Heidi Nelson

22.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
210 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Heidi Nelson is a scholar working on Oncology, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Heidi Nelson has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Oncology, 84 papers in Surgery and 34 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Heidi Nelson's work include Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments (90 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (51 papers) and Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas (37 papers). Heidi Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments (90 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (51 papers) and Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas (37 papers). Heidi Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Heidi Nelson's co-authors include Nicholas Chia, Daniel J. Sargent, Jun Chen, Leonard L. Gunderson, Patricio Jeraldo, Robert W. Beart, Joseph A. Murray, Eric Marietta, Leonard B. Saltz and Tonia M. Young‐Fadok and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Heidi Nelson

202 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A Comparison of Laparoscopically Assisted and Open Colectomy for Colon Cancer

2004 2.6k citations Heidi Nelson profile →
Laparoscopic Colectomy for Cancer Is Not Inferior to Open Surgery Based on 5-Year Data From the COST Study Group Trial

2007 831 citations Daniel J. Sargent, Heidi Nelson et al. profile →
Multiple sclerosis patients have a distinct gut microbiota compared to healthy controls

2016 700 citations Jun Chen, Nicholas Chia et al. profile →
An expansion of rare lineage intestinal microbes characterizes rheumatoid arthritis

2016 602 citations Jun Chen, John M. Davis et al. Genome Medicine profile →
Impact of Physical Activity on Cancer Recurrence and Survival in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer: Findings From CALGB 89803

2006 537 citations Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, Donna Niedzwiecki et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
Incident Cases Captured in the National Cancer Database Compared with Those in U.S. Population Based Central Cancer Registries in 2012–2014

2019 294 citations Amanda E. Browner, Bryan E. Palis et al. Annals of Surgical Oncology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heidi Nelson United States	55	8.2k	5.5k	2.9k	2.6k	1.1k	210	13.6k
David C. Dale United States	74	8.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.8×	337	19.6k
Ming‐Shiang Wu Taiwan	70	4.5k 0.6×	9.4k 1.7×	5.5k 1.9×	4.0k 1.6×	895 0.8×	596	20.0k
Linda S. Elting United States	63	7.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.3×	6.4k 2.2×	916 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	195	15.6k
Dirk Kuypers Belgium	69	2.1k 0.3×	4.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	666 0.6×	352	16.0k
Diego Serraino Italy	57	5.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	379	12.6k
Stephen J. Wigmore United Kingdom	59	2.6k 0.3×	5.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	255	10.7k
Peter D. Siersema Netherlands	77	6.4k 0.8×	14.1k 2.6×	10.8k 3.7×	2.4k 0.9×	709 0.6×	647	22.9k
Jeffrey R. Curtis United States	79	2.8k 0.3×	4.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	684	25.1k
Kent Lewandrowski United States	54	3.8k 0.5×	5.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	847 0.3×	1.6k 1.4×	233	11.9k
Peter Higgins United States	68	2.3k 0.3×	4.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	519 0.5×	331	15.5k

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Gupta, Vinod K., Benjamin Hur, Kevin Y. Cunningham, et al.. (2024). Gut Microbiome Wellness Index 2 enhances health status prediction from gut microbiome taxonomic profiles. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7447–7447. 14 indexed citations

Unger, Joseph M., Lawrence N. Shulman, Matthew A. Facktor, Heidi Nelson, & Mark E. Fleury. (2024). National Estimates of the Participation of Patients With Cancer in Clinical Research Studies Based on Commission on Cancer Accreditation Data. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(18). 2139–2148. 33 indexed citations

Boffa, Daniel J., Heidi Nelson, Timothy W. Mullett, et al.. (2024). Privacy on the Road to Personalized Medicine. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. 22(1D). 1–5.

Browner, Amanda E., Heidi Nelson, Karla V. Ballman, et al.. (2023). Data‐driven optimization of version 9 American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for anal cancer. Cancer. 130(9). 1702–1710. 2 indexed citations

Yonkus, Jennifer A., Patricio Jeraldo, Heidi Nelson, et al.. (2022). Optimizing Nanopore Sequencing for Rapid Detection of Microbial Species and Antimicrobial Resistance in Patients at Risk of Surgical Site Infections. mSphere. 7(1). e0096421–e0096421. 21 indexed citations

Gupta, Vinod K., Minsuk Kim, Utpal Bakshi, et al.. (2020). A predictive index for health status using species-level gut microbiome profiling. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4635–4635. 202 indexed citations

Al‐Refaie, Waddah B., Paul A. Decker, Karla V. Ballman, et al.. (2019). Comparative Age-Based Prospective Multi-Institutional Observations of 12,367 Patients Enrolled to the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Z901101 Trials (Alliance). Annals of Surgical Oncology. 26(13). 4213–4221. 2 indexed citations

Mendes‐Soares, Helena, Tali Raveh-Sadka, Yatir Ben‐Shlomo, et al.. (2019). Model of personalized postprandial glycemic response to food developed for an Israeli cohort predicts responses in Midwestern American individuals. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 110(1). 63–75. 59 indexed citations

Hale, Vanessa L., Jun Chen, Stephen Johnson, et al.. (2016). Shifts in the Fecal Microbiota Associated with Adenomatous Polyps. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 26(1). 85–94. 149 indexed citations

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Loftfield, Erikka, Emily Vogtmann, Joshua N. Sampson, et al.. (2016). Comparison of Collection Methods for Fecal Samples for Discovery Metabolomics in Epidemiologic Studies. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 25(11). 1483–1490. 62 indexed citations

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Holman, Fabian A., S. Bosman, Michael G. Haddock, et al.. (2016). Results of a pooled analysis of IOERT containing multimodality treatment for locally recurrent rectal cancer. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 43(1). 107–117. 39 indexed citations

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Chen, Jun, Yoshitaka Toyomasu, Yujiro Hayashi, et al.. (2016). Altered gut microbiota in female mice with persistent low body weights following removal of post-weaning chronic dietary restriction. Genome Medicine. 8(1). 103–103. 22 indexed citations

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Luglio, Gaetano & Heidi Nelson. (2010). Laparoscopy for Colon Cancer: State of the Art. Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America. 19(4). 777–791. 29 indexed citations

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Meyerhardt, Jeffrey A., Donna Niedzwiecki, Donna Hollis, et al.. (2008). Association of Dietary Patterns With Cancer Recurrence and Survival in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 63(2). 94–96. 20 indexed citations

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Bilimoria, Karl Y., David J. Bentrem, Ryan P. Merkow, et al.. (2008). Laparoscopic-assisted vs. Open Colectomy for Cancer: Comparison of Short-term Outcomes from 121 Hospitals. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 12(11). 2001–2009. 94 indexed citations

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Bonjer, H. J., Wim C.J. Hop, Heidi Nelson, et al.. (2007). Laparoscopically Assisted vs Open Colectomy for Colon Cancer. Archives of Surgery. 142(3). 298–298. 400 indexed citations

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Lindor, Noralane M., Roger R. Dozois, Heidi Nelson, et al.. (2003). Desmoid tumors in familial adenomatous polyposis: a pilot project evaluating efficacy of treatment with pirfenidone. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 98(8). 1868–1874. 11 indexed citations

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Young‐Fadok, Tonia M., E. Radice, Heidi Nelson, & William S. Harmsen. (2000). Benefits of Laparoscopic-Assisted Colectomy for Colon Polyps: A Case-Matched Series. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 75(4). 344–348. 58 indexed citations

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Nelson, Heidi. (1999). Controversies in laparoscopic colon surgery. Formosan Journal of Surgery. 32(6). 241–244. 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Heidi, Stephen H. Miller, Dave Buck, Robert J. Demuth, & William S. Fletcher. (1987). Effectiveness of prophylactic mastectomy in the prevention of breast tumors in C3H mice. 38. 585–586. 1 indexed citations

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