Peter Wyer

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Wyer is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Wyer has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in General Health Professions, 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 18 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Peter Wyer's work include Health Sciences Research and Education (30 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (18 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (16 papers). Peter Wyer is often cited by papers focused on Health Sciences Research and Education (30 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (18 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (16 papers). Peter Wyer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Peter Wyer's co-authors include Thomas McGinn, C. David Naylor, Ian G. Stiell, for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, Gordon Guyatt, Eddy Lang, R. Brian Haynes, Rita Charon, Lowell W. Gerson and C.B. Irvin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Wyer

78 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

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    2000 772 citations Thomas McGinn, Peter Wyer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Wyer United States 23 714 521 489 342 303 86 2.7k
Alain Mayhew Canada 24 770 1.1× 428 0.8× 422 0.9× 237 0.7× 203 0.7× 48 2.6k
Christine Lainé United States 26 816 1.1× 589 1.1× 553 1.1× 334 1.0× 220 0.7× 97 3.1k
Robert Mcnutt United States 30 541 0.8× 502 1.0× 262 0.5× 226 0.7× 325 1.1× 70 2.7k
Sue Wilson United Kingdom 36 1.2k 1.6× 1.1k 2.1× 538 1.1× 180 0.5× 174 0.6× 109 4.6k
Richard Jacques United Kingdom 28 432 0.6× 388 0.7× 239 0.5× 391 1.1× 104 0.3× 96 2.8k
Steven Teerenstra Netherlands 38 808 1.1× 357 0.7× 456 0.9× 165 0.5× 149 0.5× 176 5.1k
Duncan Hunter Canada 19 823 1.2× 776 1.5× 469 1.0× 206 0.6× 86 0.3× 41 4.0k
Loai Albarqouni Australia 22 874 1.2× 518 1.0× 184 0.4× 151 0.4× 114 0.4× 79 2.2k
Hugh H. Tilson United States 33 1.5k 2.1× 1.0k 2.0× 350 0.7× 157 0.5× 127 0.4× 109 4.2k
George Bergus United States 29 926 1.3× 730 1.4× 254 0.5× 112 0.3× 135 0.4× 101 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Wyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Wyer

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

All Works

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Pelaccia, Thierry, Jonathan Sherbino, Peter Wyer, & Geoff Norman. (2025). When I say … intuition. Medical Education. 59(7). 679–681.
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Pelaccia, Thierry, Jonathan Sherbino, Peter Wyer, & Geoff Norman. (2024). Diagnostic reasoning and cognitive error in emergency medicine: Implications for teaching and learning. Academic Emergency Medicine. 32(3). 320–326. 2 indexed citations
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Norman, Geoff, Thierry Pelaccia, Peter Wyer, & Jonathan Sherbino. (2024). Dual process models of clinical reasoning: The central role of knowledge in diagnostic expertise. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 30(5). 788–796. 6 indexed citations
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Wyer, Peter. (2023). On crowns, caravans and windmills: Commentary on an essay by Turcotte P., et al.. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 29(5). 709–715. 2 indexed citations
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Lombardo, Tiziana, et al.. (2021). Observation and analysis of Zwischgold on late medieval sculptures. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations
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Wyer, Peter. (2018). The Tree of Wisdom: Maintaining epistemological health within an (emerging) evidence-free environment. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare. 6(3). 485–485. 3 indexed citations
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Hsiao, James, et al.. (2011). Validating the acute heart failure index for patients presenting to the emergency department with decompensated heart failure. Emergency Medicine Journal. 29(12). e5–e5. 14 indexed citations
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Lang, Eddy, Peter Wyer, Jeffrey Tabas, & Jerry A. Krishnan. (2010). Educational and Research Advances Stemming from the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference in Knowledge Translation. Academic Emergency Medicine. 17(8). 865–869. 7 indexed citations
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Lee, Anna, Gavin M. Joynt, Anthony M.‐H. Ho, et al.. (2009). Tips for Teachers of Evidence-based Medicine: Making Sense of Decision Analysis Using a Decision Tree. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 24(5). 642–648. 12 indexed citations
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Prasad, Kameshwar, et al.. (2008). Tips for Teachers of Evidence-Based Medicine: Understanding Odds Ratios and Their Relationship to Risk Ratios. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 23(5). 635–640. 39 indexed citations
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Wyer, Peter. (2007). Responsiveness to Change: A Quality Indicator for Assessment of Knowledge Translation Systems. Academic Emergency Medicine. 14(11). 928–931. 6 indexed citations
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Rothman, Richard E., et al.. (2003). Preventive Care in the Emergency Department: Should Emergency Departments Conduct Routine HIV Screening? A Systematic Review. Academic Emergency Medicine. 10(3). 278–285. 78 indexed citations
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Newman, David H., Peter Wyer, & Amy H. Kaji. (2002). Evidence-based medicine: A primer for the emergency medicine resident. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 39(1). 77–80. 2 indexed citations
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Emond, Stephen D., Peter Wyer, Michael D. Brown, et al.. (2002). How relevant are the systematic reviews in the cochrane library to emergency medical practice?. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 39(2). 153–158. 15 indexed citations
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Edlow, Jonathan A., et al.. (2001). Feedback: Computed tomography for subarachnoid hemorrhage. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 37(6). 679–685. 7 indexed citations
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Wyer, Peter, Brian H. Rowe, Gordon Guyatt, & William H. Cordell. (2000). The clinician and the medical literature: When can we take a shortcut?. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 36(2). 149–155. 19 indexed citations
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Irvin, C.B., et al.. (2000). Preventive Care in the Emergency Department, Part II: Clinical Preventive Services—An Emergency Medicine Evidence‐based Review*. Academic Emergency Medicine. 7(9). 1042–1054. 166 indexed citations
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Gupta, Rahul, David E. Clarke, & Peter Wyer. (1995). Stress Fracture of the Hyoid Bone Caused by Induced Vomiting. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 26(4). 518–521. 25 indexed citations

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