Saef Izzy

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
72 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Saef Izzy is a scholar working on Neurology, Epidemiology and Emergency Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Saef Izzy has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Neurology, 29 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in Emergency Medicine. Recurrent topics in Saef Izzy's work include Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (36 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (20 papers) and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (12 papers). Saef Izzy is often cited by papers focused on Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (36 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (20 papers) and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (12 papers). Saef Izzy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Saef Izzy's co-authors include Joseph El Khoury, Suzanne E. Hickman, Liza Morsett, Pritha Sen, Michael J. Whalen, Dorian B. McGavern, Yasir Jassam, Susanne Muehlschlegel, Raphael Carandang and David J. Coté and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Saef Izzy

64 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microglia in neurodegeneration

2018 1.2k citations Suzanne E. Hickman, Saef Izzy et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Neuroimmunology of Traumatic Brain Injury: Time for a Paradigm Shift

2017 521 citations Saef Izzy, Michael J. Whalen et al. profile →
Association of Traumatic Brain Injury With the Risk of Developing Chronic Cardiovascular, Endocrine, Neurological, and Psychiatric Disorders

2022 97 citations Saef Izzy, Patrick Chen et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saef Izzy United States	20	1.1k	1.0k	749	577	446	72	2.9k
Chung‐Ching Chio Taiwan	37	444 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	937 1.3×	583 1.0×	344 0.8×	129	3.7k
Hedley Emsley United Kingdom	28	1.2k 1.1×	767 0.7×	738 1.0×	1.3k 2.2×	578 1.3×	85	3.9k
Suyue Pan China	29	549 0.5×	755 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	494 0.9×	170 0.4×	163	3.1k
Brandon Lucke‐Wold United States	29	502 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	994 1.7×	193 0.4×	420	4.2k
Elisa R. Zanier Italy	36	940 0.9×	1.9k 1.8×	981 1.3×	936 1.6×	634 1.4×	109	4.1k
Charles L. Rosen United States	35	636 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	676 0.9×	980 1.7×	127 0.3×	83	2.9k
Marion S. Buckwalter United States	31	1.6k 1.5×	460 0.4×	1.3k 1.7×	559 1.0×	626 1.4×	71	3.8k
Konstantin Prass Germany	25	2.0k 1.9×	840 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	914 2.0×	34	4.6k
Adel Helmy United Kingdom	35	564 0.5×	2.7k 2.6×	1.2k 1.7×	1.2k 2.0×	320 0.7×	119	4.4k
John R. Vender United States	29	367 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	713 1.0×	404 0.7×	253 0.6×	89	2.5k

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Marini, Sandro, Farid Radmanesh, Joshua I. Chalif, et al.. (2025). Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury and Subsequent Risk of Developing Chronic Cardiovascular, Neurologic, Psychiatric, and Endocrine Disorders. JAMA Network Open. 8(11). e2541157–e2541157.

Chalif, Joshua I., Benjamin R. Johnston, Eric Chalif, et al.. (2025). Traumatic spinal cord injury: a review of the current state of art and future directions – what do we know and where are we going?. North American Spine Society Journal (NASSJ). 22. 100601–100601. 4 indexed citations

Izzy, Saef. (2024). Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology. 30(1). 53–72. 8 indexed citations

Barra, Megan E., Rachel Forman, Alexander E. Merkler, et al.. (2024). Optimal Timing for Resumption of Anticoagulation After Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients With Mechanical Heart Valves. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(10). e032094–e032094. 4 indexed citations

Mayerhofer, Ernst, Marios K. Georgakis, Mart Kals, et al.. (2024). Exploring Synaptic Pathways in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Cross-Phenotype Genomics Approach. Journal of Neurotrauma. 42(1-2). 131–142.

Snider, Samuel B., Nancy Temkin, Jason Barber, et al.. (2023). Predicting Functional Dependency in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A TBI‐Model Systems and TRACK‐TBI Study. Annals of Neurology. 94(6). 1008–1023. 3 indexed citations

Cooper, Jared, Christian A. Bowers, Kartik Prabhakaran, et al.. (2023). Neuroendovascular Surgery Applications in Craniocervical Trauma. Biomedicines. 11(9). 2409–2409. 3 indexed citations

Abou‐El‐Hassan, Hadi, Rafael M. Rezende, Saef Izzy, et al.. (2023). Vγ1 and Vγ4 gamma-delta T cells play opposing roles in the immunopathology of traumatic brain injury in males. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4286–4286. 21 indexed citations

Izzy, Saef, Rachel Grashow, Farid Radmanesh, et al.. (2023). Long-term risk of cardiovascular disease after traumatic brain injury: screening and prevention. The Lancet Neurology. 22(10). 959–970. 27 indexed citations

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Ali, Ali Basil, Ayaz Khawaja, S. S. Rao, et al.. (2022). Venous Thromboembolism Risk and Outcomes Following Decompressive Craniectomy in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: An Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample Database. World Neurosurgery. 161. e531–e545. 8 indexed citations

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Das, Alvin S., Melissa Chua, Samuel B. Snider, et al.. (2022). Cerebrovascular injuries in traumatic brain injury. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 223. 107479–107479. 9 indexed citations

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Stopa, Brittany M., Alessandro Boaro, Ayaz Khawaja, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Age and Severity on Dementia After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Comparison Study. Neurosurgery. 89(5). 810–818. 13 indexed citations

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Migdady, Ibrahim, et al.. (2021). Cerebral Hyperperfusion and Delayed Coma Recovery after Subdural Hematoma Evacuation. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 30(12). 106165–106165. 1 indexed citations

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Bianciardi, Marta, Saef Izzy, Bruce R. Rosen, Lawrence L. Wald, & Brian L. Edlow. (2021). Location of Subcortical Microbleeds and Recovery of Consciousness After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurology. 97(2). e113–e123. 13 indexed citations

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Izzy, Saef, Joon Yong Chung, Sevda Lüle, et al.. (2021). Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury Causes Neuroinflammation before Tau Pathology in Adolescent P301S Mice. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(2). 907–907. 13 indexed citations

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Das, Alvin S., Robert W. Regenhardt, Nirav J. Patel, et al.. (2020). Diffuse Cerebral Edema After Moyamoya Disease-Related Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Case Report. The Neurohospitalist. 11(3). 251–254. 1 indexed citations

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Otite, Fadar Oliver, Smit Patel, Richa Sharma, et al.. (2020). Trends in incidence and epidemiologic characteristics of cerebral venous thrombosis in the United States. Neurology. 95(16). e2200–e2213. 64 indexed citations

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Stopa, Brittany M., et al.. (2019). Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for dementia. European Journal of Public Health. 29(Supplement_4). 1 indexed citations

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Hickman, Suzanne E., Saef Izzy, Pritha Sen, Liza Morsett, & Joseph El Khoury. (2018). Microglia in neurodegeneration. Nature Neuroscience. 21(10). 1359–1369. 1195 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muehlschlegel, Susanne, Raphael Carandang, Saef Izzy, et al.. (2014). Dantrolene for cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid haemorrhage: a randomised double blind placebo-controlled safety trial. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 86(9). 1029–1035. 13 indexed citations

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