Simon Brill

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Brill is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Emergency Medical Services and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Brill has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 8 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 7 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Simon Brill's work include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (18 papers), Pediatric health and respiratory diseases (8 papers) and Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (7 papers). Simon Brill is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (18 papers), Pediatric health and respiratory diseases (8 papers) and Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (7 papers). Simon Brill collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Simon Brill's co-authors include Jadwiga A. Wedzicha, Gavin C. Donaldson, James P. Allinson, John R. Hurst, Jeremy Brown, Swapna Mandal, SB Naidu, Hannah C. Jarvis, Marc Lipman and Joseph Barnett and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, European Respiratory Journal and Thorax.

In The Last Decade

Simon Brill

31 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

‘Long-COVID’: a cross-sectional study of persisting symptoms, biomarker and imaging abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19

2020 575 citations Swapna Mandal, Joseph Barnett et al. Thorax profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Brill United Kingdom	13	622	596	326	310	233	32	1.4k
Michael G. Crooks United Kingdom	17	523 0.8×	748 1.3×	362 1.1×	347 1.1×	260 1.1×	81	1.5k
Jacques-André Romand Switzerland	21	824 1.3×	595 1.0×	199 0.6×	147 0.5×	136 0.6×	40	2.6k
Yelena Chernyak United States	7	221 0.4×	672 1.1×	1.3k 3.9×	293 0.9×	91 0.4×	27	2.0k
Bhakti K. Patel United States	17	797 1.3×	219 0.4×	208 0.6×	76 0.2×	187 0.8×	55	1.6k
Elissa Driggin United States	13	92 0.1×	551 0.9×	957 2.9×	226 0.7×	119 0.5×	28	2.0k
Carla M. Sevin United States	17	265 0.4×	165 0.3×	50 0.2×	225 0.7×	241 1.0×	47	1.2k
Gautam Rawal India	14	180 0.3×	160 0.3×	182 0.6×	110 0.4×	63 0.3×	78	908
Michelle Biehl United States	14	412 0.7×	223 0.4×	199 0.6×	57 0.2×	37 0.2×	29	897
Cristina Bárbara Portugal	17	535 0.9×	134 0.2×	61 0.2×	63 0.2×	337 1.4×	105	1.1k
Joan R. Badia Spain	14	1.0k 1.6×	162 0.3×	254 0.8×	109 0.4×	328 1.4×	42	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Brill

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Uysal, Ömer, et al.. (2025). Cognitive outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)/OSA overlap syndrome compared to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) alone: a systematic review. Sleep And Breathing. 29(5). 275–275. 1 indexed citations

Patel, Anant, et al.. (2024). The patient perspective on the environmental impact of inhalers. Respiratory Medicine. 235. 107864–107864. 2 indexed citations

Allinson, James P., Simon Brill, Martin Law, et al.. (2023). A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial of Long-Term Doxycycline Therapy on Exacerbation Rate in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 208(5). 549–558. 5 indexed citations

Brill, Simon, et al.. (2022). S65 Global warming impact of inhalers: the patient perspective. A41.2–A41. 4 indexed citations

Mandal, Swapna, Joseph Barnett, Simon Brill, et al.. (2020). ‘Long-COVID’: a cross-sectional study of persisting symptoms, biomarker and imaging abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19. Thorax. 76(4). 396–398. 575 indexed citations breakdown →

Ritchie, Andrew I., Simon Brill, Lydia Finney, et al.. (2020). Targeted Retreatment of Incompletely Recovered Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations with Ciprofloxacin. A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter, Phase III Clinical Trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 202(4). 549–557. 5 indexed citations

Tavare, Aniket, Simon Brill, Hannah Jarvis, et al.. (2020). Managing high clinical suspicion COVID-19 inpatients with negative RT-PCR: a pragmatic and limited role for thoracic CT. Thorax. 75(7). 537–538. 23 indexed citations

Brill, Simon, et al.. (2020). COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study with focus on the over-80s and hospital-onset disease. BMC Medicine. 18(1). 194–194. 57 indexed citations

Hurst, John R., et al.. (2020). COPD exacerbation phenotypes in a real-world five year hospitalisation cohort. Respiratory Medicine. 167. 105979–105979. 12 indexed citations

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Rawle, Mark James, et al.. (2020). Atypical presentations of COVID‐19 in care home residents presenting to secondary care: A UK single centre study. Aging Medicine. 3(4). 237–244. 32 indexed citations

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Brill, Simon, et al.. (2018). COPD exacerbation phenotypes in a five year hospitalisation cohort. PA3863–PA3863. 1 indexed citations

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Donaldson, Gavin C., Martin Law, Beverly Kowlessar, et al.. (2015). Impact of Prolonged Exacerbation Recovery in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 192(8). 943–950. 94 indexed citations

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Huerta, Arturo, Gavin C. Donaldson, Richa Singh, et al.. (2015). Upper Respiratory Symptoms Worsen over Time and Relate to Clinical Phenotype in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 12(7). 997–1004. 10 indexed citations

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Mackay, Alexander, Anant Patel, Beverly Kowlessar, et al.. (2015). Influence of weather and atmospheric pollution on physical activity in patients with COPD. Respiratory Research. 16(1). 71–71. 69 indexed citations

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Singh, Richa, Alexander Mackay, Simon Brill, et al.. (2015). Effect of lower airway bacterial colonisation on time to acute exacerbation in patients with COPD. PA661–PA661. 1 indexed citations

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Wedzicha, Wisia & Simon Brill. (2014). Oxygen therapy in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. International Journal of COPD. 9. 1241–1241. 56 indexed citations

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Singh, Richa, Alexander Mackay, Anant Patel, et al.. (2014). Inflammatory thresholds and the species-specific effects of colonising bacteria in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respiratory Research. 15(1). 114–114. 59 indexed citations

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Wedzicha, Jadwiga A., Simon Brill, James P. Allinson, & Gavin C. Donaldson. (2013). Mechanisms and impact of the frequent exacerbator phenotype in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BMC Medicine. 11(1). 181–181. 189 indexed citations

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Brill, Simon, et al.. (2008). Conservative management of pneumatosis intestinalis and massive pneumoperitoneum in the acute abdomen: a case report. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 90(2). 11–13. 5 indexed citations

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Brill, Simon, Alex Clarke, David Veale, & Peter E. M. Butler. (2006). Psychological management and body image issues in facial transplantation. Body Image. 3(1). 1–15. 32 indexed citations

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