Dafydd J. Thomas

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Dafydd J. Thomas is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dafydd J. Thomas has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 15 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 11 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Dafydd J. Thomas's work include Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (16 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (13 papers) and Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (10 papers). Dafydd J. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (16 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (13 papers) and Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (10 papers). Dafydd J. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Cyprus. Dafydd J. Thomas's co-authors include George Geroulakos, Andrew Nicolaides, Stavros K. Kakkos, Maura Griffin, Michael Sabetai, Thomas Tegos, John Collinge, Michael R. Harrison, Alison Halliday and Averil O. Mansfield and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, The Lancet Neurology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dafydd J. Thomas

33 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

10-year stroke prevention after successful carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic stenosis (ACST-1): a multicentre randomised trial

2010 580 citations Alison Halliday, Michael R. Harrison et al. The Lancet profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dafydd J. Thomas United Kingdom	20	1.5k	1.1k	800	479	462	34	2.3k
Hiroshi Yamagami Japan	32	1.3k 0.9×	838 0.7×	2.2k 2.7×	1.0k 2.1×	220 0.5×	212	3.5k
Ye Qiao United States	29	1.7k 1.2×	818 0.7×	945 1.2×	669 1.4×	142 0.3×	69	2.5k
Áine Merwick Ireland	20	600 0.4×	516 0.5×	809 1.0×	351 0.7×	145 0.3×	50	1.5k
Shuhei Okazaki Japan	26	412 0.3×	331 0.3×	718 0.9×	432 0.9×	127 0.3×	74	1.6k
Xinyi Leng Hong Kong	24	1.1k 0.7×	479 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	591 1.2×	118 0.3×	104	1.9k
Wi‐Sun Ryu South Korea	23	346 0.2×	393 0.4×	709 0.9×	470 1.0×	159 0.3×	82	1.6k
Ming Yao China	22	771 0.5×	268 0.2×	732 0.9×	768 1.6×	88 0.2×	97	1.8k
Thomas Tegos Greece	22	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	935 1.2×	288 0.6×	61 0.1×	64	2.0k
Naveed Akhtar Qatar	23	1.0k 0.7×	301 0.3×	1.3k 1.6×	580 1.2×	192 0.4×	142	2.3k
Shin Yi Jang South Korea	24	498 0.3×	580 0.5×	234 0.3×	72 0.2×	208 0.5×	95	1.5k

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Huibers, Anne, Gert J. de Borst, Dafydd J. Thomas, et al.. (2016). The Mechanism of Procedural Stroke Following Carotid Endarterectomy within the Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial 1. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 42(3-4). 178–185. 17 indexed citations

Kakkos, Stavros K., Andrew Nicolaides, Dafydd J. Thomas, et al.. (2014). Predictors and clinical significance of progression or regression of asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 59(4). 956–967.e1. 90 indexed citations

Kakkos, Stavros K., Maura Griffin, Andrew Nicolaides, et al.. (2013). The size of juxtaluminal hypoechoic area in ultrasound images of asymptomatic carotid plaques predicts the occurrence of stroke. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 57(3). 609–618.e1. 123 indexed citations

Carswell, Christopher, Suvankar Pal, Rebecca Macfarlane, et al.. (2012). Video Rating in Neurodegenerative Disease Clinical Trials: The Experience of PRION-1. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra. 2(1). 286–297. 5 indexed citations

Kakkos, Stavros K., Andrew Nicolaides, Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, et al.. (2011). Computerized Texture Analysis of Carotid Plaque Ultrasonic Images Can Identify Unstable Plaques Associated With Ipsilateral Neurological Symptoms. Angiology. 62(4). 317–328. 32 indexed citations

Nicolaides, Andrew, Stavros K. Kakkos, Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, et al.. (2010). Asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis and cerebrovascular risk stratification. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 52(6). 1486–1496.e5. 238 indexed citations

Halliday, Alison, Michael R. Harrison, Elizabeth Hayter, et al.. (2010). 10-year stroke prevention after successful carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic stenosis (ACST-1): a multicentre randomised trial. The Lancet. 376(9746). 1074–1084. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

Lieberman, Richard W., et al.. (2010). Seasonal Influenza A (H1N1) Infection in Early Pregnancy and Second Trimester Fetal Demise. Emerging infectious diseases. 17(1). 107–109. 47 indexed citations

Collinge, John, Michele Gorham, Fleur Hudson, et al.. (2009). Safety and efficacy of quinacrine in human prion disease (PRION-1 study): a patient-preference trial. The Lancet Neurology. 8(4). 334–344. 184 indexed citations

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Kakkos, Stavros K., Michael Sabetai, Thomas Tegos, et al.. (2009). Silent embolic infarcts on computed tomography brain scans and risk of ipsilateral hemispheric events in patients with asymptomatic internal carotid artery stenosis. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 49(4). 902–909. 97 indexed citations

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Collinge, John, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh, et al.. (2006). Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods. The Lancet. 367(9528). 2068–2074. 241 indexed citations

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Nicolaides, Andrew, Stavros K. Kakkos, Maura Griffin, et al.. (2005). Severity of Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Risk of Ipsilateral Hemispheric Ischaemic Events: Results from the ACSRS Study. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 30(3). 275–284. 148 indexed citations

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Kakkos, Stavros K., Andrew Nicolaides, Maura Griffin, et al.. (2005). Factors associated with mortality in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis: results from the ACSRS Study.. PubMed. 24(3). 221–30. 24 indexed citations

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Nicolaides, Andrew, Michael Sabetai, Stavros K. Kakkos, et al.. (2003). The Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis and Risk of Stroke (ACSRS) study. Aims and results of quality control.. PubMed. 22(3). 263–72. 53 indexed citations

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Walters, R. J., Nick C. Fox, Jonathan M. Schott, et al.. (2003). Transient ischaemic attacks are associated with increased rates of global cerebral atrophy. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 74(2). 213–216. 46 indexed citations

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Walters, R. J., Nick C. Fox, William R. Crum, David Taube, & Dafydd J. Thomas. (2001). Haemodialysis and Cerebral Oedema. The Nephron journals/Nephron journals. 87(2). 143–147. 56 indexed citations

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Butterworth, Richard, Dafydd J. Thomas, John H. Wolfe, Averil O. Mansfield, & Aghiad Al‐Kutoubi. (1999). Endovascular Treatment of Carotid Dissecting Aneurysms. Cerebrovascular Diseases. 9(4). 242–247. 14 indexed citations

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Everitt, Alex, Dafydd J. Thomas, & Shelagh Smith. (1999). Late Onset Cryptogenic Photomyoclonus: Case Report. European Neurology. 41(3). 168–169. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Dafydd J., et al.. (1991). ABC of vascular diseases. Carotid endarterectomy.. BMJ. 303(6808). 985–987. 2 indexed citations

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Harrison, Michael R., John Marshall, & Dafydd J. Thomas. (1978). Relevance of duration of transient ischaemic attacks in carotid territory.. BMJ. 1(6127). 1578–1579. 22 indexed citations

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