Chris Isles

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Chris Isles is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Isles has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 15 papers in Surgery and 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Chris Isles's work include Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (9 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (8 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (7 papers). Chris Isles is often cited by papers focused on Dialysis and Renal Disease Management (9 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (8 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (7 papers). Chris Isles collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Chris Isles's co-authors include Stuart M. Cobbe, James Shepherd, Chris J. Packard, David Hole, Peter W. Macfarlane, Ian Ford, D S O’Reilly, Steven M. Haffner, Olga Scherbakova and Allan Gaw and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Isles

68 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Metabolic Syndrome With and Without C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

2003 1.2k citations Chris Isles, Chris J. Packard et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Isles United Kingdom	20	1.2k	924	878	556	515	73	3.2k
Ingrid Os Norway	36	737 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	466 0.5×	387 0.7×	712 1.4×	169	3.6k
Debbie L. Cohen United States	31	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	306 0.6×	555 1.1×	189	3.9k
Gunnar V.H. Jensen Denmark	17	2.1k 1.8×	1.4k 1.5×	922 1.1×	593 1.1×	379 0.7×	25	4.0k
Josef Coresh United States	15	1.1k 0.9×	693 0.8×	488 0.6×	329 0.6×	688 1.3×	25	2.5k
Guichan Cao United States	29	607 0.5×	902 1.0×	547 0.6×	715 1.3×	524 1.0×	50	3.6k
Daniel Edmundowicz United States	38	738 0.6×	2.0k 2.2×	604 0.7×	462 0.8×	262 0.5×	101	4.1k
Shoshana H. Ballew United States	37	945 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	912 1.0×	398 0.7×	1.6k 3.2×	112	4.6k
Shao‐Yuan Chuang Taiwan	37	735 0.6×	2.0k 2.1×	764 0.9×	614 1.1×	815 1.6×	157	4.8k
Pernille Vedel Denmark	12	2.6k 2.1×	1.3k 1.4×	730 0.8×	580 1.0×	604 1.2×	17	4.2k
Raymond O. Estacio United States	27	1.4k 1.2×	2.3k 2.5×	457 0.5×	229 0.4×	729 1.4×	57	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Isles

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Isles

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Isles

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Alexander, Kirsty, et al.. (2025). Foundation allocation for underserved areas. Postgraduate Medical Journal.

Isles, Chris, et al.. (2023). Design and implementation of two medical escape rooms: An educational case study. The Clinical Teacher. 20(3). e13578–e13578. 3 indexed citations

Isles, Chris, et al.. (2023). Aortic Dissection Masquerading as Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Series. 1 indexed citations

Moore, Emily, et al.. (2018). Death within 1 year among emergency medical admissions to Scottish hospitals: incident cohort study. BMJ Open. 8(6). e021432–e021432. 20 indexed citations

Isles, Chris, et al.. (2018). How do we stop people smoking at the front doors of our hospitals?. BMJ. 362. k3334–k3334. 1 indexed citations

Findlay, Mark, et al.. (2014). Chronic kidney disease rather than illness severity predicts medium- to long-term mortality and renal outcome after acute kidney injury. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 30(4). 594–598. 8 indexed citations

Pennington, Hugh & Chris Isles. (2013). Should hospitals provide all patients with single rooms?. BMJ. 347(sep24 2). f5695–f5695. 37 indexed citations

Flynn, Robert, et al.. (2011). Comparison of Estimated Protein Output and Urine Protein:Creatinine Ratio in First and Second Voids with 24-Hour Urine Protein. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 235–241. 3 indexed citations

Isles, Chris, et al.. (2011). The challenges of renal replacement therapy and renal palliative care in the elderly. The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 41(3). 238–243. 6 indexed citations

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Norbury, Michael, et al.. (2007). Recovery of renal function after 90 d on dialysis: implications for transplantation in patients with potentially reversible causes of renal failure. Clinical Transplantation. 22(2). 136–140. 13 indexed citations

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Tonelli, Marcello, Anthony Keech, Frank M. Sacks, et al.. (2005). Effect of Pravastatin in People with Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 16(12). 3748–3754. 107 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris, et al.. (2005). Renal replacement therapy in the over-80s. Age and Ageing. 34(2). 148–152. 15 indexed citations

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Robertson, Susan, et al.. (2005). Fulminating varicella despite prophylactic immune globulin and intravenous acyclovir in a renal transplant recipient: should renal patients be vaccinated against VZV before transplantation?. Clinical Transplantation. 20(1). 136–138. 9 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris. (2002). Cardiorenal failure: pathophysiology, recognition and treatment. Clinical Medicine. 2(3). 195–200. 8 indexed citations

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Burton, Christopher, Kara Hamilton, Chris Isles, & John Norrie. (2001). Warfarin for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care - Another Example of the Age Paradox?. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation. 8(5). 307–309. 2 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris. (2000). Risk assessment in primary prevention of coronary heart disease: randomised comparison of three scoring methods. BMJ. 320(7236). 690–691. 35 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris. (1999). Management of renovascular disease: a review of renal artery stenting in ten studies. QJM. 92(3). 159–167. 155 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris, et al.. (1996). A patient's guide to kidney failure.. PubMed. 22(3). 43–5. 1 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris, John Main, John B. O’Connell, et al.. (1990). Survival Associated with Renovascular Disease in Glasgow and Newcastle: A Collaborative Study. Scottish Medical Journal. 35(3). 70–73. 50 indexed citations

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Isles, Chris, David Hole, C. Gillis, V M Hawthorne, & Anthony F. Lever. (1989). Plasma cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and cancer: Authors' reply. BMJ. 298(6684). 1381.3–1382. 2 indexed citations

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