Benjamin J. Luft

18.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
314 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Luft is a scholar working on Parasitology, Epidemiology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Luft has authored 314 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Parasitology, 80 papers in Epidemiology and 75 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Luft's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (104 papers), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (62 papers) and Occupational Health and Performance (57 papers). Benjamin J. Luft is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (104 papers), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (62 papers) and Occupational Health and Performance (57 papers). Benjamin J. Luft collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Benjamin J. Luft's co-authors include Jack S. Remington, Raymond J. Dattwyler, John Halperin, John J. Dunn, Evelyn J. Bromet, Roman Kotov, David J. Volkman, Daniel E. Dykhuizen, Steven E. Schutzer and Weigang Qiu and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Luft

298 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in AIDS

1992 1.0k citations Benjamin J. Luft, Jack S. Remington profile →
Toxoplasmic Encephalitis in Patients With Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

1984 567 citations Benjamin J. Luft profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin J. Luft United States	55	8.2k	4.4k	3.4k	2.0k	1.3k	314	12.7k
Gregory C. Gray United States	58	640 0.1×	4.7k 1.1×	4.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.8×	514 0.4×	337	11.5k
Eugene D. Shapiro United States	47	3.4k 0.4×	4.0k 0.9×	4.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	632 0.5×	205	10.5k
William C. Reeves United States	59	454 0.1×	1.8k 0.4×	3.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	427 0.3×	304	12.4k
Gary P. Wormser United States	71	13.5k 1.7×	14.2k 3.2×	2.6k 0.8×	4.1k 2.1×	3.5k 2.6×	411	19.9k
Sabra L. Klein United States	66	816 0.1×	5.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.1×	3.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	204	20.7k
André Aeschlimann Switzerland	39	2.2k 0.3×	1.5k 0.3×	619 0.2×	418 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	217	5.7k
Bart J. Currie Australia	79	1.9k 0.2×	8.4k 1.9×	13.2k 3.9×	4.6k 2.4×	787 0.6×	570	24.8k
W. Ian Lipkin United States	87	1.2k 0.1×	11.8k 2.7×	6.9k 2.0×	5.3k 2.7×	2.1k 1.6×	389	24.6k
Thomas A.E. Platts‐Mills United States	99	627 0.1×	1.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	906 0.7×	561	36.8k
Allen C. Steere United States	90	24.8k 3.0×	21.5k 4.9×	1.2k 0.4×	4.5k 2.3×	5.6k 4.2×	301	30.6k

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Clouston, Sean, P. Vaska, Tesleem Kayode Babalola, et al.. (2025). Glial activation among individuals with neurological post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019: A positron emission tomography study of brain fog using [18F]-FEPPA. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 47. 100945–100945.

Mann, Frank D., Sean Clouston, Jaeun Choi, et al.. (2025). Posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, and mild cognitive impairment: A cohort study of world trade center responders. Psychiatry Research. 355. 116827–116827.

Sekendiz, Zennur, Olga Morozova, Melissa A. Carr, et al.. (2024). Characterization of Change in Cognition Before and After COVID-19 Infection in Essential Workers at Midlife. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12. 100076–100076. 2 indexed citations

Mann, Frank D., Rachel Zeig‐Owens, Jaeun Choi, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of Mild and Severe Cognitive Impairment in World Trade Center Exposed Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) and General Emergency Responders. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 68(2). 160–174.

Curtin, Paul, Evelyn J. Bromet, Roberto G. Lucchini, et al.. (2023). Functional changes in neural mechanisms underlying post-traumatic stress disorder in World Trade Center responders. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 239–239. 4 indexed citations

Richmond, Lauren L., et al.. (2023). Explainable automated evaluation of the clock drawing task for memory impairment screening. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(2). e12441–e12441. 5 indexed citations

Rudenko, Nataliia, Maryna Golovchenko, Aleš Horák, et al.. (2023). Genomic Confirmation of Borrelia garinii, United States. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(1). 64–69. 6 indexed citations

Waszczuk, Monika A., et al.. (2023). Discovery and replication of blood-based proteomic signature of PTSD in 9/11 responders. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 8–8. 2 indexed citations

Calvert, Geoffrey M., James E. Cone, Denise Harrison, et al.. (2022). The World Trade Center Health Program: an introduction to best practices. Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health. 78(4). 199–205. 10 indexed citations

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Kritikos, Minos, Jack M. Guralnik, Isaac Ahuvia, et al.. (2022). Physical Functional Impairment and the Risk of Incident Mild Cognitive Impairment in an Observational Study of World Trade Center Responders. Neurology Clinical Practice. 12(6). e162–e171. 4 indexed citations

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Koraishy, Farrukh M., Steven G. Coca, Beth E. Cohen, et al.. (2021). The Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Longitudinal Change in Glomerular Filtration Rate in World Trade Center Responders. Psychosomatic Medicine. 83(9). 978–986. 5 indexed citations

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Clouston, Sean, Minos Kritikos, Lauren L. Richmond, et al.. (2021). A deep learning approach for monitoring parietal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease in World Trade Center responders at midlife. Brain Communications. 3(3). fcab145–fcab145. 8 indexed citations

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Clouston, Sean, Pei Fen Kuan, Roman Kotov, et al.. (2019). Risk factors for incident prostate cancer in a cohort of world trade center responders. BMC Psychiatry. 19(1). 389–389. 12 indexed citations

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Ratanatharathorn, Andrew, Allison E. Aiello, Marco P. Boks, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic Biomarkers Of PTSD: Updates From The EWAS Working Group of The PTSD PGC. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 29. S750–S750. 1 indexed citations

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Horn, Sarah R., Robert H. Pietrzak, Clyde B. Schechter, et al.. (2016). Latent typologies of posttraumatic stress disorder in World Trade Center responders. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 83. 151–159. 26 indexed citations

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Schutzer, Steven E., Catherine M. Ronning, David DeShazer, et al.. (2008). Characterization of Clinically-Attenuated Burkholderia mallei by Whole Genome Sequencing: Candidate Strain for Exclusion from Select Agent Lists. PLoS ONE. 3(4). e2058–e2058. 10 indexed citations

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Qiu, Wei-Gang, Steven E. Schutzer, John F. Bruno, et al.. (2004). Genetic exchange and plasmid transfers in Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto revealed by three-way genome comparisons and multilocus sequence typing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(39). 14150–14155. 110 indexed citations

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Jacobson, Jeffrey M., Richard Hafner, Jack S. Remington, et al.. (2001). Dose-escalation, phase I/II study of azithromycin and pyrimethamine for the treatment of toxoplasmic encephalitis in AIDS. AIDS. 15(5). 583–589. 30 indexed citations

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Luft, Benjamin J.. (1992). Analysis and expression of the Borrelia burgdorferi P/Gau fla gene: Identification of heterogeneity with the B31 strain. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 93(1). 63–67. 10 indexed citations

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Halperin, John, et al.. (1988). Nervous System Abnormalities in Lyme Disease. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 539(1). 24–34. 72 indexed citations

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