José Iscovich

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

José Iscovich is a scholar working on Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, José Iscovich has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Oncology, 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 6 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in José Iscovich's work include Viral-associated cancers and disorders (8 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management (5 papers). José Iscovich is often cited by papers focused on Viral-associated cancers and disorders (8 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management (5 papers). José Iscovich collaborates with scholars based in Israel, France and United States. José Iscovich's co-authors include Geoffrey R. Howe, Esther Azizi, Thomas E. Rohan, Klea Katsouyanni, Paolo Toniolo, Ettore Marubini, Baruch Modan, Jian‐Min Yuan, T. Greg Hislop and Flora Lubin and has published in prestigious journals such as JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

José Iscovich

35 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Dietary Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: Combined Analy... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Dietary Factors and Risk of Breast Cancer: Combined Analysis of 12 Case--Control Studies
    1990 589 citations Geoffrey R. Howe, José Iscovich 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
José Iscovich Israel 21 944 712 345 312 310 37 2.0k
D. Trichopoulos Greece 27 758 0.8× 697 1.0× 215 0.6× 278 0.9× 293 0.9× 41 2.2k
Ettore Conti Italy 23 681 0.7× 403 0.6× 258 0.7× 198 0.6× 144 0.5× 41 1.6k
Nancy Potischman United States 33 888 0.9× 1.0k 1.4× 133 0.4× 472 1.5× 446 1.4× 51 2.7k
Inger Torhild Gram Norway 26 996 1.1× 304 0.4× 189 0.5× 276 0.9× 216 0.7× 72 2.3k
Yu Tang Gao China 16 564 0.6× 342 0.5× 183 0.5× 155 0.5× 183 0.6× 19 1.6k
Susan Kune Australia 22 924 1.0× 410 0.6× 476 1.4× 243 0.8× 220 0.7× 30 1.9k
Antonella Gentile Italy 22 603 0.6× 396 0.6× 190 0.6× 114 0.4× 241 0.8× 34 1.6k
Christina M. Nagle Australia 31 870 0.9× 390 0.5× 187 0.5× 231 0.7× 237 0.8× 76 2.3k
Jeanne F. Rosenthal United States 11 739 0.8× 306 0.4× 422 1.2× 97 0.3× 388 1.3× 12 1.7k
RK Ross United States 12 627 0.7× 280 0.4× 503 1.5× 105 0.3× 438 1.4× 13 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by José Iscovich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Iscovich

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of José Iscovich. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of José Iscovich 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 José Iscovich. José Iscovich 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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Chodick, Gabriel, Jeffery P. Struewing, Elaine Ron, Joni L. Rutter, & José Iscovich. (2007). Similar prevalence of founder BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations among Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi men with breast cancer: Evidence from 261 cases in Israel, 1976–1999. European Journal of Medical Genetics. 51(2). 141–147. 18 indexed citations
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Grossman, Zehava, José Iscovich, Esther Azizi, et al.. (2002). Absence of Kaposi Sarcoma Among Ethiopian Immigrants to Israel Despite High Seroprevalence of Human Herpesvirus 8. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 77(9). 905–909. 22 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, et al.. (2001). Prevalence of the BRCA2 6174 del T mutation in Israeli uveal melanoma patients. International Journal of Cancer. 98(1). 42–44. 33 indexed citations
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Azizi, Esther, José Iscovich, Raphael Shafir, et al.. (2000). Use of sunscreen is linked with elevated naevi counts in Israeli school children and adolescents. Melanoma Research. 10(5). 491–498. 37 indexed citations
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Levav, I., et al.. (2000). Cancer incidence and survival following bereavement. American Journal of Public Health. 90(10). 1601–1607. 94 indexed citations
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Tulchinsky, Theodore H., et al.. (1999). Cancer in ex-asbestos cement workers in Israel, 1953-1992. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 35(1). 1–8. 26 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, Asher Shushan, Joseph G. Schenker, & Ora Paltiel. (1998). The incidence of borderline ovarian tumors in israel. Cancer. 82(1). 147–151. 10 indexed citations
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Paltiel, Ora, Itamar Ronen, Aaron Polliack, José Iscovich, & L Epstein. (1998). The contribution of multiple data sources to a clinical audit of lymphoma in a teaching hospital. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 10(4). 303–309. 6 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, Paolo Boffetta, & Paul Brennan. (1998). Classic Kaposi's sarcoma in Arabs living in Israel, 1970–1993: A population-based incidence study. International Journal of Cancer. 77(3). 319–321. 7 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, et al.. (1997). Clustering of leukaemia cases in a city in Israel. Statistics in Medicine. 16(16). 1873–1887. 10 indexed citations
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Parkin, D. Maxwell & José Iscovich. (1997). Risk of cancer in migrants and their descendants in Israel: II. Carcinomas and germ-cell tumours. International Journal of Cancer. 70(6). 654–660. 64 indexed citations
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Shushan, Asher, Ora Paltiel, José Iscovich, et al.. (1996). Human menopausal gonadotropin and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer. Fertility and Sterility. 65(1). 13–18. 169 indexed citations
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Castelletto, R, et al.. (1995). Alcohol, tobacco, diet, mate drinking, and esophageal cancer in Argentina.. PubMed. 3(7). 557–64. 87 indexed citations
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Azizi, Esther, Felix Pavlotsky, José Iscovich, et al.. (1995). Familial cutaneous malignant melanoma and tumors of the nervous system. Cancer. 76(9). 1571–1578. 56 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, et al.. (1995). An epidemiological study of posterior uveal melanoma in israel, 1961–1989. International Journal of Cancer. 61(3). 291–295. 25 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, et al.. (1995). Incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma in Israel, 1960-1989.. PubMed. 23(1). 1–23. 6 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, Kristan A. L'Abbé, R Castelleto, et al.. (1992). Colon cancer in argentina. II: Risk from fibre, fat and nutrients. International Journal of Cancer. 51(6). 858–861. 26 indexed citations
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Howe, Geoffrey R., Thomas E. Rohan, Adriano Decarli, et al.. (1991). The association between alcohol and breast cancer risk: Evidence from the combined analysis of six dietary case‐control studies. International Journal of Cancer. 47(5). 707–710. 69 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, et al.. (1989). A case‐control study of diet and breast cancer in Argentina. International Journal of Cancer. 44(5). 770–776. 109 indexed citations
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Iscovich, José, R Castelletto, Núbia Muñóz, et al.. (1987). Tobacco smoking, occupational exposure and bladder cancer in Argentina. International Journal of Cancer. 40(6). 734–740. 92 indexed citations

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