John Witherspoon

859 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 557 citations indexed

About

John Witherspoon is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Witherspoon has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 557 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Infectious Diseases, 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in John Witherspoon's work include Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (2 papers), Otolaryngology and Infectious Diseases (2 papers) and Pharmacy and Medical Practices (1 paper). John Witherspoon is often cited by papers focused on Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (2 papers), Otolaryngology and Infectious Diseases (2 papers) and Pharmacy and Medical Practices (1 paper). John Witherspoon collaborates with scholars based in United States and Vietnam. John Witherspoon's co-authors include Robert M. Centor, Kurt Link, Harry P. Dalton, Dan L. Longo, David G. Buchsbaum and James M. McKenney and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, Human Pathology and Medical Decision Making.

In The Last Decade

John Witherspoon

5 papers receiving 514 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.

The Diagnosis of Strep Throat in Adults in the Emergency Room

1981 521 citations Robert M. Centor, John Witherspoon et al. Medical Decision Making profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Witherspoon United States	5	407	344	148	92	69	5	557
Kurt Link	3	405 1.0×	341 1.0×	144 1.0×	89 1.0×	67 1.0×	4	548
Leonardo A. Stroud United States	14	118 0.3×	188 0.5×	174 1.2×	108 1.2×	42 0.6×	16	623
Marc De Meyere Belgium	8	107 0.3×	63 0.2×	254 1.7×	70 0.8×	94 1.4×	19	504
Theodore M. Pass United States	9	204 0.5×	117 0.3×	89 0.6×	42 0.5×	5 0.1×	14	610
George F. Warner India	6	105 0.3×	58 0.2×	394 2.7×	121 1.3×	164 2.4×	6	662
Katryn Paquette Canada	12	91 0.2×	186 0.5×	187 1.3×	105 1.1×	32 0.5×	19	577
Margaret McKenzie Canada	11	148 0.4×	55 0.2×	200 1.4×	56 0.6×	12 0.2×	16	627
Peter J Featherstone United Kingdom	8	146 0.4×	122 0.4×	53 0.4×	28 0.3×	18 0.3×	55	350
Nathalie Bertille France	9	105 0.3×	94 0.3×	106 0.7×	61 0.7×	14 0.2×	18	322
Kathleen Gase United States	9	126 0.3×	80 0.2×	117 0.8×	78 0.8×	23 0.3×	18	423

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Witherspoon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Witherspoon

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Link, Kurt, Robert M. Centor, David G. Buchsbaum, & John Witherspoon. (1984). Why physicians don't pursue abnormal laboratory tests: An investigation of hypercalcemia and the follow-up of abnormal test results. Human Pathology. 15(1). 75–78. 16 indexed citations

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Centor, Robert M. & John Witherspoon. (1982). Treating Sore Throats in the Emergency Room. Medical Decision Making. 2(4). 463–469. 7 indexed citations

3.

McKenney, James M., et al.. (1981). Initial experiences with a pharmacy clinic in a hospital-based group medical practice. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 38(8). 1154–1158. 6 indexed citations

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Centor, Robert M., et al.. (1981). The Diagnosis of Strep Throat in Adults in the Emergency Room. Medical Decision Making. 1(3). 239–246. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Longo, Dan L. & John Witherspoon. (1980). Focal neurologic symptoms in hypercalcemia. Neurology. 30(2). 200–200. 7 indexed citations

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