Stephen West

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Stephen West is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen West has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 24 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Stephen West's work include Sports injuries and prevention (52 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (29 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (20 papers). Stephen West is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (52 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (29 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (20 papers). Stephen West collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa. Stephen West's co-authors include Fangfang Chen, Karen H. Sousa, Jenn‐Yun Tein, Irwin N. Sandler, А. В. Бакулин, В. С. Оганов, A. LeBlanc, Linda Shackelford, Victor Schneider and Keith Stokes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Child Development and Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Stephen West

56 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

A Comparison of Bifactor and Second-Order Models of Quality of Life

2006 782 citations Stephen West et al. profile →
Prevention strategies and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussions and head impacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2023 70 citations Paul Eliason, Jean‐Michel Galarneau et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen West United Kingdom	16	706	464	331	298	290	66	2.1k
Örjan Dahlström Sweden	27	598 0.8×	520 1.1×	145 0.4×	151 0.5×	291 1.0×	121	3.0k
Peter R. Giacobbi United States	30	397 0.6×	451 1.0×	973 2.9×	487 1.6×	258 0.9×	86	3.1k
Andréas Ivarsson Sweden	31	1.3k 1.9×	543 1.2×	1.1k 3.3×	196 0.7×	218 0.8×	175	3.0k
Andreas Stenling Sweden	28	549 0.8×	547 1.2×	1.1k 3.3×	195 0.7×	224 0.8×	120	2.4k
Sarah J. Hardcastle Australia	33	164 0.2×	353 0.8×	463 1.4×	791 2.7×	129 0.4×	85	3.0k
Derwin King Chung Chan Hong Kong	29	197 0.3×	445 1.0×	810 2.4×	195 0.7×	140 0.5×	107	2.3k
Allen E. Cornelius United States	26	528 0.7×	271 0.6×	800 2.4×	103 0.3×	90 0.3×	63	2.1k
Isabel Castillo Spain	31	786 1.1×	419 0.9×	1.9k 5.8×	607 2.0×	271 0.9×	164	4.1k
Leanne Lester Australia	27	228 0.3×	729 1.6×	870 2.6×	170 0.6×	83 0.3×	131	2.7k
Jared M. Bruce United States	36	130 0.2×	592 1.3×	135 0.4×	212 0.7×	286 1.0×	125	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen West

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen West

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen West

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

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Porter, L. C., et al.. (2025). A Video Analysis of Suspected Injuries and Suspected Concussions in Elite Ladies Gaelic Football Matches. Sports Health A Multidisciplinary Approach. 18(2). 436–445.

Roberts, Simon, Stephen West, James Brown, et al.. (2025). The effect of lowering the maximum tackle height in English Schoolboy rugby union on tackle characteristics and all-injury and concussion rates. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 29(3). 238–248.

West, Stephen, Sharief Hendricks, Thomas Laurent, et al.. (2025). Decoding the Tackle: Using a Machine Learning Approach to Understand Direct Head Contact Events in Elite Women's Rugby. European Journal of Sport Science. 25(8). e70018–e70018. 1 indexed citations

Kolstad, Ash T, et al.. (2025). High tackle headache: implications of referee agreement for tackle height law change. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(1). e002347–e002347.

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

Galarneau, Jean‐Michel, Matthew J. Jordan, Kathryn Schneider, et al.. (2024). 850 BO05 – Friday nights under northern lights: injury rates, burden, and risk factors in high-school aged tackle football players in Canada. A46.1–A46.

West, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Training-Load Management Ambiguities and Weak Logic: Creating Potential Consequences in Sport Training and Performance. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 20(3). 481–484. 4 indexed citations

West, Stephen, et al.. (2024). Paving the path for injury prevention in rugby‐7s: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. European Journal of Sport Science. 24(9). 1209–1227. 1 indexed citations

Emery, Carolyn A., et al.. (2024). 11.12 Head contact and suspected concussion rates in university basketball: are head contact penalties a target for prevention?. A141.2–A141. 1 indexed citations

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West, Stephen, Kathryn Schneider, J. Preston Wiley, et al.. (2024). 11.36 It takes two to tango: high rates of concussion in both ball carriers and tacklers in high school boys’ rugby. A150.2–A150.

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Roberts, Simon, Stephen West, Matthew Hancock, et al.. (2024). 820 FO54 – The effectiveness of lowering the legal tackle height (shoulder to armpit) in English schoolboy rugby union injuries. A32.1–A32.

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West, Stephen, James Brown, Fiona Wilson, et al.. (2023). How to harness and improve on video analysis for youth rugby player safety: a narrative review. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 9(3). e001645–e001645. 3 indexed citations

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Gibson, Eric, Paul Eliason, Stephen West, et al.. (2023). Shoulder Check: Investigating Shoulder Injury Rates, Types, Severity, Mechanisms, and Risk Factors in Canadian Youth Ice Hockey. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. 34(2). 121–126.

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West, Stephen, Stuart Bailey, Alix Hayden, et al.. (2023). Injury Rates, Mechanisms, Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies in Youth Rugby Union: What’s All the Ruck-Us About? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Sports Medicine. 53(7). 1375–1393. 13 indexed citations

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Eliason, Paul, Jean‐Michel Galarneau, Ash T Kolstad, et al.. (2023). Prevention strategies and modifiable risk factors for sport-related concussions and head impacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 57(12). 749–761. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tucker, Ross, Suzi Edwards, Ben Jones, et al.. (2023). A case-control study of tackle based head impact event (HIE) risk factors from the first three seasons of the National Rugby League Women's competition. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 5. 1080356–1080356. 12 indexed citations

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West, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Design of Deep Space Missions Using a Dedicated Small Launch Vehicle. Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences. 50(12). 877–888.

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West, Stephen, Jonathan George, Nicola Ainsworth, et al.. (2022). Caught on camera: a video assessment of suspected concussion and other injury events in women's rugby union. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 25(10). 805–809. 16 indexed citations

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West, Stephen, et al.. (2021). 461 Narrowing the gender gap in rugby injury epidemiology: a novel video-analysis study in the women’s game. Poster presentations. A176.1–A176. 2 indexed citations

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Sandler, Irwin N., Jenn‐Yun Tein, & Stephen West. (1994). Coping, Stress, and the Psychological Symptoms of Children of Divorce: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study. Child Development. 65(6). 1744–1744. 206 indexed citations

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