Iain Lang

10.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
158 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Iain Lang is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Plant Science and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain Lang has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in General Health Professions, 35 papers in Plant Science and 29 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Iain Lang's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (33 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (27 papers) and Genetics and Plant Breeding (18 papers). Iain Lang is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (33 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (27 papers) and Genetics and Plant Breeding (18 papers). Iain Lang collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hungary. Iain Lang's co-authors include David J. Llewellyn, David Melzer, Kenneth M. Langa, Ruth E. Hubbard, Jo Thompson Coon, Felicia A. Huppert, Kenneth Rockwood, Maya Soni, Robert B. Wallace and Morwenna Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Iain Lang

144 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Association of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration With Medical Disorders and Laboratory Abnormalities in Adults

2008 1.1k citations Iain Lang profile →
Is volunteering a public health intervention? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the health and survival of volunteers

2013 554 citations Jo Thompson Coon, Iain Lang et al. profile →
Vitamin D and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease

2014 391 citations Thomas J. Littlejohns, William Henley et al. profile →
What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review

2019 234 citations Iain Lang, Richard Byng et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Iain Lang United Kingdom	41	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	922	912	158	7.1k
David Melzer United Kingdom	62	1.7k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.8×	980 1.1×	217	11.5k
Howard Andrews United States	53	1.4k 1.0×	668 0.5×	1.4k 1.2×	382 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	223	10.3k
Ola Ekholm Denmark	47	816 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	983 0.8×	718 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	205	6.6k
Grethe S. Tell Norway	68	2.7k 2.0×	1.2k 0.9×	787 0.7×	481 0.5×	2.8k 3.1×	374	15.7k
Canqing Yu China	49	1.9k 1.4×	780 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	633 0.7×	2.2k 2.4×	498	10.9k
Akiko Tamakoshi Japan	72	3.0k 2.2×	1.4k 1.0×	830 0.7×	762 0.8×	4.0k 4.3×	593	19.8k
Jennifer Weuve United States	46	2.2k 1.6×	892 0.7×	3.3k 2.7×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	155	11.6k
Mireille N. M. van Poppel Netherlands	54	2.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	301 0.3×	3.0k 3.3×	204	10.1k
Ee Heok Kua Singapore	46	1.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	332 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	874 1.0×	264	7.1k
Avron Spiro United States	70	1.3k 0.9×	2.9k 2.2×	1.9k 1.6×	1.9k 2.0×	1.0k 1.1×	309	16.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Cooper, Claudia, Victoria Vickerstaff, Julie Barber, et al.. (2025). Cost-utility of a new psychosocial goal-setting and manualised support intervention for independence in dementia (NIDUS-Family) versus goal setting and routine care: an economic evaluation embedded within a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 6(2). 100676–100676. 2 indexed citations

Budgett, Jessica, Iain Lang, Penny Rapaport, et al.. (2024). Pre-implementation planning for a new personalised, dementia post-diagnostic support intervention: exploring the perspective of professional stakeholders. BJPsych Open. 10(5). e139–e139. 1 indexed citations

Lang, Iain, Angela G. King, Kate Boddy, et al.. (2024). Jargon and Readability in Plain Language Summaries of Health Research: Cross-Sectional Observational Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e50862–e50862. 1 indexed citations

Webster, Lucy, Sarah Amador, Penny Rapaport, et al.. (2023). Tailoring STrAtegies for RelaTives for Black and South Asian dementia family carers in the United Kingdom: A mixed methods study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 38(1). e5868–e5868. 14 indexed citations

Lang, Iain, et al.. (2023). The Impact of a Public Health Crisis on the Well-Being of UK Senior Care Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 338–349.

Lang, Iain, et al.. (2023). Older peoples' lived experiences of personalised care in care homes: A meta‐ethnography. International Journal of Older People Nursing. 19(1). e12585–e12585. 4 indexed citations

Kelly, Sarah, Andy Cowan, Gizdem Akdur, et al.. (2023). Outcome measures from international older adult care home intervention research: a scoping review. Age and Ageing. 52(5). 9 indexed citations

Duffy, Larisa, Kathryn Lord, Sara Banks, et al.. (2022). Feasibility and acceptability of NIDUS-Professional, a training and support intervention for homecare workers caring for clients living with dementia: a cluster-randomised feasibility trial protocol. BMJ Open. 12(12). e066166–e066166. 1 indexed citations

Ronquillo, Charlene, Jo Day, Krystal Warmoth, et al.. (2018). An Implementation Science Perspective on Deprescribing. Public Policy & Aging Report. 28(4). 134–139. 9 indexed citations

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Watkins, Ross, et al.. (2017). The experiences of physiotherapists treating people with dementia who fracture their hip. BMC Geriatrics. 17(1). 91–91. 41 indexed citations

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Day, Jo, et al.. (2017). A novel modelling and simulation capacity development initiative for the National Health Service. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning. 4(2). 97–98. 3 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain, et al.. (2017). Physiotherapy interventions for people with dementia and a hip fracture—a scoping review of the literature. Physiotherapy. 103(4). 361–368. 29 indexed citations

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Littlejohns, Thomas J., Katarina Kos, William Henley, et al.. (2015). Serum Leptin and Risk of Cognitive Decline in Elderly Italians. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 44(4). 1231–1239. 17 indexed citations

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Warmoth, Krystal, Mark Tarrant, Charles Abraham, & Iain Lang. (2015). Older adults’ perceptions of ageing and their health and functioning: a systematic review of observational studies. Psychology Health & Medicine. 21(5). 531–550. 62 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain. (2010). Review: Melissa Hardy & Alan Bryman (Eds.) (2004). Handbook of Data Analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Parahyba, Maria Isabel, Kara Stevens, William Henley, Iain Lang, & David Melzer. (2008). Reductions in Disability Prevalence Among the Highest Income Groups of Older Brazilians. American Journal of Public Health. 99(1). 81–86. 14 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain, David J. Llewellyn, Kenneth M. Langa, R. Bruce Wallace, & David Melzer. (2008). Neighbourhood deprivation and incident mobility disability in older adults. Age and Ageing. 37(4). 403–410. 58 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain, et al.. (2007). Smoking cessation and transition into retirement: analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Age and Ageing. 36(6). 638–643. 45 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain, Jack M. Guralnik, Robert B. Wallace, & David Melzer. (2006). What Level of Alcohol Consumption Is Hazardous for Older People? Functioning and Mortality in U.S. and English National Cohorts. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 55(1). 49–57. 90 indexed citations

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Lang, Iain. (1976). Jazz in perspective : the background of the blues. 1 indexed citations

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