Robert A. Metzger

5.5k citations

87 papers · 3.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Transplantation top 0.1%
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health top 1%
- Organ Donation and Transplantation

Papers in

Transplantation 13
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments 12
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 45
- Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices 43

Co-authors: Francis L. Delmonico Robert M. Merion Friedrich K. Port J. D. Wynn F. G. Allen Sandy Feng Robert A. Wolfe Philip J. Held
Journals: Transplantation (8 papers)Applied Physics Letters (7 papers)Journal of Applied Physics (5 papers)American Journal of Transplantation (5 papers)IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada South Africa

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Metzger

84 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Kidney Transplantation as Primary Therapy for End-Stage Renal Disease 2008 · 430 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2008 Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
2003 American Journal of Transplantation
2002 Transplantation

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1	High voltage bulk GaN-based photoconductive switches for pulsed power applications Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Jacob H. Leach, Robert A. Metzger, Edward A. Preble, K. R. Evans	2013	42
2	Kidney Transplantation as Primary Therapy for End-Stage Renal Disease Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Michaël Abécassis, Stephen T. Bartlett, Allan J. Collins, Connie L. Davis, Francis L. Delmonico, John J. Friedewald, Ron D. Hays, Andrew D. Howard, Edward R. Jones, Alan B. Leichtman, Robert M. Merion, Robert A. Metzger, Françoise G. Pradel, Eugene J. Schweitzer, Ruben L. Velez, Robert S. Gaston Hit paper breakdown →	2008	430
3	Impact of the Expanded Criteria Donor Allocation System on Candidates for and Recipients of Expanded Criteria Donor Kidneys Transplantation ·Randall S. Sung, Mary K. Guidinger, Alan B. Leichtman, C D. Lake, Robert A. Metzger, Friedrich K. Port, Robert M. Merion	2007	38
4	Transplant Center Quality Assessment Using a Continuously Updatable, Risk-Adjusted Technique (CUSUM) American Journal of Transplantation ·David A. Axelrod, Mary K. Guidinger, Robert A. Metzger, Russell H. Wiesner, Randall L. Webb, Robert M. Merion	2006	58
5	Research to Practice: A National Consensus Conference Progress in Transplantation ·Robert A. Metzger, Gloria Taylor, Lin McGaw, Francis L. Delmonico, Jeffrey Prottas	2005	5
6	Organ donation and utilization in the USA American Journal of Transplantation ·Akinlolu Ojo, Dennis Heinrichs, Jean C. Emond, Joshua J. McGowan, Mary K. Guidinger, Francis L. Delmonico, Robert A. Metzger	2004	84
7	The Report of a National Conference on the Wait List for Kidney Transplantation American Journal of Transplantation ·Robert S. Gaston, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Patricia L. Adams, J. D. Wynn, Robert M. Merion, Mark H. Deierhoi, Robert A. Metzger, J. Michael Cecka, William Harmon, Alan B. Leichtman, Aaron Spital, Emily A. Blumberg, Charles A. Herzog, Robert A. Wolfe, Dolly B. Tyan, John P. Roberts, Richard Rohrer, Friedrich K. Port, Francis L. Delmonico	2003	104
8	Expanded criteria donors for kidney transplantation American Journal of Transplantation ·Robert A. Metzger, Francis L. Delmonico, Sandy Feng, Friedrich K. Port, J. D. Wynn, Robert M. Merion Hit paper breakdown →	2003	521
9	Randomized trial of tacrolimus + mycophenolate mofetil or azathioprine versus cyclosporine + mycophenolate mofetil after cadaveric kidney transplantation: results at three years Transplantation ·Thomas A. Gonwa, Christopher P. Johnson, Nasimul Ahsan, Edward J. Alfrey, Philip F. Halloran, Mark D. Stegall, Mark A. Hardy, Robert A. Metzger, Charles F. Shield, Leslie Rocher, John D. Scandling, John B. Sorensen, Laura Mulloy, Jimmy A. Light, Claudia Corwin, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Michael Wachs, Paul VanVeldhuisen, Maryanne Leonhardt, William E. Fitzsimmons	2003	114
10	Organ donors with positive viral serology or malignancy: risk of disease transmission by transplantation Transplantation ·Sandy Feng, Joseph F. Buell, Wida S. Cherikh, Mario C. Deng, Douglas W. Hanto, H. Myron Kauffman, Alan B. Leichtman, Marc I. Lorber, Richard G. Maters, Maureen McBride, Robert A. Metzger, Frederick S. Nolte, Kevin J. O Connor, David Roth, Norah A. Terrault, Mitchell L. Henry	2002	54
11	Donor characteristics associated with reduced graft survival: an approach to expanding the pool of kidney donors1 Transplantation ·Friedrich K. Port, Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham, Robert A. Metzger, Dawn M. Dykstra, Brenda W. Gillespie, Eric W. Young, Francis L. Delmonico, J. D. Wynn, Robert M. Merion, Robert A. Wolfe, Philip J. Held Hit paper breakdown →	2002	619
12	Report of the Crystal City Meeting to Maximize the Use of Organs Recovered from the Cadaver Donor American Journal of Transplantation ·Bruce R. Rosengard, Sandy Feng, Edward J. Alfrey, Jonathan G. Zaroff, Jean C. Emond, Mitchell L. Henry, Edward R. Garrity, John P. Roberts, J. D. Wynn, Robert A. Metzger, Richard B. Freeman, Friedrich K. Port, Robert M. Merion, Robert B. Love, Ronald W. Busuttil, Francis L. Delmonico	2002	247
13	The nondirected live-kidney donor: ethical considerations and practice guidelines Transplantation ·Patricia L. Adams, David J. Cohen, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Reverend Mark D. Edington, Robert S. Gaston, Cheryl L. Jacobs, Richard S. Luskin, Robert A. Metzger, Thomas G. Peters, Laura A. Siminoff, Robert M. Veatch, Lynn Rothberg-Wegman, Stephen T. Bartlett, Lori E. Brigham, James F. Burdick, Susan Gunderson, William Harmon, Arthur J. Matas, J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Francis L. Delmonico	2002	101
14	RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF TACROLIMUS PLUS MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL OR AZATHIOPRINE VERSUS CYCLOSPORINE ORAL SOLUTION (MODIFIED) PLUS MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL AFTER CADAVERIC KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: RESULTS AT 2 YEARS1 Transplantation ·Nasimul Ahsan, Christopher P. Johnson, Thomas A. Gonwa, Philip F. Halloran, Mark D. Stegall, Mark A. Hardy, Robert A. Metzger, Charles F. Shield, Leslie Rocher, John D. Scandling, John B. Sorensen, Laura Mulloy, Jimmy A. Light, Claudia Corwin, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Michael Wachs, Paul VanVeldhuisen, K. Salm, D. Tolzman, William E. Fitzsimmons	2001	116
15	Organ procurement organization (OPO), best practices Clinical Transplantation ·R. R. Bollinger, Dennis Heinrichs, Debbie Seem, J.D. Rosendale, Kirsten Johnson, Robert A. Metzger	2001	13
16	RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF TACROLIMUS (PROGRAF) IN COMBINATION WITH AZATHIOPRINE OR MYCHOPHENOLATE MOFETIL VERSUS CYCLOSPORINE (NEORAL) WITH MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL AFTER CADAVERIC KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION1, 2 Transplantation ·Christopher P. Johnson, Nasimul Ahsan, Thomas A. Gonwa, Philip F. Halloran, Mark D. Stegall, Mark A. Hardy, Robert A. Metzger, Charles F. Shield, Leslie Rocher, John D. Scandling, John B. Sorensen, Laura Mulloy, Jimmy A. Light, Claudia Corwin, Gabriel M. Danovitch, Michael Wachs, Paul VanVeldhuisen, K. Salm, D. Tolzman, William E. Fitzsimmons	2000	229
17	Solid source MBE growth of InAsP/InP quantum wells Journal of Electronic Materials ·Georgiana Dagnall, Jeng-Jung Shen, Tong-Ho Kim, Robert A. Metzger, April S. Brown, Stuart R. Stock	1999	5
18	Control of Be diffusion in AlInAs/GaInAs heterostructure bipolar transistors through use of low-temperature GaInAs Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing Measurement and Phenomena ·Robert A. Metzger, T. Liu, W.E. Stanchina, R. G. Wilson, J.F. Jensen, L.G. McCray, M.W. Pierce, T.V. Kargodorian, Y.K. Allen, Pang-Yen Lou, Umesh K. Mishra	1992	4
19	A deep-submicrometer microwave/digital CMOS/SOS technology IEEE Electron Device Letters ·A. Schmitz, R.H. Walden, L.E. Larson, S. E. Rosenbaum, Robert A. Metzger, J.R. Behnke, P.A. Macdonald	1991	31
20	InP-based inverted high electron mobility transistors IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices ·A. Schmitz, L.D. Nguyen, April S. Brown, Robert A. Metzger	1991	2

About Robert A. Metzger

Robert A. Metzger is a scholar working on Transplantation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Condensed Matter Physics, having authored 87 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (43 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (20 papers), Semiconductor materials and devices (18 papers), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design (16 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (14 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (14 papers), Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design (13 papers) and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Transplantation (1.9k citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (1.5k citations), Surgery (1.6k citations), Hepatology (267 citations) and Nephrology (237 citations). Robert A. Metzger has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Francis L. Delmonico, Robert M. Merion, Friedrich K. Port, J. D. Wynn, F. G. Allen, Sandy Feng, Robert A. Wolfe, Philip J. Held, Dawn M. Dykstra and Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham. Their work appears in journals such as Transplantation, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, American Journal of Transplantation and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

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