Iain Buchan

25.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
319 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Iain Buchan is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain Buchan has authored 319 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in General Health Professions, 49 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 44 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Iain Buchan's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (23 papers), Electronic Health Records Systems (20 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Iain Buchan is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (23 papers), Electronic Health Records Systems (20 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Iain Buchan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Iain Buchan's co-authors include Evangelos Kontopantelis, Chris Bishop, John Winn, Eric L. Matteson, Michael Sweeting, Tim Bongartz, Alex J. Sutton, Víctor M. Montori, Matthew Sperrin and Mamas A. Mamas and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Iain Buchan

302 papers receiving 15.5k 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.

Anti-TNF Antibody Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Risk of Serious Infections and Malignancies

2006 1.9k citations Iain Buchan et al. profile →
The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

2009 959 citations Iain Buchan et al. profile →
Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa and North America

2006 704 citations Iain Buchan et al. profile →
Regression based quasi-experimental approach when randomisation is not an option: interrupted time series analysis

2015 654 citations Evangelos Kontopantelis, Iain Buchan et al. profile →
Adherence to HAART: A Systematic Review of Developed and Developing Nation Patient-Reported Barriers and Facilitators

2006 624 citations Iain Buchan et al. profile →
Long-term Glycemic Variability and Risk of Adverse Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2015 403 citations Iain Buchan, Evangelos Kontopantelis et al. profile →
Causal inference and counterfactual prediction in machine learning for actionable healthcare

2020 219 citations Mattia Prosperi, Matthew Sperrin et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Single‐Multiple and Recurrent Pregnancy‐Related Complications and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: A Nationwide Data Linkage Study in Wales, UK 2026 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·(unknown), (unknown), Dennis H. Lau, (unknown), Iain Buchan, (unknown), Hoda Abbasizanjani, (unknown), Fatemeh Torabi, (unknown), Dharani K. Hapangama, G Y H Lip	0
2	Inequalities in local government expenditure on environmental and regulatory services in England from 2009 to 2020: a longitudinal ecological study 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Katie Fahy, Helen E. Clough, Roger Gibb, (unknown), Marie Anne Chattaway, Mark Green, Iain Buchan, Ben Barr, Daniel Hungerford	1
3	Creating a learning health system to include environmental determinants of health: The GroundsWell experience 2024 ·Learning Health Systems ·Sarah Rodgers, Rebecca Geary, (unknown), Iain Buchan, (unknown), Tom Clemens, (unknown), (unknown), Mark Green, (unknown), (unknown), O. W. Butters	1
4	Antipsychotic management in general practice: serial cross-sectional study (2011–2020) 2024 ·British Journal of General Practice ·Alan Woodall, Alexandra Gampel, Lauren Walker, Frances S Mair, Sally Sheard, (unknown), Iain Buchan	1
5	Combinations of medicines in patients with polypharmacy aged 65–100 in primary care: Large variability in risks of adverse drug related and emergency hospital admissions 2023 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), David Wong, Lauren Walker, Iain Buchan, Munir Pirmohamed, Anita Sharma, (unknown), Darren M. Ashcroft, Tjeerd van Staa	9
6	A Systematic Review of the Prevalence of Persistent Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Incidence of New Gastrointestinal Illness after Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection 2023 ·Viruses ·(unknown), (unknown), Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Liam Brierley, Alex J. Elliot, Iain Buchan, Daniel Hungerford	7
7	Mental Illness Concordance Between Hospital Clinical Records and Mentions in Domestic Violence Police Narratives: Data Linkage Study 2022 ·JMIR Formative Research ·George Karystianis, (unknown), Armita Adily, (unknown), Peter R. Schofield, Iain Buchan, Goran Nenadić, Tony Butler	0
8	Systematic review and narrative synthesis of computerized audit and feedback systems in healthcare 2022 ·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·(unknown), Niels Peek, Iain Buchan, Sabine N van der Veer, Benjamin Brown	11
9	Open Life Data to support healthy longevity for all 2021 ·The Lancet Healthy Longevity ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Iain Buchan, (unknown)	1
10	Report on the online session on visions, requirements and needs for Future Research Environments in the Healthcare domain 2020 ·Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Iain Buchan, (unknown), (unknown), Peter J. Ratcliffe, Andreas Rauber	0
11	Age-, sex- and ethnicity-related differences in body weight, blood pressure, HbA1c and lipid levels at the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes relative to people without diabetes 2020 ·Diabetologia ·Alison K. Wright, Paul Welsh, Jason M. R. Gill, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Richard Emsley, Iain Buchan, Darren M. Ashcroft, Martin K. Rutter, Naveed Sattar	77
12	A Two-stage Dynamic Model to Enable Updating of Clinical Risk Prediction from Longitudinal Health Record Data: Illustrated with Kidney Function. 2015 ·PubMed ·Artur Akbarov, Richard Williams, Benjamin Brown, Mamas A. Mamas, Niels Peek, Iain Buchan, Matthew Sperrin	3
13	Breast Cancer Risk in Young Women in the National Breast Screening Programme: Implications for Applying NICE Guidelines for Additional Screening and Chemoprevention 2014 ·Cancer Prevention Research ·D. Gareth Evans, Adam R. Brentnall, Michelle Harvie, Sarah Dawe, Jamie C. Sergeant, Paula Stavrinos, Susan Astley, Mary Wilson, John Ainsworth, Jack Cuzick, Iain Buchan, Louise S. Donnelly, Anthony Howell	32
14	Using String Metrics to Identify Patient Journeys through Care Pathways. 2014 ·PubMed ·Richard Williams, Iain Buchan, Mattia Prosperi, John Ainsworth	5
15	Verbal protocols for assessing the usability of clinical decision support: the retrospective sense making protocol. 2013 ·PubMed ·(unknown), John Ainsworth, Richard Williams, (unknown), (unknown), James A. McGrath, Artur Akbarov, (unknown), (unknown), Iain Buchan	3
16	Assessing Individual Breast Cancer Risk within the U.K. National Health Service Breast Screening Program: A New Paradigm for Cancer Prevention 2012 ·Cancer Prevention Research ·D. Gareth Evans, Jane Warwick, Susan Astley, Paula Stavrinos, (unknown), Sarah Ingham, Helen McBurney, (unknown), Michelle Harvie, Mary Wilson, Ursula Beetles, Ruth Warren, Alan Hufton, Jamie C. Sergeant, William G. Newman, Iain Buchan, Jack Cuzick, Anthony Howell	93
17	IMPACT: A generalisable system for simulating public health interventions. 2010 ·PubMed ·Iain Buchan, John Ainsworth, (unknown), Philip Couch, Martín O’Flaherty, (unknown), Richard Williams, Simon Capewell	5
18	Design and implementation of security in a data collection system for epidemiology. 2006 ·PubMed ·John Ainsworth, Robert A. Harper, (unknown), Iain Buchan	2
19	Right information, right patient, right time: intelligent content searching supporting point-of-care applications. 2000 ·PubMed ·Andrew S. Kanter, (unknown), Iain Buchan	3
20	Total purchasing. Tracking down care. 1997 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Iain Buchan	2

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