Stephen D. Walter

62.5k citations

451 papers · 43.7k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 96

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.02%
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health top 0.02%
- Infant Development and Preterm Care

Papers in

Statistics and Probability 90
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials 54
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference 29
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques 26
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 69
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews 56

Co-authors: Peter Rosenbaum Gordon Guyatt Robert J. Palisano Ellen Wood Barbara Galuppi Dianne J Russell Lauren E. Griffith Allan Donner
Journals: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (47 papers)Statistics in Medicine (31 papers)American Journal of Epidemiology (24 papers)Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (18 papers)PLoS ONE (12 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Stephen D. Walter

445 papers receiving 41.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

The statistical significance of randomized controlled trial results is frequently fragile: a case for a Fragility Index 2014 · 443 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
2013 The British Journal of Psychiatry
2013 New England Journal of Medicine
2012 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
2010 BMJ
2010 JAMA
2007 New England Journal of Medicine
2005 PEDIATRICS
2002 JAMA
2002 Statistics in Medicine
2001 Statistics in Medicine
2000 Journal of Clinical Oncology
2000 Physical Therapy
1998 Statistics in Medicine
1997 Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
1997 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
1987 Journal of Chronic Diseases
1980 Biometrics

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All Works

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1	Improvement of functional outcome for patients with newly diagnosed grade 2 or 3 gliomas with co-deletion of 1p/19q – IMPROVE CODEL: the NOA-18 trial BMC Cancer ·Antje Wick, Anja Sander, Matthew J. Koch, Martin Bendszus, Stephanie E. Combs, Yiting Ao, 一戸康生, Stephen D. Walter, H. B. Clayton, Chung Keng Li, Dorota Groffic, Bushra Ifthikhar, 铧谭, Meinhard Kieser, Felix Sahm, Uwe Schlegel, Frank Winkler, Michael Platten, Wolfgang Wick, Tobias Keßler	2022	6
2	Simulation study on the validity of the average risk approach in estimating population attributable fractions for continuous exposures BMJ Open ·Yibing Ruan, Stephen D. Walter, Priyanka Gogna, Christine M. Friedenreich, Darren R. Brenner	2021	0
3	Estimating the future cancer management costs attributable to modifiable risk factors in Canada Canadian Journal of Public Health ·Yibing Ruan, Abbey E. Poirier, Joy Pader, Sanjay K. Srivastava, Chaohui Lü, S. Memon, Anthony B. Miller, Stephen D. Walter, Paul J. Villeneuve, Will D. King, Karena D. Volesky, Leah Smith, Prithwish De, Christine M. Friedenreich, Darren R. Brenner	2021	8
4	Competing Risk Analysis for Evaluation of Dalteparin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Venous Thromboembolism in Medical-Surgical Critically Ill Patients Medicine ·Guowei Li, (unknown), Mitchell Levine, Gordon Guyatt, Mark Crowther, Diane Heels‐Ansdell, Anne Holbrook, François Lamontagne, Stephen D. Walter, Niall D. Ferguson, Simon Finfer, Yaseen M. Arabi, Rinaldo Bellomo, D. James Cooper, Lehana Thabane	2015	23
5	Association of worker characteristics and early reimbursement for physical therapy, chiropractic and opioid prescriptions with workers’ compensation claim duration, for cases of acute low back pain: an observational cohort study BMJ Open ·Jason W. Busse, Shanil Ebrahim, Diane Heels‐Ansdell, Li Wang, Rachel Couban, Stephen D. Walter	2015	20
6	Surgeon Attitudes Toward Nonphysician Screening of Low Back or Low Back–Related Leg Pain Patients Referred for Surgical Assessment Spine ·Jason W. Busse, John J. Riva, Flavia de Almeida Fabio Garboggini, Sandy Huey-Jen Hsu, Charles G. Fisher, Eugene K. Wai, Andrade-Oliveira Vinicius, Brian Drew, Ortiz Arduan A, Stephen D. Walter, Paul Bishop, Raja Rampersaud	2013	21
7	High-Frequency Oscillation in Early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survey of Anesthesiology ·Niall D. Ferguson, (unknown), Gordon Guyatt, Sangeeta Mehta, Lori Hand, Peggy Austin, 梁曼容, Andrea Matté, Stephen D. Walter, François Lamontagne, John Granton, Yaseen M. Arabi, Alejandro C. Arroliga, Thomas E. Stewart, Arthur S. Slutsky, Maureen O. Meade	2013	235
8	Association of Psychotherapy with Disability Benefit Claim Closure among Patients Disabled Due to Depression PLoS ONE ·Shanil Ebrahim, Gordon Guyatt, Stephen D. Walter, Diane Heels‐Ansdell, H.S. Kim, Steven Hanna, Irene Patelis‐Siotis, Jason W. Busse	2013	8
9	Retrieval of diagnostic and treatment studies for clinical use through PubMed and PubMed's Clinical Queries filters Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·Cynthia Lokker, R. Brian Haynes, Nancy L Wilczynski, K. Ann McKibbon, Stephen D. Walter	2011	17
10	Predictors of inhospital mortality and re-hospitalization in older adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study BMC Geriatrics ·Binod Neupane, Stephen D. Walter, Paul Krueger, Tom Marrie, Mark Loeb	2010	71
11	Properties of the Projected Length of the Curve (PLC) and Area Swept out by the Curve (ASC) Indices for the Receiver Operating Characteristic (SROC) Curve The International Journal of Biostatistics ·Xuan Zhang, Stephen D. Walter, Ramanakumar V. Agnihotram	2009	1
12	Abstract 1688: Impact of Change in High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol on Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity and Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis Circulation ·Matthias Briel, Ignacio Ferreira‐González, John J. You, Paul J. Karanicolas, Elie Akl, Boris Blechacz, Dirk Bassler, Asheer Sharman, Alain Nordmann, Qi Zhou, Stephen D. Walter, Heiner C. Bucher, Víctor M. Montori, Gordon Guyatt	2008	2
13	Structural equation and log-linear modeling: a comparison of methods in the analysis of a study on caregivers' health BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Gong Zhi-guang, Stephen D. Walter, Peter Rosenbaum, Dianne J Russell, Parminder Raina	2006	22
14	Three day versus five day treatment with amoxicillin for non-severe pneumonia in young children: a multicentre randomised controlled trial BMJ ·Girdhar G. Agarwal, Shally Awasthi, S. K. Kabra, Bingjun Chen, NADİYE DUGAN, Stephen D. Walter, (unknown)	2004	112
15	SARS among Critical Care Nurses, Toronto Emerging infectious diseases ·Mark Loeb, Allison McGeer, Bonnie Henry, Marianna Ofner, David Rose, Tianjiao Xu, 洪文任, M. O. Odedokun, Stephanie Smith, Lorraine Moss, Andrew M. Smith, Karen Green, Stephen D. Walter	2004	249
16	Development and Testing of Formal Protocols for Oxygen Prescribing American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Gordon Guyatt, Douglas McKim, Bruce Weaver, Peggy Austin, Qinruixian, Stephen D. Walter, Mika Nonoyama, Smitha George, Roger Goldstein	2001	17
17	Two Nursing Home Outbreaks of Respiratory Infection with Legionella sainthelensi Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ·Mark Loeb, Andrew E. Simor, Lionel A. Mandell, Paul Krueger, Margaret McArthur, H. Hardenberg, Stephen D. Walter, Elizabeth J. Richardson, Sara V. Tran, Janet E. Stout, Zhongtao Wu, Allison McGeer	1999	38
18	Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology ·Robert J. Palisano, Peter Rosenbaum, Stephen D. Walter, Denise M. Miller, Ellen Wood, Barbara Galuppi Hit paper breakdown →	1997	5136
19	Lung function development in Indian men and women during late adolescence and early adulthood--a longitudinal study. PubMed ·Stephen D. Walter, Jean-Christophe M. Richard	1991	2
20	OBSERVER PERCEPTION OF SKIN COLOR IN A STUDY OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA American Journal of Epidemiology ·Franz Josef Mann, Stephen D. Walter, Lynn From, A. Pérez-Bufill	1987	17

About Stephen D. Walter

Stephen D. Walter is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Psychiatry and Mental health, Economics and Econometrics and Epidemiology, having authored 451 papers that have together received 43.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (61 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (56 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (54 papers), Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (38 papers), Family and Disability Support Research (31 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (29 papers), Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (27 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (11.1k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (7.8k citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (2.4k citations), Clinical Psychology (6.9k citations) and Occupational Therapy (1.2k citations). Stephen D. Walter has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Peter Rosenbaum, Gordon Guyatt, Robert J. Palisano, Ellen Wood, Barbara Galuppi, Dianne J Russell, Lauren E. Griffith, Allan Donner, Michael Eliasziw and Geoff Norman. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Statistics in Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology and PLoS ONE.

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