Jane Blazeby

48.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
477 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Jane Blazeby is a scholar working on Surgery, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Jane Blazeby has authored 477 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Surgery, 116 papers in Oncology and 113 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Jane Blazeby's work include Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (92 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (82 papers) and Delphi Technique in Research (79 papers). Jane Blazeby is often cited by papers focused on Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (92 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (82 papers) and Delphi Technique in Research (79 papers). Jane Blazeby collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Jane Blazeby's co-authors include Paula Williamson, Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke, Derek Alderson, Elizabeth Gargon, Jenny Donovan, Kerry Avery, Sara Brookes, Mark Petticrew and Kathryn Skivington and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Jane Blazeby

456 papers receiving 24.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

2021 2.8k citations Jane Blazeby et al. profile →
The COMET Handbook: version 1.0

2017 1.1k citations Paula Williamson, Jane Blazeby et al. Trials profile →
Developing core outcome sets for clinical trials: issues to consider

2012 1.1k citations Paula Williamson, Jane Blazeby et al. Trials profile →
Reporting of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Randomized Trials

2013 890 citations Jane Blazeby et al. profile →
Guidelines for the management of oesophageal and gastric cancer

2011 481 citations Jane Blazeby et al. profile →
Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation

2009 442 citations Jonathan Cook, Jane Blazeby et al. profile →
Core Outcome Set-STAndards for Development: The COS-STAD recommendations

2017 429 citations Jane Blazeby, Paula Williamson et al. profile →
Docetaxel versus active symptom control for refractory oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma (COUGAR-02): an open-label, phase 3 randomised controlled trial

2013 405 citations Jane Blazeby et al. profile →
Core Outcome Set–STAndards for Reporting: The COS-STAR Statement

2016 391 citations Jane Blazeby, Paula Williamson et al. profile →
Framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions: gap analysis, workshop and consultation-informed update

2021 266 citations Jane Blazeby et al. Health Technology Assessment profile →
Informing efficient randomised controlled trials: exploration of challenges in developing progression criteria for internal pilot studies

2017 247 citations Kerry Avery, Paula Williamson et al. BMJ Open profile →
No Surgical Innovation Without Evaluation

2018 230 citations Jane Blazeby, Marion Campbell et al. profile →
Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic or Open Lobectomy in Early-Stage Lung Cancer

2022 88 citations Eric Lim, Tim Batchelor et al. profile →
A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

2024 36 citations Jane Blazeby et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jane Blazeby	9.9k	6.4k	5.5k	4.6k	3.8k	477	25.0k
Marianne Sullivan	8.5k 0.9×	6.1k 1.0×	9.5k 1.7×	4.4k 0.9×	2.2k 0.6×	145	32.8k
Mirjam A. G. Sprangers	5.4k 0.5×	3.4k 0.5×	8.0k 1.5×	3.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	378	25.2k
Carol M. Mangione	5.8k 0.6×	4.8k 0.7×	5.5k 1.0×	4.7k 1.0×	906 0.2×	373	35.4k
Michael J. Barry	5.0k 0.5×	11.5k 1.8×	6.3k 1.2×	8.4k 1.8×	1.0k 0.3×	387	44.6k
John B. Wong	6.8k 0.7×	3.5k 0.5×	4.6k 0.8×	3.7k 0.8×	558 0.1×	377	36.2k
J.C.J.M. de Haes	3.6k 0.4×	4.7k 0.7×	10.1k 1.8×	3.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.4×	113	22.9k
Eric B Bass	4.6k 0.5×	3.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	3.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	331	24.3k
Maarten Boers	4.4k 0.4×	2.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.3×	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	468	32.7k
James S. Goodwin	2.5k 0.3×	4.0k 0.6×	6.9k 1.3×	2.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	442	24.7k
Mark Kosinski	3.9k 0.4×	4.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.2×	2.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	159	30.8k

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Cousins, Sian, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the safe delivery of new invasive interventional procedures and devices: an analysis of NHS organisation policies. BMJ Open Quality. 14(2). e003301–e003301.

Richards, Hollie, Sian Cousins, Daisy Elliott, et al.. (2024). Examining the application of the IDEAL framework in the reporting and evaluation of innovative invasive procedures: secondary qualitative analysis of a systematic review. BMJ Open. 14(5). e079654–e079654.

Cousins, Sian, Katy Chalmers, Marion Campbell, et al.. (2023). How do pilot and feasibility studies inform randomised placebo-controlled trials in surgery? A systematic review. BMJ Open. 13(11). e071094–e071094. 2 indexed citations

Clement, Clare, Karen Coulman, Thomas Pinkney, et al.. (2023). How surgical Trainee Research Collaboratives achieve success: a mixed methods study to develop trainee engagement strategies. BMJ Open. 13(12). e072851–e072851. 2 indexed citations

Richards, Hollie, Jesmond Zahra, Sian Cousins, et al.. (2022). Qualitative documentary analysis of guidance on information provision and consent for the introduction of innovative invasive procedures including surgeries within NHS organisations’ policies in England and Wales. BMJ Open. 12(9). e059228–e059228. 2 indexed citations

Lim, Eric, Rosie A Harris, Holly E. McKeon, et al.. (2022). Impact of video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus open lobectomy for lung cancer on recovery assessed using self-reported physical function: VIOLET RCT. Health Technology Assessment. 26(48). 1–162. 45 indexed citations

Cousins, Sian, Hollie Richards, H Robertson, et al.. (2022). Healthcare organization policy recommendations for the governance of surgical innovation: review of NHS policies. British journal of surgery. 109(10). 1004–1012. 9 indexed citations

Ahmed, Irfan, Karen Innes, Miriam Brazzelli, et al.. (2021). Protocol for a randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones (C-Gall trial). BMJ Open. 11(3). e039781–e039781. 16 indexed citations

Blencowe, Natalie, et al.. (2021). Systematic review of the introduction, early phase study and evaluation of pyrocarbon proximal interphalangeal joint arthroplasty. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0257497–e0257497. 1 indexed citations

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Adamson, Douglas, Jane Blazeby, Chris Hurt, et al.. (2021). Palliative radiotherapy combined with stent insertion to reduce recurrent dysphagia in oesophageal cancer patients: the ROCS RCT. Health Technology Assessment. 25(31). 1–144. 3 indexed citations

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Avery, Kerry, Jane Blazeby, Nicholas Wilson, et al.. (2019). Development of reporting guidance and core outcome sets for seamless, standardised evaluation of innovative surgical procedures and devices: a study protocol for content generation and a Delphi consensus process (COHESIVE study). BMJ Open. 9(9). e029574–e029574. 15 indexed citations

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Young, Amber, et al.. (2019). Systematic review of clinical outcome reporting in randomised controlled trials of burn care. BMJ Open. 9(2). e025135–e025135. 23 indexed citations

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Currie, Andrew, Jane Blazeby, Noriko Suzuki, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of an early‐stage innovation for full‐thickness excision of benign colonic polyps using the IDEAL framework. Colorectal Disease. 21(9). 1004–1016. 5 indexed citations

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Brookes, Sara, et al.. (2018). Impact of question order on prioritisation of outcomes in the development of a core outcome set: a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 19(1). 66–66. 24 indexed citations

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Mills, Nicola, Daisy Gaunt, Jane Blazeby, et al.. (2017). Training health professionals to recruit into challenging randomized controlled trials improved confidence: the development of the QuinteT randomized controlled trial recruitment training intervention. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 95. 34–44. 24 indexed citations

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Main, Barry, Angus McNair, Simon Haworth, et al.. (2017). Core information set for informed consent to surgery for oral or oropharyngeal cancer: A mixed‐methods study. Clinical Otolaryngology. 43(2). 624–631. 9 indexed citations

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Potter, Shelley, Elizabeth J. Conroy, Paula Williamson, et al.. (2016). The iBRA (implant breast reconstruction evaluation) study: protocol for a prospective multi-centre cohort study to inform the feasibility, design and conduct of a pragmatic randomised clinical trial comparing new techniques of implant-based breast reconstruction. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2(1). 41–41. 14 indexed citations

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Blazeby, Jane, et al.. (2004). Upper GI 01–12. British journal of surgery. 91(Supplement_1). 6–11. 5 indexed citations

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Blazeby, Jane, John R. Farndon, Jenny Donovan, & Derek Alderson. (2000). A prospective longitudinal study examining the quality of life of patients with esophageal carcinoma. Cancer. 88(8). 1781–1787. 13 indexed citations

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