Bruce Burkemper

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Bruce Burkemper is a scholar working on Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Burkemper has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ophthalmology, 34 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Bruce Burkemper's work include Glaucoma and retinal disorders (36 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (30 papers) and Retinal Imaging and Analysis (24 papers). Bruce Burkemper is often cited by papers focused on Glaucoma and retinal disorders (36 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (30 papers) and Retinal Imaging and Analysis (24 papers). Bruce Burkemper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Thailand. Bruce Burkemper's co-authors include Rohit Varma, Roberta McKean‐Cowdin, Mina Torres, Grace M. Richter, Farzana Choudhury, Chunyi Hsu, Zhongdi Chu, Ruikang K. Wang, Thasarat S. Vajaranant and Shuang Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ophthalmology and American Journal of Ophthalmology.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Burkemper

46 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Visual Impairment and Blindness in Adults in the United States

2016 299 citations Rohit Varma, Bruce Burkemper et al. JAMA Ophthalmology profile →

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Michael Hennessy Australia

Dolly S. Chang United States

Yiong-Huak Chan Singapore

Parul Ichhpujani India

Carlos Gustavo De Moraes United States

Ebrahim Jafarzadehpur Iran

Andrew J. Tatham United Kingdom

Laura B. Enyedi United States

Shuan Dai New Zealand

Jagjit S. Gilhotra Australia

Michael Hennessy Australia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Burkemper

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Richter, Grace M., Benjamin Y. Xu, Bruce Burkemper, et al.. (2025). Prevalence and Risk Factors of Open-Angle Glaucoma in an Adult Chinese American Population: The Chinese American Eye Study. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 280. 9–19.

Torres, Mina, et al.. (2025). Burden and Predictors of Undetected Eye Disease in Adult African Americans: African American Eye Disease Study (AFEDS). American Journal of Ophthalmology. 279. 91–99.

Xu, Benjamin Y., Grace M. Richter, Bruce Burkemper, et al.. (2025). Prevalence and Risk Factors of Primary Angle Closure Disease in an Adult Chinese American Population: The Chinese American Eye Study. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 274. 32–41. 2 indexed citations

Pardeshi, Anmol A., Michael Chiang, Bruce Burkemper, et al.. (2023). Automated expert-level scleral spur detection and quantitative biometric analysis on the ANTERION anterior segment OCT system. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 108(5). 702–709. 6 indexed citations

Burkemper, Bruce, Charles Li, Siying Li, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and Risk Factors of Blindness Among Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma Patients in the United States: An IRIS Registry Analysis. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 259. 131–140. 7 indexed citations

Burkemper, Bruce, Brian J. Song, Brandon Wong, et al.. (2022). Rates and Patterns of Diagnostic Conversion from Anatomical Narrow Angle to Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma in the United States. Ophthalmology Glaucoma. 6(2). 169–176. 8 indexed citations

Varma, Rohit, Bruce Burkemper, Benjamin Y. Xu, et al.. (2021). Impact of Visual Field Loss on Vision-Specific Quality of Life in African Americans: The African American Eye Disease Study. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 229. 52–62. 11 indexed citations

Burkemper, Bruce, Xuejuan Jiang, Anmol A. Pardeshi, et al.. (2021). Ocular Biometric Determinants of Dark-to-Light Change in Angle Width: The Chinese American Eye Study. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 237. 183–192. 5 indexed citations

Jiang, Xuejuan, Bruce Burkemper, Mina Torres, Roberta McKean‐Cowdin, & Rohit Varma. (2020). Myopic Refractive Error in Adult African Americans: The African American Eye Disease Study. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 91–91. 2 indexed citations

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Nousome, Darryl, Roberta McKean‐Cowdin, Grace M. Richter, et al.. (2020). Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Healthy Eyes of Black, Chinese, and Latino Americans. Ophthalmology. 128(7). 1005–1015. 35 indexed citations

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Xu, Benjamin Y., Bruce Burkemper, Xuejuan Jiang, et al.. (2020). Ocular Biometric Determinants of Anterior Chamber Angle Width in Chinese Americans: The Chinese American Eye Study. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 220. 19–26. 18 indexed citations

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McKean‐Cowdin, Roberta, Rohit Varma, Darryl Nousome, et al.. (2020). Genetic Susceptibility to Diabetic Retinopathy Using a Genetic Risk Score in Multiethnic Cohorts. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 3849–3849.

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Burkemper, Bruce, Jae Lee, Zhongdi Chu, et al.. (2020). Dynamic Range and Measurement Floor for Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Glaucoma. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 61(7). 4788–4788. 1 indexed citations

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Torres, Mina, Bruce Burkemper, Xuejuan Jiang, et al.. (2019). Machine Learning Models for Diagnosing Glaucoma from Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Maps. Ophthalmology Glaucoma. 2(6). 422–428. 27 indexed citations

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Koulisis, Nicole, Stavros N. Moysidis, Yoshihiro Yonekawa, et al.. (2019). Correlating Changes in the Macular Microvasculature and Capillary Network to Peripheral Vascular Pathologic Features in Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy. Ophthalmology Retina. 3(7). 597–606. 20 indexed citations

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Richter, Grace M., et al.. (2018). Peripapillary microvasculature in the retinal nerve fiber layer in glaucoma by optical coherence tomography angiography: focal structural and functional correlations and diagnostic performance. Clinical ophthalmology. Volume 12. 2285–2296. 32 indexed citations

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Stram, Douglas, Xuejuan Jiang, Rohit Varma, et al.. (2017). Factors Associated with Prevalent Diabetic Retinopathy in Chinese Americans: The Chinese American Eye Study. Ophthalmology Retina. 2(2). 96–105. 10 indexed citations

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Burkemper, Bruce. (2016). Risk factors for prevalent early AMD and associated retinal lesions: The Chinese American Eye Study.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 57(12). 14–14. 4 indexed citations

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Varma, Rohit, Jeniffer S. Kim, Bruce Burkemper, et al.. (2016). Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness in Chinese American Adults. JAMA Ophthalmology. 134(7). 785–785. 52 indexed citations

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Kim, Alice Y., Damien C. Rodger, Anoush Shahidzadeh, et al.. (2016). Quantifying Retinal Microvascular Changes in Uveitis Using Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 171. 101–112. 147 indexed citations

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