Ralph W. Barnes

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Ralph W. Barnes is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph W. Barnes has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 11 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 10 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Ralph W. Barnes's work include Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (15 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (8 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (6 papers). Ralph W. Barnes is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (15 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (8 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (6 papers). Ralph W. Barnes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Australia. Ralph W. Barnes's co-authors include Gerardo Heiss, Lloyd E. Chambless, Ward A. Riley, Gregory W. Evans, A. Richey Sharrett, Gregory L. Burke, Pentti M. Rautaharju, Moysés Szklo, Wayne D. Rosamond and Carlos Alzola and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Neurology and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Ralph W. Barnes

42 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Arterial Wall Thickness Is Associated With Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in Middle-Aged Adults

1995 732 citations Gregory L. Burke, Gregory W. Evans et al. Stroke profile →
Carotid Atherosclerosis Measured by B-Mode Ultrasound in Populations: Associations with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the ARIC Study

1991 697 citations Gerardo Heiss, A. Richey Sharrett et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralph W. Barnes United States	24	3.2k	1.4k	744	620	492	45	4.5k
Claudia E. Korcarz United States	36	4.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	993 1.3×	493 0.8×	526 1.1×	153	6.4k
Toste Länne Sweden	43	2.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	1.6k 2.1×	328 0.5×	337 0.7×	163	5.6k
R DEVEREUX United States	23	7.6k 2.4×	989 0.7×	1.1k 1.5×	748 1.2×	819 1.7×	41	8.7k
Michael Mullen United Kingdom	36	4.8k 1.5×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	305 0.5×	2.2k 4.5×	152	7.3k
Matthias Sitzer Germany	46	4.0k 1.3×	3.7k 2.6×	846 1.1×	692 1.1×	3.2k 6.6×	136	9.0k
Charles H. Tegeler United States	29	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	643 0.9×	273 0.4×	1.2k 2.5×	127	3.6k
T. Jared Bunch United States	46	5.6k 1.8×	541 0.4×	1.0k 1.4×	135 0.2×	896 1.8×	266	7.5k
Arnost Fronek United States	37	1.9k 0.6×	2.8k 2.0×	6.2k 8.3×	972 1.6×	536 1.1×	118	7.6k
Walter L. Henry United States	53	7.5k 2.4×	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 2.7×	277 0.4×	1.4k 2.9×	152	9.7k
Lars Lönn Denmark	46	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.8×	1.9k 2.6×	1.6k 2.7×	681 1.4×	214	7.5k

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Barnes, Ralph W., James F. Toole, Jason Nelson, & Virginia J. Howard. (2006). Neural Networks for Ischemic Stroke. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 15(5). 223–227. 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Zhi-Jie, Wayne D. Rosamond, Lloyd E. Chambless, et al.. (2005). Lower Extremity Arterial Disease Assessed by Ankle-Brachial Index in a Middle-Aged Population of African Americans and Whites. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 29(5). 42–49. 76 indexed citations

Cai, J., Wayne D. Rosamond, Ralph W. Barnes, et al.. (1997). Cardiac Autonomic Function and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Population-based Case-Cohort Study: The ARIC Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 145(8). 696–706. 279 indexed citations

Riley, Ward A., Gregory W. Evans, A. Richey Sharrett, Gregory L. Burke, & Ralph W. Barnes. (1997). Variation of common carotid artery elasticity with intimal-medial thickness: The aric study. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. 23(2). 157–164. 102 indexed citations

Liao, Duanping, Gregory W. Evans, Lloyd E. Chambless, et al.. (1996). Population-based study of heart rate variability and prevalent myocardial infarction. Journal of Electrocardiology. 29(3). 189–198. 18 indexed citations

Liao, Duanping, Ralph W. Barnes, Lloyd E. Chambless, & Gerardo Heiss. (1996). A Computer Algorithm to Impute Interrupted Heart Rate Data for the Spectral Analysis of Heart Rate Variability—The ARIC Study. Computers and Biomedical Research. 29(2). 140–151. 23 indexed citations

Liao, Dan, J. Cai, Ralph W. Barnes, et al.. (1996). Association of cardiac automatic function and the development of hypertensionThe ARIC study. American Journal of Hypertension. 9(12). 1147–1156. 168 indexed citations

Liao, Duanping, Ralph W. Barnes, Lloyd E. Chambless, et al.. (1995). Age, race, and sex differences in autonomic cardiac function measured by spectral analysis of heart rate variability—The ARIC study. The American Journal of Cardiology. 76(12). 906–912. 261 indexed citations

Folsom, Aaron R., Jing Ma, John H. Eckfeldt, et al.. (1995). Low serum albumin☆Association with diabetes mellitus and other cardiovascular risk factors but not with prevalent cardiovascular disease or carotid artery intima-media thickness. Annals of Epidemiology. 5(3). 186–191. 50 indexed citations

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Liao, Duanping, Jianwen Cai, Frederick L. Brancati, et al.. (1995). Association of vagal tone with serum insulin, glucose, and diabetes mellitus — The ARIC Study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 30(3). 211–221. 135 indexed citations

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Moore, Marisa, et al.. (1995). No Association between Serum Ferritin and Asymptomatic Carotid Atherosclerosis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 141(8). 719–723. 79 indexed citations

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Berglund, Göran, Ward A. Riley, Ralph W. Barnes, & Curt D. Furberg. (1994). Quality control in ultrasound studies on atherosclerosis. Journal of Internal Medicine. 236(5). 581–586. 23 indexed citations

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Sorlie, Paul D., Ervin Adam, Sandra Melnick, et al.. (1994). Cytomegalovirus/herpesvirus and carotid atherosclerosis: The aric study. Journal of Medical Virology. 42(1). 33–37. 103 indexed citations

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Riley, Ward A., Ralph W. Barnes, William B. Applegate, et al.. (1992). Reproducibility of noninvasive ultrasonic measurement of carotid atherosclerosis. The Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Plaque Study.. Stroke. 23(8). 1062–1068. 172 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Michael W., et al.. (1992). EFFECTS OF STRATIGRAPHIC AND CONSTRUCTION DETAILS ON THE LOAD TRANSFER BEHAVIOR OF DRILLED SHAFTS. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Kenneth K., Aaron R. Folsom, Gerardo Heiss, et al.. (1992). Association of coagulation factors and inhibitors with carotid artery atherosclerosis early results of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Annals of Epidemiology. 2(4). 471–480. 58 indexed citations

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Heiss, Gerardo, A. Richey Sharrett, Ralph W. Barnes, et al.. (1991). Carotid Atherosclerosis Measured by B-Mode Ultrasound in Populations: Associations with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the ARIC Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 134(3). 250–256. 697 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riley, Ward A., Ralph W. Barnes, & Harry M. Schey. (1984). An approach to the noninvasive periodic assessment of arterial elasticity in the young. Preventive Medicine. 13(2). 169–184. 39 indexed citations

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Maixner, William, et al.. (1978). Early detection of hypovolemia from directional arterial flow velocity.. PubMed. 5(1). 35–41. 2 indexed citations

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McKinney, William M., et al.. (1973). Influence of body position on intracranial pulsations and blood pressure. Journal of Clinical Ultrasound. 1(1). 56–59. 4 indexed citations

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