Marvin Zelen

15.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
148 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Marvin Zelen is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Oncology and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Marvin Zelen has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Statistics and Probability, 25 papers in Oncology and 18 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Marvin Zelen's work include Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (28 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (15 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (15 papers). Marvin Zelen is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (28 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (15 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (15 papers). Marvin Zelen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Egypt. Marvin Zelen's co-authors include Karen Stephenson, Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Sylvia K. Plevritis, Kathleen A. Cronin, Donald A. Berry, Eric J. Feuer, J. Dik F. Habbema, Dennis G. Fryback, Andrei Y. Yakovlev and Lauren Clarke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marvin Zelen

144 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Effect of Screening and Adjuvant Therapy on Mortality from Breast Cancer

2005 1.8k citations Donald A. Berry, Kathleen A. Cronin et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
A New Design for Randomized Clinical Trials

1979 732 citations Marvin Zelen New England Journal of Medicine profile →
Rethinking centrality: Methods and examples

1989 651 citations Marvin Zelen et al. profile →
L-Phenylalanine Mustard (L-PAM) in the Management of Primary Breast Cancer

1975 560 citations Marvin Zelen et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
The randomization and stratification of patients to clinical trials

1974 447 citations Marvin Zelen profile →
Keynote address on biostatistics and data retrieval.

1973 379 citations Marvin Zelen PubMed profile →
On the theory of screening for chronic diseases

1969 295 citations Marvin Zelen et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marvin Zelen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marvin Zelen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marvin Zelen 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 signify the number of papers an author published with Marvin Zelen. Marvin Zelen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Modeling the impact of population screening on breast cancer mortality in the United States 2011 ·The Breast ·Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Kathleen A. Cronin, Donald A. Berry, Yao-Jen Chang, Harry J. de Koning, Sandra J. Lee, Sylvia K. Plevritis, Clyde B. Schechter, Natasha K. Stout, Nicolien T. van Ravesteyn, Marvin Zelen, Eric J. Feuer	16
2	Effect of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Mortality in Norway 2010 ·New England Journal of Medicine ·Mette Kalager, Marvin Zelen, Frøydis Langmark, Hans‐Olov Adami	348
3	Mortality Modeling of Early Detection Programs 2007 ·Biometrics ·Sandra J. Lee, Marvin Zelen	17
4	Effect of Screening and Adjuvant Therapy on Mortality From Breast Cancer 2006 ·Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·Donald A. Berry, Kathleen A. Cronin, Sylvia K. Plevritis, Dennis G. Fryback, Lauren Clarke, Marvin Zelen, Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Andrei Y. Yakovlev, J. Dik F. Habbema, Eric J. Feuer	282
5	Chapter 11: A Stochastic Model for Predicting the Mortality of Breast Cancer 2006 ·JNCI Monographs ·Stephen Lee, Marvin Zelen	49
6	Biostatisticians, biostatistical science and the future 2006 ·Statistics in Medicine ·Marvin Zelen	14
7	Forward and Backward Recurrence Times and Length Biased Sampling: Age Specific Models 2004 ·Lifetime Data Analysis ·Marvin Zelen	48
8	Overdiagnosis in early detection programs 2004 ·Biostatistics ·(unknown), Marvin Zelen	31
9	Modelling the early detection of breast cancer 2003 ·Annals of Oncology ·Seung‐Jae Lee, Marvin Zelen	23
10	Models and the Early Detection of Disease: Methodological Considerations 2002 ·Cancer treatment and research ·Marvin Zelen, Sandra J. Lee	9
11	Comparing the Survival of Two Groups with an Intermediate Clinical Event 2001 ·Lifetime Data Analysis ·Chung Mo Nam, Marvin Zelen	8
12	Designing cancer prevention trials: a stochastic model approach 2000 ·Statistics in Medicine ·(unknown), Marvin Zelen	11
13	Urn sampling and the proportional hazard model. 1998 ·Lifetime Data Analysis ·Ori Davidov, Marvin Zelen	4
14	Intermediate Clinical Events, Surrogate Markers and Survival 1996 ·PubMed ·Myrto Lefkopoulou, Marvin Zelen	7
15	Statistical Issues in the Planning of Prevention Studies 1988 ·Cancer Investigation ·Marvin Zelen	5
16	Innovations in the design of clinical trials in breast cancer 1983 ·Breast Cancer Research and Treatment ·Marvin Zelen	9
17	Statistical options in clinical trials. 1977 ·PubMed ·Marvin Zelen	16
18	Statistical theory of reliability : proceedings of an advanced seminar conducted by the Mathematics Research Center, United States Army, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 8-10, 1962 1963 ·University of Wisconsin Press eBooks ·Marvin Zelen	2
19	The Robustness of Life Testing Procedures Derived from the Exponential Distribution 1961 ·Technometrics ·Marvin Zelen, (unknown)	55
20	Factorial Experiments in Life Testing 1959 ·Technometrics ·Marvin Zelen	66

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