William B. McCombs

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William B. McCombs is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. McCombs has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Biotechnology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in William B. McCombs's work include Cancer Research and Treatments (5 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (3 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (2 papers). William B. McCombs is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Research and Treatments (5 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (3 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (2 papers). William B. McCombs collaborates with scholars based in United States and Portugal. William B. McCombs's co-authors include Albert Leibovitz, James C. Stinson, Aikaterini A. Kyriazis, Andreas P. Kyriazis, Avery A. Sandberg, Nathan H. Sloane, William Peterson, John P. Conomy, Gary Quick and Stephen B. Shohet and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

William B. McCombs

15 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Classification of human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines.

1976 845 citations Albert Leibovitz, James C. Stinson et al. PubMed profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William B. McCombs United States	10	585	418	217	129	123	15	1.1k
James C. Stinson United States	9	558 1.0×	390 0.9×	204 0.9×	128 1.0×	145 1.2×	16	1.1k
S. Biade United States	12	1.1k 1.9×	569 1.4×	318 1.5×	115 0.9×	89 0.7×	17	1.5k
Russell K. Young United States	11	533 0.9×	392 0.9×	179 0.8×	125 1.0×	44 0.4×	11	1.3k
Robert J. Fram United States	25	903 1.5×	598 1.4×	177 0.8×	79 0.6×	130 1.1×	82	1.6k
A Goldin United States	19	478 0.8×	454 1.1×	149 0.7×	258 2.0×	80 0.7×	114	1.3k
H.H. Sedlacek Germany	20	596 1.0×	485 1.2×	67 0.3×	225 1.7×	65 0.5×	69	1.3k
Dean Tsao United States	13	418 0.7×	188 0.4×	85 0.4×	82 0.6×	56 0.5×	22	746
Christine Aimé‐Sempé United States	11	1.4k 2.4×	496 1.2×	220 1.0×	277 2.1×	125 1.0×	13	2.0k
TSUNEO KANAMARU Japan	10	865 1.5×	410 1.0×	398 1.8×	55 0.4×	67 0.5×	19	1.3k
Mustapha Aoubala France	15	648 1.1×	410 1.0×	114 0.5×	171 1.3×	54 0.4×	23	1.2k

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Hurley, Douglas L., et al.. (1999). Pathologic quiz case: an unusual infection in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive man. Pathologic diagnosis: rhinosporidiosis.. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 123(11). 1121–2. 1 indexed citations

Hurley, Douglas L., et al.. (1999). Pathologic Quiz Case: An Unusual Infection in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Positive Man. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 123(11). 1121–1122. 3 indexed citations

Reedy, Mark B., Patricia J. Sulak, William B. McCombs, & Thomas J. Kuehl. (1992). Performance of the Syva Direct Fluorescent AntibodyAssay for Chlamydia in a Low‐Prevalence Population. Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1(1). 2–6. 1 indexed citations

Kyriazis, Andreas P., Alan Yagoda, Aikaterini A. Kyriazis, James G. Kereiakes, & William B. McCombs. (1985). Response to Ionizing Radiation of Human Bladder Transitional Cell Carcinomas Grown in the Nude Mouse. Pathobiology. 53(5). 281–286. 6 indexed citations

Quick, Gary, et al.. (1985). Occult bacteremia in the emergency department: Diagnostic criteria for the young febrile child. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 14(12). 1172–1177. 20 indexed citations

Kyriazis, Aikaterini A., Andreas P. Kyriazis, William B. McCombs, & William Peterson. (1984). Morphological, biological, and biochemical characteristics of human bladder transitional cell carcinomas grown in tissue culture and in nude mice.. PubMed. 44(9). 3997–4005. 34 indexed citations

McCombs, William B., et al.. (1983). Human ciliary body epithelium in culture.. PubMed. 24(6). 687–96. 17 indexed citations

Kyriazis, Aikaterini A., Andreas P. Kyriazis, James G. Kereiakes, Mark S. Soloway, & William B. McCombs. (1983). Histopathologic Evaluation of Response to Treatment of Human Tumors Grown in the Nude Mouse. Pathobiology. 51(2). 83–95. 7 indexed citations

Kyriazis, Andreas P., et al.. (1983). Establishment and characterization of human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line SW-1990 in tissue culture and the nude mouse.. PubMed. 43(9). 4393–401. 74 indexed citations

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Trowbridge, Arthur A., et al.. (1981). Hemolytic Anemia Associated with Leptospirosis. Morphologic and Lipid Studies. American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 76(4). 493–498. 23 indexed citations

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Kyriazis, Andreas P., et al.. (1981). Biological behavior of human malignant tumors grown in the nude mouse.. PubMed. 41(10). 3995–4000. 51 indexed citations

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Conomy, John P., et al.. (1977). Airborne rabies encephalitis. Neurology. 27(1). 67–67. 31 indexed citations

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Leibovitz, Albert, et al.. (1976). Classification of human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines.. PubMed. 36(12). 4562–9. 845 indexed citations breakdown →

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McCombs, William B., et al.. (1976). Morphologic and immunologic studies of a human colon tumor cell line (SW-48). Cancer. 38(6). 2316–2327. 14 indexed citations

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Stinson, James C., et al.. (1972). Filamentous Particles in Human Alveolar Cell Carcinomas: Electron Miscroscopy Studies of Six Cases (Preliminary Report). JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 49(6). 1483–1493. 9 indexed citations

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