Patrick McKiernan

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Patrick McKiernan is a scholar working on Surgery, Hepatology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick McKiernan has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Surgery, 55 papers in Hepatology and 37 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Patrick McKiernan's work include Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (51 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (48 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (37 papers). Patrick McKiernan is often cited by papers focused on Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (51 papers), Liver Disease and Transplantation (48 papers) and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (37 papers). Patrick McKiernan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Patrick McKiernan's co-authors include Déirdre Kelly, Alastair Baker, Khalid Sharif, James E. Squires, Jean de Ville de Goyet, Helen Evans, Stefan G. Hübscher, Robert H. Squires, Ulrich Baumann and Way Seah Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Patrick McKiernan

160 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents
    2012 391 citations Anil Dhawan, Patrick McKiernan et al. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick McKiernan United Kingdom 39 2.4k 1.6k 1.3k 1.0k 639 163 4.9k
Emmanuel Jacquemin France 47 4.5k 1.9× 2.1k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 527 0.5× 1.2k 1.8× 170 7.8k
Elizabeth A. Pomfret United States 41 3.7k 1.6× 3.5k 2.2× 1.6k 1.2× 181 0.2× 148 0.2× 160 5.7k
M. Burdelski Germany 40 3.8k 1.6× 3.0k 1.9× 1.3k 1.0× 261 0.3× 529 0.8× 189 5.5k
James A. Schulak United States 33 1.8k 0.7× 359 0.2× 541 0.4× 224 0.2× 401 0.6× 137 4.4k
Ekkehard Sturm Germany 25 2.0k 0.8× 753 0.5× 884 0.7× 83 0.1× 389 0.6× 86 3.1k
Udeme D. Ekong United States 21 1.0k 0.4× 824 0.5× 551 0.4× 208 0.2× 157 0.2× 53 2.0k
John J. Curtis United States 38 1.3k 0.6× 451 0.3× 426 0.3× 78 0.1× 683 1.1× 103 4.8k
Karl Lhotta Austria 41 1.3k 0.5× 240 0.2× 567 0.4× 80 0.1× 286 0.4× 142 5.1k
Bridget Gunson United Kingdom 49 4.9k 2.1× 5.5k 3.5× 2.6k 2.0× 73 0.1× 252 0.4× 183 7.7k
Christian Datz Austria 43 597 0.3× 2.0k 1.3× 3.1k 2.3× 88 0.1× 81 0.1× 176 6.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick McKiernan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick McKiernan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick McKiernan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick McKiernan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick McKiernan. Patrick McKiernan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Morris, Heather, Patrick McKiernan, Tamir Miloh, et al.. (2022). Variation in Alanine Aminotransferase in Children with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Children. 9(3). 374–374. 6 indexed citations
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Soltys, Kyle, Kevin A. Strauss, Rakesh Sindhi, et al.. (2021). Metabolic Control and “Ideal” Outcomes in Liver Transplantation for Maple Syrup Urine Disease. The Journal of Pediatrics. 237. 59–64.e1. 8 indexed citations
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Daly, Anne, Alex Pinto, Catherine Ashmore, et al.. (2020). Natural Protein Tolerance and Metabolic Control in Patients with Hereditary Tyrosinaemia Type 1. Nutrients. 12(4). 1148–1148. 6 indexed citations
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McKiernan, Patrick, James E. Squires, Robert H. Squires, et al.. (2020). Liver transplant for inherited metabolic disease among siblings. Clinical Transplantation. 34(11). e14090–e14090. 2 indexed citations
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Strauss, Kevin A., Charles E. Ahlfors, Kyle Soltys, et al.. (2019). Crigler‐Najjar Syndrome Type 1: Pathophysiology, Natural History, and Therapeutic Frontier. Hepatology. 71(6). 1923–1939. 27 indexed citations
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Grammatikopoulos, Tassos, Patrick McKiernan, & Anil Dhawan. (2017). Portal hypertension and its management in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 103(2). 186–191. 23 indexed citations
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McKiernan, Patrick, Mary Anne Preece, & Anupam Chakrapani. (2015). Outcome of children with hereditary tyrosinaemia following newborn screening. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 100(8). 738–741. 35 indexed citations
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Davison, James, Nigel P. Davies, Martin Wilson, et al.. (2011). MR spectroscopy-based brain metabolite profiling in propionic acidaemia: metabolic changes in the basal ganglia during acute decompensation and effect of liver transplantation. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 6(1). 19–19. 30 indexed citations
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Perera, M. Thamara P. R., Patrick McKiernan, Khalid Sharif, et al.. (2009). Renal Function Recovery in Children Undergoing Combined Liver Kidney Transplants. Transplantation. 87(10). 1584–1589. 15 indexed citations
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Gupte, Girish, Sue Protheroe, Patrick McKiernan, et al.. (2004). O0085 IMPROVEMENTS IN OUTCOME OF CHRONIC INTESTINAL FAILURE IN THE UK 1989–2002. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 39(S1). 1 indexed citations
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Porter, David W., Girish Gupte, Rachel M. Brown, et al.. (2004). Histiocytic sarcoma with interdigitating dendritic cell differentiation.. PubMed. 26(12). 827–30. 16 indexed citations
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Evans, Helen, M Guftar Shaikh, Patrick McKiernan, et al.. (2004). Acute Fatty Liver Disease after Suprasellar Tumor Resection. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 39(3). 288–291. 8 indexed citations
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McKiernan, Patrick, Susan V. Beath, & Suzanne Davison. (2002). A Prospective Study of Endoscopic Esophageal Variceal Ligation Using a Multiband Ligator. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 34(2). 207–211. 57 indexed citations
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Haque, Tanzina, Clare Taylor, Gwen Wilkie, et al.. (2001). COMPLETE REGRESSION OF POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE USING PARTIALLY HLA-MATCHED EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T CELLS1. Transplantation. 72(8). 1399–1402. 92 indexed citations
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Goyet, Jean de Ville de, Andrew Mitchell, A. David Mayer, et al.. (2000). EN BLOC COMBINED REDUCED-LIVER AND SMALL BOWEL TRANSPLANTS. Transplantation. 69(4). 555–559. 73 indexed citations
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McKiernan, Patrick, Alastair Baker, & Déirdre Kelly. (2000). The frequency and outcome of biliary atresia in the UK and Ireland. The Lancet. 355(9197). 25–29. 316 indexed citations
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Mirza, Darius F., David Talbot, Patrick McKiernan, et al.. (1999). Outcome of liver retransplantation in children. Liver Transplantation and Surgery. 5(5). 401–406. 26 indexed citations
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Thomson, Mike, Patrick McKiernan, John Buckels, David Mayer, & Déirdre Kelly. (1998). Generalised Mitochondrial Cytopathy Is an Absolute Contraindication to Orthotopic Liver Transplant in Childhood. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 26(4). 478–481.
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Fisher, Neil, et al.. (1998). Successful pregnancy in a patient with type III glycogen storage disease managed with cornstarch supplements. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 105(6). 677–680. 13 indexed citations
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Suciu‐Foca, Nicole, et al.. (1978). DRw determinants on human T cells primed against allogeneic lymphocytes.. PubMed. 10(4). 845–8. 19 indexed citations

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