Advancing Knowledge, One Publication at a Time

Collectively, faculty produced an impressive 797 scholarly works, including five authored or edited books, 23 book chapters, 104 conference abstracts, and 665 journal articles. The full 2025 Faculty Bibliography is available online and in print upon request.

Reflecting on the year's scholarly achievements, Marie T. Ascher, M.S., M.P.H., fourth from right, the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director of the Phillip Capozzi, M.D., Library, highlighted the real-world significance of the research being recognized.

“This year's top-cited, most-mentioned, and high-impact papers have a running theme: Does an intervention that appears to be promising actually improve the outcomes that matter most to patients? Together, these published trials provide evidence that helps clinicians make better-informed decisions about treatment effectiveness, risk, and patient selection,” said Ascher.

That impact extends far beyond the pages of academic journals, noted Salomon Amar, D.D.S., Ph.D., vice president for research and professor of pharmacology and pathology, microbiology and immunology at NYMC and senior vice president for research affairs at Touro University, who emphasized the downstream effect faculty scholarship has on learners, clinicians, and patients.

“Your work matters beyond this world,” said Dr. Amar. “Somewhere, a resident is reading your paper at night. I read them after midnight. A student is citing your manuscript. A patient is receiving new care as a result of that work, and they’re doing better because of something you discovered and had the courage to publish.”

Building on that message, Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., fifth from left, chancellor and chief executive officer, underscored the responsibility of academic medicine to preserve and advance scientific inquiry for future generations.

“We must continue to do science, and write, and publish. And we must insist that our trainees critically engage with those texts because there is far too much at stake to give up this fight. Our work must not only survive, it must prevail, because the future depends on it,” said Dr. Halperin.

Honorees were recognized across multiple categories, highlighting publications that achieved significant engagement, broad dissemination, and meaningful influence within their fields. These proprietary, curated resources are available through the library.

Faculty Author Awards

Research Article Published in Journal with Highest CiteScore for NYMC First Author (Scopus)

Author: Leslie Citrome, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Title: Long-Acting Oral Weekly Risperidone (LYN- 005) for Schizophrenia in the USA (STARLYNG-1): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Non-Randomised Phase 3 Trial
Journal: The Lancet Psychiatry
CiteScore: 39.4
 
Research Article Published in Journal with Highest CiteScore for All Authors (Scopus)

Author: Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., professor of medicine (ODYSSEY-HCM Investigators)
Title: Mavacamten in Symptomatic Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Journal: The New England Journal of Medicine
CiteScore: 74.8 
 
Research Article with Highest Number of Citations for NYMC First Author (Scopus)

Author: Stephan A. Mayer, M.D., FCCM, FNCS, professor of neurology and neurosurgery  
Title: REACT: A Randomized Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Clazosentan for Preventing ClinicalDeterioration Due to Delayed Cerebral Ischemia After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 
Citations: 27 
 
Research Article with Highest Number of Citations for All Authors (Scopus)

Author: Arundhati Biswas, M.B.B.S, former assistant professor of neurosurgery 
Title: Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Proximal and Distal Medium Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Patients Treated With Mechanical Thrombectomy 
Citations: 40 
 
NYMC First Author Publication with the Highest Number of News Mentions (PlumX) 

Mentions are the blog posts, comments, news mentions, and Wikipedia links about research. This category measures when people are truly engaging with research. 

Author: Leslie Citrome, M.D., M.P.H., clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Title: Long-Acting Oral Weekly Risperidone (LYN-005) for Schizophrenia in the USA (STARLYNG-1): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Non- Randomised Phase 3 Trial 
Mentions: 72 
 
NYMC First Author Publication with the Highest Number of Social Media Mentions (PlumX)

These metrics are the +1s, likes, shares, and tweets about research. They allow us to track the buzz and attention surrounding research. 

Author: Patrick Popiel, M.D., former assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology
Title: Preventing the Next Neglected Pessary: A Quality Improvement Initiative 
Social Media Mentions: 18 
 
NYMC Mentoring Author with the Most Published Articles Including Current Students

Author: Fawaz Al-Mufti, M.D., professor of neurology, neurosurgery, and of radiology 
Publications: 23 
 
Dr. Al-Mufti is a triple-trained neurologist, neurointensivist, and neuroendovascular surgeon who directs research at the WMC Brain and Spine Institute and the Center for Neurological Research and Innovation. With more than 250 peer reviewed publications, he has mentored more than 100 students, residents, and fellows. In 2025, his student collaborations addressed important questions in stroke and neurocritical care, including thrombectomy techniques and access, pediatric cerebrovascular disease, complications of subarachnoid hemorrhage, chronic subdural hematoma, status epilepticus, and cerebrovascular disparities. Through these projects, Dr. Al-Mufti has provided students with meaningful opportunities to contribute to clinically relevant research and develop experience as scholarly authors.
 
NYMC Mentoring Author with the Most Published Articles Including Current Residents

Author: Wilbert S. Aronow, M.D., professor of medicine 
Publications: 21 
 
Dr. Aronow has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to mentoring the next generation of physicians and scholars, having guided more than 1,300 physicians and medical students throughout his career. In 2025, he coauthored publications with residents on timely and clinically significant topics across cardiovascular medicine, including heart failure, cardiovascular prevention, thrombosis, cardiogenic shock, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac amyloidosis, and U.S. trends in sudden cardiac death. Dr. Aronow’s sustained mentorship and support of resident scholarship have helped create meaningful opportunities for residents to contribute to clinically relevant cardiovascular scholarship across reviews, evidence syntheses, and population-level research.

Departmental Awards

Departments with the Highest Percentage of Faculty Published

School of Medicine 
Department: Neurosurgery
Department Chair: Chirag D. Gandhi, M.D., M.S., FACS, FAANS
 
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Department: Cell and Molecular Physiology
Department Chair: Joseph D. Etlinger, Ph.D.
 
School of Health Sciences and Practice
Department: Rehabilitation Sciences
Department Chair: Vikas Grover, Ph.D., CCC-SLP