Rainford Wilks

14.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Rainford Wilks is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainford Wilks has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 34 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 32 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Rainford Wilks's work include Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (32 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (28 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (20 papers). Rainford Wilks is often cited by papers focused on Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (32 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (28 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (20 papers). Rainford Wilks collaborates with scholars based in Jamaica, United States and United Kingdom. Rainford Wilks's co-authors include Franklyn I. Bennett, Richard Cooper, Terrence Forrester, Terrence Forrester, Charles N. Rotimi, Norma McFarlane‐Anderson, B Hanchard, D L McGee, Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid and Trevor S. Ferguson and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Rainford Wilks

127 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of we... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin.
    1997 542 citations Richard Cooper, D L McGee 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
Rainford Wilks Jamaica 39 1.4k 1.0k 870 637 636 134 4.7k
Moffat Nyirenda United Kingdom 36 744 0.5× 267 0.3× 868 1.0× 778 1.2× 660 1.0× 159 5.8k
Nigel J. Crowther South Africa 33 665 0.5× 331 0.3× 888 1.0× 629 1.0× 857 1.3× 170 3.9k
Sofia Malyutina Russia 37 827 0.6× 957 0.9× 398 0.5× 723 1.1× 395 0.6× 223 4.1k
Gloria L. Beckles United States 40 1.1k 0.8× 476 0.5× 2.7k 3.1× 1.3k 2.0× 548 0.9× 88 5.7k
Matthew A. Sabin Australia 41 2.5k 1.8× 1.1k 1.1× 907 1.0× 577 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 133 5.5k
Ahmed M Abou-Setta Canada 38 1.4k 1.0× 465 0.4× 318 0.4× 719 1.1× 314 0.5× 162 5.4k
Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos Brazil 32 1.2k 0.9× 574 0.6× 291 0.3× 492 0.8× 387 0.6× 99 3.2k
Jeffrey S. Robinson Australia 52 2.1k 1.6× 348 0.3× 1.2k 1.4× 777 1.2× 1.3k 2.0× 143 12.3k
Julie Brown New Zealand 49 2.5k 1.9× 199 0.2× 690 0.8× 694 1.1× 278 0.4× 130 8.5k
Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani Iran 42 2.2k 1.6× 358 0.3× 1.4k 1.7× 413 0.6× 273 0.4× 300 6.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainford Wilks

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ferguson, Trevor S., Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, & Rainford Wilks. (2025). The epidemiology of diabetes mellitus in Jamaica and the Caribbean: a historical review. PubMed. 59(3). 259–64.
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Bennett, Nadia, Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, Ishtar Govia, et al.. (2024). Social support and ideal cardiovascular health in urban Jamaica: A cross-sectional study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). e0003466–e0003466.
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Dregan, Alex, Majella O’Keeffe, Ingrid Wolfe, et al.. (2020). Association of macro-level determinants with adolescent overweight and suicidal ideation with planning: A cross-sectional study of 21 Latin American and Caribbean Countries. PLoS Medicine. 17(12). e1003443–e1003443. 18 indexed citations
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Younger, Novie, Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, Ishtar Govia, et al.. (2020). Ideal cardiovascular health in urban Jamaica: prevalence estimates and relationship to community property value, household assets and educational attainment: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 10(12). e040664–e040664. 7 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Trevor S., Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, Nadia Bennett, et al.. (2018). Factors associated with elevated blood pressure or hypertension in Afro-Caribbean youth: a cross-sectional study. PeerJ. 6. e4385–e4385. 16 indexed citations
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Ferguson, TS, et al.. (2018). Diabetic Foot Complications among Patients Attending a Specialist Diabetes Clinic in Jamaica: Prevalence and Associated Factors. West Indian Medical Journal. 62(3). 216–23. 12 indexed citations
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Tulloch‐Reid, Marshall K., Damian Francis, Georgiana Gordon‐Strachan, et al.. (2015). WHO/ISH total risk approach for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease shows greater decrease in costs for women but not the elderly in Jamaica. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 68(9). 994–1001.
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Francis, Damian, Nadia Bennett, Trevor S. Ferguson, et al.. (2015). Disparities in cardiovascular disease among Caribbean populations: a systematic literature review. BMC Public Health. 15(1). 828–828. 28 indexed citations
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Bidulescu, Aurelian, Damian Francis, Trevor S. Ferguson, et al.. (2015). Disparities in hypertension among black Caribbean populations: a scoping review by the U.S. Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group (USCAHDR). International Journal for Equity in Health. 14(1). 125–125. 25 indexed citations
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Tulloch‐Reid, Marshall K., Novie Younger, Damian Francis, et al.. (2012). Foot Care and Footwear Practices among Patients Attending a Specialist Diabetes Clinic in Jamaica. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). e85–e85. 16 indexed citations
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Ferguson, Trevor S., Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, Novie Younger, et al.. (2011). Abstract 10135: Fast Food Consumption Significantly Increases Risk of Hypercholesterolemia Among Afro-Caribbean Youth in Jamaica. Circulation. 124.
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Ferguson, Trevor S., Novie Younger, Marshall K. Tulloch‐Reid, et al.. (2010). Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Jamaican adults and its relationship to income and education levels.. PubMed. 59(3). 265–73. 26 indexed citations
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Tulloch‐Reid, Marshall K., Trevor S. Ferguson, Novie Younger, et al.. (2010). Appropriate waist circumference cut points for identifying insulin resistance in black youth: a cross sectional analysis of the 1986 Jamaica birth cohort. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome. 2(1). 68–68. 5 indexed citations
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Jackson, Maria, Susan Walker, J.K. Cruickshank, et al.. (2007). Diet and overweight and obesity in populations of African origin: Cameroon, Jamaica and the UK. Public Health Nutrition. 10(2). 122–130. 26 indexed citations
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Kalra, Lalit, Curtis Rambaran, Phil Chowienczyk, et al.. (2005). Ethnic Differences in Arterial Responses and Inflammatory Markers in Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian Subjects. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 25(11). 2362–2367. 42 indexed citations
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Boyne, Michael S., M Thame, Clive Osmond, et al.. (2005). Cold-induced elevation of forearm vascular resistance is inversely related to birth weight. Journal of Human Hypertension. 19(4). 309–314. 6 indexed citations
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VanVeldhuisen, Paul, Michael A. Walters, Takashi Sawada, et al.. (2003). Seroincidence of Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type I Infection and Characterization of Seroconverters in Jamaican Food Handlers. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 33(3). 387–392. 7 indexed citations
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Luke, Amy, Ramón Durazo-Arvizú, C Rotimi, et al.. (1997). Relation between Body Mass Index and Body Fat in Black Population Samples from Nigeria, Jamaica, and the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology. 145(7). 620–628. 149 indexed citations
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Manns, Angela, Rainford Wilks, Edward L. Murphy, et al.. (1992). A prospective study of transmission by transfusion of HTLV‐I and risk factors associated with seroconversion. International Journal of Cancer. 51(6). 886–891. 183 indexed citations

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