Gail Williams

55.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
855 papers, 39.8k citations indexed

About

Gail Williams is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Gail Williams has authored 855 papers receiving a total of 39.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 199 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 163 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 124 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Gail Williams's work include Parasites and Host Interactions (89 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (58 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (58 papers). Gail Williams is often cited by papers focused on Parasites and Host Interactions (89 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (58 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (58 papers). Gail Williams collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Gail Williams's co-authors include Jake M. Najman, Michael O’Callaghan, William Bor, Abdullah Al Mamun, Adèle C. Green, Donald P. McManus, Rosa Alati, Damian Hoy, Fiona Blyth and Christopher Bain and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gail Williams

842 papers receiving 38.0k 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 global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

2014 2.3k citations Gail Williams et al. profile →
A systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain

2012 2.2k citations Gail Williams et al. profile →
Estimating the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the community: the comparative prevalence of symptoms at different anatomical sites, and the relation to social deprivation

1998 862 citations Gail Williams et al. profile →
Daily sunscreen application and betacarotene supplementation in prevention of basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas of the skin: a randomised controlled trial

1999 667 citations Adèle C. Green, Gail Williams et al. profile →
Schistosomiasis

2002 632 citations Gail Williams, Donald P. McManus et al. profile →
Reduced Melanoma After Regular Sunscreen Use: Randomized Trial Follow-Up

2010 532 citations Adèle C. Green, Gail Williams et al. Journal of Clinical Oncology profile →
Advances in the meta-analysis of heterogeneous clinical trials I: The inverse variance heterogeneity model

2015 393 citations Suhail A.R. Doi, Gail Williams et al. profile →

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gail Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gail Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gail Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gail Williams 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 Gail Williams. Gail Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Does mental illness in adolescence/young adulthood predict intimate partner violence? 2024 ·Journal of Psychiatric Research ·Jake M. Najman, Gail Williams, Alexandra Clavarino, James G. Scott, Tara Renae McGee	2
2	Greenspace exposure and associated health outcomes: a systematic review of reviews 2024 ·F1000Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicholas J. Osborne, Gail Williams, Darsy Darssan	1
3	The control of soil-transmitted helminthiases in the Philippines: the story continues 2021 ·Infectious Diseases of Poverty ·Mary Lorraine Mationg, Veronica Tallo, Gail Williams, Catherine A. Gordon, Archie C. A. Clements, Donald P. McManus, Darren J. Gray	14
4	<p>TB and HIV Epidemiology and Collaborative Service: Evidence from Ethiopia, 2011–2015</p> 2020 ·HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care ·Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw, Yibeltal Assefa, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, (unknown), (unknown), Pandji Wibawa Dhewantara, Gail Williams	7
5	The Effect of Tai Chi on Quality of Life in Centrally Obese Adults with Depression 2019 ·The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine ·Xin Liu, Gail Williams, Karam Kostner, Wendy J. Brown	12
6	HIV Prevalence Among Tuberculosis Patients in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 2019 ·AIDS and Behavior ·Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw, Gail Williams, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães, Charles F. Gilks, Yibeltal Assefa	30
7	Sociodemographic profiling of tuberculosis hotspots in Ethiopia, 2014–2017 2019 ·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·Yalemzewod Assefa Gelaw, Gail Williams, Yibeltal Assefa, (unknown), Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães	14
8	The Knowledge and Practice of Doctors in Relation to the Law That Governs Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment from Adults Who Lack Capacity. 2018 ·PubMed ·Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Colleen Cartwright, Malcolm Parker, Gail Williams	7
9	Is There a Role for Law in Medical Practice When Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment? Empirical Findings on Attitudes of Doctors. 2018 ·PubMed ·Lindy Willmott, Ben White, Malcolm Parker, Colleen Cartwright, Gail Williams	14
10	The weekly associations between climatic factors and Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria in China, 2005–2014 2017 ·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·(unknown), Gail Williams, Shanshan Li, Jinpeng Guo, Wenyi Zhang, Yuming Guo	11
11	Australian doctors’ knowledge of and compliance with the law relating to end-of-life decisions: implications for LGBTI patients 2017 ·Culture Health & Sexuality ·Colleen Cartwright, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Malcolm Parker, Gail Williams	11
12	Stories at Work: Writing to Learn, Care, and Collaborate in Radiation Therapy 2014 ·Sarah Whyte, (unknown), (unknown), Gail Williams, (unknown)	1
13	Type 2 diabetes mellitus, glycemic control, and cancer risk 2013 ·European Journal of Cancer Prevention ·Adedayo A. Onitilo, Rachel V. Stankowski, (unknown), Jessica M. Engel, Ingrid Glurich, Gail Williams, Suhail A.R. Doi	59
14	Ask: a health advocacy program for adolescents with an intellectual disability: a cluster randomised controlled trial 2012 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Nicholas Lennox, Robert S. Ware, Suzanne Carrington, Michael O’Callaghan, Gail Williams, Lyn McPherson, Chris Bain	32
15	Spatiotemporal analysis of indigenous and imported dengue fever cases in Guangdong province, China 2012 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Zhongjie Li, Yin Wenwu, Archie C. A. Clements, Gail Williams, Shengjie Lai, Hang Zhou, Dan Zhao, Yansha Guo, Yonghui Zhang, Jinfeng Wang, Wenbiao Hu, Weizhong Yang	63
16	Reduced Melanoma After Regular Sunscreen Use: Randomized Trial Follow-Up breakdown → 2010 ·Journal of Clinical Oncology ·Adèle C. Green, Gail Williams, Valerie Logan, Geoffrey Strutton	532
17	Nursing students' experiences of care 2009 ·Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) ·Julie McGarry, Aimée Aubeeluck, (unknown), Gail Williams	0
18	Food and nutrient consumption patterns in third trimester Thai-Muslim pregnant women in rural southern Thailand. 2004 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Geoffrey C. Marks, Gail Williams, (unknown)	21
19	Naturally Occurring Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) in Dogs 1977 ·Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association ·Gail Williams, L. Garry Adams, Robert G. Yaeger, (unknown), W. K. Read, (unknown)	58
20	A Comparison of All-Meat, Semimoist, and Dry-Type Dog Foods as Diets for Growing Beagles 1970 ·Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association ·(unknown), Gail Williams, Paul M. Newberne, Robert B. Wilson	7

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