James C. Root

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

James C. Root is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Genetics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, James C. Root has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 34 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in James C. Root's work include Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies (60 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (34 papers) and Brain Metastases and Treatment (25 papers). James C. Root is often cited by papers focused on Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies (60 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (34 papers) and Brain Metastases and Treatment (25 papers). James C. Root collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. James C. Root's co-authors include Tim A. Ahles, Elizabeth Ryan, Hong Pan, Luke J. Chang, Bruce S. McEwen, Emily Stern, David Silbersweig, Xenia Protopopescu, Adam D. Brown and William Hirst and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

James C. Root

92 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cancer- and Cancer Treatment–Associated Cognitive Change: An Update on the State of the Science

2012 504 citations Tim A. Ahles, James C. Root et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
James C. Root	1.2k	700	476	443	429	100	2.9k
Prashni Paliwal	562 0.5×	435 0.6×	416 0.9×	167 0.4×	776 1.8×	38	3.3k
Michiel B. de Ruiter	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.2×	887 2.0×	296 0.7×	72	3.8k
Shelli R. Kesler	1.0k 0.8×	556 0.8×	326 0.7×	433 1.0×	603 1.4×	54	2.5k
Margriet M. Sitskoorn	916 0.7×	829 1.2×	1.2k 2.4×	1.7k 3.7×	246 0.6×	129	4.2k
Shelli R. Kesler	2.5k 2.0×	1.4k 2.0×	1.4k 3.0×	990 2.2×	401 0.9×	96	5.8k
Heather M. Conklin	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 2.3×	920 1.9×	681 1.5×	130 0.3×	122	4.8k
Paulina Due‐Tønnessen	316 0.3×	486 0.7×	2.0k 4.2×	808 1.8×	215 0.5×	80	5.1k
Brenna C. McDonald	2.8k 2.2×	2.0k 2.8×	1.3k 2.7×	1.8k 4.1×	678 1.6×	147	6.7k
John D. West	866 0.7×	633 0.9×	1.1k 2.3×	1.4k 3.2×	150 0.3×	193	4.8k
J. Lindeboom	823 0.7×	613 0.9×	1.1k 2.3×	1.9k 4.4×	230 0.5×	59	4.4k

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Ahles, Tim A., et al.. (2025). Feasibility and Preliminary Effects of Acupuncture for Cognitive Dysfunction in Diverse Cancer Survivors: A Pilot, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Current Oncology. 32(1). 27–27.

Dyk, Kathleen Van, Xingtao Zhou, Wanting Zhai, et al.. (2024). Prediction of cognitive decline in older breast cancer survivors: the Thinking and Living with Cancer study. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 8(2). 1 indexed citations

Dinh, Paul C., Patrick O. Monahan, Chunkit Fung, et al.. (2024). Cognitive function in long-term testicular cancer survivors: impact of modifiable factors. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 8(5). 2 indexed citations

Mao, Jun J., Sheila N. Garland, James C. Root, et al.. (2024). Comparing sleep measures in cancer survivors: self-reported sleep diary versus objective wearable sleep tracker. Supportive Care in Cancer. 32(9). 601–601.

Melara, Robert D., et al.. (2024). Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment on Neural Noise: a Longitudinal Design. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 40(1). 52–62. 1 indexed citations

Henneghan, Ashley M., Kathleen Van Dyk, Xingtao Zhou, et al.. (2023). Validating the PROMIS cognitive function short form in cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 201(1). 139–145. 12 indexed citations

Rentscher, Kelly E., Traci N. Bethea, Wanting Zhai, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic aging in older breast cancer survivors and noncancer controls: preliminary findings from the Thinking and Living with Cancer Study. Cancer. 129(17). 2741–2753. 21 indexed citations

Nudelman, Kelly, Kwangsik Nho, Michael Zhang, et al.. (2023). Genetic Variants Associated with Longitudinal Cognitive Performance in Older Breast Cancer Patients and Controls. Cancers. 15(11). 2877–2877. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Bihong T., Zikuan Chen, Sunita K. Patel, et al.. (2022). Signal Variability and Cognitive Function in Older Long-Term Survivors of Breast Cancer with Exposure to Chemotherapy: A Prospective Longitudinal Resting-State fMRI Study. Brain Sciences. 12(10). 1283–1283. 2 indexed citations

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Tometich, Danielle B., Catherine E. Mosher, Melissa A. Cyders, et al.. (2022). An Examination of the Longitudinal Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Physical Activity Among Older Breast Cancer Survivors in the Thinking and Living With Cancer Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 57(3). 237–248. 4 indexed citations

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Rentscher, Kelly E., Xingtao Zhou, Brent J. Small, et al.. (2021). Loneliness and mental health during the COVID‐19 pandemic in older breast cancer survivors and noncancer controls. Cancer. 127(19). 3671–3679. 55 indexed citations

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Dyk, Kathleen Van, Xingtao Zhou, Brent J. Small, et al.. (2021). Protective Effects of APOE ε2 Genotype on Cognition in Older Breast Cancer Survivors: The Thinking and Living With Cancer Study. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 5(2). 8 indexed citations

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Mandelblatt, Jeanne S., Xingtao Zhou, Brent J. Small, et al.. (2021). Deficit Accumulation Frailty Trajectories of Older Breast Cancer Survivors and Non-Cancer Controls: The Thinking and Living With Cancer Study. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 113(8). 1053–1064. 35 indexed citations

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Liou, Kevin T., James C. Root, Sheila N. Garland, et al.. (2020). Effects of acupuncture versus cognitive behavioral therapy on cognitive function in cancer survivors with insomnia: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Cancer. 126(13). 3042–3052. 27 indexed citations

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Liou, Kevin T., Tim A. Ahles, Sheila N. Garland, et al.. (2019). The Relationship Between Insomnia and Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer Survivors. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 3(3). pkz041–pkz041. 42 indexed citations

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Chen, Bihong T., Sunita K. Patel, Ningrong Ye, et al.. (2019). Intrinsic brain activity changes associated with adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer: a pilot longitudinal study. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Correa, Denise D., Yang Wang, J. D. West, et al.. (2016). Prospective assessment of white matter integrity in adult stem cell transplant recipients. PMC.

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Echeverría, Sebastián, James C. Root, Ben Bradshaw, & Grace A. Lewis. (2014). On-Demand VM Provisioning for Cloudlet-Based Cyber-Foraging in Resource-Constrained Engironments. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 11 indexed citations

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Lewis, Grace A., Sebastián Echeverría, Soumya Simanta, Ben Bradshaw, & James C. Root. (2014). Tactical Cloudlets: Moving Cloud Computing to the Edge. VU Research Portal. 1440–1446. 80 indexed citations

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Root, James C., Innocent Njoku, Amitabh Gulati, et al.. (2013). Intrathecal Pain Pump Infusions for Intractable Cancer Pain. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 116(6). 1364–1370. 18 indexed citations

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