Top Research Publications: Q1 2025
In March 2025, Internal Medicine Faculty had over 110 papers reported as published. Of these publications, 39.8% of papers were in the top 10% of journals, and 7.4% were in the top 1% of journals.
- Neonatal fungi promote lifelong metabolic health through macrophage-dependent β cell development. Anna Beaudin (Hematology) (middle author) – Science; CiteScore 61.1; Top 1% of Journals (Altmetrics Score 200)
- Left Ventricular Entry to Reduce Brain Lesions During Catheter Ablation: A Randomized Trial. Jared Bunch (Cardiovascular Medicine) (middle author) - Circulation; CiteScore 45.7; Top 1% of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Journals (Altmetrics Score 36)
- Mortality Among Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder After Medical Hospitalization. Micheal Incze (General Internal Medicine) (first author), Taylor Kelley (General Internal Medicine) (middle author), and Adam Gordon (Epidemiology) (last author) – JAMA Internal Medicine; Citscore 43.5; #2 Journal in Internal Medicine (Altmetrics Score 4)
- Impact of Clinician Feedback Reports on Antibiotic Use in Children Hospitalized With Community-acquired Pneumonia. Julia Szymczak (Epidemiology) (middle author) - Clinical Infectious Diseases; CiteScore 25; Top 4% of Infectious Diseases Journals (Altmetrics Score 21)
- Alternatively spliced NFKB1 transcripts enriched in Andean Aymara modulate inflammation, HIF and hemoglobin. Josef Prchal (last author), Soo Jin Kim, and Jihyun Song (first author) (Hematology) – Nature Communications; CiteScore 24.9; Top 3% of Journals (Altmetrics Score 3)
- Functional disability after clinically significant extracranial bleeding: a secondary analysis of the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE) Trial. Anna Parks (Hematology) (middle author) – Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis; CiteScore 24.3; Top 4% of Hematology Journals
- Genome-wide CRISPR screen identifies IRF1 and TFAP4 as transcriptional regulators of Galectin-9 in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Jens Lohr (Hematology) (middle author) – Science Advances; CiteScore 21.4; Top 4% of Journals (Altmetrics Score 1)
- Prognostic Value of Myocardial Parametric Mapping in Patients with Acute Myocarditis: A Retrospective Study. Andrew Arai (Cardiovascular Medicine) (middle author) - Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging; CiteScore 20.4; Top 2% of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Journals (Altmetrics Score 3)
- A Multisite Demonstration of Shared Access to Older Adults’ Patient Portals. Tim Farrell (Geriatrics) (middle author) – JAMA Network Open; CiteScore 16; Top 4% General Medicine Journals (Altmetrics Score 2)
- Cancer Mortality Rates in Female Veterans With and Without TBI. MJ Pugh (Epidemiology) (last author) – JAMA Network Open; CiteScore 16; Top 4% General Medicine Journals (Altmetrics Score 5)
- Characteristics and Antibiotic Preferences of US Adults Reporting Frequent Use vs No Use of Antibiotics. (Valerie Vaughn) (General Internal Medicine) (middle author) and Julia Szymczak (Epidemiology) (Last Author) - JAMA Network Open; CiteScore 16; Top 4% General Medicine Journals (Altmetrics Score 22)
- Design of the First in Human Gene Therapy Trial of TLT-101 for Chronic Heart Failure (FIGHT-HF). Jim Fang (middle author) and Robin Shaw (last author) (Cardiovascular Medicine) - JACC: Basic to Translational Science; CiteScore 14.2; Top 4% of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (Altmetrics Score 10)
- Adverse prognosis gene expression patterns in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Manish Kohli (Oncology) (middle author)– Molecular Oncology; CiteScore 12.6; Top 4% Genetics Journals
- Alcohol induces long-lasting sleep deficits in Drosophila via subsets of cholinergic neurons. Aylin Rodan (Nephrology) (middle author) – Current Biology; CiteScore 11.8; Top 4% of General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Journals (Plum X Metrics: 2 Citations, 2 Captures, 4 Mentions)
- A Phase 2 Trial of Radium223 and Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy in Hormone-Naïve Men with Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer to Bone: The RadSABR Study. Benjamin Maughan (middle author) , Umang Swami (middle author) , Sumati Gupta (middle author) , and Neeraj Agarwal (last author) (Oncology) - International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics; CiteScore 11; Top 3% of Radiation Journals
- Impact of sedentary behaviour reduction on desk-worker workplace satisfaction, productivity, mood and health-related quality of life: a randomised trial. Molly Conroy (General Internal Medicine) (middle author) - Occupational and Environmental Medicine; CiteScore 8.3; Top 9% of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Journals (Altmetrics Score 1)
- Feasibility of training family caregivers of people living with dementia online to deliver life review depression intervention at home. Erin Bouldin (Epidemiology) (last author) - Aging & Mental Health; CiteScore 7; Top 10% of Psychiatric Mental Health Journals
In February 2025, Internal Medicine Faculty had over 70 papers reported as published. Of these publications, 57% of papers were in the top 10% of journals, and 6% were in the top 1% of journals.
- Pulsatile Organ Perfusion in Heart Transplantation: A Report From the OCS Heart Perfusion Registry. Josef Stehlik (Cardiovascular) (first author) – Circulation; CiteScore 45.7; Top 1% of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (Altmetrics Score 2)
- Gastrointestinal tissue eosinophil quantification in healthy adult volunteers. Tursun Trapov, Amiko Uchida, Maria Pletneva, and Kathryn Peterson (Gastroenterology) – Gastroenterology; CiteScore 45.6; Top 3% of Gastroenterology Journals
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection induces intragraft lymphocytotoxicity that triggers lung transplant antibody-mediated rejection. Ramsey Hachem (Pulmonary) (middle author) – Science Translational Medicine; CiteScore 26.7; Top 2% of General Medicine Journals (Altmetrics Score 63)
- Developing approaches to incorporate donor-lung computed tomography images into machine learning models to predict severe primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation. Ramsey Hachem (Pulmonary) (middle author) - American Journal of Transplantation; CiteScore 18.7; Top 2% of Pharmacology (medical) journals
- Real-world use of tafasitamab preceding CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Narendranth Epperla (Hematology) (1st author) - Biomarker Research; Journal CiteScore 15.8; Top 5% of Clinical Biochemistry Journals
- A Framework to Optimize Primary Care of Older Surgical Patients: A Qualitative Study of Geriatricians. Roxanne Weiss and Mark Supiano (Geriatrics) (middle authors) – JAMA Network Open; CiteScore 16; Top 5% of General Medicine Journals (Altmetric Score: 12; Covered by 1 news outlet)
- The Association Between Thyrotropin and Clinically Relevant Depression: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study. Vishnu Sundaresh (Endocrinology) (last author) – Thyroid; Journal CiteScore 12.3; Top 10% of Endocrinology Journals
- Adherence to self-monitoring and behavioral goals is associated with improved weight loss in an mHealth randomized-controlled trial. Molly Conroy (General Internal Medicine) (middle author) - Obesity; Journal CiteScore 11.7; Top 5% of Medicine Journals.
- Turner syndrome: fertility, familial clustering, and cancer risk. Kristina Allen-Brady (Epidemiology) (first author) and Bonita Austin and Corrine Welt (Endocrinology) (Welt – last author) - Human Reproduction; Journal CiteScore 10.9, Top 4% of Obstetrics and Gynecology Journals (Altmetrics Score: 1)
- Comparative effectiveness of insulin glargine, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in veterans with type 2 diabetes. Jincheng Shen, McKenna Nevers, Tom Greene (Epidemiology), Stavros Drakos (Cardiovascular) and Amara Sarwal, Sydney Hartsell, Guo Wei, Augustine Takyi, Nihariko Katkam, Robert Boucher, and Srini Beddu (Nephrology) (Shen – first author; Beddu – last author) - Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism; Journal CiteScore 10.9; Top 10% of Internal Medicine Journals
- EUS-guided cystocystostomy for management of noncommunicating peripancreatic fluid collections. Emily Fellows, David Jonason, Jason DuBroff, John Morris, and Christopher Ko (Gastroenterology) (Fellows – first author; Ko – last author) - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; CiteScore 10.3; Top 10% of Gastroenterology Journals
- Genomic biomarkers of survival in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer undergoing intensified androgen deprivation therapy. Georges Gebrael, Nicolas Sayegh, Chadi Chehade, Arshit Narang, Beverly Chigarira, Nishita Tripathi, Ayana Srivastava, Clara Tander, Diya Garg, Richard Ji, Benjamin Maughan, Neeraj Agarwal (Oncology) (Georges Gebrael – first author; Neeraj Agarwal – last author) - Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases; CiteScore 10; Top 5% of Urology Journals
- Multi-gene risk-score for prediction of clinical outcomes in treatment-naïve metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer. Brayden Fairbourn and Manish Kohli (Oncology) (last author) - JNCI Cancer Spectrum (New Journal); CiteScore 7.7; Top 25% of Oncology journals (Altmetric Score: 1)
DOIM researchers had 58 publications in January 2025. The articles selected below have a first, last, or corresponding author from the department and are in a top journal for the discipline.
- AGA Clinical Practice Update on Endoscopic Enteral Access: Commentary, John Fang (Gastroenterology) – Gastroenterology; Journal CiteScore 45.6, #4 Journal in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Maximizing the Ability of Health IT and AI to Improve Patient Safety, David Classen (Epidemiology) - – JAMA Internal Medicine; Journal CiteScore 43.5, #2 Journal in Internal Medicine (Altmetrics Score: 19; mentioned 27 times on social media)
- Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study, Katharine Walter (Epidemology) – The Lancet Microbe; Journal CiteScore 27.2; Top 4% Journal in several categories. (1 news mention)
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Older Veterans admitted to VA Community Living Centers: Prevalence and Risk Correlates, Zachary Burningham (Epidemiology) - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry; Journal CiteScore 13, #5 Journal in Geriatrics
- KRAS Mutation Status and Treatment Outcomes in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Vaia Florou (Oncology) – JAMA Network Open; Journal Cite Score 16; Top 5% of all journals (Altmetrics Score: 33; mentioned 16 times on social media; 3 news outlets)
- De novo Membranous Nephropathy in Renal Allografts is Associated With Protocadherin FAT1, Laith Al-Rabadi (Nephrology) - Kidney International Reports; Journal CiteScore 7.7; #10 Journal in Nephrology