William H. Westra

17.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
208 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

William H. Westra is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Westra has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Oncology, 78 papers in Molecular Biology and 63 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William H. Westra's work include Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment (32 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (30 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers). William H. Westra is often cited by papers focused on Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment (32 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (30 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers). William H. Westra collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Netherlands. William H. Westra's co-authors include David Sidransky, Justin A. Bishop, Wayne M. Koch, Joseph A. Califano, Justin A. Bishop, David W. Eisele, Shahnaz Begum, Lisa M. Rooper, Joseph D. Kronz and Jin Jen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William H. Westra

207 papers receiving 12.3k 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.

Evidence for a Role of the PD-1:PD-L1 Pathway in Immune Resistance of HPV-Associated Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

2013 602 citations Sofía Lyford-Pike, Shiwen Peng et al. Cancer Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William H. Westra United States	66	5.0k	4.8k	3.7k	2.3k	2.2k	208	12.6k
Bhuvanesh Singh United States	59	4.8k 1.0×	5.7k 1.2×	3.2k 0.9×	4.7k 2.0×	1.8k 0.8×	169	13.6k
Fernando Augusto Soares Brazil	49	4.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	405	9.8k
John D. Crissman United States	51	2.0k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	185	9.7k
George Fountzilas Greece	54	3.1k 0.6×	7.7k 1.6×	2.3k 0.6×	3.7k 1.6×	2.1k 1.0×	576	12.8k
Boudewijn J.M. Braakhuis Netherlands	53	4.4k 0.9×	3.9k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	142	10.7k
Yih‐Leong Chang Taiwan	56	2.8k 0.6×	4.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	4.3k 1.9×	1.6k 0.7×	307	9.6k
Philippe Vielh France	52	2.1k 0.4×	4.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	3.4k 1.5×	284	10.8k
Chuen Hsueh Taiwan	51	2.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.4×	2.9k 0.8×	957 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	292	8.6k
Antonio Cardesa Spain	48	1.9k 0.4×	3.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	972 0.4×	848 0.4×	223	7.6k
Erich M. Sturgis United States	56	3.1k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	305	11.1k

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Posner, Marshall R., William H. Westra, Scott A. Roof, et al.. (2024). Second primary squamous cell cancers in the HPV de-escalation Quarterback Trials.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). e18049–e18049. 1 indexed citations

Wotman, Michael, William H. Westra, Megan R. D’Andrea, et al.. (2024). Association of human papillomavirus genotype and phylogenic clade with oropharyngeal cancer outcomes. The Oncologist. 29(11). 966–977. 2 indexed citations

Mydlarz, Wojciech K., Mamoru Uemura, Sun Mi Ahn, et al.. (2013). Clusterin Is a Gene-Specific Target of microRNA-21 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 20(4). 868–877. 26 indexed citations

Lyford-Pike, Sofía, Shiwen Peng, Geoffrey D. Young, et al.. (2013). Evidence for a Role of the PD-1:PD-L1 Pathway in Immune Resistance of HPV-Associated Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 73(6). 1733–1741. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

Schwartz, Lauren E., Shahnaz Begum, William H. Westra, & Justin A. Bishop. (2013). GATA3 Immunohistochemical Expression in Salivary Gland Neoplasms. Head and Neck Pathology. 7(4). 311–315. 88 indexed citations

Park, Il‐Seok, Xiaofei Chang, Myriam Loyo, et al.. (2011). Characterization of the Methylation Patterns in Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Viral DNA in Head and Neck Cancers. Cancer Prevention Research. 4(2). 207–217. 36 indexed citations

Olson, Matthew T., Katherine B. Püttgen, & William H. Westra. (2011). Angiosarcoma Arising from the Tongue of an 11-Year-Old Girl with Xeroderma Pigmentosum. Head and Neck Pathology. 6(2). 255–257. 14 indexed citations

Wang, C. Joanne, Whei F. Moriarty, Byungwoo Ryu, et al.. (2011). Integration of Genotypic and Phenotypic Screening Reveals Molecular Mediators of Melanoma–Stromal Interaction. Cancer Research. 71(7). 2433–2444. 27 indexed citations

Begum, Shahnaz, Mariana Brait, Santanu Dasgupta, et al.. (2011). An Epigenetic Marker Panel for Detection of Lung Cancer Using Cell-Free Serum DNA. Clinical Cancer Research. 17(13). 4494–4503. 104 indexed citations

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Shea, Sofia M., Mark S. Eller, William H. Westra, et al.. (2011). Neuropilin-2: a novel biomarker for malignant melanoma?. Human Pathology. 43(3). 381–389. 24 indexed citations

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Michaud, William A., Anthony C. Nichols, Edmund A. Mroz, et al.. (2009). Bcl-2 Blocks Cisplatin-Induced Apoptosis and Predicts Poor Outcome Following Chemoradiation Treatment in Advanced Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 15(5). 1645–1654. 103 indexed citations

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Dasgupta, Santanu, Rex Yung, William H. Westra, et al.. (2009). Following Mitochondrial Footprints through a Long Mucosal Path to Lung Cancer. PLoS ONE. 4(8). e6533–e6533. 25 indexed citations

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Hoque, Mohammad Obaidul, Myoung Sook Kim, Kimberly Laskie Ostrow, et al.. (2008). Genome-Wide Promoter Analysis Uncovers Portions of the Cancer Methylome. Cancer Research. 68(8). 2661–2670. 115 indexed citations

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Licchesi, Julien, William H. Westra, Craig M. Hooker, & James G. Herman. (2008). Promoter Hypermethylation of Hallmark Cancer Genes in Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia of the Lung. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(9). 2570–2578. 91 indexed citations

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Sengupta, Srikumar, Johan A. den Boon, I‐How Chen, et al.. (2006). Genome-Wide Expression Profiling Reveals EBV-Associated Inhibition of MHC Class I Expression in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Cancer Research. 66(16). 7999–8006. 194 indexed citations

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Chuang, Alice, et al.. (2006). Expression of human UNC5 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Research. 66. 1051–1051. 1 indexed citations

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Basaria, Shehzad, William H. Westra, Henry Brem, & Roberto Salvatori. (2004). Metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the pituitary presenting with hyperprolactinemia. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 27(5). 471–474. 15 indexed citations

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Westra, William H. & Robert Udelsman. (2000). Frozen Section for Identifying Tissue Type During Parathyroid Exploration. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 24(1). 158–158. 1 indexed citations

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Ladanyi, Marc, et al.. (1999). The expanding clinical spectrum of desmoplastic small round-cell tumor: A report of two cases with molecular confirmation. Human Pathology. 30(4). 430–435. 59 indexed citations

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Johns, Michael M., William H. Westra, Joseph A. Califano, et al.. (1996). Allelotype of salivary gland tumors.. PubMed. 56(5). 1151–4. 46 indexed citations

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