Kira Bona

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kira Bona is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Kira Bona has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 37 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 22 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Kira Bona's work include Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (59 papers), Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (22 papers) and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (22 papers). Kira Bona is often cited by papers focused on Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (59 papers), Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (22 papers) and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (22 papers). Kira Bona collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Kira Bona's co-authors include Joanne Wolfe, Wendy Pelletier, Verónica Dussel, Wendy B. London, Chris Feudtner, Abby R. Rosenberg, Dongjing Guo, Tammy I. Kang, Puja J. Umaretiya and Clement Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kira Bona

62 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Care: An ASCO Policy Statement

2024 42 citations Maysa Abu‐Khalaf, Kira Bona et al. JCO Oncology Practice profile →

Peers

Kira Bona

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Mark Fluchel United States

Verónica Dussel United States

Susie Aldiss United Kingdom

Lisa Tuchman United States

Jacqueline Casillas United States

Meaghann S. Weaver United States

Vivian Engelen Netherlands

Wendy Pelletier Canada

Sheila Pritchard Canada

Michelle Peate Australia

Mark Fluchel United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kira Bona

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Doody, David R., Dwight Barry, Kira Bona, et al.. (2025). Historical redlining and survival among children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer diagnosed between 2000–2019 in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. Cancer. 131(3). e35677–e35677. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yuelin, Lewis B. Silverman, Jennifer Welch, et al.. (2025). Baseline Neurocognitive Functioning Among Children Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): Dana Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium Study 16‐001. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 72(8). e31767–e31767.

Santacroce, Sheila Judge, Melissa Beauchemin, Lingyun Ji, et al.. (2025). Baseline Characteristics of Parents Enrolled in Children's Oncology Group Study ACCL20N1CD: Financial Toxicity During Treatment for Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the United States. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 72(7). e31710–e31710.

Abu‐Khalaf, Maysa, et al.. (2024). Social Determinants of Health and Cancer Care: An ASCO Policy Statement. JCO Oncology Practice. 20(5). 621–630. 42 indexed citations breakdown →

Orellana, Liliana, Denise Becker, Kira Bona, et al.. (2024). Household material hardship and distress among parents of children with advanced cancer: A report from the PediQUEST Response trial. Cancer. 130(20). 3540–3548. 4 indexed citations

Umaretiya, Puja J., et al.. (2024). Targeting hardship: poverty as a modifiable risk factor in childhood leukemia and lymphoma treatment. Hematology. 2024(1). 20–26. 1 indexed citations

McConnell, Margaret, et al.. (2023). Prescription for Cash? Cash Support to Low‐Income Families in Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Settings. Milbank Quarterly. 102(1). 64–82. 3 indexed citations

Winestone, Lena E., Melissa Beauchemin, Kira Bona, et al.. (2023). Children's Oncology Group's 2023 blueprint for research: Diversity and health disparities. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 70(S6). e30592–e30592. 8 indexed citations

Williams, Grant R., Mackenzie E. Fowler, Smith Giri, et al.. (2023). Association of unmet basic resource needs with frailty and quality of life among older adults with cancer—Results from the CARE registry. Cancer Medicine. 12(12). 13846–13855. 10 indexed citations

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Stein, Emily M., Steven G. DuBois, Katie A. Greenzang, et al.. (2023). Establishing a Sociodemographic Data Banking Study in Patients with Hematologic Disorders - a Feasibility Assessment. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 2384–2384. 1 indexed citations

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Umaretiya, Puja J., Marie Bakitas, Erin R. Currie, et al.. (2022). Missing Voices: Lessons Learned from Nonparticipating Caregivers in Palliative Care Research. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 25(3). 455–460. 1 indexed citations

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Beauchemin, Melissa, Sheila Judge Santacroce, Kira Bona, et al.. (2022). Rationale and design of Children’s Oncology Group (COG) study ACCL20N1CD: financial distress during treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the United States. BMC Health Services Research. 22(1). 832–832. 13 indexed citations

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Shulman, David S., Stacey L. Edwards, Catherine Clinton, et al.. (2021). Retrospective evaluation of single patient investigational new drug (IND) requests in pediatric oncology. Cancer Medicine. 10(7). 2310–2318. 6 indexed citations

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Umaretiya, Puja J., Anna Revette, Anna Seo, et al.. (2021). PediCARE: Development of a poverty‐targeted intervention for pediatric cancer. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 68(10). e29195–e29195. 32 indexed citations

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Zheng, Daniel J., Clement Ma, Karina Braga Ribeiro, et al.. (2021). Socioeconomic disparities in survival after high‐risk neuroblastoma treatment with modern therapy. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 68(10). e29127–e29127. 14 indexed citations

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Boyden, Jackelyn Y., Douglas L. Hill, Kira Bona, et al.. (2021). Pediatric Palliative Care Parents’ Distress, Financial Difficulty, and Child Symptoms. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 63(2). 271–282. 33 indexed citations

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Bitterman, Danielle S., et al.. (2020). Race Disparities in High-cost, Limited Resource Cancer Treatment: Proton Radiotherapy Use in Patients Enrolled on Children’s Oncology Group Trials. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 108(3). S136–S136. 2 indexed citations

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Shulman, David S., Holly Roberts, Jessica Clymer, et al.. (2020). Off‐label prescribing of targeted anticancer therapy at a large pediatric cancer center. Cancer Medicine. 9(18). 6658–6666. 18 indexed citations

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Zheng, Daniel J., Derek Shyr, Clement Ma, et al.. (2018). Feasibility of systematic poverty screening in a pediatric oncology referral center. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 65(12). e27380–e27380. 16 indexed citations

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Bona, Kira. (2006). Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents. A Practical Handbook. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 45(3). 375–376. 12 indexed citations

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