Patricia A. Buffler

16.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
194 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Patricia A. Buffler is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Patricia A. Buffler has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 40 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 39 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Patricia A. Buffler's work include Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (60 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (37 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (27 papers). Patricia A. Buffler is often cited by papers focused on Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (60 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (37 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (27 papers). Patricia A. Buffler collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Patricia A. Buffler's co-authors include Douglas A. Corley, Catherine Metayer, Joseph L. Wiemels, Peggy Reynolds, Theodore R. Levin, Xiaomei Ma, Steve Selvin, Gladys Block, Laurel A. Habel and Kevin Y. Urayama and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Patricia A. Buffler

193 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Brain tumor epidemiology: Consensus from the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium

2008 655 citations Joseph L. Wiemels, Margaret Wrensch et al. profile →
Review of the Toxicology of Chlorpyrifos With an Emphasis on Human Exposure and Neurodevelopment

2008 536 citations Patricia A. Buffler et al. profile →
Tobacco and Cancer: Recent Epidemiological Evidence

2004 500 citations Patricia A. Buffler, Elizabeth T. H. Fontham et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patricia A. Buffler United States	55	2.3k	2.0k	2.0k	1.9k	1.7k	194	10.4k
Richard K. Severson United States	56	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	849 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	189	9.7k
Andrew F. Olshan United States	60	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	391	11.5k
Patricia Hartge United States	68	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.5×	241	18.7k
Susan Preston‐Martin United States	59	1.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	915 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	165	12.5k
Susan T. Mayne United States	56	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	623 0.3×	2.1k 1.1×	3.6k 2.1×	161	16.9k
Emanuela Taioli United States	57	979 0.4×	2.8k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	3.1k 1.8×	431	12.9k
Dario Consonni Italy	62	1.1k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	435	13.2k
John J. Spinelli Canada	49	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	813 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	934 0.5×	218	9.7k
Stephanie J. London United States	76	2.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	6.5k 3.3×	622 0.3×	3.6k 2.1×	314	18.1k
Philip Cole United States	57	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	160	11.8k

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Walsh, Kyle M., Adam J. de Smith, Ivan Smirnov, et al.. (2014). Genomic ancestry and somatic alterations correlate with age at diagnosis in Hispanic children with B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. American Journal of Hematology. 89(7). 721–725. 25 indexed citations

Chokkalingam, Anand P., Ling‐I Hsu, Catherine Metayer, et al.. (2013). Genetic variants in ARID5B and CEBPE are childhood ALL susceptibility loci in Hispanics. Cancer Causes & Control. 24(10). 1789–1795. 40 indexed citations

Whitehead, Todd P., Mary H. Ward, Joanne S. Colt, et al.. (2012). Determinants of polychlorinated biphenyls in dust from homes in California, USA. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 15(2). 339–346. 13 indexed citations

Gunier, Robert B., Mary H. Ward, Matthew Airola, et al.. (2011). Determinants of Agricultural Pesticide Concentrations in Carpet Dust. Environmental Health Perspectives. 119(7). 970–976. 111 indexed citations

Buffler, Patricia A., et al.. (2011). The Air Force Health Study: An Epidemiologic Retrospective. Annals of Epidemiology. 21(9). 673–687. 16 indexed citations

Chang, Jeffrey S., Joseph L. Wiemels, Anand P. Chokkalingam, et al.. (2010). Genetic Polymorphisms in Adaptive Immunity Genes and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 19(9). 2152–2163. 23 indexed citations

Wiemels, Joseph L., Michelle Kang, Jeffrey Chang, et al.. (2010). Backtracking RAS mutations in high hyperdiploid childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood Cells Molecules and Diseases. 45(3). 186–191. 31 indexed citations

Aldrich, Melinda C., Steve Selvin, Helen M. Hansen, et al.. (2009). CYP1A1/2 Haplotypes and Lung Cancer and Assessment of Confounding by Population Stratification. Cancer Research. 69(6). 2340–2348. 19 indexed citations

Kwan, Marilyn L., Christopher D. Jensen, Gladys Block, et al.. (2009). Maternal Diet and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Public Health Reports. 124(4). 503–514. 32 indexed citations

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Wiemels, Joseph L., Michelle Kang, Rebecca R. Selzer, et al.. (2008). Chromosome 12p Deletions in TEL-AML1 Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Are Associated with Retrotransposon Elements and Occur Postnatally. Cancer Research. 68(23). 9935–9944. 18 indexed citations

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Guha, Neela, Jeffrey S. Chang, Anand P. Chokkalingam, et al.. (2008). NQO1 Polymorphisms and De Novo Childhood Leukemia: A HuGE Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 168(11). 1221–1232. 46 indexed citations

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Chokkalingam, Anand P. & Patricia A. Buffler. (2008). Genetic susceptibility to childhood leukaemia. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 132(2). 119–129. 21 indexed citations

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Buffler, Patricia A., Michael A. Kelsh, Edmund Lau, et al.. (2005). Thyroid Function and Perchlorate in Drinking Water: An Evaluation among California Newborns, 1998. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(5). 798–804. 21 indexed citations

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Buffler, Patricia A.. (2004). Mechanisms of carcinogenesis : contributions of molecular epidemiology. 36 indexed citations

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Fontham, Elizabeth T. H., P Corréa, Anna H. Wu‐Williams, et al.. (1993). Lung cancer in nonsmoking women: a multicenter case-control study.. PubMed. 1(1). 35–43. 83 indexed citations

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Buffler, Patricia A.. (1989). The evaluation of negative epidemiologic studies: The importance of all available evidence in risk characterization. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. 9(1). 34–43. 3 indexed citations

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Falk, Roni T., Linda Williams Pickle, Línda Morris Brown, et al.. (1989). Effect of smoking and alcohol consumption on laryngeal cancer risk in coastal Texas.. PubMed. 49(14). 4024–9. 86 indexed citations

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Buffler, Patricia A.. (1988). Epidemiology Needs and Perspectives in Environmental Epidemiology. Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal. 43(2). 130–132. 1 indexed citations

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Stock, Thomas H., et al.. (1985). The Estimation of Personal Exposures to Air Pollutants for a Community-Based Study of Health Effects in Asthmatics—Design and Results of Air Monitoring. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association. 35(12). 1266–1273. 25 indexed citations

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Eifler, Clayton W., Sandra S. Stinnett, & Patricia A. Buffler. (1981). Simple models for community exposure from point sources of pollution. Environmental Research. 25(1). 139–146. 5 indexed citations

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