Karen Smith

23.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
484 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Karen Smith is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Smith has authored 484 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 314 papers in Emergency Medicine, 88 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 65 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karen Smith's work include Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (223 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (148 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (142 papers). Karen Smith is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (223 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (148 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (142 papers). Karen Smith collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Karen Smith's co-authors include Stephen Bernard, Michael Buist, Bruce M Jones, Peter Cameron, Ziad Nehme, Janet Bray, Emily Andrew, Dion Stub, Tony Walker and John J. McNeil and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Karen Smith

457 papers receiving 14.1k 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.

Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Induced Hypothermia

2002 3.6k citations Stephen Bernard, Karen Smith et al. profile →
Refractory cardiac arrest treated with mechanical CPR, hypothermia, ECMO and early reperfusion (the CHEER trial)

2014 436 citations Dion Stub, Stephen Bernard et al. Resuscitation profile →
Air Versus Oxygen in ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction

2015 318 citations Dion Stub, Karen Smith et al. Circulation profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Karen Smith	9.8k	3.0k	2.1k	1.9k	1.8k	484	14.6k
Paul E. Pepe	8.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	198	10.4k
Volker Wenzel	6.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	356	9.8k
David B. Hoyt	9.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	7.3k 3.9×	361 0.2×	369	20.0k
Rolf Lefering	10.4k 1.1×	4.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	8.3k 4.4×	326 0.2×	593	16.8k
John A. Morris	4.3k 0.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	5.2k 2.7×	393 0.2×	204	10.9k
Kenji Inaba	10.0k 1.0×	5.2k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	9.9k 5.3×	331 0.2×	724	19.4k
Matthew J. Martin	4.0k 0.4×	1.8k 0.6×	977 0.5×	5.5k 2.9×	354 0.2×	404	10.1k
William B. Long	10.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.5×	3.2k 1.5×	8.4k 4.5×	368 0.2×	191	18.7k
Jørn Wetterslev	2.4k 0.2×	3.0k 1.0×	3.7k 1.8×	6.1k 3.3×	635 0.3×	274	20.5k
Edmund Neugebauer	5.2k 0.5×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	7.6k 4.0×	195 0.1×	285	17.1k

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Doan, Tan, Stuart Howell, Stephen Ball, et al.. (2024). Identifying areas of Australia with high out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and low bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates: A retrospective, observational study. PLoS ONE. 19(4). e0301176–e0301176. 1 indexed citations

Cox, Shelley, et al.. (2023). The burden and prognostic significance of suspected sepsis in the prehospital setting: A state‐wide population‐based cohort study. Emergency Medicine Australasia. 36(3). 348–355. 1 indexed citations

Bagot, Kathleen L., Tara Purvis, Henry Zhao, et al.. (2023). Interdisciplinary interactions, social systems and technical infrastructure required for successful implementation of mobile stroke units: A qualitative process evaluation. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29(3). 495–512. 2 indexed citations

Bartlett, Stephen T., et al.. (2023). Do Australian Paramedics Understand Their Professional and Legal Obligations Regarding Child Abuse and Neglect?. 6(1). 59–77.

Christensen, Helle Collatz, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Fredrik Folke, et al.. (2023). Role of alcohol in urgent ambulance contacts in 15-24-year-olds in Copenhagen: a descriptive population-based study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e000433–e000433. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Libang, Adam Gilbertsen, Xia Hong, et al.. (2023). Hypoxia enhances IPF mesenchymal progenitor cell fibrogenicity via the lactate/GPR81/HIF1α pathway. JCI Insight. 8(4). 37 indexed citations

Andrew, Emily, Shelley Cox, & Karen Smith. (2022). Linking Ambulance Records with Hospital and Death Index Data to Evaluate Patient Outcomes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations

Paratz, E., Dominica Zentner, Natalie Morgan, et al.. (2022). Causes, circumstances, and potential preventability of cardiac arrest in the young: insights from a state-wide clinical and forensic registry. EP Europace. 24(12). 1933–1941. 23 indexed citations

Akhlaghi, Hamed, et al.. (2022). Intubation Rates following Prehospital Administration of Ketamine for Acute Agitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Prehospital Emergency Care. 27(8). 1016–1030. 7 indexed citations

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Fernando, Himawan, Karlheinz Peter, Stephen Bernard, et al.. (2021). Association between pre-hospital chest pain severity and myocardial injury in ST elevation myocardial infarction: A post-hoc analysis of the AVOID study. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 37. 100899–100899. 2 indexed citations

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Hobbie, Wendy L., Yimei Li, Claire Carlson, et al.. (2021). Late effects in survivors of high‐risk neuroblastoma following stem cell transplant with and without total body irradiation. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 69(3). e29537–e29537. 11 indexed citations

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Howell, Stuart, Stephen Bernard, Karen Smith, et al.. (2021). Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in emergency departments. Resuscitation. 166. 21–30. 10 indexed citations

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Paratz, E., Karen Smith, Jocasta Ball, et al.. (2021). The economic impact of sudden cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 163. 49–56. 16 indexed citations

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Scott, Debbie, Rowan P. Ogeil, Kerri Coomber, et al.. (2021). Alcohol Accessibility and Family Violence-related Ambulance Attendances. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37(13-14). NP10661–NP10682. 4 indexed citations

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Olaussen, Alexander, Karen Smith, Steve Bernard, et al.. (2020). Paramedic streaming upon arrival in emergency department: A prospective study. Emergency Medicine Australasia. 33(2). 286–291. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Karen, Mark Fitzgerald, Biswadev Mitra, et al.. (2020). Finger thoracostomy in patients with chest trauma performed by paramedics on a helicopter emergency medical service. Emergency Medicine Australasia. 32(4). 650–656. 22 indexed citations

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Giebner, Matthias, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Karen Smith, et al.. (2019). “Hand hygiene perception and self-reported hand hygiene compliance among emergency medical service providers: a Danish survey”. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. 27(1). 10–10. 17 indexed citations

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Arunogiri, Shalini, et al.. (2019). Trends in gamma‐hydroxybutyrate‐related harms based on ambulance attendances from 2012 to 2018 in Victoria, Australia. Addiction. 115(3). 473–479. 23 indexed citations

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Scott, Debbie, Rose Crossin, Rowan P. Ogeil, Karen Smith, & Dan I. Lubman. (2018). Exploring Harms Experienced by Children Aged 7 to 11 Using Ambulance Attendance Data: A 6-Year Comparison with Adolescents Aged 12–17. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(7). 1385–1385. 9 indexed citations

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Stub, Dion, Karen Smith, Stephen Bernard, et al.. (2015). Air Versus Oxygen in ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Circulation. 131(24). 2143–2150. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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