Michael Wolfson

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Wolfson is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wolfson has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in General Health Professions, 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 19 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Michael Wolfson's work include Global Health Care Issues (21 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (13 papers). Michael Wolfson is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (21 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (19 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (13 papers). Michael Wolfson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Wolfson's co-authors include John Lynch, Sam Harper, Nancy A. Ross, George A. Kaplan, George Davey Smith, James E. Foster, Marianne M. Hillemeier, Mark S. Tremblay, Geoffrey M. Rowe and W. Michael Flanagan and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, American Economic Review and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wolfson

79 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review

2004 671 citations John Lynch, Nancy A. Ross et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Wolfson Canada	28	1.4k	1.1k	882	855	305	81	3.4k
Michael Noble United Kingdom	20	900 0.7×	517 0.5×	414 0.5×	778 0.9×	165 0.5×	61	3.3k
Norman J. Johnson United States	28	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	500 0.6×	667 0.8×	922 3.0×	49	4.4k
Yuanli Liu China	33	1.6k 1.2×	484 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	353 0.4×	165 0.5×	147	4.5k
Audrey Laporte Canada	33	1.5k 1.1×	435 0.4×	692 0.8×	734 0.9×	92 0.3×	150	3.6k
José A. Pagán United States	35	1.4k 1.0×	484 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	452 0.5×	252 0.8×	215	4.0k
Peter Phillimore United Kingdom	20	973 0.7×	861 0.8×	241 0.3×	456 0.5×	210 0.7×	54	3.1k
Bernadette D. Proctor	9	991 0.7×	348 0.3×	602 0.7×	826 1.0×	147 0.5×	9	3.0k
James B. Kirby United States	24	856 0.6×	468 0.4×	444 0.5×	597 0.7×	153 0.5×	45	3.8k
Roy Carr‐Hill United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.3×	496 0.5×	828 0.9×	514 0.6×	59 0.2×	164	4.2k
Jacob Bor United States	31	1.7k 1.3×	800 0.7×	872 1.0×	760 0.9×	178 0.6×	108	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Wolfson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Wolfson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wolfson

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Dunn, James R., Gum‐Ryeong Park, Michael R. Veall, et al.. (2024). State-level association between income inequality and mortality in the USA, 1989–2019: ecological study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 78(12). 772–778. 3 indexed citations

Wolfson, Michael, Steven D. Gribble, Nora Pashayan, et al.. (2021). Potential of polygenic risk scores for improving population estimates of women’s breast cancer genetic risks. Genetics in Medicine. 23(11). 2114–2121. 13 indexed citations

Gilbert, Lucy, Agnihotram V. Ramanakumar, К. Jardon, et al.. (2020). Real-world direct healthcare costs of treating recurrent high-grade serous ovarian cancer with cytotoxic chemotherapy. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. 9(8). 537–551. 4 indexed citations

Wolfson, Michael & Steven G. Morgan. (2018). How to pay for national pharmacare. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 190(47). E1384–E1388. 2 indexed citations

Gauvreau, Cindy L., S. Memon, W. Michael Flanagan, et al.. (2017). The OncoSim Model: Development and Use for Better Decision-Making in Canadian Cancer Control. Current Oncology. 24(6). 401–406. 30 indexed citations

Flanagan, W. Michael, et al.. (2015). Performance of the cancer risk management model lung cancer screening module.. PubMed. 26(5). 11–8. 17 indexed citations

Wolfson, Michael, et al.. (2015). Private Companies, Professionals, and Income Splitting -- Recent Canadian Experience. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Hennessy, Deirdre, W. Michael Flanagan, Peter Tanuseputro, et al.. (2015). The Population Health Model (POHEM): an overview of rationale, methods and applications. Population Health Metrics. 13(1). 24–24. 30 indexed citations

Coldman, Andrew J., Natasha Phillips, Jacques Brisson, et al.. (2015). Using the Cancer Risk Management Model to Evaluate Colorectal Cancer Screening Options for Canada. Current Oncology. 22(2). 41–50. 29 indexed citations

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Hewitt, Maria & Michael Wolfson. (2013). Making Sense of Health Rankings. Healthcare Quarterly. 16(1). 13–15. 2 indexed citations

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Okhmatovskaia, Anya, David L. Buckeridge, Arash Shaban‐Nejad, et al.. (2012). SimPHO: an ontology for simulation modeling of population health. Winter Simulation Conference. 1–12. 2 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Michael, Susan Wallace, Nicholas G. D. Masca, et al.. (2010). DataSHIELD: resolving a conflict in contemporary bioscience--performing a pooled analysis of individual-level data without sharing the data. International Journal of Epidemiology. 39(5). 1372–1382. 114 indexed citations

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Lynch, John, et al.. (2007). Income Inequality and Mortality: A Multilevel Prospective Study of 521,248 Individuals in 50 US States. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations

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Backlund, Eric, Geoffrey M. Rowe, John Lynch, et al.. (2007). Income inequality and mortality: a multilevel prospective study of 521 248 individuals in 50 US states. International Journal of Epidemiology. 36(3). 590–596. 80 indexed citations

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Bchir, A., Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Fred Binka, et al.. (2006). Better health statistics are possible. The Lancet. 367(9506). 190–193. 16 indexed citations

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Will, B P, et al.. (2001). First do no harm: extending the debate on the provision of preventive tamoxifen. British Journal of Cancer. 85(9). 1280–1288. 14 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Michael, G. A. Kaplan, John Lynch, et al.. (1999). Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration Diminishing returns to aggregate level studies Two pathways, but how much do they diverge?. BMJ. 319(7215). 953–957. 125 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Michael & Brian Murphy. (1998). New views on inequality trends In Canada and the United States. Monthly labor review. 121(4). 3–23. 27 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Michael. (1994). When inequalities diverge. American Economic Review. 84(2). 353–358. 322 indexed citations

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Wolfson, Michael. (1980). The Bequest Process and the Causes of Inequality in the Distribution of Wealth. NBER Chapters. 187–222. 1 indexed citations

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