William Boag

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 873 citations indexed

About

William Boag is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology and Health Information Management. According to data from OpenAlex, William Boag has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 873 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Health Information Management. Recurrent topics in William Boag's work include Topic Modeling (6 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers) and Machine Learning in Healthcare (2 papers). William Boag is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (6 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers) and Machine Learning in Healthcare (2 papers). William Boag collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Pakistan. William Boag's co-authors include Matthew B. A. McDermott, Tristan Naumann, Emily Alsentzer, Wei‐Hung Weng, John R. Murphy, Anna Rumshisky, Peter Szolovits, Catherine D’Ignazio, Harini Suresh and Roy H. Perlis and has published in prestigious journals such as Translational Psychiatry, npj Digital Medicine and Text REtrieval Conference.

In The Last Decade

William Boag

12 papers receiving 836 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.

Publicly Available Clinical

2019 781 citations Emily Alsentzer, John R. Murphy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Boag United States	6	715	301	99	93	83	12	873
Emily Alsentzer United States	9	827 1.2×	333 1.1×	255 2.6×	109 1.2×	134 1.6×	22	1.2k
Saeed Mehrabi United States	9	517 0.7×	337 1.1×	93 0.9×	129 1.4×	90 1.1×	15	796
Robert Tinn United States	4	840 1.2×	483 1.6×	166 1.7×	48 0.5×	105 1.3×	5	1.1k
Chaitanya Shivade United States	11	588 0.8×	297 1.0×	54 0.5×	141 1.5×	42 0.5×	20	817
Michael Lucas Australia	4	790 1.1×	456 1.5×	146 1.5×	44 0.5×	91 1.1×	14	1.1k
Aurélie Névéol France	19	944 1.3×	809 2.7×	75 0.8×	79 0.8×	71 0.9×	71	1.4k
Hans Moen Finland	11	464 0.6×	333 1.1×	137 1.4×	78 0.8×	46 0.6×	50	824
Meliha Yetisgen-Yildiz United States	15	498 0.7×	468 1.6×	36 0.4×	58 0.6×	70 0.8×	29	765
Philipp Daumke Germany	9	377 0.5×	331 1.1×	25 0.3×	126 1.4×	54 0.7×	29	696
Amber Stubbs United States	13	824 1.2×	471 1.6×	64 0.6×	163 1.8×	23 0.3×	19	978

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Boag

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Boag. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Boag 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 William Boag. William Boag is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Boag, William, Alifia Hasan, Marshall Nichols, et al.. (2024). The algorithm journey map: a tangible approach to implementing AI solutions in healthcare. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 87–87. 6 indexed citations

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Boag, William, Alifia Hasan, Henry David Jeffry Hogg, et al.. (2023). Organizational Governance of Emerging Technologies: AI Adoption in Healthcare. 1396–1417. 19 indexed citations

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Boag, William, et al.. (2022). Tech Worker Organizing for Power and Accountability. 452–463. 17 indexed citations

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Boag, William, et al.. (2021). Hard for humans, hard for machines: predicting readmission after psychiatric hospitalization using narrative notes. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 32–32. 19 indexed citations

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Boag, William, et al.. (2021). A Pilot Study in Surveying Clinical Judgments to Evaluate Radiology Report Generation. 269. 458–465. 2 indexed citations

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Boag, William, et al.. (2020). Clinical Collabsheets: 53 Questions to Guide a Clinical Collaboration.. 783–812. 3 indexed citations

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Alsentzer, Emily, John R. Murphy, William Boag, et al.. (2019). Publicly Available Clinical. 72–78. 781 indexed citations breakdown →

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Boag, William, et al.. (2019). Baselines for Chest X-Ray Report Generation. 126–140. 13 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ling, Sadid A. Hasan, Michele Filannino, et al.. (2017). A Hybrid Approach to Precision Medicine-related Biomedical Article Retrieval and Clinical Trial Matching.. Text REtrieval Conference. 2 indexed citations

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Potash, Peter, William Boag, Alexey Romanov, Vasili Ramanishka, & Anna Rumshisky. (2016). SimiHawk at SemEval-2016 Task 1: A Deep Ensemble System for Semantic Textual Similarity. 741–748. 4 indexed citations

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Boag, William, et al.. (2016). MUTT: Metric Unit TesTing for Language Generation Tasks. 1935–1943. 2 indexed citations

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Boag, William, Peter Potash, & Anna Rumshisky. (2015). TwitterHawk: A Feature Bucket Based Approach to Sentiment Analysis. 640–646. 5 indexed citations

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