Michael Chong

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Chong is a scholar working on Genetics, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Chong has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Surgery and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Chong's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (16 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (9 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (4 papers). Michael Chong is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (16 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (9 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (4 papers). Michael Chong collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Michael Chong's co-authors include Guillaume Paré, Marie Pigeyre, Pedrum Mohammadi‐Shemirani, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Ricky Lali, Sébastien Thériault, Sukrit Narula, Jennifer Sjaarda, Salim Yusuf and Robert W. Morton and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Chong

49 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Surrogate Adiposity Markers and Mortality

2023 74 citations Michael Chong, Pedrum Mohammadi‐Shemirani et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Chong Canada	20	368	292	271	245	135	53	1.3k
Elena Sticchi Italy	21	589 1.6×	278 1.0×	219 0.8×	228 0.9×	155 1.1×	80	1.4k
René Alvarez United States	16	524 1.4×	355 1.2×	518 1.9×	103 0.4×	150 1.1×	63	1.7k
Seyedeh M. Zekavat United States	16	371 1.0×	159 0.5×	353 1.3×	400 1.6×	106 0.8×	27	1.6k
Marcin Gruchała Poland	20	750 2.0×	492 1.7×	728 2.7×	227 0.9×	113 0.8×	153	2.0k
Michael Koziolek Germany	23	370 1.0×	290 1.0×	261 1.0×	73 0.3×	92 0.7×	74	1.6k
Yuichiro Arima Japan	22	716 1.9×	320 1.1×	537 2.0×	86 0.4×	115 0.9×	118	1.9k
Michael Fritzenwanger Germany	24	579 1.6×	529 1.8×	265 1.0×	80 0.3×	260 1.9×	73	1.6k
Hiroki Matsui Japan	25	338 0.9×	200 0.7×	771 2.8×	130 0.5×	221 1.6×	96	1.9k
Solveig Wållberg‐Jonsson Sweden	24	586 1.6×	250 0.9×	250 0.9×	79 0.3×	209 1.5×	50	2.5k
John Rogus United States	25	292 0.8×	365 1.3×	357 1.3×	445 1.8×	233 1.7×	42	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Chong

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Perrot, Nicolas, Yu Huang, Michael Chong, et al.. (2025). Mendelian randomization study implicates inflammaging biomarkers in retinal vasculature, cardiovascular diseases, and longevity. Science Advances. 11(43). eadu1985–eadu1985.

Spence, Jessica, P.J. Devereaux, Shaheena Bashir, et al.. (2025). Protein Alterations in Patients with Delirium after Cardiac Surgery: An Exploratory Case–Control Substudy of the VISION Cardiac Surgery Biobank. Anesthesiology. 142(4). 716–725.

Wu, Jianhan, Caitlyn Vlasschaert, Ricky Lali, et al.. (2024). Kidney Volume and Risk of Incident Kidney Outcomes. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 35(9). 1240–1251. 3 indexed citations

Bisch, Steven, et al.. (2024). Improving the Rate of Same-Day Discharge in Gynecologic Oncology Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Surgery—An Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Quality Improvement Initiative. Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology. 31(4). 309–320. 2 indexed citations

Bouchard‐Fortier, Antoine, et al.. (2024). Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Program for Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) With Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). Journal of Surgical Oncology. 131(3). 527–534. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Wei Q., Mohammad Daud Khan, Shihong Mao, et al.. (2024). A method to estimate the contribution of rare coding variants to complex trait heritability. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1245–1245. 5 indexed citations

Paré, Guillaume, et al.. (2024). Genetic Determinants of Vascular Dementia. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 40(8). 1412–1423. 7 indexed citations

Khan, Mohammad Daud, Shihong Mao, Michael Chong, et al.. (2023). A versatile, fast and unbiased method for estimation of gene-by-environment interaction effects on biobank-scale datasets. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5196–5196. 8 indexed citations

Lanktree, Matthew B., Nicolas Perrot, Andrew Smyth, et al.. (2023). A novel multi-ancestry proteome-wide Mendelian randomization study implicates extracellular proteins, tubular cells, and fibroblasts in estimated glomerular filtration rate regulation. Kidney International. 104(6). 1170–1184. 12 indexed citations

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Nelson, Gregg, et al.. (2023). Effect of transversus abdominis plane block on postoperative outcomes in gynecologic oncology patients managed on an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery pathway. Gynecologic Oncology. 178. 1–7. 3 indexed citations

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Chong, Michael, Pedrum Mohammadi‐Shemirani, Robert W. Morton, et al.. (2023). Surrogate Adiposity Markers and Mortality. JAMA Network Open. 6(9). e2334836–e2334836. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vlasschaert, Caitlyn, Amy J. M. McNaughton, Michael Chong, et al.. (2022). Association of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential with Worse Kidney Function and Anemia in Two Cohorts of Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 33(5). 985–995. 61 indexed citations

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Mohammadi‐Shemirani, Pedrum, Michael Chong, Sukrit Narula, et al.. (2022). Elevated Lipoprotein(a) and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 79(16). 1579–1590. 63 indexed citations

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Chong, Michael, Pedrum Mohammadi‐Shemirani, Nicolas Perrot, et al.. (2022). GWAS and ExWAS of blood mitochondrial DNA copy number identifies 71 loci and highlights a potential causal role in dementia. eLife. 11. 71 indexed citations

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Narula, Sukrit, Salim Yusuf, Michael Chong, et al.. (2020). Plasma ACE2 and risk of death or cardiometabolic diseases: a case-cohort analysis. The Lancet. 396(10256). 968–976. 113 indexed citations

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Sjaarda, Jennifer, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Michael Chong, et al.. (2018). Blood CSF1 and CXCL12 as Causal Mediators of Coronary Artery Disease. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72(3). 300–310. 69 indexed citations

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Thériault, Sébastien, Andrew Don-Wauchope, Michael Chong, et al.. (2016). Frameshift mutation in the APOA5 gene causing hypertriglyceridemia in a Pakistani family: Management and considerations for cardiovascular risk. Journal of clinical lipidology. 10(5). 1272–1277. 6 indexed citations

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Chong, Michael, et al.. (2012). Genetic Markers of Inflammation and Their Role in Cardiovascular Disease. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 29(1). 67–74. 37 indexed citations

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Dobson, Gary, Michael Chong, Michelle Walker, et al.. (2007). Characterization of the Upper Limb Arterial Properties during Reactive Hyperemia. PubMed. 7(3). 127–134. 6 indexed citations

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Chong, Michael, et al.. (1978). Aortic valve mechanics--Part I: material properties of natural porcine aortic valves.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 2(3-4). 287–300. 50 indexed citations

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