Bo Hu

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
207 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Bo Hu is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Hu has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 29 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 26 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Bo Hu's work include Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (13 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (11 papers). Bo Hu is often cited by papers focused on Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (14 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (13 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (11 papers). Bo Hu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Bo Hu's co-authors include Stephen J. Nicholls, E. Murat Tuzcu, Steven E. Nissen, Michael B. Rothberg, Tom Greene, A. Michael Lincoff, Kathy Wolski, John J.P. Kastelein, Jun Shao and Mari Palta and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bo Hu

194 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Comparison of Pioglitazone vs Glimepiride on Progression ... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2024 200 400 600
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.

  1. Comparison of Pioglitazone vs Glimepiride on Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
    2008 664 citations Bo Hu et al. JAMA profile →
  2. Long-Term Outcomes of Medical Management vs Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes
    2024 110 citations Anita P. Courcoulas, Mary‐Elizabeth Patti et al. JAMA profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bo Hu United States 35 1.5k 1.3k 1.0k 790 771 207 5.6k
Maurizio Ferrario Italy 40 1.1k 0.7× 2.3k 1.8× 746 0.7× 515 0.7× 510 0.7× 270 6.5k
Girish N. Nadkarni United States 44 999 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 680 0.7× 974 1.2× 752 1.0× 348 7.7k
James M. Brophy Canada 48 1.9k 1.3× 2.8k 2.2× 524 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 463 0.6× 272 7.9k
Dong Zhao China 39 1.1k 0.8× 2.6k 2.0× 1.1k 1.0× 466 0.6× 771 1.0× 242 6.8k
Yuanqiang Zhang China 40 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 495 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 1.9k 2.4× 537 7.9k
Andrew P. DeFilippis United States 41 1.1k 0.7× 1.8k 1.4× 776 0.7× 462 0.6× 611 0.8× 125 5.8k
Iftikhar J. Kullo United States 53 2.3k 1.5× 2.6k 2.0× 911 0.9× 1.2k 1.5× 1.9k 2.5× 289 9.3k
Jamal S. Rana United States 43 1.6k 1.0× 2.7k 2.1× 1.2k 1.2× 547 0.7× 662 0.9× 231 7.0k
Mark Y. Chan Singapore 40 1.2k 0.8× 2.4k 1.8× 673 0.6× 448 0.6× 925 1.2× 347 6.0k
Tim Ramsay Canada 45 1.2k 0.8× 1.5k 1.2× 479 0.5× 924 1.2× 263 0.3× 267 8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Bo Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bo Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Hu

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

All Works

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Hou, Yuan, Bo Hu, Andrew A. Pieper, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and safety of passive immunotherapies targeting amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Medicine. 22(3). e1004568–e1004568. 4 indexed citations
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Yao, Meng, Susannah Rose, Edward K. Chien, et al.. (2024). Reducing decisional conflict in decisions about prenatal genetic testing: the impact of a dyadic intervention at the start of prenatal care. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 52(5). 467–477. 1 indexed citations
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Courcoulas, Anita P., Mary‐Elizabeth Patti, Bo Hu, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Outcomes of Medical Management vs Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes. JAMA. 331(8). 654–654. 110 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Joshua K., Bo Hu, Quinn R. Pack, et al.. (2023). Assisted ambulation to improve health outcomes for older medical inpatients (AMBULATE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 24(1). 471–471. 2 indexed citations
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Caputo, Anthony, Peter Bazeley, Patrick J. McIntire, et al.. (2023). Spatial Transcriptomics Suggests That Alterations Occur in the Preneoplastic Breast Microenvironment of BRCA1 / 2 Mutation Carriers. Molecular Cancer Research. 22(2). 169–180. 4 indexed citations
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Rotz, Seth J., Sarah Worley, Bo Hu, et al.. (2022). Genome-Wide Association Study of Pregnancy in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 31(9). 1858–1862.
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Spielberg, Jeffrey M., et al.. (2022). Resting-state functional connectivity graph-properties correlate with bipolar disorder-risk in young medication-free depressed subjects. Journal of Affective Disorders. 301. 52–59. 3 indexed citations
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Jang, Geeng-Fu, Bo Hu, Belinda Willard, et al.. (2021). Proteomics of Primary Uveal Melanoma: Insights into Metastasis and Protein Biomarkers. Cancers. 13(14). 3520–3520. 9 indexed citations
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Maytin, Edward V., Sanjay Anand, Rim Ishak, et al.. (2018). 5-Fluorouracil Enhances Protoporphyrin IX Accumulation and Lesion Clearance during Photodynamic Therapy of Actinic Keratoses: A Mechanism-Based Clinical Trial. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(13). 3026–3035. 40 indexed citations
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Li, Liang, Sheng Luo, Bo Hu, & Tom Greene. (2016). Dynamic Prediction of Renal Failure Using Longitudinal Biomarkers in a Cohort Study of Chronic Kidney Disease. Statistics in Biosciences. 9(2). 357–378. 25 indexed citations
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El-Khoury, Joe M, et al.. (2016). Comparison of symmetric dimethylarginine with creatinine, cystatin C and their eGFR equations as markers of kidney function. Clinical Biochemistry. 49(15). 1140–1143. 28 indexed citations
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Qian, Chen, et al.. (2016). Submucosal injection of dexamethasone reduces postoperative discomfort after third-molar extraction. The Journal of the American Dental Association. 148(2). 81–91. 26 indexed citations
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Greene, Tom, Marshall M. Joffe, Bo Hu, Liang Li, & Kenneth M. Boucher. (2013). The Balanced Survivor Average Causal Effect. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 9(2). 291–306. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Liang, Brad C. Astor, Julia B. Lewis, et al.. (2012). Longitudinal Progression Trajectory of GFR Among Patients With CKD. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 59(4). 504–512. 216 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jianping, Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Bo Hu, & Leo Pozuelo. (2009). Gender Differences Prominent in Linking Anxiety to Long-Term Mortality Among the Elderly. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 76.
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Hu, Bo, Jun Shao, & Mari Palta. (2006). PSEUDO-R 2 IN LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL. Statistica Sinica. 16(3). 847–860. 104 indexed citations

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