Dennis L. Confer

12.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
142 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Dennis L. Confer is a scholar working on Hematology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis L. Confer has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Hematology, 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 33 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Dennis L. Confer's work include Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (91 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (27 papers) and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (26 papers). Dennis L. Confer is often cited by papers focused on Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (91 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (27 papers) and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (26 papers). Dennis L. Confer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Dennis L. Confer's co-authors include Mary M. Horowitz, John W. Eaton, Stephen R. Spellman, Claudio Anasetti, Mary Eapen, Roberta King, Michelle Setterholm, Carolyn Katovich Hurley, Martin Maiers and Daniel J. Weisdorf 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

Dennis L. Confer

141 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

High-resolution donor-recipient HLA ... 1982 2026 1996 2011 2007 2014 2001 1982 250 500 750
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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. High-resolution donor-recipient HLA matching contributes to the success of unrelated donor marrow transplantation
    2007 886 citations Stephanie J. Lee, John P. Klein et al. Blood profile →
  2. HLA Match Likelihoods for Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Grafts in the U.S. Registry
    2014 690 citations Mary Eapen, Eric Williams et al. profile →
  3. Donor characteristics as risk factors in recipients after transplantation of bone marrow from unrelated donors: the effect of donor age
    2001 522 citations Claudio Anasetti, Roberta King et al. Blood profile →
  4. Phagocyte Impotence Caused by an Invasive Bacterial Adenylate Cyclase
    1982 355 citations Dennis L. Confer et al. profile →

Peers

Dennis L. Confer
Maria Teresa Van Lint Italy
Hildegard Greinix Austria
Bronwen E. Shaw United States
George E. Sale United States
Robert P. Witherspoon United States
Régis Peffault de Latour France
Yoshiko Atsuta Japan
Nancy A. Kernan United States
P Beatty United States
Donald Bunjes Germany
Maria Teresa Van Lint Italy
Dennis L. Confer
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dennis L. Confer

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

All Works

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Williams, Eric, et al.. (2022). Racial and Ethnic Differences in Attitudes, Perceptions, and Knowledge about Unrelated Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donation: A Study of Younger Newly Recruited Potential Donors. Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. 28(6). 340.e1–340.e16. 6 indexed citations
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Wong, Winghing, Sima Bhatt, Kathryn Trinkaus, et al.. (2020). Engraftment of rare, pathogenic donor hematopoietic mutations in unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Science Translational Medicine. 12(526). 36 indexed citations
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Switzer, Galen E., Kaleab Z. Abebe, Rebecca Drexler, et al.. (2020). Health-Related Quality-of-Life Comparison of Adult Related and Unrelated HSC Donors: An RDSafe Study. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 26(12). 2365–2371. 6 indexed citations
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Dehn, Jason, Stephen R. Spellman, Carolyn Katovich Hurley, et al.. (2019). Selection of unrelated donors and cord blood units for hematopoietic cell transplantation: guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR. Blood. 134(12). 924–934. 173 indexed citations
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Switzer, Galen E., Mario Macis, Rachel Fabi, et al.. (2018). Providing Level-of-Match Information to Perfectly Matched Unrelated Stem Cell Donors: Evaluating Acceptability and Potential Changes in Donor Availability. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 24(10). 2110–2118. 3 indexed citations
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Switzer, Galen E., Rebecca Drexler, Dennis L. Confer, et al.. (2016). Health-Related Quality of Life among Older Related Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors (>60 Years) Is Equivalent to That of Younger Related Donors (18 to 60 Years): A Related Donor Safety Study. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 23(1). 165–171. 8 indexed citations
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Hope, William, Thomas J. Walsh, Joanne Goodwin, et al.. (2016). Voriconazole pharmacokinetics following HSCT: results from the BMT CTN 0101 trial. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 71(8). 2234–2240. 9 indexed citations
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Setterholm, Michelle, Martin Maiers, Dennis L. Confer, et al.. (2015). High-Resolution Match Rate of 7/8 and 9/10 or Better for the Be The Match Unrelated Donor Registry. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 22(4). 759–763. 12 indexed citations
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Pulsipher, Michael A., Pintip Chitphakdithai, Brent R. Logan, et al.. (2014). Lower risk for serious adverse events and no increased risk for cancer after PBSC vs BM donation. Blood. 123(23). 3655–3663. 73 indexed citations
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Halter, Jörg, Suzanna M. van Walraven, Nina Worel, et al.. (2012). Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell donation—standardized assessment of donor outcome data: A consensus statement from the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT). Bone Marrow Transplantation. 48(2). 220–225. 31 indexed citations
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Pulsipher, Michael A., Pintip Chitphakdithai, Brent R. Logan, et al.. (2009). Donor, recipient, and transplant characteristics as risk factors after unrelated donor PBSC transplantation: beneficial effects of higher CD34+ cell dose. Blood. 114(13). 2606–2616. 111 indexed citations
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Confer, Dennis L., Linda Abress, Willis H. Navarro, & J. Alejandro Madrigal. (2009). Selection of Adult Unrelated Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors: Beyond HLA. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 16(1). S8–S11. 20 indexed citations
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Weisdorf, Daniel J., Stephen R. Spellman, Michael Haagenson, et al.. (2008). Classification of HLA-Matching for Retrospective Analysis of Unrelated Donor Transplantation: Revised Definitions to Predict Survival. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 14(7). 748–758. 115 indexed citations
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Confer, Dennis L., et al.. (2008). The US National Marrow Donor Program role in unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 42(S1). S3–S5. 23 indexed citations
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Switzer, Galen E., Larissa Myaskovsky, Jean M. Goycoolea, et al.. (2003). Factors associated with ambivalence about bone marrow donation among newly recruited unrelated potential donors. Transplantation. 75(9). 1517–1523. 46 indexed citations
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Hickman, Heather D., J.W. Cavett, Seán Turner, et al.. (2001). Non‐conservative substitutions distinguish previously uncharacterized HLA‐A molecules. Tissue Antigens. 57(2). 95–102. 1 indexed citations
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Mandanas, Romeo A., Ruben A. Saez, George B. Selby, & Dennis L. Confer. (1998). G-CSF-Mobilized Donor Leukocyte Infusions as Immunotherapy in Acute Leukemia Relapsing After Allogeneic Marrow Transplantation. Journal of Hematotherapy. 7(5). 449–456. 5 indexed citations

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