Robert W. Haley

14.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
174 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

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Robert W. Haley is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Infectious Diseases and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Haley has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 28 papers in Infectious Diseases and 28 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Haley's work include Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (29 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (13 papers) and Surgical site infection prevention (12 papers). Robert W. Haley is often cited by papers focused on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (29 papers), Infection Control in Healthcare (13 papers) and Surgical site infection prevention (12 papers). Robert W. Haley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Robert W. Haley's co-authors include David H. Culver, T.Grace Emori, John White, W. Meade Morgan, Thomas M. Hooton, Dennis R. Schaberg, Dana Quade, Arthur N. Westover, Wayne A. Woodward and John E. McGowan and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Haley

166 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

THE EFFICACY OF INFECTION SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMS IN PREVENTING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN US HOSPITALS

1985 1.5k citations Robert W. Haley et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
IDENTIFYING PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION

1985 579 citations Robert W. Haley et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
THE NATIONWIDE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION RATE

1985 576 citations Robert W. Haley et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Nosocomial infections in U.S. hospitals, 1975–1976

1981 373 citations Robert W. Haley et al. The American Journal of Medicine profile →
The Emergence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in United States Hospitals

1982 368 citations Robert W. Haley et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert W. Haley United States	52	2.6k	2.2k	2.2k	2.2k	1.4k	174	10.9k
Mary Cheang Canada	47	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	5.0k 2.3×	1.2k 0.6×	360 0.3×	134	12.3k
Nandini Dendukuri Canada	55	2.8k 1.1×	4.2k 1.9×	4.8k 2.2×	1.6k 0.7×	742 0.5×	166	12.7k
Jon E. Tyson United States	64	2.8k 1.1×	773 0.4×	3.4k 1.5×	1.0k 0.5×	592 0.4×	241	19.7k
Heiner C. Bucher Switzerland	60	3.4k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	3.8k 1.8×	775 0.4×	339 0.2×	253	15.0k
Mark Loeb Canada	66	1.5k 0.6×	4.7k 2.1×	6.2k 2.9×	1.0k 0.5×	397 0.3×	340	16.4k
Lisa A. Weissfeld United States	61	1.5k 0.6×	684 0.3×	5.1k 2.4×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	170	15.4k
Seetha Shankaran United States	74	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.8×	1.2k 0.6×	661 0.5×	351	23.7k
Avroy A. Fanaroff United States	72	4.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.5×	4.7k 2.2×	1.0k 0.5×	622 0.5×	251	24.3k
Richard A. Ehrenkranz United States	80	5.4k 2.1×	836 0.4×	4.8k 2.2×	1.1k 0.5×	851 0.6×	272	26.6k
Philipp Schüetz Switzerland	64	1.9k 0.7×	864 0.4×	7.0k 3.2×	2.7k 1.3×	488 0.4×	458	15.5k

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Öz, Orhan K., et al.. (2026). Prospective comparison of WBC SPECT/CT and conventional MRI for diagnosing osteomyelitis and monitoring treatment response in diabetic foot infections. Diabetologia. 69(4). 1049–1059.

Haley, Robert W., Jill A. Dever, Gerald L. Kramer, & John F. Teiber. (2023). The effect of disease misclassification on the ability to detect a gene-environment interaction: implications of the specificity of case definitions for research on Gulf War illness. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 23(1). 273–273. 2 indexed citations

Teiber, John F., Junhui Xiao, Gerald L. Kramer, et al.. (2018). Identification of biologically active δ-lactone eicosanoids as paraoxonase substrates. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 505(1). 87–92. 26 indexed citations

Tillman, Gail D., Jeffrey S. Spence, Richard W. Briggs, et al.. (2018). Gulf War illness associated with abnormal auditory P1 event-related potential: Evidence of impaired cholinergic processing replicated in a national sample. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 283. 7–15. 6 indexed citations

Cooper, Crystal, Richard W. Briggs, Emily A. Farris, et al.. (2016). Memory and functional brain differences in a national sample of U.S. veterans with Gulf War Illness. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 250. 33–41. 20 indexed citations

Chung, Wendy M., et al.. (2013). The 2012 West Nile Encephalitis Epidemic in Dallas, Texas. JAMA. 310(3). 297–297. 78 indexed citations

Odegard, Timothy N., et al.. (2012). Memory impairment exhibited by veterans with Gulf War Illness. Neurocase. 19(4). 316–327. 36 indexed citations

Haley, Robert W.. (2012). Controlling Urban Epidemics of West Nile Virus Infection. JAMA. 308(13). 1325–1325. 11 indexed citations

Haley, Robert W., et al.. (2012). Epidemiologic Evidence of Health Effects from Long-Distance Transit of Chemical Weapons Fallout from Bombing Early in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Neuroepidemiology. 40(3). 178–189. 42 indexed citations

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Kraut, Michael A., et al.. (2010). The neuroanatomic correlates of semantic memory deficits in patients with Gulf War illnesses: a pilot study. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 4(3-4). 248–255. 29 indexed citations

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Livingston, Edward H., Wayne A. Woodward, George A. Sarosi, & Robert W. Haley. (2007). Disconnect Between Incidence of Nonperforated and Perforated Appendicitis. Annals of Surgery. 245(6). 886–892. 313 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W., Wanpen Vongpatanasin, Gil I. Wolfe, et al.. (2004). Blunted circadian variation in autonomic regulation of sinus node function in veterans with Gulf War syndrome. The American Journal of Medicine. 117(7). 469–478. 62 indexed citations

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Gunst, Richard F., et al.. (2004). Improved agreement between Talairach and MNI coordinate spaces in deep brain regions. NeuroImage. 22(1). 367–371. 25 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W., Gordon D. Luk, & Frederick Petty. (2001). Use of structural equation modeling to test the construct validity of a case definition of Gulf War syndrome:. Psychiatry Research. 102(2). 175–200. 28 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1998). Point: Bias from the "Healthy-Warrior Effect" and Unequal Follow-up in Three Government Studies of Health Effects of the Gulf War. American Journal of Epidemiology. 148(4). 315–323. 94 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1997). Is There a Gulf War Syndrome?<subtitle>Searching for Syndromes by Factor Analysis of Symptoms</subtitle>. JAMA. 277(3). 215–215. 267 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1993). Measuring the intrinsic risk of wound infection in surgical patients. 10(3). 396–417. 9 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1988). Who Will Generate Surgeon-Specific Rates? The Gauntlet Is Down. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 9(10). 475–476. 2 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1988). Who Will Generate Surgeon-Specific Rates? The Gauntlet Is Down. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 9(10). 475–476. 3 indexed citations

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Haley, Robert W.. (1988). The Vicissitudes of Prospective Multihospital Surveillance Studies: The Israeli Study of Surgical infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 9(6). 228–231. 5 indexed citations

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