Bruce Kirkham

12.2k citations

143 papers · 7.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Rheumatology top 0.1%
- Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
Hematology top 0.2%
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research

Papers in

Rheumatology 103
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies 66
- Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments 49
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research 21
Hematology 47
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research 47

Co-authors: Iain B. McInnes Arthur Kavanaugh Leonie S. Taams Philip J. Mease Luminita Pricop Shephard Mpofu Proton Rahman S. P. Oakley
Journals: Lara D. Veeken (22 papers)Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (21 papers)The Journal of Rheumatology (5 papers)Arthritis & Rheumatology (5 papers)Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Bruce Kirkham

138 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Enthesitis: from pathophysiology to treatment 2017 · 326 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.

2017 Nature Reviews Rheumatology
2015 New England Journal of Medicine
2015 The Lancet
2005 Arthritis & Rheumatism

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1	Development of a PsA-like presentation under anti-IL-13 therapy with tralokinumab for atopic dermatitis Lara D. Veeken ·Katya Meridor, Sook Yan Lee, Ilona Blee, Jane Freeston, Philip Laws, Gabriele De Marco, Kerem Abacar, Tom Macleod, Emma Rowbotham, Timothy Palmer, Andrea Di Matteo, Richard Woolf, Catherine Smith, Andrew Pink, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Bruce Kirkham, Dennis McGonagle	2025	0
2	Linking Skin and Joint Inflammation in Psoriatic Arthritis through Shared CD8 ⁺ T Cell Clones Arthritis & Rheumatology ·Lucy E. Durham, Frances Humby, Nora Ng, Roman Laddach, Elizabeth H. Gray, Sarah Ryan, Kathryn J. A. Steel, Rosie Ross, Giovanni A. M. Povoleri, Rosamond Nuamah, Kathy Fung, Athul Menon Kallayil, Pawan Dhami, Bruce Kirkham, Leonie S. Taams	2025	2
3	Comparative analysis of centrally mediated and inflammatory pain experiences amongst patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis: A multimethods study Health Expectations ·Zoe Rutter‐Locher, Tom Esterine, Ruth Williams, Leonie S. Taams, Kirsty Bannister, Bruce Kirkham, Heidi Lempp	2024	1
4	A randomised controlled trial of the effect of intra-articular lidocaine on pain scores in inflammatory arthritis Pain ·Zoe Rutter‐Locher, Sam Norton, Franziska Denk, Stephen B. McMahon, Leonie S. Taams, Bruce Kirkham, Kirsty Bannister	2024	4
5	Pain sensitisation and joint inflammation in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis RMD Open ·Khaldoun Chaabo, Estee Chan, Toby Garrood, Zoe Rutter‐Locher, Alex Vincent, James Galloway, Sam Norton, Bruce Kirkham	2024	6
6	GRAPPA 2023 Debate: Is Psoriatic Disease Really a Primary Enthesitis That Drives Joint Synovitis? The Enthesitis Hypothesis 25 Years On The Journal of Rheumatology ·Dennis McGonagle, Kerem Abacar, Bruce Kirkham	2024	2
7	Characterization of a Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Enthesitis and Arthritis in Patients With Atopic Dermatitis Treated With Dupilumab, an Interleukin‐4/13 Inhibitor Arthritis & Rheumatology ·Catherine Hughes, Joseph P. Nathan, Libin Mathew, Andrew Pink, Richard Woolf, Catherine Smith, Bina Menon, Bruce Kirkham	2023	13
8	Psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis joints differ in the composition of CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cell subsets Cell Reports ·Giovanni A. M. Povoleri, Lucy E. Durham, Elizabeth H. Gray, Sylvine Lalnunhlimi, Shichina Kannambath, Michael J. Pitcher, Pawan Dhami, Thomas Leeuw, Sarah Ryan, Kathryn J. A. Steel, Bruce Kirkham, Leonie S. Taams	2023	30
9	Optimising psoriatic arthritis therapy with immunological methods to increase standard evaluation: the protocol of an open-label multicentre, parallel-group, two-arm randomised controlled study evaluation precision medicine approach in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis BMJ Open ·Alexander Ooms, Hussein Al‐Mossawi, Louise Bennett, Mimi Bogale, Paul Bowness, Anne Francis, Carl S. Goodyear, Bruce Kirkham, Sylvine Lalnunhlimi, Iain B. McInnes, Duncan Richards, Stefan Siebert, Leonie S. Taams, Aysın Tulunay Virlan, Nicole Yager, Laura C. Coates	2023	5
10	Clinically relevant patient clusters identified by machine learning from the clinical development programme of secukinumab in psoriatic arthritis RMD Open ·Effie Pournara, Matthías Kormáksson, Peter Nash, Christopher T. Ritchlin, Bruce Kirkham, Gregory Ligozio, Luminita Pricop, Alexis Ogdie, Laura C. Coates, Georg Schett, Iain B. McInnes	2021	20
11	Minimal Disease Activity Among Active Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Treated With Secukinumab: 2‐Year Results From a Multicenter, Randomized, Double‐Blind, Parallel‐Group, Placebo‐Controlled Phase III Study Arthritis Care & Research ·Laura C. Coates, Philip J. Mease, Laure Gossec, Bruce Kirkham, Bintu Sherif, Corine Gaillez, Shephard Mpofu, Steffen Jugl, Chetan S. Karyekar, Kunal K. Gandhi	2018	37
12	SECUKINUMAB PROVIDES SUSTAINED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ACTIVE PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS: LONG-TERM (4-YEAR) DATA FROM A PHASE 3 STUDY JCR Journal of Clinical Rheumatology ·Iain B. McInnes, Alan Kivitz, Peter Nash, Proton Rahman, Jürgen Rech, Bruce Kirkham, Sandra Navarra, Kevin Ding, Emma Ilsley, Luminita Pricop	2018	1
13	SECUKINUMAB IMPROVES MINIMAL DISEASE ACTIVITY RESPONSE RATES IN PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS: DATA FROM PHASE 3 FUTURE-2 STUDY Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology ·Philip J. Mease, Laura C. Coates, Bruce Kirkham, Lori McLeod, S. Mpofu, Chetan S. Karyekar, Kunal K. Gandhi	2016	1
14	Secukinumab, a Human Anti-Interleukin-17A Monoclonal Antibody, Improves Active Psoriatic Arthritis and Inhibits Radiographic Progression: Efficacy and Safety Data from a Phase 3 Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Philip Mease, Iain B. McInnes, Bruce Kirkham, Arthur Kavanaugh, Proton Rahman, Désirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Peter Nash, Luminita Pricop, Jiacheng Yuan, Hanno B. Richards, Shephard Mpofu	2014	12
15	Secukinumab, a Human Anti-Interleukin-17A Monoclonal Antibody, Improves Active Psoriatic Arthritis: 24-Week Efficacy and Safety Data from a Phase 3 Randomized, Multicenter, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Using Subcutaneous Dosing Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Iain B. McInnes, Philip J. Mease, Bruce Kirkham, Arthur Kavanaugh, Christopher T. Ritchlin, Proton Rahman, Désirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Philip G. Conaghan, H. Richards, Gregory Ligozio, Luminita Pricop, Shephard Mpofu	2014	19
16	Secukinumab, a Human Anti-Interleukin-17A Monoclonal Antibody, Significantly Reduces Psoriasis Burden in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from a Phase 3 Randomized Controlled Trial Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Alice B. Gottlieb, Philip Mease, Iain B. McInnes, Bruce Kirkham, Arthur Kavanaugh, Proton Rahman, Peter Nash, Luminita Pricop, Jiacheng Yuan, Hanno B. Richards, Shephard Mpofu	2014	12
17	Measurement of mucosal wetness in patients with xerostomia Oral Diseases ·Samira M. Osailan, Gordon Proctor, Penelope Shirlaw, Helen McParland, G. Larkin, Bruce Kirkham, Stephen Challacombe	2010	1
18	Synovial macrophages as a biomarker of response to therapeutic intervention in rheumatoid arthritis: standardization and consistency across centers. PubMed ·Barry Bresnihan, Daniëlle M. Gerlag, Terence Rooney, Tom Smeets, Carla A. Wijbrandts, David Boyle, Oliver FitzGerald, Bruce Kirkham, Iain B. McInnes, Malcolm Smith, Ann-Kristin Ulfgren, Douglas J. Veale, Paul P Tak	2007	58
19	The Treatment of Disc Herniation-Induced Sciatica With Infliximab Spine ·Timo Korhonen, Jaro Karppinen, Leena Paimela, Antti Malmivaara, Karl‐August Lindgren, Chris Bowman, Anthony Hammond, Bruce Kirkham, Simo Järvinen, Jaakko Niinimäki, Nic J.G.M. Veeger, Marianne Haapea, Markus Torkki, Osmo Tervonen, Seppo Seitsalo, Heikki Hurri	2006	133
20	Arthroscopy – a potential “gold standard” for the diagnosis of the chondropathy of early osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis and Cartilage ·S. P. Oakley, Ian Portek, Zoltan Szomor, Richard Appleyard, P. Ghosh, Bruce Kirkham, George A.C. Murrell, Marissa Lassere	2005	49

About Bruce Kirkham

Bruce Kirkham is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Hematology, Immunology, Dermatology and Pathology and Forensic Medicine, having authored 143 papers that have together received 7.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (66 papers), Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis (55 papers), Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments (49 papers), Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research (47 papers), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (21 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (13 papers), Dermatology and Skin Diseases (8 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Rheumatology (4.1k citations), Hematology (2.1k citations), Immunology (3.9k citations), Dermatology (656 citations) and Pathology and Forensic Medicine (596 citations). Bruce Kirkham has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Iain B. McInnes, Arthur Kavanaugh, Leonie S. Taams, Philip J. Mease, Luminita Pricop, Shephard Mpofu, Proton Rahman, S. P. Oakley, Paul Bird and Désirée van der Heijde. Their work appears in journals such as Lara D. Veeken, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, The Journal of Rheumatology, Arthritis & Rheumatology and Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology.

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