Ethan Cerami

63.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
34 papers, 25.6k citations indexed

About

Ethan Cerami is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Ethan Cerami has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 25.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Cancer Research, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Ethan Cerami's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (15 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (5 papers). Ethan Cerami is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (15 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (8 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (5 papers). Ethan Cerami collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Switzerland. Ethan Cerami's co-authors include Chris Sander, Nikolaus Schultz, Benjamin Groß, Bülent Arman Aksoy, Jianjiong Gao, Erik Larsson, S. Onur Sumer, Anders J. Skanderup, Uğur Doğrusöz and Gideon Dresdner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Ethan Cerami

33 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data

2012 12.0k citations Ethan Cerami, Jianjiong Gao et al. Cancer Discovery profile →
Integrative Analysis of Complex Cancer Genomics and Clinical Profiles Using the cBioPortal

2013 10.8k citations Jianjiong Gao, Bülent Arman Aksoy et al. profile →
Pathway Commons, a web resource for biological pathway data

2010 764 citations Ethan Cerami, Emek Demir et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The landscape of kinase fusions in cancer

2014 657 citations Nicolas Stransky, Ethan Cerami et al. Nature Communications profile →
Mutual exclusivity analysis identifies oncogenic network modules

2011 452 citations Ethan Cerami, Chris Sander et al. profile →
Artificial Intelligence in Oncology: Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions

2024 71 citations William Lotter, Michael J. Hassett et al. Cancer Discovery profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ethan Cerami United States	15	17.3k	8.1k	7.7k	6.5k	2.5k	34	25.6k
Jianjiong Gao United States	29	17.6k 1.0×	8.1k 1.0×	7.7k 1.0×	6.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	58	26.1k
Bülent Arman Aksoy United States	24	17.3k 1.0×	8.5k 1.1×	8.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	46	25.7k
S. Onur Sumer United States	9	15.7k 0.9×	7.5k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	6.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	11	23.1k
Uğur Doğrusöz Türkiye	18	16.0k 0.9×	7.5k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	6.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	45	23.5k
Anders J. Skanderup United States	32	18.7k 1.1×	10.1k 1.3×	7.7k 1.0×	6.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	60	26.9k
Benjamin Groß United States	7	15.7k 0.9×	7.5k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	6.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	15	23.0k
Chad J. Creighton United States	77	16.7k 1.0×	9.0k 1.1×	7.2k 0.9×	5.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	331	25.9k
Levi A. Garraway United States	68	14.9k 0.9×	5.6k 0.7×	7.0k 0.9×	3.9k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	173	22.5k
David B. Solit United States	82	15.6k 0.9×	4.8k 0.6×	10.6k 1.4×	5.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	365	26.2k
William R. Sellers United States	82	22.7k 1.3×	7.1k 0.9×	13.6k 1.8×	10.5k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	165	34.8k

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Mazor, Tali, James Lindsay, Matthew Galvin, et al.. (2025). Clinical Trial Notifications Triggered by Artificial Intelligence–Detected Cancer Progression. JAMA Network Open. 8(4). e252013–e252013. 6 indexed citations

Kehl, Kenneth L., Tali Mazor, James Lindsay, et al.. (2024). Identifying Oncology Clinical Trial Candidates Using Artificial Intelligence Predictions of Treatment Change: A Pilot Implementation Study. JCO Precision Oncology. 8(8). e2300507–e2300507. 3 indexed citations

Lotter, William, Michael J. Hassett, Nikolaus Schultz, et al.. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in Oncology: Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions. Cancer Discovery. 14(5). 711–726. 71 indexed citations breakdown →

Lindsay, James, Bijaya Sharma, Kristen D. Felt, et al.. (2023). Abstract 5706: ImmunoPROFILE: A prospective implementation of clinically validated, quantitative immune cell profiling test identifies tumor-infiltrating CD8+ and PD-1+ cell densities as prognostic biomarkers across a 2,023 patient pan-cancer cohort treated with different therapies. Cancer Research. 83(7_Supplement). 5706–5706. 1 indexed citations

Mazor, Tali, Matthew Galvin, Joyce E. Yu, et al.. (2023). Abstract 1067: MatchMiner: An open-source AI precision medicine trial matching platform. Cancer Research. 83(7_Supplement). 1067–1067. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Michael L., Jessica Lee, Rachit Kumar, et al.. (2022). Response to MEK Inhibitor Therapy inMAP2K1(MEK1) K57N Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Genomic Landscape ofMAP2K1Mutations in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. JCO Precision Oncology. 6(6). e2200382–e2200382. 4 indexed citations

Gray, Stacy W., Jeffrey Gagan, Ethan Cerami, et al.. (2017). Interactive or static reports to guide clinical interpretation of cancer genomics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 25(5). 458–464. 12 indexed citations

Raman, Pichai, Adam Resnick, Phillip B. Storm, et al.. (2016). GENT-31. PEDcBIOPORTAL: A CANCER DATA VISUALIZATION TOOL FOR INTEGRATIVE PEDIATRIC CANCER ANALYSES. Neuro-Oncology. 18(suppl_6). vi80–vi80. 3 indexed citations

Stransky, Nicolas, Ethan Cerami, Stefanie S. Schalm, et al.. (2015). Abstract 954: The landscape of kinase fusions in cancer. Cancer Research. 75(15_Supplement). 954–954. 1 indexed citations

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Stransky, Nicolas, Ethan Cerami, Stefanie S. Schalm, Joseph L. Kim, & Christoph Lengauer. (2014). The landscape of kinase fusions in cancer. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4846–4846. 657 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aksoy, Bülent Arman, Jianjiong Gao, Gideon Dresdner, et al.. (2013). PiHelper: an open source framework for drug-target and antibody-target data. Bioinformatics. 29(16). 2071–2072. 8 indexed citations

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Cerami, Ethan, Jianjiong Gao, Uğur Doğrusöz, et al.. (2012). The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data. Cancer Discovery. 2(5). 401–404. 11972 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wallace, Marsha D., Adam D. Pfefferle, Li Shen, et al.. (2012). Comparative Oncogenomics Implicates the Neurofibromin 1 Gene (NF1) as a Breast Cancer Driver. Genetics. 192(2). 385–396. 55 indexed citations

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Garg, Karuna, Douglas A. Levine, Narciso Olvera, et al.. (2012). BRCA1 Immunohistochemistry in a Molecularly Characterized Cohort of Ovarian High-Grade Serous Carcinomas. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 37(1). 138–146. 40 indexed citations

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Cerami, Ethan, Emek Demir, Nikolaus Schultz, Barry S. Taylor, & Chris Sander. (2010). Automated Network Analysis Identifies Core Pathways in Glioblastoma. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e8918–e8918. 260 indexed citations

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Cerami, Ethan, Emek Demir, Igor Rodchenkov, et al.. (2010). Pathway Commons, a web resource for biological pathway data. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D685–D690. 764 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cerami, Ethan, Gary D. Bader, Benjamin Groß, & Chris Sander. (2006). cPath: open source software for collecting, storing, and querying biological pathways. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 497–497. 80 indexed citations

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Kane, David W., et al.. (2006). Agile methods in biomedical software development: a multi-site experience report. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 273–273. 38 indexed citations

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Cerami, Ethan & Simon St. Laurent. (2002). Web Services Essentials. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 168 indexed citations

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Laurent, Simon St. & Ethan Cerami. (1999). Building Xml Applications. 23 indexed citations

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