David T. Felson

162.4k total citations · 41 hit papers
803 papers, 80.1k citations indexed

About

David T. Felson is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David T. Felson has authored 803 papers receiving a total of 80.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 595 papers in Rheumatology, 325 papers in Surgery and 205 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David T. Felson's work include Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (486 papers), Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies (199 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (170 papers). David T. Felson is often cited by papers focused on Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (486 papers), Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies (199 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (170 papers). David T. Felson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. David T. Felson's co-authors include Yuqing Zhang, Jennifer J. Anderson, Jingbo Niu, Michael C. Nevitt, Marian T. Hannan, Ali Guermazi, Timothy E. McAlindon, Michael P. LaValley, Douglas P. Kiel and David J. Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

David T. Felson

785 papers receiving 77.0k citations

Hit Papers

Estimates of the prevalence of arthritis ... 1987 2026 2000 2013 2007 1995 1998 2000 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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  1. Estimates of the prevalence of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions in the United States: Part II
    2007 4.4k citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  2. American college of rheumatology preliminary definition of improvement in rheumatoid arthritis
    1995 2.2k citations David T. Felson, Jennifer J. Anderson et al. profile →
  3. Estimates of the prevalence of arthritis and selected musculoskeletal disorders in the United States
    1998 2.1k citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  4. Osteoarthritis: New Insights. Part 1: The Disease and Its Risk Factors
    2000 1.9k citations David T. Felson, Michael C. Nevitt et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  5. Estimates of the prevalence of arthritis and other rheumatic conditions in the United States: Part I
    2007 1.6k citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  6. The American college of rheumatology preliminary core set of disease activity measures for rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials
    1993 1.3k citations David T. Felson, Jennifer J. Anderson et al. profile →
  7. The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham Study.
    1994 1.3k citations David T. Felson, Jennifer J. Anderson et al. profile →
  8. The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in the elderly. the framingham osteoarthritis study
    1987 1.3k citations David T. Felson, A Naimark et al. profile →
  9. An update on the epidemiology of knee and hip osteoarthritis with a view to prevention
    1998 979 citations David T. Felson, Yuqing Zhang profile →
  10. Measures of knee function: International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) Subjective Knee Evaluation Form, Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS), Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score Physical Function Short Form (KOOS‐PS), Knee Outcome Survey Activities of Daily Living Scale (KOS‐ADL), Lysholm Knee Scoring Scale, Oxford Knee Score (OKS), Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), Activity Rating Scale (ARS), and Tegner Activity Score (TAS)
    2011 956 citations David T. Felson, Kay M. Crossley et al. Arthritis Care & Research profile →
  11. Osteoarthritis: New Insights
    2002 953 citations David T. Felson et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  12. Obesity and Knee Osteoarthritis
    1988 842 citations David T. Felson et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  13. Effects of weight and body mass index on bone mineral density in men and women: The framingham study
    1993 819 citations David T. Felson, Yuqing Zhang et al. profile →
  14. Preliminary definition of improvement in juvenile arthritis
    1997 773 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  15. Osteoarthritis of the Knee
    2006 754 citations David T. Felson profile →
  16. The Association of Bone Marrow Lesions with Pain in Knee Osteoarthritis
    2001 752 citations David T. Felson et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  17. Frequency of specific cancer types in dermatomyositis and polymyositis: a population-based study
    2001 749 citations Yuqing Zhang, David T. Felson et al. profile →
  18. FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE IN THE FIRST NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY (HANES I)
    1988 719 citations Jennifer J. Anderson, David T. Felson profile →
  19. Knee osteoarthritis has doubled in prevalence since the mid-20th century
    2017 690 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  20. Incidental Meniscal Findings on Knee MRI in Middle-Aged and Elderly Persons
    2008 667 citations Ali Guermazi, David J. Hunter et al. profile →
  21. Incidence of symptomatic hand, hip, and knee osteoarthritis among patients in a health maintenance organization
    1995 644 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  22. Risk Factors for Longitudinal Bone Loss in Elderly Men and Women: The Framingham Osteoporosis Study
    2000 608 citations Marian T. Hannan, David T. Felson et al. profile →
  23. Weight Loss Reduces the Risk for Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis in Women
    1992 604 citations David T. Felson, Yuqing Zhang et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  24. Glucosamine and Chondroitin for Treatment of Osteoarthritis
    2000 602 citations Michael P. LaValley, David T. Felson et al. profile →
  25. Risk factors for incident radiographic knee osteoarthritis in the elderly. The framingham study
    1997 598 citations David T. Felson, Yuqing Zhang et al. profile →
  26. Bone Marrow Edema and Its Relation to Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis
    2003 590 citations David T. Felson, Michael P. LaValley et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  27. The incidence and natural history of knee osteoarthritis in the elderly, the framingham osteoarthritis study
    1995 555 citations David T. Felson, Yuqing Zhang et al. profile →
  28. Analysis of the discordance between radiographic changes and knee pain in osteoarthritis of the knee.
    2000 548 citations David T. Felson et al. PubMed profile →
  29. Hip Fracture and the Use of Estrogens in Postmenopausal Women
    1988 517 citations David T. Felson, Jennifer J. Anderson et al. profile →
  30. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIP AND KNEE OSTEOARTRRITIS1
    1988 509 citations David T. Felson profile →
  31. Hip Fracture and the Use of Estrogens in Postmenopausal Women
    1987 483 citations David T. Felson, Peter W.F. Wilson et al. profile →
  32. Osteoarthritis as a disease of mechanics
    2012 464 citations David T. Felson Osteoarthritis and Cartilage profile →
  33. Synovitis detected on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to pain and cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis
    2007 414 citations David J. Hunter, Jingbo Niu et al. profile →
  34. Increasing Prevalence of Knee Pain and Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Survey and Cohort Data
    2011 402 citations Uyen‐Sa Nguyen, Yuqing Zhang et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  35. Prevalence of abnormalities in knees detected by MRI in adults without knee osteoarthritis: population based observational study (Framingham Osteoarthritis Study)
    2012 363 citations Jingbo Niu, Daichi Hayashi et al. profile →
  36. The epidemiology of knee osteoarthritis: Results from the framingham osteoarthritis study
    1990 362 citations David T. Felson profile →
  37. Minimum clinically important improvement and patient acceptable symptom state in pain and function in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic back pain, hand osteoarthritis, and hip and knee osteoarthritis: Results from a prospective multinational study
    2012 316 citations David T. Felson et al. Arthritis Care & Research profile →
  38. Distinctions Between Diagnostic and Classification Criteria?
    2015 299 citations Tuhina Neogi, David T. Felson et al. Arthritis Care & Research profile →
  39. Mechanisms of Osteoarthritis (OA) Pain
    2018 225 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  40. Modern-day environmental factors in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis
    2018 200 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →
  41. The role of obesity and adipose tissue dysfunction in osteoarthritis pain
    2024 44 citations David T. Felson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David T. Felson United States 133 49.7k 30.5k 14.9k 13.4k 12.6k 803 80.1k
David J. Hunter United States 143 34.2k 0.7× 24.4k 0.8× 9.3k 0.6× 7.2k 0.5× 12.2k 1.0× 1.4k 97.1k
Marc C. Hochberg United States 108 27.3k 0.6× 15.1k 0.5× 4.1k 0.3× 9.5k 0.7× 14.0k 1.1× 555 54.4k
Michael C. Nevitt United States 118 17.9k 0.4× 23.0k 0.8× 8.6k 0.6× 23.0k 1.7× 4.8k 0.4× 594 59.1k
Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 167 15.8k 0.3× 35.2k 1.2× 5.7k 0.4× 44.1k 3.3× 8.3k 0.7× 1.7k 121.0k
Yuqing Zhang United States 91 18.1k 0.4× 13.2k 0.4× 5.6k 0.4× 5.1k 0.4× 4.8k 0.4× 506 34.9k
Jeffrey N. Katz United States 101 11.8k 0.2× 29.4k 1.0× 3.3k 0.2× 4.1k 0.3× 11.0k 0.9× 636 51.4k
Michael Doherty United Kingdom 91 17.6k 0.4× 11.2k 0.4× 3.0k 0.2× 3.2k 0.2× 6.7k 0.5× 590 33.4k
Flavia Cicuttini Australia 83 17.7k 0.4× 12.7k 0.4× 8.0k 0.5× 4.3k 0.3× 5.4k 0.4× 746 28.7k
Joost Dekker Netherlands 110 8.3k 0.2× 10.0k 0.3× 3.9k 0.3× 2.8k 0.2× 6.6k 0.5× 900 53.6k
Philip G. Conaghan United Kingdom 93 24.0k 0.5× 8.4k 0.3× 2.5k 0.2× 3.7k 0.3× 4.4k 0.3× 742 34.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Neogi, Tuhina, David T. Felson, Patrick Corrigan, et al.. (2025). Association of walking cadence to changes in knee pain and physical function: The multicenter osteoarthritis study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open. 7(1). 100575–100575. 1 indexed citations
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Felson, David T., Michael P. LaValley, Cora E. Lewis, et al.. (2025). The relation of walking forces to structural damage in the knee: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 33(6). 745–752.
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Bacon, Kathryn L., David T. Felson, S. Reza Jafarzadeh, et al.. (2024). Gait Alterations and Association With Worsening Knee Pain and Physical Function: A Machine Learning Approach With Wearable Sensors in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care & Research. 76(7). 984–992. 2 indexed citations
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Reeves, Neil D., Vasilios Baltzopoulos, Sabine Verschueren, et al.. (2023). The effects of a sleeve knee brace during stair negotiation in patients with symptomatic patellofemoral osteoarthritis. Clinical Biomechanics. 111. 106137–106137. 2 indexed citations
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Guermazi, Ali, Jean W. Liew, Irina Tolstykh, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of intra-articular mineralization on knee computed tomography: the multicenter osteoarthritis study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 31(8). 1111–1120. 11 indexed citations
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Liew, Jean W., Michael P. LaValley, Jamie E. Collins, et al.. (2023). Development of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Based Definition of Knee Osteoarthritis: Data From the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 75(7). 1132–1138. 14 indexed citations
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Felson, David T., et al.. (2022). Meaning of patient global assessment when joint counts are low in rheumatoid arthritis. RMD Open. 8(2). e002346–e002346. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Shanshan, Ann V. Schwartz, Michael P. LaValley, et al.. (2020). Association of Visceral Adiposity With Pain but Not Structural Osteoarthritis. Arthritis & Rheumatology. 72(7). 1103–1110. 35 indexed citations
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Riskowski, Jody L., Andrea Dell’Isola, Martijn Steultjens, et al.. (2020). Determinants of generalized fatigue in individuals with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: The MOST Study. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases. 23(4). 559–568. 9 indexed citations
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Hart, Harvi F., K. Douglas Gross, Kay M. Crossley, et al.. (2019). Step Rate and Worsening of Patellofemoral and Tibiofemoral Joint Osteoarthritis in Women and Men: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care & Research. 72(1). 107–113. 21 indexed citations
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Culvenor, Adam G, Neil A. Segal, Ali Guermazi, et al.. (2018). Sex‐Specific Influence of Quadriceps Weakness on Worsening Patellofemoral and Tibiofemoral Cartilage Damage: A Prospective Cohort Study. Arthritis Care & Research. 71(10). 1360–1365. 35 indexed citations
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Bacon, Kathryn L., Neil A. Segal, Britt Elin Øiestad, et al.. (2018). Concurrent Change in Quadriceps Strength and Physical Function Over Five Years in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care & Research. 71(8). 1044–1051. 10 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Ann V., Irina Tolstykh, Charles E. McCulloch, et al.. (2014). Hyperglycemia and Risk of Osteoarthritis.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Chan, Michael C. Nevitt, Pia M. Jungmann, et al.. (2014). Discordance of Hip Pain with Radiographic Hip Osteoarthritis: The Osteoarthritis Initiative. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations
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Hayashi, Daichi, David T. Felson, Jingbo Niu, et al.. (2013). Pre-radiographic osteoarthritic changes are highly prevalent in the medial patella and medial posterior femur in older persons: Framingham OA study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 22(1). 76–83. 39 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Uyen‐Sa, Yuqing Zhang, Yanyan Zhu, et al.. (2011). Increasing prevalence of knee pain and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: survey and cohort data.. Annals of Internal Medicine. 155(11). 725–32. 13 indexed citations
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Gestel, Anke M. van, Jennifer J. Anderson, Piet L. C. M. van Riel, et al.. (1999). ACR and EULAR improvement criteria have comparable validity in rheumatoid arthritis trials. American College of Rheumatology European League of Associations for Rheumatology.. PubMed. 26(3). 705–11. 213 indexed citations
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Fraenkel, Liana, Michael P. LaValley, & David T. Felson. (1998). The use of radiographs to evaluate shoulder pain in the ED. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 16(6). 560–563. 13 indexed citations
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Felson, David T., Marian T. Hannan, A Naimark, et al.. (1991). Occupational physical demands, knee bending, and knee osteoarthritis: results from the Framingham Study.. PubMed. 18(10). 1587–92. 246 indexed citations
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Felson, David T., Joseph Anderson, A Naimark, William B. Kannel, & Robert F. Meenan. (1989). The prevalence of chondrocalcinosis in the elderly and its association with knee osteoarthritis: the Framingham Study.. PubMed. 16(9). 1241–5. 178 indexed citations

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