Kristen Pickles

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kristen Pickles is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Oncology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristen Pickles has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in General Health Professions, 17 papers in Oncology and 13 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Kristen Pickles's work include Healthcare cost, quality, practices (13 papers), Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (12 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (11 papers). Kristen Pickles is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare cost, quality, practices (13 papers), Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (12 papers) and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (11 papers). Kristen Pickles collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Kristen Pickles's co-authors include Maree L. Hackett, Kirsten McCaffery, Rachael H Dodd, Erin Cvejic, Brooke Nickel, Carissa Bonner, Orkan Okan, Kevin Dadaczynski, Julie Ayre and Tessa Copp and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Kristen Pickles

52 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Part I: Frequency of Depression after Stroke: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

2014 796 citations Kristen Pickles et al. profile →
Psychological Wellbeing and Academic Experience of University Students in Australia during COVID-19

2021 246 citations Rachael H Dodd, Kirsten McCaffery et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kristen Pickles Australia	19	578	531	417	398	328	60	2.4k
Joseph T. Hepworth United States	32	531 0.9×	187 0.4×	350 0.8×	490 1.2×	302 0.9×	89	3.0k
Pauline Campbell United Kingdom	24	1.0k 1.8×	788 1.5×	572 1.4×	472 1.2×	377 1.1×	66	3.3k
Benjamin D. Schalet United States	24	398 0.7×	108 0.2×	338 0.8×	810 2.0×	453 1.4×	61	3.3k
Sarah C. Smith United Kingdom	26	809 1.4×	380 0.7×	275 0.7×	238 0.6×	915 2.8×	80	2.7k
Hanoch Livneh United States	30	488 0.8×	149 0.3×	318 0.8×	913 2.3×	469 1.4×	155	3.3k
Zoë Hoare United Kingdom	24	713 1.2×	261 0.5×	165 0.4×	316 0.8×	1.1k 3.5×	114	2.2k
Lauren Terhorst United States	25	436 0.8×	178 0.3×	221 0.5×	212 0.5×	318 1.0×	133	1.8k
Colin Pritchard United Kingdom	30	618 1.1×	157 0.3×	224 0.5×	1.3k 3.2×	268 0.8×	168	3.0k
Heather Becker United States	31	787 1.4×	96 0.2×	248 0.6×	505 1.3×	545 1.7×	150	3.1k
David Smith Australia	23	442 0.8×	153 0.3×	205 0.5×	836 2.1×	270 0.8×	97	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kristen Pickles

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kristen Pickles

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kristen Pickles

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kristen Pickles. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kristen Pickles 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 Kristen Pickles. Kristen Pickles is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pickles, Kristen, et al.. (2025). Reducing pathology testing in emergency departments: A scoping review. Australasian Emergency Care. 28(4). 250–263.

Pickles, Kristen, et al.. (2025). Switch It Off! Carbon, Financial and Health Service Impacts of Switching Off a Computed Tomography Scanner: A Quality Improvement Study. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences. 72(4). 430–438.

Pickles, Kristen, et al.. (2025). Gloves off!: Environmental and financial impacts of an educational intervention to improve hand hygiene. A quality improvement study. Infection Disease & Health. 31(1). 100382–100382.

Nickel, Brooke, Tessa Copp, Jolyn Hersch, et al.. (2025). Social Media Marketing of Non-Evidence-Based Women's Health Interventions: Protocol for a Content Analysis Using Participatory Research Methods. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e76750–e76750.

Pickles, Kristen, Romi Haas, Michelle Guppy, et al.. (2024). Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review. BMJ evidence-based medicine. 29(5). 300–312. 5 indexed citations

Bonner, Carissa, Samuel Cornell, Kristen Pickles, et al.. (2024). Implementing decision aids for cardiovascular disease prevention: stakeholder interviews and case studies in Australian primary care. BMC Primary Care. 25(1). 49–49.

Zadro, Joshua R, Kristen Pickles, Tessa Copp, et al.. (2024). RECITAL: a non-inferiority randomised control trial evaluating a virtual fracture clinic compared with in-person care for people with simple fractures (study protocol). BMJ Open. 14(2). e080800–e080800.

Bonner, Carissa, Carys Batcup, Erin Cvejic, et al.. (2023). Addressing Behavioral Barriers to COVID-19 Testing With Health Literacy–Sensitive eHealth Interventions: Results From 2 National Surveys and 2 Randomized Experiments. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 9. e40441–e40441. 7 indexed citations

Muscat, Danielle Marie, Julie Ayre, Olivia Mac, et al.. (2022). Psychological, social and financial impacts of COVID-19 on culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Sydney, Australia. BMJ Open. 12(5). e058323–e058323. 9 indexed citations

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Cornell, Samuel, Julie Ayre, Olivia Mac, et al.. (2022). Collateral positives of COVID-19 for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Western Sydney, Australia. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0278923–e0278923. 2 indexed citations

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Ayre, Julie, Danielle Marie Muscat, Olivia Mac, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Willingness: Cross-Sectional Survey in a Culturally Diverse Community in Sydney, Australia. Health Equity. 6(1). 965–974. 6 indexed citations

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Glasziou, Paul, Kirsten McCaffery, Erin Cvejic, et al.. (2022). Testing behaviour may bias observational studies of vaccine effectiveness. Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. 7(3). 242–246. 12 indexed citations

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Ayre, Julie, Danielle Marie Muscat, Olivia Mac, et al.. (2022). Main COVID-19 information sources in a culturally and linguistically diverse community in Sydney, Australia: A cross-sectional survey. Patient Education and Counseling. 105(8). 2793–2800. 16 indexed citations

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Bonner, Carissa, Erin Cvejic, Julie Ayre, et al.. (2021). The Psychological Impact of Hypertension During COVID-19 Restrictions: Retrospective Case-Control Study. JMIRx Med. 2(1). e25610–e25610. 10 indexed citations

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Pickles, Kristen, et al.. (2021). Understanding women’s choices for management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2 (CIN2): Qualitative analysis of a randomised experimental study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 62(1). 125–132. 3 indexed citations

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Isautier, Jennifer, Tessa Copp, Julie Ayre, et al.. (2020). People’s Experiences and Satisfaction With Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: Cross-Sectional Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(12). e24531–e24531. 157 indexed citations

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Pickles, Kristen, Erin Cvejic, Brooke Nickel, et al.. (2020). COVID-19 Misinformation Trends in Australia: Prospective Longitudinal National Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(1). e23805–e23805. 125 indexed citations

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McCaffery, Kirsten, Rachael H Dodd, Erin Cvejic, et al.. (2020). Health literacy and disparities in COVID-19–related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in Australia. Public Health Research & Practice. 30(4). 187 indexed citations

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Cust, Anne Ε., Kristen Pickles, Chris Goumas, et al.. (2015). Accuracy of Self-Reported Nevus and Pigmentation Phenotype Compared with Clinical Assessment in a Population-Based Study of Young Australian Adults. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(4). 736–743. 12 indexed citations

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Pickles, Kristen, Stacy M. Carter, & Lucie Rychetnik. (2015). Doctors’ approaches to PSA testing and overdiagnosis in primary healthcare: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 5(3). e006367–e006367. 35 indexed citations

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