Maya Balakrishnan

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
60 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Maya Balakrishnan is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Hepatology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Maya Balakrishnan has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Epidemiology, 24 papers in Hepatology and 9 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Maya Balakrishnan's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (32 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (16 papers) and Liver Diseases and Immunity (7 papers). Maya Balakrishnan is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (32 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (16 papers) and Liver Diseases and Immunity (7 papers). Maya Balakrishnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Chile. Maya Balakrishnan's co-authors include David Y. Graham, Aaron P. Thrift, Ashish Sharma, Rollin George, Hashem B. El‐Serag, Fasiha Kanwal, Victor I. Machicao, Michael B. Fallon, Natalia I. Heredia and Xiaotao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Gastroenterology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Maya Balakrishnan

54 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global Epidemiology of Chronic Liver Disease

2021 352 citations Maya Balakrishnan et al. profile →
Changing Trends in Stomach Cancer Throughout the World

2017 277 citations Maya Balakrishnan, Rollin George et al. Current Gastroenterology Reports profile →
Women Have a Lower Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease but a Higher Risk of Progression vs Men: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2020 229 citations Maya Balakrishnan, Rubén Hernáez et al. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maya Balakrishnan United States	19	927	567	428	330	284	60	1.8k
M. Mazen Jamal United States	20	821 0.9×	494 0.9×	595 1.4×	264 0.8×	234 0.8×	44	2.1k
Manouchehr Khoshbaten Iran	22	484 0.5×	235 0.4×	419 1.0×	244 0.7×	202 0.7×	96	1.4k
Masoudreza Sohrabi Iran	24	788 0.9×	251 0.4×	411 1.0×	213 0.6×	517 1.8×	92	1.9k
Victor Chien‐Chia Wu Taiwan	30	931 1.0×	586 1.0×	945 2.2×	586 1.8×	157 0.6×	178	3.3k
Jeong‐Ju Yoo South Korea	23	1.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.8×	337 0.8×	121 0.4×	295 1.0×	172	2.0k
Ivana Mikolašević Croatia	24	1.4k 1.5×	695 1.2×	595 1.4×	114 0.3×	449 1.6×	113	2.4k
Ibrahim Mostafa Egypt	13	1.3k 1.4×	633 1.1×	449 1.0×	97 0.3×	470 1.7×	28	1.9k
Daniel S. Pratt United States	22	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 2.2×	915 2.1×	243 0.7×	180 0.6×	55	2.8k
Kenneth I. Zheng China	21	996 1.1×	337 0.6×	286 0.7×	83 0.3×	328 1.2×	56	1.9k
Darren Jun Hao Tan Singapore	27	1.6k 1.7×	954 1.7×	399 0.9×	137 0.4×	550 1.9×	99	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maya Balakrishnan

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Shi, Michael, Maya Balakrishnan, Kavish R. Patidar, et al.. (2025). Corticosteroids in severe alcohol-associated hepatitis. Not so fast: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Hepatology. 82(5). 1241–1255. 1 indexed citations

Balakrishnan, Maya, et al.. (2024). Implementation of 5G Cloud Based Technique Development using Radio Access type of Networks. 422–426.

Thrift, Aaron P., Kyler M. Godwin, Maya Balakrishnan, et al.. (2024). An Electronic Health Record Model for Predicting Risk of Hepatic Fibrosis in Primary Care Patients. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 69(7). 2430–2436. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaotao, Carrie R. Daniel, Shilpa Jain, et al.. (2023). A Study of Dietary Patterns Derived by Cluster Analysis and Their Association With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Severity Among Hispanic Patients. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 119(3). 505–511. 6 indexed citations

Thrift, Aaron P., Theresa Nguyen, Maya Balakrishnan, et al.. (2022). The Prevalence and Determinants of NAFLD and MAFLD and Their Severity in the VA Primary Care Setting. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 21(5). 1252–1260.e5. 13 indexed citations

Cholankeril, George, Jennifer R. Kramer, Jinna Chu, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal changes in fibrosis markers are associated with risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Journal of Hepatology. 78(3). 493–500. 60 indexed citations

Gianos, Eugenia, Dean G. Karalis, Rodis Paparodis, et al.. (2021). Managing cardiometabolic risk factors across a woman's lifespan: A lipidologist's perspective. Journal of clinical lipidology. 15(3). 423–430. 8 indexed citations

Fricker, Zachary, Naga Chalasani, Bashar M. Attar, et al.. (2020). MELD–Na Is More Strongly Associated with Risk of Infection and Outcomes Than Other Characteristics of Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 66(1). 247–256. 2 indexed citations

Fricker, Zachary, Moinuddin Syed, Eric S. Orman, et al.. (2019). Early predictors of outcomes of hospitalization for cirrhosis and assessment of the impact of race and ethnicity at safety-net hospitals. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0211811–e0211811. 20 indexed citations

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Speliotes, Elizabeth K., Maya Balakrishnan, Lawrence S. Friedman, & Kathleen E. Corey. (2018). Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Common Liver Diseases. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 16(8). 1189–1196. 34 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya & S. Chris Pappas. (2018). Alcohol and the Law. Clinics in Liver Disease. 23(1). 25–38. 3 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, et al.. (2017). Eliminating Undesirable Variation in Neonatal Practice. Clinics in Perinatology. 44(3). 529–540. 19 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, Linda A. Detman, Branko Miladinović, et al.. (2017). Promoting teamwork may improve infant care processes during delivery room management: Florida perinatal quality collaborative’s approach. Journal of Perinatology. 37(7). 886–892. 14 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, Rollin George, Ashish Sharma, & David Y. Graham. (2017). Changing Trends in Stomach Cancer Throughout the World. Current Gastroenterology Reports. 19(8). 36–36. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Balakrishnan, Maya, et al.. (2017). Obesity and Risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Comparison of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Conventionally-Derived Anthropometric Measures. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 15(12). 1965–1967. 9 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, Hashem B. El‐Serag, Fasiha Kanwal, & Aaron P. Thrift. (2016). Shiftwork Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of NAFLD: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 62(2). 526–533. 32 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, et al.. (2015). Hepatic Arteriolosclerosis. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 39(7). 1000–1009. 14 indexed citations

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Miladinović, Branko, et al.. (2015). Safety, Acceptability, and Feasibility of Auricular Acupuncture in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Pilot Study. Medical Acupuncture. 27(6). 453–460. 14 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Maya, Richard Tucker, Bonnie E. Stephens, & Joseph M. Bliss. (2011). Blood urea nitrogen and serum bicarbonate in extremely low birth weight infants receiving higher protein intake in the first week after birth. Journal of Perinatology. 31(8). 535–539. 18 indexed citations

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Safdar, A., Gabriel Rodriguez, Maya Balakrishnan, Jeffrey J. Tarrand, & K. V. I. Rolston. (2006). Changing trends in etiology of bacteremia in patients with cancer. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 25(8). 522–526. 24 indexed citations

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