Karen Malacon

924 total citations
17 papers, 192 citations indexed

About

Karen Malacon is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Malacon has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 192 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Surgery, 5 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 3 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Karen Malacon's work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (5 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (4 papers) and Diversity and Career in Medicine (3 papers). Karen Malacon is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (5 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (4 papers) and Diversity and Career in Medicine (3 papers). Karen Malacon collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Karen Malacon's co-authors include Caroline J. Smith, Staci D. Bilbo, Matthias Schlichting, Shanshan Qin, Katrin Vogt, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel, Cengiz Pehlevan, Albert Cardona, Michael Rosbash and Luis Hernandez-Nunez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Spine.

In The Last Decade

Karen Malacon

14 papers receiving 192 citations

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Patrick K. Monari United States

Tooka Aavani Canada

Martin Lackinger Germany

Seico Benner Japan

Guillaume Daniel Germany

Stacey L. Kigar United States

Yusuke Onaka Japan

Benita Jin United States

Hannah Kim South Korea

Kari L. Hanson United States

Patrick K. Monari United States

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17 of 17 papers shown

Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2025). Bone Optimization for Perioperative Spine Patients: A Multidisciplinary Approach at a Single Academic Center. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(24). 8866–8866.

Yalçın, Belgin, Matthew B. Pomrenze, Karen Malacon, et al.. (2024). Myelin plasticity in the ventral tegmental area is required for opioid reward. Nature. 630(8017). 677–685. 16 indexed citations

Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2024). Provider's exposure to diversity contributes to socioeconomic disparities in lumbar and cervical fusion outcomes. World Neurosurgery X. 23. 100382–100382.

Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2024). Barriers to neurosurgery for medical students: a national study focused on the intersectionality of gender and race. Journal of neurosurgery. 141(5). 1395–1406. 2 indexed citations

Malacon, Karen, Li Guan, Kimberly Kicielinski, et al.. (2024). Gender Differences in Electronic Health Record Usage Among Surgeons. JAMA Network Open. 7(7). e2421717–e2421717. 7 indexed citations

Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2023). Wearable technology and measurement of outcomes from lumbar spondylolisthesis surgery. Seminars in Spine Surgery. 35(3). 101047–101047. 1 indexed citations

Wadhwa, Harsh, Christopher Leung, Karen Malacon, et al.. (2023). Costs and Outcomes of Total Joint Arthroplasty in Medicare Beneficiaries Are Not Meaningfully Associated with Industry Payments. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 106(4). 337–345.

Wadhwa, Harsh, et al.. (2023). Trends, payments, and costs associated with BMP use in Medicare beneficiaries undergoing spinal fusion. The Spine Journal. 23(6). 816–823. 1 indexed citations

Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2023). Trends in Management of Osteoporosis Following Primary Vertebral Compression Fracture. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 7(7). bvad085–bvad085. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Caroline J., Marcy A. Kingsbury, Karen Malacon, et al.. (2023). Microbial modulation via cross-fostering prevents the effects of pervasive environmental stressors on microglia and social behavior, but not the dopamine system. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(6). 2549–2562. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Caroline J., et al.. (2022). Prenatal opioid exposure inhibits microglial sculpting of the dopamine system selectively in adolescent male offspring. Neuropsychopharmacology. 47(10). 1755–1763. 14 indexed citations

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Block, Carina L., Stephen D. Mague, Caroline J. Smith, et al.. (2022). Prenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and adult behavior in males. Cell Reports. 40(5). 111161–111161. 55 indexed citations

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Malacon, Karen, et al.. (2022). Operative Versus Nonoperative Management of Unstable Spine Fractures in the Elderly: Outcomes and Mortality. Spine. 48(1). 39–48. 2 indexed citations

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Malacon, Karen, Parastou Fatemi, & Corinna C. Zygourakis. (2022). First reported use of machine vision image guided system for unstable thoracolumbar fusion: Technical case report. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery. 30. 101641–101641. 2 indexed citations

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Vogt, Katrin, Matthias Schlichting, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, et al.. (2021). Internal state configures olfactory behavior and early sensory processing in Drosophila larvae. Science Advances. 7(1). 47 indexed citations

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Wadhwa, Harsh, et al.. (2021). First reported use of real-time intraoperative computed tomography angiography image registration using the Machine-vision Image Guided Surgery system: illustrative case. Journal of Neurosurgery Case Lessons. 1(18). CASE2125–CASE2125. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Caroline J., Marcy A. Kingsbury, Julia E. Dziabis, et al.. (2020). Neonatal immune challenge induces female-specific changes in social behavior and somatostatin cell number. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 90. 332–345. 26 indexed citations

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