Yvette Leung

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yvette Leung is a scholar working on Genetics, Epidemiology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Yvette Leung has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Genetics, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Yvette Leung's work include Inflammatory Bowel Disease (45 papers), Microscopic Colitis (24 papers) and Pregnancy and Medication Impact (20 papers). Yvette Leung is often cited by papers focused on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (45 papers), Microscopic Colitis (24 papers) and Pregnancy and Medication Impact (20 papers). Yvette Leung collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Yvette Leung's co-authors include Remo Panaccione, Cynthia H. Seow, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Subrata Ghosh, Brian Bressler, Kerri L. Novak, Uma Mahadevan, Vivian Huang, Greg Rosenfeld and Hong Qian and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Gastroenterology and Cell Host & Microbe.

In The Last Decade

Yvette Leung

75 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Toronto Consensus Statements for the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pregnancy

2015 311 citations Geoffrey C. Nguyen, Cynthia H. Seow et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yvette Leung Canada	20	925	685	682	629	521	80	1.9k
Christian P. Selinger United Kingdom	31	1.4k 1.5×	946 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	759 1.5×	146	2.9k
Garret Cullen Ireland	22	738 0.8×	674 1.0×	140 0.2×	438 0.7×	276 0.5×	55	1.6k
Amar R. Deshpande United States	22	1.2k 1.3×	973 1.4×	238 0.3×	549 0.9×	321 0.6×	93	2.2k
Waqqas Afif Canada	27	2.0k 2.2×	1.7k 2.4×	254 0.4×	775 1.2×	676 1.3×	143	2.8k
Patrick F. van Rheenen Netherlands	24	930 1.0×	720 1.1×	159 0.2×	599 1.0×	254 0.5×	71	1.9k
Peter De Cruz Australia	26	1.9k 2.0×	1.4k 2.0×	241 0.4×	866 1.4×	431 0.8×	132	2.9k
Sanjay K. Murthy Canada	26	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	149 0.2×	725 1.2×	168 0.3×	109	2.1k
Faten Aberra United States	14	1.1k 1.2×	963 1.4×	156 0.2×	490 0.8×	234 0.4×	43	1.8k
Mahmoud Mosli Saudi Arabia	26	1.6k 1.7×	1.3k 1.9×	164 0.2×	834 1.3×	304 0.6×	154	2.7k
Mikael Andersson Denmark	22	878 0.9×	900 1.3×	147 0.2×	476 0.8×	175 0.3×	66	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yvette Leung

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yvette Leung

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Meade, Susanna, et al.. (2025). Gut microbiome predictors of advanced therapy response in Crohn’s disease: protocol for the OPTIMIST prospective, longitudinal, observational pilot study in Canada. BMJ Open. 15(3). e094280–e094280. 4 indexed citations

Solitano, Virginia, Ropo Ebenezer Ogunsakin, Yuhong Yuan, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness and Safety of Advanced Combination Treatment in Patients With Refractory Inflammatory Bowel Disease or Concomitant Immune-Mediated Disease or Extraintestinal Manifestations: A Multicenter Canadian Study. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 121(2). 410–423. 1 indexed citations

Leung, Yvette, et al.. (2024). Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis: Review of Management and Emerging Treatments.

Sands, Bruce E., Yvette Leung, David T. Rubin, et al.. (2024). Etrasimod Corticosteroid-Free Efficacy, Impact of Concomitant Corticosteroids on Efficacy and Safety, and Corticosteroid-Sparing Effect in Ulcerative Colitis: Analyses of the ELEVATE UC Clinical Program. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 19(3). 3 indexed citations

Bressler, Brian, et al.. (2024). Outcomes of a mandatory non-medical switch of infliximab to a biosimilar for inflammatory bowel disease in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. 7(4). 299–305. 1 indexed citations

Stritzke, Amélie, et al.. (2023). Thiopurine exposure during pregnancy is not associated with anemia in infants born to mothers with IBD. Crohn s & Colitis 360. 5(4). otad066–otad066. 4 indexed citations

Seow, Cynthia H., Kara Nerenberg, Stefania Bertazzon, et al.. (2023). Despite Increased Disease Activity, Women who Attended a Dedicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pregnancy Clinic Had Infants With Higher Apgar Scores: A Population-Based Study. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 30(7). 1071–1079. 7 indexed citations

Jones, Emma, Noelle Rohatinsky, Kerri L. Novak, et al.. (2022). Perceived Barriers to Professional Equality Among Women in Gastroenterology. Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. 5(5). 226–233. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Grace, Joseph Descallar, Katie O’Connor, et al.. (2022). A Novel Decision Aid Improves Quality of Reproductive Decision-Making and Pregnancy Knowledge for Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 67(9). 4303–4314. 14 indexed citations

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Seow, Cynthia H., Yvette Leung, Niels Vande Casteele, et al.. (2017). The effects of pregnancy on the pharmacokinetics of infliximab and adalimumab in inflammatory bowel disease. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 45(10). 1329–1338. 61 indexed citations

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Ma, Christopher, Richard N. Fedorak, Gilaad G. Kaplan, et al.. (2017). Clinical, endoscopic and radiographic outcomes with ustekinumab in medically‐refractory Crohn's disease: real world experience from a multicentre cohort. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 45(9). 1232–1243. 123 indexed citations

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Gasia, Miriam Fort, Subrata Ghosh, Remo Panaccione, et al.. (2016). Targeted Biopsies Identify Larger Proportions of Patients With Colonic Neoplasia Undergoing High-Definition Colonoscopy, Dye Chromoendoscopy, or Electronic Virtual Chromoendoscopy. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 14(5). 704–712.e4. 49 indexed citations

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Leung, Yvette, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Stephanie Coward, et al.. (2015). Intrapartum Corticosteroid use Significantly Increases the Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal of Crohn s and Colitis. 9(3). 223–230. 41 indexed citations

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Coleman, Bradley I., Kristen M. Skillman, Rays H. Y. Jiang, et al.. (2014). A Plasmodium falciparum Histone Deacetylase Regulates Antigenic Variation and Gametocyte Conversion. Cell Host & Microbe. 16(2). 177–186. 158 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Gilaad G., Remo Panaccione, James Hubbard, et al.. (2009). Inflammatory bowel disease patients who leave hospital against medical advice: Predictors and temporal trends. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 15(6). 845–851. 22 indexed citations

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Leung, Yvette & Stephen B. Hanauer. (2009). Conventional treatment in inflammatory bowel disease- recent trends. Immunosuppressants and biologic agents: should they or need they be used together?. Gastroentérologie Clinique et Biologique. 33. S202–S208. 5 indexed citations

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Myers, Robert P., Yvette Leung, Abdel Aziz Shaheen, & Bing Li. (2007). Validation of ICD-9-CM/ICD-10 coding algorithms for the identification of patients with acetaminophen overdose and hepatotoxicity using administrative data. BMC Health Services Research. 7(1). 159–159. 49 indexed citations

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Leung, Yvette, Remo Panaccione, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, & Jennifer Jones. (2007). Exposing the Weaknesses: A Systematic Review of Azathioprine Efficacy in Ulcerative Colitis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 53(6). 1455–1461. 31 indexed citations

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Leung, Yvette. (2006). Hematopoietic cell transplantation for Crohn’s disease; is it time?. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 12(41). 6665–6665. 29 indexed citations

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Wong, Shiu F., et al.. (2004). Measures to Prevent Healtcare Workers from Contracting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome During High-Risk Surgical Procedures. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 23(2). 131–133. 11 indexed citations

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