David Magnus

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David Magnus is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, David Magnus has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 23 papers in General Health Professions and 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in David Magnus's work include Ethics in Clinical Research (27 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (14 papers) and Ethics in medical practice (14 papers). David Magnus is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in Clinical Research (27 papers), Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (14 papers) and Ethics in medical practice (14 papers). David Magnus collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. David Magnus's co-authors include Nigam H. Shah, Danton Char, Mildred K. Cho, Benjamin S. Wilfond, Sarah Rodgers, Arthur L. Caplan, Anthony Avery, Nicole Martinez‐Martin, Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee and Curtis P. Langlotz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Magnus

69 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Implementing Machine Learning in Health Care — Addressing... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 250 500 750
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. Implementing Machine Learning in Health Care — Addressing Ethical Challenges
    2018 862 citations Danton Char, David Magnus et al. New England Journal of Medicine 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 Magnus United States 25 804 619 436 340 312 70 2.4k
Ravi B. Parikh United States 25 814 1.0× 636 1.0× 365 0.8× 436 1.3× 431 1.4× 160 2.7k
Gabriela Schmajuk United States 30 346 0.4× 384 0.6× 289 0.7× 386 1.1× 291 0.9× 126 3.3k
Mahiben Maruthappu United Kingdom 25 466 0.6× 455 0.7× 648 1.5× 326 1.0× 487 1.6× 94 3.1k
Karen I. Kroeker Canada 24 502 0.6× 313 0.5× 293 0.7× 316 0.9× 204 0.7× 108 3.2k
Kyu Rhee United States 20 392 0.5× 634 1.0× 581 1.3× 430 1.3× 464 1.5× 53 2.4k
Christopher A. Harle United States 20 461 0.6× 224 0.4× 481 1.1× 324 1.0× 115 0.4× 107 2.0k
Gretchen Purcell Jackson United States 28 498 0.6× 574 0.9× 643 1.5× 407 1.2× 293 0.9× 117 2.2k
Chris Sidey‐Gibbons United States 28 277 0.3× 269 0.4× 391 0.9× 386 1.1× 364 1.2× 102 3.0k
W. Nicholson Price United States 15 384 0.5× 640 1.0× 159 0.4× 456 1.3× 354 1.1× 50 2.1k
David Carrell United States 36 534 0.7× 151 0.2× 1.2k 2.7× 666 2.0× 191 0.6× 98 5.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Magnus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Magnus

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wieten, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Physician Perspectives on Challenges in Understanding Patient Preferences for Emergency Intubation. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 2(2). 100053–100053. 2 indexed citations
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Trotsyuk, Artem A., Carole A. Federico, Mildred K. Cho, Russ B. Altman, & David Magnus. (2023). Stronger regulation of AI in biomedicine. Science Translational Medicine. 15(713). eadi0336–eadi0336. 1 indexed citations
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Batten, Jason N., et al.. (2022). “No Escalation of Treatment” Designations. CHEST Journal. 163(1). 192–201. 4 indexed citations
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Meyer, Michelle N., Luke Gelinas, Barbara E. Bierer, et al.. (2021). An ethics framework for consolidating and prioritizing COVID-19 clinical trials. Clinical Trials. 18(2). 226–233. 15 indexed citations
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Martinez‐Martin, Nicole, Amit Kaushal, Ehsan Adeli, et al.. (2020). Ethical issues in using ambient intelligence in health-care settings. The Lancet Digital Health. 3(2). e115–e123. 77 indexed citations
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Char, Danton, Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee, David Magnus, & Mildred K. Cho. (2018). Anticipating uncertainty and irrevocable decisions: provider perspectives on implementing whole-genome sequencing in critically ill children with heart disease. Genetics in Medicine. 20(11). 1455–1461. 28 indexed citations
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Lee, Sandra Soo‐Jin, Mildred K. Cho, Stephanie A. Kraft, et al.. (2018). “I don’t want to be Henrietta Lacks”: diverse patient perspectives on donating biospecimens for precision medicine research. Genetics in Medicine. 21(1). 107–113. 64 indexed citations
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Batten, Jason N., et al.. (2017). Challenges to code status discussions for pediatric patients. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187375–e0187375. 13 indexed citations
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Miller, Alison B., et al.. (2014). Quality of Communication in Interpreted Versus Noninterpreted PICU Family Meetings*. Critical Care Medicine. 42(6). 1507–1517. 31 indexed citations
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Magnus, David, Benjamin S. Wilfond, & Arthur L. Caplan. (2014). Accepting Brain Death. New England Journal of Medicine. 370(10). 891–894. 49 indexed citations
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Magnus, David & Arthur L. Caplan. (2013). Risk, Consent, and SUPPORT. New England Journal of Medicine. 368(20). 1864–1865. 35 indexed citations
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Karkazis, Katrina, et al.. (2013). A content analysis of posthumous sperm procurement protocols with considerations for developing an institutional policy. Fertility and Sterility. 100(3). 839–843.e6. 9 indexed citations
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Allyse, Megan, Katrina Karkazis, Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee, et al.. (2012). Informational risk, institutional review, and autonomy in the proposed changes to the common rule.. IRB Ethics and Human Research. 34(3). 17–19. 8 indexed citations
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Cho, Mildred K., Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee, David Magnus, et al.. (2012). Customers or research participants?: Guidance for research practices in commercialization of personal genomics. Genetics in Medicine. 14(10). 833–835. 10 indexed citations
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Magnus, David. (2010). Translating Stem Cell Research: Challenges at the Research Frontier. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 38(2). 267–276. 22 indexed citations
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Magnus, David, Mildred K. Cho, & Robert Cook‐Deegan. (2009). Direct-to-consumer genetic tests: beyond medical regulation?. Genome Medicine. 1(2). 17–17. 24 indexed citations
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Richards, Christopher T., LaVera Crawley, & David Magnus. (2008). Use of neurodevelopmental delay in pediatric solid organ transplant listing decisions: Inconsistencies in standards across major pediatric transplant centers. Pediatric Transplantation. 13(7). 843–850. 47 indexed citations
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Magnus, David. (2006). Stem Cell Research: The California Experience. The Hastings Center Report. 36(1). 26–28. 3 indexed citations
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Magnus, David. (2002). The Meaning of Graduate Education for Bioethics. The American Journal of Bioethics. 2(4). 10–12. 6 indexed citations
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Magnus, David. (2001). Bioethics programs evolve as they grow. Nature Biotechnology. 19(10). 991–992. 5 indexed citations

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