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Virginia A. LiVolsi 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 Virginia A. LiVolsi sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 706 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Virginia A. LiVolsi 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 Virginia A. LiVolsi sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 115 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Virginia A. LiVolsi is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the field of Medicine, with notable contributions also in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, Oncology, Epidemiology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Head and Neck Anomalies
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors

Virginia A. LiVolsi has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Overview of the 2022 WHO Classification of Thyroid Neoplasms, 2022, Endocrine Pathology
  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • Predicting Metastatic Potential in Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma: A Comparison of PASS and GAPP Scoring Systems, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Executive Summary of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults, 2020, Annals of Surgery
  • Surgical Aspects of Primary Hyperparathyroidism, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

The frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

  • Zubair Baloch
  • Maria A. Gubbiotti
  • Kathleen T. Montone
  • Isabella Tondi Resta
  • L. Sylvia

The scientist has published in various venues multiple times. The frequent publication venues are:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Endocrine Pathology
  • Human Pathology
  • Head & Neck
  • Annals of Surgery

Best Publications

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • Effects of Estrogen or Estrogen/ Progestin Regimens on Heart Disease Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women: The Postmenopausal Estrogen/Progestin Interventions (PEPI) Trial

    Valery T. Miller;John LaRosa;Vanessa Barnabei;Craig Kessler

  • Nomenclature Revision for Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Raja R. Seethala;Giovanni Tallini;Zubair W. Baloch

  • Preoperative Diagnosis of Benign Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology

    Erik K. Alexander;Giulia C. Kennedy;Zubair W. Baloch;Edmund S. Cibas

  • Diagnostic terminology and morphologic criteria for cytologic diagnosis of thyroid lesions: a synopsis of the National Cancer Institute Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration State of the Science Conference.

    Zubair W. Baloch M.D.;Virginia A. LiVolsi;Syl L. Asa M.D.;Juan Rosai

  • The prognostic significance of nodal metastases from papillary thyroid carcinoma can be stratified based on the size and number of metastatic lymph nodes, as well as the presence of extranodal extension

    Gregory W. Randolph;Quan-Yang Duh;Keith S. Heller;Virginia A. LiVolsi

  • Diagnosis of "follicular neoplasm": a gray zone in thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology.

    Zubair W. Baloch M.D.;M T Seth Fleisher;Virginia A. LiVolsi;Prabodh K. Gupta

  • Suspicious breast lesions : MR imaging with radiologic-pathologic correlation

    S G Orel;M D Schnall;V A LiVolsi;R H Troupin

  • Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

    Lauren Fishbein;Lauren Fishbein;Ignaty Leshchiner;Ignaty Leshchiner;Vonn Walter;Vonn Walter;Ludmila Danilova;Ludmila Danilova

  • Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: the Turin proposal for the use of uniform diagnostic criteria and an algorithmic diagnostic approach.

    Marco Volante;Paola Collini;Yuri E. Nikiforov;Atsuhiko Sakamoto

  • Surgical pathology of the thyroid

    Virginia A. LiVolsi

  • American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and Associazione Medici Endocrinologi medical guidelines for clinical practice for the diagnosis and management of thyroid nodules.

    Hossein Gharib;Enrico Papini;Roberto Valcavi;H. Jack Baskin

  • Clinical and Pathological Features of Ovarian Cancer in Women with Germ-Line Mutations of BRCA1

    Stephen C. Rubin;Ivor Benjamin;Kian Behbakht;Hiroyuki Takahashi

  • Observer variation in the diagnosis of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma

    Ricardo V Lloyd;Lori A Erickson;Mary B Casey;King Y Lam

  • Menin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors

    Thomas A. Milne;Christina M. Hughes;Ricardo Lloyd;Zhaohai Yang

  • Gene expression in papillary thyroid carcinoma reveals highly consistent profiles

    Ying Huang;Manju Prasad;William J. Lemon;Heather Hampel

  • A Population-Based Case-Control Study of Thyroid Cancer

    Elaine Ron;Ruth A. Kleinerman;John D. Boice;Virginia A. LiVolsi

  • A Large Multicenter Correlation Study of Thyroid Nodule Cytopathology and Histopathology

    Chung Che Charles Wang;Lyssa Friedman;Giulia C. Kennedy;Hui Wang

  • Interobserver and intraobserver variation among experts in the diagnosis of thyroid follicular lesions with borderline nuclear features of papillary carcinoma.

    Tarik M. Elsheikh;Sylvia L. Asa;John K.C. Chan;Ronald A. DeLellis

  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults

    Kepal N. Patel;Linwah Yip;Carrie C. Lubitz;Elizabeth G. Grubbs

Frequent Co-Authors

Zubair W. Baloch
Zubair W. Baloch University of Pennsylvania
Sylvia L. Asa
Sylvia L. Asa Case Western Reserve University
Juan Rosai
Juan Rosai Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
John E. Tomaszewski
John E. Tomaszewski University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Douglas L. Fraker
Douglas L. Fraker University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer L. Kelsey
Jennifer L. Kelsey Stanford University
Theodore R. Holford
Theodore R. Holford Yale University
Maria J. Merino
Maria J. Merino National Institutes of Health
Gregory S. Weinstein
Gregory S. Weinstein University of Pennsylvania
Michael Feldman
Michael Feldman University of Pennsylvania

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