Lester Breslow is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Oncology.
According to data from OpenAlex, Lester Breslow has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Health and 15 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lester Breslow's work include Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (14 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (10 papers). Lester Breslow is often cited by papers focused on Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (14 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (10 papers). Lester Breslow collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Lester Breslow's co-authors include Nedra B. Belloc, Lisa Berkman, James E. Enstrom, Philip Buell, Anne R. Somers, Jonathan E. Fielding, Joseph R. Hochstim, Glorian Sorensen, John E. Dunn and N. E. Breslow and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.
In The Last Decade
Lester Breslow
122 papers
receiving
5.3k 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.
Countries citing papers authored by Lester Breslow
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This map shows the geographic impact of Lester Breslow's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Lester Breslow with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Lester Breslow more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lester Breslow. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lester Breslow. The network helps show where Lester Breslow may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lester Breslow
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lester Breslow.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lester Breslow 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
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the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
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