Kenan Direk

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 799 citations indexed

About

Kenan Direk is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenan Direk has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 799 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Epidemiology, 5 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kenan Direk's work include Chronic Disease Management Strategies (5 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (3 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Kenan Direk is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Disease Management Strategies (5 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (3 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Kenan Direk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Kenan Direk's co-authors include Arturo González-Izquierdo, Juan P. Casas, Harry Hemingway, Spiros Denaxas, Fergus P. McCarthy, David Prieto‐Merino, Lucy C. Chappell, Lydia J. Leon, Aroon D. Hingorani and Valerie Kuan and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kenan Direk

18 papers receiving 786 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.

Preeclampsia and Cardiovascular Disease in a Large UK Pregnancy Cohort of Linked Electronic Health Records

2019 187 citations Lydia J. Leon, Fergus P. McCarthy et al. Circulation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kenan Direk United Kingdom	12	184	169	160	158	121	20	799
Samantha R. Seals United States	17	299 1.6×	181 1.1×	109 0.7×	161 1.0×	129 1.1×	49	1.1k
Fu‐Wen Liang Taiwan	17	139 0.8×	104 0.6×	122 0.8×	156 1.0×	220 1.8×	106	1.1k
Sarah Gadd United Kingdom	5	295 1.6×	100 0.6×	33 0.2×	87 0.6×	83 0.7×	8	950
Rajesh Rajput India	21	88 0.5×	94 0.6×	254 1.6×	128 0.8×	245 2.0×	132	1.4k
Kwang‐Sig Lee South Korea	21	75 0.4×	90 0.5×	76 0.5×	106 0.7×	191 1.6×	123	1.1k
Joan Largent United States	24	57 0.3×	252 1.5×	179 1.1×	127 0.8×	114 0.9×	58	1.5k
Eija Tomás Finland	22	88 0.5×	267 1.6×	876 5.5×	225 1.4×	72 0.6×	56	1.8k
Amanda C. Filiberto United States	14	132 0.7×	157 0.9×	62 0.4×	117 0.7×	54 0.4×	47	932
Jee-Ae Kim South Korea	9	118 0.6×	105 0.6×	46 0.3×	55 0.3×	204 1.7×	12	1.2k
Kelly Getz United States	17	151 0.8×	218 1.3×	46 0.3×	330 2.1×	228 1.9×	90	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenan Direk

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Chapman, Robert, et al.. (2025). Mortality Outcomes and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Use in Patients With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. CHEST Journal. 169(1). 139–147.

Chapman, Robert, et al.. (2024). Delineating excess comorbidities in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: an observational study. Respiratory Research. 25(1). 249–249. 4 indexed citations

Topriceanu, Constantin‐Cristian, Mahmood Ahmad, Rebecca Hughes, et al.. (2023). Accelerated DNA methylation age plays a role in the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the human heart. Clinical Epigenetics. 15(1). 164–164. 11 indexed citations

Huebner, Gesche, Tadj Oreszczyn, Kenan Direk, & Ian Hamilton. (2022). The relationship between the built environment and subjective wellbeing – Analysis of cross-sectional data from the English Housing Survey. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 80. 101763–101763. 13 indexed citations

Banerjee, Amitava, Laura Pasea, Sheng‐Chia Chung, et al.. (2021). A population‐based study of 92 clinically recognized risk factors for heart failure: co‐occurrence, prognosis and preventive potential. European Journal of Heart Failure. 24(3). 466–480. 15 indexed citations

Kuan, Valerie, Melanie Hingorani, Spiros Denaxas, et al.. (2021). Data-driven identification of ageing-related diseases from electronic health records. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 2938–2938. 23 indexed citations

Huebner, Gesche, et al.. (2021). Survey study on energy use in UK homes during Covid-19. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 952–952. 15 indexed citations

Kuan, Valerie, Spiros Denaxas, Arturo González-Izquierdo, et al.. (2019). A chronological map of 308 physical and mental health conditions from 4 million individuals in the English National Health Service. The Lancet Digital Health. 1(2). e63–e77. 174 indexed citations

Uijl, Alicia, Stefan Koudstaal, Kenan Direk, et al.. (2019). Risk Factors for Incident Heart Failure in Age- and Sex-Specific Strata: A Population-Based Cohort Using Linked Electronic Health Records. European Journal of Heart Failure. 21(10). 1197–1206. 39 indexed citations

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Williamson, Elizabeth M., Spiros Denaxas, Stephen Morris, et al.. (2019). Risk of mortality and cardiovascular events following macrolide prescription in chronic rhinosinusitis patients: a cohort study using linked primary care electronic health records. Rhinology Journal. 0(0). 252–260. 10 indexed citations

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Denaxas, Spiros, Arturo González-Izquierdo, Natalie Fitzpatrick, Kenan Direk, & Harry Hemingway. (2019). Phenotyping UK Electronic Health Records from 15 Million Individuals for Precision Medicine: The CALIBER Resource. Studies in health technology and informatics. 262. 220–223. 7 indexed citations

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Mackintosh, Maxine, Robert W Aldridge, Martin N. Rossor, et al.. (2019). Dementia recognition, diagnosis, and treatment in the UK, 1997–2017: a change-point analysis. The Lancet. 394. S70–S70.

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Härmälä, Suvi, Alastair O’Brien, Constantinos A. Parisinos, et al.. (2019). Development and validation of a prediction model to estimate the risk of liver cirrhosis in primary care patients with abnormal liver blood test results: protocol for an electronic health record study in Clinical Practice Research Datalink. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 10–10. 6 indexed citations

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Leon, Lydia J., Fergus P. McCarthy, Kenan Direk, et al.. (2019). Preeclampsia and Cardiovascular Disease in a Large UK Pregnancy Cohort of Linked Electronic Health Records. Circulation. 140(13). 1050–1060. 187 indexed citations breakdown →

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Denaxas, Spiros, Arturo González-Izquierdo, Kenan Direk, et al.. (2019). UK phenomics platform for developing and validating electronic health record phenotypes: CALIBER. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 26(12). 1545–1559. 117 indexed citations

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Denaxas, Spiros, Kenan Direk, Arturo González-Izquierdo, et al.. (2017). Methods for enhancing the reproducibility of biomedical research findings using electronic health records. BioData Mining. 10(1). 31–31. 21 indexed citations

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Direk, Kenan, Winston Lau, Kerrin S. Small, Nikolas Maniatis, & Toby Andrew. (2014). ABCC5 Transporter is a Novel Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Gene in European and African American Populations. Annals of Human Genetics. 78(5). 333–344. 13 indexed citations

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Vehof, Jelle, Diana Kozareva, Pirro G. Hysi, et al.. (2013). Prevalence and Determinants of Dry Eye Disease in a British Female Cohort. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). 2665–2665. 2 indexed citations

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Vehof, Jelle, Diana Kozareva, Pirro G. Hysi, et al.. (2013). Relationship Between Dry Eye Symptoms and Pain Sensitivity. JAMA Ophthalmology. 131(10). 1304–1304. 84 indexed citations

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Direk, Kenan, Marina Cecelja, William J. Astle, et al.. (2013). The relationship between DXA-based and anthropometric measures of visceral fat and morbidity in women. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. 13(1). 25–25. 58 indexed citations

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