Paul Testa

2.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Testa is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Health Information Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Testa has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 11 papers in General Health Professions and 9 papers in Health Information Management. Recurrent topics in Paul Testa's work include Electronic Health Records Systems (9 papers), Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation (8 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers). Paul Testa is often cited by papers focused on Electronic Health Records Systems (9 papers), Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation (8 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (5 papers). Paul Testa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Australia. Paul Testa's co-authors include David Mann, Oded Nov, Rumi Chunara, Ji Chen, Katharine Lawrence, Yuan Zhao, Saul Blecker, Ada Rubin, Andrea B. Troxel and Adam Szerencsy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Testa

28 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

COVID-19 transforms health care through telemedicine: Evidence from the field

2020 955 citations David Mann, Ji Chen et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
Telemedicine and healthcare disparities: a cohort study in a large healthcare system in New York City during COVID-19

2020 225 citations Rumi Chunara, Ji Chen et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
Enhancing the Readability of Online Patient Education Materials Using Large Language Models: Cross-Sectional Study

2025 13 citations John Will, Jonah Zaretsky et al. Journal of Medical Internet Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Testa United States	13	866	667	447	135	125	33	1.5k
Blake Cameron United States	7	770 0.9×	570 0.9×	396 0.9×	101 0.7×	146 1.2×	11	1.5k
Alireza Hajizadeh Iran	8	625 0.7×	565 0.8×	325 0.7×	72 0.5×	180 1.4×	28	1.3k
Jedrek Wosik United States	10	713 0.8×	537 0.8×	384 0.9×	93 0.7×	147 1.2×	17	1.4k
Ji Chen United States	6	770 0.9×	540 0.8×	437 1.0×	111 0.8×	275 2.2×	12	1.5k
Elham Monaghesh Iran	8	628 0.7×	512 0.8×	326 0.7×	69 0.5×	173 1.4×	14	1.3k
Helen M. Haydon Australia	12	1.2k 1.4×	936 1.4×	536 1.2×	181 1.3×	262 2.1×	40	2.0k
Donna Phinney United States	4	675 0.8×	474 0.7×	338 0.8×	88 0.7×	137 1.1×	10	1.1k
Morgan Waller United States	9	614 0.7×	467 0.7×	279 0.6×	117 0.9×	89 0.7×	11	1.1k
Robin Ohannessian France	11	549 0.6×	338 0.5×	347 0.8×	86 0.6×	116 0.9×	32	1.1k
Trine Strand Bergmo Norway	19	564 0.7×	628 0.9×	157 0.4×	239 1.8×	69 0.6×	49	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Testa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Testa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Testa

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cho, Jayun, et al.. (2026). Prehospital real-time AI for trauma mortality prediction: a multi-institutional and multi-national validation study. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1464–1464.

Will, John, et al.. (2025). Enhancing the Readability of Online Patient Education Materials Using Large Language Models: Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e69955–e69955. 13 indexed citations breakdown →

Hochman, Katherine, et al.. (2024). Scaling Note Quality Assessment Across an Academic Medical Center with AI and GPT-4. NEJM Catalyst. 5(5). 7 indexed citations

Major, Vincent J., Batia M. Wiesenfeld, Himanshu Grover, et al.. (2024). The First Generative AI Prompt-A-Thon in Healthcare: A Novel Approach to Workforce Engagement with a Private Instance of ChatGPT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(7). e0000394–e0000394. 4 indexed citations

Wiesenfeld, Batia M., Vincent J. Major, Himanshu Grover, et al.. (2024). Health system-wide access to generative artificial intelligence: the New York University Langone Health experience. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 32(2). 268–274.

Chen, Dan, et al.. (2024). Reference Ranges for All: Implementing Reference Ranges for Transgender and Nonbinary Patients. Applied Clinical Informatics. 15(5). 1093–1096.

Goodman, Adam, Katherine Hochman, Jonathan Austrian, et al.. (2023). Novel Note Templates to Enhance Signal and Reduce Noise in Medical Documentation: Prospective Improvement Study. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e41223–e41223. 6 indexed citations

Akerman, Meredith, David Mann, Paul Testa, et al.. (2023). Remote patient monitoring for management of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy is associated with improved maternal and neonatal outcomes. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 228(6). 726.e1–726.e11. 12 indexed citations

Mandal, Soumik, Batia M. Wiesenfeld, David Mann, et al.. (2022). Evidence for Telemedicine’s Ongoing Transformation of Health Care Delivery Since the Onset of COVID-19: Retrospective Observational Study. JMIR Formative Research. 6(10). e38661–e38661. 14 indexed citations

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Sartori, Daniel J., et al.. (2022). Standardizing Quality of Virtual Urgent Care: Using Standardized Patients in a Unique Experiential Onboarding Program. MedEdPORTAL. 18. 11244–11244. 4 indexed citations

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Akerman, Meredith, et al.. (2021). Application of telemedicine video visits in a maternal-fetal medicine practice at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM. 3(6). 100469–100469. 26 indexed citations

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Rubin, Ada, et al.. (2020). Assessing the Impact of a Rapidly Scaled Virtual Urgent Care in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 59(4). 610–618. 16 indexed citations

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Szerencsy, Adam, et al.. (2020). Giving Your Electronic Health Record a Checkup After COVID-19: A Practical Framework for Reviewing Clinical Decision Support in Light of the Telemedicine Expansion. JMIR Medical Informatics. 9(1). e21712–e21712. 7 indexed citations

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Belli, Hayley M., Sara Chokshi, Andrea B. Troxel, et al.. (2020). Implementation of a Behavioral Economics Electronic Health Record (BE-EHR) Module to Reduce Overtreatment of Diabetes in Older Adults. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 35(11). 3254–3261. 23 indexed citations

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Chung, Frank, Ada Rubin, Allison M. Cuthel, et al.. (2020). Design and implementation of a clinical decision support tool for primary palliative Care for Emergency Medicine (PRIM-ER). BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 20(1). 13–13. 42 indexed citations

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Blecker, Saul, et al.. (2020). Patient Experience With Notification of Radiology Results: A Comparison of Direct Communication and Patient Portal Use. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 17(9). 1130–1138. 25 indexed citations

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Mann, David, Ji Chen, Rumi Chunara, Paul Testa, & Oded Nov. (2020). COVID-19 transforms health care through telemedicine: Evidence from the field. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 27(7). 1132–1135. 955 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chokshi, Sara, Andrea B. Troxel, Hayley M. Belli, et al.. (2019). User-Centered Development of a Behavioral Economics Inspired Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support Module. Studies in health technology and informatics. 264. 1155–1158. 6 indexed citations

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Chokshi, Sara, Hayley M. Belli, Andrea B. Troxel, et al.. (2019). Designing for implementation: user-centered development and pilot testing of a behavioral economic-inspired electronic health record clinical decision support module. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 5(1). 28–28. 14 indexed citations

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Testa, Paul & Maureen Gang. (2009). Triage, EMTALA, Consultations, and Prehospital Medical Control. Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. 27(4). 627–640. 7 indexed citations

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