Richard E. Nelson

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
223 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Richard E. Nelson is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Surgery and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard E. Nelson has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Epidemiology, 45 papers in Surgery and 45 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Richard E. Nelson's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (23 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (23 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (18 papers). Richard E. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (23 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (23 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (18 papers). Richard E. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. Richard E. Nelson's co-authors include Matthew H. Samore, Scott D. Grosse, Vanessa Stevens, Karim Khader, Gary E. Raskob, Lisa C. Richardson, Kwame A. Nyarko, Joanne LaFleur, Michael Rubin and Marin L. Schweizer and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Richard E. Nelson

202 papers receiving 4.4k citations

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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.

Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections in U.S. Hospitalized Patients, 2012–2017

2020 384 citations John A. Jernigan, Richard E. Nelson et al. profile →
The economic burden of incident venous thromboembolism in the United States: A review of estimated attributable healthcare costs

2015 343 citations Richard E. Nelson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard E. Nelson United States	32	1.3k	918	745	555	504	223	4.5k
Chesley Richards United States	26	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	240 0.4×	799 1.6×	48	6.2k
Marin L. Schweizer United States	44	1.4k 1.1×	2.4k 2.6×	1.3k 1.7×	537 1.0×	468 0.9×	179	6.3k
Scott A. Flanders United States	30	2.3k 1.8×	907 1.0×	603 0.8×	218 0.4×	343 0.7×	85	5.4k
Bertrand Souweine France	44	1.9k 1.5×	798 0.9×	767 1.0×	379 0.7×	254 0.5×	216	6.3k
Charles D. Gomersall Hong Kong	37	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	492 0.7×	314 0.6×	305 0.6×	116	5.0k
Mette Søgaard Denmark	32	1.1k 0.9×	534 0.6×	409 0.5×	170 0.3×	777 1.5×	153	3.8k
Mary Alexander United States	11	1.2k 0.9×	879 1.0×	1.1k 1.4×	116 0.2×	226 0.4×	23	6.5k
Philip W. Smith United States	37	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	954 1.3×	204 0.4×	292 0.6×	192	5.4k
Shawn D. Aaron Canada	60	1.2k 1.0×	583 0.6×	700 0.9×	551 1.0×	694 1.4×	253	11.5k
Dominique Benoît Belgium	39	2.3k 1.8×	786 0.9×	530 0.7×	195 0.4×	280 0.6×	155	5.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jones, Audrey L., Hongwei Zhao, Richard E. Nelson, et al.. (2025). Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Non–Addiction Specialty Settings. JAMA Network Open. 8(11). e2543543–e2543543.

Lopez, Perla L. Vaca, Heydon K. Kaddas, Echo L. Warner, et al.. (2025). CHAT-S study protocol: A randomized controlled trial of a health insurance literacy education program for young adult cancer survivors. PubMed. 3(1).

Horns, Joshua J., Katie W. Russell, Richard E. Nelson, et al.. (2025). The Age-stratified Cost of Biliary Atresia: A MarketScan®-Based Cost Analysis. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 60(5). 162244–162244.

Scharfstein, Daniel O., Thomas Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, et al.. (2024). The effect of a Veterans Affairs rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention program on long‐term housing instability. Health Services Research. 60(S3). e14428–e14428.

Kurlander, Jacob E., Loren Laine, Hyungjin Myra Kim, et al.. (2024). Impact of large scale, multicomponent intervention to reduce proton pump inhibitor overuse in integrated healthcare system: difference-in-difference study. BMJ. 385. e076484–e076484. 3 indexed citations

Scott, R. Douglas, Steven D. Culler, James Baggs, et al.. (2024). Measuring the Direct Medical Costs of Hospital-Onset Infections Using an Analogy Costing Framework. PharmacoEconomics. 42(10). 1127–1144.

Nelson, Richard E., Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Ying Suo, et al.. (2023). Temporary Financial Assistance for Housing Expenditures and Mortality and Suicide Outcomes Among US Veterans. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 39(4). 587–595. 1 indexed citations

Conlin, Paul R., Libin Zhang, Donglin Li, et al.. (2023). Association of hemoglobin A1c stability with mortality and diabetes complications in older adults with diabetes. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 11(2). e003211–e003211. 4 indexed citations

Kanwal, Fasiha, Richard E. Nelson, Yan Liu, et al.. (2023). Cost of Care for Patients With Cirrhosis. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 119(3). 497–504. 7 indexed citations

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Stewart, Ian J., Jeffrey T. Howard, Jud C. Janak, et al.. (2023). Long-Term Health Care Costs for Service Members Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military Medicine. 188(7-8). e2431–e2438.

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Nelson, Richard E., Thomas Byrne, Susan Zickmund, et al.. (2022). Which veterans in the Supportive Services for Veteran Families program receive temporary financial assistance and why: a mixed methods study. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 32(2). 210–222. 4 indexed citations

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Voils, Corrine I., Cynthia J. Coffman, R. Ryanne Wu, et al.. (2022). A Cluster Randomized Trial of a Family Health History Platform to Identify and Manage Patients at Increased Risk for Colorectal Cancer. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 38(6). 1375–1383. 4 indexed citations

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Elbogen, Eric B., Eamonn Kennedy, Shannon M. Blakey, et al.. (2022). Criminal legal involvement among recently separated veterans: Findings from the LIMBIC study.. Law and Human Behavior. 46(5). 385–394. 5 indexed citations

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Byrne, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Rapid rehousing for persons experiencing homelessness: a systematic review of the evidence. Housing Studies. 38(4). 615–641. 18 indexed citations

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Chatterjee, Piyali, Marjory Williams, Hosoon Choi, et al.. (2020). Effectiveness of Copper-Impregnated Solid Surfaces on Lowering Microbial Bio-Burden Levels in an Acute Care Hospital. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 7(8). ofaa238–ofaa238. 4 indexed citations

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Nelson, Richard E., et al.. (2020). Bradycardia with Mitral Valve Prolapse. Annals of Internal Medicine. 85(4).

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Marra, Alexandre R., Eli N. Perencevich, Richard E. Nelson, et al.. (2020). Incidence and Outcomes Associated With Clostridium difficile Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. PMC. 7 indexed citations

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Nelson, Richard E., Junjie Ma, Yan Cheng, et al.. (2019). Healthcare Utilization and Missed Workdays for Parents of Children With Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 34(4). 257–267. 4 indexed citations

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Livorsi, Daniel J., Margaret L. Chorazy, Marin L. Schweizer, et al.. (2018). A systematic review of the epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the United States. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 7(1). 55–55. 90 indexed citations

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Nelson, Richard E., et al.. (1991). Endothelin levels in hypertensive patients following cardiac transplantation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 17(2). A238–A238. 1 indexed citations

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