Derek E. Byers

Summary

Derek E. Byers. Role: ORCID lists "Professor of Medicine" (Internal Medicine, Washington University Physicians); "Associate Professor" (Medicine-Pulmonary/Critical Care, Washington University in Saint Louis). Basis of the role: ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date).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, critical care (source: the same ORCID entries). Affiliation: Washington University Physicians, St Louis (US); Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis (US). Basis: ORCID record, employment entries without an end date (self-asserted, may be out of date).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 432 citations over ten years; 1 first-author and 1 last-author papers. Ranks: main 65, excluding consensus papers 52, first or last author 426. 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)

Citations: 432 in total, 432 excluding consensus and guideline papers (0 of this author's papers excluded), 1 on first or last author papers (1 first, 1 last).

Role and field

Role

"Professor of Medicine" (Internal Medicine, Washington University Physicians); "Associate Professor" (Medicine-Pulmonary/Critical Care, Washington University in Saint Louis)

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verified from ORCID (self-asserted entries; may be out of date)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ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date)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, critical care

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

Washington University Physicians, St Louis (US); Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis (US)

papers 10y

27

fractional papers 10y

2.23

citations 10y

432

fractional citations 10y

32.5

ranking retrieved

2026-10-10

orcid

0000-0001-7371-9153

openalex author id

A5069698981

merged open alex profiles

1

affiliation basis

ORCID record, employment entries without an end date (self-asserted, may be out of date)

papers excluding consensus 10y

27

citations excluding consensus 10y

432

consensus papers excluded 10y

0

first author papers 10y

1

last author papers 10y

1

lead author citations 10y

1

lead author papers 10y

2

Sources and links

• ORCID record (role and affiliation entries are self-asserted) (primary)
• OpenAlex author profile (ranking source)
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome–free survival after lung transplantation: An International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Thoracic Transplant Registry analysis (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2019); 134 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2018.09.016
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Rabbit antithymocyte globulin for the treatment of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (Clinical Transplantation, 2019); 22 citations; DOI 10.1111/ctr.13708
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Impaired complement regulation drives chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation (Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2026); 5 citations; DOI 10.1172/jci188891
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) in the Management of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2019); 2 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2019.01.397
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Bronchiolitis-Obliterans Syndrome-Free Survival of Lung Transplant Recipients - Analysis of the ISHLT Registry (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2017); 1 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2017.01.1505
• ORCID employment entries (source of the role)

Known gaps in this record

• centre membership relation (not asserted)
• funding and conflicts of interest
• only the top-30 entries were checked by hand for ID merges and splits