C. Donald Combs

922 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 493 citations indexed

About

C. Donald Combs is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Computer Networks and Communications and Family Practice. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Donald Combs has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 493 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 2 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 2 papers in Family Practice. Recurrent topics in C. Donald Combs's work include Innovations in Medical Education (4 papers), Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare (2 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (2 papers). C. Donald Combs is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Medical Education (4 papers), Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare (2 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (2 papers). C. Donald Combs collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. C. Donald Combs's co-authors include Steven A. Wartman, Charles M. Macal, Barry L. Nelson, Andreas Tolk, Osman Balcı, Richard Fujimoto, Julius O. Nyalwidhe, Shimin Chen, O. John Semmes and Robert Armstrong and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine and Journal of Community Health.

In The Last Decade

C. Donald Combs

11 papers receiving 470 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.

Medical Education Must Move From the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2017 273 citations Steven A. Wartman, C. Donald Combs Academic Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Donald Combs United States	7	296	154	130	89	84	11	493
Madiha Sajjad Pakistan	7	362 1.2×	188 1.2×	82 0.6×	52 0.6×	151 1.8×	14	531
Brian C. Gin United States	7	202 0.7×	82 0.5×	83 0.6×	62 0.7×	44 0.5×	12	321
M Healy Ireland	6	232 0.8×	109 0.7×	59 0.5×	36 0.4×	104 1.2×	10	447
Christian Rose United States	9	182 0.6×	81 0.5×	99 0.8×	35 0.4×	84 1.0×	31	430
H Aylin Sapci United States	8	144 0.5×	80 0.5×	158 1.2×	28 0.3×	68 0.8×	8	517
Teresa Festl‐Wietek Germany	8	189 0.6×	71 0.5×	75 0.6×	65 0.7×	67 0.8×	26	332
S. Ayhan Çalışkan Türkiye	9	143 0.5×	58 0.4×	62 0.5×	44 0.5×	41 0.5×	26	352
Satyam Singh India	2	572 1.9×	255 1.7×	65 0.5×	73 0.8×	216 2.6×	6	719
Yavuz Selim Kıyak Türkiye	9	172 0.6×	57 0.4×	109 0.8×	92 1.0×	51 0.6×	49	310

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Donald Combs

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Pinky, Lubna, Shimin Chen, O. John Semmes, et al.. (2023). promor: a comprehensive R package for label-free proteomics data analysis and predictive modeling. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad025–vbad025. 3 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald, et al.. (2019). Emerging Roles of Virtual Patients in the Age of AI. The AMA Journal of Ethic. 21(2). E153–159. 31 indexed citations

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Wartman, Steven A. & C. Donald Combs. (2019). Reimagining Medical Education in the Age of AI. The AMA Journal of Ethic. 21(2). E146–152. 133 indexed citations

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Wartman, Steven A. & C. Donald Combs. (2017). Medical Education Must Move From the Information Age to the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Academic Medicine. 93(8). 1107–1109. 273 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tolk, Andreas, Osman Balcı, C. Donald Combs, et al.. (2015). Do we need a national research agenda for modeling and simulation. Winter Simulation Conference. 2571–2585. 4 indexed citations

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Tolk, Andreas, Osman Balcı, C. Donald Combs, et al.. (2015). Do we need a national research agenda for Modeling And Simulation?. 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 2. 2571–2585. 1 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald. (2010). Medical Simulators: Current Status and Future Needs. 132. 124–129. 7 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald, et al.. (2009). The evolution of medical simulators.. PubMed. 142. 55–8. 2 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald. (2008). Understanding Global Health. Annals of Internal Medicine. 149(6). 440–440. 19 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald. (2006). Startling technologies promise to transform medicine. BMJ. 333(7582). 1308–1311. 8 indexed citations

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Combs, C. Donald, et al.. (1981). Location patterns of recent physician settlers in rural America. Journal of Community Health. 6(4). 267–274. 12 indexed citations

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