Jocasta Ball

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Jocasta Ball is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Jocasta Ball has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 22 papers in Emergency Medicine and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Jocasta Ball's work include Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (29 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (21 papers) and Heart Failure Treatment and Management (17 papers). Jocasta Ball is often cited by papers focused on Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (29 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (21 papers) and Heart Failure Treatment and Management (17 papers). Jocasta Ball collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Norway. Jocasta Ball's co-authors include Simon Stewart, M. Carrington, John J.V. McMurray, Damien Cullington, Christian Lewinter, Sally C. Inglis, John G.F. Cleland, Finlay A. McAlister, Robyn Clark and Yih‐Kai Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jocasta Ball

76 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Atrial fibrillation: Profile and burden of an evolving ep... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2013 2010 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Atrial fibrillation: Profile and burden of an evolving epidemic in the 21st century
    2013 461 citations Jocasta Ball, M. Carrington et al. International Journal of Cardiology profile →
  2. Structured telephone support or telemonitoring programmes for patients with chronic heart failure
    2010 455 citations Sally C. Inglis, Robyn Clark et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jocasta Ball Australia 19 1.4k 255 218 191 158 84 2.0k
Kevin L. Thomas United States 28 1.8k 1.3× 219 0.9× 325 1.5× 135 0.7× 159 1.0× 111 2.5k
Carlos Peña Spain 24 1.1k 0.8× 197 0.8× 151 0.7× 98 0.5× 74 0.5× 122 1.7k
Alexander C. Fanaroff United States 20 942 0.7× 265 1.0× 133 0.6× 114 0.6× 228 1.4× 104 1.8k
Melissa A. Greiner United States 31 1.6k 1.1× 324 1.3× 147 0.7× 266 1.4× 238 1.5× 109 2.5k
Mary M. Hand United States 16 1.4k 1.0× 288 1.1× 349 1.6× 234 1.2× 134 0.8× 31 2.2k
Adam Redpath United Kingdom 21 1.2k 0.8× 333 1.3× 91 0.4× 308 1.6× 158 1.0× 40 1.9k
J. Douglas Kirk United States 24 1.6k 1.2× 159 0.6× 648 3.0× 153 0.8× 135 0.9× 69 2.3k
Ty J. Gluckman United States 22 1.2k 0.8× 237 0.9× 113 0.5× 166 0.9× 146 0.9× 72 2.3k
Mogens Lytken Larsen Denmark 23 750 0.5× 199 0.8× 112 0.5× 220 1.2× 150 0.9× 86 2.0k
Miguel Mendes Portugal 18 2.3k 1.6× 250 1.0× 55 0.3× 197 1.0× 79 0.5× 123 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Jocasta Ball

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Jocasta Ball's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Jocasta Ball with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Jocasta Ball more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Jocasta Ball

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jocasta Ball. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jocasta Ball. The network helps show where Jocasta Ball may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jocasta Ball

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jocasta Ball. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jocasta Ball based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jocasta Ball. Jocasta Ball is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Wilsgaard, Tom, Jocasta Ball, Maja‐Lisa Løchen, et al.. (2025). Heart Failure in Atrial Fibrillation Subtypes in Women and Men in the Tromsø Study. JACC Advances. 4(2). 101556–101556. 1 indexed citations
2.
Stub, Dion, L. Dawson, Jocasta Ball, et al.. (2025). Incidence, Diagnoses, and Outcomes of Pediatric Nontraumatic Chest Pain Attended by Ambulance. JAMA Network Open. 8(9). e2533962–e2533962.
3.
4.
Bloom, Jason, E. Paratz, L. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Healthcare and economic cost burden of emergency medical services treated non-traumatic shock using a population-based cohort in Victoria, Australia. BMJ Open. 14(4). e078435–e078435. 2 indexed citations
5.
Ball, Jocasta, Diem Dinh, Angela Brennan, et al.. (2024). Prevalence and outcomes of patients with SMuRF-less acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Open Heart. 11(1). e002733–e002733. 5 indexed citations
6.
Dinh, Diem, Jason Bloom, Angela Brennan, et al.. (2024). Clinical Outcomes of Renal Transplant Recipients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Heart Lung and Circulation. 33(7). 998–1008.
7.
Hussain, Sultana Monira, Anne B. Newman, Lawrence J. Beilin, et al.. (2023). Associations of Change in Body Size With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Healthy Older Adults. JAMA Network Open. 6(4). e237482–e237482. 31 indexed citations
8.
Dawson, L., Ziad Nehme, Ella Zomer, et al.. (2023). Chest Pain Management Using Prehospital Point-of-Care Troponin and Paramedic Risk Assessment. JAMA Internal Medicine. 183(3). 203–203. 16 indexed citations
9.
Gerdts, Eva, Jocasta Ball, Bjarne K. Jacobsen, et al.. (2022). Sex-specific time trends in incident atrial fibrillation and the contribution of risk factors: the Tromsø Study 1994–2016. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 30(1). 72–81. 9 indexed citations
10.
Paratz, E., Jocasta Ball, Karen Smith, et al.. (2022). Inconsistent discharge diagnoses for young cardiac arrest episodes: insights from a statewide registry. Internal Medicine Journal. 53(10). 1776–1782. 1 indexed citations
11.
Paratz, E., Dominica Zentner, Natalie Morgan, et al.. (2022). Predictors and outcomes of in-hospital referrals for forensic investigation after young sudden cardiac death. Heart Rhythm. 19(6). 937–944. 7 indexed citations
12.
Paratz, E., Karen Smith, Jocasta Ball, et al.. (2021). The economic impact of sudden cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 163. 49–56. 16 indexed citations
13.
Ball, Jocasta, Maja‐Lisa Løchen, Tom Wilsgaard, et al.. (2021). Sex-Specific Associations between Blood Pressure and Risk of Atrial Fibrillation Subtypes in the Tromsø Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(7). 1514–1514. 9 indexed citations
14.
Gao, Lan, Paul Scuffham, Jocasta Ball, Simon Stewart, & Joshua Byrnes. (2021). Long-term cost-effectiveness of a disease management program for patients with atrial fibrillation compared to standard care – a multi-state survival model based on a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Economics. 24(1). 87–95. 2 indexed citations
15.
16.
17.
Stewart, Simon, Jocasta Ball, John D. Horowitz, et al.. (2014). Standard versus atrial fibrillation-specific management strategy (SAFETY) to reduce recurrent admission and prolong survival: pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 385(9970). 775–784. 91 indexed citations
18.
Procter, Nathan, Jocasta Ball, Irene Stafford, et al.. (2014). Impaired platelet nitric oxide response in patients with new onset atrial fibrillation. International Journal of Cardiology. 179. 160–165. 16 indexed citations
19.
20.
Clark, Robyn, Sally C. Inglis, Finlay A. McAlister, et al.. (2010). Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of remote (non-invasive) monitoring in 8,323 heart failure patients on length of stay, quality of life, knowledge, compliance and satisfaction. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kevin L. Thomas Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Carlos Peña Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Alexander C. Fanaroff Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Melissa A. Greiner Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mary M. Hand Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Adam Redpath Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by J. Douglas Kirk Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ty J. Gluckman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mogens Lytken Larsen Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Miguel Mendes
Rankless by CCL
2026