Alistair Merrifield

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alistair Merrifield is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Transplantation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alistair Merrifield has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 2 papers in Epidemiology and 2 papers in Transplantation. Recurrent topics in Alistair Merrifield's work include Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (2 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (1 paper) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (1 paper). Alistair Merrifield is often cited by papers focused on Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments (2 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (1 paper) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (1 paper). Alistair Merrifield collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and Uganda. Alistair Merrifield's co-authors include Peter G. Colman, Paul Mitchell, PA Summanen, Justin O’Day, Marja‐Riitta Taskinen, Michael C dʼEmden, Elizabeth Williamson, R. John Simes, Timothy M. E. Davis and L Laatikainen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, International Journal of Epidemiology and Transplantation.

In The Last Decade

Alistair Merrifield

12 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Effect of fenofibrate on the need for laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy (FIELD study): a randomised controlled trial

2007 746 citations Paul Mitchell, PA Summanen et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alistair Merrifield Australia	7	435	318	258	212	168	12	1.1k
Kustaa Hietala Finland	17	228 0.5×	177 0.6×	617 2.4×	134 0.6×	183 1.1×	26	1.2k
Joan Fortuny Spain	20	160 0.4×	147 0.5×	69 0.3×	145 0.7×	211 1.3×	39	1.1k
Arturo Fernández‐Cruz Spain	22	198 0.5×	90 0.3×	325 1.3×	303 1.4×	226 1.3×	63	1.4k
Wan Ting Tay Singapore	27	732 1.7×	719 2.3×	299 1.2×	166 0.8×	203 1.2×	76	2.5k
Xikun Han Australia	17	296 0.7×	210 0.7×	23 0.1×	226 1.1×	108 0.6×	46	901
Bengt Hallengren Sweden	26	109 0.3×	61 0.2×	1.1k 4.4×	178 0.8×	206 1.2×	64	1.8k
Panpan Wang China	9	36 0.1×	48 0.2×	242 0.9×	117 0.6×	142 0.8×	19	663
H.-H. Parving Denmark	18	95 0.2×	92 0.3×	989 3.8×	231 1.1×	230 1.4×	30	2.1k
Ilian Iliev Italy	15	70 0.2×	61 0.2×	677 2.6×	137 0.6×	183 1.1×	23	1.6k
Davide Dazzi Italy	22	259 0.6×	28 0.1×	1.9k 7.4×	233 1.1×	168 1.0×	39	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Alistair Merrifield

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alistair Merrifield

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12 of 12 papers shown

Vuong, Thu‐Trang, et al.. (2023). Investigating the impact of a national educational program on patient adherence to osteoporosis medications. Archives of Osteoporosis. 18(1). 90–90. 1 indexed citations

Busingye, Doreen, Allan Pollack, Kendal Chidwick, et al.. (2019). Data Resource Profile: MedicineInsight, an Australian national primary health care database. International Journal of Epidemiology. 48(6). 1741–1741h. 100 indexed citations

Merrifield, Alistair, Suzanne Schindeler, Bin Jalaludin, & Wayne Smith. (2013). Health effects of the September 2009 dust storm in Sydney, Australia: did emergency department visits and hospital admissions increase?. Environmental Health. 12(1). 32–32. 67 indexed citations

Masson, Philip, Fiona Duthie, Patrick J. Kelly, et al.. (2013). Consistency and Completeness of Reported Outcomes in Randomized Trials of Primary Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplantation. American Journal of Transplantation. 13(11). 2892–2901. 11 indexed citations

Muscatello, David, et al.. (2013). Relationship between the population incidence of pertussis in children in New South Wales, Australia and emergency department visits with cough: a time series analysis. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 13(1). 40–40. 6 indexed citations

Webster, Angela C, Alistair Merrifield, Petra Macaskill, et al.. (2012). Transplanting People with a Prior History of Cancer: An Analysis of the Australian and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant (ANZDATA) Registry. Transplantation. 94(10S). 369–369. 4 indexed citations

Merrifield, Alistair & Wayne H. Smith. (2012). Sample size calculations for the design of health studies: a review of key concepts for non-statisticians. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin. 23(8). 142–142. 9 indexed citations

Sullivan, David, Peta Forder, John Simes, et al.. (2011). Associations between the use of metformin, sulphonylureas, or diet alone and cardiovascular outcomes in 6005 people with type 2 diabetes in the FIELD study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 94(2). 284–290. 16 indexed citations

Mitchell, Paul, PA Summanen, Justin O’Day, et al.. (2007). Effect of fenofibrate on the need for laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy (FIELD study): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 370(9600). 1687–1697. 746 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simpson, Matthew J., Alistair Merrifield, Kerry A. Landman, & Barry D. Hughes. (2007). Simulating invasion with cellular automata: Connecting cell-scale and population-scale properties. Physical Review E. 76(2). 21918–21918. 84 indexed citations

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Merrifield, Alistair, Mary R. Myerscough, & N. C. Weber. (2006). Statistical tests for analysing directed movement of self-organising animal groups. Mathematical Biosciences. 203(1). 64–78. 2 indexed citations

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Merrifield, Alistair, M. K. Savage, & D. Vere‐Jones. (2004). Geographical distributions of prospective foreshock probabilities in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 47(2). 327–339. 4 indexed citations

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