Derrick Lopez

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Derrick Lopez is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Derrick Lopez has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 11 papers in Epidemiology and 9 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Derrick Lopez's work include Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (9 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (6 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (5 papers). Derrick Lopez is often cited by papers focused on Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (9 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (6 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (5 papers). Derrick Lopez collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Qatar. Derrick Lopez's co-authors include Marlene Kolybaba, David Ingram, Katherine Sanders, Max Kamien, Graeme J. Hankey, Leon Flicker, Osvaldo P. Almeida, Kieran McCaul, Annette J. Dobson and Frank Sanfilippo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Derrick Lopez

45 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Case-control study of phyto-oestrogens and breast cancer

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derrick Lopez Australia	15	482	256	233	152	134	47	1.3k
Linda Kok Netherlands	11	498 1.0×	224 0.9×	162 0.7×	149 1.0×	60 0.4×	13	955
Eduardo Salazar-Martı́nez Mexico	19	166 0.3×	141 0.6×	388 1.7×	190 1.3×	154 1.1×	39	1.4k
Annamari Kilkkinen Finland	22	1.1k 2.2×	374 1.5×	352 1.5×	242 1.6×	275 2.1×	31	2.3k
Seung‐Won Oh South Korea	21	223 0.5×	97 0.4×	261 1.1×	75 0.5×	183 1.4×	96	1.8k
Adriana J. van Ballegooijen Netherlands	26	563 1.2×	139 0.5×	253 1.1×	36 0.2×	123 0.9×	57	1.8k
Abdulmohsen Al Elq Saudi Arabia	21	358 0.7×	63 0.2×	275 1.2×	107 0.7×	85 0.6×	59	1.7k
Fiona E. Lithander United Kingdom	22	322 0.7×	49 0.2×	329 1.4×	199 1.3×	126 0.9×	67	1.6k
Georgina Friedenberg United States	12	1.1k 2.2×	134 0.5×	374 1.6×	137 0.9×	183 1.4×	18	2.3k
Habibollah Esmaeili Iran	19	202 0.4×	54 0.2×	239 1.0×	80 0.5×	109 0.8×	83	1.2k
Aizhen Jin Singapore	25	111 0.2×	97 0.4×	326 1.4×	185 1.2×	293 2.2×	63	1.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lopez, Derrick, Juan Lu, Frank Sanfilippo, et al.. (2024). Comparative Algorithms for Identifying and Counting Hospitalisation Episodes of Care for Coronary Heart Disease Using Administrative Data. Clinical Epidemiology. Volume 16. 921–928.

Ward, Sarah V., et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the awareness of Western Australian SunSmart campaigns between 2008 and 2022. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 35(4). 1194–1205. 1 indexed citations

Zemedikun, Dawit, Joseph Hung, Derrick Lopez, et al.. (2024). Temporal trends in concordance between ICD-coded and cardiac biomarker-classified hospitalisation rates for acute coronary syndromes: a linked hospital and biomarker data study. Open Heart. 11(2). e002995–e002995. 1 indexed citations

Lopez, Derrick, Girish Dwivedi, Johannes C. Nossent, et al.. (2023). Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event Following Incident Hospitalization for Acute Gout: A Western Australian Population‐Level Linked Data Study. ACR Open Rheumatology. 5(6). 298–304. 9 indexed citations

Nedkoff, Lee, Derrick Lopez, Joseph Hung, et al.. (2022). Validation of ICD-10-AM Coding for Myocardial Infarction Subtype in Hospitalisation Data. Heart Lung and Circulation. 31(6). 849–858. 22 indexed citations

Wang, Yun, Vijaya Sundararajan, Derrick Lopez, et al.. (2021). Optimal Measures for Primary Care Physician Encounters after Stroke and Association with Survival: A Data Linkage Study. Neuroepidemiology. 56(2). 90–96. 3 indexed citations

Lopez, Derrick, Lee Nedkoff, Tom Briffa, et al.. (2021). Effect of frailty on initiation of statins following incident acute coronary syndromes in patients aged ≥75 years. Maturitas. 153. 13–18. 3 indexed citations

Dalli, Lachlan L., Joosup Kim, Amanda G. Thrift, et al.. (2020). Patterns of Use and Discontinuation of Secondary Prevention Medications After Stroke. Neurology. 96(1). e30–e41. 23 indexed citations

Dalli, Lachlan L., Derrick Lopez, Frank Sanfilippo, et al.. (2020). Assuming one dose per day yields a similar estimate of medication adherence in patients with stroke: An exploratory analysis using linked registry data. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 87(3). 1089–1097. 7 indexed citations

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Nedkoff, Lee, Raph Goldacre, Melanie Greenland, et al.. (2019). Comparative trends in coronary heart disease subgroup hospitalisation rates in England and Australia. Heart. 105(17). 1343–1350. 14 indexed citations

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Lopez, Derrick, Anna Kemp, Christobel Saunders, et al.. (2017). Clinical consultations and investigations before and after discontinuation of endocrine therapy in women with primary breast cancer. Public Health Research & Practice. 27(3). 1 indexed citations

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Lopez, Derrick, Lee Nedkoff, Matthew Knuiman, et al.. (2017). Exploring the effects of transfers and readmissions on trends in population counts of hospital admissions for coronary heart disease: a Western Australian data linkage study. BMJ Open. 7(11). e019226–e019226. 12 indexed citations

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Nedkoff, Lee, Derrick Lopez, Michael J Goldacre, et al.. (2017). Identification of myocardial infarction type from electronic hospital data in England and Australia: a comparative data linkage study. BMJ Open. 7(11). e019217–e019217. 15 indexed citations

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Kemp, Anna, Elizabeth E. Roughead, Christobel Saunders, et al.. (2016). Breast cancer recurrence following active treatment: determining its incidence in the NSW population. Public Health Research & Practice. 26(1). e2611607–e2611607. 5 indexed citations

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Nedkoff, Lee, Matthew Knuiman, Michael Hobbs, et al.. (2016). Is the incidence of heart attack still decreasing in Australia? Developing reliable methods for monitoring trends in myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease (AUS-MOCHA): a study protocol. BMJ Open. 6(8). e012180–e012180. 4 indexed citations

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Gunnell, Anthony S., Matthew Knuiman, Elizabeth Geelhoed, et al.. (2014). Long-term use and cost-effectiveness of secondary prevention drugs for heart disease in Western Australian seniors (WAMACH): a study protocol. BMJ Open. 4(9). e006258–e006258. 12 indexed citations

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Dobson, Annette, Deirdre McLaughlin, Osvaldo P. Almeida, et al.. (2012). Impact of behavioural risk factors on death within 10 years for women and men in their 70s: absolute risk charts. BMC Public Health. 12(1). 669–669. 6 indexed citations

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Lopez, Derrick, Jeffrey M. Hamdorf, Alison Ward, & Jon Emery. (2006). EARLY TRAUMA MANAGEMENT SKILLS IN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTITIONERS. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 76(10). 894–897. 16 indexed citations

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Lopez, Derrick, et al.. (2000). Complementing police road-crash records with trauma registry data — an initial evaluation. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 32(6). 771–777. 51 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Debra, Ian Rogers, Alison Smith, & Derrick Lopez. (1998). Infrared tympanic thermometers are unreliable in low ambient temperatures. Emergency Medicine. 10(4). 313–316. 2 indexed citations

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