Whitney Orji

666 total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 476 citations indexed

About

Whitney Orji is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Whitney Orji has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 476 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 2 papers in General Health Professions and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Whitney Orji's work include Global Health Workforce Issues (2 papers), Medical Education and Admissions (2 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (2 papers). Whitney Orji is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Workforce Issues (2 papers), Medical Education and Admissions (2 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (2 papers). Whitney Orji collaborates with scholars based in United States. Whitney Orji's co-authors include Elle Lett, Ronnie Sebro, Jaya Aysola, H. Moses Murdock, Elinore J. Kaufman, Justin S. Hatchimonji, Daniel N. Holena, Junghae Suh, Stephanie Teeple and Joanne N. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Annals of Surgery and Virology.

In The Last Decade

Whitney Orji

9 papers receiving 468 citations

Hit Papers

Trends in Racial/Ethnic Representation Among US Medical S... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2019 2018 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Trends in Racial/Ethnic Representation Among US Medical Students
    2019 235 citations Elle Lett, H. Moses Murdock et al. JAMA Network Open profile →
  2. Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties
    2018 197 citations Elle Lett, Whitney Orji et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers

Whitney Orji
Brian Gibbs United States
Samantha E. Kaplan United States
Angela P. Mihalic United States
Eliana Bonifacino United States
Érica Cruvinel Brazil
Efrain Talamantes United States
Robert Victor United States
Margaret A. McLaughlin United States
Melissa Parsons United States
Anushree Vichare United States
Brian Gibbs United States
Whitney Orji
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Countries citing papers authored by Whitney Orji

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Fields of papers citing papers by Whitney Orji

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Whitney Orji. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Whitney Orji. The network helps show where Whitney Orji may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Whitney Orji

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Whitney Orji. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Whitney Orji based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Whitney Orji. Whitney Orji is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Orji, Whitney, Sue Walker, Heather A. Hartman, et al.. (2025). Child and Adolescent Firearm-Related Homicide Occurring at Home. JAMA Surgery. 160(11). 1185–1185.
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Kaufman, Elinore J., Whitney Orji, Kristen Chreiman, et al.. (2023). Patient Experiences of Acute and Postacute Care After Trauma. Journal of Surgical Research. 291. 303–312. 1 indexed citations
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Scantling, Dane, Whitney Orji, Justin S. Hatchimonji, Elinore J. Kaufman, & Daniel N. Holena. (2021). Firearm Violence, Access to Care, and Gentrification. Annals of Surgery. 274(2). 209–217. 7 indexed citations
4.
Hatchimonji, Justin S., et al.. (2020). Do we know our patients’ goals? Evaluating preoperative discussions in emergency surgery. The American Journal of Surgery. 220(4). 861–862. 3 indexed citations
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Carney, Julia, Elle Lett, Whitney Orji, et al.. (2019). Recognizing Racism in Medicine: A Student-Organized and Community-Engaged Health Professional Conference. Health Equity. 3(1). 395–402. 10 indexed citations
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Lett, Elle, H. Moses Murdock, Whitney Orji, Jaya Aysola, & Ronnie Sebro. (2019). Trends in Racial/Ethnic Representation Among US Medical Students. JAMA Network Open. 2(9). e1910490–e1910490. 235 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lett, Elle, Whitney Orji, & Ronnie Sebro. (2018). Declining racial and ethnic representation in clinical academic medicine: A longitudinal study of 16 US medical specialties. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207274–e0207274. 197 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Shea, Judy A., et al.. (2018). Perceptions of caregivers and adolescents of the use of telemedicine for the child sexual abuse examination. Child Abuse & Neglect. 85. 47–57. 9 indexed citations
9.
Popp, Lauren, Eric Gomez, Whitney Orji, et al.. (2017). TFEB-mediated activation of the lysosome-autophagy system affects the transduction efficiency of adeno-associated virus 2. Virology. 510. 1–8. 8 indexed citations
10.
Orji, Whitney, et al.. (2011). Endemicity of lymphatic filariasis in Three Local Government Areas of Imo State, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Parasitology. 31(1). 6 indexed citations

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