John Townend

16.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
286 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

John Townend is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Nephrology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Townend has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 64 papers in Surgery and 54 papers in Nephrology. Recurrent topics in John Townend's work include Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (39 papers), Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (36 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (32 papers). John Townend is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (39 papers), Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (36 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (32 papers). John Townend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Gambia. John Townend's co-authors include Richard P. Steeds, Charles J. Ferro, Nicola C. Edwards, Saqib Chowdhary, John H. Coote, Colin D. Chue, William E. Moody, Robert S. Bonser, David C. Wheeler and Martin Landray and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

John Townend

276 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

  1. Incidence and Outcomes in Acute Kidney Injury
    2007 638 citations John Townend, William C. Smith et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Townend 4.4k 2.0k 1.8k 1.4k 1.3k 286 10.3k
Tamara B. Horwich 6.3k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 617 0.4× 959 0.7× 125 10.7k
Charles R. Bridges 6.1k 1.4× 942 0.5× 3.5k 1.9× 1.4k 1.0× 849 0.7× 114 9.8k
Wisit Cheungpasitporn 1.7k 0.4× 2.3k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 485 0.3× 1.7k 1.3× 538 9.4k
Giuseppe Schillaci 11.7k 2.7× 1.2k 0.6× 2.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 217 16.4k
Michael J. Pencina 6.6k 1.5× 829 0.4× 2.3k 1.3× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 46 14.7k
Julio A. Chirinos 9.1k 2.1× 573 0.3× 1.9k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 255 14.0k
David J. Webb 7.4k 1.7× 1.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 844 0.6× 2.1k 1.6× 265 15.8k
John E. Sanderson 12.2k 2.8× 2.2k 1.1× 2.8k 1.5× 2.7k 1.9× 1.8k 1.4× 256 17.2k
Andrew L. Clark 9.1k 2.1× 531 0.3× 1.7k 0.9× 863 0.6× 1.9k 1.5× 389 13.4k
Kuo‐Liong Chien 2.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 439 0.3× 917 0.7× 379 9.7k

Countries citing papers authored by John Townend

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Townend

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Townend

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Townend. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Townend 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 John Townend. John Townend is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Mackenzie, Isla S., C J Hawkey, Ian Ford, et al.. (2024). Allopurinol and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with ischaemic heart disease: the ALL-HEART RCT and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment. 28(18). 1–55. 2 indexed citations
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Thompson, S., James Hodson, Jan van der Vliet, et al.. (2024). Changes in peak oxygen consumption in Fabry disease and associations with cardiomyopathy severity. Heart. 111(5). 230–238. 2 indexed citations
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Townend, John, et al.. (2024). Impact of antiplatelet therapy on microvascular thrombosis during ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 11. 1287553–1287553. 3 indexed citations
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Hall, Caitlin, Jonathan P. Law, Jasmeet S. Reyat, et al.. (2023). Chronic activation of human cardiac fibroblasts in vitro attenuates the reversibility of the myofibroblast phenotype. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12137–12137. 20 indexed citations
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Ryan, M. J., Kevin O’Gallagher, Natalia Briceno, et al.. (2020). 32 Does ‘real-world’ mechanical circulatory support match randomised controlled trials? The United Kingdom impella (Ukpella) registry. A27.2–A28. 1 indexed citations
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Kwok, Chun Shing, Alex Sirker, Adam D. Farmer, et al.. (2019). In‐hospital gastrointestinal bleeding following percutaneous coronary intervention. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 95(1). 109–117. 7 indexed citations
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Kotecha, Dipak, Melanie Calvert, Jonathan J Deeks, et al.. (2017). A review of rate control in atrial fibrillation, and the rationale and protocol for the RATE-AF trial. BMJ Open. 7(7). e015099–e015099. 28 indexed citations
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Moody, William E., Louise Thomson, Daniel S. Berman, et al.. (2017). Results of Serial Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in End-Stage Renal Disease. The American Journal of Cardiology. 121(5). 661–667. 1 indexed citations
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Ng, Khai Ping, Poorva Jain, Paramjit Gill, et al.. (2016). Results and lessons from the Spironolactone To Prevent Cardiovascular Events in Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease (STOP-CKD) randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 6(2). e010519–e010519. 18 indexed citations
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Moody, William E., David McNulty, Louise Thomson, et al.. (2016). Prognostic Utility of Calcium Scoring as an Adjunct to Stress Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy in End-Stage Renal Disease. The American Journal of Cardiology. 117(9). 1387–1396. 9 indexed citations
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Hayer, Manvir, Adnan Sharif, Irena Begaj, et al.. (2015). Acute Care QUAliTy in chronic Kidney disease (ACQUATIK): a prospective cohort study exploring outcomes of patients with chronic kidney disease. BMJ Open. 5(4). e006987–e006987. 3 indexed citations
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Rowe, Rachel, John Townend, Peter Brocklehurst, et al.. (2014). Service configuration, unit characteristics and variation in intervention rates in a national sample of obstetric units in England: an exploratory analysis. BMJ Open. 4(5). e005551–e005551. 11 indexed citations
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Simkhada, Padam, Edwin van Teijlingen, Gaurav Sharma, Bibha Simkhada, & John Townend. (2012). User costs and informal payments for care in the largest maternity hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University). 15 indexed citations
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Doshi, Sagar N., et al.. (2011). Kissing drug eluting balloons for in‐stent restenosis complicating bifurcations treated with drug‐eluting stents. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 79(3). 392–396. 2 indexed citations
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Chue, Colin D., Helen Routledge, Peter Ludman, et al.. (2009). 3‐year follow‐up of 100 consecutive coronary bifurcation lesions treated with Taxus stents and the crush technique. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 75(4). 605–613. 6 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Sohinee, Sohinee Bhattacharya, John Townend, et al.. (2008). Does miscarriage in an initial pregnancy lead to adverse obstetric and perinatal outcomes in the next continuing pregnancy?. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 115(13). 1623–1629. 79 indexed citations
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Lois, Noemi, et al.. (2007). Fundus autofluorescence in exudative age-related macular degeneration. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 45 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Alison M., et al.. (2007). Epidemiology of chronic kidney disease - a population-based study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 22. 54–55. 6 indexed citations

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