Nicholas Nicholson

864 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 522 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Nicholson is a scholar working on Oncology, Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Nicholson has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 522 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Oncology, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Nicholson's work include Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (6 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Semantic Web and Ontologies (6 papers). Nicholas Nicholson is often cited by papers focused on Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (6 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Semantic Web and Ontologies (6 papers). Nicholas Nicholson collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belgium and Spain. Nicholas Nicholson's co-authors include Francesco Giusti, Carmen Martos, Manola Bettio, Luciana Neamţiu, Giorgia Randi, Nadya Dimitrova, R. Carvalho, Manuela Flego, Tadeusz Dyba and Jacques Ferlay and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Oncology, European Journal of Cancer and Cancers.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Nicholson

21 papers receiving 515 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.

The European cancer burden in 2020: Incidence and mortality estimates for 40 countries and 25 major cancers

2021 374 citations Tadeusz Dyba, Giorgia Randi et al. European Journal of Cancer profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Nicholson Italy	7	231	117	115	70	62	24	522
Manuela Flego Italy	7	202 0.9×	100 0.9×	99 0.9×	64 0.9×	54 0.9×	15	466
Eucario León-Rodrı́guez Mexico	13	284 1.2×	108 0.9×	132 1.1×	85 1.2×	91 1.5×	47	641
Navdeep Pal United States	11	189 0.8×	127 1.1×	91 0.8×	90 1.3×	70 1.1×	26	689
Sarah Jo Stephens United States	9	125 0.5×	109 0.9×	93 0.8×	45 0.6×	77 1.2×	29	387
Yunan Han United States	16	337 1.5×	216 1.8×	152 1.3×	137 2.0×	58 0.9×	39	705
Nadya Dimitrova Italy	13	409 1.8×	144 1.2×	152 1.3×	92 1.3×	92 1.5×	39	804
Yifan Xue China	13	162 0.7×	82 0.7×	203 1.8×	66 0.9×	39 0.6×	36	597
Tina Seto United States	12	170 0.7×	66 0.6×	77 0.7×	76 1.1×	47 0.8×	26	435
Larry G. Maxwell United States	8	199 0.9×	76 0.6×	111 1.0×	49 0.7×	31 0.5×	12	528
Monika Lamba Saini India	12	261 1.1×	119 1.0×	269 2.3×	69 1.0×	55 0.9×	32	668

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carinci, Fabrizio & Nicholas Nicholson. (2025). Linking registries to deliver standardized NCD indicators in the European Health Data Space: Why do we need a Collaborative Health Information European Framework (CHIEF). Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1684947–1684947.

Nicholson, Nicholas & Iztok Štotl. (2024). A generic framework for the semantic contextualization of indicators. Frontiers in Computer Science. 6. 2 indexed citations

Nicholson, Nicholas, Francesco Giusti, & Carmen Martos. (2023). Ontology-Based AI Design Patterns and Constraints in Cancer Registry Data Validation. Cancers. 15(24). 5812–5812.

Nicholson, Nicholas, Francesco Giusti, & Carmen Martos. (2023). An ontology design for validating childhood cancer registry data. Frontiers in Oncology. 13. 1212434–1212434. 1 indexed citations

Nicholson, Nicholas, Francesco Giusti, Manola Bettio, et al.. (2022). A multipurpose TNM stage ontology for cancer registries. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 13(1). 7–7. 1 indexed citations

Nicholson, Nicholas, et al.. (2022). Trusted Data Spaces as a Viable and Sustainable Solution for Networks of Population-Based Patient Registries. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 9. e34123–e34123. 1 indexed citations

Dyba, Tadeusz, Giorgia Randi, Freddie Bray, et al.. (2021). The European cancer burden in 2020: Incidence and mortality estimates for 40 countries and 25 major cancers. European Journal of Cancer. 157. 308–347. 374 indexed citations breakdown →

Nicholson, Nicholas, Francesco Giusti, Manola Bettio, et al.. (2021). An Ontology to Model the International Rules for Multiple Primary Malignant Tumours in Cancer Registration. Applied Sciences. 11(16). 7233–7233. 5 indexed citations

Dyba, T, Giorgia Randi, Carmen Martos, et al.. (2021). 1501O Long-term estimates of cancer incidence and mortality for the EU and EFTA countries according to different demographic scenarios. Annals of Oncology. 32. S1102–S1102. 7 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Nicholas, Francesco Giusti, Manola Bettio, et al.. (2021). An ontology-based approach for developing a harmonised data-validation tool for European cancer registration. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 12(1). 1–1. 16 indexed citations

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Giusti, Francesco, Carmen Martos, Luciana Neamţiu, et al.. (2020). Risk of second malignancies and survival differences by treatment pattern in prostate cancer: A population-based study. European Urology Open Science. 21. S126–S126. 1 indexed citations

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Giusti, Francesco, Carmen Martos, Silvia Scoccianti, et al.. (2020). 365MO Exploring changes in glioblastoma treatment patterns in Europe and the USA with population-based cancer registry data. Annals of Oncology. 31. S398–S398. 1 indexed citations

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Giusti, Francesco, Carmen Martos, Luciana Neamţiu, et al.. (2020). 508P Evaluating colorectal cancer treatment patterns by stage in European cancer registries. Annals of Oncology. 31. S455–S455. 2 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Nicholas & Andrea Perego. (2020). Interoperability of population-based patient registries. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 112. 100074–100074. 11 indexed citations

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Dyba, T, Giorgia Randi, Carmen Martos, et al.. (2020). 1581O Estimation of European cancer burden for the year 2020. Annals of Oncology. 31. S1196–S1196. 1 indexed citations

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Giusti, Francesco, Carmen Martos, Emanuele Crocetti, et al.. (2019). Patient data to monitor clinical patterns in early and advanced breast cancer in Europe. Annals of Oncology. 30. v75–v75. 1 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Nicholas & Andrea Perego. (2019). RDF representation of the ECIS data set, v1. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Bettio, Manola, R. Carvalho, Nadya Dimitrova, et al.. (2019). Measuring the cancer burden in Europe: The European Cancer Information System (ECIS). Annals of Oncology. 30. v675–v675. 13 indexed citations

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Martos, Carmen, Francesco Giusti, Giorgia Randi, et al.. (2018). A case study using the European Cancer Information System web-application: Lung cancer incidence. European Journal of Public Health. 28(suppl_4). 1 indexed citations

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Randi, Giorgia, R. Carvalho, Nadya Dimitrova, et al.. (2018). European Cancer Information System web-application: analysing and visualising European cancer data. European Journal of Public Health. 28(suppl_4). 2 indexed citations

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