Thepikaa Varatharajan

818 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 543 citations indexed

About

Thepikaa Varatharajan is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thepikaa Varatharajan has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 543 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Epidemiology, 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 4 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thepikaa Varatharajan's work include Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (4 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Thepikaa Varatharajan is often cited by papers focused on Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (4 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers). Thepikaa Varatharajan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and Brazil. Thepikaa Varatharajan's co-authors include Benedikt Fischer, Cayley Russell, Mônica Malta, Michelle Pang, Sarah Bonato, Kristi Randhawa, Linda Carroll, Danielle Southerst, Maja Stupar and Pierre Côté and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PLoS Medicine and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Thepikaa Varatharajan

13 papers receiving 529 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.

  1. Clinical practice guidelines for the noninvasive management of low back pain: A systematic review by the Ontario Protocol for Traffic Injury Management (OPTIMa) Collaboration
    2016 279 citations Jessica J. Wong, Pierre Côté et al. European Journal of Pain profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thepikaa Varatharajan Canada 8 297 211 142 122 76 14 543
Julia Keosaian United States 10 233 0.8× 155 0.7× 86 0.6× 33 0.3× 55 0.7× 18 502
Rajeev Manchukonda United States 7 426 1.4× 376 1.8× 72 0.5× 273 2.2× 23 0.3× 8 793
Christina M. Wenig Germany 10 342 1.2× 227 1.1× 23 0.2× 127 1.0× 196 2.6× 12 743
Jan Buitenhuis Netherlands 9 321 1.1× 88 0.4× 41 0.3× 112 0.9× 50 0.7× 15 403
Richard L. Stieg United States 11 277 0.9× 295 1.4× 77 0.5× 27 0.2× 50 0.7× 19 626
Mukadas O. Akindele Nigeria 14 153 0.5× 66 0.3× 34 0.2× 60 0.5× 46 0.6× 49 424
Don McGeary United States 9 133 0.4× 165 0.8× 64 0.5× 46 0.4× 40 0.5× 10 313
Lynn Cooper Canada 11 255 0.9× 400 1.9× 60 0.4× 29 0.2× 100 1.3× 26 712
Mohammadreza Amiri Canada 13 205 0.7× 90 0.4× 54 0.4× 147 1.2× 42 0.6× 28 622
Emma Robson Australia 13 245 0.8× 154 0.7× 32 0.2× 22 0.2× 110 1.4× 20 566

Countries citing papers authored by Thepikaa Varatharajan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thepikaa Varatharajan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thepikaa Varatharajan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thepikaa Varatharajan. The network helps show where Thepikaa Varatharajan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thepikaa Varatharajan

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Varatharajan, Thepikaa, et al.. (2025). Redefining the gender identity spectrum in longitudinal studies: adolescent response patterns after adopting the two-step measure of sex and gender. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. 45(11/12). 464–469. 1 indexed citations
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Varatharajan, Thepikaa, Karen A. Patte, Margaret de Groh, Ying Jiang, & Scott T. Leatherdale. (2024). Exploring differences in substance use behaviours among gender minority and non-gender minority youth: a cross-sectional analysis of the COMPASS study. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. 44(4). 179–190. 2 indexed citations
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Gohari, Mahmood Reza, Thepikaa Varatharajan, James MacKillop, & Scott T. Leatherdale. (2023). Dynamic Changes in Drinking Behaviour among Subpopulations of Youth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Prospective Cohort Study. Healthcare. 11(13). 1945–1945. 1 indexed citations
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Gohari, Mahmood Reza, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Karen A. Patte, James MacKillop, & Scott T. Leatherdale. (2022). The intersection of internalizing symptoms and alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective cohort study. Preventive Medicine. 166. 107381–107381. 9 indexed citations
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Gohari, Mahmood Reza, Thepikaa Varatharajan, James MacKillop, & Scott T. Leatherdale. (2022). Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on youth Alcohol Consumption: longitudinal Changes From Pre-to Intra-pandemic Drinking in the COMPASS Study. Journal of Adolescent Health. 71(6). 665–672. 10 indexed citations
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Russell, Cayley, Maria Neufeld, Pamela Sabioni, et al.. (2019). Assessing service and treatment needs and barriers of youth who use illicit and non-medical prescription drugs in Northern Ontario, Canada. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0225548–e0225548. 24 indexed citations
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Malta, Mônica, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Cayley Russell, et al.. (2019). Opioid-related treatment, interventions, and outcomes among incarcerated persons: A systematic review. PLoS Medicine. 16(12). e1003002–e1003002. 127 indexed citations
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Thakur, Anupam, Sanjeev Sockalingam, Thepikaa Varatharajan, & Sophie Soklaridis. (2019). “You are in Some Sort of Occupational Adolescence”: An Exploratory Study to Understand Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences of CanMEDS Leader Role in Psychiatry. Academic Psychiatry. 44(2). 184–191. 1 indexed citations
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Fischer, Benedikt, Wayne Jones, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Mônica Malta, & Paul Kurdyak. (2018). Correlations between population-levels of prescription opioid dispensing and related deaths in Ontario (Canada), 2005–2016. Preventive Medicine. 116. 112–118. 14 indexed citations
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Fischer, Benedikt, Thepikaa Varatharajan, Kevin D. Shield, Jürgen Rehm, & Wayne Jones. (2018). Crude estimates of prescription opioid-related misuse and use disorder populations towards informing intervention system need in Canada. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 189. 76–79. 27 indexed citations
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Wong, Jessica J., Pierre Côté, Deborah Sutton, et al.. (2016). Clinical practice guidelines for the noninvasive management of low back pain: A systematic review by the Ontario Protocol for Traffic Injury Management (OPTIMa) Collaboration. European Journal of Pain. 21(2). 201–216. 279 indexed citations breakdown →
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