Lesley A. Stevens

52.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
70 papers, 39.8k citations indexed

About

Lesley A. Stevens is a scholar working on Nephrology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Lesley A. Stevens has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 39.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Nephrology, 11 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Lesley A. Stevens's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (55 papers), Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (47 papers) and Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (17 papers). Lesley A. Stevens is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (55 papers), Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (47 papers) and Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (17 papers). Lesley A. Stevens collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Lesley A. Stevens's co-authors include Andrew S. Levey, Josef Coresh, Tom Greene, John W. Kusek, Frederick Van Lente, Yaping Zhang, Paul W. Eggers, Christopher H. Schmid, Harold I. Feldman and Alejandro Castro and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Lesley A. Stevens

69 papers receiving 39.1k citations

Hit Papers

A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2006 2007 2006 2007 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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. A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
    2009 19.4k citations Andrew S. Levey, Lesley A. Stevens et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  2. Using Standardized Serum Creatinine Values in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate
    2006 4.7k citations Andrew S. Levey, Josef Coresh et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  3. Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States
    2007 3.7k citations Josef Coresh, Elizabeth Selvin et al. profile →
  4. Assessing Kidney Function — Measured and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate
    2006 2.3k citations Lesley A. Stevens, Josef Coresh et al. profile →
  5. Expressing the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate with Standardized Serum Creatinine Values
    2007 1.5k citations Andrew S. Levey, Josef Coresh et al. Clinical Chemistry profile →
  6. Estimating GFR Using Serum Cystatin C Alone and in Combination With Serum Creatinine: A Pooled Analysis of 3,418 Individuals With CKD
    2008 811 citations Lesley A. Stevens, Josef Coresh et al. American Journal of Kidney Diseases profile →
  7. Factors other than glomerular filtration rate affect serum cystatin C levels
    2009 576 citations Lesley A. Stevens, Christopher H. Schmid et al. Kidney International profile →
  8. Comparative Performance of the CKD Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study Equations for Estimating GFR Levels Above 60 mL/min/1.73 m2
    2010 454 citations Lesley A. Stevens, Christopher H. Schmid et al. American Journal of Kidney Diseases profile →
  9. Measured GFR as a Confirmatory Test for Estimated GFR
    2009 443 citations Lesley A. Stevens, Andrew S. Levey Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →

Peers

Lesley A. Stevens
Harold I. Feldman United States
Paul W. Eggers United States
Frederick Van Lente United States
Adeera Levin Canada
Yaping Zhang China
Michael G. Shlipak United States
John W. Kusek United States
Brad C. Astor United States
Mark J. Sarnak United States
Paul E. de Jong Netherlands
Harold I. Feldman United States
Lesley A. Stevens
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All Works

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Rook, Mieneke, Lesley A. Stevens, van Willem Son, et al.. (2010). Renal Function Equations before and after Living Kidney Donation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 5(11). 1 indexed citations
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Levey, Andrew S., Brad C. Astor, Lesley A. Stevens, & Josef Coresh. (2010). Chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and hypertension: what's in a name?. Kidney International. 78(1). 19–22. 54 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A., Gautham Viswanathan, & Daniel E. Weiner. (2010). Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease in the Elderly Population: Current Prevalence, Future Projections, and Clinical Significance. Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. 17(4). 293–301. 202 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A., Christopher H. Schmid, Tom Greene, et al.. (2009). Factors other than glomerular filtration rate affect serum cystatin C levels. Kidney International. 75(6). 652–660. 576 indexed citations breakdown →
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Astor, Brad C., Andrew S. Levey, Lesley A. Stevens, et al.. (2009). Method of Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimation Affects Prediction of Mortality Risk. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 20(10). 2214–2222. 103 indexed citations
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Levey, Andrew S., et al.. (2008). Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration. Using standardized serum creatinine values in the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease study equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate (Annals of Internal Medicine (2006) 145, (247-254)). Annals of Internal Medicine. 149(7). 349 indexed citations
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Jones, Clara Y., Ira B. Wilson, Tamsin A. Knox, et al.. (2008). Cystatin C and Creatinine in an HIV Cohort: The Nutrition for Healthy Living Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 51(6). 914–924. 47 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A., Josef Coresh, Christopher H. Schmid, et al.. (2008). Estimating GFR Using Serum Cystatin C Alone and in Combination With Serum Creatinine: A Pooled Analysis of 3,418 Individuals With CKD. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 51(3). 395–406. 811 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barraclough, Katherine A., et al.. (2008). Coronary artery calcification scores in patients with chronic kidney disease prior to dialysis: reliability as a trial outcome measure. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 23(10). 3199–3205. 12 indexed citations
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Plantinga, Laura, L. Ebony Boulware, Josef Coresh, et al.. (2008). Patient Awareness of Chronic Kidney Disease. Archives of Internal Medicine. 168(20). 2268–2268. 231 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A., Yaping Zhang, & Christopher H. Schmid. (2008). Evaluating the performance of equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate. Journal of Nephrology. 21(6). 797–807. 93 indexed citations
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Rhee, Martin S., Christopher H. Schmid, Lesley A. Stevens, & Janet Forrester. (2008). Risk Factors for Proteinuria in HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Hispanic Drug Users. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 52(4). 683–690. 7 indexed citations
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Vassalotti, Joseph A., Lesley A. Stevens, & Andrew S. Levey. (2007). Testing for Chronic Kidney Disease: A Position Statement From the National Kidney Foundation. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 50(2). 169–180. 246 indexed citations
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Levey, Andrew S., Josef Coresh, Tom Greene, et al.. (2007). Expressing the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation for Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate with Standardized Serum Creatinine Values. Clinical Chemistry. 53(4). 766–772. 1502 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murthy, K. Krishna, Lesley A. Stevens, Paul C. Stark, & Andrew S. Levey. (2005). Variation in the serum creatinine assay calibration: A practical application to glomerular filtration rate estimation. Kidney International. 68(4). 1884–1887. 116 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A., et al.. (2004). Calcium, Phosphate, and Parathyroid Hormone Levels in Combination and as a Function of Dialysis Duration Predict Mortality. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 15(3). 770–779. 275 indexed citations
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Buller, Christopher E., Prakash Krishnan, Donald R. Ricci, et al.. (2004). The profile of cardiac patients with renal artery stenosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 43(9). 1606–1613. 106 indexed citations
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Stevens, Lesley A. & Adeera Levin. (2003). Anaemia, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease: integrating new knowledge in 2002. Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension. 12(2). 133–138. 14 indexed citations

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