Alex West

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 622 citations indexed

About

Alex West is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex West has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 622 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 7 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Alex West's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (17 papers), Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (15 papers) and Ultrasound in Clinical Applications (6 papers). Alex West is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (17 papers), Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (15 papers) and Ultrasound in Clinical Applications (6 papers). Alex West collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alex West's co-authors include Katherine Myall, Bhashkar Mukherjee, Amy Dewar, Philip L. Molyneaux, Muhunthan Thillai, Rebecca Preston, Giulia Benedetti, Sze Mun Mak, Mark Denton and Thomas Bajanowski and has published in prestigious journals such as CHEST Journal, European Respiratory Journal and Thorax.

In The Last Decade

Alex West

33 papers receiving 606 citations

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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.

Persistent Post–COVID-19 Interstitial Lung Disease. An Observational Study of Corticosteroid Treatment

2021 264 citations Katherine Myall, Bhashkar Mukherjee et al. Annals of the American Thoracic Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex West United Kingdom	12	380	226	172	93	82	38	622
Zhuquan Su China	11	457 1.2×	402 1.8×	293 1.7×	110 1.2×	91 1.1×	32	831
Sze Mun Mak United Kingdom	10	264 0.7×	216 1.0×	185 1.1×	38 0.4×	57 0.7×	23	510
Samanjit S Hare United Kingdom	11	319 0.8×	534 2.4×	297 1.7×	142 1.5×	50 0.6×	19	970
Muhunthan Thillai United Kingdom	13	654 1.7×	235 1.0×	243 1.4×	68 0.7×	102 1.2×	35	965
Atsuyuki Watanabe Japan	11	92 0.2×	185 0.8×	194 1.1×	58 0.6×	54 0.7×	52	537
Eric Derom Belgium	4	159 0.4×	132 0.6×	138 0.8×	67 0.7×	17 0.2×	5	378
Peter Steiger Switzerland	14	73 0.2×	251 1.1×	125 0.7×	77 0.8×	58 0.7×	29	533
Naureen Narula United States	9	65 0.2×	440 1.9×	359 2.1×	50 0.5×	42 0.5×	39	623
Anish R. Mitra Canada	9	61 0.2×	102 0.5×	170 1.0×	80 0.9×	35 0.4×	20	428
Benan Çağlayan Türkiye	13	319 0.8×	44 0.2×	53 0.3×	65 0.7×	108 1.3×	72	559

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex West

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Edwards, C., et al.. (2025). Home Monitoring in Interstitial Lung Disease: Protocol for a Real-World Observational Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e65339–e65339.

VanFrank, Brenna, Tonya Williams, Iris Alcantara, et al.. (2025). E-Cigarette Use and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among US Middle and High School Students. Preventing Chronic Disease. 22. E51–E51.

Wu, Zhe, Lisa Spencer, Winston Banya, et al.. (2024). Morphine for treatment of cough in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (PACIFY COUGH): a prospective, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, two-way crossover trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 12(4). 273–280. 30 indexed citations

West, Alex, Nazia Chaudhuri, Adam Barczyk, et al.. (2023). Inhaled pirfenidone solution (AP01) for IPF: a randomised, open-label, dose–response trial. Thorax. 78(9). 882–889. 35 indexed citations

West, Alex, et al.. (2023). Nocturnal Hypoxemia Is Associated With Increased Risk of Disease Progression and All-cause Mortality at One and Two Year Follow Up in Patients With Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease. A2563–A2563.

Myall, Katherine, Alex West, Zhe Wu, et al.. (2023). Nocturnal Hypoxemia Associates With Symptom Progression and Mortality in Patients With Progressive Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease. CHEST Journal. 164(5). 1232–1242. 12 indexed citations

Popowicz, Natalia, Francesco Lo Piccolo, Cindy Yeoh, et al.. (2022). Alteplase Dose Assessment for Pleural infection Therapy (ADAPT) Study‐2: Use of 2.5 mg alteplase as a starting intrapleural dose. Respirology. 27(7). 510–516. 17 indexed citations

Bedawi, Eihab O., Parthipan Sivakumar, Katie Ferguson, et al.. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pleural infection incidence: a UK multicentre retrospective analysis. ERJ Open Research. 8(3). 206–2022. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Zhe, Winston Banya, Nazia Chaudhuri, et al.. (2022). PAciFy Cough—a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of morphine sulphate for the treatment of pulmonary Fibrosis Cough. Trials. 23(1). 184–184. 9 indexed citations

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Myall, Katherine, et al.. (2022). How COVID-19 interacts with interstitial lung disease. Breathe. 18(1). 210158–210158. 9 indexed citations

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Myall, Katherine, Bhashkar Mukherjee, Giulia Benedetti, et al.. (2021). Persistent Post–COVID-19 Interstitial Lung Disease. An Observational Study of Corticosteroid Treatment. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 18(5). 799–806. 264 indexed citations breakdown →

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Myall, Katherine, et al.. (2021). Identifying patients at risk of post-discharge complications related to COVID-19 infection. Thorax. 76(4). 408–411. 34 indexed citations

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Walker, Steven, Oliver Bintcliffe, Emma Keenan, et al.. (2021). Randomised trial of indwelling pleural catheters for refractory transudative pleural effusions. European Respiratory Journal. 59(2). 2101362–2101362. 21 indexed citations

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Halford, Paul, Rahul Bhatnagar, Paul White, et al.. (2020). Manometry performed at indwelling pleural catheter insertion to predict unexpandable lung. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 12(4). 1374–1384. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, Steven, Emma Keenan, Oliver Bintcliffe, et al.. (2020). Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: a randomised controlled trial. European Respiratory Journal. 57(6). 2003375–2003375. 18 indexed citations

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Sivakumar, Parthipan, et al.. (2019). Multidisciplinary approach to connective tissue disease (CTD) related pleural effusions: a four-year retrospective evaluation. BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 19(1). 161–161. 6 indexed citations

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Noorzad, Farinaz, et al.. (2018). M24 Non-expandable lung in malignant pleural effusions at medical thoracoscopy. A259.1–A259. 1 indexed citations

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Sivakumar, Parthipan, et al.. (2016). OPTIMUM: a protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing Out Patient Talc slurry via Indwelling pleural catheter for Malignant pleural effusion vs Usual inpatient Management. BMJ Open. 6(10). e012795–e012795. 15 indexed citations

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Haydar, Ali, Mark Denton, Alex West, John Rees, & David Goldsmith. (2003). Sirolimus-Induced Pneumonitis: Three Cases and a Review of the Literature. American Journal of Transplantation. 4(1). 137–139. 53 indexed citations

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Bajanowski, Thomas, Alex West, & B. Brinkmann. (1998). Proof of fatal air embolism. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 111(4). 208–211. 33 indexed citations

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