Sean Williams

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
144 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sean Williams is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Williams has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 38 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 36 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Sean Williams's work include Sports injuries and prevention (94 papers), Sports Performance and Training (64 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (36 papers). Sean Williams is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (94 papers), Sports Performance and Training (64 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (36 papers). Sean Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Sean Williams's co-authors include Keith Stokes, Simon Kemp, Grant Trewartha, Patria Hume, Kelly Sheerin, Chris Whatman, Matthew Cross, Geoffrey P. Hammond, Carly McKay and Sean P. Cumming and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sean Williams

132 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Kinesio Taping in Treatment and Prevention of Sports Injuries

2011 404 citations Sean Williams, Chris Whatman et al. Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Williams United Kingdom	28	2.3k	708	616	534	389	144	3.3k
Abdulaziz Farooq Qatar	30	2.1k 0.9×	693 1.0×	824 1.3×	679 1.3×	106 0.3×	119	3.3k
Frank Backx Netherlands	43	2.8k 1.2×	972 1.4×	1.2k 1.9×	1.3k 2.5×	166 0.4×	129	5.1k
Dennis Caine United States	30	2.3k 1.0×	685 1.0×	302 0.5×	1.2k 2.2×	443 1.1×	66	3.1k
Pascal Édouard France	36	4.1k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	982 1.6×	1.3k 2.4×	419 1.1×	243	5.2k
Conor Gissane United Kingdom	36	2.2k 1.0×	805 1.1×	915 1.5×	797 1.5×	835 2.1×	108	3.9k
J. Dvořák Switzerland	25	1.9k 0.8×	944 1.3×	742 1.2×	830 1.6×	724 1.9×	43	3.4k
José Oliveira Portugal	42	1.4k 0.6×	713 1.0×	1.5k 2.4×	485 0.9×	183 0.5×	212	5.1k
Rod Whiteley Qatar	40	3.9k 1.7×	562 0.8×	931 1.5×	2.2k 4.1×	366 0.9×	168	4.7k
Mark R. Hutchinson United States	28	2.2k 1.0×	317 0.4×	446 0.7×	1.9k 3.5×	272 0.7×	84	3.6k
Adam S. Tenforde United States	42	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.8×	428 0.7×	848 1.6×	296 0.8×	181	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Williams

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williams, Amy E., et al.. (2025). The financial cost of injuries and their association with team success in professional men's cricket. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 28(5). 384–390.

White, Carla, Paul Garner, Keith Stokes, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal study of five seasons of upper limb injuries in training and matches in elite female rugby union at club and national team level. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(2). e002359–e002359. 1 indexed citations

Cohen, Daniel D., et al.. (2025). Inter-Day Reliability of Countermovement Jump Metrics in Elite Academy Soccer Players. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1).

Singh, Pushpendra P., Majd Marrache, Andrew Kim, et al.. (2025). Total Knee Arthroplasty Out-of-Pocket Costs on the Rise: A Nationwide Analysis of Financial Burden and Regional Disparities. The Journal of Arthroplasty.

Roberts, Simon, Keith Stokes, Sean Williams, et al.. (2024). Injury in Starting and Replacement Players from Five Professional Men’s Rugby Unions. Sports Medicine. 54(8). 2157–2167. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Sean, et al.. (2024). Metropolitan Rail Transit Improvement: The Baltimore Study. Current Urban Studies. 12(4). 790–814.

Williams, Amy E., Nicholas Peirce, Ben Langley, et al.. (2023). Annual incidence and prevalence of injuries in elite male academy cricketers: A 4-year prospective cohort study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100050–100050.

Williams, Sean, et al.. (2022). The incidence and burden of injury in male adolescent community rugby union in Australia. Science and Medicine in Football. 7(4). 315–322. 4 indexed citations

Gibson, Neil, et al.. (2022). Subjective Measures of Workload and Sleep in Australian Army Recruits; Potential Utility as Monitoring Tools. Military Medicine. 188(3-4). 670–677. 4 indexed citations

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Jones, Ben, et al.. (2022). The incidence and burden of injuries in elite English youth female soccer players. Science and Medicine in Football. 6(5). 605–615. 10 indexed citations

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Altini, Marco, et al.. (2021). Monitoring the Heart Rate Variability Responses to Training Loads in Competitive Swimmers Using a Smartphone Application and the Banister Impulse-Response Model. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 16(6). 787–795. 9 indexed citations

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Edinburgh, Robert M., et al.. (2020). The day-to-day reliability of peak fat oxidation and FATMAX. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 120(8). 1745–1759. 29 indexed citations

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O’Neil, Julie, Michele E. Ewing, Stacey D. Smith, & Sean Williams. (2018). A Delphi Study to Identify Standards for Internal Communication. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations

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Williams, Sean. (2018). Swarm Weapons: Demonstrating a Swarm Intelligent Algorithm for Parallel Attack. Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library (US Army Combined Arms Center). 1 indexed citations

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Morton, Sarah, et al.. (2017). Patellar Tendinopathy and Potential Risk Factors: An International Database of Cases and Controls.. PubMed. 27(5). 468–474. 2 indexed citations

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Morán, Sebastián, et al.. (2017). Rates and risk factors of injury in CrossFitTM: a prospective cohort study. The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness. 57(9). 1147–1153. 51 indexed citations

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Williams, Sean, Grant Trewartha, Simon Kemp, et al.. (2017). How Much Rugby is Too Much? A Seven-Season Prospective Cohort Study of Match Exposure and Injury Risk in Professional Rugby Union Players. Sports Medicine. 47(11). 2395–2402. 43 indexed citations

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Sheerin, Kelly, et al.. (2012). EFFECTS OF GYMNASTICS TRAINING ON PHYSICAL FUNCTION IN CHILDREN. ISBS - Conference Proceedings Archive. 1(1). 4 indexed citations

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Williams, Sean. (2012). Closing in on the Light at WIPO: Movement Towards a Copyright Treaty for the Visually Impaired and Intellectual Property Movements. University of Pennsylvania journal of international economic law. 33(4). 1035. 3 indexed citations

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Langley, John, Phil A. Silva, & Sean Williams. (1980). Motor coordination and childhood accidents. Journal of Safety Research. 12(4). 175–178. 8 indexed citations

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