Jennifer C. Lai

16.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
349 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Jennifer C. Lai is a scholar working on Hepatology, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer C. Lai has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Hepatology, 101 papers in Epidemiology and 100 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Jennifer C. Lai's work include Liver Disease and Transplantation (171 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (97 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (84 papers). Jennifer C. Lai is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease and Transplantation (171 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (97 papers) and Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (84 papers). Jennifer C. Lai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Jennifer C. Lai's co-authors include Sandy Feng, Puneeta Tandon, Srinivasan Dasarathy, Jennifer L. Dodge, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Elizabeth J. Carey, Michael A. Dunn, Aldo J. Montaño‐Loza, Robert L. Mercer and Peter F. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Advanced Materials and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer C. Lai

317 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

2021 367 citations Jennifer C. Lai, Elliot B. Tapper et al. Hepatology profile →
A multicenter study to define sarcopenia in patients with end‐stage liver disease

2017 363 citations Elizabeth J. Carey, Jennifer C. Lai et al. Liver Transplantation profile →
Development of a novel frailty index to predict mortality in patients with end‐stage liver disease

2017 347 citations Jennifer C. Lai, John P. Roberts et al. Hepatology profile →
Sarcopenia and frailty in decompensated cirrhosis

2021 224 citations Jennifer C. Lai, Manuela Merli et al. profile →
Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Clinical Guidelines

2022 117 citations Jennifer C. Lai et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer C. Lai United States	51	5.1k	3.4k	3.1k	2.7k	1.2k	349	9.9k
Brennan Spiegel United States	67	1.3k 0.3×	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	5.5k 2.1×	78 0.1×	338	15.7k
Akbar K. Waljee United States	48	2.6k 0.5×	3.9k 1.1×	421 0.1×	2.0k 0.8×	97 0.1×	251	9.3k
Pieter Wouters Belgium	59	124 0.0×	4.9k 1.5×	3.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	276 0.2×	184	22.7k
Kun‐Ho Yoon South Korea	53	161 0.0×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	4.2k 1.6×	159 0.1×	376	14.3k
Joshua C. Denny United States	67	179 0.0×	1.5k 0.4×	652 0.2×	953 0.4×	270 0.2×	340	17.2k
Byung‐Joo Park South Korea	45	263 0.1×	1.0k 0.3×	648 0.2×	1.8k 0.7×	409 0.3×	317	7.5k
Heejung Bang United States	49	143 0.0×	2.2k 0.7×	583 0.2×	1.7k 0.6×	73 0.1×	213	10.9k
Mark J. Pletcher United States	57	142 0.0×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	201 0.2×	244	12.7k
David L. DeMets United States	52	239 0.0×	1.0k 0.3×	614 0.2×	1.9k 0.7×	91 0.1×	163	14.3k
David M. Rind United States	25	241 0.0×	880 0.3×	612 0.2×	1.4k 0.5×	166 0.1×	92	7.5k

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Wang, Melinda, et al.. (2025). Racial differences in primary sclerosing cholangitis: A retrospective cohort study leveraging a new ICD-10 code. Annals of Hepatology. 30(1). 101901–101901.

Lai, Jennifer C., Amy M. Shui, Michele Molinari, et al.. (2025). The Liver Transplant Comorbidity Index (LTCI): A composite index of ambulatory pre-LT factors to identify patients at increased risk of post-LT mortality. Hepatology. 83(2). 294–303.

Roberts, John P., et al.. (2025). The survival benefit of deceased donor liver transplantation using MELD 3.0: A contemporary analysis. Liver Transplantation.

Markakis, Georgios, Jennifer C. Lai, George Papatheodoridis, et al.. (2025). Sarcopenia As a Predictor of Survival and Complications of Patients With Cirrhosis After Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. Clinical Transplantation. 39(2). e70088–e70088. 6 indexed citations

Ge, Jin, et al.. (2024). Decreasing Case Fatality Rates for Patients With Cirrhosis Infected With SARS-CoV-2: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 23(4). 591–601.e2.

Mauro, Ezequiel, Marco Sanduzzi‐Zamparelli, Raquel García Sevila, et al.. (2024). Challenges in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Review of Current Controversies. Cancers. 16(17). 3059–3059. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Melinda, Sy Han Chiou, Daniel Ganger, et al.. (2024). Liver transplantation provides survival benefit at all levels of frailty: From the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Hepatology. 81(4). 1269–1275. 3 indexed citations

Ge, Jin, et al.. (2024). Development of a liver disease–specific large language model chat interface using retrieval-augmented generation. Hepatology. 80(5). 1158–1168. 69 indexed citations

Bruno, Benjamin, Joshua C. Weavil, Nachiappan Chidambaram, et al.. (2024). Oral LPCN 1148 improves sarcopenia and hepatic encephalopathy in male patients with cirrhosis: A randomized, placebo-controlled phase 2 trial. Hepatology. 81(6). 1764–1775. 5 indexed citations

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Sheshadri, Anoop, Mason Lai, Fang‐Chi Hsu, et al.. (2023). Structured Moderate Exercise and Biomarkers of Kidney Health in Sedentary Older Adults: The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Randomized Clinical Trial. Kidney Medicine. 5(11). 100721–100721. 1 indexed citations

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Sheshadri, Anoop, Gabriel García, Gary Abrams, et al.. (2023). Barriers and Facilitators to Exercise in Older Adults Awaiting Kidney Transplantation and Their Care Partners. Kidney Medicine. 6(3). 100779–100779.

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Ge, Jin, Valy Fontil, Sara Ackerman, Mark J. Pletcher, & Jennifer C. Lai. (2023). Clinical decision support and electronic interventions to improve care quality in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Hepatology. 81(4). 1353–1364. 4 indexed citations

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Huang, Chiung‐Yu, Andrew F. Beck, John C. Bucuvalas, et al.. (2023). Association of state Medicaid expansion policies with pediatric liver transplant outcomes. American Journal of Transplantation. 24(2). 239–249. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Melinda, Amy M. Shui, Elizabeth C. Verna, et al.. (2023). The tele-liver frailty index (TeLeFI): development of a novel frailty tool in patients with cirrhosis via telemedicine. American Journal of Transplantation. 23(7). 966–975. 10 indexed citations

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Mahmud, Nadim, Justin Boike, Bartley Thornburg, et al.. (2023). The impact of right atrial pressure on outcomes in patients undergoing TIPS, an ALTA group study. Hepatology. 77(6). 2041–2051. 7 indexed citations

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Sharma, Pratima, Min Zhang, John C. Magee, et al.. (2021). Renal Outcomes After Simultaneous Liver‐Kidney Transplantation: Results from the US Multicenter Simultaneous Liver‐Kidney Transplantation Consortium. Liver Transplantation. 27(8). 1144–1153. 11 indexed citations

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Singh, Siddharth, Herbert C. Heien, Lindsey R. Sangaralingham, et al.. (2020). Frailty and Risk of Serious Infections in Biologic-treated Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 27(10). 1626–1633. 27 indexed citations

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Brown, Robert S., Bin Cai, Steven L. Flamm, et al.. (2019). The clinical and economic burden of patients with chronic liver disease and thrombocytopaenia receiving platelet transfusions during planned invasive procedures. 1(5). 236–248. 4 indexed citations

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Rubin, Jessica B., Marie Sinclair, Robert S. Rahimi, Elliot B. Tapper, & Jennifer C. Lai. (2018). Women on the liver transplantation waitlist are at increased risk of hospitalization compared to men. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 25(8). 980–988. 16 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Janice B., et al.. (2013). Variability in free 25(OH) vitamin D levels in clinical populations. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 144. 156–158. 46 indexed citations

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