Steven D. Nathan

Summary

Steven D. Nathan. Role: ORCID lists "Medical Director" (Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Hospital). Basis of the role: ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date).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 (source: affiliation lines on the author's own papers, for example https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15197623 (2026): "Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Health System, 3300 Gallows Rd, Falls Church, VA 22042, USA"; also on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2026.109138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlto.2026). Affiliation: Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church (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 Basis: ORCID record, employment entries without an end date (self-asserted, may be out of date).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 458 citations over ten years; 0 first-author and 3 last-author papers. Ranks: main 57, excluding consensus papers 46, first or last author 407. 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: 458 in total, 458 excluding consensus and guideline papers (0 of this author's papers excluded), 2 on first or last author papers (0 first, 3 last).

Role and field

Role

"Medical Director" (Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Hospital)

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verified from ORCID (self-asserted entries; may be out of date)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ORCID employment entries without an end date (self-asserted by the record holder, may be out of date)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

Field basis

affiliation lines on the author's own papers, for example https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15197623 (2026): "Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program, Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Health System, 3300 Gallows Rd, Falls Church, VA 22042, USA"; also on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2026.109138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlto.2026

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

Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church (US)

papers 10y

27

fractional papers 10y

2.06

citations 10y

458

fractional citations 10y

24.8

ranking retrieved

2026-10-10

orcid

0000-0002-6270-1617

openalex author id

A5052485494

merged open alex profiles

3

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

458

consensus papers excluded 10y

0

first author papers 10y

0

last author papers 10y

3

lead author citations 10y

2

lead author papers 10y

3

Sources and links

• ORCID record (role and affiliation entries are self-asserted) (primary)
• OpenAlex author profile (ranking source)
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Use of donor-derived-cell-free DNA as a marker of early allograft injury in primary graft dysfunction (PGD) to predict the risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2021); 55 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2021.02.008
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Preemptive treatment of de novo donor-specific antibodies in lung transplant patients reduces subsequent risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction or death (American Journal of Transplantation, 2023); 27 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.ajt.2022.12.019
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Extreme elevations of donor-derived cell-free DNA increases the risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction and death, even without clinical manifestations of disease (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2024); 16 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2024.04.064
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Donor–derived cell-free DNA associated with increased risk of chronic lung allograft dysfunction and mortality: Are absolute levels better than percentage? (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2026); 9 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2026.01.022
• Most-cited CLAD paper in corpus: Restrictive Allograft Syndrome Patients Have Higher Cell-Free DNA Assessed Allograft Injury Prior to Diagnosis (The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2022); 3 citations; DOI 10.1016/j.healun.2022.01.043
• ORCID employment entries (source of the role)
• Own paper naming the unit (affiliation line)
• Own paper naming the unit (affiliation line)

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