Nancy Wijers

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 710 citations indexed

About

Nancy Wijers is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Parasitology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Wijers has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 710 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Infectious Diseases, 4 papers in Parasitology and 3 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Nancy Wijers's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (4 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (3 papers). Nancy Wijers is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (4 papers), Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (3 papers). Nancy Wijers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Thailand. Nancy Wijers's co-authors include Miranda Laurant, Mieke van der Biezen, Anneke van Vught, Kanokwaroon Watananirun, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Wim van der Hoek, Frederika Dijkstra, Peter M. Schneeberger, Barbara Schimmer and Ariene Rietveld and has published in prestigious journals such as Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, BMC Public Health and Journal of Advanced Nursing.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Wijers

8 papers receiving 687 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.

Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care

2018 368 citations Miranda Laurant, Mieke van der Biezen et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nancy Wijers Netherlands	8	334	237	192	176	108	8	710
Gary Lukacik United States	13	131 0.4×	242 1.0×	369 1.9×	298 1.7×	79 0.7×	15	924
Charles Muiruri United States	12	144 0.4×	152 0.6×	374 1.9×	269 1.5×	22 0.2×	53	790
Fabrice Althaus Switzerland	10	301 0.9×	76 0.3×	72 0.4×	160 0.9×	22 0.2×	17	762
Irena Klavs Slovenia	18	153 0.5×	67 0.3×	316 1.6×	106 0.6×	10 0.1×	51	785
Kimberly Yousey‐Hindes United States	14	69 0.2×	106 0.4×	281 1.5×	67 0.4×	43 0.4×	32	829
Desalegn Woldeyohannes Ethiopia	17	291 0.9×	154 0.6×	233 1.2×	298 1.7×	3 0.0×	26	1.2k
Louise E. Vaz United States	12	111 0.3×	76 0.3×	86 0.4×	350 2.0×	5 0.0×	32	782
Helena Huerga France	19	176 0.5×	93 0.4×	668 3.5×	99 0.6×	5 0.0×	62	994
Andrea Tramarin Italy	17	69 0.2×	68 0.3×	461 2.4×	58 0.3×	23 0.2×	42	798

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nancy Wijers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Wijers

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Laurant, Miranda, Mieke van der Biezen, Nancy Wijers, et al.. (2018). Nurses as substitutes for doctors in primary care. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2019(2). CD001271–CD001271. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biezen, Mieke van der, et al.. (2016). Substitution of general practitioners by nurse practitioners in out‐of‐hours primary care: a quasi‐experimental study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 72(8). 1813–1824. 29 indexed citations

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Mollema, Liesbeth, Nancy Wijers, Susan Hahné, et al.. (2012). Participation in and attitude towards the national immunization program in the Netherlands: data from population-based questionnaires. BMC Public Health. 12(1). 57–57. 31 indexed citations

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Wijers, Nancy, Lisette Schoonhoven, Paul Giesen, et al.. (2012). The effectiveness of Nurse Practitioners working at a GP cooperative: a study protocol. BMC Family Practice. 13(1). 75–75. 12 indexed citations

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Hoek, Wim van der, J. Meekelenkamp, Alexander C. A. P. Leenders, et al.. (2011). Antibodies against Coxiella burnetii and pregnancy outcome during the 2007-2008 Q fever outbreaks in the Netherlands. BMC Infectious Diseases. 11(1). 44–44. 43 indexed citations

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Dijkstra, Frederika, Wim van der Hoek, Nancy Wijers, et al.. (2011). The 2007–2010 Q fever epidemic in the Netherlands: characteristics of notified acute Q fever patients and the association with dairy goat farming. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 64(1). 3–12. 177 indexed citations

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Dijkstra, Frederika, Nancy Wijers, Eelko Hak, et al.. (2010). Antibiotic therapy for acute Q fever in The Netherlands in 2007 and 2008 and its relation to hospitalization. Epidemiology and Infection. 139(9). 1332–1341. 29 indexed citations

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Hoek, Wim van der, Frederika Dijkstra, Nancy Wijers, et al.. (2010). [Three years of Q fever in the Netherlands: faster diagnosis].. PubMed. 154. A1845–A1845. 21 indexed citations

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