Alex Brown

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
397 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Alex Brown is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Brown has authored 397 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Health, 91 papers in General Health Professions and 81 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alex Brown's work include Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (88 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (31 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (31 papers). Alex Brown is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (88 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (31 papers) and Primary Care and Health Outcomes (31 papers). Alex Brown collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Alex Brown's co-authors include Eduardo Slatopolsky, Carol Davy, Adriana Dusso, Jonathan R. Carapetis, Stephen Harfield, Kerin O’Dea, Zachary Munn, Alexa McArthur, Louise Maple‐Brown and Ngiare Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Alex Brown

380 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global epidemiology of valvular heart disease

2021 374 citations Alex Brown et al. profile →
Epidemiology of Sudden Cardiac Death: Global and Regional Perspectives

2018 333 citations Alex Brown et al. Heart Lung and Circulation profile →
Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: A framework synthesis

2016 254 citations Carol Davy, Stephen Harfield et al. International Journal for Equity in Health profile →
2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk

2024 35 citations Mark Nelson, Emily Banks et al. The Medical Journal of Australia profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alex Brown	1.9k	1.6k	1.6k	1.4k	1.4k	397	8.4k
Donald R. Miller	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.6×	564 0.4×	302	17.0k
Giovanni Apolone	2.0k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	947 0.7×	209	14.9k
Manfred S. Green	879 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	646 0.5×	309	9.6k
Irene Petersen	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.7×	2.8k 2.0×	664 0.5×	281	15.9k
Kenneth D. Kochanek	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	62	10.7k
Ly‐Mee Yu	1.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	2.9k 2.1×	1.1k 0.8×	195	12.4k
Krishnan Bhaskaran	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.7×	363 0.3×	179	11.6k
Lieven Annemans	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	230 0.2×	440	11.3k
Alain Leplège	2.0k 1.1×	695 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	961 0.7×	82	9.8k
Lawrence W. Svenson	859 0.5×	517 0.3×	985 0.6×	2.3k 1.6×	528 0.4×	210	7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Brown

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Howard, Natasha, et al.. (2025). Documenting Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Risk and Disease Within an Aboriginal Cohort. Heart Lung and Circulation. 34(10). 1078–1088.

Pearson, Odette, et al.. (2024). Prioritising the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples receiving home-based aged care: An exploratory study. UniSA Research Outputs Repository (University of South Australia). 2. 100021–100021. 2 indexed citations

Parrella, Adriana, et al.. (2024). Workforce training needs to address social and emotional wellbeing in home-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care. Australian Health Review. 48(3). 283–290. 3 indexed citations

Nelson, Mark, Emily Banks, Alex Brown, et al.. (2024). 2023 Australian guideline for assessing and managing cardiovascular disease risk. The Medical Journal of Australia. 220(9). 482–490. 35 indexed citations breakdown →

Young, Jesse T, Kate Francis, Melissa Willoughby, et al.. (2023). Non-communicable disease mortality in young people with a history of contact with the youth justice system in Queensland, Australia: a retrospective, population-based cohort study. The Lancet Public Health. 8(8). e600–e609. 2 indexed citations

Titmuss, Angela, Federica Barzi, Elizabeth Barr, et al.. (2023). Association between maternal hyperglycemia in pregnancy and offspring anthropometry in early childhood: the pandora wave 1 study. International Journal of Obesity. 47(11). 1120–1131. 3 indexed citations

Bryant, Jamie, Alex Brown, Jaquelyne T. Hughes, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Reported Strengths and Limitations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research: A Narrative Review of Intervention Studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(5). 3993–3993. 12 indexed citations

Harfield, Stephen, et al.. (2021). Building Indigenous health workforce capacity and capability through leadership – the Miwatj health leadership model. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 22. e52–e52. 3 indexed citations

Young, John, John R. Green, Mary Godfrey, et al.. (2021). The Prevention of Delirium system of care for older patients admitted to hospital for emergency care: the POD research programme including feasibility RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(4). 1–180. 3 indexed citations

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Daniel, Mark, et al.. (2021). Identifying Environmental Determinants Relevant to Health and Wellbeing in Remote Australian Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review of Grey Literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(8). 4167–4167. 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yeu-Yao, Jack Nunn, John Skinner, et al.. (2021). A Pathway to Precision Medicine for Aboriginal Australians: A Study Protocol. Methods and Protocols. 4(2). 42–42. 7 indexed citations

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Howard, Natasha, et al.. (2021). Prioritizing Built Environmental Factors to Tackle Chronic and Infectious Diseases in Remote Northern Territory (NT) Communities of Australia: A Concept Mapping Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(10). 5178–5178. 2 indexed citations

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Brown, Alex, et al.. (2020). Femtosecond laser activation and sensing of hydroxyl for velocimetry in reacting flows. Applied Optics. 59(34). 10853–10853. 5 indexed citations

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Canuto, Karla, Edoardo Aromataris, Teresa Burgess, et al.. (2019). A scoping review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion programs focused on modifying chronic disease risk factors. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 32(1). 46–74. 24 indexed citations

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Kelly, Janet, et al.. (2018). ‘We get so task orientated at times that we forget the people’: staff communication experiences when caring for Aboriginal cardiac patients. Australian Health Review. 44(1). 1–6. 7 indexed citations

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Barr, Elizabeth, Federica Barzi, Jaquelyne T. Hughes, et al.. (2018). High Baseline Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 1 Are Associated With Progression of Kidney Disease in Indigenous Australians With Diabetes: The eGFR Follow-up Study. Diabetes Care. 41(4). 739–747. 30 indexed citations

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Jamieson, Lisa, Gail Garvey, Joanne Hedges, et al.. (2018). Human Papillomavirus and Oropharyngeal Cancer Among Indigenous Australians: Protocol for a Prevalence Study of Oral-Related Human Papillomavirus and Cost-Effectiveness of Prevention. JMIR Research Protocols. 7(6). e10503–e10503. 19 indexed citations

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Davy, Carol, et al.. (2017). Towards the development of a wellbeing model for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living with chronic disease. BMC Health Services Research. 17(1). 659–659. 32 indexed citations

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Davy, Carol, Stephen Harfield, Alexa McArthur, Zachary Munn, & Alex Brown. (2016). Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: A framework synthesis. International Journal for Equity in Health. 15(1). 163–163. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barr, Elizabeth LM, Louise Maple‐Brown, Federica Barzi, et al.. (2016). Comparison of creatinine and cystatin C based eGFR in the estimation of glomerular filtration rate in Indigenous Australians: The eGFR Study. Clinical Biochemistry. 50(6). 301–308. 16 indexed citations

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