Kay Thomas

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kay Thomas is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Kay Thomas has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 31 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 26 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Kay Thomas's work include Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments (36 papers), Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies (31 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (19 papers). Kay Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments (36 papers), Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies (31 papers) and Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments (19 papers). Kay Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Kay Thomas's co-authors include Jonathan Glass, Nicholas J. Hegarty, Matthew Bultitude, Kathie Wong, Timothy O’Brien, Eleanor Ray, Tim O’Brien, Muhammad Shamim Khan, Kathryn Chatterton and Ashish Chandra and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Applied Physics Letters and Kidney International.

In The Last Decade

Kay Thomas

77 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Best Practice in Interventional Management of Urolithiasi... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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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.

  1. Best Practice in Interventional Management of Urolithiasis: An Update from the European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel for Urolithiasis 2022
    2022 133 citations Robert Geraghty, Niall F. Davis et al. European Urology Focus profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kay Thomas United Kingdom 23 1.1k 744 440 253 174 81 1.8k
Malcolm Lewis United Kingdom 23 193 0.2× 419 0.6× 172 0.4× 155 0.6× 30 0.2× 96 1.6k
Øystein E. Olsen United Kingdom 31 414 0.4× 795 1.1× 642 1.5× 147 0.6× 83 0.5× 79 3.1k
Stephen R. Payne United Kingdom 20 588 0.6× 392 0.5× 225 0.5× 240 0.9× 219 1.3× 86 1.3k
Florian Recker Germany 17 343 0.3× 184 0.2× 252 0.6× 85 0.3× 110 0.6× 164 1.1k
Francesco Esperto Italy 23 739 0.7× 176 0.2× 1.0k 2.3× 510 2.0× 118 0.7× 152 2.5k
Shilajit Kundu United States 24 1.5k 1.4× 102 0.1× 642 1.5× 332 1.3× 67 0.4× 94 2.5k
Roshni Kulkarni United States 34 110 0.1× 443 0.6× 220 0.5× 11 0.0× 162 0.9× 147 3.4k
Alexander Small United States 17 459 0.4× 75 0.1× 209 0.5× 112 0.4× 67 0.4× 74 865
Caro C.E. Koning Netherlands 24 610 0.6× 923 1.2× 255 0.6× 35 0.1× 7 0.0× 50 2.2k
Matthew T. Heller United States 21 344 0.3× 58 0.1× 611 1.4× 62 0.2× 25 0.1× 80 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kay Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kay Thomas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (2023). Fournier’s gangrene reconstruction: A 10-year retrospective analysis of practice at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery. 80. 13–15. 7 indexed citations
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Coleman, Jonathan, Susanne Gabrielsson, Jonna Skov Madsen, et al.. (2023). Consultation on UTUC II Stockholm 2022: diagnostic and prognostic methods—what’s around the corner?. World Journal of Urology. 41(12). 3405–3411. 3 indexed citations
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Baard, Joyce, Matthew Bultitude, Francis X. Keeley, et al.. (2023). Consultation on UTUC II Stockholm 2022: diagnostics, prognostication, and follow-up—where are we today?. World Journal of Urology. 41(12). 3395–3403. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (2022). Cystinuria: An Overview of Challenges and Surgical Management. Frontiers in Surgery. 9. 812226–812226. 5 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (2021). Assessing the quality and readability of NHS urology webpages in England. Journal of Clinical Urology. 15(5). 429–433. 1 indexed citations
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Eisner, Brian H., David S. Goldfarb, Michelle A. Baum, et al.. (2020). Evaluation and Medical Management of Patients with Cystine Nephrolithiasis: A Consensus Statement. Journal of Endourology. 34(11). 1103–1110. 28 indexed citations
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Servais, Aude, Kay Thomas, Luca Dello Strologo, et al.. (2020). Cystinuria: clinical practice recommendation. Kidney International. 99(1). 48–58. 65 indexed citations
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Axelsson, Tomas, Cecilia Maria Cracco, Mahesh Desai, et al.. (2020). Correction to: Consultation on kidney stones, Copenhagen 2019: lithotripsy in percutaneous nephrolithotomy. World Journal of Urology. 39(6). 1671–1672. 2 indexed citations
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Donaldson, James F., Yasir Ruhayel, Andreas Skolarikos, et al.. (2019). Treatment of Bladder Stones in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on Behalf of the European Association of Urology Urolithiasis Guideline Panel. European Urology. 76(3). 352–367. 39 indexed citations
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Kum, Francesca, Kathie Wong, David Game, Matthew Bultitude, & Kay Thomas. (2019). Hypertension and renal impairment in patients with cystinuria: findings from a specialist cystinuria centre. Urolithiasis. 47(4). 357–363. 17 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (2019). Reduction of last-minute cancellations in elective urology surgery: A quality improvement study. International Journal of Surgery. 74. 29–33. 6 indexed citations
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Bultitude, Matthew & Kay Thomas. (2017). Predicting stone episodes using cystine capacity. Nature Reviews Urology. 15(1). 8–9. 1 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, Kathie Wong, John Withington, Matthew Bultitude, & Angela Doherty. (2014). Cystinuria—a urologist's perspective. Nature Reviews Urology. 11(5). 270–277. 54 indexed citations
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Ghani, Khurshid R., Matthew Bultitude, Nicholas J. Hegarty, Kay Thomas, & Jonathan Glass. (2012). Flexible ureterorenoscopy (URS) for lower pole calculi. British Journal of Urology. 110(2). 294–298. 11 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (2011). The Guy's Stone Score—Grading the Complexity of Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Procedures. Urology. 78(2). 277–281. 313 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay & Timothy O’Brien. (2009). BLUE‐SKY THINKING ABOUT BLUE‐LIGHT CYSTOSCOPY. British Journal of Urology. 104(7). 887–889. 7 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kay, et al.. (1996). How complete is a transurethral resection of the prostate ?. British Journal of Urology. 77(3). 398–400. 18 indexed citations
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Hutchinson, M. H. R. & Kay Thomas. (1983). High-efficiency generation of narrow bandwidth tunable VUV radiation. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 19(12). 1823–1826. 11 indexed citations

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