Karthik Balakrishnan is a Head & Neck physician affiliated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 275 publications with 4,953 citations (h-index 36). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Pediatric Otolaryngology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingNIH funding
1 NIH research award on record, funded 2019–2020 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- An urgently needed low-cost, rapidly deployable platform for simultaneous SARS-CoV-2 viral particle and COVID-19 IgG/IgM detection and quantification
Nodexus, Inc.
FY2020$248,790R43CA243815
Awards in the NIH RePORTER records where a principal investigator name matches this physician at an organization in their practice state. Latest award years shown; each row links to the project record on RePORTER.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Inherent Bias in Large Language Models: A Random Sampling Analysis
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health
2024 - The utility of ChatGPT as a generative medical translator
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
2024 - Comparison Between ChatGPT and Google Search as Sources of Postoperative Patient Instructions
JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
2023 - International Pediatric Otolaryngology Group: Consensus guidelines on the diagnosis and management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
2023
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