Clinical and translational research studies in gastrointestinal motility and functional disorders

Abstract

The body of my work has advanced knowledge and learning in the areas of gastrointestinal, colonic and anorectal physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, diagnosis and management of motility and functional gastrointestinal disorders. The work has impacted the diagnosis and management of disorders such as gastroparesis, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, functional dyspepsia, and carcinoid diarrhea. These publications are selected from around 800 articles published (625 original articles, >175 invited reviews or editorials in journals) over more than 35 years. They have been selected to show the sustained and consistent contribution I have made to the translational and clinical science research in gastroenterology. These original contributions have usually been made jointly with students I have supervised, or fellows and collaborators I have worked with. This work has been published in international journals and has been cited extensively by others. In many instances, this work has achieved a long-term impact and has led to further developments by others and citations over a long time. According to Google Scholar, my published work has been cited over 65372 times, with 22400 in the last 5 years, and my current h-index is 133. In addition to articles pertaining to original research detailed under 9 different categories below, I have selected 20 articles cited >100 times (based on Thomson Web of Science) and these are single author reviews (as in the New England Journal of Medicine), national or international guidelines that have impacted the field significantly, or original research. All the selected papers are in English. As recommended in the instructions, I have identified 20 papers with some of the highest numbers of citations in the literature, and provided the Journal, Title of the article, full list of authors and number of times cited according to the Web of Science database. I have also added my role in the article, and this is verifiable by the name of the corresponding or senior author of each article, or by first authorship. This information appears in the table, and pdfs of the articles are attached in the same order.