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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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 →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Smith

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Trends in paramedic-to-general practitioner referrals following the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of a virtual emergency department: an interrupted time series analysis 2025 ·Emergency Medicine Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Kelly‐Ann Bowles, Samantha Chakraborty, (unknown), Karen Smith, Jason Talevski, (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Refining ambulance clinical response models: The impact on ambulance response and emergency department presentations 2024 ·Emergency Medicine Australasia ·(unknown), Karen Smith, Colin Jones, Shelley Cox, Peter Cameron, Ziad Nehme	0
3	Interdisciplinary interactions, social systems and technical infrastructure required for successful implementation of mobile stroke units: A qualitative process evaluation 2023 ·Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice ·Kathleen L. Bagot, Tara Purvis, (unknown), Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, (unknown), Bruce Campbell, Steve Davis, Geoffrey A. Donnan, (unknown), (unknown), Karen Smith, Michael Stephenson, Stephen Bernard, (unknown), Bernard Yan, Peter Mitchell, Sandy Middleton, Dominique A. Cadilhac	2
4	Role of alcohol in urgent ambulance contacts in 15-24-year-olds in Copenhagen: a descriptive population-based study 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Helle Collatz Christensen, Stig Nikolaj Fasmer Blomberg, Fredrik Folke, (unknown), Veronica Pisinger, Karen Smith, Ulrik Becker, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup	1
5	Developing a consensus-based definition of out-of-hospital clinical deterioration: A Delphi study 2023 ·Australian Critical Care ·(unknown), Emma Bosley, Karen Smith, Ben Meadley, Kelly‐Ann Bowles	3
6	Linking Ambulance Records with Hospital and Death Index Data to Evaluate Patient Outcomes 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Emily Andrew, Shelley Cox, Karen Smith	22
7	Causes, circumstances, and potential preventability of cardiac arrest in the young: insights from a state-wide clinical and forensic registry 2022 ·EP Europace ·E. Paratz, (unknown), Dominica Zentner, Natalie Morgan, Karen Smith, Tina Thompson, Paul A. James, V. Connell, Andreas Pflaumer, Christopher Semsarian, Jodie Ingles, Sarah Parsons, Dion Stub, André La Gerche	23
8	Association between pre-hospital chest pain severity and myocardial injury in ST elevation myocardial infarction: A post-hoc analysis of the AVOID study 2021 ·IJC Heart & Vasculature ·Himawan Fernando, (unknown), Karlheinz Peter, Stephen Bernard, Michael Stephenson, Janet Bray, Paul S. Myles, (unknown), Peter Cameron, A. Ellims, Andrew J. Taylor, David M. Kaye, Karen Smith, Dion Stub	2
9	Late effects in survivors of high‐risk neuroblastoma following stem cell transplant with and without total body irradiation 2021 ·Pediatric Blood & Cancer ·Wendy L. Hobbie, Yimei Li, Claire Carlson, Samuel Goldfarb, Benjamin L. Laskin, Michelle Denburg, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, Sogol Mostoufi‐Moab, Jennifer J. Wilkes, Karen Smith, Nancy Sacks, Dava Szalda, Jill P. Ginsberg	11
10	Sex Differences in Prehospital Delays in Patients With ST‐Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention 2021 ·Journal of the American Heart Association ·Julia Stehli, Diem Dinh, (unknown), Stephen J. Duffy, Angela Brennan, Karen Smith, Emily Andrew, (unknown), Christopher M. Reid, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Dion Stub, Sarah Zaman	38
11	Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in emergency departments 2021 ·Resuscitation ·(unknown), Stuart Howell, Stephen Bernard, Karen Smith, Peter Cameron, Judith Finn, Dion Stub, Peter T. Morley, Janet Bray	10
12	The economic impact of sudden cardiac arrest 2021 ·Resuscitation ·E. Paratz, Karen Smith, Jocasta Ball, (unknown), Dominica Zentner, Sarah Parsons, Natalie Morgan, Tina Thompson, Paul A. James, Andreas Pflaumer, Christopher Semsarian, Dion Stub, Danny Liew, André La Gerche	16
13	Finger thoracostomy in patients with chest trauma performed by paramedics on a helicopter emergency medical service 2020 ·Emergency Medicine Australasia ·(unknown), (unknown), Karen Smith, Mark Fitzgerald, Biswadev Mitra, Alexander Olaussen, John Moloney, George Braitberg, Rodney Judson, Warwick J. Teague, (unknown), Yesul Kim, Stephen Bernard	22
14	Ambulance dispatch of older patients following primary and secondary telephone triage in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia: a retrospective cohort study 2020 ·BMJ Open ·Kathryn Eastwood, (unknown), (unknown), Judy Lowthian, Peter Cameron, Karen Smith	7
15	Economic evaluation of the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit 2020 ·International Journal of Stroke ·Joosup Kim, (unknown), Henry Zhao, Skye Coote, (unknown), Karen Smith, Michael Stephenson, Stephen Bernard, Mark Parsons, Bernard Yan, Patricia Desmond, Peter Mitchell, Bruce Campbell, Geoffrey A. Donnan, Stephen M. Davis, Dominique A. Cadilhac	39
16	Trends in gamma‐hydroxybutyrate‐related harms based on ambulance attendances from 2012 to 2018 in Victoria, Australia 2019 ·Addiction ·Shalini Arunogiri, (unknown), Rose Crossin, (unknown), Karen Smith, Debbie Scott, Dan I. Lubman	23
17	“Hand hygiene perception and self-reported hand hygiene compliance among emergency medical service providers: a Danish survey” 2019 ·Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Giebner, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Karen Smith, Maaret Castrén, Veronica Lindström, Marja Mäkinen, (unknown), Christian Backer Mogensen	17
18	Time series modelling to forecast prehospital EMS demand for diabetic emergencies 2017 ·BMC Health Services Research ·(unknown), Arul Earnest, Natalie Nanayakkara, Karen Smith, Barbora de Courten, Sophia Zoungas	26
19	Air Versus Oxygen in ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction breakdown → 2015 ·Circulation ·Dion Stub, Karen Smith, Stephen Bernard, Ziad Nehme, Michael Stephenson, Janet Bray, Peter Cameron, Bill Barger, A. Ellims, Andrew J. Taylor, Ian T. Meredith, David M. Kaye	318
20	Temporal trends in falls cases seen by EMS in Melbourne: The effect of residence on time of day and day of week patterns 2015 ·Injury ·Kate Cantwell, Stephen Burgess, Amee Morgans, Karen Smith, Michael Livingston, Paul Dietze	13

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