Frances Wang

8.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
117 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Frances Wang is a scholar working on Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Frances Wang has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Surgery, 17 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 16 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Frances Wang's work include Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (16 papers), Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment (10 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (8 papers). Frances Wang is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (16 papers), Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment (10 papers) and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (8 papers). Frances Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frances Wang's co-authors include Dean Schillinger, Kevin Grumbach, Andrew B. Bindman, Cesar M. Castro, John D. Piette, Alicia Fernández, Anita L. Stewart, Carolyn Daher, Joellen M. Schildkraut and Elisabeth Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Frances Wang

112 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Closing the Loop

2003 899 citations Frances Wang et al. profile →
Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension

2005 478 citations Frances Wang et al. profile →
Diverse carbon dioxide removal approaches could reduce impacts on the energy–water–land system

2023 119 citations Jay Fuhrman, Seth Monteith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frances Wang United States	34	2.4k	652	602	595	562	117	5.8k
Robin L. Kruse United States	35	1.5k 0.6×	385 0.6×	454 0.8×	345 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	153	5.5k
David Price United Kingdom	79	1.9k 0.8×	629 1.0×	911 1.5×	689 1.2×	1.1k 1.9×	735	22.0k
Yoshihisa Fujino Japan	44	1.3k 0.5×	435 0.7×	735 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	735 1.3×	470	8.4k
David Melzer United Kingdom	62	1.9k 0.8×	381 0.6×	1.0k 1.7×	1.3k 2.1×	980 1.7×	217	11.5k
Onyebuchi A. Arah United States	46	2.2k 0.9×	501 0.8×	412 0.7×	203 0.3×	1.9k 3.4×	249	7.5k
Alexandra Barratt Australia	52	2.8k 1.2×	276 0.4×	773 1.3×	232 0.4×	1.4k 2.4×	223	7.7k
Ray M. Merrill United States	52	1.3k 0.5×	255 0.4×	803 1.3×	271 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	275	10.3k
Scarlett Lin Gomez United States	58	1.2k 0.5×	338 0.5×	1.3k 2.2×	754 1.3×	1.6k 2.9×	321	12.5k
A. Simon Pickard United States	50	2.1k 0.9×	270 0.4×	1.0k 1.7×	282 0.5×	946 1.7×	211	10.5k
Xuesong Han United States	48	886 0.4×	595 0.9×	861 1.4×	463 0.8×	985 1.8×	256	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Frances Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frances Wang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frances Wang

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

All Works

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Taylor, Allison, et al.. (2025). Adverse Childhood Experiences Are Associated With an Increased Risk of Dyspepsia in Patients Undergoing Upper Endoscopy. Gastro Hep Advances. 4(7). 100680–100680.

Lindsay, Colin R., et al.. (2025). Prognostic Thresholds for Lymph Node Metastasis in Medullary Thyroid Cancer: A Restricted Cubic Splines Analysis. Thyroid. 35(11). 1297–1310. 1 indexed citations

Fuhrman, Jay, Patrick O’Rourke, Glen P. Peters, et al.. (2024). Ambitious efforts on residual emissions can reduce CO₂ removal and lower peak temperatures in a net-zero future. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64012–64012. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, Junichi Ishigami, Yuanjie Pang, et al.. (2024). Peripheral artery disease and risk of kidney outcomes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 397. 118558–118558. 1 indexed citations

Obisesan, Olufunmilayo H., Ellen Boakye, Frances Wang, et al.. (2024). Coronary artery calcium as a marker of healthy and unhealthy aging in adults aged 75 and older: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 392. 117475–117475. 5 indexed citations

Mok, Yejin, Frances Wang, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2023). Kidney function, bone-mineral metabolism markers, and calcification of coronary arteries, aorta, and cardiac valves in older adults. Atherosclerosis. 368. 35–43. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, Henock G. Yebyo, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2023). Older adult preferences regarding benefits and harms of statin and aspirin therapy for cardiovascular primary prevention. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 100468–100468. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, Miguel Cainzos‐Achirica, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2023). Defining Demographic-specific Coronary Artery Calcium Percentiles in the Population Aged ≥75: The ARIC Study and MESA. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging. 16(9). e015145–e015145. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Frances, et al.. (2022). Nasal Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Factors Associated With Treatment Outcomes and Potential Organ Preservation. American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy. 37(1). 35–42. 2 indexed citations

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Obisesan, Olufunmilayo H., Minghao Kou, Frances Wang, et al.. (2022). Lipoprotein(a) and Subclinical Vascular and Valvular Calcification on Cardiac Computed Tomography: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(11). e024870–e024870. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Frances, Chao Yang, Hirofumi Tanaka, et al.. (2021). Increase in arterial stiffness measures after bariatric surgery. Atherosclerosis. 320. 19–23. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Frances, Chao Yang, Shoshana H. Ballew, et al.. (2021). Ankle-brachial index and subsequent risk of incident and recurrent cardiovascular events in older adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Atherosclerosis. 336. 39–47. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Frances, Cara Reiter–Brennan, Zeina Dardari, et al.. (2020). Association between coronary artery calcium and cardiovascular disease as a supporting cause in cancer: The CAC consortium. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100119–100119. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Frances, Alan Rozanski, Yoav Arnson, et al.. (2020). Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality Risk by Coronary Artery Calcium Scores and Percentiles Among Older Adult Males and Females. The American Journal of Medicine. 134(3). 341–350.e1. 14 indexed citations

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Moorman, Patricia G., Nadine J. Barrett, Frances Wang, et al.. (2018). Effect of Cultural, Folk, and Religious Beliefs and Practices on Delays in Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer in African American Women. Journal of Women s Health. 28(4). 444–451. 15 indexed citations

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Berrang‐Ford, Lea, Frances Wang, Alexandra Lesnikowski, James D. Ford, & Robbert Biesbroek. (2017). Towards the assessment of adaptation progress at the global level. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 34–47. 2 indexed citations

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Mehta, Bijal, et al.. (2017). Headaches More Common among Epilepsy Sufferers with Neurocysticercosis than Other Structural Brain Lesions.. PubMed. 76(6). 152–155. 8 indexed citations

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Il’yasova, Dora, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Ivan Spasojević, et al.. (2015). Urinary F2-Isoprostanes and Metabolic Markers of Fat Oxidation. Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity. 2015. 1–5. 9 indexed citations

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Schildkraut, Joellen M., Anthony J. Alberg, Elisa V. Bandera, et al.. (2014). A multi-center population-based case–control study of ovarian cancer in African-American women: the African American Cancer Epidemiology Study (AACES). BMC Cancer. 14(1). 688–688. 59 indexed citations

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Moorman, Patricia G., Phyllis C. Leppert, Evan R. Myers, & Frances Wang. (2012). Comparison of characteristics of fibroids in African American and white women undergoing premenopausal hysterectomy. Fertility and Sterility. 99(3). 768–776.e1. 30 indexed citations

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