Susan E. Lederer

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 700 citations indexed

About

Susan E. Lederer is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, History and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan E. Lederer has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 700 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 12 papers in History and 9 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Susan E. Lederer's work include Ethics in medical practice (8 papers), Medical History and Research (7 papers) and History of Science and Medicine (7 papers). Susan E. Lederer is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in medical practice (8 papers), Medical History and Research (7 papers) and History of Science and Medicine (7 papers). Susan E. Lederer collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Susan E. Lederer's co-authors include Audrey B. Davis, Joel D. Howell, Lisa Boult, Naomi Rogers, Daniel Wikler, David Seth Jones, Christine Grady, John Parascandola, Janine Jagger and Jonathan D. Moreno and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Susan E. Lederer

39 papers receiving 593 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.

  1. Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War
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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Susan E. Lederer United States 14 265 139 118 96 91 46 700
Florian Steger Germany 15 245 0.9× 239 1.7× 54 0.5× 88 0.9× 24 0.3× 165 769
Naomi Rogers United States 11 93 0.4× 59 0.4× 28 0.2× 60 0.6× 78 0.9× 32 425
Mette N. Svendsen Denmark 16 223 0.8× 124 0.9× 25 0.2× 14 0.1× 17 0.2× 69 730
Thomas Neville Bonner United States 14 189 0.7× 132 0.9× 71 0.6× 144 1.5× 11 0.1× 57 784
Dena S. Davis United States 14 250 0.9× 122 0.9× 34 0.3× 4 0.0× 27 0.3× 91 745
Yechiel Michael Barilan Israel 12 151 0.6× 116 0.8× 60 0.5× 21 0.2× 18 0.2× 47 385
Steve Sturdy United Kingdom 14 91 0.3× 126 0.9× 23 0.2× 144 1.5× 10 0.1× 39 629
Josephine Johnston United States 16 149 0.6× 46 0.3× 154 1.3× 5 0.1× 26 0.3× 56 807
Audrey B. Davis United States 11 66 0.2× 51 0.4× 13 0.1× 118 1.2× 15 0.2× 38 539
John H. Morgan United States 14 66 0.2× 112 0.8× 84 0.7× 5 0.1× 16 0.2× 54 826

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susan E. Lederer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2025). Characterizing Second Look Behaviors and Attitudes of Pediatric Residency Applicants. Academic Pediatrics. 25(6). 102832–102832.
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2023). Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole. Medical Humanities. 49(3). 457–467. 1 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2019). African-Americans with End Stage Renal Disease in the Early Years of Kidney Transplantation. Journal of the National Medical Association. 111(4). 352–362. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, David Seth, Christine Grady, & Susan E. Lederer. (2016). “Ethics and Clinical Research” — The 50th Anniversary of Beecher’s Bombshell. New England Journal of Medicine. 374(24). 2393–2398. 29 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E.. (2014). The Challenges of Challenge Experiments. New England Journal of Medicine. 371(8). 695–697. 4 indexed citations
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Doukas, David J., Darrell G. Kirch, Timothy P. Brigham, et al.. (2014). Transforming Educational Accountability in Medical Ethics and Humanities Education Toward Professionalism. Academic Medicine. 90(6). 738–743. 39 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E.. (2008). Putting Death in Context. The Hastings Center Report. 38(6). 3–3. 2 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2007). Let the Dead Teach the Living: The Rise of Body Bequeathal in 20th-Century America. Academic Medicine. 82(10). 1000–1005. 90 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E.. (2007). Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film. Bulletin of the history of medicine. 81(1). 94–115. 21 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E.. (2005). Experimentation on Human Beings. OAH Magazine of History. 19(5). 20–22. 3 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2005). Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States. Osiris. 20. 205–231. 9 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (2001). Laying ethical foundations for clinical research.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 79(4). 365–6. 32 indexed citations
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Leong, Shou Ling, et al.. (1999). Evaluating students on an interdisciplinary primary care clerkship at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Academic Medicine. 74(1). S67–9. 3 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E. & John Parascandola. (1998). Screening Syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Meets the Public Health Service. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 53(4). 345–370. 19 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E.. (1998). Repellent Subjects: Hollywood Censorship and Surgical Images in the 1930s. Literature and medicine. 17(1). 91–113. 14 indexed citations
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Reverby, Susan M. & Susan E. Lederer. (1996). Everyday Evil. The Hastings Center Report. 26(5). 38–38.
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Lederer, Susan E.. (1992). Political Animals: The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America. Isis. 83(1). 61–79. 42 indexed citations
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Lederer, Susan E., et al.. (1990). A Model of Its Kind. Vol. I: A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins.. Journal of American History. 77(2). 693–693. 1 indexed citations

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