Fahad Razak

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Fahad Razak is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fahad Razak has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in General Health Professions, 26 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 24 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Fahad Razak's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (15 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (15 papers) and Healthcare cost, quality, practices (14 papers). Fahad Razak is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (15 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (15 papers) and Healthcare cost, quality, practices (14 papers). Fahad Razak collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Fahad Razak's co-authors include Sonia S. Anand, Salim Yusuf, Arya M. Sharma, Leonelo E. Bautista, Churchill Lukwiya Onen, Zvonko Rumboldt, Steven Hawken, Supachai Tanomsup, Patrick Commerford and Maria Grazia Franzosi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Fahad Razak

118 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27 000 p... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27 000 participants from 52 countries: a case-control study
    2005 2.1k citations Salim Yusuf, Fahad Razak et al. profile →

Peers

Fahad Razak
Tiffany M. Powell‐Wiley United States
Dianna J. Magliano Australia
Srinath Reddy India
A. Fagot‐Campagna France
O. Dale Williams United States
Nilka Rı́os Burrows United States
Rohini Mathur United Kingdom
Rebecca K. Simmons United Kingdom
Hanna Tolonen Finland
Colin Fischbacher United Kingdom
Tiffany M. Powell‐Wiley United States
Fahad Razak
Citations per year, relative to Fahad Razak Fahad Razak (= 1×) peers Tiffany M. Powell‐Wiley

Countries citing papers authored by Fahad Razak

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fahad Razak

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fahad Razak

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fahad Razak. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fahad Razak based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fahad Razak. Fahad Razak is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sarma, Shohinee, Michael Colacci, Amol A. Verma, et al.. (2024). Association of sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors with risk of diabetic ketoacidosis among hospitalized patients: A multicentre cohort study. Journal of Diabetes and its Complications. 38(9). 108827–108827. 4 indexed citations
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Imrit, Mohammad Arshad, Christine Soong, Barbara Liu, et al.. (2024). Using newly linked hospital and population data to identify opportunities to reduce harms from sedative-hypnotic prescribing at population scale. International Journal for Population Data Science. 9(5).
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Colacci, Michael, Amol A. Verma, Fahad Razak, et al.. (2024). Validation of the Diagnostic Accuracy Levels of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision Codes for Diabetic Ketoacidosis: A Multicentre, Cross-sectional Study of Adults. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 48(4). 227–232. 4 indexed citations
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Bai, Anthony D., Siddhartha Srivastava, Geneviève C. Digby, et al.. (2024). Anaerobic Antibiotic Coverage in Aspiration Pneumonia and the Associated Benefits and Harms. CHEST Journal. 166(1). 39–48. 13 indexed citations
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Weinerman, Adina, Yishan Guo, Paul S. F. Yip, et al.. (2023). Data-driven approach to identifying potential laboratory overuse in general internal medicine (GIM) inpatients. BMJ Open Quality. 12(3). e002261–e002261.
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Colacci, Michael, et al.. (2023). An Update to the Kaiser Permanente Inpatient Risk Adjustment Methodology Accurately Predicts In-Hospital Mortality: a Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(15). 3303–3312. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, et al.. (2022). Boosting Delirium Identification Accuracy With Sentiment-Based Natural Language Processing: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Medical Informatics. 10(12). e38161–e38161. 16 indexed citations
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Zannella, Vanessa E., Michael Fralick, Lauren Lapointe‐Shaw, et al.. (2022). Bedspacing and clinical outcomes in general internal medicine: A retrospective, multicenter cohort study. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 17(1). 3–10. 2 indexed citations
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Khan, Rishad, Nikko Gimpaya, Rishi Bansal, et al.. (2022). Outcomes for upper gastrointestinal bleeding during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the Toronto area. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 37(5). 878–882. 7 indexed citations
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Verma, Amol A. & Fahad Razak. (2021). Lessons for hospital care from the first wave of COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada. Hospital Practice. 49(4). 229–231. 5 indexed citations
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Verma, Amol A., Yishan Guo, Andreas Laupacis, et al.. (2020). Physician-level variation in clinical outcomes and resource use in inpatient general internal medicine: an observational study. BMJ Quality & Safety. 30(2). 123–132. 9 indexed citations
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Verma, Amol A., Alexander Kumachev, Sonam Shah, et al.. (2020). Appropriateness of peripherally inserted central catheter use among general medical inpatients: an observational study using routinely collected data. BMJ Quality & Safety. 29(11). 905–911. 8 indexed citations
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Verma, Amol A., Vladyslav Kushnir, Denise Mak, et al.. (2020). Assessing the quality of clinical and administrative data extracted from hospitals: the General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI) experience. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(3). 578–587. 62 indexed citations
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Malecki, Sarah, Kieran L. Quinn, Fahad Razak, et al.. (2019). Understanding the Use and Perceived Impact of a Medical Podcast: Qualitative Study. JMIR Medical Education. 5(2). e12901–e12901. 60 indexed citations
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Souza, Russell J. de, Lise Gauvin, Natalie Williams, et al.. (2018). Environmental health assessment of communities across Canada: contextual factors study of the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds. Cities & Health. 2(2). 163–180. 7 indexed citations
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Verma, Amol A., Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Rudolf H. Tangermann, S. V. Subramanian, & Fahad Razak. (2018). Insecurity, polio vaccination rates, and polio incidence in northwest Pakistan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(7). 1593–1598. 25 indexed citations
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Souza, Russell J. de, Ramandeep Singh Arora, Lise Gauvin, et al.. (2018). Development of an on-line interactive map to display environmental health assessments of Canadian communities: knowledge-translation to support collaborations for health. Cities & Health. 2(2). 123–129. 4 indexed citations
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Anand, Sonia S., Fahad Razak, A. Darlene Davis, et al.. (2006). Social disadvantage and cardiovascular disease: development of an index and analysis of age, sex, and ethnicity effects. International Journal of Epidemiology. 35(5). 1239–1245. 75 indexed citations

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