Jack E. Riggs

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
181 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Jack E. Riggs is a scholar working on Neurology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack E. Riggs has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Neurology, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Jack E. Riggs's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (21 papers), Global Health Care Issues (16 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (15 papers). Jack E. Riggs is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (21 papers), Global Health Care Issues (16 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (15 papers). Jack E. Riggs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Italy. Jack E. Riggs's co-authors include Sydney S. Schochet, Richard H. Sterns, Ludwig Gutmann, Raj D. Sheth, John B. Bodensteiner, Robert C. Griggs, Salvatore DiMauro, Marina Mora, Michio Hirano and Shin J. Oh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Jack E. Riggs

172 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Primary LAMP-2 deficiency causes X-linked vacuolar cardiomyopathy and myopathy (Danon disease)

2000 702 citations Jack E. Riggs et al. profile →
Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome Following Correction of Hyponatremia

1986 509 citations Jack E. Riggs, Sydney S. Schochet et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jack E. Riggs United States	31	1.2k	738	724	718	585	181	4.4k
Heather Murray United Kingdom	37	1.4k 1.2×	473 0.6×	729 1.0×	285 0.4×	581 1.0×	89	4.5k
Rainer Malik Germany	39	1.5k 1.3×	697 0.9×	808 1.1×	459 0.6×	664 1.1×	90	4.8k
Akira Hata Japan	41	1.5k 1.3×	442 0.6×	504 0.7×	651 0.9×	1.8k 3.2×	164	6.6k
Thibault Moreau France	31	848 0.7×	1.4k 1.9×	784 1.1×	372 0.5×	315 0.5×	98	5.7k
Jaume Roquer Spain	41	929 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	2.1k 2.9×	1.3k 1.8×	1.1k 2.0×	205	5.5k
Douglas D. Fraser Canada	36	1.1k 0.9×	906 1.2×	935 1.3×	570 0.8×	169 0.3×	161	4.3k
Motoji Sawabe Japan	42	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	481 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	549 0.9×	232	6.7k
Simon H. S. Pearce United Kingdom	57	2.8k 2.3×	353 0.5×	761 1.1×	620 0.9×	400 0.7×	194	11.6k
Mark Fisher United States	40	618 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.8×	883 1.2×	789 1.3×	159	4.4k
Yasuhiro Hasegawa Japan	39	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 2.0×	2.0k 2.7×	1.1k 1.6×	798 1.4×	318	5.7k

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Riggs, Jack E., et al.. (2012). Kuznets Curves Stratified by Mean per Capita Income, 1969-2007: Implications Regarding Global Economic Development and Income Inequality*. Modern Economy. 3(5). 617–625. 2 indexed citations

Riggs, Jack E. & Gerald R. Hobbs. (2012). Young Child Homicide and Accidental Death Rates in the United States, 1940-2005: Classification Issues in Mutually Exclusive Events. Sociology Mind. 2(2). 148–152. 2 indexed citations

Pandey, H. K. & Jack E. Riggs. (2003). Channelopathies in pediatric neurology. Neurologic Clinics. 21(4). 765–777. 2 indexed citations

Riggs, Jack E. & Gerald R. Hobbs. (1998). Nonrandom sequence of slope-intercept estimates in longitudinal gompertzian analysis suggests biological relevance. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 100(3). 269–275. 13 indexed citations

Riggs, Jack E.. (1997). Tissue-type plasminogen activator should not be used in acute ischemic stroke. Archives of Family Medicine. 6(2). 102–104. 2 indexed citations

Sheth, Raj D., Jack E. Riggs, & Orlando Ortiz. (1996). Raymond Syndrome: A Validation. European Neurology. 36(3). 173–174. 2 indexed citations

Sheth, Raj D., William Pryse‐Phillips, Jack E. Riggs, & John B. Bodensteiner. (1995). Critical illness neuromuscular disease in children manifested as ventilatory dependence. The Journal of Pediatrics. 126(2). 259–261. 22 indexed citations

Riggs, Jack E.. (1994). Bladder Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1951-1989: Increased Environmental Carcinogenesis in Men. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. 20(2). 187–197. 2 indexed citations

Birkle, Dale L., et al.. (1993). Abnormal fatty acid composition in sarcolemma and sarcoplasmic reticulum from myotonic ADR mouse muscle. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1146(2). 236–242. 4 indexed citations

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Shao, Zhihong, et al.. (1993). The dynamics of aging and mortality in the People's Republic of China, 1957–1990. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 67(3). 239–246. 6 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E.. (1992). The dynamics of aging and mortality in the United States 1900–1988. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 66(1). 45–57. 17 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E.. (1992). Aging and mortality: Manisfestations of natural ‘non-selaction’. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 62(2). 127–135. 11 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E. & Sydney S. Schochet. (1992). Rising mortality due to Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A manifestation of the competitive nature of human mortality. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 45(9). 1007–1012. 35 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E. & Leena Ketonen. (1992). The Initial Impact of Computed Tomography on Mortality Attributed to Brain Tumor. Journal of Neuroimaging. 2(3). 136–138.

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Riggs, Jack E.. (1992). Longitudinal gompertzian analysis of cervical cancer mortality in the US, 1962–1987: A method of quantitatively demonstrating changing environmental influences upon deterministic mortality dynamics. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 63(2). 117–129. 20 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E. & Ronald Millecchia. (1992). Mortality among the elderly in the U.S., 1956–1987: Demonstration of the upper boundary to Gompertzian mortality. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 62(2). 191–199. 33 indexed citations

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Ptáček, Louis J., Alfred L. George, Robert L. Barchi, et al.. (1992). Mutations in an S4 segment of the adult skeletal muscle sodium channel cause paramyotonia congenita. Neuron. 8(5). 891–897. 209 indexed citations

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Riggs, Jack E.. (1991). Longitudinal gompertzian analysis of stomach cancer mortality in the U.S., 1962–1987: A thermodynamic analogy of its declining mortality. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 59(3). 215–228. 17 indexed citations

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Ashraf, Mohammed, et al.. (1990). Prospective study of nerve conduction parameters and serum magnesium following cisplatin therapy. Gynecologic Oncology. 37(1). 29–33. 11 indexed citations

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Gutmann, Ludwig, et al.. (1989). Longitudinal conduction studies in hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 1. Muscle & Nerve. 12(1). 52–55. 27 indexed citations

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