Marina Kurian

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Marina Kurian is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Pharmacy. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Kurian has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Surgery, 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 13 papers in Pharmacy. Recurrent topics in Marina Kurian's work include Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (45 papers), Esophageal and GI Pathology (18 papers) and Obesity and Health Practices (13 papers). Marina Kurian is often cited by papers focused on Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (45 papers), Esophageal and GI Pathology (18 papers) and Obesity and Health Practices (13 papers). Marina Kurian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Marina Kurian's co-authors include George Fielding, Christine Ren‐Fielding, Heekoung Youn, Michel Gagner, Wayne J. English, Jaime Ponce, Matthew M. Hutter, Shanu N. Kothari, Mitchell Roslin and Bradley Schwack and has published in prestigious journals such as Gastroenterology, Annals of Surgery and Endocrinology.

In The Last Decade

Marina Kurian

70 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery 2020 estimate of metabolic and bariatric procedures performed in the United States

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Kurian United States	22	1.2k	347	270	245	141	72	1.6k
Lilian Kow Australia	22	1.4k 1.1×	505 1.5×	317 1.2×	210 0.9×	149 1.1×	51	1.8k
Diana Vetter Switzerland	20	1.4k 1.2×	403 1.2×	432 1.6×	163 0.7×	172 1.2×	65	1.9k
Marco Aurélio Santo Brazil	26	1.6k 1.4×	903 2.6×	297 1.1×	236 1.0×	169 1.2×	146	2.2k
Mark D. Kligman United States	15	1.3k 1.1×	667 1.9×	288 1.1×	287 1.2×	380 2.7×	41	2.0k
Giuseppe M. Marinari Italy	28	1.9k 1.5×	961 2.8×	139 0.5×	373 1.5×	160 1.1×	69	2.3k
G Segato Italy	28	1.9k 1.6×	776 2.2×	268 1.0×	532 2.2×	167 1.2×	53	2.3k
Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela Spain	21	1.1k 0.9×	479 1.4×	171 0.6×	145 0.6×	110 0.8×	73	1.3k
Franco Favretti Italy	32	2.5k 2.0×	922 2.7×	276 1.0×	684 2.8×	213 1.5×	61	3.0k
Villy Våge Norway	20	1.2k 1.0×	498 1.4×	194 0.7×	323 1.3×	152 1.1×	42	1.6k
Enrico Facchiano Italy	21	1.0k 0.8×	280 0.8×	213 0.8×	68 0.3×	41 0.3×	37	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Kurian

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Patterson, Emma, Marina Kurian, Adrian G. Dan, et al.. (2025). ASMBS literature review & clinical guidelines on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 21(7). 707–718.

Dang, Jerry T., Melanie Howell, Farah Husain, et al.. (2024). The SAGES MASTERS program bariatric surgery pathway selects 10 seminal publications on revisional bariatrics. Surgical Endoscopy. 38(5). 2309–2314. 2 indexed citations

Daly, Shaun, S. Saravana Kumar, Amelia T. Collings, et al.. (2024). SAGES guidelines for the surgical treatment of hiatal hernias. Surgical Endoscopy. 38(9). 4765–4775. 10 indexed citations

Ibele, Anna, Peter Nau, Carlos Galvani, et al.. (2023). Surgeon experience with insurance barriers to offering gastric bypass as an evidence-based operation for pathologic GERD. Surgical Endoscopy. 37(10). 7642–7648. 1 indexed citations

Nau, Peter, Hope T. Jackson, Anna Ibele, et al.. (2019). Surgical management of gastroesophageal reflux disease in the obese patient. Surgical Endoscopy. 34(1). 450–457. 16 indexed citations

Ren‐Fielding, Christine, et al.. (2018). Long-term results for gastric banding as salvage procedure for patients with weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 14(10). 1501–1506. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, Ghislaine C. Echevarría, Lisa Doan, et al.. (2018). Effects of a single subanaesthetic dose of ketamine on pain and mood after laparoscopic bariatric surgery. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 36(1). 16–24. 31 indexed citations

Sethi, Monica, Jonathan Zagzag, Karan S. Patel, et al.. (2015). Intraoperative leak testing has no correlation with leak after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. Surgical Endoscopy. 30(3). 883–891. 43 indexed citations

Obeid, Nabeel R., Waqas Malick, Bradley Schwack, et al.. (2015). Weight loss outcomes among patients referred after primary bariatric procedure. The American Journal of Surgery. 212(1). 69–75. 3 indexed citations

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Sethi, Monica, Manish Parikh, John K. Saunders, et al.. (2015). The utility of radiological upper gastrointestinal series and clinical indicators in detecting leaks after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a case-controlled study. Surgical Endoscopy. 30(6). 2266–2275. 6 indexed citations

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Obeid, Nabeel R., Marina Kurian, Christine Ren‐Fielding, George Fielding, & Bradley Schwack. (2014). Safety of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding with concurrent cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis. Surgical Endoscopy. 29(5). 1192–1197. 3 indexed citations

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Youn, Heekoung, et al.. (2014). Improvement in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome in adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 11(2). 442–449. 31 indexed citations

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Obeid, Nabeel R., Bradley Schwack, Heekoung Youn, et al.. (2013). Location and number of sutures placed for hiatal hernia repair during laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: does it matter?. Surgical Endoscopy. 28(1). 58–64. 2 indexed citations

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Schwack, Bradley, et al.. (2012). Single-Incision Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding is Effective and Safe: 756 Cases in an Academic Medical Center. Obesity Surgery. 23(3). 332–337. 9 indexed citations

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Weichman, Katie E., Christine Ren, Marina Kurian, et al.. (2010). The effectiveness of adjustable gastric banding: a retrospective 6-year U.S. follow-up study. Surgical Endoscopy. 25(2). 397–403. 37 indexed citations

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Rosenkrantz, Andrew B., Marina Kurian, & Daniel Kim. (2010). MRI appearance of internal hernia following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in the pregnant patient. Clinical Radiology. 65(3). 246–249. 10 indexed citations

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Youn, Heekoung, et al.. (2010). Midterm results for gastric banding as salvage procedure for patients with weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 7(2). 219–224. 27 indexed citations

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Sultan, Samuel, Manish Parikh, Heekoung Youn, et al.. (2009). Early U.S. outcomes after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in patients with a body mass index less than 35 kg/m2. Surgical Endoscopy. 23(7). 1569–1573. 43 indexed citations

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Kurian, Marina, et al.. (2009). Evaluating gastric erosion in band management: an algorithm for stratification of risk. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 6(4). 386–389. 18 indexed citations

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Kurian, Marina, et al.. (2001). Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery: an emerging technique. Surgical Endoscopy. 15(11). 1277–1281. 21 indexed citations

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