Valen E. Johnson

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
116 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Valen E. Johnson is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Valen E. Johnson has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Statistics and Probability, 25 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Valen E. Johnson's work include Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (23 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (20 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (19 papers). Valen E. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (23 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (20 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (19 papers). Valen E. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Valen E. Johnson's co-authors include James H. Albert, David Rossell, Raymond P. Perry, Thomas Guerrero, Richard Castillo, Travis McPhail, Edward Castillo, Carel P. van Schaik, Amit Garg and Rudy Guerra and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Valen E. Johnson

112 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Revised standards for statistical evidence

2013 531 citations Valen E. Johnson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Global Estimate of Human Brucellosis Incidence

2023 137 citations Christopher G. Laine, Valen E. Johnson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Valen E. Johnson United States	37	1.2k	1.2k	607	552	466	116	5.2k
Thomas C. M. Lee United States	34	440 0.4×	959 0.8×	555 0.9×	312 0.6×	255 0.5×	192	5.5k
Gábor J. Székely Hungary	28	323 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	849 1.4×	654 1.2×	184 0.4×	113	4.3k
David M. Rocke United States	52	318 0.3×	1.5k 1.3×	893 1.5×	276 0.5×	914 2.0×	209	11.0k
Gregory Campbell United States	28	1.0k 0.9×	490 0.4×	536 0.9×	124 0.2×	293 0.6×	89	8.3k
Daniel Zelterman United States	44	302 0.3×	626 0.5×	544 0.9×	410 0.7×	125 0.3×	192	7.4k
Rob Tibshirani United States	19	767 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 2.1×	328 0.6×	125 0.3×	28	14.2k
Yudi Pawitan Sweden	52	489 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	575 0.9×	75 0.1×	241 0.5×	231	14.3k
Thomas P. Ryan United States	35	378 0.3×	932 0.8×	258 0.4×	101 0.2×	1.1k 2.4×	141	5.1k
Michael LeBlanc United States	52	1.0k 0.8×	924 0.8×	479 0.8×	117 0.2×	97 0.2×	264	11.5k
C. Wild New Zealand	36	965 0.8×	2.2k 1.9×	537 0.9×	155 0.3×	160 0.3×	163	8.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Valen E. Johnson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Valen E., et al.. (2025). On Bayes Factor Functions. Bayesian Analysis. 20(4).

Laine, Christopher G., Dzeufiet Djomeni Paul Désiré, Wilfred Fon Mbacham, et al.. (2025). Prevalence study in Cameroon identifies Brucella abortus as the endemic Brucella species in livestock. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11600–11600.

Johnson, Valen E., et al.. (2023). Bayes factor functions for reporting outcomes of hypothesis tests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(8). e2217331120–e2217331120. 12 indexed citations

Ahn, Sangjoon, G. V. Rogachev, Valen E. Johnson, et al.. (2022). Modular next generation fast-neutron detector for portal monitoring. Nuclear Science and Techniques. 33(1). 5 indexed citations

Johnson, Valen E., et al.. (2022). Efficient alternatives for Bayesian hypothesis tests in psychology.. Psychological Methods. 29(2). 243–261. 5 indexed citations

Gao, Fan, Xuedong Pan, Jasmina Bojadzieva, et al.. (2020). A pedigree-based prediction model identifies carriers of deleterious de novo mutations in families with Li-Fraumeni syndrome. Genome Research. 30(8). 1170–1180. 3 indexed citations

Johnson, Valen E.. (2019). Evidence From Marginally Significant t Statistics. The American Statistician. 73(sup1). 129–134. 18 indexed citations

Liu, Suyu & Valen E. Johnson. (2015). A robust Bayesian dose-finding design for phase I/II clinical trials. Biostatistics. 17(2). 249–263. 49 indexed citations

Johnson, Valen E.. (2013). Revised standards for statistical evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(48). 19313–19317. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bhosale, Priya, et al.. (2012). Carcinoid tumours: predicting the location of the primary neoplasm based on the sites of metastases. European Radiology. 23(2). 400–407. 46 indexed citations

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Wright, Kenneth C., Murali K. Ravoori, K. Dixon, et al.. (2011). Perfusion CT Assessment of Tissue Hemodynamics Following Hepatic Arterial Infusion of Increasing Doses of Angiotensin II in a Rabbit Liver Tumor Model. Radiology. 260(3). 718–726. 6 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ying & Valen E. Johnson. (2011). Goodness‐of‐Fit Diagnostics for Bayesian Hierarchical Models. Biometrics. 68(1). 156–164. 23 indexed citations

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Riegel, Adam C., M. Kara Bucci, Osama Mawlawi, et al.. (2010). Target definition of moving lung tumors in positron emission tomography: Correlation of optimal activity concentration thresholds with object size, motion extent, and source-to-background ratio. Medical Physics. 37(4). 1742–1752. 20 indexed citations

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Rampurwala, Murtuza, Murali K. Ravoori, Wei Wei, et al.. (2009). Visualization and Quantification of Intraperitoneal Tumors by In Vivo Computed Tomography Using Negative Contrast Enhancement Strategy in a Mouse Model of Ovarian Cancer. Translational Oncology. 2(2). 96–106. 6 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ying & Valen E. Johnson. (2008). BAYESIAN HYPOTHESIS TESTS USING NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS. Statistica Sinica. 18(3). 1185–1200. 15 indexed citations

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Hart, Justin P., Matthew R. McCurdy, Dershan Luo, et al.. (2008). Radiation Pneumonitis: Correlation of Toxicity With Pulmonary Metabolic Radiation Response. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 71(4). 967–971. 57 indexed citations

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Johnson, Timothy D. & Valen E. Johnson. (2005). A Bayesian hierarchical approach to multirater correlated ROC analysis. Statistics in Medicine. 25(11). 1858–1871. 8 indexed citations

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Johnson, Valen E.. (1998). A Coupling-Regeneration Scheme for Diagnosing Convergence in Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 93(441). 238–248. 17 indexed citations

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Higdon, David, J.E. Bowsher, Valen E. Johnson, et al.. (1997). Fully Bayesian estimation of Gibbs hyperparameters for emission computed tomography data. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 16(5). 516–526. 85 indexed citations

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Johnson, Valen E.. (1992). A Technique for Estimating Marginal Posterior Densities in Hierarchical Models Using Mixtures of Conditional Densities. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 87(419). 852–860. 9 indexed citations

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