Leigh Neumayer

12.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
146 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Leigh Neumayer is a scholar working on Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Neumayer has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Surgery, 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 24 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Leigh Neumayer's work include Hernia repair and management (24 papers), Diversity and Career in Medicine (24 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (19 papers). Leigh Neumayer is often cited by papers focused on Hernia repair and management (24 papers), Diversity and Career in Medicine (24 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (19 papers). Leigh Neumayer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Leigh Neumayer's co-authors include William G. Henderson, Shukri F. Khuri, Olga Jonasson, Anita Giobbie‐Hurder, Amalia Cochran, Robert W. Beart, Domenic J. Reda, James O. Gibbs, Jayant Agarwal and David A. Bull and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Neumayer

143 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

Open Mesh versus Laparoscopic Mesh Repair of Inguinal Hernia

2004 729 citations Leigh Neumayer, Anita Giobbie‐Hurder et al. profile →
Tumor grafts derived from women with breast cancer authentically reflect tumor pathology, growth, metastasis and disease outcomes

2011 699 citations Saundra S. Buys, Cindy Matsen et al. profile →
Successful Implementation of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program in the Private Sector: The Patient Safety in Surgery Study

2008 485 citations Shukri F. Khuri, William G. Henderson et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Leigh Neumayer	5.0k	1.7k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	146	8.8k
Caprice C. Greenberg	3.4k 0.7×	831 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	211	7.3k
Walter E. Longo	4.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	673 0.5×	676 0.5×	227	7.9k
Elizabeth B. Habermann	5.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	3.4k 2.3×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	496	11.8k
Kjetil Søreide	4.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.8×	564 0.4×	677 0.5×	277	8.7k
Jeffrey H. Silber	2.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	877 0.7×	2.5k 2.0×	186	10.1k
Taylor S. Riall	4.8k 1.0×	3.3k 2.0×	5.9k 4.0×	509 0.4×	471 0.4×	159	8.2k
Natalie G. Coburn	2.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.5×	2.3k 1.6×	816 0.6×	304 0.2×	306	5.9k
Raj S. Pruthi	5.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.0×	493 0.4×	353 0.3×	229	8.4k
Elijah Dixon	3.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	455 0.4×	579 0.5×	215	7.4k
Gerard M. Doherty	8.3k 1.7×	1.0k 0.6×	2.7k 1.8×	367 0.3×	270 0.2×	121	17.1k

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Cochran, Amalia, Leigh Neumayer, John D. Mellinger, et al.. (2021). Career Advancement for Surgeon-Educators:Findings from a Modified Delphi Process. Journal of surgical education. 79(1). 173–178. 6 indexed citations

Cochran, Amalia, Leigh Neumayer, & William B. Elder. (2019). Barriers to careers identified by women in academic surgery: A grounded theory model. The American Journal of Surgery. 218(4). 780–785. 35 indexed citations

Albright, Frederick S., Wendy Kohlmann, Leigh Neumayer, et al.. (2019). Population-based relative risks for specific family history constellations of breast cancer. Cancer Causes & Control. 30(6). 581–590. 11 indexed citations

Mendenhall, Shaun D., Layla A. Anderson, Jian Ying, et al.. (2015). The BREASTrial. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 135(1). 29e–42e. 68 indexed citations

Agarwal, Shailesh, Sunil Agarwal, Leigh Neumayer, & Jayant Agarwal. (2014). Therapeutic nipple-sparing mastectomy: trends based on a national cancer database. The American Journal of Surgery. 208(1). 93–98. 53 indexed citations

Cochran, Amalia, Tricia B. Hauschild, William B. Elder, et al.. (2013). Perceived gender-based barriers to careers in academic surgery. The American Journal of Surgery. 206(2). 263–268. 239 indexed citations

Agarwal, Shailesh, Lisa M. Pappas, Leigh Neumayer, & Jayant Agarwal. (2011). An Analysis of Immediate Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction Frequency Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database. The Breast Journal. 17(4). 352–358. 89 indexed citations

Schabel, Matthias C., et al.. (2010). Pharmacokinetic mapping for lesion classification in dynamic breast MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 31(6). 1371–1378. 50 indexed citations

Reuben, Brian C., Jotham Manwaring, & Leigh Neumayer. (2009). Recent trends and predictors in immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy in the United States. The American Journal of Surgery. 198(2). 237–243. 131 indexed citations

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Reuben, Brian C., Greg Stoddard, Robert E. Glasgow, & Leigh Neumayer. (2007). Trends and Predictors for Vagotomy When Performing Oversew of Acute Bleeding Duodenal Ulcer in the United States. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 11(1). 22–28. 9 indexed citations

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Neumayer, Leigh. (2006). Clinical research. The American Journal of Surgery. 192(2). 264–266.

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Finan, Kelly R., Catherine C. Vick, Catarina I. Kiefe, Leigh Neumayer, & Mary T. Hawn. (2005). Predictors of wound infection in ventral hernia repair. The American Journal of Surgery. 190(5). 676–681. 208 indexed citations

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Itani, Kamal M.F., et al.. (2004). Repair of ventral incisional hernia: The design of a randomized trial to compare open and laparoscopic surgical techniques. The American Journal of Surgery. 188(6). 22–29. 66 indexed citations

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Neumayer, Leigh. (2004). Design and conduct issues in surgical clinical trials. The American Journal of Surgery. 188(6). 17–21. 3 indexed citations

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Bailey, Stephen, David A. Bull, David H. Harpole, et al.. (2003). Outcomes after esophagectomy: a ten-year prospective cohort. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 75(1). 217–222. 359 indexed citations

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Neumayer, Leigh, Olga Jonasson, Robert W. Beart, et al.. (2003). Tension-Free Inguinal Hernia Repair: The Design of a Trial to Compare Open and Laparoscopic Surgical Techniques. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 196(5). 743–752. 44 indexed citations

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Cochran, Amalia, Judy L. Paukert, & Leigh Neumayer. (2003). Does a general surgery clerkship influence student perceptions of surgeons and surgical careers?. Surgery. 134(2). 153–157. 75 indexed citations

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Bull, David A., James C. Stringham, Shreekanth V. Karwande, & Leigh Neumayer. (2001). Effect of a resident self-study and presentation program on performance on the thoracic surgery in-training examination. The American Journal of Surgery. 181(2). 142–144. 34 indexed citations

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Frank, Erica, Michelle R. Brownstein, Kimberly S. Ephgrave, & Leigh Neumayer. (1998). Characteristics of women surgeons in the United States. The American Journal of Surgery. 176(3). 244–250. 33 indexed citations

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Neumayer, Leigh. (1993). Female Surgeons in the 1990s. Archives of Surgery. 128(6). 669–669. 37 indexed citations

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