Elie A. Akl

278.2k total citations · 28 hit papers
439 papers, 51.3k citations indexed

About

Elie A. Akl is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Economics and Econometrics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Elie A. Akl has authored 439 papers receiving a total of 51.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 138 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 134 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Elie A. Akl's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (116 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (88 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (82 papers). Elie A. Akl is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (116 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (88 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (82 papers). Elie A. Akl collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Lebanon and United States. Elie A. Akl's co-authors include Gordon Guyatt, Holger J. Schünemann, Andrew D Oxman, Jan Brożek, Regina Kunz, Gunn Elisabeth Vist, Yngve Falck–Ytter, Susan L. Norris, Pablo Alonso‐Coello and Paul Glasziou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Blood and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Elie A. Akl

429 papers receiving 50.0k citations

Hit Papers

GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2012 2016 2011 2012 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables
    2011 7.2k citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  2. Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease
    2012 4.5k citations Clive Kearon, Elie A. Akl et al. CHEST Journal profile →
  3. Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease
    2016 3.2k citations Clive Kearon, Elie A. Akl et al. CHEST Journal profile →
  4. GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)
    2011 2.1k citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  5. Prevention of VTE in Nonsurgical Patients
    2012 2.0k citations Elie A. Akl, M. Hassan Murad et al. CHEST Journal profile →
  6. GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency
    2011 1.7k citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  7. GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence—publication bias
    2011 1.4k citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  8. GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence—indirectness
    2011 1.4k citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  9. Executive Summary
    2012 1.1k citations Gordon Guyatt, Elie A. Akl et al. CHEST Journal profile →
  10. GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence
    2011 971 citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  11. GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations
    2013 883 citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  12. GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction
    2016 771 citations Pablo Alonso‐Coello, Holger J. Schünemann et al. BMJ profile →
  13. GRADE guidelines 26: informative statements to communicate the findings of systematic reviews of interventions
    2019 686 citations Elie A. Akl, Romina Brignardello‐Petersen et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  14. Coronavirus Goes Viral: Quantifying the COVID-19 Misinformation Epidemic on Twitter
    2020 586 citations Elie A. Akl et al. profile →
  15. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines
    2009 584 citations Jan Brożek, Elie A. Akl et al. profile →
  16. GRADE guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in nonrandomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence
    2018 564 citations Holger J. Schünemann, Elie A. Akl et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  17. GRADE guidelines: 11. Making an overall rating of confidence in effect estimates for a single outcome and for all outcomes
    2012 563 citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  18. GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing Summary of Findings tables and evidence profiles—continuous outcomes
    2012 502 citations Gordon Guyatt, Andrew D Oxman et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  19. GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines
    2016 495 citations Pablo Alonso‐Coello, Andrew D Oxman et al. BMJ profile →
  20. The effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking on health outcomes: a systematic review
    2010 493 citations Elie A. Akl, Sameer Gunukula et al. profile →
  21. Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain
    2017 473 citations Jason W. Busse, Thomas Agoritsas et al. profile →
  22. The GRADE Working Group clarifies the construct of certainty of evidence
    2017 468 citations Elie A. Akl, Reem A. Mustafa et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  23. The Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC): Results From a Multispecialty Panel Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method
    2015 388 citations Scott C. Woller, Elie A. Akl et al. profile →
  24. Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer
    2014 278 citations Elie A. Akl, Lara A Kahale et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →
  25. American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support
    2020 268 citations Stella T. Chou, Mouaz Alsawas et al. Blood Advances profile →
  26. GRADE Guidance 34: update on rating imprecision using a minimally contextualized approach
    2022 137 citations Romina Brignardello‐Petersen, Reem A. Mustafa et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  27. The development methods of official GRADE articles and requirements for claiming the use of GRADE – A statement by the GRADE guidance group
    2023 86 citations Holger J. Schünemann, Elie A. Akl et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  28. GRADE guidance 36: updates to GRADE's approach to addressing inconsistency
    2023 73 citations Reem A. Mustafa, Xin Sun et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elie A. Akl Canada 86 12.2k 11.0k 10.0k 7.7k 5.7k 439 51.3k
Henrik Toft Sørensen Denmark 119 6.3k 0.5× 13.4k 1.2× 16.9k 1.7× 9.4k 1.2× 14.3k 2.5× 1.6k 77.7k
Holger J. Schünemann Canada 118 4.7k 0.4× 8.7k 0.8× 15.6k 1.6× 15.5k 2.0× 11.2k 1.9× 712 87.8k
M. Hassan Murad United States 146 4.7k 0.4× 9.5k 0.9× 24.1k 2.4× 10.6k 1.4× 17.0k 3.0× 978 103.8k
Jan P. Vandenbroucke Netherlands 93 6.1k 0.5× 13.2k 1.2× 21.8k 2.2× 14.5k 1.9× 15.5k 2.7× 439 111.3k
Yngve Falck–Ytter United States 57 2.1k 0.2× 5.1k 0.5× 11.7k 1.2× 7.5k 1.0× 10.9k 1.9× 168 55.2k
George A. Wells Canada 126 1.8k 0.1× 14.3k 1.3× 18.1k 1.8× 8.7k 1.1× 9.4k 1.6× 875 89.9k
Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 116 2.7k 0.2× 3.7k 0.3× 13.6k 1.4× 7.9k 1.0× 8.6k 1.5× 757 61.9k
Eric D. Peterson United States 142 6.2k 0.5× 46.9k 4.3× 21.4k 2.1× 4.4k 0.6× 17.3k 3.0× 1.2k 79.8k
Karel G.M. Moons Netherlands 99 1.9k 0.2× 10.0k 0.9× 10.2k 1.0× 4.2k 0.5× 10.0k 1.7× 469 54.1k
William A. Ghali Canada 80 1.5k 0.1× 9.0k 0.8× 7.9k 0.8× 4.7k 0.6× 8.5k 1.5× 392 39.4k

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All Works

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Dixit, Devika, Dale Fisher, Daniel G. Bausch, et al.. (2024). Summary of WHO infection prevention and control guideline for Ebola and Marburg disease: a call for evidence based practice. BMJ. 384. p2811–p2811. 2 indexed citations
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Chakhtoura, Marlene, Nancy Nakhoul, Elie A. Akl, et al.. (2024). Oral vitamin D supplementation for adults with obesity undergoing bariatric surgery. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2024(10). CD011800–CD011800. 2 indexed citations
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Ghandour, Lilian, et al.. (2024). Parenting a High and Growing Population of Youth in the Arab Region: A Scoping Review for an Evidence-Informed Research Agenda. Journal of Adolescent Health. 75(1). 16–25. 1 indexed citations
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Murad, M. Hassan, Zhen Wang, Haitao Chu, et al.. (2023). Proposed triggers for retiring a living systematic review. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 28(5). 348–352. 10 indexed citations
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Steinhardt, Laura C., Julie Gutman, Zachary Schneider, et al.. (2023). Development of Systematic Reviews to Inform WHO’s Recommendations for Elimination and Prevention of Re-Establishment of Malaria: Methodology. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 110(4_Suppl). 11–16. 10 indexed citations
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Neumann, Ignacio, et al.. (2022). Using Explicit Thresholds were valuable for judging Benefits and Harms in partially contextualized GRADE Guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 147. 69–75. 12 indexed citations
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Salloum, Ramzi G., Jennifer H. LeLaurin, Rima Nakkash, et al.. (2022). Developing Capacity in Dissemination and Implementation Research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Evaluation of a Training Workshop. PubMed. 2(4). 340–349. 5 indexed citations
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Chou, Stella T., Mouaz Alsawas, Ross M. Fasano, et al.. (2020). American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for sickle cell disease: transfusion support. Blood Advances. 4(2). 327–355. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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El‐Harakeh, Amena, Tamara Lotfi, Ali Ahmad, et al.. (2020). The implementation of prioritization exercises in the development and update of health practice guidelines: A scoping review. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229249–e0229249. 25 indexed citations
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Schünemann, Holger J., Elie A. Akl, Roger Chou, et al.. (2020). Use of facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 8(10). 954–955. 59 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuan, Pablo Alonso Coello, Gordon Guyatt, et al.. (2018). GRADE guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences—inconsistency, imprecision, and other domains. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 111. 83–93. 186 indexed citations
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Kearon, Clive, Elie A. Akl, Joseph Ornelas, et al.. (2016). Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease. CHEST Journal. 149(2). 315–352. 3247 indexed citations breakdown →
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Akl, Elie A., Khaled Shawwa, Lara A Kahale, et al.. (2015). Reporting missing participant data in randomised trials: systematic survey of the methodological literature and a proposed guide. BMJ Open. 5(12). e008431–e008431. 33 indexed citations
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Symons, Andrew B., Christopher P. Morley, Denise McGuigan, & Elie A. Akl. (2013). A curriculum on care for people with disabilities: Effects on medical student self-reported attitudes and comfort level. Disability and health journal. 7(1). 88–95. 54 indexed citations
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Riet, Gerben ter, Paula Chesley, Alan G. Gross, et al.. (2013). All That Glitters Isn't Gold: A Survey on Acknowledgment of Limitations in Biomedical Studies. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e73623–e73623. 26 indexed citations
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Satchidanand, Nikhil, Sameer Gunukula, Denise McGuigan, et al.. (2012). Attitudes of Healthcare Students and Professionals Toward Patients with Physical Disability. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 91(6). 533–545. 105 indexed citations
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Guyatt, Gordon, Andrew D Oxman, Elie A. Akl, et al.. (2011). GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64(4). 383–394. 7216 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gunukula, Sameer, et al.. (2010). Validated instruments used to measure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towards patients with physical disability: a systematic review. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 7(1). 55–55. 46 indexed citations
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Symons, Andrew B., Denise McGuigan, & Elie A. Akl. (2009). A curriculum to teach medical students to care for people with disabilities: development and initial implementation. BMC Medical Education. 9(1). 78–78. 83 indexed citations

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