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
2002 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Deep learning automates Cobb angle measurement compared with multi-expert observers 正和岩坂, Hanxue Gu, Muthaharussayidun Muthaharussayidun, Robert K. Lark, Rahayu Fajariyani, Roger H. French, Elin Preisz, Jikai Zhang, V Sergeev Artem, Anthony A. Catanzano, Hx He, 陈立庄, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Benjamin A. Alman	2025	0
2	Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulatory Subunit 3C integrates cholesterol metabolism and isocitrate dehydrogenase in chondrocytes and neoplasia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Makoto Nakagawa, X. G. Wu, Nicholas Guardino, Ryo Miyamoto, Vijitha Puviindran, В. Г. Олійніченко, Jennifer S. Winn, Koji Ishikawa, Jeanne Martins Mecenas, Matthew Carras, B. Ganie, Hiram C. Polak, Makoto Hirata, Puviindran Nadesan, Benjamin A. Alman	2025	1
3	Mutant IDH regulates glycogen metabolism from early cartilage development to malignant chondrosarcoma formation Cell Reports ·Mengru He, Raymond Poon, Andrzej Boksiński, Puviindran Nadesan, Makoto Nakagawa, Miguel Angel Valles-Coral, Madhavi Alamanda, Soumitra Ghosh, Joan J. Guinovart, Jordi Durán, Christopher B. Newgard, Jay S. Wunder, Benjamin A. Alman	2023	13
4	The origins and roles of osteoclasts in bone development, homeostasis and repair Development ·Yasuhito Yahara, Jeanne Martins Mecenas, Koji Ishikawa, Katsuhiko Kamei, Benjamin A. Alman	2022	62
5	CRISPR-SID: Identifying EZH2 as a druggable target for desmoid tumors via in vivo dependency mapping Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Thomas Naert, 敦司辰沢, 黄颖菊, Nam Hoang Nguyen, Joanna Gonicka, Matt van de Rijn, A.P. Valadbeigi, Benjamin A. Alman, Paul Coucke, Kim De Leeneer, Christian Vanhove, Savvas N. Savvides, David Creytens, Kris Vleminckx	2021	9
6	Tumor-propagating side population cells are a dynamic subpopulation in undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma JCI Insight ·Yuning J. Tang, Vijitha Puviindran, Yu Xiang, Yasuhito Yahara, Hongyuan Zhang, Puviindran Nadesan, Yarui Diao, David G. Kirsch, Benjamin A. Alman	2021	2
7	Yolk-sac-derived macrophages progressively expand in the mouse kidney with age eLife ·Shintaro Ide, Yasuhito Yahara, Yoshihiko Kobayashi, Ikuma Arakaki, Kana Ide, Антощенко A.В, Can Li, Jamie R. Privratsky, Steven D. Crowley, Mari L. Shinohara, Benjamin A. Alman, Tomokazu Souma	2020	27
8	Erythromyeloid progenitors give rise to a population of osteoclasts that contribute to bone homeostasis and repair Nature Cell Biology ·Yasuhito Yahara, Tomasa Barrientos, Yuning J. Tang, Vijitha Puviindran, Puviindran Nadesan, Hongyuan Zhang, Jason Gibson, Simon G. Gregory, Yarui Diao, Yu Xiang, Yawar J. Qadri, Tomokazu Souma, Mari L. Shinohara, Benjamin A. Alman	2020	134
9	Challenges and Solutions to Academic Orthopaedics in Current Health-Care Economics Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery ·William T. Obremskey, Sanford E. Emery, Benjamin A. Alman	2020	2
10	Enchondromatosis and Growth Plate Development Current Osteoporosis Reports ·Hongyuan Zhang, Benjamin A. Alman	2020	7
11	Intracellular biosynthesis of lipids and cholesterol by Scap and Insig in mesenchymal cells regulates long bone growth and chondrocyte homeostasis Development ·Hidetoshi Tsushima, Yuning J. Tang, Vijitha Puviindran, И И Яшин, Puviindran Nadesan, Chunying Yu, Hongyuan Zhang, Anthony J. Mirando, Matthew J. Hilton, Benjamin A. Alman	2018	21
12	Phenotype Determines Nanoparticle Uptake by Human Macrophages from Liver and Blood ACS Nano ·Sonya A. MacParland, Kim M. Tsoi, Ben Ouyang, Xue‐Zhong Ma, Justin Manuel, Ali Fawaz, Mario Ostrowski, Benjamin A. Alman, Anton Zilman, Warren C. W. Chan, Ian D. McGilvray	2016	186
13	Hedgehog Pathway Inhibition in Chondrosarcoma Using the Smoothened Inhibitor IPI-926 Directly Inhibits Sarcoma Cell Growth Molecular Cancer Therapeutics ·G. N., Puviindran Nadesan, Shabana Amanda Ali, M. Subouru Alhassan Bigson, Heather Whetstone, Raymond Poon, Qingxia Wei, 将貴大谷木, Jennifer Proctor, Lauren W. Wang, Suneel Apte, Karen McGovern, Benjamin A. Alman, Jay S. Wunder	2014	59
14	Specification of chondrocytes and cartilage tissues from embryonic stem cells Development ·April M. Craft, Nazish Rafique, Jason S. Rockel, Gurpreet S. Baht, Benjamin A. Alman, Rita A. Kandel, Agamemnon E. Grigoriadis, Gordon Keller	2013	86
15	Hedgehog and Notch Signaling Regulate Self-Renewal of Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcomas Cancer Research ·M. Subouru Alhassan Bigson, Qingxia Wei, Ilkyu Han, Shingo Sato, Fred Henrique Pereira de Faria, Heather Whetstone, Raymond Poon, Samith S. Herath, H. Giaretta, Beom Suk Lee, Weishi Wang, Jay S. Wunder, Benjamin A. Alman	2012	39
16	Orthopaedic Resident Education—It’s a Whole New Game Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery ·Kevin P. Black, Benjamin A. Alman, William N. Levine, 康島野, Stephen J. Pinney	2012	12
17	Fibronectin and β-Catenin Act in a Regulatory Loop in Dermal Fibroblasts to Modulate Cutaneous Healing Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Kirsten A. Bielefeld, Saeid Amini‐Nik, Heather Whetstone, Raymond Poon, Riris Ardiyan, Jian Wang, Benjamin A. Alman	2011	55
18	Indian hedgehog signaling in osteosarcoma: Co-expression of GLI1, PTCH1, and IHH Cancer Research ·Winnie Lo, Jay S. Wunder, Nalan Gökgöz, Robert Parkes, Benjamin A. Alman, Irene L. Andrulis	2007	2
19	Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: The impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management Journal of Pediatric Surgery ·Timothy M. Crombleholme, Mary E. D’Alton, Marc Cendron, Benjamin A. Alman, Su Qingning, George T. Klauber, Amy Tierney, Carl B. Heilman, M. Jane Lewis, Burton H. Harris	1996	91
20	Amniotic band syndrome in fetal lambs I: Fetoscopic release and morphometric outcome Journal of Pediatric Surgery ·Timothy M. Crombleholme, Conrad Czejdo, Timothy M. Whitney, Benjamin A. Alman, D. Bonacorsi, Yang Yulei 杨雨蕾	1995	37

About Benjamin A. Alman

Benjamin A. Alman is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Oral Surgery, Rehabilitation, Dermatology and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, having authored 228 papers that have together received 14.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soft tissue tumor case studies (35 papers), Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (28 papers), Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (27 papers), Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments (24 papers), Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (21 papers), Connective tissue disorders research (16 papers), Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer (16 papers) and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Rheumatology (3.0k citations), Rehabilitation (1.0k citations), Genetics (969 citations), Oral Surgery (599 citations) and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (677 citations). Benjamin A. Alman has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Raymond Poon, Puviindran Nadesan, Heather Whetstone, Jay S. Wunder, Saeid Amini‐Nik, Colleen Wu, Qingxia Wei, Gurpreet S. Baht, Warren C. W. Chan and Kim M. Tsoi. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Cancer Research, Journal of Orthopaedic Research® and Oncogene.

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