James Bena

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
333 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

James Bena is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, James Bena has authored 333 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Surgery, 63 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 50 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in James Bena's work include Aortic aneurysm repair treatments (22 papers), Ocular Oncology and Treatments (18 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (15 papers). James Bena is often cited by papers focused on Aortic aneurysm repair treatments (22 papers), Ocular Oncology and Treatments (18 papers) and Epilepsy research and treatment (15 papers). James Bena collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Thailand. James Bena's co-authors include Daniel G. Clair, Vikram S. Kashyap, Nancy M. Albert, Timur P. Sarac, Sean P. Lyden, Roy K. Greenberg, A. John Bailer, Tommaso Falcone, Arun D. Singh and Leslie Stayner and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Medicine and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

James Bena

298 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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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.

Association of Bariatric Surgery With Major Adverse Liver and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Biopsy-Proven Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Bena United States	42	1.9k	1.5k	684	630	605	333	6.2k
Peige Song China	38	1.1k 0.6×	895 0.6×	538 0.8×	536 0.9×	947 1.6×	162	5.9k
James P. Lash United States	50	969 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	683 1.0×	843 1.3×	2.7k 4.5×	216	9.4k
Timothy E. Craven United States	45	2.6k 1.4×	2.6k 1.8×	568 0.8×	1.4k 2.1×	1.7k 2.8×	128	7.6k
Thor Aspelund Iceland	51	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	729 1.2×	2.9k 4.9×	288	9.4k
Fung‐Chang Sung Taiwan	46	1.2k 0.6×	928 0.6×	689 1.0×	738 1.2×	953 1.6×	332	7.9k
Allen R. Kunselman United States	47	2.4k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	918 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	1.9k 3.1×	321	10.4k
Shiro Tanaka Japan	48	1.8k 0.9×	715 0.5×	1.7k 2.5×	1.8k 2.8×	1.4k 2.3×	382	9.4k
Orlando Gómez-Marı́n United States	41	934 0.5×	709 0.5×	657 1.0×	252 0.4×	903 1.5×	168	5.3k
Henrik Schirmer Norway	44	1.1k 0.6×	666 0.5×	948 1.4×	948 1.5×	1.9k 3.1×	182	6.5k
Saeko Fujiwara Japan	42	3.5k 1.9×	504 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	573 0.9×	469 0.8×	177	10.0k

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Kumar, Sunil, Brett Cox, Drogo K. Montague, et al.. (2025). Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Knowledge Deficits Among Male Urology Patients. Urology. 199. 141–146. 1 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Sabrina, Patricia Defechereux, James Bena, et al.. (2025). Feasibility and staff acceptability of implementing Xpert HIV-1 viral load point-of-care testing: a pilot study in San Francisco. BMC Infectious Diseases. 25(1). 26–26.

Gasoyan, Hamlet, Alexander Zajichek, James Bena, et al.. (2025). Macrovascular and microvascular outcomes of metabolic surgery versus GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with diabetes and obesity. Nature Medicine. 31(10). 3341–3349. 1 indexed citations

Pinyopornpanish, Kanokwan, Miguel Salazar, James Bena, et al.. (2024). The Long-Term Effect of Weight Loss on the Prevention of Progression to Cirrhosis among Patients with Obesity and MASH-Related F3 Liver Fibrosis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(6). 708–708. 3 indexed citations

Bena, James, et al.. (2024). Patient factors associated with treatment time for stroke before and after the onset of COVID-19. Geriatric Nursing. 56. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

Callahan, Alfred, et al.. (2024). Multivariable Analysis of Factors Associated With Intravenous Access First Attempt and Overall Success in Hospitalised Medical‐Surgical Adults. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 34(9). 3880–3892.

Elsheikh, Tarik M., et al.. (2024). Are there specific cytologic features that can predict BRAF^V600E mutational status of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine‐needle aspiration specimens?. Diagnostic Cytopathology. 52(6). 295–302. 1 indexed citations

Bhattacharyya, Pallab, Robert J. Fox, Ken Sakaie, et al.. (2023). Characterizing multiple sclerosis disease progression using a combined structural and functional connectivity metric. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 103. 185–191. 2 indexed citations

Ding, Qinglan, Erica S. Spatz, James Bena, et al.. (2023). Association of SGLT‐2 Inhibitors With Treatment Satisfaction and Diabetes‐Specific and General Health Status in Adults With Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(17). e029058–e029058. 1 indexed citations

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Lyden, Sean P., Francis J. Caputo, Woosup M. Park, et al.. (2023). Management of patients with chronic mesenteric ischemia across three consecutive eras. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 78(5). 1228–1238.e1. 5 indexed citations

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Miller, Brenda A., et al.. (2022). Anxiety and depression moderate the relationship between quality of life and self-care in patients with heart failure. Geriatric Nursing. 44. 54–59. 15 indexed citations

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Bena, James, et al.. (2021). Relationships between physical activity, social isolation, and depression among older adults during COVID-19: A path analysis. Geriatric Nursing. 42(5). 1240–1244. 26 indexed citations

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Pillai, Jagan A., James Bena, Lynn M. Bekris, et al.. (2019). Key inflammatory pathway activations in the MCI stage of Alzheimer’s disease. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 6(7). 1248–1262. 32 indexed citations

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Bunch, Dustin R., et al.. (2018). Variability of Late-Night Salivary Cortisol in Cushing Disease: A Prospective Study. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 103(3). 983–990. 33 indexed citations

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Bena, James, et al.. (2018). Factors Associated With Adherence to 14-Day Office Appointments After Heart Failure Discharge. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 24(6). 407–411. 10 indexed citations

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Patell, Rushad, et al.. (2018). Assessing the utility of preoperative serum thyroglobulin in differentiated thyroid cancer: a retrospective cohort study. Endocrine. 61(3). 506–510. 17 indexed citations

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Albert, Nancy M., et al.. (2018). Contamination of reusable electroencephalography electrodes: A multicenter study. American Journal of Infection Control. 46(12). 1360–1364. 7 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Haitham M., et al.. (2017). Feasibility of a Facebook Intervention for Exercise Motivation and Cardiac Rehabilitation Adherence: Study Protocol. JMIR Research Protocols. 6(8). e162–e162. 11 indexed citations

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Bena, James, et al.. (2017). Pediatric Vascular Access Peripheral IV Algorithm Success Rate. Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 39. 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Bena, James, et al.. (2015). Evaluation of the effect of ambrisentan on digital microvascular flow in patients with systemic sclerosis using laser Doppler perfusion imaging: a 12-week randomized double-blind placebo controlled trial. Arthritis Research & Therapy. 17(1). 44–44. 22 indexed citations

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