Nigel Heaton

26.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
505 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Nigel Heaton is a scholar working on Surgery, Hepatology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Heaton has authored 505 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 340 papers in Surgery, 288 papers in Hepatology and 119 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Nigel Heaton's work include Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (237 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (232 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (73 papers). Nigel Heaton is often cited by papers focused on Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (237 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (232 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (73 papers). Nigel Heaton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Nigel Heaton's co-authors include Mohamed Rela, Paolo Muiesan, Giorgina Mieli‐Vergani, Anil Dhawan, Wayel Jassem, Michael A. Heneghan, Julia Wendon, Bernard Portmann, John G. O’Grady and Alberto Quaglia and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Heaton

486 papers receiving 15.6k 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.

Efficacy and Safety of Valganciclovir vs. Oral Ganciclovir for Prevention of Cytomegalovirus Disease in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

2004 651 citations Nigel Heaton et al. profile →
Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cholangiocarcinoma: an update

2012 597 citations Shahid A. Khan, Brian R Davidson et al. Gut profile →
Liver Transplantation After Ex Vivo Normothermic Machine Preservation: A Phase 1 (First-in-Man) Clinical Trial

2016 352 citations Wayel Jassem, Nigel Heaton et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nigel Heaton	9.1k	8.0k	4.9k	1.8k	1.7k	505	16.0k
Frederik Nevens	5.6k 0.6×	9.2k 1.1×	7.8k 1.6×	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	435	15.4k
John P. Roberts	9.8k 1.1×	13.0k 1.6×	8.5k 1.7×	1.3k 0.7×	642 0.4×	364	19.6k
François Durand	7.3k 0.8×	12.8k 1.6×	9.8k 2.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	368	17.7k
R. Pichlmayr	7.0k 0.8×	6.1k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	2.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	524	13.2k
Robert J. Porte	9.2k 1.0×	8.7k 1.1×	3.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	543 0.3×	363	13.5k
Giorgina Mieli‐Vergani	8.1k 0.9×	11.7k 1.5×	9.2k 1.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	509	21.0k
Mohamed Rela	5.6k 0.6×	4.7k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	439	9.3k
Paul J. Thuluvath	5.3k 0.6×	7.8k 1.0×	6.0k 1.2×	887 0.5×	800 0.5×	295	12.1k
Gregory T. Everson	3.8k 0.4×	10.1k 1.3×	8.6k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	264	14.4k
Shunzaburo Iwatsuki	10.0k 1.1×	9.0k 1.1×	4.0k 0.8×	3.1k 1.7×	691 0.4×	201	16.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zamalloa, Ane, Nigel Heaton, Krishna Menon, et al.. (2024). WED-542-YI Unravelling bacterial metabolites using high-resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in intact hepatocellular carcinoma liver tissue. Journal of Hepatology. 80. S281–S281. 1 indexed citations

Rushbrook, Simon, Timothy J. Kendall, Yoh Zen, et al.. (2023). British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the diagnosis and management of cholangiocarcinoma. Gut. 73(1). 16–46. 33 indexed citations

Ivanics, Tommy, David Wallace, Marco P. A. W. Claasen, et al.. (2022). Low utilization of adult-to-adult LDLT in Western countries despite excellent outcomes: International multicenter analysis of the US, the UK, and Canada. Journal of Hepatology. 77(6). 1607–1618. 23 indexed citations

Underhill, James A., Abdel Douiri, Alberto Quaglia, et al.. (2021). The Influence of Donor and Recipient Complement C3 Polymorphisms on Liver Transplant Outcome. International Journal of Hepatology. 2021. 1–14. 1 indexed citations

Cerisuelo, Miriam Cortés, Deepak Joshi, Marianne Samyn, et al.. (2021). Liver Transplantation for Biliary Atresia in Adulthood: Single-Centre Surgical Experience. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(21). 4969–4969. 8 indexed citations

D’Angelo, Edoardo, Dipa Natarajan, Francesca Sensi, et al.. (2020). Patient-Derived Scaffolds of Colorectal Cancer Metastases as an Organotypic 3D Model of the Liver Metastatic Microenvironment. Cancers. 12(2). 364–364. 50 indexed citations

Zabron, Abigail, Alberto Quaglia, Evangelia Fatourou, et al.. (2018). Clinical and prognostic associations of liver volume determined by computed tomography in acute liver failure. Liver International. 38(9). 1592–1601. 24 indexed citations

Vimalesvaran, Sunitha, Emer Fitzpatrick, Ragai R. Mitry, et al.. (2011). Non-Invasive Biomarkers and Transient Elastography in Monitoring Long Term Graft Function in Paediatric Liver Transplant Recipients. Liver Transplantation. 17(6).

Karvellas, Constantine, Niloufar Safinia, Georg Auzinger, et al.. (2010). Medical and psychiatric outcomes for patients transplanted for acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: a case-control study. Liver International. 30(6). 826–833. 29 indexed citations

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Stangou, Arie J., Luísa Lobato, Steven R. Zeldenrust, et al.. (2010). Report and recommendations from the 1st International Workshop on the Hereditary Renal Amyloidoses, FAP Symposium, London, 2008. Amyloid. 17. 125–126. 5 indexed citations

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Stangou, Arie J., Mohamed Rela, Mark Monaghan, et al.. (2010). Liver transplantation for familial amyloid polyneuropathy: the King's College Hospital selection criteria. Amyloid. 17. 78–79. 1 indexed citations

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Jassem, Wayel, Susan V. Fuggle, Richard J. Thompson, et al.. (2009). Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning on the Genomic Response to Reperfusion Injury in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 15(12). 1750–1765. 32 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Rachel, Andrew D. Yeoman, Kosh Agarwal, et al.. (2009). AN EVALUATION OF MORTALITY IN ADULTS AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE SURVIVED IN EXCESS OF 5 AND 10 YEARS SINCE LIVER TRANSPLANTATION. Liver Transplantation. 15(7). 1 indexed citations

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Duarte, Iola F., Cristina Legido‐Quigley, David A. Parker, et al.. (2008). Identification of metabolites in human hepatic bile using 800 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy, HPLC-NMR/MS and UPLC-MS. Molecular BioSystems. 5(2). 180–190. 41 indexed citations

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Joshi, Deepak, Varuna Aluvihare, Ajay Belgaumkar, et al.. (2008). LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR HIV: ANALYSIS OF OUTCOMES SUGGEST HIV/HCV CO-INFECTED PATIENTS HAVE PROHIBITIVELY POOR SURVIVAL AT 5 YEARS. Hepatology. 48(4). 6 indexed citations

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Srinivasan, Parthi, Mohamed Rela, Paolo Muiesan, et al.. (2006). Long term prospects for immunosuppression withdrawal after successful auxiliary transplantation for acute liver failure.. Hepatology. 44(4).

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Devlin, J, Adrian Barnardo, Georg Auzinger, et al.. (2001). Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a common and often fatal complication of severe liver dysfunction.. Hepatology. 34(4). 1 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Michelle, Edward Gane, Stephen P. Pereira, et al.. (1996). Liver transplantation for haemophiliacs with hepatitis C cirrhosis.. Gut. 39(6). 870–875. 30 indexed citations

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Devlin, John, Julia Wendon, Nigel Heaton, Kai-Chah Tan, & Roger Williams. (1995). Pretransplantation clinical status and outcome of emergency transplantation for acute liver failure. Hepatology. 21(4). 1018–1024. 69 indexed citations

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Rizzi, P M, Stephen Ryder, John Ramage, et al.. (1994). Neoadjuvant chemotherapy after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma.. PubMed. 26(6). 3568–9. 10 indexed citations

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