Mike Clarke

175.0k total citations · 22 hit papers
611 papers, 120.9k citations indexed

About

Mike Clarke is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Clarke has authored 611 papers receiving a total of 120.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 141 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 131 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mike Clarke's work include Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (140 papers), Delphi Technique in Research (108 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (89 papers). Mike Clarke is often cited by papers focused on Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (140 papers), Delphi Technique in Research (108 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (89 papers). Mike Clarke collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Mike Clarke's co-authors include David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Peter C Gøtzsche, P.J. Devereaux, John P. A. Ioannidis, Jos Kleijnen, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Cynthia D. Mulrow, Douglas G. Altman and Lesley Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Mike Clarke

580 papers receiving 118.4k citations

Hit Papers

The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2009 2015 2009 2015 2009 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k
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.

  1. The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration
    2009 24.4k citations Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  2. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement
    2015 19.5k citations David Moher, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  3. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration
    2009 14.6k citations Mike Clarke, David Moher et al. profile →
  4. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation
    2015 9.8k citations David Moher, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  5. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration
    2009 8.8k citations Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  6. The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration
    2009 8.4k citations Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  7. Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials
    2005 3.8k citations Mike Clarke et al. The Lancet profile →
  8. Effect of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery on 10-year recurrence and 15-year breast cancer death: meta-analysis of individual patient data for 10 801 women in 17 randomised trials
    2011 2.7k citations Mike Clarke et al. The Lancet profile →
  9. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration
    2009 2.3k citations Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  10. Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data
    2015 1.3k citations Lesley Stewart, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  11. The COMET Handbook: version 1.0
    2017 1.1k citations Paula Williamson, Douglas G. Altman et al. Trials profile →
  12. Developing core outcome sets for clinical trials: issues to consider
    2012 1.1k citations Paula Williamson, Douglas G. Altman et al. Trials profile →
  13. The nuts and bolts of PROSPERO: an international prospective register of systematic reviews
    2012 952 citations Alison Booth, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  14. Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions
    2011 921 citations Declan Devane, Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  15. Applying an equity lens to interventions: using PROGRESS ensures consideration of socially stratifying factors to illuminate inequities in health
    2013 846 citations Mark Petticrew, Mike Clarke et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →
  16. Reducing waste from incomplete or unusable reports of biomedical research
    2014 803 citations Douglas G. Altman, Mike Clarke et al. The Lancet profile →
  17. How to select outcome measurement instruments for outcomes included in a “Core Outcome Set” – a practical guideline
    2016 666 citations C.A.C. Prinsen, Peter Tugwell et al. Trials profile →
  18. Publication bias in clinical trials due to statistical significance or direction of trial results
    2009 652 citations Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  19. Predicting the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, using empirical data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    2012 632 citations Mike Clarke et al. profile →
  20. Core Outcome Set-STAndards for Development: The COS-STAD recommendations
    2017 429 citations Jamie J Kirkham, Douglas G. Altman et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  21. Core Outcome Set–STAndards for Reporting: The COS-STAR Statement
    2016 391 citations Jamie J Kirkham, Sarah L. Gorst et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  22. A taxonomy has been developed for outcomes in medical research to help improve knowledge discovery
    2017 371 citations Mike Clarke, Paula Williamson et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Clarke United Kingdom 77 21.9k 15.4k 12.8k 12.4k 12.4k 611 120.9k
John P. A. Ioannidis United States 165 25.9k 1.2× 20.6k 1.3× 16.1k 1.3× 13.4k 1.1× 17.9k 1.4× 1.1k 189.3k
Andrew D Oxman Norway 93 18.6k 0.9× 18.1k 1.2× 11.7k 0.9× 19.4k 1.6× 12.3k 1.0× 300 107.1k
Erik von Elm Switzerland 43 18.6k 0.8× 12.9k 0.8× 10.4k 0.8× 10.1k 0.8× 13.1k 1.1× 131 89.7k
Kenneth F. Schulz United States 79 17.3k 0.8× 16.6k 1.1× 8.9k 0.7× 11.1k 0.9× 10.3k 0.8× 216 102.7k
A. Liberati Italy 21 19.0k 0.9× 12.1k 0.8× 10.9k 0.9× 9.5k 0.8× 12.4k 1.0× 53 100.3k
Holger J. Schünemann Canada 118 15.6k 0.7× 15.5k 1.0× 11.5k 0.9× 10.4k 0.8× 11.2k 0.9× 712 87.8k
Jos Kleijnen United Kingdom 82 17.2k 0.8× 10.0k 0.7× 10.5k 0.8× 7.3k 0.6× 10.6k 0.9× 324 90.0k
Jan P. Vandenbroucke Netherlands 93 21.8k 1.0× 14.5k 0.9× 12.6k 1.0× 10.2k 0.8× 15.5k 1.2× 439 111.3k
P.J. Devereaux Canada 84 24.8k 1.1× 10.6k 0.7× 11.4k 0.9× 7.8k 0.6× 10.0k 0.8× 404 96.0k
Cynthia D. Mulrow United States 60 17.6k 0.8× 10.0k 0.7× 9.9k 0.8× 8.3k 0.7× 9.9k 0.8× 142 90.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Clarke

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Peek, Kerry, Paula Williamson, Thor Einar Andersen, et al.. (2025). Consensus on the descriptors, definitions, and reporting methods for heading in football studies: A Delphi study. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0327189–e0327189. 3 indexed citations
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Coyle, Vicky M., Richard Adams, Ashley Agus, et al.. (2024). Early switch from intravenous to oral antibiotic therapy in patients with cancer who have low-risk neutropenic sepsis: the EASI-SWITCH RCT. Health Technology Assessment. 28(14). 1–101. 1 indexed citations
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Marshall, Jeanne, et al.. (2024). Feeding and swallowing outcomes of children receiving long-term ventilation: A scoping review protocol. PLoS ONE. 19(2). e0287872–e0287872.
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Azuara‐Blanco, Augusto, John G Lawrenson, Anthony King, et al.. (2023). Technologies for the diagnosis of angle closure glaucoma (ACE): protocol of a prospective, multicentre, cross-sectional diagnostic study. BMJ Open. 13(10). e073975–e073975.
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Verghis, Rejina, et al.. (2023). Re-analysis of ventilator-free days (VFD) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) studies. Trials. 24(1). 183–183. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Nian, et al.. (2023). Guidelines, Consensus Statements, and Standards for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Systematic Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25. e46089–e46089. 17 indexed citations
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Clarke, Mike, et al.. (2022). Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 1 indexed citations
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Veroniki, Areti Angeliki, Huda Ashoor, Patricia Rios, et al.. (2022). Comparative safety and efficacy of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer’s dementia: a systematic review with individual patient data network meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 12(4). e053012–e053012. 19 indexed citations
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Shorter, Gillian W., Jeremy W. Bray, Nick Heather, et al.. (2021). The “Outcome Reporting in Brief Intervention Trials: Alcohol” (ORBITAL) Core Outcome Set: International Consensus on Outcomes to Measure in Efficacy and Effectiveness Trials of Alcohol Brief Interventions. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 82(5). 638–646. 28 indexed citations
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Williamson, Paula, Jane Blazeby, Sara Brookes, et al.. (2020). Comments on Chevance et al ‘Improving the generalizability and credibility of core outcome sets (COS) by a large and international participation of diverse stakeholders’. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 3 indexed citations
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Williamson, Paula, Mike Clarke, Sarah L. Gorst, et al.. (2020). Assessing the relevance and uptake of core outcome sets (an agreed minimum collection of outcomes to measure in research studies) in Cochrane systematic reviews: a review. BMJ Open. 10(9). e036562–e036562. 38 indexed citations
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Muldrew, Deborah, Felicity Hasson, Emma Carduff, et al.. (2018). Assessment and management of constipation for patients receiving palliative care in specialist palliative care settings: A systematic review of the literature. Palliative Medicine. 32(5). 930–938. 8 indexed citations
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Williamson, Paula, Douglas G. Altman, Heather Bagley, et al.. (2017). The COMET Handbook: version 1.0. Trials. 18(S3). 280–280. 1132 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rose, Louise, Meera Agar, Lisa Burry, et al.. (2017). Development of core outcome sets for effectiveness trials of interventions to prevent and/or treat delirium (Del-COrS): study protocol. BMJ Open. 7(9). e016371–e016371. 39 indexed citations
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Kirkham, Jamie J, Sarah L. Gorst, Douglas G. Altman, et al.. (2016). Core Outcome Set–STAndards for Reporting: The COS-STAR Statement. PLoS Medicine. 13(10). e1002148–e1002148. 391 indexed citations breakdown →
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Clarke, Mike & Jim Halsey. (2014). Dicing with chance, life and death in systematic reviews and meta-analyses: D.I.C.E. 3, a simulation study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 107(3). 116–119. 2 indexed citations
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Wallace, John, et al.. (2012). Barriers to the uptake of evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a systematic review of decision makers’ perceptions. BMJ Open. 2(5). e001220–e001220. 88 indexed citations
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Williamson, Paula, Douglas G. Altman, Jane Blazeby, et al.. (2012). Developing core outcome sets for clinical trials: issues to consider. Trials. 13(1). 132–132. 1096 indexed citations breakdown →
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Booth, Alison, Mike Clarke, Davina Ghersi, et al.. (2010). An international registry of systematic-review protocols. The Lancet. 377(9760). 108–109. 380 indexed citations

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