Ikenna Okereke

1.7k total citations
81 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ikenna Okereke is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ikenna Okereke has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Surgery, 29 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 21 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ikenna Okereke's work include Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (13 papers), Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (11 papers) and Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (10 papers). Ikenna Okereke is often cited by papers focused on Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (13 papers), Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (11 papers) and Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (10 papers). Ikenna Okereke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Iran. Ikenna Okereke's co-authors include Thomas W. Rice, Eugene H. Blackstone, Sudish C. Murthy, Kenneth A. Kesler, Thomas J. Birdas, Joan M. Alster, Karen M. Rieger, James S. Goodwin, Shawn Nishi and Jie Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Ikenna Okereke

73 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ikenna Okereke United States 19 531 438 199 137 111 81 1.1k
Peter W. Plaisier Netherlands 22 377 0.7× 628 1.4× 537 2.7× 53 0.4× 110 1.0× 69 1.5k
Neerav Goyal United States 19 228 0.4× 437 1.0× 255 1.3× 26 0.2× 70 0.6× 124 950
Rajaram Nagarajan United States 21 486 0.9× 363 0.8× 304 1.5× 129 0.9× 89 0.8× 58 1.5k
Emily Christison‐Lagay United States 24 305 0.6× 1.1k 2.6× 249 1.3× 169 1.2× 84 0.8× 80 1.8k
D. Andrew Loblaw Canada 14 1.1k 2.0× 772 1.8× 379 1.9× 36 0.3× 291 2.6× 32 2.0k
Thomas J. Birdas United States 23 518 1.0× 682 1.6× 276 1.4× 132 1.0× 123 1.1× 65 1.2k
N. Pourel France 14 352 0.7× 126 0.3× 406 2.0× 42 0.3× 98 0.9× 41 860
Ying Wei Lum United States 23 617 1.2× 915 2.1× 134 0.7× 61 0.4× 128 1.2× 81 1.4k
Laura N. Medford‐Davis United States 20 382 0.7× 341 0.8× 238 1.2× 34 0.2× 202 1.8× 38 1.2k
Daryl J. Caudry United States 14 205 0.4× 300 0.7× 221 1.1× 59 0.4× 40 0.4× 21 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ikenna Okereke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ikenna Okereke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ikenna Okereke

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jin, Liang, Zhengang Zhao, Dongmei Lai, et al.. (2025). Identification and validation of LINC02381 as a biomarker associated with lymph node metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Translational Cancer Research. 14(1). 613–625.
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Gadgeel, S., Ramandeep Rattan, Jeffrey P. MacKeigan, et al.. (2025). Resistance mechanisms in anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive lung cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology. 214. 104821–104821.
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2024). Well-being Through the Synergy of Community Engagement, Health Equity, and Advocacy. Thoracic surgery clinics/Thorac. surg. clin.. 34(3). 281–290. 1 indexed citations
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Grady, Sue C., et al.. (2024). Lung Cancer and Air Quality in a Large Urban County in the United States. Cancers. 16(11). 2146–2146. 2 indexed citations
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Tam, Samantha, Steven Chang, Benjamin Movsas, et al.. (2024). Association of Social Determinants with Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients with Cancer. Cancers. 16(5). 1015–1015. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Anqi, et al.. (2024). Medical mistrust and receptivity to lung cancer screening among African American and white American smokers. Psychology Health & Medicine. 30(6). 1057–1068. 4 indexed citations
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Knapp, Thomas R., et al.. (2023). The growing impact of air quality on lung-related illness: a narrative review. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 15(9). 5055–5063. 12 indexed citations
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Grady, Sue C., et al.. (2023). Gentrification and Air Quality in a Large Urban County in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(6). 4762–4762. 2 indexed citations
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2023). The Role of Sublobar Resection for the Surgical Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Current Oncology. 30(7). 7019–7030. 7 indexed citations
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Mohan, Navyatha, et al.. (2022). Trends in Diversity in Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residencies. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 114(3). 1044–1048. 11 indexed citations
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Marcatti, Michela, Jamal I. Saada, Ikenna Okereke, et al.. (2021). Quantification of Circulating Cell Free Mitochondrial DNA in Extracellular Vesicles with PicoGreen™ in Liquid Biopsies: Fast Assessment of Disease/Trauma Severity. Cells. 10(4). 819–819. 23 indexed citations
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2021). Impact of Environmental and Pharmacologic Changes on the Upper Gastrointestinal Microbiome. Biomedicines. 9(6). 617–617. 4 indexed citations
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Miller, Aaron L., Daniel C. Jupiter, Kamil Khanipov, et al.. (2021). Novel Ex Vivo Model to Examine the Mechanism and Relationship of Esophageal Microbiota and Disease. Biomedicines. 9(2). 142–142. 4 indexed citations
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Tasnim, Sadia, et al.. (2020). Effects of proton pump inhibitor use on the esophageal microbial community. BMC Gastroenterology. 20(1). 312–312. 10 indexed citations
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2019). Microbiota of the Oropharynx and Endoscope Compared to the Esophagus. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10201–10201. 14 indexed citations
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Nishi, Shawn, Jie Zhou, Ikenna Okereke, Yong‐Fang Kuo, & James S. Goodwin. (2019). Use of Imaging and Diagnostic Procedures After Low-Dose CT Screening for Lung Cancer. CHEST Journal. 157(2). 427–434. 19 indexed citations
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Hughes, Byron D., et al.. (2018). Factors during training which predict future use of minimally invasive thoracic surgery. Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 35. 149–152. 3 indexed citations
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2018). A prospective analysis of touch preparation cytology for intraoperative detection of mediastinal lymph node metastases. Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology. 8(2). 84–88. 4 indexed citations
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Okereke, Ikenna, et al.. (2018). Dakin’s Solution: “One of the most important and far-reaching contributions to the armamentarium of the surgeons”. Burns. 45(7). 1509–1517. 10 indexed citations

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