Laura Weeks

78.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 27.9k citations indexed

About

Laura Weeks is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Complementary and alternative medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Weeks has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 27.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine. Recurrent topics in Laura Weeks's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (7 papers) and Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (6 papers). Laura Weeks is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers), Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (7 papers) and Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (6 papers). Laura Weeks collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Laura Weeks's co-authors include David Moher, Kenneth F. Schulz, Jonathan A C Sterne, Julian P. T. Higgins, Jelena Savović, Peter C Gøtzsche, Andrew D Oxman, Peter Jüni, Doug Altman and Douglas G. Altman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Internal Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Laura Weeks

40 papers receiving 27.5k 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.

The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

2011 26.4k citations Julian P. T. Higgins, Doug Altman et al. BMJ profile →
Consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) and the completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published in medical journals

2012 531 citations Lucy Turner, Larissa Shamseer et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Weeks Canada	16	6.2k	3.6k	3.3k	3.2k	2.9k	43	27.9k
Jelena Savović United Kingdom	32	7.2k 1.1×	4.2k 1.2×	4.2k 1.3×	4.0k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	99	33.9k
Crispin Jenkinson United Kingdom	54	5.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	163	26.5k
Gang Qiu China	27	4.5k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	105	22.2k
Alejandro R. Jadad Canada	46	5.9k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	143	28.6k
Philippe Ravaud France	92	6.1k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	4.0k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	545	30.5k
Donna F. Stroup United States	35	5.6k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.5k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	94	27.0k
Theo Stijnen Netherlands	78	5.1k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	4.5k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	369	30.8k
Dean Fergusson Canada	83	5.4k 0.9×	3.7k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	673	26.8k
Xiaohui Gong China	15	4.3k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	52	20.5k
A. E. Ades United Kingdom	69	4.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	5.1k 1.5×	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	282	29.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Weeks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Weeks

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Ravi, Praful, Katherine K. Perez, Wanling Xie, et al.. (2025). 2416P Prevalence, clonal dynamics and clinical impact of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) in patients (pts) receiving 177Lu-PSMA-617 (LuPSMA) for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Annals of Oncology. 36. S1228–S1228.

Synnot, Anneliese, Laura Weeks, Sophie Hill, et al.. (2024). Consumer engagement in living evidence “a beautiful opportunity”: International qualitative study with patients and methodologists. 1(4). 1 indexed citations

Weeks, Laura, et al.. (2022). How We Might Further Integrate Considerations of Environmental Impact When Assessing the Value of Health Technologies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(19). 12017–12017. 16 indexed citations

Majid, Umair & Laura Weeks. (2020). Rapid qualitative evidence syntheses (rQES) in health technology assessment: experiences, challenges, and lessons. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 37(1). e14–e14. 2 indexed citations

Chao, Yi‐Sheng, Michelle Clark, Laura Weeks, et al.. (2019). HPV Testing for Primary Cervical Cancer Screening: A Health Technology Assessment [Internet]. 1 indexed citations

Campbell, Fiona, Laura Weeks, Andrew Booth, David Kaunelis, & Andrea L. Smith. (2019). A scoping review found increasing examples of rapid qualitative evidence syntheses and no methodological guidance. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 115. 160–171. 16 indexed citations

Khangura, Sara D., Kelsey Seal, Shahrokh Esfandiari, et al.. (2018). Composite Resin Versus Amalgam for Dental Restorations: A Health Technology Assessment. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 13 indexed citations

Bond, Kenneth & Laura Weeks. (2017). USING THE INTEGRATE-HTA GUIDANCE: EXPERIENCE FROM CADTH. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 33(5). 591–596. 6 indexed citations

MacKean, Gail, et al.. (2016). Patients’ perspectives can be integrated in health technology assessments: an exploratory analysis of CADTH Common Drug Review. Research Involvement and Engagement. 2(1). 21–21. 55 indexed citations

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Fritz, Heidi, Laura Weeks, Kieran Cooley, et al.. (2014). Intravenous Vitamin C and Cancer. Integrative Cancer Therapies. 13(4). 280–300. 94 indexed citations

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Savović, Jelena, Laura Weeks, Jonathan A C Sterne, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing the risk of bias in randomized trials: focus groups, online survey, proposed recommendations and their implementation. Systematic Reviews. 3(1). 37–37. 279 indexed citations

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Turner, Lucy, Larissa Shamseer, Douglas G. Altman, et al.. (2012). Consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) and the completeness of reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published in medical journals. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2013(1). MR000030–MR000030. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gaudet, Laura, Kavita Singh, Laura Weeks, et al.. (2012). Effectiveness of Terbutaline Pump for the Prevention of Preterm Birth. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31679–e31679. 11 indexed citations

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Higgins, Julian P. T., Doug Altman, Peter C Gøtzsche, et al.. (2011). The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. BMJ. 343(oct18 2). d5928–d5928. 26405 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gaudet, Laura, Kavita Singh, Laura Weeks, et al.. (2011). Terbutaline Pump for the Prevention of Preterm Birth. 1 indexed citations

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Moher, David, Laura Weeks, Dugald Seely, et al.. (2011). Describing reporting guidelines for health research: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64(7). 718–742. 102 indexed citations

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Gaudet, Laura, Kavita Singh, Laura Weeks, et al.. (2011). Grey Literature Search. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 33(3). 228–229. 1 indexed citations

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Furlan, Andrea D, Fatemeh Yazdi, Alexander Tsertsvadze, et al.. (2010). Complementary and alternative therapies for back pain II.. PubMed. 1–764. 64 indexed citations

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Balneaves, Lynda G., Laura Weeks, & Dugald Seely. (2008). Patient Decision-Making about Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Management: Context and Process. Current Oncology. 15(12). 94–100. 43 indexed citations

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Weeks, Laura, Marja J. Verhoef, & Catherine M. Scott. (2007). Presenting the alternative: cancer and complementary and alternative medicine in the Canadian print media. Supportive Care in Cancer. 15(8). 931–938. 24 indexed citations

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