Leon W.M.M. Terstappen

37.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
300 papers, 28.2k citations indexed

About

Leon W.M.M. Terstappen is a scholar working on Oncology, Cancer Research and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 28.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Oncology, 97 papers in Cancer Research and 85 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Leon W.M.M. Terstappen's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (134 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (83 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (43 papers). Leon W.M.M. Terstappen is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (134 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (83 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (43 papers). Leon W.M.M. Terstappen collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Leon W.M.M. Terstappen's co-authors include Michael Craig Miller, Gerald V. Doyle, Jeri Matera, W. Jeffrey Allard, Daniel F. Hayes, Massimo Cristofanilli, G. Thomas Budd, Arjan G.J. Tibbe, Alison Stopeck and Matthew J. Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Leon W.M.M. Terstappen

292 papers receiving 27.5k citations

Hit Papers

Circulating Tumor Cells, ... 1991 2026 2002 2014 2004 2004 2008 2008 2005 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Circulating Tumor Cells, Disease Progression, and Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer
    2004 3.5k citations Jeri Matera, Michael Craig Miller et al. profile →
  2. Tumor Cells Circulate in the Peripheral Blood of All Major Carcinomas but not in Healthy Subjects or Patients With Nonmalignant Diseases
    2004 2.0k citations W. Jeffrey Allard, Jeri Matera et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  3. Circulating Tumor Cells Predict Survival Benefit from Treatment in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
    2008 1.7k citations Johann S. de Bono, Howard I. Scher et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  4. Relationship of Circulating Tumor Cells to Tumor Response, Progression-Free Survival, and Overall Survival in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
    2008 1.5k citations Steven J. Cohen, Cornelis J.A. Punt et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
  5. Circulating Tumor Cells: A Novel Prognostic Factor for Newly Diagnosed Metastatic Breast Cancer
    2005 857 citations Gerald V. Doyle, Jeri Matera et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
  6. Circulating Tumor Cells at Each Follow-up Time Point during Therapy of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Predict Progression-Free and Overall Survival
    2006 808 citations Michael Craig Miller, Jeri Matera et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  7. Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Breast Cancer Dormancy
    2004 778 citations Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, Tanja Fehm et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  8. Sequential generations of hematopoietic colonies derived from single nonlineage-committed CD34+CD38- progenitor cells
    1991 710 citations Leon W.M.M. Terstappen et al. profile →
  9. Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells Detected by the CellSearch System in Patients with Metastatic Breast Colorectal and Prostate Cancer
    2009 609 citations Michael Craig Miller, Gerald V. Doyle et al. profile →
  10. Circulating Tumor Cells versus Imaging—Predicting Overall Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer
    2006 594 citations Michael Craig Miller, Jeri Matera et al. Clinical Cancer Research profile →
  11. Detection and characterization of carcinoma cells in the blood
    1998 560 citations Arthur J. Weiss, Chinthalapally V. Rao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leon W.M.M. Terstappen Netherlands 73 16.6k 11.7k 6.9k 6.4k 6.1k 300 28.2k
Robert S. Kerbel Canada 99 16.5k 1.0× 13.4k 1.1× 24.5k 3.6× 5.8k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 402 41.7k
Michael F. Clarke United States 60 27.0k 1.6× 12.1k 1.0× 25.7k 3.7× 3.4k 0.5× 2.7k 0.4× 129 44.1k
Klaus Pantel Germany 115 30.1k 1.8× 28.1k 2.4× 20.9k 3.0× 12.6k 2.0× 6.7k 1.1× 721 54.1k
Ralph R. Weichselbaum United States 107 18.7k 1.1× 7.6k 0.6× 17.9k 2.6× 10.6k 1.7× 5.0k 0.8× 707 48.4k
Max S. Wicha United States 85 29.3k 1.8× 12.7k 1.1× 22.4k 3.3× 3.5k 0.6× 3.7k 0.6× 291 43.6k
David Lyden United States 51 7.0k 0.4× 6.5k 0.6× 12.7k 1.8× 2.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.3× 104 21.4k
Massimo Cristofanilli United States 89 26.3k 1.6× 18.6k 1.6× 9.7k 1.4× 11.8k 1.8× 3.5k 0.6× 600 38.3k
Naoto T. Ueno United States 72 11.0k 0.7× 6.5k 0.6× 5.6k 0.8× 3.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.2× 547 20.4k
Luis A. Díaz United States 84 14.6k 0.9× 13.9k 1.2× 13.1k 1.9× 6.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.2× 419 40.3k
Johanna A. Joyce United States 62 11.8k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 12.1k 1.8× 3.6k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 105 29.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Leon W.M.M. Terstappen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nanou, Afroditi, Nikolas H. Stoecklein, Daniel Doerr, et al.. (2024). Training an automated circulating tumor cell classifier when the true classification is uncertain. PNAS Nexus. 3(2). pgae048–pgae048. 5 indexed citations
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Mentink, Anouk, et al.. (2023). Measuring antigen expression of cancer cell lines and circulating tumour cells. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6051–6051. 6 indexed citations
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Nanou, Afroditi, Leonie L. Zeune, François‐Clément Bidard, Jean‐Yves Pierga, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2020). HER2 expression on tumor-derived extracellular vesicles and circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research. 22(1). 86–86. 46 indexed citations
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Karlsson, Mats O., et al.. (2020). Comparing Circulating Tumor Cell Counts with Dynamic Tumor Size Changes as Predictor of Overall Survival: A Quantitative Modeling Framework. Clinical Cancer Research. 26(18). 4892–4900. 10 indexed citations
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Lee, Wooje, Afroditi Nanou, Linda G. Rikkert, et al.. (2018). Label-Free Prostate Cancer Detection by Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Using Raman Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry. 90(19). 11290–11296. 97 indexed citations
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Zeune, Leonie L., Guus van Dalum, Charles Decraene, et al.. (2017). Quantifying HER-2 expression on circulating tumor cells by ACCEPT. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0186562–e0186562. 32 indexed citations
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Janni, Wolfgang, Brigitte Rack, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen, et al.. (2016). Pooled Analysis of the Prognostic Relevance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Primary Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 22(10). 2583–2593. 265 indexed citations
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Coumans, Frank, Sjoerd T. Ligthart, Jonathan W. Uhr, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2012). Challenges in the Enumeration and Phenotyping of CTC. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(20). 5711–5718. 150 indexed citations
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Terstappen, Leon W.M.M., et al.. (2010). A comparison of breast cancer tumor cells with varying expression of the Her2/neu receptor by Raman microspectroscopic imaging. The Analyst. 135(12). 3220–3220. 37 indexed citations
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Connelly, Mark C., et al.. (2009). Commentary the molecular characterization of 19 breast cancer cell lines by Sieuwerts et al.. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 101. 895. 5 indexed citations
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Cohen, Steven J., Cornelis J.A. Punt, Nicholas Iannotti, et al.. (2008). Relationship of Circulating Tumor Cells to Tumor Response, Progression-Free Survival, and Overall Survival in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26(19). 3213–3221. 1473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bono, Johann S. de, Howard I. Scher, Bruce Montgomery, et al.. (2008). Circulating Tumor Cells Predict Survival Benefit from Treatment in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(19). 6302–6309. 1744 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ymeti, Aurel, et al.. (2007). A single platform image cytometer for resource‐poor settings to monitor disease progression in HIV infection. Cytometry Part A. 71A(3). 132–142. 31 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Denis A., Bradley W. Foulk, Gerald V. Doyle, et al.. (2006). Global Gene Expression Profiling of Circulating Endothelial Cells in Patients with Metastatic Carcinomas. Cancer Research. 66(6). 2918–2922. 73 indexed citations
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Cohen, Steven J., R. Katherine Alpaugh, Steve Gross, et al.. (2006). Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Clinical Colorectal Cancer. 6(2). 125–132. 157 indexed citations
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Tibbe, Arjan G.J., Joost F. Swennenhuis, & Leon W.M.M. Terstappen. (2006). Detection of cytogenetic aberrations in circulating tumor cells. Cancer Research. 66. 851–851. 2 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Denis A., Daniel R. Zweitzig, Bradley W. Foulk, et al.. (2005). Global Gene Expression Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells. Cancer Research. 65(12). 4993–4997. 268 indexed citations
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Allard, W. Jeffrey, Jeri Matera, Michael Craig Miller, et al.. (2004). Tumor Cells Circulate in the Peripheral Blood of All Major Carcinomas but not in Healthy Subjects or Patients With Nonmalignant Diseases. Clinical Cancer Research. 10(20). 6897–6904. 2015 indexed citations breakdown →
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Terstappen, Leon W.M.M., et al.. (1998). Flowcytometry ‐ Principles and Feasibility in Transfusion Medicine. Enumeration of Epithelial Derived Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood. Vox Sanguinis. 74(S2). 269–274. 23 indexed citations
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Terstappen, Leon W.M.M., et al.. (1988). Flow cytometric characterization of chronic lymphocyte leukaemias using orthogonal light scattering and quantitative immunofluorescence. Annals of Hematology. 56(5). 201–208. 7 indexed citations

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