Kirsten Dorans

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kirsten Dorans is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Epidemiology and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Kirsten Dorans has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 7 papers in Epidemiology and 6 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Kirsten Dorans's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (5 papers). Kirsten Dorans is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (5 papers). Kirsten Dorans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Kirsten Dorans's co-authors include Jiang He, Murray A. Mittleman, Mary B. Rice, Elissa H. Wilker, Petros Koutrakis, Joel Schwartz, Diane R. Gold, Katherine T. Mills, Yang Liu and Wenyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kirsten Dorans

36 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in US Adults by Race and Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status, 1999-2018

2021 174 citations Jiang He, Zhengbao Zhu et al. JAMA profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kirsten Dorans United States	17	633	253	158	148	132	39	1.3k
Lotte Jacobs Belgium	21	608 1.0×	253 1.0×	159 1.0×	70 0.5×	150 1.1×	43	1.5k
Hongbo Lin China	23	576 0.9×	370 1.5×	147 0.9×	133 0.9×	91 0.7×	110	1.7k
Youn-Hee Lim South Korea	25	1.0k 1.6×	92 0.4×	116 0.7×	108 0.7×	140 1.1×	60	1.6k
Carla Ancona Italy	25	943 1.5×	95 0.4×	243 1.5×	140 0.9×	150 1.1×	89	1.7k
Qin Xu China	18	549 0.9×	290 1.1×	189 1.2×	85 0.6×	57 0.4×	75	1.2k
Magnus Lundbäck Sweden	17	923 1.5×	276 1.1×	284 1.8×	124 0.8×	184 1.4×	35	1.5k
Zhongjie Fan China	16	484 0.8×	123 0.5×	126 0.8×	97 0.7×	81 0.6×	52	1.0k
Amanda J. Gassett United States	16	804 1.3×	206 0.8×	350 2.2×	54 0.4×	92 0.7×	36	1.3k
Jian Hou China	26	1.5k 2.3×	150 0.6×	290 1.8×	160 1.1×	290 2.2×	152	2.4k
Shujun Fan China	20	584 0.9×	61 0.2×	130 0.8×	133 0.9×	103 0.8×	45	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kirsten Dorans

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Tian, Ling, Byron C. Jaeger, Kirsten Dorans, et al.. (2025). Comparison of Associations of Food Security Instruments and Mediators With Premature All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Death in US Adults. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 18(2). e011209–e011209. 1 indexed citations

Kou, Minghao, Xuan Wang, Hao Ma, et al.. (2025). Blood pressure, proteomic vascular ageing, and incident cardiovascular disease. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

He, Jiang, Joshua D. Bundy, Ling Tian, et al.. (2023). Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors and Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in U.S. Adults. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(9). 1200–1208. 38 indexed citations

Dorans, Kirsten, Lydia Bazzano, Xingyan Li, et al.. (2022). Lifestyle behaviors and cardiovascular risk profiles among parous women by gestational diabetes status, 2007–2018. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 32(5). 1121–1130. 6 indexed citations

Razavi, Alexander C., Lydia Bazzano, Jiang He, et al.. (2021). Discordantly normal ApoB relative to elevated LDL-C in persons with metabolic disorders: A marker of atherogenic heterogeneity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100190–100190. 2 indexed citations

Dorans, Kirsten, Lydia Bazzano, Lu Qi, et al.. (2021). Low-carbohydrate dietary pattern on glycemic outcomes trial (ADEPT) among individuals with elevated hemoglobin A1c: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 22(1). 108–108. 2 indexed citations

He, Jiang, Zhengbao Zhu, Joshua D. Bundy, et al.. (2021). Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in US Adults by Race and Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status, 1999-2018. JAMA. 326(13). 1286–1286. 174 indexed citations breakdown →

Harville, Emily W., Lydia Bazzano, Lu Qi, et al.. (2020). Branched-chain amino acids, history of gestational diabetes, and breastfeeding: The Bogalusa Heart Study. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 30(11). 2077–2084. 3 indexed citations

Dorans, Kirsten, Hua He, Jing Chen, et al.. (2020). Change in ankle–brachial index and mortality among individuals with chronic kidney disease: findings from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 36(12). 2224–2231. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Wenyuan, Kirsten Dorans, Elissa H. Wilker, et al.. (2018). Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and circulating biomarkers of endothelial cell activation: The Framingham Heart Study. Environmental Research. 171. 36–43. 21 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten, Katherine T. Mills, Yang Liu, & Jiang He. (2018). Trends in Prevalence and Control of Hypertension According to the 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Guideline. Journal of the American Heart Association. 7(11). 202 indexed citations

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Li, Wenyuan, Kirsten Dorans, Elissa H. Wilker, et al.. (2017). Ambient air pollution, adipokines, and glucose homeostasis: The Framingham Heart Study. Environment International. 111. 14–22. 51 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten, Elissa H. Wilker, Wenyuan Li, et al.. (2017). Residential proximity to major roads, exposure to fine particulate matter and aortic calcium: the Framingham Heart Study, a cohort study. BMJ Open. 7(3). e013455–e013455. 14 indexed citations

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Steinhaus, Daniel A., Elizabeth Mostofsky, Emily B. Levitan, et al.. (2016). Chocolate intake and incidence of heart failure: Findings from the Cohort of Swedish Men. American Heart Journal. 183. 18–23. 20 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten, Jennifer Massa, Tanuja Chitnis, Alberto Ascherio, & Kassandra L. Munger. (2016). Physical activity and the incidence of multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 87(17). 1770–1776. 38 indexed citations

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Rice, Mary B., Petter Ljungman, Elissa H. Wilker, et al.. (2015). Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Emissions and Fine Particulate Matter and Lung Function Decline in the Framingham Heart Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 191(6). 656–664. 208 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten. (2010). Fewer shots proposed to increase uptake of HPV vaccine. Nature Medicine. 16(8). 832–833. 4 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten. (2009). Minicells mitigate tumor growth. Lab Animal. 38(8). 250–250. 1 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten. (2009). A vaccine based on conserved regions could prove radical. Nature Medicine. 15(4). 351–351. 1 indexed citations

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Dorans, Kirsten. (2009). Royal Society urges integration of human and veterinary medicine. Nature Medicine. 15(3). 227–227. 1 indexed citations

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