Paul L. Kimmel

49.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
326 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Paul L. Kimmel is a scholar working on Nephrology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul L. Kimmel has authored 326 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 200 papers in Nephrology, 44 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 41 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Paul L. Kimmel's work include Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (119 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (75 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (43 papers). Paul L. Kimmel is often cited by papers focused on Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (119 papers), Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (75 papers) and Acute Kidney Injury Research (43 papers). Paul L. Kimmel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Nigeria. Paul L. Kimmel's co-authors include Jordan B. Peterson, Lakhmir S. Chawla, Paul W. Eggers, Robert A. Star, Scott Cohen, Daniel Cukor, Karen L. Weihs, Samuel J. Simmens, Jonathan Himmelfarb and Sylvan I. Alleyne and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Paul L. Kimmel

319 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Acute Kidney Injury and Chronic Kidney Disease as Interconnected Syndromes

2014 1.4k citations Lakhmir S. Chawla, Paul W. Eggers et al. profile →
Acute Kidney Injury Increases Risk of ESRD among Elderly

2008 873 citations Jonathan Himmelfarb, Paul W. Eggers et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
Acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease: an integrated clinical syndrome

2012 626 citations Lakhmir S. Chawla, Paul L. Kimmel Kidney International profile →
Incidence and Mortality of Acute Renal Failure in Medicare Beneficiaries, 1992 to 2001

2006 573 citations Paul L. Kimmel, Paul W. Eggers et al. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →
The severity of acute kidney injury predicts progression to chronic kidney disease

2011 532 citations Lakhmir S. Chawla, Paul L. Kimmel et al. Kidney International profile →
Inflammation and Progression of CKD: The CRIC Study

2016 331 citations Harold I. Feldman, Michael G. Shlipak et al. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul L. Kimmel United States	79	13.2k	2.6k	2.6k	2.5k	2.4k	326	21.5k
Susan L. Furth United States	60	7.8k 0.6×	690 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	396	17.9k
Ayumi Shintani United States	75	1.6k 0.1×	916 0.4×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	363	26.3k
Joel D. Kopple United States	88	17.5k 1.3×	712 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	4.2k 1.7×	1.3k 0.5×	317	26.9k
Juan Jesús Carrero Sweden	78	9.6k 0.7×	835 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	558	23.0k
Linda F. Fried United States	71	10.6k 0.8×	720 0.3×	1.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.0×	972 0.4×	217	18.5k
Giovanni FM Strippoli Italy	67	6.8k 0.5×	918 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	991 0.4×	286	13.9k
Mary B. Leonard United States	65	4.5k 0.3×	616 0.2×	2.0k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	283	15.0k
Ravi Thadhani United States	84	9.1k 0.7×	538 0.2×	2.4k 0.9×	3.1k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	293	30.6k
Eric W. Young United States	56	10.0k 0.8×	767 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	4.1k 1.7×	1.3k 0.5×	143	16.9k
Bradley A. Warady United States	62	10.0k 0.8×	522 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	519	17.9k

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Greenberg, Jason H., Alison G. Abraham, Yunwen Xu, et al.. (2025). Biomarker Panels for Discriminating Risk of CKD Progression in Children. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 36(6). 1105–1115. 1 indexed citations

Coca, Steven G., Heather Thiessen‐Philbrook, Joachim H. Ix, et al.. (2025). The distal nephron biomarkers associate with diabetic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight. 10(12). 1 indexed citations

Domingo‐Relloso, Arce, Kathrin Schilling, Ronald A. Glabonjat, et al.. (2025). Uranium exposure and kidney tubule biomarkers in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Environmental Research. 271. 121060–121060. 4 indexed citations

Hooper, Stephen R., Mark Mitsnefes, Ramachandran S. Vasan, et al.. (2025). Investigation of a targeted panel of gut microbiome–derived toxins in children with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Nephrology. 40(5). 1759–1770. 2 indexed citations

Wen, Yumeng, Steven Menez, Heather Thiessen‐Philbrook, et al.. (2025). Urine proteomic signatures of kidney function decline after hospitalization. JCI Insight. 10(20).

Brintz, Carrie, Alicia A. Heapy, Francis J. Keefe, et al.. (2024). Adapting a pain coping skills training intervention for people with chronic pain receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end stage Kidney disease. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 48(2). 298–307.

Surapaneni, Aditya, Denise Hasson, Insa M. Schmidt, et al.. (2024). Serum and Urine Metabolites and Kidney Function. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 35(9). 1252–1265. 3 indexed citations

Wen, Yumeng, Leyuan Xu, Heather Thiessen‐Philbrook, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal biomarkers and kidney disease progression after acute kidney injury. JCI Insight. 8(9). 29 indexed citations

Menez, Steven, Yumeng Wen, Leyuan Xu, et al.. (2023). The ASSESS-AKI Study found urinary epidermal growth factor is associated with reduced risk of major adverse kidney events. Kidney International. 104(6). 1194–1205. 18 indexed citations

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Wen, Donghai, Linda Zhou, Zihe Zheng, et al.. (2022). Testican-2 Is Associated with Reduced Risk of Incident ESKD. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 34(1). 122–131. 5 indexed citations

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Raj, Dominic S., Michael B. Sohn, David M. Charytan, et al.. (2021). The Microbiome and p-Inulin in Hemodialysis: A Feasibility Study. Kidney360. 2(3). 445–455. 3 indexed citations

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Aliyu, Muktar H., Donna J. Ingles, Bryan E. Shepherd, et al.. (2019). Optimal management of HIV- positive adults at risk for kidney disease in Nigeria (Renal Risk Reduction “R3” Trial): protocol and study design. Trials. 20(1). 341–341. 11 indexed citations

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Beddhu, Srinivasan, Glenn M. Chertow, Tom Greene, et al.. (2018). Effects of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Standard Glycemic Control and in Those Without Diabetes Mellitus: Reconciling Results From ACCORD BP and SPRINT. Journal of the American Heart Association. 7(18). e009326–e009326. 70 indexed citations

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Chawla, Lakhmir S., Danielle Davison, Ermira Brasha-Mitchell, et al.. (2013). Development and Standardization of a Furosemide Stress Test to Predict the Severity of Acute Kidney Injury. Critical Care. 17(5). R207–R207. 232 indexed citations

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Fwu, Chyng‐Wen, Paul W. Eggers, Paul L. Kimmel, John W. Kusek, & Ziya Kırkalı. (2013). Emergency department visits, use of imaging, and drugs for urolithiasis have increased in the United States. Kidney International. 83(3). 479–486. 162 indexed citations

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Cohen, Scott & Paul L. Kimmel. (2012). Long-term sequelae of acute kidney injury in the ICU. Current Opinion in Critical Care. 18(6). 623–628. 20 indexed citations

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Kimmel, Paul L., Scott Cohen, & Steven D. Weisbord. (2008). Quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis: survival is not enough!. Journal of Nephrology. 21(S13). S54–S58. 48 indexed citations

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Cukor, Daniel, Jeremy D. Coplan, Clinton D. Brown, et al.. (2007). Depression and Anxiety in Urban Hemodialysis Patients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2(3). 484–490. 244 indexed citations

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Lew, Susie Q., et al.. (2004). Persistent Hyponatremia Ameliorated by Discontinuation of Hypertonic Saline Administration. Journal of Applied Research. 4(2). 2 indexed citations

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Peterson, Jordan B., et al.. (1990). Perception of Illness and Depression in Chronic Renal Disease. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 15(1). 31–39. 127 indexed citations

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