Sudish C. Murthy

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
244 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Sudish C. Murthy is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Gastroenterology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sudish C. Murthy has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Surgery, 140 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 40 papers in Gastroenterology. Recurrent topics in Sudish C. Murthy's work include Esophageal and GI Pathology (76 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (60 papers) and Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (51 papers). Sudish C. Murthy is often cited by papers focused on Esophageal and GI Pathology (76 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (60 papers) and Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (51 papers). Sudish C. Murthy collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Sudish C. Murthy's co-authors include David P. Mason, Thomas W. Rice, Eugene H. Blackstone, Andrew C. Chang, John A. Howington, Alex Balekian, Matthew G. Blum, Atul C. Mehta, Gösta Pettersson and Eugene H. Blackstone and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sudish C. Murthy

233 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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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.

Treatment of Stage I and II Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sudish C. Murthy United States	45	4.5k	4.2k	975	610	569	244	7.1k
Bryan F. Meyers United States	51	5.1k 1.1×	3.9k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	569 0.9×	902 1.6×	222	7.9k
Malcolm M. DeCamp United States	50	7.1k 1.6×	2.8k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	218 0.4×	956 1.7×	199	9.2k
Bruno M. Schmied Germany	37	1.2k 0.3×	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 2.5×	183 0.3×	148 0.3×	168	4.8k
Thomas A. D’Amico United States	56	8.7k 1.9×	3.7k 0.9×	2.5k 2.5×	218 0.4×	1.2k 2.1×	299	11.1k
C. Wright Pinson United States	40	1.5k 0.3×	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	116 0.2×	614 1.1×	156	5.3k
Félix G. Fernández United States	42	2.9k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	706 1.2×	576 1.0×	144	5.8k
Geert Maleux Belgium	37	2.2k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	403 0.4×	233 0.4×	451 0.8×	303	5.1k
Giorgio Ercolani Italy	53	2.0k 0.4×	5.2k 1.2×	2.5k 2.5×	114 0.2×	288 0.5×	349	9.7k
Roberto Troisi Belgium	46	1.3k 0.3×	4.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	105 0.2×	277 0.5×	253	6.1k
Boris Nikolic United States	37	1.4k 0.3×	1.7k 0.4×	341 0.3×	225 0.4×	555 1.0×	94	5.3k

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Jones, Gregory D. & Sudish C. Murthy. (2025). Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Renal Cell Carcinoma. Thoracic surgery clinics/Thorac. surg. clin.. 35(2). 175–187.

Sarkaria, Inderpal S., Sunil Singhal, Rishindra M. Reddy, et al.. (2024). Intraoperative Molecular Imaging With Pafolacianine: Histologic Characteristics of Identified Nodules. Clinical Lung Cancer. 26(2). 104–115. 3 indexed citations

Tasnim, Sadia, Siva Raja, Eugene H. Blackstone, et al.. (2024). Clinical T2 N0 M0 Esophageal Cancer: Identifying Predictive Factors of Upstaging. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 117(6). 1121–1127.

Barron, John, Eugene H. Blackstone, Sadia Tasnim, et al.. (2024). Esophageal tortuosity in achalasia: increased length-to-height ratio predicts inferior symptom relief and esophageal emptying following myotomy. Surgical Endoscopy. 39(1). 480–491.

Murthy, Sudish C., Steven M. Gordon, Ashley M. Lowry, & Eugene H. Blackstone. (2024). Evolution of serious and life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia as the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic progressed: an observational study of mortality to 60 days after admission to a 15-hospital US health system. BMJ Open. 14(7). e075028–e075028. 2 indexed citations

Sudarshan, Monisha, Sadia Tasnim, John Barron, et al.. (2023). Development and validation of a universal esophageal patient-reported outcome measure: The Cleveland Clinic Esophageal Questionnaire (CEQ). Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 167(4). 1490–1497.e17. 3 indexed citations

Barron, John, Sadia Tasnim, Monisha Sudarshan, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the subjective: length-to-height ratio characterizes achalasia esophageal tortuosity. Surgical Endoscopy. 37(11). 8728–8734. 2 indexed citations

Shah, Ravi S., Xuefeng Zhang, Abel Joseph, et al.. (2023). Accuracy of Endoscopic Biopsies for Determining Tumor Grade in Pre-resection Evaluation of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. Techniques and Innovations in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 25(4). 329–336.

Tang, Andrew, Usman Ahmad, Siva Raja, et al.. (2020). Looking beyond the eyeball test: A novel vitality index to predict recovery after esophagectomy. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 161(3). 822–832.e6. 7 indexed citations

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Pennell, Nathan A., Joel W. Neal, Jamie E. Chaft, et al.. (2018). SELECT: A Phase II Trial of Adjuvant Erlotinib in Patients With Resected Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor–Mutant Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 37(2). 97–104. 137 indexed citations

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Shafii, Alexis E., Chase R. Brown, Sudish C. Murthy, & David P. Mason. (2012). High incidence of upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis with dual-lumen venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 144(4). 988–989. 19 indexed citations

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Mughal, Majid, Thomas R. Gildea, Sudish C. Murthy, et al.. (2005). Short-Term Deployment of Self-Expanding Metallic Stents Facilitates Healing of Bronchial Dehiscence. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 172(6). 768–771. 100 indexed citations

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Rice, Thomas W., Alicia A. McKelvey, Joel E. Richter, et al.. (2005). A physiologic clinical study of achalasia: Should Dor fundoplication be added to Heller myotomy?. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 130(6). 1593–1600.e1. 20 indexed citations

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Rice, Thomas W., Eugene H. Blackstone, David J. Adelstein, et al.. (2003). Role of clinically determined depth of tumor invasion in the treatment of esophageal carcinoma. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 125(5). 1091–1102. 53 indexed citations

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Rice, Thomas W., Eugene H. Blackstone, Lisa Rybicki, et al.. (2003). Refining esophageal cancer staging. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 125(5). 1103–1113. 122 indexed citations

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DeCamp, Malcolm M., Thomas W. Rice, David J. Adelstein, et al.. (2003). Value of accelerated multimodality therapy in stage IIIA and IIIB non–small cell lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 126(1). 17–25. 29 indexed citations

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Murthy, Sudish C., et al.. (2003). Diffuse plexiform neurofibroma with unusual features. Indian Journal of Dermatology Venereology and Leprology. 69(7). 11. 1 indexed citations

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Moazami, Nader, Thomas W. Rice, Lisa Rybicki, et al.. (2002). Stage III non–small cell lung cancer and metachronous brain metastases. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 124(1). 113–122. 35 indexed citations

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Rice, Thomas W., Eugene H. Blackstone, David J. Adelstein, et al.. (2001). N1 esophageal carcinoma: The importance of staging and downstaging. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 121(3). 454–464. 63 indexed citations

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Rice, Thomas W., Mark E. Baker, Malcolm M. DeCamp, et al.. (2000). Timed barium esophagogram: A simple physiologic assessment for achalasia. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 120(5). 935–946. 61 indexed citations

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