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Peter Westervelt

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Peter Westervelt was an American physicist, noted for his work in nonlinear acoustics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brown University.

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Citations64,534Source-reported citations
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i10-index195Source-reported i10-index

Biography, research & contributions

Peter Westervelt was an American physicist, noted for his work in nonlinear acoustics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brown University.

Affiliation

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Top Publications

  • The Immune Landscape of Cancer (2018) - 6,351 citations
  • An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics (2018) - 4,071 citations
  • Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas (2018) - 3,454 citations
  • Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer (2018) - 2,794 citations
  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (2018) - 2,568 citations

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Peter Westervelt
OpenAlex ID
https://openalex.org/A5105528827

Research interests

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes

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      Peter Westervelt. JournalsWorld. Accessed October 8, 2026.

      https://journalsworld.com/researchers/peter-westervelt/