Shaheed Merani

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Shaheed Merani is a scholar working on Surgery, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaheed Merani has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Surgery, 18 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Shaheed Merani's work include Pancreatic function and diabetes (21 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (16 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (15 papers). Shaheed Merani is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic function and diabetes (21 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (16 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (15 papers). Shaheed Merani collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Shaheed Merani's co-authors include Christian Toso, A. M. James Shapiro, Juliet Emamaullee, A. M. James Shapiro, Rena Pawlick, Norman M. Kneteman, Joy Davis, Tatsuya Kin, Boris Gala-López and Andrew R. Pepper and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nature Biotechnology and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Shaheed Merani

60 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A prevascularized subcutaneous device-less site for islet and cellular transplantation

2015 289 citations Shaheed Merani, A. M. James Shapiro et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shaheed Merani Canada	24	1.3k	592	506	467	336	64	2.3k
Takashi Kenmochi Japan	22	1.2k 0.9×	237 0.4×	283 0.6×	100 0.2×	306 0.9×	155	1.9k
Paul F. Gores United States	29	1.6k 1.2×	546 0.9×	433 0.9×	128 0.3×	269 0.8×	87	2.5k
C. G. Groth Sweden	20	1.4k 1.0×	616 1.0×	345 0.7×	139 0.3×	241 0.7×	66	2.0k
Debra A. Hullett United States	28	873 0.6×	264 0.4×	196 0.4×	376 0.8×	530 1.6×	89	2.0k
Francesco L. Ierino Australia	24	1.0k 0.8×	411 0.7×	85 0.2×	350 0.7×	383 1.1×	82	2.1k
H Johansson Sweden	13	967 0.7×	529 0.9×	412 0.8×	120 0.3×	210 0.6×	43	1.6k
Alexander F. Schaapherder Netherlands	31	1.8k 1.3×	179 0.3×	70 0.1×	455 1.0×	472 1.4×	90	3.0k
M Alessiani Italy	25	1.4k 1.1×	114 0.2×	83 0.2×	201 0.4×	461 1.4×	112	2.6k
Bernhard Egger Switzerland	21	954 0.7×	281 0.5×	42 0.1×	221 0.5×	279 0.8×	90	1.8k
Masayoshi Okumi Japan	26	792 0.6×	138 0.2×	66 0.1×	320 0.7×	371 1.1×	186	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaheed Merani

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Wall, Anji, Peter L. Abt, Aleah L. Brubaker, et al.. (2025). Utilization of DCD NRP liver grafts:A multicenter study of opportunities for improvement in organ acceptance. American Journal of Transplantation. 25(1). S86–S86.

Thompson, Jon S., Fedja A. Rochling, Elizabeth Lyden, et al.. (2024). Gastric bypass reversal in patients with short bowel syndrome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100004–100004.

Merani, Shaheed, Marian Urban, Scott G. Westphal, et al.. (2023). Improved Early Post-Transplant Outcomes and Organ Use in Kidney Transplant Using Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Donation after Circulatory Death: National Experience in the US. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 238(1). 107–118. 18 indexed citations

Westphal, Scott G., et al.. (2023). Kidney injury and status 1 liver transplantation: Outcomes, kidney function, and listing for kidney transplantation. Clinical Transplantation. 37(4). e14921–e14921.

Thompson, Jon S., Fedja A. Rochling, Elizabeth Lyden, et al.. (2022). Cholecystectomy prior to short bowel syndrome does not alter nutritional prognosis. The American Journal of Surgery. 224(5). 1285–1288. 2 indexed citations

Urban, Marian, Anthony W. Castleberry, Kim Duncan, et al.. (2021). Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 113(6). e473–e476. 5 indexed citations

Merani, Shaheed, et al.. (2021). Not as Rare as Initially Described: Transplant Ureter Incarceration Within Inguinal Hernia. Two Cases, Literature Review, and Management Algorithm. Transplantation Proceedings. 53(7). 2285–2290. 3 indexed citations

Merani, Shaheed, et al.. (2020). Immune function and infectious complications in children with jejunoileal atresia. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 56(3). 454–458. 2 indexed citations

Westphal, Scott G., Amber R. Wilk, Jianghu Dong, et al.. (2020). The impact of multi-organ transplant allocation priority on waitlisted kidney transplant candidates. American Journal of Transplantation. 21(6). 2161–2174. 24 indexed citations

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Manatsathit, Wuttiporn, et al.. (2019). Ciliated Hepatic Foregut Cyst: A Report of a Case Incidentally Discovered during Transplant Evaluation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2019. 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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Merani, Shaheed, et al.. (2015). Perioperative factors predicting poor outcome in elderly patients following emergency general surgery: a multivariate regression analysis. Canadian Journal of Surgery. 58(5). 312–317. 50 indexed citations

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Merani, Shaheed, et al.. (2014). Predictors of in-hospital mortality and complications in very elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery. World Journal of Emergency Surgery. 9(1). 43–43. 66 indexed citations

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Truong, Wayne, Wayne W. Hancock, Shaheed Merani, et al.. (2009). BTLA targeting modulates lymphocyte phenotype, function, and numbers and attenuates disease in nonobese diabetic mice. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 86(1). 41–51. 27 indexed citations

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Toso, Christian, Shaheed Merani, David L. Bigam, A. M. James Shapiro, & Norman M. Kneteman. (2009). Sirolimus‐based immunosuppression is associated with increased survival after liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma†. Hepatology. 51(4). 1237–1243. 233 indexed citations

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Merani, Shaheed, et al.. (2009). AEB-071 has minimal impact on onset of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Autoimmunity. 42(3). 242–248. 5 indexed citations

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Emamaullee, Juliet, Shaheed Merani, Christian P. Larsen, & A. M. James Shapiro. (2008). Belatacept and Basiliximab Diminish Human Antiporcine Xenoreactivity and Synergize to Inhibit Alloimmunity. Transplantation. 85(1). 118–124. 13 indexed citations

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Truong, Wayne, Wayne W. Hancock, Shaheed Merani, et al.. (2007). Combined Coinhibitory and Costimulatory Modulation with Anti-BTLA and CTLA4Ig Facilitates Tolerance in Murine Islet Allografts. American Journal of Transplantation. 7(12). 2663–2674. 45 indexed citations

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Truong, Wayne, Juliet Emamaullee, Shaheed Merani, Colin C. Anderson, & A. M. James Shapiro. (2007). Human Islet Function Is Not Impaired by the Sphingosine‐1‐Phosphate Receptor Modulator FTY720. American Journal of Transplantation. 7(8). 2031–2038. 19 indexed citations

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Ulanova, Marina, Lakshmi Puttagunta, Grant R. Stenton, et al.. (2004). Frontline: Inhibition of allergen‐induced pulmonary inflammation by the tripeptide feG: a mimetic of a neuro‐endocrine pathway. European Journal of Immunology. 34(12). 3315–3325. 34 indexed citations

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Stenton, Grant R., Marina Ulanova, Shaheed Merani, et al.. (2002). Inhibition of Allergic Inflammation in the Airways Using Aerosolized Antisense to Syk Kinase. The Journal of Immunology. 169(2). 1028–1036. 97 indexed citations

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