D. Laws

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 834 citations indexed

About

D. Laws is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Laws has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 834 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 5 papers in Surgery and 5 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Recurrent topics in D. Laws's work include Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (6 papers), Ultrasound in Clinical Applications (5 papers) and Trauma Management and Diagnosis (3 papers). D. Laws is often cited by papers focused on Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases (6 papers), Ultrasound in Clinical Applications (5 papers) and Trauma Management and Diagnosis (3 papers). D. Laws collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Jamaica. D. Laws's co-authors include Tom Havelock, Fergus Gleeson, R Teoh, E Neville, John P. Duffy, J. A. McM. Turner, S. Allen, John Watkinson, J Hibbert and Nicholas S. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Thorax, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and Clinical Otolaryngology.

In The Last Decade

D. Laws

9 papers receiving 801 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.

Pleural procedures and thoracic ultrasound: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010

2010 488 citations Tom Havelock, R Teoh et al. Thorax profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Laws United Kingdom	5	684	470	357	113	53	9	834
R Teoh United Kingdom	5	402 0.6×	351 0.7×	163 0.5×	101 0.9×	28 0.5×	7	525
Federico Barbariol Italy	10	223 0.3×	303 0.6×	167 0.5×	127 1.1×	49 0.9×	18	502
Nektaria Xirouchaki Greece	9	437 0.6×	595 1.3×	197 0.6×	184 1.6×	76 1.4×	16	759
Enrico Boero Italy	11	260 0.4×	556 1.2×	227 0.6×	233 2.1×	43 0.8×	20	658
Daniel Schnobrich United States	12	178 0.3×	566 1.2×	289 0.8×	326 2.9×	27 0.5×	15	747
Sara Sher Italy	8	247 0.4×	612 1.3×	250 0.7×	253 2.2×	42 0.8×	9	669
Mark O. Tessaro Canada	12	154 0.2×	284 0.6×	146 0.4×	95 0.8×	167 3.2×	35	476
Ignacio Oulego‐Erroz Spain	15	316 0.5×	196 0.4×	218 0.6×	64 0.6×	115 2.2×	49	563
Cécile Tissot United States	10	378 0.6×	284 0.6×	224 0.6×	82 0.7×	48 0.9×	25	626
Alexis Soummer France	8	230 0.3×	327 0.7×	105 0.3×	82 0.7×	82 1.5×	19	464

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Laws

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Edwards, David, et al.. (2012). P68 Outcome of a Pragmatic Protocol For CT Lung Nodule Surveillance in a UK District General Hospital. Thorax. 67(Suppl 2). A92.1–A92. 1 indexed citations

2.

Laws, D., et al.. (2011). Investigation of Pleural Effusions. Acute Medicine Journal. 10(4). 216–220. 3 indexed citations

3.

Havelock, Tom, R Teoh, D. Laws, Nick Maskell, & Fergus Gleeson. (2010). Authors' response. Thorax. 66(9). 829–829. 1 indexed citations

4.

Havelock, Tom, et al.. (2010). Pleural procedures and thoracic ultrasound: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010. Thorax. 65(Suppl 2). i61–i76. 488 indexed citations breakdown →

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McFarlane, Michael, et al.. (2007). Jejunouterine fistula: a case report. Gynecological Surgery. 5(2). 4 indexed citations

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Laws, D., et al.. (2004). Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax in a cannabis smoker. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 97(9). 435–436. 20 indexed citations

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Laws, D., E Neville, & John P. Duffy. (2003). BTS guidelines for the insertion of a chest drain. Thorax. 58(Supplement 2). ii53–ii59. 148 indexed citations

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Laws, D.. (2003). BTS guidelines for the insertion of a chest drain. Thorax. 58(90002). 53ii–59. 158 indexed citations

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Watkinson, John, et al.. (1990). The reliability of palpation in the assessment of tumours. Clinical Otolaryngology. 15(5). 405–409. 11 indexed citations

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