Kurt Link

798 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 548 citations indexed

About

Kurt Link is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Family Practice. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Link has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 548 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Infectious Diseases, 1 paper in General Health Professions and 1 paper in Family Practice. Recurrent topics in Kurt Link's work include Child and Adolescent Health (1 paper), Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (1 paper) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (1 paper). Kurt Link is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Health (1 paper), Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (1 paper) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (1 paper). Kurt Link collaborates with scholars based in . Kurt Link's co-authors include Robert M. Centor, John Witherspoon, Harry P. Dalton, David G. Buchsbaum and Juliana Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Human Pathology, Medical Decision Making and PubMed.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Link

4 papers receiving 506 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 Diagnosis of Strep Throat in Adults in the Emergency Room

1981 521 citations Robert M. Centor, John Witherspoon et al. Medical Decision Making profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kurt Link	3	405	341	144	89	67	4	548
John Witherspoon United States	5	407 1.0×	344 1.0×	148 1.0×	92 1.0×	69 1.0×	5	557
Leonardo A. Stroud United States	14	118 0.3×	188 0.6×	174 1.2×	108 1.2×	42 0.6×	16	623
Marc De Meyere Belgium	8	107 0.3×	63 0.2×	254 1.8×	70 0.8×	94 1.4×	19	504
George F. Warner India	6	105 0.3×	58 0.2×	394 2.7×	121 1.4×	164 2.4×	6	662
J. Langue France	11	106 0.3×	69 0.2×	253 1.8×	145 1.6×	28 0.4×	26	439
Francis Fredrick Tanzania	9	86 0.2×	103 0.3×	127 0.9×	13 0.1×	18 0.3×	21	376
Marvin A. H. Berrevoets Netherlands	13	71 0.2×	92 0.3×	166 1.2×	35 0.4×	74 1.1×	33	494
Barbara Johnson Australia	7	35 0.1×	138 0.4×	536 3.7×	75 0.8×	34 0.5×	15	724
Paul Huggan New Zealand	13	169 0.4×	199 0.6×	102 0.7×	22 0.2×	10 0.1×	25	443
Ioannis Kopsidas Greece	11	59 0.1×	152 0.4×	119 0.8×	43 0.5×	41 0.6×	30	398

Countries citing papers authored by Kurt Link

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Link

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Link

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

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

1.

Link, Kurt. (1987). The Uncertain Physician: Dilemmas and Decisions in Medical Practice. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 2 indexed citations

2.

Link, Kurt, Robert M. Centor, David G. Buchsbaum, & John Witherspoon. (1984). Why physicians don't pursue abnormal laboratory tests: An investigation of hypercalcemia and the follow-up of abnormal test results. Human Pathology. 15(1). 75–78. 16 indexed citations

3.

Link, Kurt, et al.. (1983). Leaving a medical service against advice.. PubMed. 110(2). 100–2. 9 indexed citations

4.

Centor, Robert M., et al.. (1981). The Diagnosis of Strep Throat in Adults in the Emergency Room. Medical Decision Making. 1(3). 239–246. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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