J. Alex

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

J. Alex is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Alex has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Spectroscopy and 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in J. Alex's work include Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (5 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (4 papers). J. Alex is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (5 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (4 papers). J. Alex collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. J. Alex's co-authors include Daniel W. Chan, Patricia Vasalos, Jason D. Merker, Alexander J. Lazar, Apostolia M. Tsimberidou, Carolyn C. Compton, Daniel F. Hayes, Geoffrey R. Oxnard, Richard L. Schilsky and Patricia A. Hurley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

J. Alex

40 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis in Patients With Cancer: A... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 200 400 600
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.

  1. Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis in Patients With Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists Joint Review
    2018 608 citations Jason D. Merker, Geoffrey R. Oxnard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. Alex United States 18 1.0k 885 750 498 456 42 2.4k
Mark Kriegsmann Germany 32 1.3k 1.2× 529 0.6× 545 0.7× 779 1.6× 938 2.1× 181 3.0k
Till Braunschweig Germany 33 1.1k 1.0× 405 0.5× 437 0.6× 99 0.2× 583 1.3× 124 2.7k
Claudio Belluco Italy 30 1.1k 1.1× 407 0.5× 542 0.7× 376 0.8× 1.1k 2.4× 79 3.0k
Stephen Lam Canada 29 1.2k 1.2× 580 0.7× 862 1.1× 64 0.1× 572 1.3× 88 2.4k
Clark M. Henderson United States 16 652 0.6× 404 0.5× 301 0.4× 75 0.2× 850 1.9× 28 1.7k
Claus Høgdall Denmark 42 1.6k 1.6× 1.1k 1.2× 412 0.5× 255 0.5× 1.4k 3.1× 284 6.0k
Ning Li China 25 932 0.9× 340 0.4× 476 0.6× 71 0.1× 768 1.7× 164 2.4k
Benedict B. Benigno United States 27 1.1k 1.1× 415 0.5× 204 0.3× 99 0.2× 553 1.2× 61 2.4k
Kiat Hon Lim Singapore 26 862 0.8× 591 0.7× 479 0.6× 47 0.1× 1.0k 2.2× 69 2.6k
David K. Ornstein United States 37 1.8k 1.7× 532 0.6× 1.7k 2.3× 672 1.3× 428 0.9× 111 3.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by J. Alex

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Alex

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J. Alex. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J. Alex 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 J. Alex. J. Alex 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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Zhao, Zhen, Sabrina Racine‐Brzostek, J. Alex, et al.. (2025). Comparative evaluation of five tacrolimus assays in transplant recipients: implications for optimizing therapeutic drug monitoring. PubMed. 4. 1716789–1716789.
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Chen, Dong, et al.. (2021). Absence of dense platelet granules and ceroid-laden macrophages: Investigating the diversity of clinical presentations in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 25. 200535–200535. 1 indexed citations
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Krishnamurthy, Hari Krishnan, Vasanth Jayaraman, Karthik Krishna, et al.. (2020). Antibody profiling and prevalence in US patients during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242655–e0242655. 13 indexed citations
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Jayaraman, Vasanth, Karthik Krishna, Yuanyuan Yang, et al.. (2020). An ultra-high-density protein microarray for high throughput single-tier serological detection of Lyme disease. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18085–18085. 4 indexed citations
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Moncur, Joel T., Angela N. Bartley, Julia A. Bridge, et al.. (2019). Performance Comparison of Different Analytic Methods in Proficiency Testing for Mutations in the BRAF, EGFR, and KRAS Genes: A Study of the College of American Pathologists Molecular Oncology Committee. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 143(10). 1203–1211. 10 indexed citations
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Lieberman, Howard B., J. Alex, Richard A. Friedman, Kevin M. Hopkins, & Constantinos G. Broustas. (2018). Prostate cancer: unmet clinical needs and RAD9 as a candidate biomarker for patient management. Translational Cancer Research. 7(S6). S651–S661. 7 indexed citations
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Merker, Jason D., Geoffrey R. Oxnard, Carolyn C. Compton, et al.. (2018). Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis in Patients With Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists Joint Review. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 142(10). 1242–1253. 146 indexed citations
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Alex, J., et al.. (2018). Isolation and Characterization of Amniotic Fluid-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Biomarker Discovery. Methods in molecular biology. 1885. 287–294. 26 indexed citations
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Nagarajan, Rakesh, Angela N. Bartley, Julia A. Bridge, et al.. (2017). A Window Into Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing–Based Oncology Testing Practices. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 141(12). 1679–1685. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Mu, J. Alex, G. Joel DeCastro, et al.. (2015). An optimized procedure for exosome isolation and analysis using serum samples: Application to cancer biomarker discovery. Methods. 87. 26–30. 74 indexed citations
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Alex, J.. (2010). The Urinary Proteome. Methods in molecular biology. 2 indexed citations
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Alex, J., et al.. (2010). Biomarkers in the era of personalized medicine – a multiplexed SNP assay using capillary electrophoresis for assessing drug metabolism capacity. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 70(sup242). 15–18. 4 indexed citations
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Schweitzer, Barry, Lihao Meng, Dawn Mattoon, & J. Alex. (2010). Immune Response Biomarker Profiling Application on ProtoArray® Protein Microarrays. Methods in molecular biology. 641. 243–252. 14 indexed citations
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Alex, J., et al.. (2008). Analytical validation of the GeXP analyzer and design of a workflow for cancer-biomarker discovery using multiplexed gene-expression profiling. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 393(5). 1505–1511. 60 indexed citations
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Alex, J.. (2007). La déplétion des protéines abondantes à la recherche de biomarqueurs protéiques. médecine/sciences. 23. 5–8. 1 indexed citations
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Alex, J.. (2007). Biomarkers in translational research: focus on discovery, development and translation of protein biomarkers to clinical immunoassays. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. 7(5). 545–553. 13 indexed citations
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Alex, J. & Daniel W. Chan. (2004). Cancer Proteomics: Serum Diagnostics for Tumor Marker Discovery. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1022(1). 286–294. 43 indexed citations
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Alex, J., Zhen Zhang, Jason M. Rosenzweig, et al.. (2002). Proteomic Approaches to Tumor Marker Discovery. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 126(12). 1518–1526. 194 indexed citations

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