Ralph Ward

789 total citations
53 papers, 470 citations indexed

About

Ralph Ward is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Ward has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 470 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 9 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ralph Ward's work include Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (16 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (7 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (7 papers). Ralph Ward is often cited by papers focused on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (16 papers), Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (7 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (7 papers). Ralph Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Sweden. Ralph Ward's co-authors include Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Nichole T. Tanner, Rachel Carroll, Nathaniel S. O’Connell, Yunyun Jiang, Wei Wei, Lin Dai, Jaime L. Speiser, R. Neal Axon and David J. Taber and has published in prestigious journals such as Spine, CHEST Journal and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Ward

49 papers receiving 466 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralph Ward United States 11 99 68 61 60 59 53 470
Alexander L. Chin United States 13 144 1.5× 75 1.1× 86 1.4× 135 2.3× 78 1.3× 38 728
Jennifer Petrillo United States 11 125 1.3× 38 0.6× 72 1.2× 44 0.7× 29 0.5× 32 617
Eimo Martens Germany 16 52 0.5× 73 1.1× 70 1.1× 39 0.7× 27 0.5× 60 965
Chunqiao Luo United States 15 102 1.0× 36 0.5× 83 1.4× 44 0.7× 49 0.8× 33 687
Michelle Duong United States 10 112 1.1× 66 1.0× 69 1.1× 31 0.5× 36 0.6× 13 586
Helen Lewis United Kingdom 15 143 1.4× 40 0.6× 40 0.7× 87 1.4× 55 0.9× 20 651
Gregory D. Salinas United States 15 133 1.3× 128 1.9× 93 1.5× 24 0.4× 72 1.2× 48 782
José-Ramón Rueda Spain 13 183 1.8× 125 1.8× 152 2.5× 31 0.5× 140 2.4× 22 635
Anna Kurowska Poland 10 67 0.7× 80 1.2× 53 0.9× 35 0.6× 179 3.0× 37 582
Homa Keshavarz Canada 13 96 1.0× 110 1.6× 30 0.5× 20 0.3× 155 2.6× 25 551

Countries citing papers authored by Ralph Ward

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph Ward

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph Ward

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ward, Ralph, et al.. (2025). Primary Care Visit Frequency Is Associated With Diagnosis But Not Pharmacotherapy Prescribing for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. 52(3). 542–552.
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Axon, R. Neal, Ralph Ward, Ahmed S. Mohamed, et al.. (2024). Trends in Veteran hospitalizations and associated readmissions and emergency department visits during the MISSION Act era. Health Services Research. 59(5). e14332–e14332. 1 indexed citations
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Gebregziabher, Mulugeta, Ahmed S. Mohamed, Ralph Ward, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the impact of veterans expanded care legislation: a qualitative systematic review. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, Jihad S. Obeid, S. Faul, et al.. (2023). Enhanced phenotypes for identifying opioid overdose in emergency department visit electronic health record data. JAMIA Open. 6(3). ooad081–ooad081. 1 indexed citations
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McCauley, Jenna L., Ralph Ward, David J. Taber, et al.. (2023). Surgical prescription opioid trajectories among state Medicaid enrollees. Journal of Opioid Management. 19(6). 465–488. 1 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, et al.. (2023). The effectiveness of a noninterruptive alert to increase prescription of take-home naloxone in emergency departments. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 30(4). 683–691. 4 indexed citations
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Lenert, Leslie, Vivienne J. Zhu, Jenna L. McCauley, et al.. (2022). Enhancing research data infrastructure to address the opioid epidemic: the Opioid Overdose Network (O2-Net). JAMIA Open. 5(2). ooac055–ooac055. 4 indexed citations
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Cina, Robert A., Ralph Ward, William T. Basco, et al.. (2022). Incidence and patterns of persistent opioid use in children following appendectomy. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 57(12). 912–919. 5 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, David J. Taber, Mulugeta Gebregziabher, et al.. (2022). Risk factors and trajectories of opioid use following total knee replacement. Knee Surgery and Related Research. 34(1). 18–18. 13 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, Nichole T. Tanner, Alana M. Rojewski, et al.. (2022). Factors Associated With Smoking Cessation Attempts in Lung Cancer Screening. CHEST Journal. 163(2). 433–443. 3 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, et al.. (2021). Effectiveness of a substance use treatment program for veterans with chronic pain and opioid use disorder. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 132. 108635–108635. 4 indexed citations
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Ward, Ralph, Erin R. Weeda, David J. Taber, R. Neal Axon, & Mulugeta Gebregziabher. (2021). Advanced models for improved prediction of opioid-related overdose and suicide events among Veterans using administrative healthcare data. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. 22(2). 275–295. 1 indexed citations
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Basco, William T., Ralph Ward, David J. Taber, et al.. (2021). Patterns of dispensed opioids after tonsillectomy in children and adolescents in South Carolina, United States, 2010–2017. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 143. 110636–110636. 8 indexed citations
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Weeda, Erin R., Kinfe G. Bishu, Ralph Ward, et al.. (2020). Joint effect of race/ethnicity or location of residence and sex on low density lipoprotein-cholesterol among veterans with type 2 diabetes: a 10-year retrospective cohort study. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. 20(1). 449–449. 6 indexed citations
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Tanner, Nichole T., et al.. (2020). Screening Adherence in the Veterans Administration Lung Cancer Screening Demonstration Project. CHEST Journal. 158(4). 1742–1752. 43 indexed citations
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Moreland, Angela D., et al.. (2020). Rates of substance use disorder treatment seeking visits after emergency department-initiated buprenorphine. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 38(5). 975–978. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Elizabeth A., Ralph Ward, Erin R. Weeda, et al.. (2019). Racial–Geographic Disparity in Lipid Management in Veterans with Type 2 Diabetes: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study. Health Equity. 3(1). 472–479. 6 indexed citations
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Ozieh, Mukoso N., Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Ralph Ward, David J. Taber, & Leonard E. Egede. (2019). Creating a 13-year National Longitudinal Cohort of veterans with chronic kidney disease. BMC Nephrology. 20(1). 241–241. 3 indexed citations
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Gebregziabher, Mulugeta, Ralph Ward, David J. Taber, et al.. (2018). Ethnic and geographic variations in multimorbidty: Evidence from three large cohorts. Social Science & Medicine. 211. 198–206. 19 indexed citations

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