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Thomas C Erren

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Top papers

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1 Are some categories of scientific publication more equal than others? On the ambiguous use of the label "original work". Med Hypotheses 2008 1.92
2 Ten simple rules for a good poster presentation. PLoS Comput Biol 2007 1.55
3 Ten simple rules for doing your best research, according to Hamming. PLoS Comput Biol 2007 1.32
4 Light at night, chronodisruption, melatonin suppression, and cancer risk: a review. Crit Rev Oncog 2007 1.05
5 Light-mediated perturbations of circadian timing and cancer risk: a mechanistic analysis. Integr Cancer Ther 2009 0.99
6 Light, clocks, mood, and cancer: consolidation and novel tests of latitude and instability hypotheses. Chronobiol Int 2011 0.98
7 Latitude, light, clocks and mood. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2011 0.95
8 How to surf today's information tsunami: on the craft of effective reading. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.93
9 Hamming's "open doors" and group creativity as keys to scientific excellence: the example of Cambridge. Med Hypotheses 2007 0.90
10 A new approach to assess movements and isometric postures of spine and trunk at the workplace. Eur Spine J 2011 0.90
11 Quantitative exposure metrics for sleep disturbance and their association with breast cancer risk. Cancer Causes Control 2013 0.88
12 Health clues from polar regions. Science 2007 0.87
13 Sleep duration, melatonin and breast cancer in the Singapore Chinese Health Study: on null results and their interpretation. Int J Cancer 2013 0.85
14 When the circadian clock becomes a ticking time bomb. Chronobiol Int 2012 0.85
15 Urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin excretion in humans during domestic exposure to 50 hertz electromagnetic fields. Neuro Endocrinol Lett 2005 0.82
16 Common sense: folk wisdom that ethnobiological and ethnomedical research cannot afford to ignore. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2013 0.81
17 Of mice and men. EMBO Rep 2011 0.80
18 IARC's plea for traditional 'expert' working groups--a recipe for problems? Int J Epidemiol 2011 0.78
19 Exposures to diesel motor exhaust and lung cancer: are findings of a large pooled analysis really consistent? Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2012 0.78
20 Competing interests: Judged in perpetuity. Nature 2012 0.78
21 Sleep duration and cancer risk: time to use a "sleep-years" index? Cancer Causes Control 2012 0.78
22 Not all shifts are equal: it's time for comprehensive exposure metrics in chronodisruption research. Cancer Res 2008 0.78
23 Research into 'night shift work' and cancer: on the evolution of 'exposure' classification. Occup Environ Med 2013 0.77
24 Epigenetics: origins and implications for cancer epidemiology. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.77
25 Re: "Night-shift work and breast cancer risk in a cohort of Chinese women". Am J Epidemiol 2010 0.77
26 Shift work and cancer: risk, compensation, challenges. BMJ 2009 0.77
27 Silica and lung cancer. Epidemiology 2007 0.77
28 Sleep duration, melatonin, and breast cancer: compliment and complement. Cancer Res 2006 0.76
29 On the origin of cancer: evolution and a mutation paradox. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.76
30 In favor of controlling proven, but not probable, causes of cancer. Environ Health Perspect 2011 0.76
31 When size presents problems. Int J Epidemiol 2011 0.75
32 Defeating dengue: new mosquito genome, old promise? Bull World Health Organ 2008 0.75
33 The long and thorny road to publication in quality journals. PLoS Comput Biol 2007 0.75
34 Do perinatal photoperiods imprint human chronobiology? Suggestion for a study into the possible signature of light in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Chronobiol Int 2012 0.75
35 Preventing cancers caused by chronodisruption: blocking blue light alone is unlikely to do the trick. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
36 Results of rush to sequence genomes may be nonsense. Nature 2008 0.75
37 Counter-clockwise shift-work and prostate cancer: putting pieces in the puzzle. Int J Urol 2011 0.75
38 Frog transparency led to discovery of melatonin. Nature 2008 0.75
39 Low risks at high latitudes: Does the arctic hold clues to prostate cancer? Am J Prev Med 2006 0.75
40 "Open data" and Hardy's example of seminal correspondence 101 years ago: publication practices revisited. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
41 "Simple rules for editors"? Here is one rule to tackle neglected problems of publishing. PLoS Comput Biol 2007 0.75
42 Biologically based study of magnetic field exposure and female breast cancer--will there be a sensible interpretation without information on a likely culprit? Epidemiology 2003 0.75
43 Prizes to solve problems in and beyond medicine, big and small: it can work. Med Hypotheses 2007 0.75
44 Light exposure and melatonin among rotating shift nurses--letter. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2012 0.75
45 Bad light affects sleep: "Time and latitude of birth" as determinants of children's differential sleep duration across Europe? Sleep 2011 0.75
46 Research insights and insides:"Science-in-Fiction" as a contribution to the Third Culture Concepts. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
47 Comparing Neanderthal and human genomes. Science 2007 0.75
48 Indirect blue light does not suppress nocturnal salivary melatonin in humans in an automobile setting. J Pineal Res 2009 0.75
49 What do we know 40 years after Nixon declared the 'war on cancer'? On the origin, prevention and treatment of cancer. J Cancer Educ 2012 0.75
50 Light and life--facts and research perspectives at the Cologne Light Symposium 2002. Neuro Endocrinol Lett 2002 0.75
51 On gestation periods of creative work: an interface of Doig's art and science. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
52 Complementary thoughts on the future of internet science: Can digital libraries avoid scientific tunnel-vision and lead to innovation? Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
53 Longitudinal Data Are Needed. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2016 0.75
54 On objectives and achievements of the journal medical hypotheses and the utopia of following-up 'true positives'. Med Hypotheses 2008 0.75
55 On the craft of effective lectures. Med Hypotheses 2009 0.75
56 On establishing priority of ideas: revisiting the "pli cacheté" (deposition of a sealed envelope). Med Hypotheses 2008 0.75
57 Mortality Among Hardmetal Production Workers: German Historical Cohort Study. J Occup Environ Med 2017 0.75
58 Neanderthal, chimp and human genomes: hypotheses wanted for research into brain evolution. Med Hypotheses 2007 0.75
59 Person-directed, non-pharmacological interventions for sleepiness at work and sleep disturbances caused by shift work. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2016 0.75