David Beard

21.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
328 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

David Beard is a scholar working on Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Beard has authored 328 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 247 papers in Surgery, 40 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Beard's work include Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (175 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (134 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (93 papers). David Beard is often cited by papers focused on Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (175 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (134 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (93 papers). David Beard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. David Beard's co-authors include David W. Murray, Andrew Price, Andrew Carr, Hemant Pandit, Jill Dawson, Andrew Judge, H.S. Gill, Nigel Arden, Ray Fitzpatrick and C. A. F. Dodd and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

David Beard

315 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

The use of the Oxford hip and knee scores

2007 1.1k citations David W. Murray, Hemant Pandit et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume profile →
Knee replacement

2012 875 citations Andrew Carr, Andrew Price et al. profile →
The effect of patient age at intervention on risk of implant revision after total replacement of the hip or knee: a population-based cohort study

2017 570 citations Daniel Prieto‐Alhambra, Andrew Judge et al. profile →
Knee replacement

2018 551 citations Andrew Price, Abtin Alvand et al. profile →
Meaningful changes for the Oxford hip and knee scores after joint replacement surgery

2014 367 citations David Beard, David W. Murray et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
Arthroscopic hip surgery compared with physiotherapy and activity modification for the treatment of symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: multicentre randomised controlled trial

2019 179 citations Antony Palmer, Susan Dutton et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Beard United Kingdom	63	10.9k	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	592	328	13.8k
Thomas P. Vail United States	59	11.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	266 0.4×	173	14.1k
Harry E. Rubash United States	71	14.8k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	3.0k 2.0×	1.1k 0.8×	288 0.5×	269	17.7k
Michael A. Mont United States	65	14.4k 1.3×	984 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	863 0.6×	299 0.5×	563	15.7k
Robert L. Barrack United States	73	13.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	2.4k 1.6×	882 0.6×	525 0.9×	335	16.3k
John J. Callaghan United States	81	18.5k 1.7×	2.0k 1.1×	989 0.7×	871 0.6×	529 0.9×	415	20.7k
Robert B. Bourne Canada	73	15.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	761 1.3×	230	17.6k
Rob G. H. H. Nelissen Netherlands	59	9.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	2.8k 2.0×	996 1.7×	566	14.0k
Stephen E. Graves Australia	52	8.7k 0.8×	532 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	577 1.0×	278	13.1k
Charlotte Ekdahl Sweden	41	4.9k 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	1.7k 2.9×	102	8.7k
Søren Overgaard Denmark	54	7.4k 0.7×	933 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	664 0.5×	277 0.5×	399	9.9k

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Carter, Hayley, David Beard, Paul Leighton, et al.. (2025). Use of a shared decision-making intervention to support treatment decision-making for patients following an anterior cruciate ligament rupture: a mixed methods feasibility study. BMJ Open. 15(8). e095189–e095189.

David‐Tchouda, Sandra, et al.. (2024). The health economic analysis of surgery versus rehabilitation in non-traumatic musculoskeletal shoulder disorders: A systematic review of trial-based studies. Clinical Rehabilitation. 39(2). 139–152. 3 indexed citations

Sabah, Shiraz A., Ruth Knight, Philippa Nicolson, et al.. (2023). Epidemiology of revision hip replacement surgery in the UK over the past 15 years—an analysis from the National Joint Registry. BMJ Open. 13(10). e072462–e072462. 5 indexed citations

Harrison, Conrad, Constantin Yves Plessen, Gregor Liegl, et al.. (2023). Item response theory assumptions were adequately met by the Oxford hip and knee scores. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 158. 166–176. 7 indexed citations

Cousins, Sian, Katy Chalmers, Marion Campbell, et al.. (2023). How do pilot and feasibility studies inform randomised placebo-controlled trials in surgery? A systematic review. BMJ Open. 13(11). e071094–e071094. 2 indexed citations

Clark, Laura, Catherine Arundel, Elizabeth Coleman, et al.. (2022). The PROMoting the USE of SWATs (PROMETHEUS) programme: Lessons learnt and future developments for SWATs. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 3(4). 100–106. 9 indexed citations

Martino, Enrico De, Julie A. Hides, James M. Elliott, et al.. (2021). Lumbar muscle atrophy and increased relative intramuscular lipid concentration are not mitigated by daily artificial gravity after 60-day head-down tilt bed rest. Journal of Applied Physiology. 131(1). 356–368. 15 indexed citations

Prats‐Uribe, Albert, Spyros Kolovos, Klára Berencsi, et al.. (2021). Unicompartmental compared with total knee replacement for patients with multimorbidities: a cohort study using propensity score stratification and inverse probability weighting. Health Technology Assessment. 25(66). 1–126. 5 indexed citations

Beard, David, et al.. (2021). Do journals raise their impact factor or SCImago ranking by self‐citing in editorials? A bibliometric analysis of trauma and orthopaedic journals. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 91(5). 975–979. 11 indexed citations

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Davies, Loretta, et al.. (2021). The challenge of equipoise in trials with a surgical and non-surgical comparison: a qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography. Trials. 22(1). 678–678. 21 indexed citations

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Littlewood, Chris, Julia Wade, Martyn Lewis, et al.. (2021). Protocol for a multi-site pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial: Surgery versus PhysiothErapist-leD exercise for traumatic tears of the rotator cuff (the SPeEDy study). Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 7(1). 17–17. 2 indexed citations

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Jain, Abhilash, Matthew D. Gardiner, Jonathan Cook, et al.. (2020). The Oxford Finger Nail Appearance Score - a new scoring system for fingernail deformity following paediatric finger tip trauma. Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery. 74(1). 94–100. 2 indexed citations

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Barker, Karen, Ruth Knight, Susan Dutton, et al.. (2020). Outpatient physiotherapy versus home-based rehabilitation for patients at risk of poor outcomes after knee arthroplasty: CORKA RCT. Health Technology Assessment. 24(65). 1–116. 18 indexed citations

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Knight, Ruth, Louise Strickland, Thomas W. Hamilton, et al.. (2019). Study of Peri-Articular Anaesthetic for Replacement of the Knee (SPAARK): study protocol for a patient-blinded, randomised controlled superiority trial of liposomal bupivacaine. Trials. 20(1). 732–732. 1 indexed citations

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Eibich, Peter, Helen Dakin, Andrew Price, et al.. (2018). Associations between preoperative Oxford hip and knee scores and costs and quality of life of patients undergoing primary total joint replacement in the NHS England: an observational study. BMJ Open. 8(4). e019477–e019477. 29 indexed citations

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Abram, Simon, Andrew Judge, David Beard, Hannah Wilson, & Andrew Price. (2018). Temporal trends and regional variation in the rate of arthroscopic knee surgery in England: analysis of over 1.7 million procedures between 1997 and 2017. Has practice changed in response to new evidence?. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 53(24). 1533–1538. 53 indexed citations

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Murphy, Richard, K Kliskey, Kim Wheway, et al.. (2013). Short term tissue response to current treatments for rotator cuff tendinopathy. International Journal of Experimental Pathology. 94. 1 indexed citations

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Hossain, Munier, et al.. (2011). Does pre-operative psychological distress affect patient satisfaction after primary total hip arthroplasty?. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 12(1). 122–122. 25 indexed citations

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Beard, David, et al.. (2007). A Simple Technique to Remove a Bent Femoral Intramedullary Nail and Broken Interlocking Screw. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 63(2). 435–438. 18 indexed citations

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Price, Andrew, et al.. (2002). Dislocation of the bearing of the Oxford lateral unicompartmental arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume. 84-B(5). 653–657. 41 indexed citations

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