Will Lester

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
105 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Will Lester is a scholar working on Hematology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Will Lester has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Hematology, 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Will Lester's work include Platelet Disorders and Treatments (26 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (18 papers) and Complement system in diseases (12 papers). Will Lester is often cited by papers focused on Platelet Disorders and Treatments (26 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (18 papers) and Complement system in diseases (12 papers). Will Lester collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Will Lester's co-authors include Reinhard Schinke, Marie Scully, J. Schaefer, Michael Laffan, Glenn F. Pierce, Savita Rangarajan, John Pasi, Wing Yen Wong, Bella Madan and Peter Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Will Lester

98 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Pathologic Antibodies to Platelet Factor 4 after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination

2021 656 citations Marie Scully, Will Lester et al. profile →
AAV5–Factor VIII Gene Transfer in Severe Hemophilia A

2017 515 citations Savita Rangarajan, Will Lester et al. profile →
Clinical Features of Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis

2021 364 citations Marie Scully, Will Lester et al. profile →
Multiyear Follow-up of AAV5-hFVIII-SQ Gene Therapy for Hemophilia A

2020 327 citations John Pasi, Savita Rangarajan et al. profile →
Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice from the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Radiologists and the Royal College of Pathology

2020 229 citations James Neuberger, Jai V. Patel et al. Gut profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Will Lester	1.9k	1.2k	1.2k	716	637	105	5.2k
Normand Blais	469 0.2×	2.6k 2.1×	590 0.5×	189 0.3×	745 1.2×	228	6.4k
Luigi De Marco	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	446 0.4×	316 0.4×	337 0.5×	75	4.0k
Henk M.W. Verheul	855 0.5×	531 0.4×	977 0.8×	296 0.4×	5.6k 8.8×	485	14.0k
J. Delaunay	1.7k 0.9×	292 0.2×	684 0.6×	653 0.9×	2.1k 3.3×	341	7.6k
Surjit Singh	418 0.2×	382 0.3×	1.9k 1.6×	320 0.4×	891 1.4×	384	6.6k
Takashi Okamura	1.6k 0.8×	206 0.2×	432 0.4×	398 0.6×	1.4k 2.2×	294	6.1k
Jacob M. Rowe	5.2k 2.7×	1.8k 1.4×	158 0.1×	265 0.4×	3.1k 4.9×	237	11.1k
E. Benedetti	329 0.2×	3.3k 2.6×	1.7k 1.4×	106 0.1×	642 1.0×	299	8.1k
John A. McIntyre	857 0.5×	427 0.3×	318 0.3×	231 0.3×	525 0.8×	205	4.4k
William J. Hogan	3.9k 2.1×	144 0.1×	450 0.4×	296 0.4×	2.5k 3.9×	413	7.1k

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Fratter, Carl, Will Lester, Charles Percy, et al.. (2025). The diagnostic utility of genetic testing in inherited thrombocytopenia: regional multicenter tertiary experience. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 9(3). 102869–102869.

Stubbs, Matthew, Prabhu Gounder, Matthew Carter, et al.. (2025). Long-term follow-up outcomes in congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Blood. 146(20). 2457–2463.

Russell, Chris B., Christian Vettermann, Suresh Agarwal, et al.. (2025). Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Integration Profiles in Nonhuman Primates and Gene Therapy Participants after Treatment with Valoctocogene Roxaparvovec. Human Gene Therapy. 36(13-14). 945–955.

Howells, Lara, et al.. (2025). Impact of new medications on the treatment of immune TTP. Blood. 145(13). 1353–1357. 1 indexed citations

Symington, Emily, Savita Rangarajan, Will Lester, et al.. (2024). Valoctocogene roxaparvovec gene therapy provides durable haemostatic control for up to 7 years for haemophilia A. Haemophilia. 30(5). 1138–1147. 14 indexed citations

Symington, Emily, Savita Rangarajan, Will Lester, et al.. (2024). Long‐term safety and efficacy outcomes of valoctocogene roxaparvovec gene transfer up to 6 years post‐treatment. Haemophilia. 30(2). 320–330. 17 indexed citations

Platton, Sean, Peter Baker, Annette Bowyer, et al.. (2024). Guideline for laboratory diagnosis and monitoring of von Willebrand disease: A joint guideline from the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation and the British Society for Haematology. British Journal of Haematology. 204(5). 1714–1731. 12 indexed citations

Lester, Will, Niki L. Walker, Kailash P. Bhatia, et al.. (2023). British Society for Haematology guideline for anticoagulant management of pregnant individuals with mechanical heart valves. British Journal of Haematology. 202(3). 465–478. 9 indexed citations

Doyle, Andrew J., Matthew Stubbs, Tina Dutt, et al.. (2022). Long-term risk of relapse in immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and the role of anti-CD20 therapy. Blood. 141(3). 285–294. 10 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Annette, Elaine Gray, Paul Murphy, et al.. (2022). Laboratory coagulation tests and recombinant porcine factor VIII: A United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors’ Organisation guideline. Haemophilia. 28(3). 515–519. 8 indexed citations

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Fong, Sylvia, Bridget Yates, Choong‐Ryoul Sihn, et al.. (2022). Interindividual variability in transgene mRNA and protein production following adeno-associated virus gene therapy for hemophilia A. Nature Medicine. 28(4). 789–797. 77 indexed citations

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Shaw, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Intracranial hemorrhage in immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura treated with caplacizumab. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 19(8). 1922–1925. 9 indexed citations

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Veitch, Andrew, Franco Radaelli, Raza Alikhan, et al.. (2021). Endoscopy in patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy: British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) guideline update. Gut. 70(9). 1611–1628. 91 indexed citations

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Hann, Angus, Hermien Hartog, Will Lester, et al.. (2021). Early Adverse Outcomes of Liver Allografts from Donors with COVID Vaccine Induced Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia Syndrome. HPB. 23. S975–S975.

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Neuberger, James, Jai V. Patel, Helen Caldwell, et al.. (2020). Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice from the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Radiologists and the Royal College of Pathology. Gut. 69(8). 1382–1403. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jenkins, P. Vincent, Annette Bowyer, Elaine Gray, et al.. (2019). Laboratory coagulation tests and emicizumab treatment A United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors' Organisation guideline. Haemophilia. 26(1). 151–155. 51 indexed citations

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Gray, Elaine, Steve Kitchen, Annette Bowyer, et al.. (2019). Laboratory measurement of factor replacement therapies in the treatment of congenital haemophilia: A United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors’ Organisation guideline. Haemophilia. 26(1). 6–16. 36 indexed citations

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Seidl, Peter Rudolf, et al.. (1996). 中性アルコールでの炭素-炭素および炭素-水素超共役. Journal of Molecular Structure. 388. 85–95. 1 indexed citations

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Lester, Will, et al.. (1994). Monte Carlo Methods in Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry. 239 indexed citations

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Pfuetze, Karl H., et al.. (1965). PHOTOCHROMOGENIC MYCOBACTERIAL PULMONARY DISEASE.. PubMed. 92. 470–5. 29 indexed citations

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