David C. Christiani

71.7k citations

904 papers · 44.5k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 88

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.01%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
Cancer Research top 0.05%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Papers in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 303
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 204
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity 85
- Climate Change and Health Impacts 52
Cancer Research 123
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment 56

Co-authors: Thomas J. Lynch Sarada Gurubhagavatula David N. Louis Frank G. Haluska Daniel A. Haber Ross A. Okimoto Brian W. Brannigan Patricia L. Harris
Journals: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (45 papers)Environmental Health Perspectives (36 papers)American Journal of Industrial Medicine (35 papers)Occupational and Environmental Medicine (34 papers)Environmental Health (26 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Taiwan

In The Last Decade

David C. Christiani

881 papers receiving 43.2k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked — an emerging disease 2024 · 102 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
2021 Molecular Cancer
2021 Scientific Reports
2015 Environmental Health Perspectives
2014 Biostatistics
2012 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2012 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2004 New England Journal of Medicine

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David C. Christiani, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Deconstructing ENDS aerosols: generation and characterization methods Inhalation Toxicology ·Shaligram Sharma, Maureen Meister, David C. Christiani, Qian Zhang, Mark A. Wilson, William T. Goldsmith, I. Mark Olfert, Anand Ranpara, Cristi Bell-Huff, Marilyn S. Black, Jonathan H. Shannahan, Christa Wright	2025	1
2	Automated Interstitial Lung Abnormality Probability Prediction at CT: A Stepwise Machine Learning Approach in the Boston Lung Cancer Study Radiology ·Akinori Hata, Kota Aoyagi, Takuya Hino, Masami Kawagishi, Noriaki Wada, Jiyeon Song, Xinan Wang, Vladimir I. Valtchinov, Mizuki Nishino, Yohei Muraguchi, Minoru Nakatsugawa, Akihiro Koga, N Sugihara, Masahiro Ozaki, Gary M. Hunninghake, Noriyuki Tomiyama, Yi Li, David C. Christiani, Hiroto Hatabu	2024	4
3	Ambient beta particle radioactivity and lung cancer survival: Results from the Boston Lung Cancer Study Environmental Research ·Mi‐Sun Lee, Ki-Do Eum, Longxiang Li, John Iafrate, Michael Lanuti, Petros Koutrakis, David C. Christiani	2024	1
4	Assessing the Prognostic Utility of Clinical and Radiomic Features for COVID-19 Patients Admitted to ICU: Challenges and Lessons Learned SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yuming Sun, Stephen Salerno, Ziyang Pan, Eileen Yang, Chinakorn Sujimongkol, Jiyeon Song, Xinan Wang, Peisong Han, Donglin Zeng, Jian Kang, David C. Christiani, Yi Li	2023	1
5	Gene–environment interactions in the associations of PFAS exposure with insulin sensitivity and beta-cell function in a Faroese cohort followed from birth to adulthood Environmental Research ·Damaskini Valvi, David C. Christiani, Brent A. Coull, Kurt Højlund, Flemming Nielsen, Karine Audouze, Li Su, Pál Weihe, Philippe Grandjean	2023	15
6	Immune Infiltration in Tumor and Adjacent Non-Neoplastic Regions Codetermines Patient Clinical Outcomes in Early-Stage Lung Cancer Journal of Thoracic Oncology ·Chao Cheng, Thinh T. Nguyen, Mabel Tang, Xinan Wang, Chongming Jiang, Yanhong Liu, Ivan P. Gorlov, Olga Y. Gorlova, John Iafrate, Michael Lanuti, David C. Christiani, Christopher I. Amos	2023	14
7	Biomarkers of oxidative stress in urine and plasma of operators at six Singapore printing centers and their association with several metrics of printer-emitted nanoparticle exposures Nanotoxicology ·Dhimiter Bello, Lucia Chanetsa, Costas A. Christophi, Dilpreet Singh, Magdiel Inggrid Setyawati, David C. Christiani, Sanjay H. Chotirmall, Kee Woei Ng, Philip Demokritou	2022	7
8	Clonal Hematopoiesis Mutations in Patients with Lung Cancer Are Associated with Lung Cancer Risk Factors Cancer Research ·Hong Wei, Ang Li, Yanhong Liu, Xiangjun Xiao, David C. Christiani, Rayjean J. Hung, James McKay, John K. Field, Christopher I. Amos, Chao Cheng	2021	15
9	Association between Smoking History and Tumor Mutation Burden in Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Cancer Research ·Xinan Wang, Biagio Ricciuti, Tom Nguyen, Xihao Li, Michael S. Rabin, Mark M. Awad, Xihong Lin, Bruce E. Johnson, David C. Christiani	2021	85
10	Scavenger Receptor A1 Prevents Metastasis of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer via Suppression of Macrophage Serum Amyloid A1 Cancer Research ·Yan Zhang, Yongyue Wei, Bin Jiang, Lili Chen, Hui Bai, Xudong Zhu, Xiaoyu Li, Hanwen Zhang, Qing Yang, Junqing Ma, Yong Xu, Jingjing Ben, David C. Christiani, Qi Chen	2017	13
11	Association Between Tumor Progression Endpoints and Overall Survival in Patients with Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors The Oncologist ·Monica Ter‐Minassian, Sui Zhang, Nichole V. Brooks, Lauren K. Brais, Jennifer A. Chan, David C. Christiani, Xihong Lin, Sylvie Gabriel, Jérôme Dinet, Matthew H. Kulke	2017	25
12	A Coding Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism in Lysine Demethylase KDM4A Associates with Increased Sensitivity to mTOR Inhibitors Cancer Discovery ·Capucine Van Rechem, Joshua C. Black, Patricia Greninger, Yang Zhao, Carlos Donado, Paul d. Burrowes, Brendon Ladd, David C. Christiani, Cyril H. Benes, Johnathan R. Whetstine	2015	22
13	Genome-wide Gene–Asbestos Exposure Interaction Association Study Identifies a Common Susceptibility Variant on 22q13.31 Associated with Lung Cancer Risk Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Chen-Yu Liu, Isabelle Stücker, Chu Chen, Gary E. Goodman, Michelle K. McHugh, Anthony M. D’Amelio, Carol J. Etzel, Li Su, Xihong Lin, David C. Christiani	2015	15
14	Secondhand Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Lung Adenocarcinoma In Situ /Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma (AIS/MIA) Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Claire H. Kim, Yuan-Chin Amy Lee, Rayjean J. Hung, Paolo Boffetta, Dong Xie, Jason A. Wampfler, Michele L. Coté, Shen-Chih Chang, Donatella Ugolini, Monica Neri, Loı̈c Le Marchand, Ann G. Schwartz, Hal Morgenstern, David C. Christiani, Ping Yang, Zuo‐Feng Zhang	2015	8
15	Polymorphisms in MicroRNAs Are Associated with Survival in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Yang Zhao, Qingyi Wei, Lingming Hu, Feng Chen, Zhibin Hu, Rebecca S. Heist, Li Su, Christopher I. Amos, Hongbing Shen, David C. Christiani	2014	20
16	Multistage Analysis of Variants in the Inflammation Pathway and Lung Cancer Risk in Smokers Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Margaret R. Spitz, Ivan P. Gorlov, Qiong Dong, Xifeng Wu, Wei Chen, David W. Chang, Carol J. Etzel, Neil E. Caporaso, Yang Zhao, David C. Christiani, Paul Brennan, Demetrius Albanes, Jianxin Shi, Michael J. Thun, Maria Teresa Landi, Christopher I. Amos	2012	25
17	Molecular epidemiology of lung cancer The biomedical & life sciences collection. ·David C. Christiani	2007	5
18	Homozygous Deletions and Chromosome Amplifications in Human Lung Carcinomas Revealed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Array Analysis Cancer Research ·Xiaojun Zhao, Barbara A. Weir, Thomas LaFramboise, Ming Gang Lin, Rameen Beroukhim, Levi A. Garraway, Javad Beheshti, Jeffrey C. Lee, Katsuhiko Naoki, William G. Richards, David J. Sugarbaker, Fei Chen, Mark A. Rubin, Pasi A. Jänne, Luc Girard, John D. Minna, David C. Christiani, Cheng Li, William R. Sellers, Matthew Meyerson	2005	242
19	An Integrated View of Copy Number and Allelic Alterations in the Cancer Genome Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays Cancer Research ·Xiaojun Zhao, Cheng Li, J. Guillermo Paez, Koei Chin, Pasi A. Jänne, Tzu-Hsiu Chen, Luc Girard, John D. Minna, David C. Christiani, Chris Leo, Joe W. Gray, William R. Sellers, Matthew Meyerson	2004	401
20	Association of Air Pollution with Hospital Outpatient Visits in Beijing Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal ·Xiping Xu, Douglas W. Dockery, David C. Christiani, Baoluo Li, Huiying Huang	1995	76

About David C. Christiani

David C. Christiani is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Cancer Research, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Occupational Therapy, having authored 904 papers that have together received 44.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (204 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (85 papers), Occupational and environmental lung diseases (58 papers), Occupational exposure and asthma (57 papers), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (56 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (55 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (52 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (52 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (10.9k citations), Cancer Research (6.5k citations), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (13.4k citations), Oncology (9.3k citations) and Occupational Therapy (935 citations). David C. Christiani has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Frequent co-authors include Thomas J. Lynch, Sarada Gurubhagavatula, David N. Louis, Frank G. Haluska, Daniel A. Haber, Ross A. Okimoto, Brian W. Brannigan, Patricia L. Harris, Jeff Settleman and Daphne W. Bell. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Environmental Health Perspectives, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Environmental Health.

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