Thomas J. Richards

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Richards is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Richards has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 17 papers in Surgery and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Richards's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (27 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (11 papers) and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (11 papers). Thomas J. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (27 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (11 papers) and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (11 papers). Thomas J. Richards collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Mexico. Thomas J. Richards's co-authors include Naftali Kaminski, Kevin F. Gibson, Annie Pardo, Moisés Selman, Kazuhisa Konishi, Yingze Zhang, José Cisneros, Maryann Gnys, Jean Paty and Kathleen O. Lindell and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Richards

83 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Inhibition and Role of let-7d in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

2010 410 citations Kusum Pandit, David L. Corcoran et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas J. Richards United States	34	2.8k	1.1k	902	546	473	88	4.9k
Jack Goldblatt Australia	39	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	2.4k 2.7×	581 1.1×	983 2.1×	226	6.2k
Gregory A. Hawkins United States	43	1.4k 0.5×	2.1k 2.0×	1.7k 1.9×	474 0.9×	328 0.7×	123	6.3k
Timothy D. Howard United States	39	996 0.4×	1.6k 1.5×	2.1k 2.3×	606 1.1×	274 0.6×	125	6.0k
Jianfeng Xu United States	38	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	335 0.4×	281 0.5×	279 0.6×	159	4.4k
Klaus Müller Denmark	38	781 0.3×	1.5k 1.4×	408 0.5×	498 0.9×	683 1.4×	217	5.5k
Yohan Bossé Canada	48	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	1.3k 2.4×	1.5k 3.2×	219	7.9k
Naoko Kinukawa Japan	47	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	326 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	901 1.9×	191	6.5k
Milan Maçek Czechia	32	2.2k 0.8×	959 0.9×	341 0.4×	338 0.6×	239 0.5×	169	4.4k
Masanobu Kitagawa Japan	39	1.1k 0.4×	2.1k 2.0×	370 0.4×	477 0.9×	497 1.1×	291	5.4k
James Signorovitch United States	36	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	372 0.4×	551 1.0×	434 0.9×	278	5.5k

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Smood, Benjamin, Charles R. Vasquez, Salim E. Olia, et al.. (2025). Early Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Initiation May Improve Outcomes in Select Patients With Primary Pulmonary Hypertension: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry Analysis. ASAIO Journal. 71(8). 611–620.

Richards, Thomas J., Katrina McGuigan, J. David Aguirre, et al.. (2023). Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential. Global Change Biology. 29(14). 3869–3882. 5 indexed citations

Vico, Giulia, Almir Karačić, Anneli Adler, Thomas J. Richards, & Martin Weih. (2021). Consistent Poplar Clone Ranking Based on Leaf Phenology and Temperature Along a Latitudinal and Climatic Gradient in Northern Europe. BioEnergy Research. 14(2). 445–459. 8 indexed citations

Walter, Greg M., et al.. (2020). Loss of ecologically important genetic variation in late generation hybrids reveals links between adaptation and speciation. Evolution Letters. 4(4). 302–316. 13 indexed citations

Richards, Thomas J., Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos, & Katrina McGuigan. (2019). Natural selection drives leaf divergence in experimental populations ofSenecio lautusunder natural conditions. Ecology and Evolution. 9(12). 6959–6967. 9 indexed citations

Crespo, M., Christian Bermudez, Mary Amanda Dew, et al.. (2015). Lung Transplant in Patients with Scleroderma Compared with Pulmonary Fibrosis. Short- and Long-Term Outcomes. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 13(6). 784–792. 58 indexed citations

Chan, Ernest G., Valentino Bianco, Thomas J. Richards, et al.. (2015). The ripple effect of a complication in lung transplantation: Evidence for increased long-term survival risk. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 151(4). 1171–1180. 20 indexed citations

Bustos, Martha L., Luai Huleihel, Maria G. Kapetanaki, et al.. (2014). Aging Mesenchymal Stem Cells Fail to Protect Because of Impaired Migration and Antiinflammatory Response. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(7). 787–798. 150 indexed citations

Bermúdez, C., Akira Shiose, Stephen A. Esper, et al.. (2014). Outcomes of Intraoperative Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Versus Cardiopulmonary Bypass During Lung Transplantation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 98(6). 1936–1943. 121 indexed citations

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Herazo‐Maya, Jose D., Imre Noth, Steven R. Duncan, et al.. (2013). Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Gene Expression Profiles Predict Poor Outcome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Science Translational Medicine. 5(205). 205ra136–205ra136. 194 indexed citations

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Chien, Jason W., Thomas J. Richards, Kevin F. Gibson, et al.. (2013). Serum lysyl oxidase-like 2 levels and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis disease progression. European Respiratory Journal. 43(5). 1430–1438. 116 indexed citations

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Yu, Guoying, Anil V. Parwani, Daniel J. Kass, et al.. (2012). Matrix Metalloproteinase-19 Is a Key Regulator of Lung Fibrosis in Mice and Humans. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 186(8). 752–762. 82 indexed citations

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Richards, Thomas J., Naftali Kaminski, Fred Baribaud, et al.. (2011). Peripheral Blood Proteins Predict Mortality in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 185(1). 67–76. 260 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yingze, Daniel Handley, Tommy Kaplan, et al.. (2011). High Throughput Determination of TGFβ1/SMAD3 Targets in A549 Lung Epithelial Cells. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20319–e20319. 52 indexed citations

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Pandit, Kusum, David L. Corcoran, Hanadie Yousef, et al.. (2010). Inhibition and Role of let-7d in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 182(2). 220–229. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Konishi, Kazuhisa, Kevin F. Gibson, Kathleen O. Lindell, et al.. (2009). Gene Expression Profiles of Acute Exacerbations of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 180(2). 167–175. 246 indexed citations

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Rosas, Iván O., Thomas J. Richards, Kazuhisa Konishi, et al.. (2008). MMP1 and MMP7 as Potential Peripheral Blood Biomarkers in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. PLoS Medicine. 5(4). e93–e93. 423 indexed citations

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Richards, Thomas J., et al.. (1998). Minimal Perturbance in Dynamic Scheduling.. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 504–508. 17 indexed citations

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Martínez, José Antônio Baddini, Irvin L. Paradis, James H. Dauber, et al.. (1997). Spirometry Values in Stable Lung Transplant Recipients. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 155(1). 285–290. 38 indexed citations

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Richards, Thomas J., Ying Jiang, & B. Richards. (1995). Ng-Backmarking - an Algorithm for Constraint Satisfaction. 2 indexed citations

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