Heather Gardner

605 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 410 citations indexed

About

Heather Gardner is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, General Health Professions and Emergency Medical Services. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Gardner has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 410 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Emergency Medicine, 4 papers in General Health Professions and 4 papers in Emergency Medical Services. Recurrent topics in Heather Gardner's work include Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (3 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (2 papers). Heather Gardner is often cited by papers focused on Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (3 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (2 papers). Heather Gardner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Ethiopia. Heather Gardner's co-authors include Gabor D. Kelen, Jeremiah S. Hinson, Scott Levin, Eric Hamrock, Sean Barnes, Matthew Toerper, Andrea Dugas, Thomas D. Kirsch, Gai Cole and Matthew J. Levy and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Emergency Medicine, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth and The Annals of Family Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Heather Gardner

13 papers receiving 389 citations

Hit 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.

Machine-Learning-Based Electronic Triage More Accurately Differentiates Patients With Respect to Clinical Outcomes Compared With the Emergency Severity Index

2017 264 citations Scott Levin, Matthew Toerper et al. Annals of Emergency Medicine profile →

Peers

Heather Gardner

EM

EPIDE

AI

GHP

RNMI

J.C. Rojas United States

Stephanie Cabral United States

Frank Stearns United States

Jonathan Austrian United States

Stephanie Kennebeck United States

Min‐Jeoung Kang United States

Shaun T Alfreds United States

Brent R. King United States

James McNicholas United Kingdom

Devore S Culver United States

J.C. Rojas United States

Heather Gardner

98 ×0.5

EM

83 ×0.8

EPIDE

82 ×1.0

AI

49 ×0.7

GHP

29 ×0.6

RNMI

Citations per year, relative to Heather Gardner Heather Gardner (= 1×) peers J.C. Rojas

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Gardner

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Heather Gardner's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Heather Gardner with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Heather Gardner more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Gardner

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heather Gardner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heather Gardner. The network helps show where Heather Gardner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Gardner

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

14 of 14 papers shown

1.

Draelos, Rachel Lea, et al.. (2026). Large language models provide unsafe answers to patient-posed medical questions. npj Digital Medicine. 9(1).

2.

Fenstermacher, Katherine, Eili Klein, JAMES G. MUMFORD, et al.. (2023). 394 Pre- and Post-implementation Comparison of the Impact of Emergency Department-Based COVID-19 Point-of-Care Testing on Emergency Department Patient Metrics. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 82(4). S172–S172. 1 indexed citations

3.

Story, William T., Yared Amare, Lara M. E. Vaz, et al.. (2021). Changes in attitudes and behaviors supportive of maternal and newborn health in Ethiopia: an evaluative case study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 21(1). 407–407. 2 indexed citations

4.

Whalen, Madeleine, et al.. (2021). Audit and Feedback: An Evidence‐Based Practice Literature Review of Nursing Report Cards. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 18(3). 170–179. 9 indexed citations

5.

Gardner, Heather, et al.. (2020). A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Delayed Sternal Closure After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. Pediatric Cardiology. 41(7). 1402–1407. 3 indexed citations

6.

Whalen, Madeleine, et al.. (2020). Quality Improvement in the Emergency Department: A Project to Reduce Door-to-Electrocardiography Times for Patients Presenting With Chest Pain. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 46(4). 497–504.e2. 7 indexed citations

7.

Bekele, Abeba, et al.. (2019). Do Caretakers of Sick Young Infants with Possible Serious Bacterial Infection Adhere to Referrals from Health Posts to Health Centers. 4 indexed citations

8.

Whalen, Madeleine, et al.. (2018). Outcomes of an Innovative Evidence-Based Practice Project: Building a Difficult-Access Team in the Emergency Department. Journal of Emergency Nursing. 44(5). 478–482. 7 indexed citations

9.

Oka, Megan, et al.. (2018). Lived experience of young widowed individuals: A qualitative study. Death Studies. 43(3). 183–192. 21 indexed citations

10.

Levin, Scott, Matthew Toerper, Jeremiah S. Hinson, et al.. (2018). 294 Machine-Learning-Based Electronic Triage: A Prospective Evaluation. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 72(4). S116–S116. 7 indexed citations

11.

Levin, Scott, Matthew Toerper, Eric Hamrock, et al.. (2017). Machine-Learning-Based Electronic Triage More Accurately Differentiates Patients With Respect to Clinical Outcomes Compared With the Emergency Severity Index. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 71(5). 565–574.e2. 264 indexed citations breakdown →

12.

Thom, David H., Jeffrey L. Wolf, Heather Gardner, et al.. (2016). A Qualitative Study of How Health Coaches Support Patients in Making Health-Related Decisions and Behavioral Changes. The Annals of Family Medicine. 14(6). 509–516. 34 indexed citations

13.

Cole, Gai, et al.. (2015). The impact of interruptions on the duration of nursing interventions: a direct observation study in an academic emergency department. BMJ Quality & Safety. 25(6). 457–465. 31 indexed citations

14.

Hill, Peter M., Darren P. Mareiniss, Heather Gardner, et al.. (2010). Significant Reduction of Laboratory Specimen Labeling Errors by Implementation of an Electronic Ordering System Paired With a Bar-Code Specimen Labeling Process. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 56(6). 630–636. 20 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact