Colin McCowan

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Colin McCowan is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin McCowan has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in General Health Professions, 27 papers in Epidemiology and 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Colin McCowan's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (19 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (16 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (11 papers). Colin McCowan is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (19 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (16 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (11 papers). Colin McCowan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Ireland. Colin McCowan's co-authors include Peter T. Donnan, Bruce Guthrie, Tom Fahey, J A Dewar, Boikanyo Makubate, Alastair M. Thompson, Tobias Dreischulte, Peter Davey, Dennis Petrie and Markus Themessl‐Huber and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Colin McCowan

129 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Examining variation in the measurement of multimorbidity in research: a systematic review of 566 studies

2021 172 citations Iris Ho, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin McCowan United Kingdom	36	854	832	782	636	626	135	4.2k
Jennifer Elston Lafata United States	38	1.0k 1.2×	555 0.7×	498 0.6×	602 0.9×	432 0.7×	159	4.7k
Leah L. Zullig United States	35	1.1k 1.2×	706 0.8×	416 0.5×	1.0k 1.6×	407 0.7×	224	4.2k
Ilene H. Zuckerman United States	35	613 0.7×	357 0.4×	546 0.7×	656 1.0×	683 1.1×	114	3.6k
Arlene S. Bierman United States	38	1.3k 1.5×	632 0.8×	638 0.8×	960 1.5×	942 1.5×	127	4.7k
Peter Glassman United States	28	1.2k 1.4×	768 0.9×	514 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	698 1.1×	110	4.4k
Morten Andersen Denmark	44	414 0.5×	997 1.2×	537 0.7×	898 1.4×	514 0.8×	211	6.6k
Joke C. Korevaar Netherlands	31	643 0.8×	609 0.7×	834 1.1×	537 0.8×	356 0.6×	138	3.2k
Dima M. Qato United States	26	573 0.7×	570 0.7×	412 0.5×	597 0.9×	855 1.4×	89	3.3k
Adrianne C. Feldstein United States	32	921 1.1×	527 0.6×	404 0.5×	365 0.6×	532 0.8×	76	4.1k
Jalpa A. Doshi United States	35	881 1.0×	407 0.5×	523 0.7×	1.9k 3.0×	450 0.7×	103	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin McCowan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin McCowan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin McCowan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin McCowan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Colin McCowan. Colin McCowan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Fritzen, Rémi, et al.. (2025). Abnormal Plasma/Serum Magnesium, Copper, and Zinc Concentrations Associate with the Future Development of Cardiovascular Diseases. Nutrients. 17(9). 1447–1447. 2 indexed citations

Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Amaya, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Utkarsh Agrawal, et al.. (2023). Maternal multimorbidity and preterm birth in Scotland: an observational record-linkage study. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 352–352. 6 indexed citations

Sullivan, Christopher, Chris Robertson, Jade Carruthers, et al.. (2023). Predictors of incomplete COVID-19 vaccine schedule among adults in Scotland: Two retrospective cohort analyses of the primary schedule and third dose. Vaccine. 41(40). 5863–5876. 1 indexed citations

Ho, Iris, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Ashley Akbari, et al.. (2022). Measuring multimorbidity in research: Delphi consensus study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e000247–e000247. 91 indexed citations

Ho, Iris, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Ashley Akbari, et al.. (2022). Variation in the estimated prevalence of multimorbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis of 193 international studies. BMJ Open. 12(4). e057017–e057017. 88 indexed citations

Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Amaya, et al.. (2022). The impact of the management strategies for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism on long-term clinical outcomes: An umbrella review. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0268070–e0268070. 4 indexed citations

Vasileiou, Eleftheria, Kirsten Hainey, D Buchanan, et al.. (2021). Ethnic and social inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland: protocol for early pandemic evaluation and enhanced surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II). BMJ Open. 11(8). e048852–e048852. 3 indexed citations

McQueenie, Ross, Bhautesh Jani, Stefan Siebert, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of chronic pain in LTCs and multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study using UK Biobank. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 2572972974–2572972974. 32 indexed citations

Agrawal, Utkarsh, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, et al.. (2021). Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 115(1). 22–30. 21 indexed citations

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Morrison, Ian, et al.. (2021). Medication adherence, utilization of healthcare services, and mortality of patients with epilepsy on opiate replacement therapy: A retrospective cohort study. Epilepsy & Behavior. 117. 107829–107829. 4 indexed citations

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Mulholland, Rachel, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Colin R Simpson, et al.. (2021). Cohort Profile: Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) Database. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(4). 1064–1074. 16 indexed citations

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Stock, Sarah J., David McAllister, Eleftheria Vasileiou, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS): protocol for an observational study using linked Scottish national data. BMJ Open. 10(11). e042813–e042813. 6 indexed citations

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Mulholland, Rachel, Rachael Wood, Helen R. Stagg, et al.. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 113(11). 444–453. 69 indexed citations

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Jackson, Alice M., Ruiqi Zhang, Iain Findlay, et al.. (2019). Healthcare disparities for women hospitalized with myocardial infarction and angina. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. 6(2). 156–165. 20 indexed citations

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Gray, Cindy M., Sally Wyke, Annie S. Anderson, et al.. (2018). Long-term weight loss following a randomised controlled trial of a weight management programme for men delivered through professional football clubs: the Football Fans in Training follow-up study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(9). 1–114. 27 indexed citations

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Scott, Philip, Ronald Cornet, Colin McCowan, et al.. (2017). Informatics for Health 2017: Advancing both science and practice. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics. 24(1). 1–1. 7 indexed citations

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Ford, Ian, Heather Murray, Colin McCowan, & Chris J. Packard. (2016). Long-Term Safety and Efficacy of Lowering Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol With Statin Therapy. Circulation. 133(11). 1073–1080. 169 indexed citations

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McCowan, Colin, Peter T. Donnan, John Dewar, Alastair M. Thompson, & Tom Fahey. (2011). Identifying suspected breast cancer: development and validation of a clinical prediction rule. British Journal of General Practice. 61(586). e205–e214. 18 indexed citations

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Neville, Ron, Colin McCowan, Gaylor Hoskins, & G. E. Thomas. (2001). Cross-sectional observations on the natural history of asthma.. PubMed. 51(466). 361–5. 8 indexed citations

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Hoskins, Gaylor, et al.. (1998). The Cost Implications of an Asthma Attack. Pediatric Asthma Allergy & Immunology. 12(3). 193–198. 7 indexed citations

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