Carol Sawka

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Carol Sawka is a scholar working on Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Carol Sawka has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Oncology, 24 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 19 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Carol Sawka's work include Breast Cancer Treatment Studies (19 papers), Clinical practice guidelines implementation (15 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (15 papers). Carol Sawka is often cited by papers focused on Breast Cancer Treatment Studies (19 papers), Clinical practice guidelines implementation (15 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (15 papers). Carol Sawka collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Carol Sawka's co-authors include Kathleen I. Pritchard, Maureen Trudeau, Wedad Hanna, L. Lickley, Ellen Rawlinson, Steven A. Narod, Rebecca Dent, Ping Sun, Vivek Goel and Elaine C. Thiel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Carol Sawka

68 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Clinical Features and Patterns of Recurrence

2007 3.8k citations Rebecca Dent, Maureen Trudeau et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carol Sawka Canada	33	3.8k	2.5k	1.5k	1.0k	935	70	7.0k
Robert W. Carlson United States	47	4.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	904 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	158	8.1k
Amanda L. Blackford United States	48	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	560 0.6×	227	7.5k
Anne‐Michelle Noone United States	30	3.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	484 0.5×	64	7.0k
Cheng Har Yip Malaysia	42	3.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	870 0.6×	645 0.6×	688 0.7×	184	6.2k
Andrea Micheli Italy	44	3.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	979 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	124	7.1k
Christie R. Eheman United States	25	3.9k 1.0×	953 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	871 0.9×	47	7.4k
Michael S. Simon United States	49	3.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	574 0.6×	762 0.8×	261	7.7k
Hannah K. Weir United States	38	3.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.9×	665 0.7×	84	8.1k
R. Kreienberg Germany	54	4.3k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	434	10.6k
Chun Chieh Lin United States	27	4.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.6×	2.4k 2.3×	642 0.7×	100	9.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Carol Sawka

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carol Sawka

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carol Sawka

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

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Carroll, June, Donna Manca, Nicolette Sopcak, et al.. (2016). Primary care providers' experiences with and perceptions of personalized genomic medicine.. PubMed. 62(10). e626–e635. 87 indexed citations

Regier, Dean A., Colene Bentley, Craig Mitton, et al.. (2014). Public engagement in priority-setting: Results from a pan-Canadian survey of decision-makers in cancer control. Social Science & Medicine. 122. 130–139. 19 indexed citations

Browman, George P., Melissa Brouwers, Béatrice Fervers, & Carol Sawka. (2013). Population-based cancer control and the role of guidelines – towards a ‘systems’ approach. Oxford University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Evans, William K., et al.. (2013). Improving the Quality of Lung Cancer Care in Ontario: The Lung Cancer Disease Pathway Initiative. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 8(7). 876–882. 21 indexed citations

Bell, Robert S., et al.. (2012). A Ten-Year History: The Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. Healthcare Quarterly. 15(sp). 24–27. 4 indexed citations

Chafe, Roger, Anthony J. Culyer, Mark Dobrow, et al.. (2011). Access to Cancer Drugs in Canada: Looking Beyond Coverage Decisions. Healthcare policy. 6(3). 27–35. 29 indexed citations

Dent, Rebecca, Maureen Trudeau, Kathleen I. Pritchard, et al.. (2007). Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Clinical Features and Patterns of Recurrence. Clinical Cancer Research. 13(15). 4429–4434. 3772 indexed citations breakdown →

Whelan, Timothy J., Carol Sawka, Mark Levine, et al.. (2003). Helping Patients Make Informed Choices: A Randomized Trial of a Decision Aid for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 95(8). 581–587. 185 indexed citations

Chaudhry, Rabail, Vivek Goel, & Carol Sawka. (2001). Breast cancer survival by teaching status of the initial treating hospital.. PubMed. 164(2). 183–8. 57 indexed citations

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Boon, Heather, Moira Stewart, Ross E. Gray, et al.. (2000). Use of Complementary/Alternative Medicine by Breast Cancer Survivors in Ontario: Prevalence and Perceptions. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 18(13). 2515–2521. 360 indexed citations

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Sawka, Carol, Vivek Goel, Elaine C. Thiel, et al.. (1998). Development of a patient decision aid for choice of surgical treatment for breast cancer. Health Expectations. 1(1). 23–36. 67 indexed citations

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Goel, Vivek, Ivo A. Olivotto, T. Gregory Hislop, et al.. (1997). Patterns of initial management of node-negative breast cancer in two Canadian provinces. British Columbia/Ontario Working Group.. PubMed. 156(1). 25–35. 61 indexed citations

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Pritchard, Kathleen I., J.A. Roy, & Carol Sawka. (1996). Sex Hormones and Breast Cancer: The Issue of Hormone Replacement. Recent results in cancer research. 140. 285–293. 1 indexed citations

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Chapman, Judy‐Anne W., B.G. Mobbs, David R. McCready, et al.. (1996). An investigation of cut-points for primary breast cancer oestrogen and progesterone receptor assays. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 57(5-6). 323–328. 16 indexed citations

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Perry, James & Carol Sawka. (1996). Add-on Gabapentin for Refractory Seizures in Patients With Brain Tumours. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 23(2). 128–131. 45 indexed citations

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Sawka, Carol, et al.. (1995). Appropriateness of adjuvant systemic therapy for axillary node-negative breast cancer: a physician opinion survey.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 13(6). 1459–1469. 4 indexed citations

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Sawka, Carol, et al.. (1994). Significance of a partial or slow response to front-line chemotherapy in the management of intermediate-grade or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a literature review.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 12(5). 1074–1084. 36 indexed citations

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Sawka, Carol, Frances A. Shepherd, Joseph Brandwein, et al.. (1992). Treatment of AIDS-Related Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma with a Twelve Week Chemotherapy Program. Leukemia & lymphoma. 8(3). 213–220. 28 indexed citations

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Chapman, Judy‐Anne W., Maureen Trudeau, Kathleen I. Pritchard, et al.. (1992). A comparison of all-subset Cox and accelerated failure time models with Cox step-wise regression for node-positive breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 22(3). 263–272. 28 indexed citations

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Cairncross, J. Gregory, Elizabeth A. Eisenhauer, David Macdonald, et al.. (1990). Phase II Study of Trimetrexate in Recurrent Anaplastic Glioma: National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group Study. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 17(1). 21–23. 8 indexed citations

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