Richard J. Wakefield

18.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
170 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Richard J. Wakefield is a scholar working on Rheumatology, Hematology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard J. Wakefield has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Rheumatology, 45 papers in Hematology and 38 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Richard J. Wakefield's work include Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (120 papers), Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments (46 papers) and Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research (45 papers). Richard J. Wakefield is often cited by papers focused on Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (120 papers), Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments (46 papers) and Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research (45 papers). Richard J. Wakefield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and France. Richard J. Wakefield's co-authors include Paul Emery, Philip G. Conaghan, Philip O’Connor, E. Hensor, Mark Quinn, Andrew K. Brown, Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, Esperanza Naredo, Z Karim and Wayne Gibbon and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, American Heart Journal and Lara D. Veeken.

In The Last Decade

Richard J. Wakefield

162 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

An explanation for the apparent dissociation between clinical remission and continued structural deterioration in rheumatoid arthritis

2008 590 citations Andrew K. Brown, Philip G. Conaghan et al. Arthritis & Rheumatism profile →
Presence of significant synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis patients with disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug–induced clinical remission: Evidence from an imaging study may explain structural progression

2006 536 citations Andrew K. Brown, Mark Quinn et al. Arthritis & Rheumatism profile →
The value of sonography in the detection of bone erosions in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A comparison with conventional radiography

2000 513 citations Richard J. Wakefield, Wayne Gibbon et al. Arthritis & Rheumatism profile →
Scoring ultrasound synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis: a EULAR-OMERACT ultrasound taskforce—Part 1: definition and development of a standardised, consensus-based scoring system

2017 269 citations Maria Antonietta D’Agostino, Philippe Aegerter et al. RMD Open profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard J. Wakefield United Kingdom	57	8.0k	2.7k	2.0k	1.1k	1.1k	170	10.1k
John H. Stone United States	71	15.9k 2.0×	1.0k 0.4×	8.0k 4.1×	2.3k 2.0×	102 0.1×	383	21.7k
Jay S. Wunder Canada	64	6.4k 0.8×	161 0.1×	4.8k 2.5×	228 0.2×	154 0.1×	350	15.7k
Mary Betty Stevens United States	38	6.5k 0.8×	421 0.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	304 0.3×	67	12.1k
Stefano Ferrari Italy	56	3.5k 0.4×	390 0.1×	2.0k 1.0×	308 0.3×	120 0.1×	206	10.0k
Arnd Kleyer Germany	34	2.2k 0.3×	625 0.2×	435 0.2×	871 0.8×	371 0.3×	173	3.6k
Silvia Stacchiotti Italy	57	4.6k 0.6×	146 0.1×	1.1k 0.6×	275 0.2×	195 0.2×	282	9.6k
Raashid Luqmani United Kingdom	61	7.8k 1.0×	665 0.2×	1.7k 0.8×	2.3k 2.1×	35 0.0×	296	16.1k
Alessandro Gronchi Italy	78	7.5k 0.9×	381 0.1×	3.5k 1.8×	283 0.3×	69 0.1×	469	19.4k
Gaetano Bacci Italy	51	3.1k 0.4×	275 0.1×	2.0k 1.0×	244 0.2×	87 0.1×	123	8.7k
Staffan Lindblad Sweden	29	1.9k 0.2×	557 0.2×	478 0.2×	580 0.5×	106 0.1×	68	3.7k

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Cazenave, Tomás, Caterina Baldi, Harmony Ubhi, et al.. (2025). Ultrasound Beyond Joints: A Review of Extra-Articular Applications in Rheumatology. Current Rheumatology Reports. 27(1). 20–20.

Matteo, Andrea Di, Gabriele De Marco, Ai Lyn Tan, et al.. (2024). High prevalence of radiographic erosions in early, untreated PsA: results from the SpARRO cohort. RMD Open. 10(2). e003841–e003841. 4 indexed citations

Hanna, D.C., et al.. (2024). Undergraduate rheumatology teaching in the UK: a survey of current practice by teachers and students. Rheumatology Advances in Practice. 8(4). rkae112–rkae112.

Matteo, Andrea Di, Enrico De Lorenzis, Jacqueline Nam, et al.. (2023). Ultrasound in anti-CCP+ at-risk individuals without clinical synovitis: development of a novel 6-joint protocol for feasible risk prediction. Lara D. Veeken. 63(8). 2213–2221. 5 indexed citations

Gouze, Hélène, Marina Backhaus, P Bálint, et al.. (2023). Ultrasound in the Management of Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis: Systematic Literature Review and Novel Algorithms for Pragmatic Use. The Journal of Rheumatology. 51(1). 50–60. 9 indexed citations

Guldberg–Møller, Jørgen, Mette Mogensen, Karen Ellegaard, et al.. (2022). Multimodal imaging of the distal interphalangeal-joint synovio-entheseal complex in psoriatic arthritis (MIDAS): a cross-sectional study on the diagnostic accuracy of different imaging modalities comparing psoriatic arthritis to psoriasis and osteoarthritis. RMD Open. 8(1). e002109–e002109. 8 indexed citations

Alabas, Oras, Xabier Michelena, Leticia Garcia‐Montoya, et al.. (2021). Ultrasound shows swollen joints are the better proxy for synovitis than tender joints in DMARD-naïve early psoriatic arthritis. Rheumatology Advances in Practice. 5(3). rkab086–rkab086. 6 indexed citations

Emery, Paul, Sarah Horton, Raluca B Dumitru, et al.. (2020). Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of very early etanercept and MTX versus MTX with delayed etanercept in RA: the VEDERA trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 79(4). 464–471. 14 indexed citations

D’Agostino, Maria Antonietta, Maarten Boers, Richard J. Wakefield, et al.. (2016). Exploring a new ultrasound score as a clinical predictive tool in patients with rheumatoid arthritis starting abatacept: results from the APPRAISE study. RMD Open. 2(1). e000237–e000237. 53 indexed citations

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Dumitru, Raluca B, Sarah Horton, Richard Hodgson, et al.. (2016). A prospective, single-centre, randomised study evaluating the clinical, imaging and immunological depth of remission achieved by very early versus delayed Etanercept in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (VEDERA). BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 17(1). 61–61. 7 indexed citations

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Keen, Helen, E. Hensor, Richard J. Wakefield, et al.. (2015). Ultrasound assessment of response to intra-articular therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee. Lara D. Veeken. 54(8). 1385–1391. 26 indexed citations

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Hammer, Hilde Berner, Annamaria Iagnocco, Alexander Mathiessen, et al.. (2014). Global ultrasound assessment of structural lesions in osteoarthritis: a reliability study by the OMERACT ultrasonography group on scoring cartilage and osteophytes in finger joints. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 75(2). 402–407. 48 indexed citations

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Nam, J., Édith Villeneuve, E. Hensor, et al.. (2013). Remission induction comparing infliximab and high-dose intravenous steroid, followed by treat-to-target: a double-blind, randomised, controlled trial in new-onset, treatment-naive, rheumatoid arthritis (the IDEA study). Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 73(1). 75–85. 122 indexed citations

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Lanni, Stefano, et al.. (2012). Towards a role of ultrasound in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Lara D. Veeken. 52(3). 413–420. 40 indexed citations

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Kissin, Eugene Y., Jane Nishio, Marina Backhaus, et al.. (2010). Self‐directed learning of basic musculoskeletal ultrasound among rheumatologists in the United States. Arthritis Care & Research. 62(2). 155–160. 37 indexed citations

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Aydın, Sibel Zehra, Emilio Filippucci, Richard J. Wakefield, et al.. (2010). Validation of ultrasound imaging for Achilles entheseal fibrocartilage in bovines and description of changes in humans with spondyloarthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 69(12). 2165–2168. 28 indexed citations

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Saleem, Benazir, Andrew K. Brown, Helen Keen, et al.. (2009). Disease remission state in patients treated with the combination of tumor necrosis factor blockade and methotrexate or with disease‐modifying antirheumatic drugs: A clinical and imaging comparative study. Arthritis & Rheumatism. 60(7). 1915–1922. 113 indexed citations

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Keen, Helen, Richard J. Wakefield, Andrew J. Grainger, et al.. (2008). An ultrasonographic study of osteoarthritis of the hand: Synovitis and its relationship to structural pathology and symptoms. Arthritis Care & Research. 59(12). 1756–1763. 123 indexed citations

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Wakefield, Richard J., Philip O’Connor, Philip G. Conaghan, et al.. (2007). Finger tendon disease in untreated early rheumatoid arthritis: A comparison of ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Arthritis Care & Research. 57(7). 1158–1164. 91 indexed citations

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Wakefield, Richard J.. (2003). Musculoskeletal ultrasonography in Europe: results of a rheumatologist-based survey at a EULAR meeting. British journal of rheumatology. 42(10). 1251–1253. 46 indexed citations

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