Levi Waldron

42.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
90 papers, 21.7k citations indexed

About

Levi Waldron is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Levi Waldron has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 21.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Cancer Research and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Levi Waldron's work include Gene expression and cancer classification (27 papers), Gut microbiota and health (19 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Levi Waldron is often cited by papers focused on Gene expression and cancer classification (27 papers), Gut microbiota and health (19 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (15 papers). Levi Waldron collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Levi Waldron's co-authors include Curtis Huttenhower, Nicola Segata, Dirk Gevers, Jacques Izard, Wendy S. Garrett, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Annalisa Ballarini, Olivier Jousson, Eric A. Franzosa and Igor Jurišica and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Levi Waldron

89 papers receiving 21.6k citations

Hit Papers

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2021 2012 2012 2011 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation
    2011 11.7k citations Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron et al. profile →
  2. Multivariable association discovery in population-scale meta-omics studies
    2021 1.3k citations Levi Waldron, Curtis Huttenhower et al. profile →
  3. Metagenomic microbial community profiling using unique clade-specific marker genes
    2012 1.2k citations Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron et al. profile →
  4. Composition of the adult digestive tract bacterial microbiome based on seven mouth surfaces, tonsils, throat and stool samples
    2012 816 citations Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron et al. profile →
  5. Stem cell gene expression programs influence clinical outcome in human leukemia
    2011 740 citations Levi Waldron, Todd R. Golub et al. profile →
  6. Relating the metatranscriptome and metagenome of the human gut
    2014 482 citations Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron et al. profile →
  7. Assessment of colorectal cancer molecular features along bowel subsites challenges the conception of distinct dichotomy of proximal versus distal colorectum
    2012 427 citations Levi Waldron, Yujin Hoshida et al. profile →
  8. Orchestrating single-cell analysis with Bioconductor
    2019 423 citations Vince Carey, Ludwig Geistlinger et al. profile →
  9. Machine Learning Meta-analysis of Large Metagenomic Datasets: Tools and Biological Insights
    2016 384 citations Levi Waldron, Nicola Segata et al. profile →
  10. Machine learning for microbiologists
    2023 111 citations Levi Waldron, Nicola Segata 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
Levi Waldron United States 37 13.3k 2.7k 2.6k 2.3k 1.8k 90 21.7k
Claire M. Fraser United States 73 16.7k 1.3× 2.9k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 4.2k 1.8× 2.3k 1.3× 260 27.9k
George M. Weinstock United States 87 17.0k 1.3× 3.1k 1.1× 2.7k 1.1× 5.5k 2.4× 2.3k 1.3× 349 32.0k
Sofia K. Forslund Germany 38 16.9k 1.3× 1.3k 0.5× 3.5k 1.4× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 99 25.6k
Jaime Huerta‐Cepas Spain 35 19.3k 1.4× 1.4k 0.5× 3.2k 1.3× 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 59 30.8k
Stephen A. Bustin United Kingdom 47 18.3k 1.4× 2.0k 0.7× 2.8k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 599 0.3× 153 32.1k
Masahira Hattori Japan 78 16.8k 1.3× 2.1k 0.8× 2.5k 1.0× 3.1k 1.3× 2.7k 1.5× 333 28.0k
Karsten Kristiansen Denmark 71 15.5k 1.2× 5.3k 1.9× 2.3k 0.9× 952 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 391 25.8k
Carl T. Wittwer United States 58 15.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 2.9k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 834 0.5× 212 28.6k
Vincent Magrini United States 34 10.5k 0.8× 4.2k 1.5× 810 0.3× 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 74 16.1k
Gary D. Wu United States 58 14.2k 1.1× 4.7k 1.7× 1.6k 0.6× 4.0k 1.7× 2.1k 1.2× 171 21.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Levi Waldron

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nash, Denis, Madhura S. Rane, McKaylee Robertson, et al.. (2022). Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Incidence and Risk Factors in a National, Community-Based Prospective Cohort of US Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(3). e375–e384. 8 indexed citations
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Robertson, McKaylee, Sarah Kulkarni, Madhura S. Rane, et al.. (2021). Cohort profile: a national, community-based prospective cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic outcomes in the USA—the CHASING COVID Cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(9). e048778–e048778. 24 indexed citations
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Tomić, Adriana, Levi Waldron, Ludwig Geistlinger, et al.. (2021). SIMON: Open-Source Knowledge Discovery Platform. Patterns. 2(1). 100178–100178. 6 indexed citations
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Oh, Sehyun, Ludwig Geistlinger, Marcel Ramos, et al.. (2020). Reliable Analysis of Clinical Tumor-Only Whole-Exome Sequencing Data. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics. 4(4). 321–335. 19 indexed citations
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Renson, Audrey, Lora J. Kasselman, Jennifer B. Dowd, et al.. (2020). Gut bacterial taxonomic abundances vary with cognition, personality, and mood in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 9. 100155–100155. 14 indexed citations
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Zimba, Rebecca, Sarah Kulkarni, Amanda Berry, et al.. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 Testing Service Preferences of Adults in the United States: Discrete Choice Experiment. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 6(4). e25546–e25546. 17 indexed citations
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Geistlinger, Ludwig, Gergely Csaba, Marcel Ramos, et al.. (2019). Toward a gold standard for benchmarking gene set enrichment analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(1). 545–556. 77 indexed citations
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Schwede, Matthew, Levi Waldron, Samuel C. Mok, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Stroma Admixture on Molecular Subtypes and Prognostic Gene Signatures in Serous Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 29(2). 509–519. 24 indexed citations
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Chen, Gregory M., Lavanya Kannan, Ludwig Geistlinger, et al.. (2018). Consensus on Molecular Subtypes of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 24(20). 5037–5047. 84 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuqing, Christoph Bernau, Giovanni Parmigiani, & Levi Waldron. (2018). The impact of different sources of heterogeneity on loss of accuracy from genomic prediction models. Biostatistics. 21(2). 253–268. 14 indexed citations
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Ramos, Marcel, Lucas Schiffer, Angela Re, et al.. (2017). Software for the Integration of Multiomics Experiments in Bioconductor. Cancer Research. 77(21). e39–e42. 61 indexed citations
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Gao, Jing, Alan Perlman, Nathaniel Berman, et al.. (2017). Multiparametric Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging in Assessment of Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. 36(11). 2245–2256. 21 indexed citations
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Spratt, Daniel E., Tiffany Chan, Levi Waldron, et al.. (2016). Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Genomic Sequencing. JAMA Oncology. 2(8). 1070–1070. 220 indexed citations
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Vathipadiekal, Vinod, Victoria Wang, Wei Wei, et al.. (2015). Creation of a Human Secretome: A Novel Composite Library of Human Secreted Proteins: Validation Using Ovarian Cancer Gene Expression Data and a Virtual Secretome Array. Clinical Cancer Research. 21(21). 4960–4969. 69 indexed citations
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Waldron, Levi, Benjamin Haibe‐Kains, Aedín C. Culhane, et al.. (2014). Comparative Meta-analysis of Prognostic Gene Signatures for Late-Stage Ovarian Cancer. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 106(5). 87 indexed citations
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Hui, Angela Bik‐Yu, Alice Lin, Wei Xu, et al.. (2013). Potentially Prognostic miRNAs in HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 19(8). 2154–2162. 88 indexed citations
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Waldron, Levi, Shuji Ogino, Yujin Hoshida, et al.. (2012). Expression Profiling of Archival Tumors for Long-term Health Studies. Clinical Cancer Research. 18(22). 6136–6146. 25 indexed citations
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Singh, Natasha, Elize A. Shirdel, Levi Waldron, et al.. (2012). The Murine Caecal MicroRNA Signature Depends on the Presence of the Endogenous Microbiota. International Journal of Biological Sciences. 8(2). 171–186. 100 indexed citations
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Shi, Wei, Kate Gerster, Nehad M. Alajez, et al.. (2011). MicroRNA-301 Mediates Proliferation and Invasion in Human Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 71(8). 2926–2937. 227 indexed citations
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Hui, Angela Bik‐Yu, Michelle Lenarduzzi, Levi Waldron, et al.. (2010). Comprehensive MicroRNA Profiling for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas. Clinical Cancer Research. 16(4). 1129–1139. 321 indexed citations

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