Fiona Godlee

13.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
336 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Fiona Godlee is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Godlee has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in General Health Professions, 61 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 57 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Fiona Godlee's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (60 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Challenges (39 papers). Fiona Godlee is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (60 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers) and Healthcare Systems and Challenges (39 papers). Fiona Godlee collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Fiona Godlee's co-authors include Richard Smith, Nick Black, Stephen Evans, Susan van Rooyen, Tom Jefferson, Catharine R. Galé, Christopher Martyn, FM Giardiello, CD Mulrow and R. John Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Fiona Godlee

294 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Colorectal cancer screening: Clinical guidelines and rati... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 400 800 1.2k
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. Colorectal cancer screening: Clinical guidelines and rationale
    1997 1.2k citations Fiona Godlee et al. profile →

Peers

Fiona Godlee
Edward L. Korn United States
Justin E. Bekelman United States
Lisa M. Schwartz United States
Trish Groves United Kingdom
Sara Schroter United Kingdom
Armen Yuri Gasparyan United Kingdom
Su Golder United Kingdom
Esteve Fernández Spain
Alexandra Barratt Australia
Brett Hauber United States
Edward L. Korn United States
Fiona Godlee
Citations per year, relative to Fiona Godlee Fiona Godlee (= 1×) peers Edward L. Korn

Countries citing papers authored by Fiona Godlee

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Godlee

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Godlee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fiona Godlee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fiona Godlee 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 Fiona Godlee. Fiona Godlee 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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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health: Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster†. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 2 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Llamamiento a adoptar medidas urgentes para limitar los aumentos de temperatura en el mundo, restablecer la diversidad biológica y proteger la salud. Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria. 120(1). 1 indexed citations
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Talley, Nicholas J., Fiona Godlee, Lukoye Atwoli, et al.. (2021). Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health. PLoS Medicine. 18(9). e1003755–e1003755. 2 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health. International Journal of Integrated Care. 21(3). 123–144. 1 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health. Turkish Archives of Pediatrics. 56(6). 545–547. 1 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). \nCall for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health: Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster. PubMed Central. 1 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health. ALPHA PSYCHIATRY. 22(6). 330–332. 6 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). Llamamiento a adoptar medidas urgentes para limitar los aumentos de temperatura en el mundo, restablecer la diversidad biológica y proteger la salud. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública. 45. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Atwoli, Lukoye, Abdullah H Baqui, Thomas Benfield, et al.. (2021). \nCall for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 3 indexed citations
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Godlee, Fiona, et al.. (2020). The BMJ interview: Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, on covid-19. BMJ. 371. m4235–m4235. 2 indexed citations
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Alderson, Derek, Jeanette Dickson, Fiona Godlee, et al.. (2020). Covid-19: Call for a rapid forward looking review of the UK’s preparedness for a second wave—an open letter to the leaders of all UK political parties. BMJ. 369. m2514–m2514. 26 indexed citations
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Taichman, Darren B., Peush ‎Sahni, Anja Pinborg, et al.. (2017). Data sharing statements for clinical trials: a requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. The Lancet. 389(10086). e12–e14. 31 indexed citations
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Schroter, Sara, Julia Pakpoor, Julie Morris, Mabel Chew, & Fiona Godlee. (2016). Effect of different financial competing interest statements on readers' perceptions of clinical educational articles: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 6(6). e012677–e012677. 2 indexed citations
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Godlee, Fiona. (2007). Academic boycott of Israel: follow-up to the BMJ 's debate. BMJ. 335(7613). 234–235. 5 indexed citations
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Rooyen, Susan van, Nick Black, & Fiona Godlee. (1999). Development of the Review Quality Instrument (RQI) for Assessing Peer Reviews of Manuscripts. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 52(7). 625–629. 115 indexed citations
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Godlee, Fiona. (1997). Glass ceiling confirmed in biomedical research. BMJ. 314(7094). 1569.3–1569.3. 1 indexed citations
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Godlee, Fiona. (1995). The World Health Organisation: WHO's special programmes: undermining from above. BMJ. 310(6973). 178.2–182. 24 indexed citations
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Godlee, Fiona. (1994). Britain sets first standards for benzene levels. BMJ. 308(6926). 434.1–434.1. 3 indexed citations

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