David C. Whitcomb

32.4k citations

379 papers · 19.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Oncology top 0.05%
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
Surgery top 0.02%
- Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
- Pancreatic function and diabetes
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments

Papers in

Oncology 212
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research 210
Surgery 303
- Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment 276
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments 88
- Pancreatic function and diabetes 40
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments 19

Co-authors: Dhiraj Yadav Georgios I. Papachristou Babak Etemad Julia B. Greer Mark E. Lowe John P. Neoptolemos Adam Slivka Lawrence K. Gates
Journals: Pancreatology (55 papers)Gastroenterology (50 papers)Pancreas (35 papers)The American Journal of Gastroenterology (30 papers)Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology (11 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Italy

In The Last Decade

David C. Whitcomb

359 papers receiving 18.5k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Chronic pancreatitis 2017 · 300 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.

2017 Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2016 Pancreatology
2009 The American Journal of Gastroenterology
2006 New England Journal of Medicine
2002 Pancreatology
2001 Gastroenterology
1997 JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
1996 Nature Genetics

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1	SMART Medical Review: Acute Pancreatitis Assessment and Management in the First 24 Hours Peter Lee, Shrinivas Bishu, R. J. M. Gunst, Amitabh Chak, Timothy Gardner, Nalini M. Guda, Vivek Kaul, Thiruvengadam Muniraj, Georgios I. Papachristou, Beth Schrope, 山口円, Daniel S. Strand, Paul R. Tarnasky, Jason R. Taylor, Charles Melbern Wilcox, David C. Whitcomb	2024	0
2	3. SMART Medical Review: CA 19-9 and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). David C. Whitcomb, Wenqing He, Rhea U. Vallente, Randall E. Brand	2024	0
3	Biomarkers of Chronic Pancreatitis: A systematic literature review Pancreatology ·Zobeida Cruz‐Monserrate, Kristyn Gumpper, Richa Kashyap, Phil A. Hart, Christopher E. Forsmark, David C. Whitcomb, Dhiraj Yadav, Richard T. Waldron, Stephen J. Pandol, Hanno Steen, 许音, María Dolores García de Paso, Santhi Swaroop Vege, Okris Pitay, Liang Li, José Serrano, Jo Ann Rinaudo, Mark Topazian, Darwin L. Conwell	2021	20
4	Divergent trends in lifetime drinking and smoking between Black and White Americans diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis Pancreatology ·Christie Y. Jeon, Robert Feldman, Felicity J. Pendergast, Samer Alkaade, Randall E. Brand, Nalini M. Guda, Bimaljit S. Sandhu, Vikesh K. Singh, C. Mel Wilcox, Adam Slivka, David C. Whitcomb, Dhiraj Yadav	2020	3
5	Guidelines on the histopathology of chronic pancreatitis. Recommendations from the working group for the international consensus guidelines for chronic pancreatitis in collaboration with the International Association of Pancreatology, the American Pancreatic Association, the Japan Pancreas Society, and the European Pancreatic Club Pancreatology ·Iréne Esposito, Ralph H. Hruban, Caroline S. Verbeke, Benoît Terris, Giuseppe Zamboni, Aldo Scarpa, Toshio Morohoshi, Koichi Suda, Claudio Luchini, David S. Klimstra, Volkan Adsay, Lena Häberle, Ashok K. Saluja, Carlos Fernández‐del Castillo, Andrea Sheel, John P. Neoptolemos, Shuji Isaji, Tooru Shimosegawa, David C. Whitcomb, Fiona Campbell	2020	38
6	Increased expression of anion transporter SLC26A9 delays diabetes onset in cystic fibrosis Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Anh-Thu N. Lam, Melis A. Aksit, Briana Vecchio-Pagán, Whitney M Allen, H. J. Kim, Erhard Schröter, Loyal A. Goff, David C. Whitcomb, Scott M. Blackman, Garry R. Cutting	2019	29
7	Regulation of CFTR Bicarbonate Channel Activity by WNK1: Implications for Pancreatitis and CFTR-Related Disorders Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology ·Yonjung Kim, Ikhyun Jun, Dong Hoon Shin, Jihoon G. Yoon, E. O. Oke, Jinsei Jung, 高寿飞 Gao Shoufei, Mary Hongying Cheng, İvet Bahar, David C. Whitcomb, Min Goo Lee	2019	26
8	International consensus guidelines for surgery and the timing of intervention in chronic pancreatitis Pancreatology ·Marinus A. Kempeneers, Yama Issa, Usama Ahmed Ali, Ryan Baron, Marc G. Besselink, Markus W. Büchler, Mert Erkan, Carlos Fernández‐del Castillo, Shuji Isaji, Jakob R. Izbicki, Jörg Kleeff, Johanna Laukkarinen, Andrea Sheel, Tooru Shimosegawa, David C. Whitcomb, John A. Windsor, Yi Miao, John P. Neoptolemos, Marja A. Boermeester	2019	53
9	Genetic association and differential expression of PITX2 with acute appendicitis Human Genetics ·Ekaterina Orlova, Andrew Yeh, Min Shi, Brian Firek, Sarangarajan Ranganathan, David C. Whitcomb, David N. Finegold, Robert E. Ferrell, M. Michael Barmada, Mary L. Marazita, David A. Hinds, John R. Shaffer, Michael J. Morowitz	2018	12
10	Guidelines for the Diagnostic Cross Sectional Imaging and Severity Scoring of Chronic Pancreatitis Pancreatology ·Jens Brøndum Frøkjær, Fatih Akisik, Verónica Simbaña, P Seksik, Anil K. Dasyam, Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, Ingfrid S. Haldorsen, Giovanni Morana, John P. Neoptolemos, Søren Schou Olesen, Maria Chiara Petrone, Andrea Sheel, A. Dhemaied, David C. Whitcomb	2018	62
11	International consensus statements on early chronic Pancreatitis. Recommendations from the working group for the international consensus guidelines for chronic pancreatitis in collaboration with The International Association of Pancreatology, American Pancreatic Association, Japan Pancreas Society, PancreasFest Working Group and European Pancreatic Club Pancreatology ·David C. Whitcomb, Tooru Shimosegawa, Suresh T. Chari, Christopher E. Forsmark, Luca Frulloni, Pramod Kumar Garg, Péter Hegyi, Yoshiki Hirooka, Atsushi Irisawa, Takuya Ishikawa, Konstantinos Axiotis, Markus M. Lerch, Philippe Lévy, Atsushi Masamune, C. Mel Wilcox, John A. Windsor, Dhiraj Yadav, Andrea Sheel, John P. Neoptolemos	2018	100
12	Liver, billiary tract, and pancreas Elsevier eBooks ·Frank Henry Netter, James C. Reynolds, Peter J. Ward, John A. Martin, Grace L. Su, David C. Whitcomb, Finn Tiedjens, Vonnegut	2017	0
13	Patients With Sentinel Acute Pancreatitis of Alcoholic Etiology Are at Risk for Organ Failure and Pancreatic Necrosis Pancreas ·Jeffrey J. Easler, Enrique de‐Madaria, Haq Nawaz, L. S. Wang, Efstratios Koutroumpakis, Steven Goldfarb, Vijay Singh, Nelly G. Acevedo–Piedra, David C. Whitcomb, Dhiraj Yadav, Georgios I. Papachristou	2016	8
14	Pore dilatation increases the bicarbonate permeability of CFTR, ANO1 and glycine receptor anion channels The Journal of Physiology ·Ikhyun Jun, Mary Hongying Cheng, Eunji Sim, Jinsei Jung, Bong Lim Suh, Yonjung Kim, Khin Nini, Kyungsoo Park, Chul Hoon Kim, Joo‐Heon Yoon, David C. Whitcomb, İvet Bahar, Min Goo Lee	2015	20
15	Serum Biomarker Panels for the Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Cancer Research ·Randall E. Brand, Brian M. Nolen, Herbert J. Zeh, Peter J. Allen, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, Michael J. Goldberg, Eric Elton, J. Pablo Arnoletti, John D. Christein, Selwyn M. Vickers, Christopher J. Langmead, Douglas Landsittel, David C. Whitcomb, William E. Grizzle, Anna Lokshin	2011	186
16	Association between calcium sensing receptor gene polymorphisms and chronic pancreatitis in a US population: Role of serine protease inhibitor Kazal 1type and alcohol World Journal of Gastroenterology ·Venkata Muddana, Janette Lamb, Julia B. Greer, Beth Elinoff, Robert H. Hawes, Peter B. Cotton, Michelle A. Anderson, Randall E. Brand, Adam Slivka, David C. Whitcomb	2008	61
17	Clinical and genetic characteristics of hereditary pancreatitis in Europe Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology ·Nathan Howes, Markus M. Lerch, William Greenhalf, Deborah Stocken, Ian O. Ellis, Péter Simon, Kaspar Truninger, R Ammann, Giorgio Cavallini, Richard Charnley, Generoso Uomo, Mou Yongshan, Julius Špičák, Brendan Drumm, Jan B.�M.�J. Jansen, Roger Mountford, David C. Whitcomb, John P. Neoptolemos	2004	397
18	Chronic pancreatitis: Diagnosis, classification, and new genetic developments Gastroenterology ·Babak Etemad, David C. Whitcomb Hit paper breakdown →	2001	847
19	SPINK1 Mutations Are Associated with Multiple Phenotypes Pancreatology ·Roland H. Pfützer, David C. Whitcomb	2001	24
20	Hereditary pancreatitis: new insights into acute and chronic pancreatitis Gut ·David C. Whitcomb	1999	199

About David C. Whitcomb

David C. Whitcomb is a scholar working on Oncology, Surgery, Gastroenterology, Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine, having authored 379 papers that have together received 19.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment (276 papers), Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (210 papers), Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments (88 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (40 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (35 papers), Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (19 papers), Diabetes and associated disorders (17 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oncology (11.0k citations), Surgery (14.8k citations), Emergency Medicine (1.0k citations), Epidemiology (3.1k citations) and Gastroenterology (445 citations). David C. Whitcomb has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Dhiraj Yadav, Georgios I. Papachristou, Babak Etemad, Julia B. Greer, Mark E. Lowe, John P. Neoptolemos, Adam Slivka, Lawrence K. Gates, Venkata Muddana and Charles D. Ulrich. Their work appears in journals such as Pancreatology, Gastroenterology, Pancreas, The American Journal of Gastroenterology and Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.

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