Blair H. Smith

66.5k citations

408 papers · 26.3k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine top 0.02%
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
Pharmacology top 0.02%
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

Papers in

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine 36
- Pain Management and Opioid Use 35
Pharmacology 101
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation 96

Co-authors: Nicola Torrance Mike Bennett Oliver van Hecke Sarah Mills W. A. Chambers Amanda Lee Alison M. Elliott Andrew S.C. Rice
Journals: Pain (32 papers)British Journal of Anaesthesia (12 papers)European Journal of Pain (10 papers)Family Practice (9 papers)American Journal of Clinical Pathology (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Blair H. Smith

387 papers receiving 25.1k citations

Hit Papers

13 papers align trajectories log scale

Chronic pain: a review of its epidemiology and associated factors in population-based studies 2019 · 989 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 British Journal of Anaesthesia
2017 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2016 Pain
2015 Pain
2015 The Lancet Neurology
2013 British Journal of Anaesthesia
2013 Pain
2010 Pain
2006 Journal of Pain
2005 Journal of Pain
1999 The Lancet
1982 Neurology
1976 Human Pathology

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1	Dialectical Behavior Therapy Treatment Outcomes Across White and Non-White Patients in an Outpatient Private Practice Setting Sara J. Landes, Robert M Montgomery, Blair H. Smith, Malcolm R. Sears, Thomas A. Morton, Sameena Iqbal, Lynn M. McFarr	2025	0
2	Phenotyping Chronic Pain and Neuropathic Pain in Population Studies European Journal of Pain ·Ian Ju Liang, Dhaneesha Senaratne, Blair H. Smith	2025	0
3	SERS-based lateral flow immunoassay utilising plasmonic nanoparticle clusters for ultra-sensitive detection of salivary cortisol Nanoscale ·Hyun-Kyung Oh, Barış Akbalı, Tung-Ting Sham, Adam Haworth‐Duff, Joanne Blair, Blair H. Smith, Nontawat Sricharoen, Cássio Lima, Tsan‐Yao Chen, Chen‐Han Huang, Kanet Wongravee, Min‐Gon Kim, Royston Goodacre, Simon Maher	2025	0
4	Delivery of Interventions for Multiple Lifestyle Factors in Primary Healthcare Settings: A Narrative Review Addressing Strategies for Effective Implementation SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Callum Leese, Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi, Blair H. Smith	2024	2
5	The impact of adverse childhood experiences on multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis BMC Medicine ·Dhaneesha Senaratne, Bhushan Thakkar, Blair H. Smith, Tim G. Hales, Louise Marryat, Lesley Colvin	2024	16
6	530 False Positive Rate from Pet-Ct in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma – a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis British journal of surgery ·Jarad Martin, Blair H. Smith, Hassan Abed, Joseph Hardwicke	2023	1
7	Long‐term efficacy and safety of porcine islet macrobeads in nonimmunosuppressed diabetic cynomolgus macaques Xenotransplantation ·Robert W. Holdcraft, Melanie L. Graham, Melissa A. Bemrose, Lucas A. Mutch, Prithy C. Martis, Jody L. Janecek, Richard D. Hall, Blair H. Smith, Lawrence S. Gazda	2022	7
8	A genome-wide association study finds genetic variants associated with neck or shoulder pain in UK Biobank Human Molecular Genetics ·Weihua Meng, Brian Chan, Cameron Harris, Maxim B. Freidin, Harry L. Hébert, Mark J. Adams, Archie Campbell, Caroline Hayward, Hua Zheng, Xianwei Zhang, Lesley Colvin, Tim G. Hales, (unknown), Frances M. K. Williams, Andrew M. McIntosh, Blair H. Smith	2020	27
9	Sex- and age-specific genetic analysis of chronic back pain Pain ·Maxim B. Freidin, Yakov A. Tsepilov, Ian B. Stanaway, Weihua Meng, Caroline Hayward, Blair H. Smith, Samar Khoury, Marc Parisien, Andrey V. Bortsov, Luda Diatchenko, Sigrid Børte, Bendik S Winsvold, Ben Brumpton, John‐Anker Zwart, (unknown), Yurii S. Aulchenko, Pradeep Suri, Frances M. K. Williams	2020	24
10	Comparison of psychiatric comorbidity in treatment‐seeking, opioid‐dependent patients with versus without chronic pain Addiction ·Cassie Higgins, Blair H. Smith, K. Matthews	2019	17
11	Regional variation in health is predominantly driven by lifestyle rather than genetics Nature Communications ·Carmen Amador, Charley Xia, Réka Nagy, Archie Campbell, David J. Porteous, Blair H. Smith, Nick Hastie, Véronique Vitart, Caroline Hayward, Pau Navarro, Chris Haley	2017	12
12	Chronic pain, depression and cardiovascular disease linked through a shared genetic predisposition: Analysis of a family-based cohort and twin study PLoS ONE ·Oliver van Hecke, Lynne J. Hocking, Nicola Torrance, Archie Campbell, Sandosh Padmanabhan, David J. Porteous, Andrew M. McIntosh, Andrea Burri, Haruka Tanaka, Frances M. K. Williams, Blair H. Smith	2017	113
13	Assessing the presence of shared genetic architecture between Alzheimer’s disease and major depressive disorder using genome-wide association data Translational Psychiatry ·Jude Gibson, Tom C. Russ, Mark J. Adams, Toni‐Kim Clarke, David M. Howard, Lynsey S. Hall, Ana Maria Fernandez-Pujals, Eleanor M. Wigmore, C Hayward, Gail Davies, Alison D. Murray, Blair H. Smith, David J. Porteous, Ian J. Deary, Andrew M. McIntosh	2017	31
14	Do regional brain volumes and major depressive disorder share genetic architecture? A study of Generation Scotland (n=19 762), UK Biobank (n=24 048) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n=5766) Translational Psychiatry ·Eleanor M. Wigmore, Toni‐Kim Clarke, David M. Howard, Mark J. Adams, Lynsey S. Hall, Yanni Zeng, Jude Gibson, Gail Davies, Ana Maria Fernandez-Pujals, Pippa A. Thomson, Caroline Hayward, Blair H. Smith, Lynne J. Hocking, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Ian J. Deary, David J. Porteous, Kristin K. Nicodemus, Andrew M. McIntosh	2017	17
15	Three-Dimensional Culture of Mouse Renal Carcinoma Cells in Agarose Macrobeads Selects for a Subpopulation of Cells with Cancer Stem Cell or Cancer Progenitor Properties Cancer Research ·Blair H. Smith, Lawrence S. Gazda, Bryan L. Conn, Kanti Jain, Shirin Asina, Daniel M. Levine, Thomas S. Parker, Melissa A. Laramore, Prithy C. Martis, Horatiu V. Vinerean, Eric M. David, Suizhen Qiu, Carlos Cordon‐Cardo, Richard D. Hall, Bruce R. Gordon, Carolyn H. Diehl, Kurt H. Stenzel, Albert L. Rubin	2011	43
16	"It’s Like Getting Married" London review of books ·Blair H. Smith	2009	1
17	A Randomized Controlled Trial of Spiritual Healing in Restricted Neck Movement The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine ·Stan Gerard, Blair H. Smith, J. A. Simpson	2003	15
18	General practitioners' experience of teaching a community course to undergraduate medical students: a qualitative study Quality in primary care ·Edwin van Teijlingen, S. Lammie, Hazel Sinclair, Blair H. Smith, F.G. French, Ross Taylor	2002	2
19	Researching chronic pain: Identification of a community based sample The Pain Clinic ·Blair H. Smith, John Read, Jeremy Grimshaw, B Watt, W. A. Chambers	1996	8
20	Review of Julie Fisher, The Road from Rio: Sustainable Development and the Nongovernmental Movement in the Third World, Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 1993. VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations ·Blair H. Smith	1995	1

About Blair H. Smith

Blair H. Smith is a scholar working on Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pharmacology, Medical Terminology, Neurology and Psychiatry and Mental health, having authored 408 papers that have together received 26.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (96 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (50 papers), Pain Management and Opioid Use (35 papers), Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (24 papers), Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders (22 papers), Pediatric Pain Management Techniques (20 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers) and Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (3.1k citations), Pharmacology (7.4k citations), Physiology (8.4k citations), Neurology (3.7k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (3.0k citations). Blair H. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Nicola Torrance, Mike Bennett, Oliver van Hecke, Sarah Mills, W. A. Chambers, Amanda Lee, Alison M. Elliott, Andrew S.C. Rice, William C. Smith and Kay Penny. Their work appears in journals such as Pain, British Journal of Anaesthesia, European Journal of Pain, Family Practice and American Journal of Clinical Pathology.

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