Michelle Gourley

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 894 citations indexed

About

Michelle Gourley is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle Gourley has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 894 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Health, 10 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Michelle Gourley's work include Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (8 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). Michelle Gourley is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (12 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (8 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). Michelle Gourley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Michelle Gourley's co-authors include Blesson M. Varghese, Timothy Driscoll, Geoffrey Morgan, Anthony Capon, Ying Zhang, Peng Bi, Alana Hansen, Keith Dear, Jingwen Liu and Fadwa Al‐Yaman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, European Heart Journal and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Michelle Gourley

20 papers receiving 847 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.

Heat exposure and cardiovascular health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2022 325 citations Jingwen Liu, Blesson M. Varghese et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →
Is there an association between hot weather and poor mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 224 citations Jingwen Liu, Blesson M. Varghese et al. Environment International profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle Gourley Australia	9	550	260	247	157	75	25	894
Dianne Lowe Australia	14	279 0.5×	498 1.9×	110 0.4×	69 0.4×	72 1.0×	31	1.2k
Gulrez Shah Azhar United States	12	460 0.8×	141 0.5×	165 0.7×	34 0.2×	62 0.8×	32	744
Patrizia Schifano Italy	17	659 1.2×	354 1.4×	236 1.0×	69 0.4×	363 4.8×	40	1.4k
Dharshani Pearson United States	11	582 1.1×	123 0.5×	160 0.6×	55 0.4×	24 0.3×	14	664
Sally Moyce United States	12	271 0.5×	304 1.2×	180 0.7×	83 0.5×	23 0.3×	29	813
Gillian Earnest United States	17	431 0.8×	241 0.9×	527 2.1×	54 0.3×	60 0.8×	25	1.5k
Hayon Michelle Choi United States	14	345 0.6×	122 0.5×	82 0.3×	48 0.3×	14 0.2×	31	579
Md. Mobarak Hossain Khan Germany	16	145 0.3×	158 0.6×	105 0.4×	93 0.6×	52 0.7×	34	675
Adriana Muiño Uruguay	23	239 0.4×	163 0.6×	1.2k 4.8×	48 0.3×	227 3.0×	47	2.5k
Hamidreza Aghababaeian Iran	14	336 0.6×	99 0.4×	81 0.3×	57 0.4×	13 0.2×	48	720

Countries citing papers authored by Michelle Gourley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michelle Gourley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle Gourley

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

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Joshy, Grace, Kay S, Sam Egger, et al.. (2025). Relationship of tobacco smoking to cause-specific mortality: contemporary estimates from Australia. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 115–115.

Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2025). Increasing burden of poor mental health attributable to high temperature in Australia. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 489–496. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2025). High temperature and cardiovascular disease in Australia under different climatic, demographic, and adaptive scenarios. European Heart Journal. 46(19). 1852–1862. 4 indexed citations

Joshy, Grace, Hang Li, Michelle Gourley, et al.. (2024). Quantifying years of life lost in Australia: a multiple cause of death analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 54(1).

Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2023). Projection of high temperature-related burden of kidney disease in Australia under different climate change, population and adaptation scenarios: population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 41. 100916–100916. 5 indexed citations

Varghese, Blesson M., Alana Hansen, Jingwen Liu, et al.. (2023). The burden of occupational injury attributable to high temperatures in Australia, 2014–19: a retrospective observational study. The Medical Journal of Australia. 219(11). 542–548. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Jingwen, Alana Hansen, Blesson M. Varghese, et al.. (2022). Estimating the burden of disease attributable to high ambient temperature across climate zones: methodological framework with a case study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 52(3). 783–795. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2022). Heat exposure and cardiovascular health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health. 6(6). e484–e495. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

Welsh, Jennifer, Grace Joshy, Kay S, et al.. (2021). Education-related inequalities in cause-specific mortality: first estimates for Australia using individual-level linked census and mortality data. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(6). 1981–1994. 8 indexed citations

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Gourley, Michelle, et al.. (2021). 1262Burden of disease and injury in Australia. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(Supplement_1).

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Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2021). Hot weather as a risk factor for kidney disease outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence. The Science of The Total Environment. 801. 149806–149806. 69 indexed citations

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Gourley, Michelle, et al.. (2021). 1260Contribution of risk factors to disease burden in Australia in 2018. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(Supplement_1).

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Liu, Jingwen, Blesson M. Varghese, Alana Hansen, et al.. (2021). Is there an association between hot weather and poor mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Environment International. 153. 106533–106533. 224 indexed citations breakdown →

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Choi, Ching, Paula Laws, Michelle Gourley, et al.. (2021). Value of a national burden-of-disease study: a comparison of estimates between the Australian Burden of Disease Study 2015 and the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(2). 668–678. 8 indexed citations

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Welsh, Jennifer, Heather Booth, Danielle Butler, et al.. (2021). Inequalities in life expectancy in Australia according to education level: a whole-of-population record linkage study. International Journal for Equity in Health. 20(1). 178–178. 15 indexed citations

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Lippe, Elena von der, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Michelle Gourley, et al.. (2020). Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments. Archives of Public Health. 78(1). 137–137. 27 indexed citations

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Moon, Lynelle, et al.. (2019). Measuring Health Loss in Australia: the Australian Burden of Disease Study. Journal of Korean Medical Science. 34(Suppl 1). e61–e61. 7 indexed citations

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Ayre, Julie, et al.. (2016). Examination of the burden of disease of intimate partner violence against women in 2011: final report. 17 indexed citations

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Gourley, Michelle, et al.. (2011). Substance use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 45 indexed citations

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Gourley, Michelle. (2004). A Subcultural Study of Recreational Ecstasy Use. Journal of sociology. 40(1). 59–73. 41 indexed citations

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