Erik B. Finger

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Erik B. Finger is a scholar working on Surgery, Transplantation and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik B. Finger has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Surgery, 30 papers in Transplantation and 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Erik B. Finger's work include Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (34 papers), Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (29 papers) and Organ Donation and Transplantation (24 papers). Erik B. Finger is often cited by papers focused on Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (34 papers), Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (29 papers) and Organ Donation and Transplantation (24 papers). Erik B. Finger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Erik B. Finger's co-authors include Emma L. Masteller, Kammi Henriksen, Hugh O. McDevitt, Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Gregory L. Szot, Qizhi Tang, Mark Bonyhadi, Jianqin Ye, Mingying Bi and John C. Bischof and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Erik B. Finger

63 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

In Vitro–expanded Antigen-specific Regulatory T Cells Suppress Autoimmune Diabetes

2004 1.0k citations Erik B. Finger et al. profile →
Vitrification and nanowarming enable long-term organ cryopreservation and life-sustaining kidney transplantation in a rat model

2023 86 citations Zonghu Han, Joseph Sushil Rao et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Hiromasa Yabe Japan

Bettina Zelger Austria

Tomohide Hori Japan

Sung-Joo Kim South Korea

Sean Maloney United States

Henrik E. Mei Germany

Robin D. Kim United States

Christian Urban Austria

Hiroki Shirakawa Japan

P. Lehmann France

Hiromasa Yabe Japan

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89 ×0.2

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik B. Finger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik B. Finger

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

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Meier, Raphaël, Moufida Ben Nasr, Brian T. Fife, et al.. (2025). Best practices in islet transplantation in mice. American Journal of Transplantation. 25(7). 1399–1409.

Rao, Joseph Sushil, Zonghu Han, Michael L. Etheridge, et al.. (2025). Scalable Purification of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Organ Cryopreservation and Transplantation. Small. 21(44). e04910–e04910.

Rao, Jun, Pundi N. Rangarajan, Brian T. Fisher, et al.. (2025). Clinical Scale Cryopreservation of Human Deceased Donor Islet and Stem Cell-Derived Beta Clusters by Vitrification for Allotransplantation in Type I Diabetes. American Journal of Transplantation. 25(8). S74–S74.

Bischof, John C., et al.. (2025). Scalable purification of iron oxide nanoparticles by tangential flow filtration for organ cryopreservation and transplantation. 23–23. 1 indexed citations

Han, Zonghu, Bat‐Erdene Namsrai, R. M. Goldstein, et al.. (2025). Physical vitrification and nanowarming at liter-scale CPA volumes: toward organ cryopreservation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8511–8511.

Han, Zonghu, Bat‐Erdene Namsrai, Joseph Sushil Rao, et al.. (2024). Kidney tissue loading reduces the critical cooling and warming rates of VS55 and VMP cryoprotective solutions. Cryobiology. 117. 104977–104977. 4 indexed citations

Finger, Erik B., Joseph Maakaron, Joseph Sushil Rao, et al.. (2024). Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Following Pancreas Transplantation: A 40 Year Single‐Center Experience. Clinical Transplantation. 38(8). e15386–e15386.

Rao, Joseph Sushil, Michael L. Etheridge, Quinn P. Peterson, et al.. (2024). On Chip Sorting of Stem Cell-Derived β Cell Clusters Using Traveling Surface Acoustic Waves. Langmuir. 40(7). 3453–3462. 1 indexed citations

Han, Zonghu, Joseph Sushil Rao, Bat‐Erdene Namsrai, et al.. (2023). Vitrification and nanowarming enable long-term organ cryopreservation and life-sustaining kidney transplantation in a rat model. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3407–3407. 86 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guo, Zongqi, Nikolas Zuchowicz, Jessica Bouwmeester, et al.. (2023). Conduction‐Dominated Cryomesh for Organism Vitrification. Advanced Science. 11(3). e2303317–e2303317. 11 indexed citations

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Namsrai, Bat‐Erdene, Timothy L. Pruett, John C. Bischof, et al.. (2023). Current practice and novel approaches in organ preservation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 1156845–1156845. 11 indexed citations

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Serrano, Oscar K., Ananta Bangdiwala, David M. Vock, et al.. (2018). Implications of excess weight on kidney donation: Long-term consequences of donor nephrectomy in obese donors. Surgery. 164(5). 1071–1076. 20 indexed citations

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Serrano, Oscar K., Ananta Bangdiwala, David M. Vock, et al.. (2017). Post-Transplant Malignancy after Pediatric Kidney Transplantation: Retrospective Analysis of Incidence and Risk Factors in 884 Patients Receiving Transplants Between 1963 and 2015 at the University of Minnesota. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 225(2). 181–193. 14 indexed citations

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Serrano, Oscar K., Varvara A. Kirchner, Ananta Bangdiwala, et al.. (2016). Evolution of Living Donor Nephrectomy at a Single Center. Transplantation. 100(6). 1299–1305. 45 indexed citations

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Serrano, Oscar K., Ananta Bangdiwala, David M. Vock, et al.. (2016). Defining the Tipping Point in Surgical Performance for Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy Among Transplant Surgery Fellows: A Risk-Adjusted Cumulative Summation Learning Curve Analysis. American Journal of Transplantation. 17(7). 1868–1878. 24 indexed citations

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Kirchner, Varvara A., Erik B. Finger, Melena D. Bellin, et al.. (2016). Long-term Outcomes for Living Pancreas Donors in the Modern Era. Transplantation. 100(6). 1322–1328. 17 indexed citations

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Finger, Erik B., Terry B. Strom, & Arthur J. Matas. (2013). Tolerance--Is It Worth It?. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 4(2). a015594–a015594. 5 indexed citations

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Suszynski, Thomas M., Kristen J. Gillingham, Michael Rizzari, et al.. (2013). Prospective Randomized Trial of Maintenance Immunosuppression With Rapid Discontinuation of Prednisone in Adult Kidney Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 13(4). 961–970. 24 indexed citations

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Finger, Erik B., David M. Radosevich, Ty B. Dunn, et al.. (2013). A Composite Risk Model for Predicting Technical Failure in Pancreas Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 13(7). 1840–1849. 66 indexed citations

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Finger, Erik B., David M. Radosevich, Barbara Bland, et al.. (2011). Comparison of Recipient Outcomes Following Transplant From Local Versus Imported Pancreas Donors. American Journal of Transplantation. 12(2). 447–457. 17 indexed citations

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