Stephen T. Sonis

24.7k citations

309 papers · 18.2k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 71

Impact in

Otorhinolaryngology top 0.01%
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 0.02%
- Oral health in cancer treatment

Papers in

Otorhinolaryngology 143
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies 142
Periodontics 43
- Oral Health Pathology and Treatment 36

Co-authors: Douglas E. Peterson Dorothy Keefe Joel B. Epstein Linda S. Elting Judith E. Raber‐Durlacher Alessandro Villa Rajesh V. Lalla Joanne M. Bowen
Journals: Journal of Clinical Oncology (26 papers)Cancer (20 papers)Supportive Care in Cancer (16 papers)Oral Oncology (14 papers)International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Canada

In The Last Decade

Stephen T. Sonis

305 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

The broadening scope of oral mucositis and oral ulcerative mucosal toxicities of anticancer therapies 2021 · 138 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.

2021 CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
2014 Cancer
2008 Dental Clinics of North America
2007 Cancer
2004 Nature reviews. Cancer
2004 Cancer
2004 Cancer
2001 Journal of Clinical Oncology

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All Works

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1	A Two-Stage Phase 2, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Ec-18 in Altering the Severity and Course of Oral Mucositis Secondary to Chemoradiation Therapy for Squamous Cell Cancers of the Head and Neck Cancers ·Christina Henson, Daniel Clayburgh, Arielle Lee, Deborah J. Wong, Mahesh Kudrimoti, Steve P. Lee, Noah S. Kalman, Krishna Rao, Ki Young Sohn, Jeffrey Crawford, Alessandro Villa, Stephen T. Sonis	2025	0
2	EPR25-118: A Comparison of Demographic Characteristics of Individuals With Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) Among Multiple Datasets Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ·Betty Ben Dor, Elizabeth Alpert, Brooke R. Warren, Poolakkad S. Satheeshkumar, Stephen T. Sonis, Alessandro Villa	2025	1
3	Comparisons of successful and failed Phase III trials of drugs and biologicals tested for mitigation of oral mucositis in patients being treated with radiotherapy with or without concomitant chemotherapy for cancers of the head and neck Drug Development Research ·Lang Liang, Stephen T. Sonis	2024	3
4	RRx-001 Affects Multiple Toxicities in Patients Receiving Concomitant Chemoradiation for Head and Neck Cancers: Observations of the PREVLAR Phase II Trial Marcelo Bonomi, D.M. Blakaj, David J. Sher, Rafi Kabarriti, Kyle Colvett, Vinita Takiar, Voichita Bar‐Ad, Sharad Goyal, Brian C. Muzyka, Kenneth J. Niermann, Nacer Abrouk, Bryan Oronsky, Tony Reid, Scott Caroen, Stephen T. Sonis	2024	1
5	Comparisons of Non-Oral Immune-Related Adverse Events Among Patients With Cancer With Different Oral Toxicity Profiles The Oncologist ·Yuanming Xu, Natalie Wen, Robert I. Haddad, Stephen T. Sonis, Alessandro Villa	2023	3
6	Leveraging GWAS data derived from a large cooperative group trial to assess the risk of taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy (TIPN) in patients being treated for breast cancer: Part 2—functional implications of a SNP cluster associated with TIPN risk in patients being treated for breast cancer Supportive Care in Cancer ·Maryam B. Lustberg, Xuan Wu, Juan Luis Fernández‐Martínez, Enrique J. deAndrés‐Galiana, Santosh Philips, Jeffrey Leibowitz, Bryan P. Schneider, Stephen T. Sonis	2023	2
7	Identification of a SNP cluster associated with taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy risk in patients being treated for breast cancer using GWAS data derived from a large cooperative group trial Supportive Care in Cancer ·Maryam B. Lustberg, Xuan Wu, Juan Luis Fernández‐Martínez, Enrique J. deAndrés‐Galiana, Santosh Philips, Jeffrey Leibowitz, Bryan P. Schneider, Stephen T. Sonis	2023	3
8	Oral manifestations of immune‐related adverse events in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors Oral Diseases ·Brittany Klein, Fábio Abreu Alves, Julia de Santana Rodrigues Velho, Piamkamon Vacharotayangul, Glenn J. Hanna, Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Muhammad Ali Shazib, Alessandro Villa, Sook‐Bin Woo, Hervé Sroussi, Stephen T. Sonis, Nathaniel S. Treister	2021	29
9	Oral side effects of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICIT): An analysis of 4683 patients receiving ICIT for malignancies at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and the Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute, 2011 to 2019 Cancer ·Yuanming Xu, Natalie Wen, Stephen T. Sonis, Alessandro Villa	2021	34
10	Results of a Randomized, Open Label, Multicenter Trial Assessing the Safety, Dose and Schedule of RRx-001 (R001) in Reducing Severe Oral Mucositis (SOM) in Patients Receiving Chemoradiation (CRT) for Oral Cavity/oropharynx Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·David J. Sher, Marcelo Bonomi, Dukagjin Blakaj, Rafi Kabarriti, Kyle Colvett, Bryan Oronsky, S. Caroen, Stephen T. Sonis, James A. Bianco	2020	3
11	Clinical presentation and management of mTOR inhibitor-associated stomatitis Oral Oncology ·Márcio Augusto de Oliveira, Fabiana Martins, Qian Wang, Stephen T. Sonis, George D. Demetri, Suzanne George, James E. Butrynski, Nathaniel S. Treister	2011	84
12	Mucositis: The impact, biology and therapeutic opportunities of oral mucositis Oral Oncology ·Stephen T. Sonis	2009	381
13	Emerging drugs for chemotherapy-induced mucositis Expert Opinion on Emerging Drugs ·Dorothy Keefe, Stephen T. Sonis, Joanne M. Bowen	2008	39
14	Can oral glutamine prevent mucositis in children undergoing hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation? Nature Clinical Practice Oncology ·Stephen T. Sonis	2006	3
15	Perspectives on cancer therapy-induced mucosal injury Cancer ·Stephen T. Sonis, Linda S. Elting, Dorothy Keefe, Douglas E. Peterson, Mark Schubert, Martin Hauer‐Jensen, B. Nebiyou Bekele, Judith E. Raber‐Durlacher, J. Peter Donnelly, Edward Rubenstein Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1094
16	Sirolimus and tacrolimus without methotrexate as graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis after matched related donor peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation ·Corey Cutler, Haesook T. Kim, Ephraim P. Hochberg, Vincent T. Ho, Edwin P. Alyea, Stephanie J. Lee, David C. Fisher, David B. Miklos, Jesse Levin, Stephen T. Sonis, Robert J. Soiffer, Joseph H. Antin	2004	113
17	Microarrays and clinical dentistry The Journal of the American Dental Association ·Winston Patrick Kuo, Mark Whipple, Tor‐Kristian Jenssen, Randy Todd, Joel B. Epstein, Lucila Ohno‐Machado, Stephen T. Sonis, Peter J. Park	2003	14
18	The gene expression sequence of radiated mucosa in an animal mucositis model Cell Proliferation ·Stephen T. Sonis, Jürgen Scherer, S. Phelan, Charles Lucey, J. E. Barron, Kathryn Odonnell, Richard Brennan, Huaqin Pan, Paul M. Busse, John D. Haley	2002	61
19	TRANSPLANTATION OF POLARIZED TYPE 2 DONOR T CELLS REDUCES MORTALITY CAUSED BY EXPERIMENTAL GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE1 Transplantation ·Werner Krenger, Kenneth R. Cooke, James M. Crawford, Stephen T. Sonis, Ray Simmons, Luying Pan, John Delmonte, Mahesh Karandikar, James L.M. Ferrara	1996	56
20	Effect of medical status on dental procedure time Special Care in Dentistry ·Catherine Hayes, Stephen T. Sonis	1992	7

About Stephen T. Sonis

Stephen T. Sonis is a scholar working on Otorhinolaryngology, Periodontics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology and Pharmacy, having authored 309 papers that have together received 18.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Oral health in cancer treatment (187 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (142 papers), Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (88 papers), Oral Health Pathology and Treatment (36 papers), Effects of Radiation Exposure (19 papers), Neutropenia and Cancer Infections (19 papers), Oral and gingival health research (16 papers) and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Otorhinolaryngology (8.6k citations), Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (13.5k citations), Periodontics (1.9k citations), Oncology (8.0k citations) and Pharmacy (979 citations). Stephen T. Sonis has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Douglas E. Peterson, Dorothy Keefe, Joel B. Epstein, Linda S. Elting, Judith E. Raber‐Durlacher, Alessandro Villa, Rajesh V. Lalla, Joanne M. Bowen, Rachel J. Gibson and Richard M. Logan. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer, Supportive Care in Cancer, Oral Oncology and International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.

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