David Arterburn

15.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
200 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

David Arterburn is a scholar working on Surgery, Pharmacy and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, David Arterburn has authored 200 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Surgery, 55 papers in Pharmacy and 52 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in David Arterburn's work include Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (110 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (55 papers) and Body Contouring and Surgery (42 papers). David Arterburn is often cited by papers focused on Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (110 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (55 papers) and Body Contouring and Surgery (42 papers). David Arterburn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. David Arterburn's co-authors include Anita P. Courcoulas, Sebastien Haneuse, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Dana A. Telem, Robert F. Kushner, Edward H. Livingston, Paul K. Crane, Valerie A. Smith and Karen J. Coleman and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

David Arterburn

190 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Benefits and Risks of Bariatric Surgery in Adults
    2020 688 citations David Arterburn, Anita P. Courcoulas et al. JAMA profile →
  2. Using the E-Value to Assess the Potential Effect of Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies
    2019 653 citations David Arterburn et al. JAMA profile →
  3. Meta-Analysis: Pharmacologic Treatment of Obesity
    2005 556 citations David Arterburn et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  4. Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Durability of Weight Loss
    2016 493 citations Matthew L. Maciejewski, David Arterburn et al. profile →
  5. Association Between Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Survival
    2015 321 citations David Arterburn, Valerie A. Smith et al. JAMA profile →
  6. Association of Metabolic Surgery With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity
    2019 306 citations Ali Aminian, Alexander Zajichek et al. JAMA profile →
  7. Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures for Weight Loss
    2018 209 citations David Arterburn, Robert Wellman et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  8. 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
David Arterburn United States 46 5.0k 3.1k 1.8k 1.7k 1.5k 200 10.0k
Anita P. Courcoulas United States 60 9.8k 2.0× 4.5k 1.4× 3.3k 1.9× 1.5k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 212 13.0k
Karen M Schoelles United States 24 4.8k 1.0× 3.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.7× 806 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 62 8.4k
June Stevens United States 28 1.4k 0.3× 3.8k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 3.4k 2.2× 55 9.0k
Cathy Nonas United States 26 1.6k 0.3× 3.8k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 4.5k 2.9× 50 11.3k
Barbara E. Millen United States 24 1.5k 0.3× 3.6k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 3.7k 2.4× 46 9.4k
Judith G. Regensteiner United States 59 5.6k 1.1× 3.5k 1.1× 411 0.2× 4.5k 2.7× 1.9k 1.2× 184 17.4k
Alain G. Bertoni United States 68 2.4k 0.5× 3.1k 1.0× 637 0.4× 4.7k 2.8× 2.9k 1.9× 352 17.0k
Sharon Saydah United States 50 2.5k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 530 0.3× 7.9k 4.7× 2.0k 1.3× 158 14.5k
Gang Hu United States 60 2.0k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 346 0.2× 3.5k 2.1× 4.4k 2.9× 349 15.0k
Linda S. Geiss United States 59 2.1k 0.4× 2.2k 0.7× 806 0.5× 8.6k 5.1× 2.6k 1.7× 118 17.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Arterburn

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rosenberg, Dori E., Stephen J. Mooney, Jennifer F. Bobb, et al.. (2024). Neighborhood built and food environment in relation to glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes in the moving to health study. Health & Place. 86. 103216–103216. 1 indexed citations
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Maciejewski, Matthew L., Lindsay Zepel, David Arterburn, et al.. (2024). A comparison of time-varying propensity score vs sequential stratification approaches to longitudinal matching with a time-varying treatment. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 24(1). 280–280.
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Mukherjee, Rajarshi, Rui Wang, David Arterburn, et al.. (2024). Adjusting for selection bias due to missing eligibility criteria in emulated target trials. American Journal of Epidemiology. 194(11). 3126–3139.
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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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Lozano, Paula, Jennifer F. Bobb, Flavia P. Kapos, et al.. (2024). Residential Density Is Associated With BMI Trajectories in Children and Adolescents: Findings From the Moving to Health Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 100225–100225. 2 indexed citations
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Callegari, Lisa S., Karin M. Nelson, David Arterburn, et al.. (2021). Development and Pilot Testing of a Patient-Centered Web-Based Reproductive Decision Support Tool for Primary Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 36(10). 2989–2999. 26 indexed citations
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Klasnja, Predrag, Dori E. Rosenberg, Jing Zhou, et al.. (2020). A quality-improvement optimization pilot of BariFit, a mobile health intervention to promote physical activity after bariatric surgery. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 11(2). 530–539. 17 indexed citations
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Mooney, Stephen J., Jennifer F. Bobb, Philip M. Hurvitz, et al.. (2020). Impact of Built Environments on Body Weight (the Moving to Health Study): Protocol for a Retrospective Longitudinal Observational Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 9(5). e16787–e16787. 9 indexed citations
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Saxon, David, Sean J. Iwamoto, Christie Mettenbrink, et al.. (2019). Antiobesity Medication Use in 2.2 Million Adults Across Eight Large Health Care Organizations: 2009‐2015. Obesity. 27(12). 1975–1981. 101 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yeyi, Margo A. Sidell, David Arterburn, et al.. (2019). Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes by BMI: Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) Multisite Cohort of Adults in the U.S.. Diabetes Care. 42(12). 2211–2219. 111 indexed citations
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Aminian, Ali, Alexander Zajichek, David Arterburn, et al.. (2019). Association of Metabolic Surgery With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity. JAMA. 322(13). 1271–1271. 306 indexed citations breakdown →
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Inge, Thomas H., R. Yates Coley, Lydia Bazzano, et al.. (2018). Comparative effectiveness of bariatric procedures among adolescents: the PCORnet bariatric study. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 14(9). 1374–1386. 62 indexed citations
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Arterburn, David, Robert Wellman, Ana B. Emiliano, et al.. (2018). Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures for Weight Loss. Annals of Internal Medicine. 5 indexed citations
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Toh, Sengwee, Laura J. Rasmussen‐Torvik, Roy Pardee, et al.. (2017). The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) Bariatric Study Cohort: Rationale, Methods, and Baseline Characteristics. JMIR Research Protocols. 6(12). e222–e222. 37 indexed citations
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Fisher, David, Karen J. Coleman, David Arterburn, et al.. (2017). Mental illness in bariatric surgery: A cohort study from the PORTAL network. Obesity. 25(5). 850–856. 42 indexed citations
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Young, Deborah Rohm, Beth Waitzfelder, David Arterburn, et al.. (2016). The Patient Outcomes Research To Advance Learning (PORTAL) Network Adult Overweight and Obesity Cohort: Development and Description. JMIR Research Protocols. 5(2). e87–e87. 10 indexed citations
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Arterburn, David, Robert Wellman, Emily O. Westbrook, et al.. (2015). Decision aids for benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer.. The American Journal of Managed Care. 21(2). e130–40. 13 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Dori E., Lou Grothaus, & David Arterburn. (2014). Characteristics of older adult physical activity program users.. PubMed. 20(7). e245–9. 5 indexed citations
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Maciejewski, Matthew L., Valerie A. Smith, Edward H. Livingston, et al.. (2010). Health Care Utilization and Expenditure Changes Associated With Bariatric Surgery. Medical Care. 48(11). 989–998. 27 indexed citations

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