Christian Benden
Rank 22 by 10-year citations to CLAD papers (27 papers, 866 citations). "Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program" (Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital); field: respiratory medicine.
As of . Primary source: ORCID record (role and affiliation entries are self-asserted).
Summary
Christian Benden. Role: ORCID lists "Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program" (Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital); "Adjunct Professor" (Medical Faculty, University of Zurich). Basis of the role: ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date). Field indicated by the unit name: respiratory medicine, paediatrics (source: the same ORCID entries). Affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston (US); University of Zurich, Zurich (CH). Basis: ORCID record, employment entries without an end date (self-asserted, may be out of date). Counts in the OpenAlex corpus (retrieved 2026-10-10): 27 papers and 866 citations over ten years; 3 first-author and 9 last-author papers. Ranks: main 22, excluding consensus papers 23, first or last author 21. The method is stated once on the People list page. Linked papers are the most-cited corpus papers of this author.
Citation ranks (10 years)
| Main rank | Rank excluding consensus papers | Rank by first or last author papers |
|---|---|---|
| 22 of 800 | 23 of 794 | 21 of 512 |
Citations: 866 in total, 565 excluding consensus and guideline papers (2 of this author's papers excluded), 246 on first or last author papers (3 first, 9 last).
Ranking method: see the methodology note at the top of the People list and the full methodology document.
Role and field
- Role
- "Director, Pediatric Lung Transplant Program" (Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital); "Adjunct Professor" (Medical Faculty, University of Zurich)
- Role status
- verified from ORCID (self-asserted entries; may be out of date)
- Role basis
- ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date)
- Field
- respiratory medicine, paediatrics
- Field basis
- the same ORCID entries
Only what a cited source supports is stated. Entries marked self-asserted come from the person's own ORCID record. The field is taken from the name of the unit, not inferred from the person's name.
Details
- affiliation
- Boston Children's Hospital, Boston (US); University of Zurich, Zurich (CH)
- papers 10y
- 27
- fractional papers 10y
- 6.21
- citations 10y
- 866
- fractional citations 10y
- 142.1
- ranking retrieved
- 2026-10-10
- orcid
- 0000-0002-8409-5646
- openalex author id
- A5079092507
- merged open alex profiles
- 2
- affiliation basis
- ORCID record, employment entries without an end date (self-asserted, may be out of date)
- papers excluding consensus 10y
- 25
- citations excluding consensus 10y
- 565
- consensus papers excluded 10y
- 2
- first author papers 10y
- 3
- last author papers 10y
- 9
- lead author citations 10y
- 246
- lead author papers 10y
- 12
Sources and links
- ORCID record (role and affiliation entries are self-asserted) (primary)
- OpenAlex author profile (ranking source)
- Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Chronic lung allograft dysfunction: Definition and update of restrictive allograft syndrome―A consensus report from the Pulmonary Council of the ISHLT (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2019); 301 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2019.03.008
- Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Therapy options for chronic lung allograft dysfunction–bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome following first-line immunosuppressive strategies: A systematic review (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2017); 80 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2017.05.030
- Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung or haematopoietic stem cell transplantation: current management and future directions (ERJ Open Research, 2022); 62 citations; DOI 10.1183/23120541.00185-2022
- Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Development of a Multivariate Prediction Model for Early-Onset Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome and Restrictive Allograft Syndrome in Lung Transplantation (Frontiers in Medicine, 2017); 56 citations; DOI 10.3389/fmed.2017.00109
- Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Cessation of extracorporeal photopheresis in chronic lung allograft dysfunction: effects on clinical outcome in adults (Swiss Medical Weekly, 2017); 15 citations; DOI 10.4414/smw.2017.14429
- ORCID employment entries (source of the role)
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- centre membership relation (not asserted)
- funding and conflicts of interest
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