Harrison Alter

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Harrison Alter is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Hepatology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Harrison Alter has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Epidemiology, 37 papers in Hepatology and 31 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Harrison Alter's work include Hepatitis C virus research (33 papers), Hepatitis B Virus Studies (31 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (20 papers). Harrison Alter is often cited by papers focused on Hepatitis C virus research (33 papers), Hepatitis B Virus Studies (31 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (20 papers). Harrison Alter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Harrison Alter's co-authors include R H Purcell, Robert H. Purcell, Michael Houghton, Allan G. Redeker, Massimo Colombo, Jules L. Dienstag, Tatsuo Miyamura, Ferruccio Bonino, Daniel W. Bradley and Lacy R. Overby and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Harrison Alter

115 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

An Assay for Circulating Antibodies to a Major Etiologic Virus of Human Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis

1989 2.7k citations Harrison Alter et al. profile →
Neutralizing antibody response during acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection

2004 332 citations Carine Logvinoff, Marian Major et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harrison Alter United States	42	5.5k	5.2k	822	809	517	119	7.9k
Giampiero Carosi Italy	38	7.3k 1.3×	7.4k 1.4×	199 0.2×	3.1k 3.8×	479 0.9×	164	10.7k
Jacquie Astemborski United States	44	3.5k 0.6×	4.6k 0.9×	138 0.2×	2.0k 2.5×	581 1.1×	115	7.2k
Francesca J. Torriani United States	32	4.1k 0.7×	5.6k 1.1×	155 0.2×	1.8k 2.3×	1.0k 1.9×	105	7.8k
Kenneth E. Sherman United States	44	6.7k 1.2×	5.8k 1.1×	126 0.2×	2.2k 2.7×	459 0.9×	250	8.7k
Janaki Amin Australia	48	2.3k 0.4×	3.3k 0.6×	174 0.2×	2.5k 3.1×	1.2k 2.4×	217	7.0k
Maria Prins Netherlands	53	3.6k 0.7×	6.0k 1.2×	172 0.2×	4.5k 5.5×	775 1.5×	340	10.2k
Robert A. de Man Netherlands	61	9.1k 1.7×	8.0k 1.5×	313 0.4×	1.6k 2.0×	58 0.1×	333	12.6k
Massimo Puoti Italy	47	7.0k 1.3×	6.6k 1.3×	112 0.1×	2.5k 3.0×	571 1.1×	263	9.1k
Franklyn N. Judson United States	42	2.2k 0.4×	4.8k 0.9×	135 0.2×	2.1k 2.6×	100 0.2×	124	7.1k
Gregory K. Robbins United States	47	2.4k 0.4×	3.0k 0.6×	337 0.4×	4.2k 5.2×	1.6k 3.1×	143	9.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alter, Harrison, et al.. (2024). Compassion matters: Opening a window to improve care for patients with opioid use disorder. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31(12). 1283–1285. 1 indexed citations

Cole, Michael, James A. Cranford, Michelle Daniel, et al.. (2024). A Teach-the-Teacher Module for Human Trafficking Bedside Instruction. MedEdPORTAL. 20. 11422–11422. 2 indexed citations

Caetano, Raúl, Carol B. Cunradi, William R. Ponicki, & Harrison Alter. (2023). Gender moderates the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and mutual intimate partner violence in an emergency department sample. Academic Emergency Medicine. 31(2). 140–148. 1 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Robert M., Jesus R. Torres, Jennifer K. Sun, et al.. (2019). Declared impact of the US President’s statements and campaign statements on Latino populations’ perceptions of safety and emergency care access. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0222837–e0222837. 41 indexed citations

Alter, Harrison. (2019). Foreword to Conference Proceedings, Inventing Social Emergency Medicine. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 74(5). S1–S2. 6 indexed citations

Anderson, Erik S., Suzanne Lippert, Jennifer A. Newberry, et al.. (2016). Addressing Social Determinants of Health from the Emergency Department through Social Emergency Medicine. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. 17(4). 487–489. 55 indexed citations

Losonczy, Lia, et al.. (2014). More than just meds: National survey of providers’ perceptions of patients’ social, economic, environmental, and legal needs and their effect on emergency department utilization. Social medicine. 9(1). 22–28. 15 indexed citations

Hern, H. Gene, et al.. (2014). Dextrose 10% in the Treatment of Out-of-Hospital Hypoglycemia. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 29(2). 190–194. 14 indexed citations

Herring, Andrew A., Adit A. Ginde, Jahan Fahimi, et al.. (2013). Increasing Critical Care Admissions From U.S. Emergency Departments, 2001–2009*. Critical Care Medicine. 41(5). 1197–1204. 101 indexed citations

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Simon, Barry, et al.. (2012). Phenobarbital for Acute Alcohol Withdrawal: A Prospective Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Study. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 44(3). 592–598.e2. 104 indexed citations

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White, Douglas A.E., et al.. (2011). Increased Acceptance Rates of HIV Screening Using Opt-Out Consent Methods in an Urban Emergency Department. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 58(3). 277–282. 15 indexed citations

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Logvinoff, Carine, Marian Major, David Oldach, et al.. (2004). Neutralizing antibody response during acute and chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(27). 10149–10154. 332 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tess, Beatriz Helena, A. Levin, G. Brubaker, et al.. (2000). Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus in the general population of northwest Tanzania.. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 62(1). 138–141. 28 indexed citations

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Thomas, David L., Jonathan M. Zenilman, Harrison Alter, et al.. (1995). Sexual Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus among Patients Attending Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinics in Baltimore--An Analysis of 309 Sex Partnerships. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 171(4). 768–775. 196 indexed citations

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Alter, Harrison, Ray Sánchez-Pescador, M. S. Urdea, et al.. (1995). Evaluation of branched DNA signal amplification for the detection of hepatitis C virus RNA. Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 2(3). 121–132. 84 indexed citations

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Lissén, E, Harrison Alter, María Abad, et al.. (1993). Hepatitis C virus infection among sexually promiscuous groups and the heterosexual partners of hepatitis C virus infected index cases. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 12(11). 827–831. 48 indexed citations

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Shih, J W, Stanley H. Weiss, Phillip F. Pierce, et al.. (1993). Mycoplasma penetrans Infection in Male Homosexuals with AIDS: High Seroprevalence and Association with Kaposi's Sarcoma. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 17(4). 724–729. 76 indexed citations

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Eyster, M. Elaine, Harrison Alter, LM Aledort, et al.. (1991). Heterosexual Co-transmission of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Annals of Internal Medicine. 115(10). 764–768. 240 indexed citations

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Purcell, Robert H., et al.. (1976). Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis. PubMed Central.

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Alter, Harrison. (1969). [Intensive care units in smaller hospitals. Thoughts on their planning].. PubMed. 111(16). 954–8.

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