Irene Petersen

23.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
281 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Irene Petersen is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene Petersen has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 55 papers in Epidemiology and 51 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Irene Petersen's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (21 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (19 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (19 papers). Irene Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (21 papers), Chronic Disease Management Strategies (19 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (19 papers). Irene Petersen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. Irene Petersen's co-authors include Irwin Nazareth, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Kate Walters, Eric I. Benchimol, Liam Smeeth, Sinéad Langan, Astrid Guttmann, Erik von Elm, David Moher and Katie Harron and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Irene Petersen

275 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.

The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement

2015 3.4k citations Eric I. Benchimol, Liam Smeeth et al. profile →
Missing data and multiple imputation in clinical epidemiological research

2017 608 citations Tra My Pham, Irene Petersen et al. Clinical Epidemiology profile →
Prediagnostic presentations of Parkinson's disease in primary care: a case-control study

2014 477 citations Kate Walters, Irene Petersen et al. profile →
Do men consult less than women? An analysis of routinely collected UK general practice data

2013 419 citations Irwin Nazareth, Irene Petersen et al. BMJ Open profile →
The reporting of studies conducted using observational routinely collected health data statement for pharmacoepidemiology (RECORD-PE)

2018 361 citations Sinéad Langan, Irene Petersen et al. BMJ profile →
Self controlled case series methods: an alternative to standard epidemiological study designs

2016 336 citations Irene Petersen, Ian Douglas et al. BMJ profile →
Autism in England: assessing underdiagnosis in a population-based cohort study of prospectively collected primary care data

2023 85 citations Elizabeth O’Nions, Irene Petersen et al. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irene Petersen

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Counting general practitioners: a comparative repeat cross-sectional analysis of GPs in NHS general practice in England 2025 ·British Journal of General Practice ·Luisa M Pettigrew, (unknown), (unknown), Josephine Exley, Luke Allen, Irene Petersen, David Cromwell, Nicholas Mays	2
2	Enhancing therapeutic antibody profiling: orthogonal strategies for stability and quality assessment 2025 ·Frontiers in Pharmacology ·Nicole G. Metzendorf, Irene Petersen, Greta Hultqvist	1
3	Defining Mental Health Conditions Within Primary Care Data: A Validation Study With a Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Approach 2024 ·Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice ·Juan Carlos Bazo‐Alvarez, Christina Avgerinou, Danielle Nimmons, Joseph Hayes, David Osborn, Claudia Cooper, (unknown), Irene Petersen	2
4	2022 Association between severe mental illness and risk of osteoporosis and fragility fractures: analysis of UK primary care data 2024 ·Age and Ageing ·Christina Avgerinou, Kate Walters, Juan Carlos Bazo‐Alvarez, Robert West, David Osborn, Andrew Clegg, Irene Petersen	0
5	The first 100 days after childbirth: cross-sectional study of maternal clinical events and health needs from primary care 2024 ·British Journal of General Practice ·Holly Christina Smith, Patricia Schartau, Sonia Saxena, Irene Petersen	1
6	Mortality rate and its determinants among people with dementia receiving home healthcare: a nationwide cohort study 2023 ·Internal and Emergency Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), Chung‐Han Ho, Jung‐Yu Liao, (unknown), Irene Petersen, Yi‐Chi Wang, Yuhan Chen, (unknown), Chao A. Hsiung, (unknown), (unknown), Ping‐Jen Chen	2
7	In utero or early-in-life exposure to antibiotics and the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, a population-based cohort study 2023 ·British Journal of Dermatology ·Zelma C. Chiesa Fuxench, Nandita Mitra, (unknown), Ole Hoffstad, Daniel B. Shin, Sinéad Langan, Irene Petersen, Ketaki Bhate, David J. Margolis	7
8	Autism in England: assessing underdiagnosis in a population-based cohort study of prospectively collected primary care data breakdown → 2023 ·The Lancet Regional Health - Europe ·Elizabeth O’Nions, Irene Petersen, Joshua E. J. Buckman, Rebecca A. Charlton, Claudia Cooper, Anne Corbett, Francesca Happé, Jill Manthorpe, Marcus Richards, Rob Saunders, Cathy Zanker, William Mandy, Joshua Stott	85
9	UK research data resources based on primary care electronic health records: review and summary for potential users 2023 ·BJGP Open ·(unknown), James Pickett, Darren M. Ashcroft, Hajira Dambha‐Miller, Azeem Majeed, Christian Mallen, Irene Petersen, Nadeem Qureshi, Tjeerd van Staa, Gary Abel, (unknown), Rachel Denholm, Evangelos Kontopantelis, (unknown), John Macleod	4
10	Unicompartmental compared with total knee replacement for patients with multimorbidities: a cohort study using propensity score stratification and inverse probability weighting 2021 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Albert Prats‐Uribe, Spyros Kolovos, Klára Berencsi, Andrew Carr, Andrew Judge, Alan J. Silman, Nigel Arden, Irene Petersen, Ian Douglas, J. Mark Wilkinson, David W. Murray, José M Valderas, David Beard, Sarah E Lamb, M. Sanni Ali, Rafael Pinedo‐Villanueva, Victoria Y. Strauss, Daniel Prieto‐Alhambra	5
11	Depression in individuals who subsequently develop inflammatory bowel disease: a population-based nested case–control study 2020 ·Gut ·Jonathan Blackwell, Sonia Saxena, Irene Petersen, Matthew Hotopf, (unknown), Alex Bottle, Christopher Alexakis, Richard Pollok	47
12	Postnatal checks and primary care consultations in the year following childbirth: an observational cohort study of 309 573 women in the UK, 2006–2016 2020 ·BMJ Open ·Holly Christina Smith, Sonia Saxena, Irene Petersen	16
13	<p>Health indicator recording in UK primary care electronic health records: key implications for handling missing data</p> 2019 ·Clinical Epidemiology ·Irene Petersen, Catherine Welch, Irwin Nazareth, Kate Walters, Louise Marston, Richard Morris, James R. Carpenter, Tim P. Morris, Tra My Pham	40
14	Health indicator recording in UK primary care electronic health records: Key implications for handling missing data 2019 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Irene Petersen, (unknown), Irwin Nazareth, (unknown), Louise Marston, (unknown), James R. Carpenter, (unknown), (unknown)	1
15	Das RECORD-Statement zum Berichten von Beobachtungsstudien, die routinemäßig gesammelte Gesundheitsdaten verwenden = The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) statement 2016 ·SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) ·Eric I. Benchimol, Liam Smeeth, Astrid Guttmann, Katie Harron, (unknown), David Moher, Irene Petersen, Sørensen Ht, Erik von Elm, Sinéad Langan	1
16	Prescribing of antipsychotics in UK primary care: a cohort study 2014 ·BMJ Open ·Louise Marston, Irwin Nazareth, Irene Petersen, Kate Walters, David Osborn	143
17	Karzinome der Lunge. Entwicklungen, Konzepte und Ausblick auf die neue WHO-Klassifikation. 2014 ·Der Pathologe ·Irene Petersen, Arne Warth	1
18	Sektorenübergreifende schmerzmedizinische Versorgung: Schmerzklinik Kiel und bundesweites Kopfschmerzbehandlungsnetz 2013 ·Der Schmerz ·Hartmut Göbel, Katja Heinze‐Kuhn, Irene Petersen, (unknown), A. Heinze	2
19	Risk of cardiovascular events in people prescribed glucocorticoids with iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome: cohort study 2012 ·BMJ ·L. Fardet, Irene Petersen, Irwin Nazareth	87
20	LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN THE RATE AND MEAN AGE OF INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF COPD IN THE UK, 2000-2009 2011 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Greg James, Irene Petersen, Gavin C. Donaldson, Wisia Wedzicha	2

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