Tamara Lotfi

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 774 citations indexed

About

Tamara Lotfi is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tamara Lotfi has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 774 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Tamara Lotfi's work include Health Policy Implementation Science (7 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (6 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (5 papers). Tamara Lotfi is often cited by papers focused on Health Policy Implementation Science (7 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (6 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (5 papers). Tamara Lotfi collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, Canada and United Kingdom. Tamara Lotfi's co-authors include Elie A. Akl, Rima Afifi, Adam C. Alexander, Kenneth D. Ward, Bassem Y. Tanios, Samir Mallat, Racha Fadlallah, Kevin Pottie, Vivian Welch and Assem M. Khamis and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Tamara Lotfi

36 papers receiving 755 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.

Inspiratory muscle training, with or without concomitant pulmonary rehabilitation, for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tamara Lotfi Lebanon	15	192	167	152	112	108	37	774
Nabil Tachfouti Morocco	15	140 0.7×	91 0.5×	114 0.8×	74 0.7×	103 1.0×	90	817
David R. Stukus United States	23	341 1.8×	291 1.7×	110 0.7×	172 1.5×	44 0.4×	89	1.7k
Khalid M. Kamal United States	18	78 0.4×	208 1.2×	201 1.3×	115 1.0×	134 1.2×	75	1.1k
John Yaphe Portugal	17	111 0.6×	338 2.0×	288 1.9×	111 1.0×	81 0.8×	87	1.2k
Lucas Goossens Netherlands	20	172 0.9×	283 1.7×	80 0.5×	313 2.8×	185 1.7×	54	994
Donna R. Parker United States	20	315 1.6×	208 1.2×	268 1.8×	174 1.6×	52 0.5×	49	1.4k
Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh Malaysia	18	60 0.3×	215 1.3×	224 1.5×	46 0.4×	108 1.0×	103	1.1k
Barry I. Graubard United States	4	86 0.4×	246 1.5×	202 1.3×	57 0.5×	141 1.3×	7	956
Renee M. Gindi United States	18	358 1.9×	285 1.7×	288 1.9×	35 0.3×	114 1.1×	30	1.1k
Melissa McLeod New Zealand	16	45 0.2×	212 1.3×	147 1.0×	86 0.8×	58 0.5×	52	722

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Lotfi, Tamara, Vivian Welch, Jordi Pardo Pardo, et al.. (2024). Equity in evidence synthesis: You can't play on broken strings. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). e12091–e12091.

Ghandour, Lilian, et al.. (2024). Parenting a High and Growing Population of Youth in the Arab Region: A Scoping Review for an Evidence-Informed Research Agenda. Journal of Adolescent Health. 75(1). 16–25. 1 indexed citations

Lotfi, Tamara, et al.. (2024). Latin American panelists find GRADE-ADOLOPMENT useful and important to contextualize recommendations in their region. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 175. 111483–111483. 1 indexed citations

Scott, Shannon D., Rana Charide, Ami Baba, et al.. (2023). A multimethods randomized trial found that plain language versions improved parents’ understanding of health recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 161. 8–19. 3 indexed citations

Parker, Roses, Jennifer Petkovic, Jordi Pardo Pardo, et al.. (2023). The equity group: Supporting Cochrane's social responsibility of improving health equity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). e12012–e12012. 1 indexed citations

Langford, Bradley J., Valerie Leung, Jennifer Lo, et al.. (2023). Antibiotic prescribing guideline recommendations in COVID-19: a systematic survey. EClinicalMedicine. 65. 102257–102257. 3 indexed citations

Fadlallah, Racha, Amena El‐Harakeh, Hneine Brax, et al.. (2022). Approaches to prioritising primary health research: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health. 7(5). e007465–e007465. 12 indexed citations

Lotfi, Tamara, Adrienne Stevens, Elie A. Akl, et al.. (2021). Getting trustworthy guidelines into the hands of decision-makers and supporting their consideration of contextual factors for implementation globally: recommendation mapping of COVID-19 guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 135. 182–186. 23 indexed citations

Yaacoub, Sally, Joanne Khabsa, Rayane El-Khoury, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 transmission during swimming-related activities: a rapid systematic review. BMC Infectious Diseases. 21(1). 1112–1112. 7 indexed citations

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El‐Harakeh, Amena, Tamara Lotfi, Ali Ahmad, et al.. (2020). The implementation of prioritization exercises in the development and update of health practice guidelines: A scoping review. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229249–e0229249. 25 indexed citations

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Khalifeh, Ibrahim, Sunita Ghosh, Tamara Lotfi, et al.. (2020). Molecular characterization of prostate cancer in Middle Eastern population highlights differences with Western populations with prognostic implication. Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 146(7). 1701–1709. 5 indexed citations

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Fayad, Fouad, et al.. (2020). Engagement of medical specialty trainees in research: experience at a Lebanese medical school. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 26(9). 1018–1024. 2 indexed citations

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Fadlallah, Racha, Amena El‐Harakeh, Lama Bou-Karroum, et al.. (2019). A common framework of steps and criteria for prioritizing topics for evidence syntheses: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 120. 67–85. 18 indexed citations

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Pottie, Kevin, Tamara Lotfi, Nesrine Rizk, et al.. (2018). The Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in Migrants in the EU/EEA: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(8). 1700–1700. 25 indexed citations

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Tanios, Bassem Y., et al.. (2018). Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors in patients with respiratory failure and metabolic alkalosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Critical Care. 22(1). 275–275. 11 indexed citations

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Mallat, Samir, Bassem Y. Tanios, Tamara Lotfi, et al.. (2017). CMV and BKPyV Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving an mTOR Inhibitor–Based Regimen Versus a CNI-Based Regimen: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12(8). 1321–1336. 82 indexed citations

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Lotfi, Tamara, Rami Z. Morsi, Lara A Kahale, et al.. (2016). Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians in low and middle-income countries regarding interacting with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 16(1). 57–57. 24 indexed citations

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Lotfi, Tamara, Rami Z. Morsi, Lara A Kahale, et al.. (2015). Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review. BMC Research Notes. 8(1). 720–720. 2 indexed citations

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Akl, Elie A., et al.. (2015). The allure of the waterpipe: a narrative review of factors affecting the epidemic rise in waterpipe smoking among young persons globally. Tobacco Control. 24(Suppl 1). i13–i21. 153 indexed citations

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Lotfi, Tamara, et al.. (2014). Association between low vitamin D levels and the diagnosis of asthma in children: a systematic review of cohort studies. Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology. 10(1). 31–31. 22 indexed citations

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