Gillian Smith

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Gillian Smith is a scholar working on Epidemiology, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Smith has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Epidemiology, 30 papers in General Health Professions and 24 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Gillian Smith's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (44 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (42 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (27 papers). Gillian Smith is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (44 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (42 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (27 papers). Gillian Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Gillian Smith's co-authors include Alex J. Elliot, Roger Morbey, P. E. J. Flewitt, Helen E. Hughes, Sue Smith, A. G. Crocker, Richard Pebody, Sally Harcourt, Andrew Whiting and Richard L. Giles and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Smith

172 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured by laboratory, clinical, and syndromic surveillance: a retrospective observational study

2022 152 citations Roger Morbey, Helen E. Hughes et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gillian Smith United Kingdom	33	1.6k	572	453	414	398	178	3.7k
Matthew Clarke United States	30	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 3.0×	419 0.9×	315 0.8×	114 0.3×	63	4.8k
Saber Yezli Saudi Arabia	29	614 0.4×	1.7k 3.0×	399 0.9×	943 2.3×	115 0.3×	94	4.1k
Gary Garber Canada	41	2.7k 1.7×	2.1k 3.7×	165 0.4×	618 1.5×	841 2.1×	205	6.7k
Julie V. Robotham United Kingdom	32	897 0.6×	763 1.3×	189 0.4×	233 0.6×	614 1.5×	96	3.5k
Walter Zingg Switzerland	39	876 0.6×	1.4k 2.4×	104 0.2×	456 1.1×	646 1.6×	245	7.5k
Alex J. Elliot United Kingdom	33	2.2k 1.4×	846 1.5×	479 1.1×	424 1.0×	325 0.8×	151	3.8k
Stephanie J. Dancer United Kingdom	41	718 0.5×	3.6k 6.4×	419 0.9×	499 1.2×	329 0.8×	132	7.1k
Tim Eckmanns Germany	39	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 3.2×	238 0.5×	627 1.5×	444 1.1×	196	5.4k
Günter Kampf Germany	41	852 0.5×	5.0k 8.8×	435 1.0×	867 2.1×	245 0.6×	156	9.8k
Lisa L. Maragakis United States	38	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 3.0×	67 0.1×	427 1.0×	379 1.0×	113	7.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Gillian Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gillian Smith

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Elliot, Alex J., Helen E. Hughes, Sally Harcourt, et al.. (2024). From Fax to Secure File Transfer Protocol: The 25-Year Evolution of Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance in England. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e58704–e58704. 1 indexed citations

Benson, Philip, et al.. (2023). Extraction vs nonextraction of premolars for orthodontic treatment: A scoping review examining the extent, range, and characteristics of the literature. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 164(3). 368–376. 6 indexed citations

Love, Nicola, Amy Douglas, Saheer E. Gharbia, et al.. (2023). Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on GI infection surveillance trends in England, January 2020–April 2022. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e147–e147. 9 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, Gillian Smith, Karen Exley, et al.. (2022). Estimating the Impact of Air Pollution on Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour by Applying a Difference-in-Differences Method to Syndromic Surveillance Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(12). 7097–7097. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Gillian, Sally Harcourt, Uy Hoang, et al.. (2022). Mental Health Presentations Across Health Care Settings During the First 9 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in England: Retrospective Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 8(8). e32347–e32347. 3 indexed citations

Sinnathamby, Mary, Fiona Warburton, Nick Andrews, et al.. (2021). Uptake and impact of vaccinating primary school children against influenza: Experiences in the fourth season of the live attenuated influenza vaccination programme, England, 2016/2017. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 16(1). 113–124. 6 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, Alex J. Elliot, Gillian Smith, & André Charlett. (2020). Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Baselines After Public Health Interventions. Public Health Reports. 135(6). 737–745.

Colón‐González, Felipe J., Roger Morbey, Paul Hunter, et al.. (2020). Demographic and socioeconomic patterns in healthcare-seeking behaviour for respiratory symptoms in England: a comparison with non-respiratory symptoms and between three healthcare services. BMJ Open. 10(11). e038356–e038356. 10 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, André Charlett, Iain Lake, et al.. (2020). Can syndromic surveillance help forecast winter hospital bed pressures in England?. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0228804–e0228804. 6 indexed citations

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Bundle, Nick, Neville Q. Verlander, Roger Morbey, et al.. (2019). Monitoring epidemiological trends in back to school asthma among preschool and school-aged children using real-time syndromic surveillance in England, 2012–2016. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 73(9). 825–831. 6 indexed citations

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Morbey, Roger, Helen E. Hughes, Gillian Smith, et al.. (2019). Potential added value of the new emergency care dataset to ED-based public health surveillance in England: an initial concept analysis. Emergency Medicine Journal. 36(8). 459–464. 4 indexed citations

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McIntyre, K. Marie, F. J. Bolton, Robert Christley, et al.. (2019). A Fully Integrated Real-Time Detection, Diagnosis, and Control of Community Diarrheal Disease Clusters and Outbreaks (the INTEGRATE Project): Protocol for an Enhanced Surveillance System. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(9). e13941–e13941. 4 indexed citations

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Lusignan, Simon de, Christopher McGee, Rebecca Webb, et al.. (2018). Conurbation, Urban, and Rural Living as Determinants of Allergies and Infectious Diseases: Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre Annual Report 2016-2017. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 4(4). e11354–e11354. 14 indexed citations

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Adams, Natalie, Tanith C. Rose, Alex J. Elliot, et al.. (2018). Social patterning of telephone health-advice for diarrhoea and vomiting: analysis of 24 million telehealth calls in England. Journal of Infection. 78(2). 95–100. 4 indexed citations

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Lusignan, Simon de, Ana Correa, Richard Pebody, et al.. (2018). Incidence of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Atopic Conditions in Boys and Young Male Adults: Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre Annual Report 2015-2016. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 4(2). e49–e49. 12 indexed citations

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Lusignan, Simon de, Ivelina Yonova, Jeremy van Vlymen, et al.. (2017). An Ontology to Improve Transparency in Case Definition and Increase Case Finding of Infectious Intestinal Disease: Database Study in English General Practice. JMIR Medical Informatics. 5(3). e34–e34. 8 indexed citations

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Harcourt, Sally, Roger Morbey, Chris Bates, et al.. (2017). Estimating primary care attendance rates for fever in infants after meningococcal B vaccination in England using national syndromic surveillance data. Vaccine. 36(4). 565–571. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Sue, Alex J. Elliot, Shakoor Hajat, et al.. (2016). The Impact of Heatwaves on Community Morbidity and Healthcare Usage: A Retrospective Observational Study Using Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13(1). 132–132. 22 indexed citations

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Smith, Gillian, et al.. (2005). The effect of deprivation, age and sex on NHS Direct call rates.. PubMed. 55(513). 287–91. 23 indexed citations

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Cooper, D.L., et al.. (2002). Use of NHS Direct calls for surveillance of influenza--a second year's experience.. PubMed. 5(2). 127–31. 31 indexed citations

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