Clare L. Ardern

13.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
118 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Clare L. Ardern is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Surgery and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Clare L. Ardern has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 70 papers in Surgery and 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Clare L. Ardern's work include Sports injuries and prevention (69 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (47 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (27 papers). Clare L. Ardern is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (69 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (47 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (27 papers). Clare L. Ardern collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Sweden and Canada. Clare L. Ardern's co-authors include Julian A. Feller, Kate E. Webster, Nicholas F. Taylor, Kate E. Webster, Joanna Kvist, Timothy S. Whitehead, Annika Österberg, Håkan Gauffin, C. Lai and Sofi Tagesson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Clare L. Ardern

108 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Fifty-five per cent return to competitive sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis including aspects of physical functioning and contextual factors

2014 972 citations Clare L. Ardern, Nicholas F. Taylor et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the state of play

2011 911 citations Clare L. Ardern, Nicholas F. Taylor et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern

2016 542 citations Clare L. Ardern, Karim M. Khan et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Return to the Preinjury Level of Competitive Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Surgery

2010 454 citations Clare L. Ardern, Kate E. Webster et al. profile →
Psychological Responses Matter in Returning to Preinjury Level of Sport After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Surgery

2013 400 citations Clare L. Ardern, Nicholas F. Taylor et al. profile →
Eighty-three per cent of elite athletes return to preinjury sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review with meta-analysis of return to sport rates, graft rupture rates and performance outcomes

2017 353 citations Clare L. Ardern, Julian A. Feller et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
The impact of psychological readiness to return to sport and recreational activities after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

2014 305 citations Clare L. Ardern, Annika Österberg et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Which criteria are used to clear patients to return to sport after primary ACL reconstruction? A scoping review

2019 182 citations Clare L. Ardern et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evidence for Digital Health Tools Designed to Support the Triage of Musculoskeletal Conditions in Primary, Urgent, and Emergency Care Settings: Scoping Review 2025 ·Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Linda Truong, James G. Wrightson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dean Giustini, (unknown), Elena Lopatina, Niels van Berkel, Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Clare L. Ardern	0
2	Can Surgeons or Patients Predict the Likelihood of Improvement With Nonoperative Treatment of Chronic Tennis Elbow? 2025 ·Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ·Teemu Karjalainen, (unknown), Tuomas Lähdeoja, (unknown), Clare L. Ardern, (unknown), Simo Taimela, Teppo L. N. Järvinen, (unknown)	0
3	Implementing recommendations from the FAIR consensus: where do we start? 2025 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Carly McKay, Oluwatoyosi B. A. Owoeye, Brooke Patterson, Clare L. Ardern, Merete Møller, Kay M. Crossley, Carolyn A. Emery	0
4	Biomedical research grant resubmission: rates and factors related to success – a scoping review 2024 ·BMJ Open ·(unknown), James G. Wrightson, Hassan Khan, David Moher, (unknown), Karim M. Khan, Clare L. Ardern	2
5	Exploring decision-makers’ challenges and strategies when selecting multiple systematic reviews: insights for AI decision support tools in healthcare 2024 ·BMJ Open ·Carole Lunny, Sera Whitelaw, Emma K. Reid, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dawid Pieper, Salmaan Kanji, Areti‐Angeliki Veroniki, Beverley Shea, (unknown), Clare L. Ardern, Ba’ Pham, Ebrahim Bagheri, Andrea C. Tricco	2
6	On Patient Safety: Could Surgical Fads Have Something in Common With the World’s Most Famous Secret Agent? 2024 ·Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research ·Kari Kanto, Clare L. Ardern, Jonathan W. Scott, Simo Taimela, (unknown), Teppo L. N. Järvinen	1
7	A Change-Point Method to Detect Meaningful Change in Return-to-Sport Progression in Athletes 2024 ·International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance ·(unknown), (unknown), Clare L. Ardern, Fabio R. Serpiello, Sam Robertson	0
8	Development of the Reporting Infographics and Visual Abstracts of Comparative studies (RIVA-C) checklist and guide 2024 ·BMJ evidence-based medicine ·Joshua R Zadro, Giovanni E Ferreira, Will Stahl-Timmins, (unknown), Mark R. Elkins, (unknown), Mary O’Keeffe, Kirsten McCaffery, Ian A. Harris, Clare L. Ardern, Courtney West, Christopher G. Maher, Tammy Hoffmann	2
9	Evaluating prospective study registration and result reporting of trials conducted in Canada from 2009 to 2019 2023 ·FACETS ·(unknown), Kelly D. Cobey, Jeremy Y. Ng, Clare L. Ardern, Karim Khan, An‐Wen Chan, (unknown), Mouayad Masalkhi, Ana Patricia Ayala, Sanam Ebrahimzadeh, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David Moher	7
10	Infographic. Oxford consensus on primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome—natural history of primary cam morphology to inform clinical practice and research priorities on conditions affecting the young person’s hip 2023 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·H Paul Dijkstra, Seán Mc Auliffe, Clare L. Ardern, Joanne L. Kemp, A. Mosler, Amy Price, Paul Blazey, Dawn P. Richards, Abdulaziz Farooq, Andreas Serner, Eugene McNally, Vasco Mascarenhas, Richard W. Willy, Ivan Stanković, Jason Oke, Karim M. Khan, Sion Glyn‐Jones, Mike Clarke, Trisha Greenhalgh	2
11	Sport and exercise medicine/physiotherapy publishing has a gender/sex equity problem: we need action now! 2023 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·S. Cowan, Joanne L. Kemp, Clare L. Ardern, Jane S Thornton, Ebonie Rio, Andrea M Bruder, A. Mosler, Brooke Patterson, M. Haberfield, (unknown), Harvi F. Hart, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kay M. Crossley	44
12	Oxford consensus on primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: part 2—research priorities on conditions affecting the young person’s hip 2022 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·H Paul Dijkstra, Seán Mc Auliffe, Clare L. Ardern, Joanne L. Kemp, A. Mosler, Amy Price, Paul Blazey, Dawn P. Richards, Abdulaziz Farooq, Andreas Serner, Eugene McNally, Vasco Mascarenhas, Richard W. Willy, Jason Oke, Karim M. Khan, Sion Glyn‐Jones, Mike Clarke, Trisha Greenhalgh	9
13	Oxford consensus on primary cam morphology and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: part 1—definitions, terminology, taxonomy and imaging outcomes 2022 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·H Paul Dijkstra, Seán Mc Auliffe, Clare L. Ardern, Joanne L. Kemp, A. Mosler, Amy Price, Paul Blazey, Dawn P. Richards, Abdulaziz Farooq, Andreas Serner, Eugene McNally, Vasco Mascarenhas, Richard W. Willy, Jason Oke, Karim M. Khan, Sion Glyn‐Jones, Mike Clarke, Trisha Greenhalgh	22
14	Clinical Pearls on How Practitioners Can Best Support Elite Soccer Players to Return to Peak Performance After Injury 2021 ·Matt Taberner, (unknown), (unknown), Daniel D. Cohen, Clare L. Ardern	4
15	Primary cam morphology; bump, burden or bog-standard? A concept analysis 2021 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·H Paul Dijkstra, Clare L. Ardern, Andreas Serner, A. Mosler, Adam Weir, Nia Roberts, Seán Mc Auliffe, Jason Oke, Karim M. Khan, Mike Clarke, S. Glyn-Jones	19
16	When taking a step back is a veritable leap forward. Reversing decades of arthroscopy for managing joint pain: five reasons that could explain declining rates of common arthroscopic surgeries 2020 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Clare L. Ardern, (unknown), Ville M. Mattila, Simo Taimela, Teppo L. N. Järvinen	5
17	Concussed athletes walk slower than non-concussed athletes during cognitive-motor dual-task assessments but not during single-task assessments 2 months after sports concussion: a systematic review and meta-analysis using individual participant data 2019 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Fionn Büttner, David R. Howell, Clare L. Ardern, Cailbhe Doherty, Catherine Blake, John Ryan, Robert D. Catena, Li‐Shan Chou, Peter C. Fino, (unknown), Heidi Sveistrup, Tonya M. Parker, Eamonn Delahunt	76
18	Getting the most out of intensive longitudinal data: a methodological review of workload–injury studies 2018 ·BMJ Open ·Johann Windt, Clare L. Ardern, Tim J. Gabbett, Karim M. Khan, Chad Cook, Ben C. Sporer, Bruno D. Zumbo	51
19	The impact of psychological readiness to return to sport and recreational activities after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction breakdown → 2014 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Clare L. Ardern, Annika Österberg, Sofi Tagesson, Håkan Gauffin, Kate E. Webster, Joanna Kvist	305
20	A systematic review of the psychological factors associated with returning to sport following injury 2012 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Clare L. Ardern, Nicholas F. Taylor, Julian A. Feller, Kate E. Webster	308

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