Blanca Gallego

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Blanca Gallego is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Artificial Intelligence and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Blanca Gallego has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Epidemiology, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Blanca Gallego's work include Machine Learning in Healthcare (9 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (7 papers). Blanca Gallego is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Healthcare (9 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (7 papers). Blanca Gallego collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Blanca Gallego's co-authors include Manfred Lenzen, Enrico Coiera, Adam G. Dunn, Farah Magrabi, Annie Lau, Liliana Laranjo, A. Baki Kocaballı, Didi Surian, Huong Ly Tong and Jessica Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Blanca Gallego

58 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review

2018 762 citations Blanca Gallego, Farah Magrabi et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blanca Gallego Australia	22	500	448	364	353	322	65	2.4k
Mark van der Laan United States	36	418 0.8×	523 1.2×	94 0.3×	524 1.5×	49 0.2×	96	4.6k
Mehdi Khan United Kingdom	9	235 0.5×	702 1.6×	83 0.2×	460 1.3×	50 0.2×	16	5.0k
Niamh O’Neill United Kingdom	10	231 0.5×	684 1.5×	76 0.2×	406 1.2×	51 0.2×	14	4.8k
Gopi Battineni Italy	26	775 1.6×	153 0.3×	93 0.3×	332 0.9×	59 0.2×	96	3.0k
Stijn Vansteelandt Belgium	44	315 0.6×	1.2k 2.6×	125 0.3×	642 1.8×	51 0.2×	225	8.1k
Peter X.‐K. Song United States	33	520 1.0×	425 0.9×	36 0.1×	379 1.1×	132 0.4×	199	5.1k
Trivellore E. Raghunathan United States	45	479 1.0×	609 1.4×	173 0.5×	1.3k 3.8×	97 0.3×	156	8.8k
Sherri Rose United States	30	274 0.5×	753 1.7×	108 0.3×	733 2.1×	22 0.1×	92	3.4k
Melissa Azur United States	9	278 0.6×	123 0.3×	58 0.2×	342 1.0×	48 0.1×	13	2.7k
Chris Dibben United Kingdom	29	216 0.4×	524 1.2×	84 0.2×	1.4k 4.0×	40 0.1×	123	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blanca Gallego

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gallego, Blanca, et al.. (2025). Attention-based synthetic data generation for calibration-enhanced survival analysis: A case study for chronic kidney disease using electronic health records. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 172. 104928–104928.

Barbieri, Sebastiano, Clare Arnott, Blanca Gallego, et al.. (2025). Estimating 5-year absolute risk of cardiovascular disease using routinely collected electronic medical records from Australian general practices. Heart. heartjnl–2025.

Miller, Matthew, Louisa Jorm, & Blanca Gallego. (2025). Data-driven identification of urgent surgical procedures for use in trauma outcomes measurement. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. 10(2). e001783–e001783.

Khalifa, Mohamed, Farah Magrabi, & Blanca Gallego. (2024). Validating and updating GRASP: An evidence-based framework for grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100161–100161.

Blake, Victoria, et al.. (2024). Data Resource Profile: The Cardiac Analytics and Innovation (CardiacAI) Data Repository. International Journal of Epidemiology. 53(2).

Liu, Leibo, Oscar Perez‐Concha, Anthony Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Web-Based Application Based on Human-in-the-Loop Deep Learning for Deidentifying Free-Text Data in Electronic Medical Records: Development and Usability Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12. e46322–e46322. 3 indexed citations

Quiroz, Juan C., David Brieger, Louisa Jorm, et al.. (2022). An Observational Study of Clinical and Health System Factors Associated With Catheter Ablation and Early Ablation Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation in Australia. Heart Lung and Circulation. 31(9). 1269–1276. 4 indexed citations

Quiroz, Juan C., et al.. (2022). Extract, transform, load framework for the conversion of health databases to OMOP. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0266911–e0266911. 20 indexed citations

Fitzgerald, Oisín, Oscar Perez‐Concha, Blanca Gallego, et al.. (2021). Incorporating real-world evidence into the development of patient blood glucose prediction algorithms for the ICU. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(8). 1642–1650. 12 indexed citations

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Gallego, Blanca, et al.. (2020). Targeted estimation of heterogeneous treatment effect in observational survival analysis. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 107. 103474–103474. 12 indexed citations

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Khalifa, Mohamed & Blanca Gallego. (2019). Grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools for paediatric head injury: a new evidence-based approach. BMC Emergency Medicine. 19(1). 35–35. 7 indexed citations

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Kipritidis, John, Thomas Eade, George Hruby, et al.. (2018). Big Data Readiness in Radiation Oncology: An Efficient Approach for Relabeling Radiation Therapy Structures With Their TG-263 Standard Name in Real-World Data Sets. Advances in Radiation Oncology. 4(1). 191–200. 21 indexed citations

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Walter, Scott R. & Blanca Gallego. (2018). Detecting Adverse Drug Events: Accuracy and Generalizability. Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science. 53(6). 795–796. 2 indexed citations

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Perez‐Concha, Oscar, et al.. (2018). Predicting 7-day, 30-day and 60-day all-cause unplanned readmission: a case study of a Sydney hospital. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 18(1). 1–1. 57 indexed citations

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Gallego, Blanca, Farah Magrabi, Oscar Perez‐Concha, Ying Wang, & Enrico Coiera. (2015). Insights into temporal patterns of hospital patient safety from routinely collected electronic data. Health Information Science and Systems. 3(S1). S2–S2. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Ying, Enrico Coiera, Blanca Gallego, et al.. (2015). Measuring the effects of computer downtime on hospital pathology processes. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 59. 308–315. 21 indexed citations

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Coiera, Enrico, Ying Wang, Farah Magrabi, et al.. (2014). Predicting the cumulative risk of death during hospitalization by modeling weekend, weekday and diurnal mortality risks. BMC Health Services Research. 14(1). 226–226. 23 indexed citations

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Perez‐Concha, Oscar, Blanca Gallego, Ken Hillman, Geoff P. Delaney, & Enrico Coiera. (2013). Do variations in hospital mortality patterns after weekend admission reflect reduced quality of care or different patient cohorts? A population-based study. BMJ Quality & Safety. 23(3). 215–222. 94 indexed citations

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Sintchenko, Vitali, Blanca Gallego, Grace Chung, & Enrico Coiera. (2009). Towards bioinformatics assisted infectious disease control. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(S2). S10–S10. 5 indexed citations

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Gallego, Blanca & Manfred Lenzen. (2005). A consistent input–output formulation of shared producer and consumer responsibility. Economic Systems Research. 17(4). 365–391. 217 indexed citations

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