Simar S. Bajaj

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 725 citations indexed

About

Simar S. Bajaj is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Gender Studies and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Simar S. Bajaj has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 725 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 16 papers in Gender Studies and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Simar S. Bajaj's work include Health and Medical Research Impacts (16 papers), Diversity and Career in Medicine (16 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (10 papers). Simar S. Bajaj is often cited by papers focused on Health and Medical Research Impacts (16 papers), Diversity and Career in Medicine (16 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (10 papers). Simar S. Bajaj collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Simar S. Bajaj's co-authors include Fatima Cody Stanford, Rushabh Doshi, Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang, Hanjay Wang, Kiah M. Williams, Christian O’Donnell, Alexandra L. Potter, Jack H. Boyd, Harlan M. Krumholz and Bhav Jain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simar S. Bajaj

52 papers receiving 715 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.

Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism

2021 191 citations Simar S. Bajaj, Fatima Cody Stanford New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simar S. Bajaj United States	14	236	148	129	113	97	59	725
Darrell M. Gray United States	17	195 0.8×	54 0.4×	193 1.5×	110 1.0×	108 1.1×	61	988
Abirami Kirubarajan Canada	14	139 0.6×	51 0.3×	121 0.9×	30 0.3×	47 0.5×	55	725
Dominique Vervoort United States	18	490 2.1×	218 1.5×	197 1.5×	61 0.5×	226 2.3×	146	1.4k
Ben Davies United States	18	348 1.5×	41 0.3×	417 3.2×	260 2.3×	195 2.0×	91	1.2k
Halah Ibrahim United Arab Emirates	16	371 1.6×	102 0.7×	261 2.0×	40 0.4×	30 0.3×	89	754
Linda Z. Nieman United States	17	351 1.5×	52 0.4×	187 1.4×	24 0.2×	185 1.9×	48	886
Emily Hallgren United States	12	202 0.9×	74 0.5×	179 1.4×	228 2.0×	45 0.5×	29	731
Safa Abdalla United States	15	114 0.5×	39 0.3×	114 0.9×	72 0.6×	55 0.6×	52	745
Megan Mahoney United States	17	358 1.5×	107 0.7×	513 4.0×	59 0.5×	16 0.2×	49	1.1k
Timothy J. Beebe United States	17	146 0.6×	38 0.3×	319 2.5×	78 0.7×	103 1.1×	37	983

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simar S. Bajaj

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2025). Ending vaccine hegemony: Rethinking foreign aid in global health responses. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(1). e0004177–e0004177.

Zhu, David T., et al.. (2025). Methamphetamine and Cocaine Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2023. Substance Use & Misuse. 60(12). 1946–1949. 1 indexed citations

Doshi, Rushabh, Kanhai Amin, P.K. Khosla, et al.. (2024). Quantitative Evaluation of Large Language Models to Streamline Radiology Report Impressions: A Multimodal Retrospective Analysis. Radiology. 310(3). e231593–e231593. 56 indexed citations

Sabet, Cameron, Simar S. Bajaj, & Fatima Cody Stanford. (2024). Community Review Boards offer a path to research equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(19). e2320334121–e2320334121. 1 indexed citations

Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2024). Social Media and Artificial Intelligence—Understanding Medical Misinformation Through Snapchat’s New Artificial Intelligence Chatbot. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 252–254. 6 indexed citations

Aaron, Daniel, Simar S. Bajaj, & Fatima Cody Stanford. (2023). Supreme Court cases on affirmative action threaten diversity in medicine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(17). e2220919120–e2220919120. 10 indexed citations

Bajaj, Simar S., Bhav Jain, Theodore K. Kyle, et al.. (2022). Overcoming congressional inertia on obesity requires better literacy in obesity science. Obesity. 30(4). 799–801. 6 indexed citations

Zhong, Anthony, et al.. (2022). Trends in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Reimbursement in the USA. Obesity Surgery. 32(12). 4110–4112. 4 indexed citations

Nguyen, Dang, et al.. (2022). Protecting marginalized women’s mental health in the post-Dobbs era. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(40). e2212012119–e2212012119. 6 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2022). International lack of equity in modern obesity therapy: the critical need for change in health policy. International Journal of Obesity. 46(9). 1571–1572. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Hanjay, Simar S. Bajaj, Kiah M. Williams, et al.. (2022). Analyzing the Scholarly Impact of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Using the Relative Citation Ratio. Journal of Surgical Research. 275. 265–272. 7 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S., Bhav Jain, & Fatima Cody Stanford. (2022). Weight gain after in vitro fertilization: a potential consequence of controlled ovarian stimulation. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 39(4). 973–976. 2 indexed citations

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Townsend, Matthew J., et al.. (2022). Obesity and Eligibility for Obesity Treatments Among Adults With Disabilities in the U.S.. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 63(4). 513–520. 6 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S., Hanjay Wang, Kiah M. Williams, et al.. (2021). Characterization of academic cardiothoracic surgeons who started as attendings in private or community practice. Surgery. 171(2). 348–353. 3 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2021). Locking ourselves into the past: the DentalSlim Diet Control device and an incomplete understanding of obesity. International Journal of Obesity. 45(12). 2513–2514. 2 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S. & Fatima Cody Stanford. (2021). Beyond Tuskegee — Vaccine Distrust and Everyday Racism. New England Journal of Medicine. 384(5). e12–e12. 191 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2021). Treatment of Obesity: Pharmacotherapy Trends of Office-Based Visits in the United States From 2011 to 2016. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 96(12). 2991–3000. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Hanjay, Simar S. Bajaj, Aravind Krishnan, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Cardiothoracic Surgeons Actively Leading Basic Science Research. Journal of Surgical Research. 268. 371–380. 6 indexed citations

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Potter, Alexandra L., Simar S. Bajaj, & Chi‐Fu Jeffrey Yang. (2021). The 2021 USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines: a new frontier. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 9(7). 689–691. 37 indexed citations

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Bajaj, Simar S., et al.. (2020). National Institutes of Health R01 Grant Funding Is Associated With Enhanced Research Productivity and Career Advancement Among Academic Cardiothoracic Surgeons. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 33(4). 1047–1056. 16 indexed citations

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