Gillian Mead

21.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
203 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Gillian Mead is a scholar working on Rehabilitation, Epidemiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Mead has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Rehabilitation, 88 papers in Epidemiology and 43 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Gillian Mead's work include Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (133 papers), Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (82 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (24 papers). Gillian Mead is often cited by papers focused on Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (133 papers), Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (82 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (24 papers). Gillian Mead collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and China. Gillian Mead's co-authors include Carolyn Greig, David H. Saunders, Frederike van Wijck, Marion E. T. McMurdo, Martin Dennis, Debbie A. Lawlor, Mansur A. Kutlubaev, Maree L. Hackett, Simiao Wu and Fiona Duncan and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Mead

193 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations for Stroke Survivors

2014 1.0k citations Sandra A. Billinger, Julie Bernhardt et al. Stroke profile →
Exercise for depression

2014 703 citations Gillian Mead et al. profile →
Interventions for improving upper limb function after stroke

2014 613 citations Alex Pollock, Sybil Farmer et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →
Physical fitness training for stroke patients

2016 392 citations David H. Saunders, Gillian Mead et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →
A systematic review and synthesis of global stroke guidelines on behalf of the World Stroke Organization

2023 94 citations Gillian Mead, Simiao Wu et al. International Journal of Stroke profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Gillian Mead

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gillian Mead

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Resistance training for people with stroke 2025 ·Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ·David H. Saunders, Graham Baker, Joshua Cheyne, Kay Cooper, Natalie A. Fini, Alixe Kilgour, Paul Swinton, Gavin Williams, Gillian Mead	0
2	A systematic review of current national hospital-based stroke registries monitoring access to evidence-based care and patient outcomes 2025 ·European Stroke Journal ·(unknown), J. M. Gill, (unknown), (unknown), Dominique A. Cadilhac, Joosup Kim, Natasha A. Lannin, Martin Dennis, Moira K. Kapral, Jeyaraj Pandian, (unknown), Beilei Lin, Atte Meretoja, Noor Azah Abd Aziz, Lee H. Schwamm, Bo Norrving, Lekhjung Thapa, Marshall Dozier, Shyam Kelavkar, Gillian Mead	0
3	Multiple Long‐Term Conditions, Co‐Long‐Term Conditions and Polyvascular Disease: Considerations for Evidence Synthesis and Meta‐Analyses 2025 ·PubMed ·Gillian Mead, Alex Todhunter‐Brown, Ukachukwu Okoroafor Abaraogu, Amanda Barugh, (unknown), Juan Erviti, Valery L. Feigin, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Atsushi Mizuno, Sanghamitra Pati, Jackie F. Price, Rui Providência, Gerard Stansby, Rod S Taylor, David Williams, James M Wright, Simiao Wu, Leon Flicker	1
4	Combined cardiorespiratory and resistance training for people with stroke 2025 ·Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ·David H. Saunders, (unknown), Joshua Cheyne, (unknown), Jacqui Morris, Sarah Morton, (unknown), Gillian Mead	0
5	Non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of post-stroke fatigue: A systematic review 2023 ·International Journal of Stroke ·(unknown), (unknown), Xu Zhao, (unknown), Nynke Halbesma, Gillian Mead	5
6	Systematic review: Pharmacological interventions for the treatment of post-stroke fatigue 2023 ·International Journal of Stroke ·(unknown), Xu Zhao, (unknown), Joshua Cheyne, Simiao Wu, Eileen Cowey, Mansur A. Kutlubaev, Gillian Mead	8
7	RECREATE: a study protocol for a multicentre pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) in UK stroke services evaluating an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in stroke survivors (Get Set Go) with embedded process and economic evaluations 2023 ·BMJ Open ·(unknown), Louisa-Jane Burton, Bethan Copsey, Coralie English, Amanda Farrin, Claire Fitzsimons, Ivana Holloway, Judith Horrocks, (unknown), Gillian Mead, (unknown), Seline Ozer, Anita Patel, (unknown), Anne Förster	0
8	Association of post-stroke fatigue with physical activity and physical fitness: A systematic review and meta-analysis 2023 ·International Journal of Stroke ·(unknown), Julia Bidonde, (unknown), Caryl Gay, Anners Lerdal, Marie Ursin, Gillian Mead, Elisabeth Edvardsen	17
9	Repeated Measures of Modified Rankin Scale Scores to Assess Functional Recovery From Stroke: AFFINITY Study Findings 2022 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·(unknown), Maree L. Hackett, Graeme J. Hankey, Erik Lundström, Osvaldo P. Almeida, John Gommans, Martin Dennis, Stephen Jan, Gillian Mead, Andrew H. Ford, Christopher Etherton‐Beer, Leon Flicker, Candice Delcourt, Laurent Billot, Craig S. Anderson, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, Qilong Yi, Séverine Bompoint, Thang Huy Nguyen, Thomas Lung	14
10	A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-workplace interventions to reduce time spent sedentary in adults 2021 ·medRxiv ·(unknown), (unknown), Thomas F Crocker, Natalie Lam, Louisa-Jane Burton, Karen M. Birch, (unknown), David Clarke, Coralie English, Amanda Farrin, Claire Fitzsimons, Jennifer Hall, Ivana Holloway, Seline Ozer, Rebecca Lawton, Gillian Mead, (unknown), Anita Patel, Anne Förster	1
11	Interventions for Reducing Sedentary Behavior in People With Stroke 2021 ·Stroke ·David H. Saunders, Gillian Mead, Claire Fitzsimons, Paul Kelly, Frederike van Wijck, Olaf Verschuren, Karianne Backx, Coralie English	1
12	Stroke survivors’ perceptions of their sedentary behaviours three months after stroke 2020 ·Disability and Rehabilitation ·Claire Fitzsimons, Sarah Nicholson, Jacqui Morris, Gillian Mead, Sébastien Chastin, Ailsa Niven	18
13	Efficacy of fluoxetine - a randomized controlled trial in stroke (effects) 2020 ·International Journal of Stroke ·Erik Lundström, Eva Isaksson, Per Näsman, P O Wester, Björn Mårtensson, Bo Norrving, (unknown), Jörgen Borg, Martin Dennis, Gillian Mead, Graeme J. Hankey, Maree L. Hackett, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen	2
14	A protocol for a systematic review of process evaluations of interventions investigating sedentary behaviour in adults 2019 ·BMJ Open ·(unknown), (unknown), Coralie English, Amanda Farrin, Claire Fitzsimons, Anne Förster, Rebecca Lawton, Gillian Mead, David Clarke	4
15	Improving life after stroke needs global efforts to implement evidence-based physical activity pathways 2019 ·International Journal of Stroke ·Frederike van Wijck, Julie Bernhardt, Sandra A. Billinger, Marie‐Louise Bird, Janice J. Eng, Coralie English, Luci Fuscaldi Teixeira‐Salmela, Marilyn MacKay-Lyons, (unknown), Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, John M. Solomon, Shamala Thilarajah, Gillian Mead	12
16	Physical fitness interventions for nonambulatory stroke survivors: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis 2018 ·Brain and Behavior ·(unknown), Dawn A. Skelton, Gillian Mead, Brian Williams, Frederike van Wijck	28
17	Investigating post-stroke fatigue: An individual participant data meta-analysis 2018 ·Journal of Psychosomatic Research ·Toby Cumming, (unknown), Jodie Marquez, Leonid Churilov, Jean-Marie Annoni, (unknown), Nastaran Ghotbi, Joseph Harbison, Gert Kwakkel, Anners Lerdal, Roger Mills, Halvor Næss, Harald Nyland, Arlene A. Schmid, Wai Kwong Tang, B. Tseng, Ingrid van de Port, Gillian Mead, Coralie English	40
18	The home as enabler of more active lifestyles among older people 2015 ·Building Research & Information ·Katherine Brookfield, Claire Fitzsimons, Iain Scott, Gillian Mead, John M. Starr, Neil Thin, Anthea Tinker, Catharine Ward Thompson	27
19	Interventions for improving upper limb function after stroke breakdown → 2014 ·Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ·Alex Pollock, Sybil Farmer, Marian Brady, Peter Langhorne, Gillian Mead, Jan Mehrholz, Frederike van Wijck	613
20	Potential disease-modifying effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in multiple sclerosis: systematic review and meta-analysis 2014 ·Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ·Peter Foley, Abigail Lawler, Siddharthan Chandran, Gillian Mead	13

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