Richard Appleton

964 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 533 citations indexed

About

Richard Appleton is a scholar working on Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Emergency Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Appleton has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 533 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, 4 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and 3 papers in Emergency Medicine. Recurrent topics in Richard Appleton's work include Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (6 papers), Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (4 papers) and Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research (3 papers). Richard Appleton is often cited by papers focused on Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (6 papers), Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (4 papers) and Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research (3 papers). Richard Appleton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Richard Appleton's co-authors include John Kinsella, Tara Quasim, Orrin Devinsky, Cynthia L. Harden, Richard Chin, Robert Flamini, Kenneth W. Sommerville, Charuta Joshi, Gilmour Morrison and Ian Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Neurology and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society).

In The Last Decade

Richard Appleton

9 papers receiving 513 citations

Hit Papers

Randomized, dose-ranging safety trial of cannabidiol in D... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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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. Randomized, dose-ranging safety trial of cannabidiol in Dravet syndrome
    2018 340 citations Orrin Devinsky, Anup D. Patel et al. Neurology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Appleton United Kingdom 5 278 163 159 117 72 10 533
Karsten Ahlbeck Sweden 14 229 0.8× 118 0.7× 69 0.4× 46 0.4× 53 0.7× 14 647
F. Servin France 21 168 0.6× 402 2.5× 115 0.7× 51 0.4× 96 1.3× 52 1.6k
Christian Fromm United States 14 167 0.6× 99 0.6× 40 0.3× 88 0.8× 13 0.2× 26 710
Alicja Bartkowska‐Śniatkowska Poland 12 190 0.7× 50 0.3× 164 1.0× 54 0.5× 47 0.7× 60 492
Eran Geller Israel 13 51 0.2× 174 1.1× 66 0.4× 53 0.5× 26 0.4× 26 553
Silvia Duong Canada 9 158 0.6× 18 0.1× 114 0.7× 22 0.2× 34 0.5× 11 733
Christina J. Hayhurst United States 9 35 0.1× 375 2.3× 32 0.2× 41 0.4× 41 0.6× 14 574
H. A. Adams Germany 16 54 0.2× 110 0.7× 52 0.3× 24 0.2× 28 0.4× 71 678
Keith Budd United Kingdom 13 190 0.7× 44 0.3× 60 0.4× 93 0.8× 18 0.3× 30 1.1k
B. A. Blansjaar Netherlands 14 245 0.9× 29 0.2× 334 2.1× 38 0.3× 32 0.4× 21 691

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Appleton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Appleton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Appleton

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Appleton, Richard, et al.. (2024). Pain, agitation and delirium in the intensive care unit. Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine. 25(11). 773–780.
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Appleton, Richard, et al.. (2021). Pain, agitation and delirium in the intensive care unit. Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine. 22(12). 799–806. 2 indexed citations
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Hampson, Lisa V., et al.. (2019). A Quantitative Framework to Inform Extrapolation Decisions in Children. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 183(2). 515–534. 2 indexed citations
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Devinsky, Orrin, Anup D. Patel, Elizabeth A. Thiele, et al.. (2018). Randomized, dose-ranging safety trial of cannabidiol in Dravet syndrome. Neurology. 90(14). e1204–e1211. 340 indexed citations breakdown →
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Appleton, Richard, et al.. (2018). Pain, agitation and delirium in the intensive care unit. Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine. 19(12). 634–640. 12 indexed citations
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Appleton, Richard, John Kinsella, & Tara Quasim. (2014). The incidence of intensive care unit-acquired weakness syndromes: A systematic review. Journal of the Intensive Care Society. 16(2). 126–136. 137 indexed citations
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Appleton, Richard & John Kinsella. (2012). Intensive care unit-acquired weakness. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain. 12(2). 62–66. 22 indexed citations
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Appleton, Richard, et al.. (2011). Rehabilitation within Scottish Intensive Care Units: A National Survey. Journal of the Intensive Care Society. 12(3). 221–227. 16 indexed citations
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McNamara, Paul, Conor Mallucci, & Richard Appleton. (2001). Headache and abdominal pain. The Lancet. 357(9260). 930–930. 1 indexed citations
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Appleton, Richard. (1994). Head injury rehabilitation for children.. PubMed. 90(22). 29–31. 1 indexed citations

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