Keith Stokes

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
243 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

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Keith Stokes is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Stokes has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 197 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 72 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 67 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Keith Stokes's work include Sports injuries and prevention (172 papers), Sports Performance and Training (82 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (68 papers). Keith Stokes is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (172 papers), Sports Performance and Training (82 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (68 papers). Keith Stokes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. Keith Stokes's co-authors include Grant Trewartha, Simon Kemp, Sean Williams, Simon Roberts, Matthew Cross, Dylan Thompson, Mike England, Carly McKay, George Hall and Michael England and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Keith Stokes

227 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Prevention strategies and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussions and head impacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The financial cost of injuries and their association with team success in professional men's cricket 2025 ·Journal of science and medicine in sport ·Amy E. Williams, (unknown), (unknown), Ben Langley, (unknown), Carly McKay, Keith Stokes, Sean Williams	0
2	The effect of lowering the maximum tackle height in English Schoolboy rugby union on tackle characteristics and all-injury and concussion rates 2025 ·Journal of science and medicine in sport ·Simon Roberts, Stephen West, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James Brown, (unknown), (unknown), Carly McKay, Simon Kemp, (unknown), Keith Stokes	0
3	Head Acceleration Event Exposure During Elite Men’s and Women’s Rugby Union Training 2025 ·Sports Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Sawczuk, Dario Cazzola, Matt R. Cross, Ben Jones, Simon Kemp, Sarah Whitehead, Keith Stokes	0
4	Concussion knowledge and attitude of English youth rugby players: the RUCKAS-YOUTH survey 2025 ·BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nicola Brown, Stephen Patterson, Keith Stokes, Simon Kemp	0
5	Optimising Instrumented Mouthguard Data Analysis: Video Synchronisation Using a Cross-correlation Approach 2025 ·Annals of Biomedical Engineering ·(unknown), Steven Rowson, Kevin Till, David Allan, Melanie D. Bussey, Dario Cazzola, Éanna Falvey, Kenzie B. Friesen, Andrew J. Gardner, Cameron Owen, Gregory Roe, Thomas Sawczuk, Lindsay Starling, Keith Stokes, Gregory Tierney, Ross Tucker, (unknown)	1
6	Can a novel computer vision-based framework detect head-on-head impacts during a rugby league tackle? 2025 ·Injury Prevention ·(unknown), Dan Weaving, Andrew J. Gardner, Sharief Hendricks, Keith Stokes, Gemma Phillips, Matt R. Cross, Cameron Owen, Ben Jones	1
7	Injury in Starting and Replacement Players from Five Professional Men’s Rugby Unions 2024 ·Sports Medicine ·Simon Roberts, Keith Stokes, Sean Williams, Stephen West, Simon Kemp, Matt R. Cross, Isabel S. Moore, (unknown), (unknown), Kenneth L. Quarrie, Warren McDonald, Lauren V. Fortington, (unknown), Clint Readhead, Nicola Sewry, Éanna Falvey, Ross Tucker	2
8	Match injuries in English schoolboy rugby union 2024 ·BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), Simon Roberts, Carly McKay, Keith Stokes	6
9	The Incidence and Propensity of Head Acceleration Events in a Season of Men’s and Women’s English Elite-Level Club Rugby Union Matches 2024 ·Sports Medicine ·David Allan, (unknown), Lindsay Starling, Ross Tucker, Éanna Falvey, Danielle Salmon, James C. Brown, (unknown), Keith Stokes, Ben Jones, Simon Kemp, Patrick O’Halloran, Matt R. Cross, Gregory Tierney	9
10	Head Kinematics Associated with Off-Field Head Injury Assessment (HIA1) Events in a Season of English Elite-Level Club Men’s and Women’s Rugby Union Matches 2024 ·Sports Medicine ·David Allan, (unknown), Lindsay Starling, Ross Tucker, Éanna Falvey, Danielle Salmon, James Brown, (unknown), Keith Stokes, Ben Jones, Simon Kemp, Patrick O’Halloran, Matt R. Cross, Melanie D. Bussey, Gregory Tierney	5
11	Player and match characteristics associated with head acceleration events in elite-level men’s and women’s rugby union matches 2024 ·BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·David Allan, (unknown), Lindsay Starling, Ross Tucker, Éanna Falvey, Danielle Salmon, James Brown, (unknown), Keith Stokes, Ben Jones, Simon Kemp, Patrick O’Halloran, Matt R. Cross, Gregory Tierney	6
12	Artistic gymnastics-specific extension of the IOC 2020 consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2024 ·BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·Ellen Casey, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David W. Kruse, (unknown), (unknown), Jean Mathieu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Keith Stokes	0
13	Feasibility and acceptability of a new shoulder-specific warm-up programme to prevent injuries in community youth rugby union as compared to the FIFA 11+ 2023 ·International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching ·(unknown), Keith Stokes, Carly McKay	1
14	Annual incidence and prevalence of injuries in elite male academy cricketers: A 4-year prospective cohort study 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Amy E. Williams, Nicholas Peirce, (unknown), Ben Langley, Carly McKay, Keith Stokes, Sean Williams	0
15	Tackling sport-related concussion: effectiveness of lowering the maximum legal height of the tackle in amateur male rugby – a cross-sectional analytical study 2022 ·Injury Prevention ·(unknown), Lindsay Starling, (unknown), (unknown), Wilbur Kraak, Pieter‐Henk Boer, Esmé Jordaan, Sharief Hendricks, Keith Stokes, Wayne Derman, James Brown	21
16	Novel biomechanical injury risk score demonstrates correlation with lower limb posterior chain injury in 50 elite-level rugby union athletes 2021 ·BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine ·(unknown), Matt R. Cross, Keith Stokes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	4
17	End-to-end SARS-CoV-2 transmission risks in sport: Current evidence and practical recommendations 2021 ·South African Journal of Sports Medicine ·Ben Jones, Gemma Phillips, (unknown), Thomas Edwards, Emily R. Adams, Lucia Bonadonna, Robert A. Copeland, (unknown), Caroline Dalton, Lisa Hodgson, Alfonso Jiménez, Simon Kemp, Jon Patricios, Vincenzo Romano Spica, Keith Stokes, Mike Weed, Clive Beggs	2
18	The influence of changes in sprint ability on the sled velocity profile during the skeleton start 2016 ·The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath) ·Steffi Colyer, Keith Stokes, James Bilzon, Aki Salo	2
19	Forces generated in rugby union machine scrummaging at various playing levels 2012 ·Proceedings of the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury conference ·Ezio Preatoni, Keith Stokes, Mike England, Grant Trewartha	7
20	Reliability of the growth hormone response to a single 30 s cycle ergometer sprint 2003 ·Journal of Sports Sciences ·Keith Stokes, Mary E. Nevill, G. M. Hall, H. K. A. Lakomy	1

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