Laura McDonald

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Laura McDonald is a scholar working on Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura McDonald has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Oncology, 12 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Laura McDonald's work include Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (5 papers), Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Laura McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (5 papers), Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (5 papers) and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers (5 papers). Laura McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Laura McDonald's co-authors include Sreeram V Ramagopalan, Benedict B. Benigno, John F. McDonald, Victor Voon, Rory O’Hanlon, Ian Dawkins, Mark Ledwidge, Margaret Bermingham, B. Maurer and Elaine Tallon and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Laura McDonald

42 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

  1. Natriuretic Peptide–Based Screening and Collaborative Care for Heart Failure
    2013 384 citations Mark Ledwidge, J. Gallagher et al. JAMA profile →

Peers

Laura McDonald
Dejana Stanisavljević Serbia
Ghada N. Farhat United States
Janine Ross United Kingdom
Eric Wallace United States
Ofra Barnett‐Griness Israel
Wenli Lu China
Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski Poland
Issei Kurahashi Japan
Kerstin Weitmann Germany
Dejana Stanisavljević Serbia
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Countries citing papers authored by Laura McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura McDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura McDonald

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

All Works

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Wang, Lefeng, Cynthia Pape, Lynda A. McCaig, et al.. (2025). Effect of aging on pulmonary cellular responses during mechanical ventilation. JCI Insight. 10(6).
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Long, Georgina V., Evan J. Lipson, F. Stephen Hodi, et al.. (2024). First-Line Nivolumab Plus Relatlimab Versus Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma: An Indirect Treatment Comparison Using RELATIVITY-047 and CheckMate 067 Trial Data. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(33). 3926–3934. 20 indexed citations
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Housley, Stephen N., Lilya V. Matyunina, Laura McDonald, et al.. (2024). A personalized probabilistic approach to ovarian cancer diagnostics. Gynecologic Oncology. 182. 168–175. 12 indexed citations
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Blackhall, Fiona, Nicolas Girard, Alain Livartowski, et al.. (2023). Treatment patterns and outcomes among patients with small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) in Europe: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 13(2). e052556–e052556. 11 indexed citations
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Vissers, Pauline A. J., David Bertwistle, Laura McDonald, et al.. (2022). Population-based study of treatment and outcome of recurrent oesophageal or junctional cancer. British journal of surgery. 109(12). 1264–1273. 3 indexed citations
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Ozkaya‐Ahmadov, Tevhide, Ruxiu Liu, Dohwan Lee, et al.. (2022). High throughput, label-free isolation of circulating tumor cell clusters in meshed microwells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3385–3385. 56 indexed citations
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Moore, Adam, Bryan Bennett, Gavin Taylor‐Stokes, Laura McDonald, & M. Daumont. (2022). Malignant pleural mesothelioma: treatment patterns and humanistic burden of disease in Europe. BMC Cancer. 22(1). 693–693. 6 indexed citations
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Jain, Rishi, H.J. Lenz, Wells A. Messersmith, et al.. (2021). 550P Initial results of a phase Ia/Ib study of NGM120, a first-in-class anti-GDNF family receptor alpha like (GFRAL) antibody in patients (pts) with advanced solid tumors. Annals of Oncology. 32. S610–S611. 4 indexed citations
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Cotté, François-Emery, Bryan Bennett, Bruno Falissard, et al.. (2020). Exploring the Health-Related Quality of Life of Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Social Media Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(9). e19694–e19694. 13 indexed citations
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McDonald, Laura, Bill Malcolm, Sreeram V Ramagopalan, & Hayley Syrad. (2019). Real-world data and the patient perspective: the PROmise of social media?. BMC Medicine. 17(1). 11–11. 44 indexed citations
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McDonald, Laura, Anna Schultze, Robert Carroll, & Sreeram V Ramagopalan. (2018). Performing studies using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink: to link or not to link?. European Journal of Epidemiology. 33(6). 601–605. 18 indexed citations
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Huang, Cai, Lilya V. Matyunina, Laura McDonald, et al.. (2018). Machine learning predicts individual cancer patient responses to therapeutic drugs with high accuracy. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16444–16444. 125 indexed citations
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Lumley, Matthew, Laura McDonald, Sreeram V Ramagopalan, et al.. (2017). Evolving landscape of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation within the UK between 2012 and 2016: a cross-sectional analysis study using CPRD. BMJ Open. 7(9). e015363–e015363. 30 indexed citations
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McDonald, Laura, et al.. (2016). Real-world data in the United Kingdom: opportunities and challenges. BMC Medicine. 14(1). 97–97. 23 indexed citations
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Ledwidge, Mark, J. Gallagher, Carmel Conlon, et al.. (2013). Natriuretic Peptide–Based Screening and Collaborative Care for Heart Failure. JAMA. 310(1). 66–66. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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