Gillian Leng

11.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Gillian Leng is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Leng has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in General Health Professions, 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Gillian Leng's work include Clinical practice guidelines implementation (10 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (10 papers) and Peripheral Artery Disease Management (9 papers). Gillian Leng is often cited by papers focused on Clinical practice guidelines implementation (10 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (10 papers) and Peripheral Artery Disease Management (9 papers). Gillian Leng collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Czechia and United States. Gillian Leng's co-authors include Justyn M. Thomas, Paul Cosford, Lea C. Watson, Risha Lane, Amy E. Harwood, Jackie F. Price, Ruth Jepson, Brian Ellis, Heather Maxwell and Phyu P. Aung and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Heart.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Leng

45 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Exercise for intermittent claudication 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. Exercise for intermittent claudication
    2017 265 citations Gillian Leng et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gillian Leng United Kingdom 15 595 499 391 197 159 48 1.3k
Janelle Guirguis‐Blake United States 19 382 0.6× 526 1.1× 607 1.6× 255 1.3× 274 1.7× 70 1.9k
Amy W. Pollak United States 15 647 1.1× 209 0.4× 357 0.9× 169 0.9× 75 0.5× 24 1.3k
Paul Daly Canada 24 525 0.9× 284 0.6× 1.0k 2.7× 149 0.8× 83 0.5× 93 2.3k
Rolf J. Sebaldt Canada 24 326 0.5× 191 0.4× 334 0.9× 300 1.5× 195 1.2× 59 2.2k
Alexander C. Fanaroff United States 20 407 0.7× 214 0.4× 942 2.4× 114 0.6× 179 1.1× 104 1.8k
Joseph P. Drozda United States 20 317 0.5× 130 0.3× 885 2.3× 192 1.0× 156 1.0× 52 1.7k
Rossana De Palma Italy 23 486 0.8× 350 0.7× 778 2.0× 67 0.3× 93 0.6× 87 1.6k
Indranil Dasgupta United Kingdom 25 361 0.6× 195 0.4× 529 1.4× 73 0.4× 103 0.6× 93 1.6k
Lori D. Bash United States 22 486 0.8× 197 0.4× 911 2.3× 81 0.4× 87 0.5× 54 2.2k
A. W. Bakst United States 16 477 0.8× 414 0.8× 106 0.3× 128 0.6× 87 0.5× 42 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Gillian Leng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gillian Leng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gillian Leng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gillian Leng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gillian Leng 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 Gillian Leng. Gillian Leng 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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Traversy, Gregory, Lianne Barnieh, Elie A. Akl, et al.. (2021). Gestion des conflits d’intérêts durant l’élaboration de lignes directrices en santé. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 193(9). E324–E330. 2 indexed citations
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Traversy, Gregory, Lianne Barnieh, Elie A. Akl, et al.. (2021). Managing conflicts of interest in the development of health guidelines. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 193(2). E49–E54. 26 indexed citations
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Hove, Maria van, et al.. (2020). Trends in anticoagulant prescribing: a review of local policies in English primary care. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 279–279. 70 indexed citations
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Karpusheff, Justine, et al.. (2019). Involving People with Learning Disabilities in Guideline Development. Patient. 13(2). 251–254. 5 indexed citations
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Owen, Lesley, et al.. (2019). NICE UpdateNICE public health guidance update. Journal of Public Health. 42(4). 863–865. 1 indexed citations
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Atkins, Lou, et al.. (2017). Reversing the pipeline? Implementing public health evidence-based guidance in english local government. Implementation Science. 12(1). 63–63. 33 indexed citations
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Leng, Gillian, et al.. (2017). Achieving high-quality care: a view from NICE. Heart. 104(1). 10–15. 7 indexed citations
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Ellis, Simon, et al.. (2016). NICE Public Health Guidance Update. Journal of Public Health. 39(1). 213–214. 1 indexed citations
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Flodgren, Gerd, Amanda Häll, Lucy Goulding, et al.. (2016). Tools developed and disseminated by guideline producers to promote the uptake of their guidelines. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016(8). CD010669–CD010669. 126 indexed citations
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Rawlins, M. D., et al.. (2013). What’s happening at NICE?. Clinical Medicine. 13(1). 13–15. 7 indexed citations
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Campbell, B. A. & Gillian Leng. (2012). NICE news in the annals. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 94(7). 523–524.
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Leng, Gillian. (2011). NHS evidence supports you in your drive to deliver quality".. PubMed. 107(13). 7–7. 1 indexed citations
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Leng, Gillian. (2010). NHS Evidence helps you to provide cost effective care.. PubMed. 106(25). 23–23. 1 indexed citations
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Leng, Gillian. (2009). NHS Evidence: better and faster access to information. The Lancet. 373(9674). 1502–1504. 3 indexed citations
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Siddiqi, Kamran, Gillian Leng, & Kieran Walsh. (2009). NICE: its role in medical education. The Clinical Teacher. 6(2). 113–116. 1 indexed citations
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Leng, Gillian. (2009). Basing decisions on the evidence. Independent Nurse. 2009(10). 1 indexed citations
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Chidgey, Jayne, et al.. (2007). Implementing NICE guidance. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 100(10). 448–452. 49 indexed citations
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Price, Jackie F. & Gillian Leng. (2001). Steroid sex hormones for lower limb atherosclerosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD000188–CD000188. 11 indexed citations
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Jepson, Ruth, Jos Kleijnen, & Gillian Leng. (1997). Garlic for peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD000095–CD000095. 14 indexed citations
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Lizzi, Frederic L., Gillian Leng, F. Gerald R. Fowkes, & Peter T. Donnan. (1993). Reactive hyperemia test in a random sample of the general population. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 17(3). 479–486. 1 indexed citations

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