Yael Schenker

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Yael Schenker is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Yael Schenker has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 47 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 43 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Yael Schenker's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (97 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (44 papers) and Cancer survivorship and care (34 papers). Yael Schenker is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (97 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (44 papers) and Cancer survivorship and care (34 papers). Yael Schenker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Yael Schenker's co-authors include Robert M. Arnold, Alicia Fernández, Dean Schillinger, Douglas B. White, Rebecca L. Sudore, Greer A. Tiver, Michele Klein‐Fedyshin, Dio Kavalieratos, Edward Chu and Megan Crowley‐Matoka and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yael Schenker

127 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Association Between Palliative Care and Patient and Caregiver Outcomes

2016 723 citations Dio Kavalieratos, Natalie C. Ernecoff et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yael Schenker United States	35	2.6k	1.9k	1.2k	770	761	142	4.6k
Alexander K. Smith United States	39	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	763 0.6×	989 1.3×	470 0.6×	178	5.7k
Steven Z. Pantilat United States	34	3.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	980 0.8×	784 1.0×	484 0.6×	142	5.4k
Amy S. Kelley United States	29	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	806 0.7×	633 0.8×	334 0.4×	130	4.7k
Leslie Blackhall United States	26	3.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	718 0.6×	937 1.2×	272 0.4×	67	4.3k
Stephen Barclay United Kingdom	44	4.3k 1.7×	2.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	743 1.0×	240	6.1k
Claudia Bausewein Germany	41	3.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	826 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	244	5.8k
Kirsty Boyd United Kingdom	33	3.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	472 0.6×	97	4.6k
Marilyn Kendall United Kingdom	34	3.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	897 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	514 0.7×	71	4.6k
Marjolein Gysels United Kingdom	40	3.5k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	678 0.9×	84	5.4k
Barbara J. Daly United States	36	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	513 0.4×	745 1.0×	376 0.5×	184	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yael Schenker

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Yu, Justin A., Jori F. Bogetz, Sydney Weill, et al.. (2025). A Qualitative Study of CMC Caregivers’ Perspectives about their Emotional Well-Being. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 70(1). 46–55.e2.

Piscitello, Gina M., Jane O. Schell, Robert M. Arnold, & Yael Schenker. (2024). Artificial intelligence for better goals of care documentation. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 14(e3). e2515–e2518.

Schenker, Yael, et al.. (2024). AI-Generated Content in Cancer Symptom Management: A Comparative Analysis Between ChatGPT and NCCN. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 68(4). e303–e311. 6 indexed citations

Bell, Sarah, Andrew D. Althouse, Robert M. Arnold, et al.. (2024). Associations of Health Care Utilization and Therapeutic Alliance in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 27(4). 515–520.

Wong, Risa Liang, Heather H. Cheng, Jesse R. Fann, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal variability in symptom burden for patients with prostate cancer (PC).. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(16_suppl). e17019–e17019.

Lorenz, Karl, Adela Wu, Arden M. Morris, et al.. (2023). “It's Not Us Versus Them”: Building Cross-Disciplinary Relationships in the Perioperative Period. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 65(4). 263–272. 6 indexed citations

Bulls, Hailey W., Megan Hamm, Burel R. Goodin, et al.. (2023). “I Refused to Get Addicted to Opioids”: Exploring Attitudes About Opioid Use Disorder in Patients With Advanced Cancer Pain and Their Support People. Journal of Pain. 24(6). 1030–1038. 2 indexed citations

Schell, Jane O., Yael Schenker, Gina M. Piscitello, et al.. (2023). Implementing a Serious Illness Risk Prediction Model: Impact on Goals of Care Documentation. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 66(6). 603–610.e3. 7 indexed citations

Schenker, Yael, et al.. (2023). An Educational Intervention to Enhance Palliative Care Training at HBCUs. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 65(5). 418–427.

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Giannitrapani, Karleen F., Adela Wu, Arden M. Morris, et al.. (2023). Strategies to Improve Perioperative Palliative Care Integration for Seriously Ill Veterans. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 66(6). 621–629.e5. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Justin A., et al.. (2021). Identifying Children With Medical Complexity From the National Survey of Children’s Health Combined 2016–17 Data Set. Hospital Pediatrics. 11(2). 192–197. 28 indexed citations

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Rosenzweig, Margaret, Andrew D. Althouse, Lindsay M. Sabik, et al.. (2021). The Association Between Area Deprivation Index and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Health Equity. 5(1). 8–16. 63 indexed citations

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Cohen, Michael S., Andrew D. Althouse, Robert M. Arnold, et al.. (2020). Does Advance Care Planning Actually Reduce Hope in Advanced Cancer? (TH322A). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 59(2). 417–418. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Justin A., et al.. (2019). Pediatric palliative care in the medical neighborhood for children with medical complexity.. Families Systems & Health. 37(2). 107–119. 14 indexed citations

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Nolley, Eric P., Rebecca DeSensi, Mehdi Nouraie, Yael Schenker, & Matthew R. Morrell. (2019). Characteristics, Trends, and Predictors of Specialty Palliative Care Utilization after Lung Transplantation. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 22(9). 1092–1098. 8 indexed citations

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Ernecoff, Natalie C., Yael Schenker, Robert M. Arnold, et al.. (2018). Comparison of Palliative Care Interventions for Cancer vs. Non-Cancer Patients: A Secondary Analysis of a Systematic Review (S731). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 55(2). 673–673. 1 indexed citations

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Arnold, Robert M., Seo Young Park, Margaret Rosenzweig, et al.. (2017). A cluster randomized trial of a primary palliative care intervention (CONNECT) for patients with advanced cancer: Protocol and key design considerations. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 54. 98–104. 34 indexed citations

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Schenker, Yael, Robert M. Arnold, & Alex John London. (2014). The Ethics of Advertising for Health Care Services. The American Journal of Bioethics. 14(3). 34–43. 41 indexed citations

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Schenker, Yael, Douglas B. White, Margaret Rosenzweig, et al.. (2014). Care Management by Oncology Nurses To Address Palliative Care Needs: A Pilot Trial To Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Perceived Effectiveness of the CONNECT Intervention. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 18(3). 232–240. 47 indexed citations

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Schenker, Yael, Douglas B. White, Megan Crowley‐Matoka, et al.. (2013). “It Hurts To Know…And It Helps”: Exploring How Surrogates in the ICU Cope with Prognostic Information. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16(3). 243–249. 65 indexed citations

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