Sonia M. Thomas

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Sonia M. Thomas is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia M. Thomas has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sonia M. Thomas's work include Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (6 papers), Organ Donation and Transplantation (5 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (5 papers). Sonia M. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention (6 papers), Organ Donation and Transplantation (5 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (5 papers). Sonia M. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and United Kingdom. Sonia M. Thomas's co-authors include Amit X. Garg, Charmaine E. Lok, Andrea C. Tricco, Sharon E. Straus, Sarah Daisy Kosa, Joyce C. Zhang, Louise Moist, Matthew J. Oliver, Ahmed A. Al‐Jaishi and Robert R. Quinn and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, PLoS ONE and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Sonia M. Thomas

26 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Patency Rates of the Arteriovenous Fistula for Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

2013 455 citations Ahmed A. Al‐Jaishi, Matthew J. Oliver et al. American Journal of Kidney Diseases profile →
Comparisons of Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older Adults

2017 395 citations Andrea C. Tricco, Sonia M. Thomas et al. JAMA profile →

Peers

Sonia M. Thomas

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Rebecca Zhang United States

Alice Sitch United Kingdom

Dustin D. French United States

Michael Clark United Kingdom

Thomas G. Lynch United States

Hans Krueger Canada

M. Cunningham United Kingdom

Elizabeth Gibbons United Kingdom

Clare E. Guse United States

Holger Gothe Germany

Rebecca Zhang United States

Sonia M. Thomas

190 ×0.3

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291 ×0.7

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277 ×0.7

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34 ×0.1

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276 ×0.9

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Citations per year, relative to Sonia M. Thomas Sonia M. Thomas (= 1×) peers Rebecca Zhang

Countries citing papers authored by Sonia M. Thomas

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sonia M. Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia M. Thomas

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Al‐Samkari, Hanny, Raj S. Kasthuri, Vivek Iyer, et al.. (2025). Validation and clinical application of the hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia-specific quality of life scale. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 24(1). 108–118.

Shaheen, Naila, et al.. (2025). Hematological parameters’ reference intervals in apparently healthy individuals in Saudi Arabia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Medicine. 12. 1522492–1522492.

Tricco, Andrea C., Vera Nincic, Sonia M. Thomas, et al.. (2023). Implemented machine learning tools to inform decision-making for patient care in hospital settings: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 13(2). e065845–e065845. 12 indexed citations

Robson, Reid, Sonia M. Thomas, Étienne V Langlois, et al.. (2023). Embedding rapid reviews in health policy and systems decision-making: Impacts and lessons learned from four low- and middle-income countries. Health Research Policy and Systems. 21(1). 45–45. 5 indexed citations

Tricco, Andrea C., Sonia M. Thomas, Amruta Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2022). Interventions for social isolation in older adults who have experienced a fall: a systematic review. BMJ Open. 12(3). e056540–e056540. 6 indexed citations

Thomas, Sonia M., Jennifer Fortune, Gary Mitchell, et al.. (2022). Global evidence on falls and subsequent social isolation in older adults: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 12(9). e062124–e062124. 7 indexed citations

Tricco, Andrea C., Sonia M. Thomas, Erin Lillie, et al.. (2021). Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy for age-related macular degeneration: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews. 10(1). 315–315. 7 indexed citations

Pham, Ba’, Jelena Jovanović, Ebrahim Bagheri, et al.. (2021). Text mining to support abstract screening for knowledge syntheses: a semi-automated workflow. Systematic Reviews. 10(1). 156–156. 35 indexed citations

Sibley, Kathryn M., Sonia M. Thomas, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, et al.. (2020). Comparative effectiveness of exercise interventions for preventing falls in older adults: A secondary analysis of a systematic review with network meta-analysis. Experimental Gerontology. 143. 111151–111151. 31 indexed citations

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Pham, Ba’, Sonia M. Thomas, Erin Lillie, et al.. (2019). Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment for retinal conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 9(5). e022031–e022031. 46 indexed citations

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Tricco, Andrea C., Sonia M. Thomas, Jesmin Antony, et al.. (2017). Strategies to Prevent or Reduce Gender Bias in Peer Review of Research Grants: A Rapid Scoping Review. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169718–e0169718. 39 indexed citations

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Tricco, Andrea C., Sonia M. Thomas, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, et al.. (2017). Comparisons of Interventions for Preventing Falls in Older Adults. JAMA. 318(17). 1687–1687. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tricco, Andrea C., Roberta Cardoso, Sonia M. Thomas, et al.. (2015). Barriers and facilitators to uptake of systematic reviews by policy makers and health care managers: a scoping review. Implementation Science. 11(1). 4–4. 131 indexed citations

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Li, Alvin H., et al.. (2014). Quality of Survey Reporting in Nephrology Journals. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 9(12). 2089–2094. 22 indexed citations

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Thomas, Sonia M., Ngan N. Lam, Anjie Huang, et al.. (2014). Risk of serious gastrointestinal bleeding in living kidney donors. Clinical Transplantation. 28(5). 530–539. 12 indexed citations

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Thomas, Sonia M., Ngan N. Lam, Blayne Welk, et al.. (2013). Risk of Kidney Stones With Surgical Intervention in Living Kidney Donors. American Journal of Transplantation. 13(11). 2935–2944. 25 indexed citations

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Al‐Jaishi, Ahmed A., Matthew J. Oliver, Sonia M. Thomas, et al.. (2013). Patency Rates of the Arteriovenous Fistula for Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 63(3). 464–478. 455 indexed citations breakdown →

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Garg, Amit X., Anjie Huang, G. V. Ramesh Prasad, et al.. (2012). Cardiovascular disease in kidney donors: matched cohort study. BMJ. 344(mar01 2). e1203–e1203. 132 indexed citations

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Garg, Amit X., Jennie G. Pouget, Ann Young, et al.. (2012). Fracture Risk in Living Kidney Donors: A Matched Cohort Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 59(6). 770–776. 32 indexed citations

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Allen, Upton, Sonia M. Thomas, Jonathan R. Carapetis, et al.. (2003). Serotypes of respiratory tract isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Jamaican children. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 7(1). 29–34. 6 indexed citations

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