William Bernal

18.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
184 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

William Bernal is a scholar working on Hepatology, Epidemiology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Bernal has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Hepatology, 90 papers in Epidemiology and 59 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in William Bernal's work include Liver Disease and Transplantation (122 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (79 papers) and Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection (59 papers). William Bernal is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease and Transplantation (122 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (79 papers) and Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection (59 papers). William Bernal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. William Bernal's co-authors include Julia Wendon, Georg Auzinger, Anil Dhawan, Mark McPhail, Srinivasan Dasarathy, Elizabeth Sizer, Nigel Heaton, Debbie L. Shawcross, Stephan C. Bischoff and Manuela Merli and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

William Bernal

178 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Acute Liver Failure

2013 813 citations William Bernal, Julia Wendon profile →
HLA-B*5701 genotype is a major determinant of drug-induced liver injury due to flucloxacillin

2009 732 citations William Bernal et al. profile →
Acute liver failure

2010 729 citations William Bernal, Georg Auzinger et al. profile →
High-volume plasma exchange in patients with acute liver failure: An open randomised controlled trial

2015 421 citations Fin Stolze Larsen, Christine Bernsmeier et al. Journal of Hepatology profile →
ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease

2019 412 citations William Bernal, Srinivasan Dasarathy et al. profile →
Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

2021 367 citations Jennifer C. Lai, Puneeta Tandon et al. Hepatology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Bernal

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Hepatic Encephalopathy: When Lactulose and Rifaximin Are Not Working 2025 ·Gastroenterology ·(unknown), (unknown), Susana Rodrigues, Matthew Seager, William Bernal, Debbie L. Shawcross	1
2	Identifying emergency presentations of chronic liver disease using routinely collected administrative hospital data 2024 ·JHEP Reports ·(unknown), Vikram Bains, James Doidge, Jan van der Meulen, Kate Walker, William Bernal	1
3	Clinically relevant increases in the international normalized ratio and model of end-stage liver disease score by therapeutic doses of direct oral anticoagulants in patients with cirrhosis 2023 ·Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis ·Ton Lisman, William Bernal, Jelle Adelmeijer, Pieter W. Kamphuisen, Sarah Bos, Robert J. Porte	2
4	Hospital Mortality and Resource Implications of Hospitalisation with COVID-19 in London, UK: A Prospective Cohort Study 2021 ·Critical Care Research and Practice ·(unknown), Adrian Wong, Victoria Metaxa, (unknown), (unknown), Jimstan Periselneris, Kai Lee, (unknown), (unknown), Katrina Abernethy, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), William Bernal, Ritesh Maharaj	11
5	The Influence of Donor and Recipient Complement C3 Polymorphisms on Liver Transplant Outcome 2021 ·International Journal of Hepatology ·(unknown), James A. Underhill, Abdel Douiri, Alberto Quaglia, Wayel Jassem, William Bernal, Nigel Heaton, Phillip E. Morgan, Richard J. Thompson, J. Michael Tredger	1
6	Malnutrition, Frailty, and Sarcopenia in Patients With Cirrhosis: 2021 Practice Guidance by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases breakdown → 2021 ·Hepatology ·Jennifer C. Lai, Puneeta Tandon, William Bernal, Elliot B. Tapper, Udeme D. Ekong, Srinivasan Dasarathy, Elizabeth J. Carey	367
7	‘Equity’ and ‘Justice’ for patients with acute-on chronic liver failure: A call to action 2021 ·Journal of Hepatology ·Rajiv Jalan, Thierry Gustot, Javier Fernández, William Bernal	26
8	Clinical and prognostic associations of liver volume determined by computed tomography in acute liver failure 2018 ·Liver International ·Abigail Zabron, Alberto Quaglia, Evangelia Fatourou, Praveen Peddu, Dylan Lewis, Michael A. Heneghan, Christopher Willars, Georg Auzinger, Nigel Heaton, Julia Wendon, Pauline Kane, John Karani, William Bernal	24
9	Increased Expression of Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte−Associated Protein 4 by T Cells, Induced by B7 in Sera, Reduces Adaptive Immunity in Patients With Acute Liver Failure 2017 ·Gastroenterology ·Wafa Khamri, R.D. Abeles, Tie Zheng Hou, Amy E. Anderson, (unknown), Evangelos Triantafyllou, Christine Bernsmeier, Fin Stolze Larsen, Arjuna Singanayagam, N. Kudo, Lucia Possamai, Fanny Lebossé, Georg Auzinger, William Bernal, Christopher Willars, Chris J. Weston, Giovanna Lombardi, Julia Wendon, Mark Thursz, Charalambos G. Antoniades	37
10	Improving outcomes for liver transplantation in critically patients with cirrhosis; evidence of an era effect and implications for recipient selection. 2016 ·Hepatology ·William Bernal, Mark McPhail, Varuna Aluvihare, Nigel Heaton, Julia Wendon, John G. O’Grady	1
11	Evidence of rebalanced coagulation in acute liver injury and acute liver failure as measured by thrombin generation 2013 ·Liver International ·(unknown), Lara N. Roberts, Raj Patel, Julia Wendon, William Bernal, Roopen Arya	63
12	Ammonia clearance with haemofiltration in adults with liver disease 2013 ·Liver International ·Andrew Slack, Georg Auzinger, Chris Willars, Tracy Dew, Rebecca Musto, (unknown), Roy Sherwood, Julia Wendon, William Bernal	112
13	Defective actin accumulation impairs human natural killer cell function in patients with dedicator of cytokinesis 8 deficiency 2013 ·Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ·Melissa Mizesko, Pinaki P. Banerjee, Linda Monaco-Shawver, Emily M. Mace, William Bernal, Julie Sawalle‐Belohradsky, Bernd H. Belohradsky, Valerie Heinz, Alexandra F. Freeman, Kathleen E. Sullivan, Steven M. Holland, Troy R. Torgerson, Waleed Al–Herz, Janet Chou, I. Celine Hanson, Michael H. Albert, Raif S. Geha, Ellen D. Renner, Jordan S. Orange	93
14	1013 CD163 IS A MECHANISTIC BIOMARKER IN ACUTE LIVER FAILURE REFLECTING A MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION LIKE SYNDROME 2013 ·Journal of Hepatology ·(unknown), Evangelos Triantafyllou, (unknown), R.D. Abeles, Alberto Quaglia, Wafa Khamri, Robert Tidswell, Mark McPhail, Lucia Possamai, William Bernal, M. Heneghan, Yue Ma, Georg Auzinger, (unknown), Mark Thursz, Julia Wendon	2
15	Stress-induced changes in gene interactions in human cells 2013 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Renuka R. Nayak, William Bernal, (unknown), Michael Kearns, Vivian G. Cheung	19
16	Increased apoptotic activity is associated with hospital mortality and disruption in lipid homeostasis in acute-on-chronic liver failure. 2013 ·Hepatology ·Mark McPhail, Evangelos Triantafyllou, Debbie L. Shawcross, Charalambos G. Antoniades, Matthew R. Lewis, Elizabeth J. Want, Vishal Patel, (unknown), (unknown), William Bernal, Elaine Holmes, Julia Wendon, Simon D. Taylor‐Robinson	1
17	Medical and psychiatric outcomes for patients transplanted for acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure: a case-control study 2010 ·Liver International ·Constantine Karvellas, Niloufar Safinia, Georg Auzinger, Nigel Heaton, Paolo Muiesan, John O’Grady, Julia Wendon, William Bernal	29
18	Infection and systemic inflammation, not ammonia, are associated with Grade 3/4 hepatic encephalopathy, but not mortality in cirrhosis 2010 ·Journal of Hepatology ·Debbie L. Shawcross, Yalda Sharifi, James B. Canavan, Andrew D. Yeoman, R.D. Abeles, Nicholas Taylor, Georg Auzinger, William Bernal, Julia Wendon	198
19	Reduced monocyte HLA-DR expression: A novel biomarker of disease severity and outcome in acetaminophen-induced acute liver failure 2006 ·Hepatology ·Charalambos G. Antoniades, Philip Berry, Edward T. Davies, Munther J. Hussain, William Bernal, Diego Vergani, Julia Wendon	116
20	Acute liver failure 2000 ·Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology ·William Bernal, Julia Wendon	8

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