Alison Dicker

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Alison Dicker is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Emergency Medical Services and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Dicker has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 15 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Alison Dicker's work include Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (21 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (18 papers). Alison Dicker is often cited by papers focused on Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances (21 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (18 papers). Alison Dicker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and Spain. Alison Dicker's co-authors include James D. Chalmers, Simon Finch, Jeffrey Huang, Holly R. Keir, Andrew Cassidy, Oriol Sibila, Sara E. Marshall, Elizabeth Furrie, J.S. Elborn and Guillermo Suárez-Cuartín and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, CHEST Journal and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Alison Dicker

45 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Neutrophil Elastase Activity Is Associated with Exacerbations and Lung Function Decline in Bronchiectasis

2017 247 citations James D. Chalmers, Kelly Moffitt et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alison Dicker United Kingdom	17	793	268	260	201	191	48	1.3k
Klaus J. Erb Germany	19	132 0.2×	173 0.6×	147 0.6×	564 2.8×	118 0.6×	30	1.2k
Eisaku Tanaka Japan	20	666 0.8×	631 2.4×	125 0.5×	166 0.8×	78 0.4×	76	1.5k
Shigeru Kohno Japan	16	202 0.3×	262 1.0×	78 0.3×	87 0.4×	36 0.2×	24	633
Franco M. Piazza United States	10	473 0.6×	864 3.2×	107 0.4×	144 0.7×	43 0.2×	12	1.2k
Catherine M. Hayden Australia	17	174 0.2×	140 0.5×	70 0.3×	164 0.8×	50 0.3×	24	672
Rupert Vessey United States	17	635 0.8×	428 1.6×	185 0.7×	416 2.1×	54 0.3×	20	1.5k
KJ Turner Australia	11	249 0.3×	58 0.2×	53 0.2×	138 0.7×	68 0.4×	28	706
Sihyug Jang United States	12	112 0.1×	299 1.1×	299 1.1×	367 1.8×	113 0.6×	16	918
Ryan S. Doster United States	18	130 0.2×	297 1.1×	231 0.9×	275 1.4×	31 0.2×	31	971
Cedric Gunaratnam Ireland	20	832 1.0×	161 0.6×	259 1.0×	76 0.4×	87 0.5×	50	1.2k

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Abo-Leyah, Hani, Hollian Richardson, Merete Long, et al.. (2025). Endotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in Bronchiectasis Are Associated with Inhaled Antibiotic Response: Results from Two Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-controlled Phase III Trials (ORBIT 3 and ORBIT 4). American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(8). 1397–1408. 1 indexed citations

Aogáin, Micheál Mac, Alison Dicker, Pontus Mertsch, & Sanjay H. Chotirmall. (2024). Infection and the microbiome in bronchiectasis. European Respiratory Review. 33(173). 240038–240038. 10 indexed citations

Taylor, Steven, Alison Dicker, Marie Joossens, et al.. (2024). Aggregatibacter is inversely associated with inflammatory mediators in sputa of patients with chronic airway diseases and reduces inflammation in vitro. Respiratory Research. 25(1). 368–368. 1 indexed citations

Perea, Lídia, Mathieu Bottier, Erin Cant, et al.. (2024). Airway IL-1β is related to disease severity and mucociliary function in bronchiectasis. European Respiratory Journal. 64(2). 2301966–2301966. 14 indexed citations

Narayana, Jayanth Kumar, Micheál Mac Aogáin, Fransiskus Xaverius Ivan, et al.. (2023). Topological Data Analysis Reveals Antimicrobial Resistotypes Associated to the Microbiome in Bronchiectasis: An International Multi-centre Study. Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee). A2652–A2652. 1 indexed citations

Choi, Hayoung, Holly R. Keir, Yan Hui Giam, et al.. (2023). Inflammatory Molecular Endotypes in Bronchiectasis: A European Multicenter Cohort Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 208(11). 1166–1176. 32 indexed citations

Tiew, Pei Yee, Albert Yick Hou Lim, Holly R. Keir, et al.. (2021). High Frequency of Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis in Bronchiectasis-COPD Overlap. CHEST Journal. 161(1). 40–53. 16 indexed citations

Dicker, Alison, Mike Lonergan, Holly R. Keir, et al.. (2021). The sputum microbiome and clinical outcomes in patients with bronchiectasis: a prospective observational study. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 9(8). 885–896. 84 indexed citations

Dicker, Alison, Jeffrey Huang, Mike Lonergan, et al.. (2020). The sputum microbiome, airway inflammation, and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 147(1). 158–167. 129 indexed citations

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Lonergan, Mike, Alison Dicker, Megan Crichton, et al.. (2020). Blood neutrophil counts are associated with exacerbation frequency and mortality in COPD. Respiratory Research. 21(1). 166–166. 48 indexed citations

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Finch, Simon, Amelia Shoemark, Alison Dicker, et al.. (2019). Pregnancy Zone Protein Is Associated with Airway Infection, Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation, and Disease Severity in Bronchiectasis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 200(8). 992–1001. 53 indexed citations

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Richardson, Hollian, et al.. (2019). The microbiome in bronchiectasis. European Respiratory Review. 28(153). 190048–190048. 69 indexed citations

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Shoemark, Amelia, Alexandria Smith, Alison Dicker, et al.. (2019). Inflammatory molecular endotypes in bronchiectasis. PA2170–PA2170. 6 indexed citations

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Chalmers, James D., Kelly Moffitt, Guillermo Suárez-Cuartín, et al.. (2017). Neutrophil Elastase Activity Is Associated with Exacerbations and Lung Function Decline in Bronchiectasis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 195(10). 1384–1393. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dicker, Alison, Megan Crichton, Andrew Cassidy, et al.. (2017). Neutrophil extracellular traps are associated with disease severity and microbiota diversity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 141(1). 117–127. 200 indexed citations

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Dicker, Alison, Megan Crichton, Andrew Cassidy, et al.. (2017). Genetic mannose binding lectin deficiency is associated with airway microbiota diversity and reduced exacerbation frequency in COPD. Thorax. 73(6). 510–518. 23 indexed citations

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Chalmers, James D., James Campling, Alison Dicker, Mark Woodhead, & Harish Madhava. (2016). A systematic review of the burden of vaccine preventable pneumococcal disease in UK adults. BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 16(1). 77–77. 60 indexed citations

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Dicker, Alison, Neil F. Inglis, Erin Manson, et al.. (2014). Proteomic Analysis of Mecistocirrus digitatus and Haemonchus contortus Intestinal Protein Extracts and Subsequent Efficacy Testing in a Vaccine Trial. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 8(6). e2909–e2909. 16 indexed citations

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Dicker, Alison, Alasdair J. Nisbet, & Philip Skuce. (2011). Gene expression changes in a P-glycoprotein (Tci-pgp-9) putatively associated with ivermectin resistance in Teladorsagia circumcincta. International Journal for Parasitology. 41(9). 935–942. 68 indexed citations

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Dicker, Alison, et al.. (2010). Teladorsagia circumcincta: The transcriptomic response of a multi-drug-resistant isolate to ivermectin exposure in vitro. Experimental Parasitology. 127(2). 351–356. 18 indexed citations

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