D. Alan Shewmon

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

D. Alan Shewmon is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Alan Shewmon has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 22 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 21 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in D. Alan Shewmon's work include Organ Donation and Transplantation (21 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (21 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 papers). D. Alan Shewmon is often cited by papers focused on Organ Donation and Transplantation (21 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (21 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 papers). D. Alan Shewmon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Cuba. D. Alan Shewmon's co-authors include Harry T. Chugani, Warwick J. Peacock, W. Donald Shields, Roland J. Erwin, Donald M. Olson, Michael E. Phelps, Michael E. Phelps, Harry V. Vinters, Raman Sankar and Raman Sankar and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Neurology and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

D. Alan Shewmon

72 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Infantile spasms: I. PET identifies focal cortical dysgenesis in cryptogenic cases for surgical treatment

1990 474 citations Harry T. Chugani, W. Donald Shields et al. Annals of Neurology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Alan Shewmon United States	32	2.0k	1.3k	803	741	704	72	3.7k
Paul Uvebrant Sweden	33	2.3k 1.2×	2.5k 1.8×	528 0.7×	274 0.4×	358 0.5×	84	4.3k
Rodney A. Radtke United States	36	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	274 0.4×	1.4k 2.0×	82	4.9k
Warwick J. Peacock United States	39	3.1k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 2.1×	321 0.4×	469 0.7×	100	4.9k
Richard Appleton United Kingdom	38	2.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	619 0.8×	267 0.4×	400 0.6×	164	4.4k
Elysa Widjaja Canada	34	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	598 0.7×	230 0.3×	747 1.1×	179	3.7k
Raj D. Sheth United States	35	3.1k 1.6×	2.4k 1.8×	767 1.0×	103 0.1×	852 1.2×	110	4.5k
John Ragheb United States	29	1.0k 0.5×	962 0.7×	782 1.0×	405 0.5×	272 0.4×	106	2.9k
Leena Valanne Finland	38	823 0.4×	756 0.6×	420 0.5×	199 0.3×	567 0.8×	121	4.3k
Margaret B. Pulsifer United States	34	615 0.3×	862 0.6×	166 0.2×	709 1.0×	557 0.8×	87	3.7k
Peter Uldall Denmark	34	2.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	248 0.3×	229 0.3×	352 0.5×	119	3.4k

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Shewmon, D. Alan & Noriko Salamon. (2021). The MRI of Jahi McMath and Its Implications for the Global Ischemic Penumbra Hypothesis. Journal of Child Neurology. 37(1). 35–42. 9 indexed citations

Shewmon, D. Alan. (2004). The ABC of PVS. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 550. 215–228. 6 indexed citations

Shewmon, D. Alan, et al.. (2004). The Semiotics of Death and its Medical Implications. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 550. 89–114. 31 indexed citations

Shields, W. Donald, et al.. (1999). Surgery for the Treatment of Medically Intractable Infantile Spasms: A Cautionary Case. Epilepsia. 40(9). 1305–1308. 13 indexed citations

Mathern, Gary W., Christopher C. Giza, Sue Yudovin, et al.. (1999). Postoperative Seizure Control and Antiepileptic Drug Use in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Patients: The UCLA Experience, 1986–1997. Epilepsia. 40(12). 1740–1749. 122 indexed citations

Shewmon, D. Alan. (1997). Recovery from “Brain Death”: A Neurologist's Apologia. The Linacre Quarterly. 64(1). 30–96. 86 indexed citations

Asarnow, Robert F., Christine LoPresti, Donald Guthrie, et al.. (1997). Developmental outcomes in children receiving resection surgery for medically intractable infantile spasms. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 39(7). 430–440. 128 indexed citations

Shih, Jerry J., Harley I. Kornblum, & D. Alan Shewmon. (1996). Global brain dysfunction in an infant with pyridoxine dependency. Neurology. 47(3). 824–826. 16 indexed citations

Peacock, Warwick J., W. Donald Shields, D. Alan Shewmon, et al.. (1996). Hemispherectomy for intractable seizures in children: a report of 58 cases. Child s Nervous System. 12(7). 376–384. 145 indexed citations

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Chugani, Harry T., D. Alan Shewmon, W. Donald Shields, et al.. (1993). Surgery for Intractable Infantile Spasms: Neuroimaging Perspectives. Epilepsia. 34(4). 764–771. 238 indexed citations

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Shields, W. Donald, D. Alan Shewmon, Harry T. Chugani, et al.. (1992). Neurosurgical Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus. Epilepsia. 33(3). 546–549. 41 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan. (1990). What Is a Neonatal Seizure? Problems in Definition and Quantification for Investigative and Clinical Purposes. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 7(3). 315–368. 74 indexed citations

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Shields, W. Donald, Harry T. Chugani, D. Alan Shewmon, & Warwick J. Peacock. (1989). Focal Central Nervous System Lesions as a Cause of Infantile Spasms. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 56. 2 indexed citations

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Olson, Donald M. & D. Alan Shewmon. (1989). Electroencephalographic abnormalities in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Pediatric Neurology. 5(2). 93–98. 6 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan & Roland J. Erwin. (1988). The effect of focal interictal spikes on perception and reaction time. II. Neuroanatomic specificity. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 69(4). 338–352. 72 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan & Roland J. Erwin. (1988). Focal spike‐induced cerebral dysfunction is related to the after‐coming slow wave. Annals of Neurology. 23(2). 131–137. 88 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan & Roland J. Erwin. (1988). The effect of focal interictal spikes on perception and reaction time. I. General considerations. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 69(4). 319–337. 88 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan. (1988). Commentary on guidelines for the determination of brain death in children. Annals of Neurology. 24(6). 789–791. 13 indexed citations

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Chugani, Harry T., D. Alan Shewmon, Warwick J. Peacock, et al.. (1988). Surgical treatment of intractable neonatal‐onset seizures. Neurology. 38(8). 1178–1178. 113 indexed citations

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Shewmon, D. Alan. (1987). Ethics and Brain Death. New Scholasticism. 61(3). 321–344. 3 indexed citations

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