John Wilbanks

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

John Wilbanks is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Information Systems and Management and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, John Wilbanks has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 8 papers in Information Systems and Management and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in John Wilbanks's work include Ethics in Clinical Research (14 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (6 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers). John Wilbanks is often cited by papers focused on Ethics in Clinical Research (14 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (6 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers). John Wilbanks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. John Wilbanks's co-authors include Andrea Wiggins, Megan Doerr, Christine Suver, Brian M. Bot, Andrew D. Trister, Stephen Friend, Abhishek Pratap, Arno Klein, Elias Chaibub Neto and Michael Kellen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Urology.

In The Last Decade

John Wilbanks

37 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The mPower study, Parkinson disease mobile data collected... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 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. The mPower study, Parkinson disease mobile data collected using ResearchKit
    2016 404 citations Brian M. Bot, Christine Suver et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers

John Wilbanks
Megan Doerr United States
Timothy E. Vaughan United States
Jan‐Eric Litton Sweden
Maria Hägglund Sweden
James Heywood United States
Alessandro Blasimme Switzerland
Jeana Frost United States
Catherine A. Brownstein United States
Deborah Mascalzoni Italy
Robert Logan United States
Megan Doerr United States
John Wilbanks
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Countries citing papers authored by John Wilbanks

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Wilbanks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Wilbanks

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Wilbanks. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Wilbanks 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 Wilbanks. John Wilbanks 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
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Rothstein, Mark A., John Wilbanks, Laura M. Beskow, et al.. (2020). Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices: Ethical Considerations and Policy Recommendations. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 48(S1). 196–226. 27 indexed citations
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Wilbanks, John. (2020). Electronic Informed Consent in Mobile Applications Research. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 48(S1). 147–153. 10 indexed citations
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Rothstein, Mark A. & John Wilbanks. (2020). Introduction. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 48(S1). 7–8. 1 indexed citations
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Suver, Christine, Adrian Thorogood, Megan Doerr, John Wilbanks, & Bartha Maria Knoppers. (2020). Bringing Code to Data: Do Not Forget Governance. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(7). e18087–e18087. 14 indexed citations
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Doerr, Megan, et al.. (2020). Assessment of theAll of Usresearch program’s informed consent process. AJOB Empirical Bioethics. 12(2). 72–83. 19 indexed citations
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Whitsel, Laurie P., John Wilbanks, Mark D. Huffman, & Jennifer L. Hall. (2018). The Role of Government in Precision Medicine, Precision Public Health and the Intersection With Healthy Living. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 62(1). 50–54. 12 indexed citations
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Doerr, Megan, et al.. (2017). Formative Evaluation of Participant Experience With Mobile eConsent in the App-Mediated Parkinson mPower Study: A Mixed Methods Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 5(2). e14–e14. 48 indexed citations
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Balasegaram, Manica, Peter Kolb, John C. McKew, et al.. (2017). An open source pharma roadmap. PLoS Medicine. 14(4). e1002276–e1002276. 15 indexed citations
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Bot, Brian M., Christine Suver, Elias Chaibub Neto, et al.. (2016). The mPower study, Parkinson disease mobile data collected using ResearchKit. Scientific Data. 3(1). 160011–160011. 404 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wilbanks, John & Eric J. Topol. (2016). Stop the privatization of health data. Nature. 535(7612). 345–348. 44 indexed citations
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Rothstein, Mark A., John Wilbanks, & Kyle B. Brothers. (2015). Citizen Science on Your Smartphone: An ELSI Research Agenda. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 43(4). 897–903. 41 indexed citations
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Lane, Julia, Katherine J. Strandburg, Solon Barocas, et al.. (2014). Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 80 indexed citations
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Murray‐Rust, Peter, et al.. (2013). Els principis de Panton. Principis per obrir les dades científiques. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 71. 102198–102198.
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Wilbanks, John. (2013). A fool's errand. Nature. 495(7442). 440–441. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Antony, John Wilbanks, & Sean Ekins. (2012). Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple Rules for Licensing Data and Models. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(9). e1002706–e1002706. 16 indexed citations
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Wilbanks, John. (2010). We need a Web for data. Learned Publishing. 23(4). 333–335. 1 indexed citations
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Wilbanks, John. (2008). Public domain, copyright licenses and the freedom to integrate science. Journal of Science Communication. 7(2). C04–C04. 2 indexed citations
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Wilbanks, John. (2007). The unreasonable effectiveness of open data. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University).
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Elgavish, Ada, Philip A. Wood, Carl A. Pinkert, et al.. (2004). Transgenic mouse with human mutant p53 expression in the prostate epithelium. The Prostate. 61(1). 26–34. 17 indexed citations
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Pérez, Luis Miguel Luengo, John Wilbanks, David B. Joseph, & W. Jerry Oakes. (2000). UROLOGICAL OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL AND UPPER THORACIC MYELOMENINGOCELE. The Journal of Urology. 962–964. 2 indexed citations

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