Lawrence H. Kushi

48.5k total citations · 12 hit papers
425 papers, 31.7k citations indexed

About

Lawrence H. Kushi is a scholar working on Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence H. Kushi has authored 425 papers receiving a total of 31.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Oncology, 152 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 73 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Lawrence H. Kushi's work include Cancer Risks and Factors (102 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (96 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (41 papers). Lawrence H. Kushi is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Risks and Factors (102 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (96 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (41 papers). Lawrence H. Kushi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Lawrence H. Kushi's co-authors include Aaron R. Folsom, WC Willett, Thomas A. Sellers, David R. Jacobs, John D. Potter, Katie A. Meyer, Marilyn L. Kwan, Roberd M. Bostick, Elisa V. Bandera and Marion Nestle and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence H. Kushi

401 papers receiving 30.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Adjustment for total energy intake in epidemiologic studies

1997 2.9k citations Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention: Reducing the Risk of Cancer With Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity

2006 1.4k citations Lawrence H. Kushi, Elisa V. Bandera et al. profile →
American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention

2012 991 citations Lawrence H. Kushi, Elisa V. Bandera et al. profile →
Carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and incident type 2 diabetes in older women

2000 929 citations Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

2003 716 citations Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
Nutrition and Physical Activity During and After Cancer Treatment: An American Cancer Society Guide for Informed Choices

2006 709 citations Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
Dietary Antioxidant Vitamins and Death from Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women

1996 697 citations Lawrence H. Kushi, Aaron R. Folsom et al. profile →
Early discontinuation and non-adherence to adjuvant hormonal therapy are associated with increased mortality in women with breast cancer

2010 671 citations Dawn L. Hershman, Lawrence H. Kushi et al. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment profile →
Early Discontinuation and Nonadherence to Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy in a Cohort of 8,769 Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients

2010 625 citations Dawn L. Hershman, Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
Associations of General and Abdominal Obesity With Multiple Health Outcomes in Older Women

2000 549 citations Aaron R. Folsom, Lawrence H. Kushi et al. profile →
Trends in Use of Medical Imaging in US Health Care Systems and in Ontario, Canada, 2000-2016

2019 424 citations Marilyn L. Kwan, Mary Kay Theis et al. profile →
Recent Trends in Cardiovascular Mortality in the United States and Public Health Goals

2016 390 citations Charles P. Quesenberry, Mai N. Nguyen‐Huynh et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lawrence H. Kushi United States	88	11.5k	9.1k	6.3k	4.7k	3.6k	425	31.7k
Arthur Schatzkin United States	95	10.4k 0.9×	9.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.1×	2.9k 0.6×	2.8k 0.8×	359	30.0k
Alicja Wolk Sweden	109	12.1k 1.1×	8.4k 0.9×	7.3k 1.2×	6.2k 1.3×	3.2k 0.9×	576	40.9k
Donna Spiegelman United States	124	16.3k 1.4×	6.5k 0.7×	8.6k 1.4×	9.1k 2.0×	4.7k 1.3×	632	55.2k
Shoichiro Tsugane Japan	86	8.0k 0.7×	6.1k 0.7×	4.4k 0.7×	4.2k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	883	31.0k
Timothy J. Key United Kingdom	80	10.1k 0.9×	4.9k 0.5×	5.2k 0.8×	2.2k 0.5×	3.9k 1.1×	259	27.4k
Piet A. van den Brandt Netherlands	96	7.0k 0.6×	6.7k 0.7×	4.0k 0.6×	3.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	535	35.4k
Bette J. Caan United States	88	5.8k 0.5×	10.1k 1.1×	6.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.4×	2.7k 0.8×	425	24.1k
Barry I. Graubard United States	85	7.8k 0.7×	4.5k 0.5×	5.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.6×	467	29.2k
Wei Zheng United States	91	6.7k 0.6×	9.1k 1.0×	4.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	5.6k 1.5×	910	32.0k
Demetrius Albanes United States	88	6.0k 0.5×	5.0k 0.6×	4.4k 0.7×	4.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.6×	462	25.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lawrence H. Kushi

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Ergas, Isaac J., Richard K. Cheng, Janise M. Roh, et al.. (2025). Diet quality and cardiometabolic health in breast cancer survivors: the Pathways Study. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 211(1). 139–150. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Raymond, et al.. (2025). Screening for comprehensive social needs in patients with cancer: a narrative review. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 9(2). 2 indexed citations

Odejide, Oreofe O., Hajime Uno, Lanfang Xu, et al.. (2025). Preferred and Actual Location of Death in Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer. JAMA Network Open. 8(1). e2454000–e2454000. 1 indexed citations

Morey, Brittany N., Katherine Lin, Alison J. Canchola, et al.. (2024). A validation study for measuring Asian- and Hispanic-serving sociocultural institutions in neighborhoods using business listing data and potential implications for health. Social Science & Medicine. 356. 117143–117143. 1 indexed citations

Torres, Jacqueline M., Stacey Alexeeff, Brittany N. Morey, et al.. (2024). Differences in Smoking Behavior by Nativity, Race/Ethnicity, and Education among Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 33(5). 694–702. 2 indexed citations

Kubo, Ai, Julia Acker, Sara Aghaee, et al.. (2024). Pubertal Timing Across Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Subgroups. JAMA Network Open. 7(5). e2410253–e2410253. 1 indexed citations

Anderson, Chelsea, Laura Green, Christopher D. Baggett, et al.. (2024). Cancer Diagnosis During Pregnancy and Livebirth Outcomes in the Adolescent and Young Adult Horizon Study. Journal of Women s Health. 34(1). 27–35.

Conroy, Shannon M., Julie Von Behren, Marilyn L. Kwan, et al.. (2023). Neighborhood attributes and cardiovascular disease risk in breast cancer survivors: The Pathways Study. Cancer. 129(15). 2395–2408. 6 indexed citations

Ergas, Isaac J., Patrick T. Bradshaw, Elizabeth M. Cespedes Feliciano, et al.. (2023). Hypothetical Interventions on Diet Quality and Lifestyle Factors to Improve Breast Cancer Survival: The Pathways Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 32(12). 1716–1725. 4 indexed citations

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Bowles, Erin J. Aiello, Candyce H. Kroenke, Jessica Chubak, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of Algorithms Using Automated Health Plan Data to Identify Breast Cancer Recurrences. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 33(3). 355–364. 1 indexed citations

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Troeschel, Alyssa N., Terryl J. Hartman, Lauren E. McCullough, et al.. (2023). Associations of Post-Diagnosis Lifestyle with Prognosis in Women with Invasive Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 32(7). 963–975. 7 indexed citations

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Steele, Eurídice Martínez, Isobel R. Contento, Lawrence H. Kushi, et al.. (2023). Diet quality, ultra‐processed food consumption, and quality of life in a cross‐sectional cohort of adults and teens with celiac disease. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36(4). 1144–1158. 16 indexed citations

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Anderson, Chelsea, Victoria W. Fitz, Allison M. Deal, et al.. (2022). Pregnancy attempts among adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Fertility and Sterility. 119(3). 475–483. 6 indexed citations

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Powell, C. Bethan, Cecile A. Laurent, Christine Garcia, et al.. (2021). Factors influencing genetic counseling and testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in a large US health care system. Clinical Genetics. 101(3). 324–334. 10 indexed citations

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Knight, Stacey, Carol Sweeney, Rachel E. Factor, et al.. (2018). Reparameterization of PAM50 Expression Identifies Novel Breast Tumor Dimensions and Leads to Discovery of a Genome-Wide Significant Breast Cancer Locus at 12q15. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 27(6). 644–652. 7 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee W., Marilyn L. Kwan, Erin Weltzien, et al.. (2016). Exercise and Prognosis on the Basis of Clinicopathologic and Molecular Features in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: The LACE and Pathways Studies. Cancer Research. 76(18). 5415–5422. 42 indexed citations

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Gonzales, Felisa A., Rena R. Jones, Julianna Deardorff, et al.. (2016). Neighborhood deprivation, race/ethnicity, and urinary metal concentrations among young girls in California. Environment International. 91. 29–39. 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Qianqian, Qiang Hu, Lori Shepherd, et al.. (2015). The Impact of DNA Input Amount and DNA Source on the Performance of Whole-Exome Sequencing in Cancer Epidemiology. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(8). 1207–1213. 20 indexed citations

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Neugut, Alfred I., Grace Clarke Hillyer, Lawrence H. Kushi, et al.. (2014). Non-initiation and early discontinuation of adjuvant trastuzumab in women with localized HER2-positive breast cancer. Breast Cancer. 21(6). 780–785. 9 indexed citations

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Folsom, Aaron R., Lawrence H. Kushi, & C P Hong. (2000). Physical activity and incident diabetes mellitus in postmenopausal women. American Journal of Public Health. 90(1). 134–138. 103 indexed citations

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