Kevin Flaherty

28.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Kevin Flaherty is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Flaherty has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 35 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kevin Flaherty's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (35 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (29 papers). Kevin Flaherty is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (35 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (29 papers). Kevin Flaherty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Kevin Flaherty's co-authors include Ella A. Kazerooni, Fernando J. Martínez, Galen B. Toews, Luca Richeldi, Ganesh Raghu, A. Meredith Hughes, Barry H. Gross, William D. Travis, Joseph P. Lynch and Athol U. Wells and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Flaherty

74 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Efficacy of a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2011 811 citations Luca Richeldi, David M. Hansell et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Flaherty United States	36	4.0k	1.5k	1.4k	493	454	75	6.1k
P. Dufour France	36	474 0.1×	2.4k 1.6×	136 0.1×	176 0.4×	527 1.2×	215	5.2k
Naoki Iwamoto Japan	34	253 0.1×	589 0.4×	342 0.2×	230 0.5×	440 1.0×	233	4.9k
Takashi Okamura Japan	37	354 0.1×	788 0.5×	199 0.1×	770 1.6×	399 0.9×	294	6.1k
Takashi Ishikawa Japan	44	1.6k 0.4×	84 0.1×	197 0.1×	483 1.0×	1.0k 2.2×	440	8.3k
Guy Berchem Luxembourg	45	461 0.1×	1.1k 0.7×	107 0.1×	196 0.4×	898 2.0×	147	6.5k
Hideki Takami Japan	35	1.1k 0.3×	587 0.4×	126 0.1×	125 0.3×	316 0.7×	229	3.5k
J. C. Houck United States	40	295 0.1×	2.1k 1.4×	192 0.1×	78 0.2×	130 0.3×	215	4.9k
Andrew Vaughan United States	36	550 0.1×	389 0.3×	123 0.1×	282 0.6×	242 0.5×	156	4.1k
Jae H. Park United States	37	223 0.1×	401 0.3×	112 0.1×	473 1.0×	212 0.5×	226	6.9k
Catherine Lacombe France	36	262 0.1×	379 0.3×	710 0.5×	250 0.5×	367 0.8×	77	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Flaherty

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Flaherty, Kevin, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Tight Binaries on Protoplanetary Disk Masses. The Astronomical Journal. 170(6). 330–330. 1 indexed citations

Hughes, A. Meredith, Rebekah I. Dawson, Kevin Flaherty, et al.. (2022). Millimeter Dust Emission and Planetary Dynamics in the HD 106906 System. The Astrophysical Journal. 939(1). 56–56. 6 indexed citations

Hughes, A. Meredith, Kevin Flaherty, K. Y. L. Su, et al.. (2021). Resolving Structure in the Debris Disk around HD 206893 with ALMA. The Astrophysical Journal. 917(1). 5–5. 12 indexed citations

Factor, Samuel M., A. Meredith Hughes, Kevin Flaherty, et al.. (2017). ALMA Observations of Asymmetric Molecular Gas Emission from a Protoplanetary Disk in the Orion Nebula. The Astronomical Journal. 153(5). 233–233. 6 indexed citations

Su, K. Y. L., Meredith A. MacGregor, Mark Booth, et al.. (2017). ALMA 1.3 mm Map of the HD 95086 System. The Astronomical Journal. 154(6). 225–225. 25 indexed citations

Hughes, A. Meredith, Kevin Flaherty, C. Daley, et al.. (2017). Radial Surface Density Profiles of Gas and Dust in the Debris Disk around 49 Ceti. The Astrophysical Journal. 839(2). 86–86. 41 indexed citations

Flaherty, Kevin, L. M. DeMarchi, James Muzerolle, et al.. (2016). SPITZER OBSERVATIONS OF LONG-TERM INFRARED VARIABILITY AMONG YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS IN CHAMAELEON I. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(1). 104–104. 18 indexed citations

Raghu, Ganesh, Athol U. Wells, Andrew G. Nicholson, et al.. (2016). Effect of Nintedanib in Subgroups of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Diagnostic Criteria. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 195(1). 78–85. 127 indexed citations

Flaherty, Kevin, A. Meredith Hughes, Sean M. Andrews, et al.. (2016). RESOLVED CO GAS INTERIOR TO THE DUST RINGS OF THE HD 141569 DISK. The Astrophysical Journal. 818(1). 97–97. 16 indexed citations

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Khanna, Dinesh, Shikha Mittoo, Rohit Aggarwal, et al.. (2015). Connective Tissue Disease-associated Interstitial Lung Diseases (CTD-ILD) — Report from OMERACT CTD-ILD Working Group. The Journal of Rheumatology. 42(11). 2168–2171. 131 indexed citations

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Noth, Imre, Kevin J. Anstrom, Sara B. Calvert, et al.. (2012). A Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial of Warfarin in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 186(1). 88–95. 317 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Shelley L. & Kevin Flaherty. (2011). Clinical Year in Review I:: Interstitial Lung Disease, Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease, Education of Residents and Fellows, and Pediatrics. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 8(5). 389–397. 1 indexed citations

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Prasse, Antje, Elena Bargagli, Gernot Zissel, et al.. (2009). Serum CC-Chemokine Ligand 18 Concentration Predicts Outcome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 179(8). 717–723. 240 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Shelley L., Baskaran Sundaram, & Kevin Flaherty. (2009). Diagnosing fibrotic lung disease: When is high‐resolution computed tomography sufficient to make a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?. Respirology. 14(7). 934–939. 44 indexed citations

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Megeath, S. T., Kevin Flaherty, Joseph L. Hora, et al.. (2005). A Spitzer/IRAC Survey of the Orion Molecular Clouds. 5 indexed citations

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Fukuoka, Junya, Teri J. Franks, Thomas V. Colby, et al.. (2005). Peribronchiolar Metaplasia: A Common Histologic Lesion in Diffuse Lung Disease and a Rare Cause of Interstitial Lung Disease. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 29(7). 948–954. 74 indexed citations

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Tan, Bethany B., Kevin Flaherty, Ella A. Kazerooni, & Mark D. Iannettoni. (2003). The Solitary Pulmonary Nodule*. CHEST Journal. 123(1). 89S–96S. 210 indexed citations

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Flaherty, Kevin, William D. Travis, THOMAS V. COLBY, et al.. (2001). Histopathologic Variability in Usual and Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonias. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 164(9). 1722–1727. 448 indexed citations

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Flaherty, Kevin, Ella A. Kazerooni, Jeffrey L. Curtis, et al.. (2001). Short-term and Long-term Outcomes After Bilateral Lung Volume Reduction Surgery. CHEST Journal. 119(5). 1337–1346. 71 indexed citations

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Lynch, Joseph P., Eric S. White, & Kevin Flaherty. (2001). Corticosteroids in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine. 7(5). 298–308. 32 indexed citations

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