Christian A. Thomas

12.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
58 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Christian A. Thomas is a scholar working on Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian A. Thomas has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Oncology, 17 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Christian A. Thomas's work include Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (10 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (8 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers). Christian A. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations (10 papers), Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (8 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers). Christian A. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Christian A. Thomas's co-authors include Stuart A. Rice, M.E. Reichmann, Paul Doty, Samuel C. Silverstein, Joseph El Khoury, Anthony Lee, Daniil Stroyakovskiy, Fabrice Barlési, Francesco Orlandi and Federico Cappuzzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Christian A. Thomas

53 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Atezolizumab for First-Line Treatment of Metastatic Nonsquamous NSCLC

2018 2.6k citations Robert M. Jotte, Federico Cappuzzo et al. profile →
A Further Examination of the Molecular Weight and Size of Desoxypentose Nucleic Acid

1954 2.1k citations Christian A. Thomas et al. profile →
Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy in non-small-cell lung cancer (IMpower150): key subgroup analyses of patients with EGFR mutations or baseline liver metastases in a randomised, open-label phase 3 trial

2019 688 citations Martin Reck, Tony Mok et al. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine profile →
Scavenger receptor-mediated adhesion of microglia to β-amyloid fibrils

1996 636 citations Christian A. Thomas et al. profile →
IMpower150 Final Overall Survival Analyses for Atezolizumab Plus Bevacizumab and Chemotherapy in First-Line Metastatic Nonsquamous NSCLC

2021 316 citations Makoto Nishio, Robert M. Jotte et al. profile →

Peers

Christian A. Thomas

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Matthew D. Hall United States

Charles Eigenbrot United States

Matthias Eder Germany

John M. Koomen United States

Željko Vujašković United States

Olaf van Tellingen Netherlands

Duncan I. Jodrell United Kingdom

Yun Yen United States

Beverly A. Teicher United States

Daniel B. Longley United Kingdom

Matthew D. Hall United States

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606 ×0.2

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian A. Thomas

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baunacke, Martin, et al.. (2025). Increasing Age at Radical Prostatectomy: A Total Population Analysis in Germany from 2006 to 2022. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 33(3). 2783–2790.

Baunacke, Martin, et al.. (2025). The use of laser-assisted cart positioning significantly reduces the docking time of multimodular robotic systems. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 19(1). 46–46. 1 indexed citations

Herout, Roman, et al.. (2025). Impact of non-surgical OR time on efficiency and costs with Hugo™ RAS. Journal of Robotic Surgery. 19(1). 565–565.

Anderson, Eric, F. Lee Lucas, Michael J. Hall, et al.. (2024). Genome-matched treatments and patient outcomes in the Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative (MCGI). npj Precision Oncology. 8(1). 67–67. 3 indexed citations

Rueter, Jens, Eric Anderson, Leah Graham, et al.. (2023). The Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative: Implementing a Community Cancer Genomics Program Across an Entire Rural State. JCO Precision Oncology. 7(7). e2200619–e2200619. 4 indexed citations

Schubert, Laura, Andrew Elliott, Anh T. Le, et al.. (2023). ERBB family fusions are recurrent and actionable oncogenic targets across cancer types. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1115405–1115405. 8 indexed citations

Anderson, Eric, Emily Edelman, Petra Helbig, et al.. (2021). Patients' Expectations of Benefits From Large-Panel Genomic Tumor Testing in Rural Community Oncology Practices. JCO Precision Oncology. 5(5). 1554–1562. 5 indexed citations

Shim, Byoung Yong, Javier de Castro, Manuel Cobo, et al.. (2020). 1269P EMPOWER-lung 4: Phase II, randomized, open-label high dose or standard dose cemiplimab alone/plus ipilimumab in the second-line treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Annals of Oncology. 31. S820–S820. 7 indexed citations

Reck, Martin, Tony Mok, Makoto Nishio, et al.. (2019). Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy in non-small-cell lung cancer (IMpower150): key subgroup analyses of patients with EGFR mutations or baseline liver metastases in a randomised, open-label phase 3 trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 7(5). 387–401. 688 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brandt, Maximilian Peter, Christian A. Thomas, Igor Tsaur, et al.. (2019). Immune check point inhibitors for metastatic urothelial carcinoma: current evidence-based approach for urology daily practice. Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica. 71(3). 205–216. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christian A., et al.. (2018). Remote Capture. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 2 indexed citations

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Wheatley, Margo M., Michael Quinn, Leo Waterston, et al.. (2017). Timeliness of access to lung cancer diagnosis and treatment: A scoping literature review. Lung Cancer. 112. 156–164. 154 indexed citations

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Borgmann, Hendrik, Stacy Loeb, Johannes Salem, et al.. (2016). Activity, content, contributors, and influencers of the twitter discussion on urologic oncology. Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations. 34(9). 377–383. 40 indexed citations

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Borgmann, Hendrik, René Mager, Johannes Salem, et al.. (2015). Robotic Prostatectomy on the Web: A Cross-Sectional Qualitative Assessment. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 14(4). e355–e362. 13 indexed citations

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Sermer, David, et al.. (2014). Herpes Simplex Encephalitis as a Complication of Whole-Brain Radiotherapy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Case Reports in Oncology. 7(3). 774–779. 12 indexed citations

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Hertler, Andrew, et al.. (2012). Development of a collaborative improvement network by a state affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 30(34_suppl). 79–79. 1 indexed citations

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Mount, Sharon, et al.. (2009). The Case ∣ A Caucasian male with dark skin, black urine, and acute kidney injury. Kidney International. 76(12). 1295–1296. 4 indexed citations

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Ziegler, Benedikt, Peter S. Sándor, U. Plappert, et al.. (1998). Short-Term Effects of Early-Acting and Multilineage HematoPoietic Growth Factors on the Repair and Proliferation of Irradiated Pure Cord Blood (CB) CD34 Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 40(5). 1193–1203. 17 indexed citations

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Ziegler, Benedikt, et al.. (1998). Generation of infectious retrovirus aerosol through medical laser irradiation. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 22(1). 37–41. 33 indexed citations

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Dhandayuthapani, Subramanian, Laura E. Via, Christian A. Thomas, et al.. (1995). Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression and cell biology of mycobacterial interactions with macrophages. Molecular Microbiology. 17(5). 901–912. 161 indexed citations

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