Kevin Thomas

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Kevin Thomas is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Complementary and alternative medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Thomas has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 48 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 22 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine. Recurrent topics in Kevin Thomas's work include Sports Performance and Training (47 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (31 papers) and Sports injuries and prevention (23 papers). Kevin Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (47 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (31 papers) and Sports injuries and prevention (23 papers). Kevin Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Kevin Thomas's co-authors include Stuart Goodall, Glyn Howatson, Stephen D. Cook, Paul Ansdell, Kirsty M. Hicks, John F. Kay, Michael Jarcho, Philip R. Hayes, Duncan N. French and Sandra K. Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of Physiology and Journal of Neurophysiology.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Thomas

89 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

The Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Exercise Performance in Eumenorrheic Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2020 435 citations Kelly L. McNulty, Kirsty J. Elliott‐Sale et al. Sports Medicine profile →
Physiological sex differences affect the integrative response to exercise: acute and chronic implications

2020 252 citations Paul Ansdell, Kevin Thomas et al. Experimental Physiology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kevin Thomas	2.4k	1.9k	957	777	638	95	4.7k
Martino V. Franchi	1.5k 0.6×	992 0.5×	304 0.3×	395 0.5×	380 0.6×	111	3.2k
Sabino Padilla	2.9k 1.2×	409 0.2×	1.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	612 1.0×	77	5.1k
Mark I. Johnson	896 0.4×	791 0.4×	813 0.8×	1.5k 1.9×	308 0.5×	235	7.7k
Chris Bleakley	6.1k 2.5×	2.1k 1.1×	359 0.4×	1.6k 2.1×	1.1k 1.7×	129	7.8k
Sophia Nimphius	5.6k 2.4×	2.3k 1.2×	770 0.8×	645 0.8×	202 0.3×	139	6.6k
Dirk Cambier	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	185 0.2×	2.9k 3.7×	435 0.7×	135	7.5k
Timo Rantalainen	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	203 0.2×	531 0.7×	193 0.3×	177	3.8k
Iñigo Mujika	7.2k 3.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 2.7×	864 1.1×	1.4k 2.2×	172	9.7k
Deborah Falla	2.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.6×	451 0.5×	2.9k 3.8×	844 1.3×	426	13.1k
Craig R. Denegar	3.8k 1.6×	1.9k 1.0×	220 0.2×	1.5k 1.9×	762 1.2×	140	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Thomas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Thomas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Thomas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin Thomas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin Thomas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kevin Thomas. Kevin Thomas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Ansdell, Paul, Rodrigo Vitório, Kevin Thomas, et al.. (2025). There Are No Differences in Startle Conditioned Cervicomedullary Motor Evoked Potentials Across Isometric, Concentric, and Eccentric Muscle Actions at the Same Absolute Force Output. European Journal of Neuroscience. 62(3). e70205–e70205. 1 indexed citations

Ansdell, Paul, Luca Angius, Kevin Thomas, et al.. (2025). Reticulospinal function can be measured in the tibialis anterior using the StartReact method. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2(2). 129–136. 1 indexed citations

Ansdell, Paul, Luca Angius, Kevin Thomas, et al.. (2024). Changes in motor unit behaviour across repeated bouts of eccentric exercise. Experimental Physiology. 109(11). 1896–1908. 2 indexed citations

Angius, Luca, Alessandro Del Vecchio, Stuart Goodall, et al.. (2024). Supraspinal, spinal, and motor unit adjustments to fatiguing isometric contractions of the knee extensors at low and high submaximal intensities in males. Journal of Applied Physiology. 136(6). 1546–1558.

Angius, Luca, Paul Ansdell, Jakob Škarabot, et al.. (2024). Anodal tDCS improves neuromuscular adaptations to short-term resistance training of the knee extensors in healthy individuals. Journal of Neurophysiology. 132(6). 1793–1804. 4 indexed citations

McNulty, Kelly L., Kirsty J. Elliott‐Sale, Eimear Dolan, et al.. (2020). The Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Exercise Performance in Eumenorrheic Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine. 50(10). 1813–1827. 435 indexed citations breakdown →

Evans, Martin, et al.. (2020). Four weeks of augmented eccentric loading using a novel leg press device improved leg strength in well-trained athletes and professional sprint track cyclists. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0236663–e0236663. 7 indexed citations

Brownstein, Callum G., Paul Ansdell, Jakob Škarabot, et al.. (2018). An optimal protocol for measurement of corticospinal excitability, short intracortical inhibition and intracortical facilitation in the rectus femoris. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 394. 45–56. 44 indexed citations

Goodall, Stuart, Kevin Thomas, Liam D. Harper, et al.. (2017). The assessment of neuromuscular fatigue during 120 min of simulated soccer exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 117(4). 687–697. 41 indexed citations

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Ansdell, Paul, Kevin Thomas, Glyn Howatson, Sandra K. Hunter, & Stuart Goodall. (2017). Contraction intensity and sex differences in knee-extensor fatigability. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 37. 68–74. 50 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin, Jack Dent, Glyn Howatson, & Stuart Goodall. (2017). Etiology and Recovery of Neuromuscular Fatigue after Simulated Soccer Match Play. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 49(5). 955–964. 81 indexed citations

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Ansdell, Paul, Kevin Thomas, Glyn Howatson, Markus Amann, & Stuart Goodall. (2017). Deception Improves Time Trial Performance in Well-trained Cyclists without Augmented Fatigue. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 50(4). 809–816. 18 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin, et al.. (2016). Intensity-Dependent Contribution of Neuromuscular Fatigue after Constant-Load Cycling. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 48(9). 1751–1760. 106 indexed citations

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Keane, Karen M., et al.. (2015). Muscle Damage Response in Female Collegiate Athletes After Repeated Sprint Activity. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 29(10). 2802–2807. 39 indexed citations

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Stone, Mark R., Kevin Thomas, Mick Wilkinson, Alan St Clair Gibson, & Kevin Thompson. (2011). Consistency of perceptual and metabolic responses to a laboratory-based simulated 4,000-m cycling time trial. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 111(8). 1807–1813. 70 indexed citations

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Hayes, Philip R., Duncan N. French, & Kevin Thomas. (2011). The Effect of Muscular Endurance on Running Economy. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 25(9). 2464–2469. 11 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin, Duncan N. French, & Philip R. Hayes. (2009). The Effect of Two Plyometric Training Techniques on Muscular Power and Agility in Youth Soccer Players. The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 23(1). 332–335. 287 indexed citations

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Hayes, Philip R., et al.. (2009). Development of a Simulated Round of Golf. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 4(4). 506–516. 7 indexed citations

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Bloebaum, Roy D., et al.. (1993). Roentgenographic procedure for selecting proximal femur allograft for use in revision arthroplasty. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 8(4). 347–360. 20 indexed citations

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Thomas, Kevin & Stephen D. Cook. (1985). An evaluation of variables influencing implant fixation by direct bone apposition. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 19(8). 875–901. 251 indexed citations

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