Karol Watson

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Karol Watson is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Medicine and Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karol Watson has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 4 papers in Molecular Medicine and 4 papers in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Karol Watson's work include Antibiotic Use and Resistance (4 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (4 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (2 papers). Karol Watson is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Use and Resistance (4 papers), Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (4 papers) and Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity (2 papers). Karol Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Karol Watson's co-authors include J Folkman, Douglas Hanahan, Donald E. Ingber, Romney M. Humphries, James A. McKinnell, Stefan Richter, Daniel Z. Uslan, Loren G. Miller, Douglas S. Bell and Matthew J. Budoff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Karol Watson

12 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Induction of angiogenesis during the transition from hyperplasia to neoplasia

1989 1.6k citations J Folkman, Karol Watson et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karol Watson United States	7	976	584	524	235	175	14	1.7k
Yasuyuki Hirashima Japan	26	557 0.6×	406 0.7×	542 1.0×	184 0.8×	128 0.7×	81	1.8k
Ewan Brown United Kingdom	18	510 0.5×	238 0.4×	501 1.0×	132 0.6×	68 0.4×	30	1.2k
Panagiotis Davaris Greece	23	645 0.7×	309 0.5×	517 1.0×	294 1.3×	98 0.6×	73	1.6k
Christian Ensinger Austria	24	707 0.7×	315 0.5×	675 1.3×	323 1.4×	43 0.2×	53	1.9k
Yoshiyasu Nakamura Japan	25	650 0.7×	325 0.6×	528 1.0×	398 1.7×	62 0.4×	71	1.6k
Nadia Dandachi Austria	23	565 0.6×	508 0.9×	799 1.5×	215 0.9×	32 0.2×	57	1.5k
Ali Amirkhosravi United States	27	685 0.7×	307 0.5×	720 1.4×	253 1.1×	225 1.3×	62	2.5k
Midie Xu China	29	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 2.2×	709 1.4×	471 2.0×	55 0.3×	111	2.6k
Johanna Louhimo Finland	29	639 0.7×	353 0.6×	770 1.5×	348 1.5×	40 0.2×	57	1.9k
Dimitrios Stefanou Greece	26	714 0.7×	339 0.6×	715 1.4×	439 1.9×	47 0.3×	74	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Karol Watson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karol Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karol Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karol Watson 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 Karol Watson. Karol Watson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Ebong, Imo, Machelle Wilson, Susan B. Racette, et al.. (2025). The Association of Menopausal Age with Sex Hormones and Anthropometric Measures Among Postmenopausal Women in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Study. Journal of Women s Health. 34(3). 294–306. 1 indexed citations

Torbey, Estelle, Carlos Mena‐Hurtado, Jamie L. Jackson, et al.. (2025). Impact of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Shocks on Mental Health. JACC Advances. 4(6). 101797–101797.

Ebong, Imo, Machelle Wilson, Erin D. Michos, et al.. (2024). Menopausal age, adipokines, and heart failure incidence in postmenopausal women of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society. 32(1). 72–80. 1 indexed citations

Angelini, Elsa D., R. Graham Barr, Norrina B. Allen, et al.. (2024). Unsupervised Airway Tree Clustering with Deep Learning: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (Mesa) Lung Study. PubMed. 2024. 1–5.

Gajjar, Avi A., Rushi V. Parikh, Peyman Benharash, et al.. (2024). National Costs for Cardiovascular-Related Hospitalizations and Inpatient Procedures in the United States, 2016 to 2021. The American Journal of Cardiology. 234. 63–70. 1 indexed citations

Pistenmaa, Carrie L., Eric A. Hoffman, Steven M. Kawut, et al.. (2019). Ambient air pollution and pulmonary vascular volume on computed tomography: the MESA Air Pollution and Lung cohort studies. European Respiratory Journal. 53(6). 1802116–1802116. 24 indexed citations

Richter, Stefan, Loren G. Miller, Jack Needleman, et al.. (2019). Risk factors for development of aminoglycoside resistance among gram-negative rods. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 76(22). 1838–1847. 6 indexed citations

Richter, Stefan, Loren G. Miller, Jack Needleman, et al.. (2019). Risk Factors for Development of Carbapenem Resistance Among Gram-Negative Rods. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 6(3). ofz027–ofz027. 21 indexed citations

Richter, Stefan, Loren G. Miller, Daniel Z. Uslan, et al.. (2018). Risk Factors for Colistin Resistance among Gram-Negative Rods and Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 56(9). 37 indexed citations

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Doyle, Margaret F., Russell P. Tracy, Megha A. Parikh, et al.. (2017). Endothelial progenitor cells in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0173446–e0173446. 17 indexed citations

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Richter, Stefan, James A. McKinnell, Douglas S. Bell, et al.. (2017). Modeling Carbapenem Resistance Among Gram-Negative Pathogens Using Commonly Available Clinical Data. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 4(suppl_1). S145–S146. 1 indexed citations

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Watson, Karol, Constance H. Fung, & Matthew J. Budoff. (2007). Quality Indicators for the Care of Ischemic Heart Disease in Vulnerable Elders. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55(s2). S366–72. 12 indexed citations

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Folkman, J, Karol Watson, Donald E. Ingber, & Douglas Hanahan. (1989). Induction of angiogenesis during the transition from hyperplasia to neoplasia. Nature. 339(6219). 58–61. 1572 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watson, Karol, et al.. (1986). Heart transplantation at the Humana Heart Institute International.. PubMed. 84(6). 261–7. 1 indexed citations

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