Sean Hacking

471 total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 270 citations indexed

About

Sean Hacking is a scholar working on Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Hacking has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 270 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oncology, 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 10 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sean Hacking's work include Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (6 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (6 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (5 papers). Sean Hacking is often cited by papers focused on Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (6 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (6 papers) and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (5 papers). Sean Hacking collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Sean Hacking's co-authors include Mansoor Nasim, Taisia Vitkovski, Rebecca Thomas, Dongling Wu, Yihong Wang, Vanesa Bijol, Sharon X. Liang, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk and Jan Egger and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology and American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

In The Last Decade

Sean Hacking

36 papers receiving 266 citations

Hit Papers

Benefits, limits, and risks of ChatGPT in medicine 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15 20
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.

  1. Benefits, limits, and risks of ChatGPT in medicine
    2025 22 citations Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk, Zhen Wang et al. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sean Hacking United States 9 105 68 57 47 43 40 270
Evangelia Panourgias Greece 10 60 0.6× 39 0.6× 44 0.8× 29 0.6× 52 1.2× 22 338
Stelian Ştefăniţă Mogoantă Romania 11 126 1.2× 150 2.2× 67 1.2× 40 0.9× 35 0.8× 74 378
Massimo Lodi France 11 75 0.7× 59 0.9× 95 1.7× 43 0.9× 52 1.2× 38 317
Tomoya Tago Japan 10 183 1.7× 136 2.0× 88 1.5× 18 0.4× 33 0.8× 45 341
Kenta Kasahara Japan 10 198 1.9× 150 2.2× 117 2.1× 15 0.3× 38 0.9× 53 372
Vidya Monappa India 11 124 1.2× 89 1.3× 67 1.2× 60 1.3× 16 0.4× 64 401
Christina Nikolaidou Greece 10 59 0.6× 99 1.5× 55 1.0× 41 0.9× 7 0.2× 47 320
Javier del Riego Spain 9 39 0.4× 52 0.8× 37 0.6× 47 1.0× 47 1.1× 20 223
Han Yang China 13 114 1.1× 103 1.5× 115 2.0× 23 0.5× 63 1.5× 35 360

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Hacking

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Hacking

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean Hacking. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean Hacking 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 Sean Hacking. Sean Hacking 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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Virk, Hafeez Ul Hassan, Zhen Wang, Jan Egger, et al.. (2025). DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: prospects and challenges. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. 8. 1576992–1576992. 4 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, Laijun Song, Snehal Sonawane, et al.. (2024). Social media in pathology and laboratory medicine: A systematic review. Academic Pathology. 11(4). 100151–100151. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Shaolei, Dongfang Yang, Yihong Wang, et al.. (2023). Utility of Wnt family member 9b (Wnt9b) immunohistochemistry in the cytologic diagnosis of metastatic breast carcinoma. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 485(4). 675–682. 1 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2023). Whole slide images as non-fungible tokens: A decentralized approach to secure, scalable data storage and access. Journal of Pathology Informatics. 15. 100350–100350. 4 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean & Yihong Wang. (2023). Stromal grading predicts pathologic complete response and prognosis in triple-negative breast cancer. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 483(6). 765–774. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Dongling, et al.. (2022). Computational portraits of the tumoral microenvironment in human breast cancer. Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin. 481(3). 367–385. 5 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, Dongling Wu, Theresa A. Graves, et al.. (2022). Microinvasive breast cancer and the role of sentinel lymph node biopsy. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 12391–12391. 4 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2022). A Series of COVID-19 Cases With Findings in the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary System. Cureus. 14(2). e22602–e22602.
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2022). A Novel Superpixel Approach to the Tumoral Microenvironment in Colorectal Cancer. Journal of Pathology Informatics. 13. 100009–100009. 7 indexed citations
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Gorbounov, Mikhail, Sean Hacking, Doreen L. Wiggins, et al.. (2022). “Growing fibroadenoma”: Are there clinical and pathological features predicting a phyllodes tumor on surgical excision?. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 62. 152069–152069. 3 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2022). Stromal computational signatures predict upgrade to invasive carcinoma in mass-forming DCIS: A brief report of 44 cases. Pathology - Research and Practice. 231. 153771–153771. 3 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2021). GATA binding protein 3 (GATA3) as a marker for metaplastic spindle cell carcinoma of the breast. Pathology - Research and Practice. 221. 153413–153413. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, Dongling, Sean Hacking, Taisia Vitkovski, & Mansoor Nasim. (2021). Superpixel image segmentation of VISTA expression in colorectal cancer and its relationship to the tumoral microenvironment. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 17426–17426. 6 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2021). Nature and Significance of Stromal Differentiation, PD-L1, and VISTA in GIST. Pathology - Research and Practice. 229. 153703–153703. 6 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2020). Clinical Significance of Program Death Ligand-1 and Indoleamine-2,3-Dioxygenase Expression in Colorectal Carcinoma. Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology. 29(3). 201–208. 6 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2020). A Case of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Mimicking Acute Appendicitis in a COVID-19 Pandemic Area. Cureus. 12(9). e10722–e10722. 50 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2019). Systemic p-ANCA vasculitis with fatal outcome, arising in the setting of methimazole use. PubMed. 7(1). 23–26. 3 indexed citations
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Hacking, Sean, et al.. (2019). Tumor budding in colorectal carcinoma: An institutional interobserver reliability and prognostic study of colorectal adenocarcinoma cases. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. 43. 151420–151420. 11 indexed citations
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