Paul Brennan

62.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
374 papers, 16.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Brennan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Brennan has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Molecular Biology, 77 papers in Oncology and 64 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Paul Brennan's work include Head and Neck Cancer Studies (38 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (33 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (27 papers). Paul Brennan is often cited by papers focused on Head and Neck Cancer Studies (38 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (33 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (27 papers). Paul Brennan collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. Paul Brennan's co-authors include Paolo Boffetta, Rayjean J. Hung, Давид Заридзе, Farin Kamangar, Ghislaine Scélo, Reza Malekzadeh, Dana Mateș, Janet Hall, Christian C. Abnet and Vladimí­r Janout and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nucleic Acids Research and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Paul Brennan

355 papers receiving 16.0k citations

Hit Papers

Long‐term Survival in Head and Neck Cancer: Impact of Sit... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150
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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. Long‐term Survival in Head and Neck Cancer: Impact of Site, Stage, Smoking, and Human Papillomavirus Status
    2019 175 citations Paul Brennan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Brennan France 71 4.7k 3.9k 2.8k 2.8k 2.7k 374 16.5k
Cristina Bosetti Italy 80 3.8k 0.8× 6.3k 1.6× 4.0k 1.4× 2.6k 0.9× 3.0k 1.1× 368 21.1k
Neal D. Freedman United States 69 4.1k 0.9× 3.7k 0.9× 4.1k 1.5× 3.4k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 346 18.6k
Joseph K. McLaughlin United States 74 3.4k 0.7× 4.0k 1.0× 5.1k 1.8× 3.5k 1.3× 3.3k 1.2× 364 22.9k
Mimi C. Yu United States 71 4.6k 1.0× 3.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 205 14.5k
Renato Talamini Italy 69 2.8k 0.6× 6.7k 1.7× 2.6k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 447 17.8k
S. Jane Henley United States 59 2.9k 0.6× 6.6k 1.7× 2.3k 0.8× 3.2k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 123 18.7k
Susan M. Gapstur United States 67 5.2k 1.1× 6.8k 1.7× 1.8k 0.6× 2.1k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 264 22.5k
Theodore Karrison United States 65 3.6k 0.8× 3.8k 1.0× 2.1k 0.7× 3.0k 1.1× 1.4k 0.5× 322 14.5k
Christian C. Abnet United States 75 4.8k 1.0× 4.6k 1.2× 7.9k 2.8× 4.3k 1.6× 2.1k 0.8× 400 21.6k
Farhad Islami United States 64 2.9k 0.6× 5.5k 1.4× 4.3k 1.5× 3.4k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 228 17.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Brennan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Brennan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Brennan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Brennan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Brennan 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 Paul Brennan. Paul Brennan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Inoue‐Choi, Maki, Neal D. Freedman, Arash Etemadi, et al.. (2024). One‐carbon metabolism biomarkers and upper gastrointestinal cancer in the Golestan Cohort Study. International Journal of Cancer. 155(11). 1944–1957.
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Sheikh, Mahdi, Karine Alcala, Daniela Mariosa, et al.. (2023). MA03.08 Regular Use of Pharmaceutical Opioids and Subsequent Risk of Lung Cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 18(11). S107–S108. 4 indexed citations
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Hosseini, Elham, Zeinab Mokhtari, Hossein Poustchi, et al.. (2023). Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products and Risk of Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality: Results from the Golestan Cohort Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(5). 3788–3788. 3 indexed citations
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Nalini, Mahdi, Hossein Poustchi, Gholamreza Roshandel, et al.. (2023). Association Between Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Opium Use: Mediation by Body Mass and Adiposity. American Journal of Epidemiology. 192(12). 2050–2062. 3 indexed citations
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Yano, Yukiko, Christian C. Abnet, Hossein Poustchi, et al.. (2021). Oral Health and Risk of Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers in a Large Prospective Study from a High-risk Region: Golestan Cohort Study. Cancer Prevention Research. 14(7). 709–718. 20 indexed citations
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Langdon, Ryan, Rebecca C. Richmond, Gibran Hemani, et al.. (2019). A Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Study of Pancreatic Cancer Using Summary Genetic Data. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 28(12). 2070–2078. 16 indexed citations
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Malhotra, Jyoti, Samantha Sartori, Paul Brennan, et al.. (2015). Effect of Occupational Exposures on Lung Cancer Susceptibility: A Study of Gene–Environment Interaction Analysis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(3). 570–579. 11 indexed citations
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Shakeri, Ramin, Reza Malekzadeh, Dariush Nasrollahzadeh, et al.. (2015). Multiplex H. pylori Serology and Risk of Gastric Cardia and Noncardia Adenocarcinomas. Cancer Research. 75(22). 4876–4883. 34 indexed citations
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Muller, David C., Ghislaine Scélo, Давид Заридзе, et al.. (2015). Circulating 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 and Survival after Diagnosis with Kidney Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(8). 1277–1281. 13 indexed citations
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Spitz, Margaret R., Ivan P. Gorlov, Qiong Dong, et al.. (2012). Multistage Analysis of Variants in the Inflammation Pathway and Lung Cancer Risk in Smokers. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 21(7). 1213–1221. 25 indexed citations
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Timpson, Nicholas J., Paul Brennan, Valérie Gaborieau, et al.. (2010). Can Lactase Persistence Genotype Be Used to Reassess the Relationship between Renal Cell Carcinoma and Milk Drinking? Potentials and Problems in the Application of Mendelian Randomization. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 19(5). 1341–1348. 17 indexed citations
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Moore, Lee E., Paolo Boffetta, Sara Karami, et al.. (2010). Occupational Trichloroethylene Exposure and Renal Carcinoma Risk: Evidence of Genetic Susceptibility by Reductive Metabolism Gene Variants. Cancer Research. 70(16). 6527–6536. 85 indexed citations
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Stéfani, Eduardo De, Dagfinn Aune, Paolo Boffetta, et al.. (2009). Salted meat consumption and the risk of cancer: a multisite case-control study in Uruguay.. PubMed. 10(5). 853–7. 21 indexed citations
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Vaissière, Thomas, Rayjean J. Hung, Давид Заридзе, et al.. (2008). Quantitative Analysis of DNA Methylation Profiles in Lung Cancer Identifies Aberrant DNA Methylation of Specific Genes and Its Association with Gender and Cancer Risk Factors. Cancer Research. 69(1). 243–252. 207 indexed citations
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Mounawar, Mounia, Anush Mukeria, Florence Le Calvez‐Kelm, et al.. (2007). Patterns of EGFR, HER2, TP53 , and KRAS Mutations of p14arf Expression in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancers in Relation to Smoking History. Cancer Research. 67(12). 5667–5672. 83 indexed citations
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Calvez‐Kelm, Florence Le, Anush Mukeria, Jay D. Hunt, et al.. (2005). TP53 and KRAS Mutation Load and Types in Lung Cancers in Relation to Tobacco Smoke: Distinct Patterns in Never, Former, and Current Smokers. Cancer Research. 65(12). 5076–5083. 207 indexed citations
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Kamangar, Farin, Paul T. Strickland, Akram Pourshams, et al.. (2005). High exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons may contribute to high risk of esophageal cancer in northeastern Iran.. PubMed. 25(1B). 425–8. 95 indexed citations
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Shen, Minxue, Rayjean J. Hung, Paul Brennan, et al.. (2003). Polymorphisms of the DNA repair genes XRCC1, XRCC3, XPD, interaction with environmental exposures, and bladder cancer risk in a case-control study in northern Italy.. PubMed. 12(11 Pt 1). 1234–40. 133 indexed citations
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Arrieumerlou, Cécile, Emmanuel Donnadieu, Paul Brennan, et al.. (1998). Involvement of phosphoinositide 3-kinase and Rac in membrane ruffling induced by IL-2 in T cells. European Journal of Immunology. 28(6). 1877–1885. 4 indexed citations
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Brennan, Paul, et al.. (1980). The Rules of the European Election Game. European Journal of Political Research. 8(1). 133–144.

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