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Thomas F. DeLaney

Thomas F. DeLaney

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
24359
World Ranking
14687
National Ranking
7429

Thomas F. DeLaney publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas F. DeLaney sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 441 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Thomas F. DeLaney D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas F. DeLaney sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thomas F. DeLaney is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in oncology and radiation therapy. Their main field of study is medicine, with specific focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, rheumatology, oncology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics with a strong emphasis on sarcoma diagnosis and treatment, bone tumor diagnosis and treatments, cardiac tumors and thrombi, vascular tumors and angiosarcomas, management of metastatic bone disease, advanced radiotherapy techniques, and radiation therapy and dosimetry.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Randomized Phase IIB Trial of Proton Beam Therapy Versus Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Management of Primary Retroperitoneal Sarcoma (RPS) in the Adult: An Updated Consensus Approach from the Transatlantic Australasian RPS Working Group, 2021, Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Radiation Therapy for Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcoma in Adults: Executive Summary of an ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline, 2021, Practical Radiation Oncology
  • The sacral chordoma margin, 2020, European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • Multi-institutional analysis of stereotactic body radiotherapy for sarcoma pulmonary metastases: High rates of local control with favorable toxicity, 2020, Journal of Surgical Oncology

Frequent co-authors include Yen-Lin Chen, John T. Mullen, Shannon M. MacDonald, Kevin A. Raskin, and Gregory M. Coté, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

The scientist has published numerous articles in several key journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, followed by Annals of Surgical Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology. Other notable venues include Journal of Surgical Oncology and International Journal of Particle Therapy.

Best Publications

  • Randomized prospective study of the benefit of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity.

    James C. Yang;Alfred E. Chang;Alan R. Baker;William F. Sindelar

  • Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Retroperitoneal Sarcomas: Final Results of a Prospective, Randomized, Clinical Trial

    William F. Sindelar;Timothy J. Kinsella;Pauline W. Chen;Thomas F. DeLaney

  • Photodynamic therapy of cancer.

    T F Delaney;E Glatstein

  • Total Neoadjuvant Therapy With FOLFIRINOX Followed by Individualized Chemoradiotherapy for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial

    Janet E. Murphy;Jennifer Y. Wo;David P. Ryan;Wenqing Jiang

  • Multi-Institutional Phase II Study of High-Dose Hypofractionated Proton Beam Therapy in Patients With Localized, Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.

    Theodore S. Hong;Jennifer Y. Wo;Beow Y. Yeap;Edgar Ben-Josef

  • Proton beam therapy

    W P Levin;H Kooy;J S Loeffler;T F DeLaney

  • Total Neoadjuvant Therapy With FOLFIRINOX in Combination With Losartan Followed by Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Phase 2 Clinical Trial.

    Janet E. Murphy;Jennifer Y. Wo;David P. Ryan;Jeffrey W. Clark

  • Patient study of in vivo verification of beam delivery and range, using positron emission tomography and computed tomography imaging after proton therapy.

    Katia Parodi;Harald Paganetti;Helen A. Shih;Susan Michaud

  • Second malignancies after Ewing's sarcoma: radiation dose-dependency of secondary sarcomas.

    John F. Kuttesch;Leonard H. Wexler;Robert B. Marcus;Diane Fairclough

  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for large extremity soft-tissue sarcomas.

    Thomas F DeLaney;Ira J Spiro;Herman D Suit;Mark C Gebhardt

  • Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in the Management of High-Risk, High-Grade, Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Extremities and Body Wall: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Trial 9514

    William G. Kraybill;Jonathon Harris;Ira J. Spiro;David S. Ettinger

  • Radiotherapy for local control of osteosarcoma.

    Thomas F. DeLaney;Lily Park;Saveli I. Goldberg;Eugen B. Hug

  • Treatment and Outcome of 82 Patients with Angiosarcoma

    John A. Abraham;Francis J. Hornicek;Adam M. Kaufman;David C. Harmon

  • Bayesian Adaptive Randomization Trial of Passive Scattering Proton Therapy and Intensity-Modulated Photon Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

    Zhongxing Liao;J. Jack Lee;Ritsuko Komaki;Daniel R. Gomez

  • Proton vs carbon ion beams in the definitive radiation treatment of cancer patients.

    Herman Suit;Thomas DeLaney;Saveli Goldberg;Harald Paganetti

  • Acute and long-term effects on limb function of combined modality limb sparing therapy for extremity soft tissue sarcoma.

    Susan F. Stinson;Thomas F. Delaney;Jeffrey Greenberg;James C. Yang

  • Radiotherapy treatment of early stage prostate cancer with IMRT and protons: a treatment planning comparison

    Alexei Trofimov;Paul L. Nguyen;John J. Coen;Karen P. Doppke

  • Phase II study of high-dose photon/proton radiotherapy in the management of spine sarcomas.

    Thomas F. DeLaney;Norbert J. Liebsch;Francis X. Pedlow;Judith Adams

  • Significant Reduction of Late Toxicities in Patients With Extremity Sarcoma Treated With Image-Guided Radiation Therapy to a Reduced Target Volume: Results of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group RTOG-0630 Trial

    Dian Wang;Qiang Zhang;Burton L. Eisenberg;John M. Kane

  • Soft Tissue Sarcoma

    George D. Demetri;Scott Antonia;Robert S. Benjamin;Marilyn M. Bui

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis J. Hornicek
Francis J. Hornicek University of Miami
Beow Y. Yeap
Beow Y. Yeap Harvard University
David P. Ryan
David P. Ryan Harvard University
Andrew X. Zhu
Andrew X. Zhu Harvard University
Herman D. Suit
Herman D. Suit Harvard University
Jeffrey W. Clark
Jeffrey W. Clark Harvard University
Andrew E. Rosenberg
Andrew E. Rosenberg University of Miami
Cristina R. Ferrone
Cristina R. Ferrone Harvard University
Thomas Bortfeld
Thomas Bortfeld Harvard University

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