Raya Kheirbek

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 984 citations indexed

About

Raya Kheirbek is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Raya Kheirbek has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 984 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 16 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 13 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Raya Kheirbek's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (8 papers) and Heart Failure Treatment and Management (7 papers). Raya Kheirbek is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (10 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (8 papers) and Heart Failure Treatment and Management (7 papers). Raya Kheirbek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Greece. Raya Kheirbek's co-authors include Peter Kokkinos, Ross D. Fletcher, Farrokh Alemi, Henry Silverman, Helen Sheriff, Gyasi Moscou-Jackson, Charles Faselis, Michael Doumas, Eric Nylén and Jonathan Myers and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Raya Kheirbek

47 papers receiving 937 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.

Moral distress in nurses caring for patients with Covid-19

2021 132 citations Henry Silverman, Raya Kheirbek et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raya Kheirbek United States	19	355	248	243	163	102	52	984
Anna Rolleston New Zealand	17	423 1.2×	278 1.1×	332 1.4×	194 1.2×	90 0.9×	82	1.2k
Paula Schulz United States	18	381 1.1×	98 0.4×	205 0.8×	165 1.0×	70 0.7×	47	985
Beth A. Staffileno United States	20	396 1.1×	302 1.2×	383 1.6×	299 1.8×	230 2.3×	70	1.3k
Elizabeth Avery United States	21	494 1.4×	139 0.6×	367 1.5×	262 1.6×	69 0.7×	54	1.4k
Capri G. Foy United States	18	519 1.5×	230 0.9×	148 0.6×	275 1.7×	57 0.6×	40	1.4k
Ying Jiang Singapore	19	340 1.0×	99 0.4×	285 1.2×	87 0.5×	62 0.6×	58	971
Tina Varghese United States	8	514 1.4×	185 0.7×	208 0.9×	91 0.6×	42 0.4×	13	1.1k
Paul Anthony Camacho Colombia	23	416 1.2×	402 1.6×	307 1.3×	225 1.4×	46 0.5×	119	1.8k
JinShil Kim South Korea	16	403 1.1×	196 0.8×	170 0.7×	80 0.5×	28 0.3×	65	837
Shakia T. Hardy United States	14	759 2.1×	335 1.4×	187 0.8×	105 0.6×	40 0.4×	41	1.4k

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Thompson, Michael P., Kathleen A. Ryan, Deborah A. Levine, et al.. (2025). Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) With Days at Home Among Medicare Beneficiaries After a Heart Failure Hospitalization. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 18(6). e011246–e011246.

Albrecht, Jennifer S., et al.. (2025). Racial disparities in palliative care among hospitalized older adults with traumatic brain injury. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(8).

Yang, Yulin, et al.. (2023). The Hidden Toll of Incarceration: Exploring the Link Between Incarceration Histories and Pain Among Older Adults in the United States. Innovation in Aging. 7(10). igad116–igad116. 1 indexed citations

Tabatabai, Ali, Megan Anders, Sarah Whitehead, et al.. (2023). Early Guided Palliative Care Communication for Patients With COVID-19 Receiving ECMO. American Journal of Critical Care. 32(3). 166–174. 3 indexed citations

Silverman, Henry, et al.. (2022). Ethical decision-making climate, moral distress, and intention to leave among ICU professionals in a tertiary academic hospital center. BMC Medical Ethics. 23(1). 45–45. 44 indexed citations

Alemi, Farrokh, et al.. (2020). Leveraging machine learning and big data for optimizing medication prescriptions in complex diseases: a case study in diabetes management. Journal Of Big Data. 7(1). 12 indexed citations

Fletcher, Ross D., Ronald E. Jones, H. J. Moore, et al.. (2018). INCREASED BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) PROMOTES HYPERTENSION AND WORSENS BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL AMONG US VETERANS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71(11). A1817–A1817. 2 indexed citations

Fletcher, Ross D., H. J. Moore, Richard Amdur, et al.. (2017). GUIDELINES ALLOWING CONTROL OF HYPERTENSION IN NON-DIABETICS GREATER THAN 60 YEARS OLD AT UP TO 150 MMHG AVERAGE SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASES PATIENT MORTALITY IN VETERANS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 69(11). 1690–1690. 1 indexed citations

Alemi, Farrokh, Cari Levy, & Raya Kheirbek. (2016). The Multi-Morbidity Index: A Tool for Assessing the Prognosis of Patients from History of Illness. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 19–19. 14 indexed citations

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Kheirbek, Raya. (2016). Behind the Veil. Academic Medicine. 91(11). 1575–1575. 2 indexed citations

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Levy, Cari, Allison E. Williams, Arthur R. Williams, et al.. (2015). Sequence of Functional Loss and Recovery in Nursing Homes. The Gerontologist. 56(1). 52–61. 20 indexed citations

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Nylén, Eric, et al.. (2015). Enhanced fitness and renal function in Type 2 diabetes. Diabetic Medicine. 32(10). 1342–1345. 18 indexed citations

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Kheirbek, Raya, Ross D. Fletcher, Prakash Deedwania, et al.. (2014). Abstract 18649: Comparative Impact of Isolated Systolic Hypertension vs Systolic-Diastolic Hypertension on Incident Heart Failure and All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. 130. 1 indexed citations

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White, Michel, Kanan Patel, Prakash Deedwania, et al.. (2014). Racial differences in mortality in patients with advanced systolic heart failure: Potential role of right ventricular ejection fraction. International Journal of Cardiology. 177(1). 255–260. 2 indexed citations

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Bhatia, Vikas, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj, Kumar Sanam, et al.. (2014). Beta-blocker Use and 30-day All-cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries with Systolic Heart Failure. The American Journal of Medicine. 128(7). 715–721. 37 indexed citations

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Kokkinos, Peter, Charles Faselis, J. Myers, et al.. (2014). Statin Therapy, Fitness, and Mortality Risk in Middle-Aged Hypertensive Male Veterans. American Journal of Hypertension. 27(3). 422–430. 19 indexed citations

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Kheirbek, Raya, et al.. (2013). Trajectory of Illness for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16(5). 478–484. 46 indexed citations

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Fletcher, Ross D., et al.. (2013). Abstract 19229: Effect of Blood Pressure Control on Mortality in Patients With Hypertension - Using the VA National Database. Circulation. 128(suppl_22). 1 indexed citations

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Faselis, Charles, Michael Doumas, Jonathan Myers, et al.. (2013). Heart Rate at Rest, Exercise Capacity, and Mortality Risk in Veterans. The American Journal of Cardiology. 112(10). 1605–1609. 18 indexed citations

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Kokkinos, Peter, Jonathan Myers, Charles Faselis, et al.. (2012). BMI–Mortality Paradox and Fitness in African American and Caucasian Men With Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Care. 35(5). 1021–1027. 82 indexed citations

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