Thomas E. Cowling

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Cowling is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Cowling has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 18 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Cowling's work include Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (13 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (12 papers). Thomas E. Cowling is often cited by papers focused on Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (14 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (13 papers) and Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research (12 papers). Thomas E. Cowling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Thomas E. Cowling's co-authors include Azeem Majeed, Matthew Harris, Jan van der Meulen, John Tayu Lee, Ajay Aggarwal, Michael Soljak, Vicky Mengqi Qin, Barbara McPake, Rifat Atun and Elizabeth Cecil and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Cowling

59 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data

2020 250 citations Rifat Atun, Barbara McPake et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas E. Cowling United Kingdom	17	475	341	294	288	208	63	1.3k
Gabriella Guasticchi Italy	18	411 0.9×	248 0.7×	164 0.6×	459 1.6×	175 0.8×	81	1.5k
Rachael Moorin Australia	21	457 1.0×	262 0.8×	99 0.3×	285 1.0×	162 0.8×	118	1.9k
Leonard MacWilliam Canada	21	539 1.1×	332 1.0×	95 0.3×	273 0.9×	78 0.4×	46	1.4k
Diane C. Cowper United States	19	384 0.8×	275 0.8×	137 0.5×	286 1.0×	202 1.0×	34	1.5k
S. George United Kingdom	25	573 1.2×	292 0.9×	346 1.2×	293 1.0×	209 1.0×	45	2.3k
Wenke Hwang United States	24	620 1.3×	613 1.8×	55 0.2×	304 1.1×	146 0.7×	64	2.3k
Joshua M. Liao United States	23	707 1.5×	664 1.9×	108 0.4×	138 0.5×	211 1.0×	192	1.8k
Charlyn Black Canada	22	585 1.2×	486 1.4×	72 0.2×	391 1.4×	68 0.3×	61	1.6k
Minna Johansson Sweden	12	382 0.8×	216 0.6×	59 0.2×	127 0.4×	105 0.5×	26	1.2k
Meltem Tuna Canada	19	425 0.9×	229 0.7×	61 0.2×	290 1.0×	100 0.5×	41	996

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Cook, Adrian, E. E. Mayne, Marina Parry, et al.. (2025). Are evidence-based guidelines translating into clinical practice? A national population-based study of the use of treatment intensification in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) in England. European Journal of Cancer. 220. 115335–115335. 2 indexed citations

Han, Lu, Richard Sullivan, Adrian Cook, et al.. (2024). Is Centralisation of Cancer Services Associated With Under‐Treatment of Patients With High‐Risk Prostate Cancer?—A National Population‐Based Study. Cancer Medicine. 13(21). e70403–e70403.

Boyle, Jemma M., Jan van der Meulen, Angela Kuryba, et al.. (2023). What is the impact of hospital and surgeon volumes on outcomes in rectal cancer surgery?. Colorectal Disease. 25(10). 1981–1993. 4 indexed citations

Boyle, Jemma M., Jan van der Meulen, Angela Kuryba, et al.. (2022). Measuring variation in the quality of systemic anti-cancer therapy delivery across hospitals: A national population-based evaluation. European Journal of Cancer. 178. 191–204. 9 indexed citations

Fankhauser, Christian D., Matthew G. Parry, Adnan Ali, et al.. (2022). A low prostate specific antigen predicts a worse outcome in high but not in low/intermediate-grade prostate cancer. European Journal of Cancer. 181. 70–78. 6 indexed citations

Bou-Antoun, Sabine, et al.. (2022). Sustained increases in antibiotic prescriptions per primary care consultation for upper respiratory tract infections in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 5(1). 9 indexed citations

Boyle, Jemma M., Angela Kuryba, Michael Braun, et al.. (2021). Validity of chemotherapy information derived from routinely collected healthcare data: A national cohort study of colon cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiology. 73. 101971–101971. 10 indexed citations

Cowling, Thomas E., et al.. (2021). Logistic regression and machine learning predicted patient mortality from large sets of diagnosis codes comparably. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 133. 43–52. 23 indexed citations

McMillan, Hugh J., Thomas E. Cowling, Wayne Khuu, et al.. (2021). Burden of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) on Patients and Caregivers in Canada. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. 8(4). 553–568. 40 indexed citations

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Qin, Vicky Mengqi, Barbara McPake, Magdalena Z. Raban, et al.. (2020). Rural and urban differences in health system performance among older Chinese adults: cross-sectional analysis of a national sample. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 372–372. 28 indexed citations

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Boyle, John, Angela Kuryba, Thomas E. Cowling, et al.. (2020). Determinants of Variation in the Use of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colon Cancer in England. Clinical Oncology. 32(5). e135–e144. 18 indexed citations

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Parry, Matthew G., Julie Nossiter, Thomas E. Cowling, et al.. (2020). Patient-reported functional outcomes following external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer with and without a high-dose rate brachytherapy boost: A national population-based study. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 155. 48–55. 7 indexed citations

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Cowling, Thomas E., Kate Walker, Angela Kuryba, et al.. (2020). One-year mortality of colorectal cancer patients: development and validation of a prediction model using linked national electronic data. British Journal of Cancer. 123(10). 1474–1480. 6 indexed citations

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Parry, Matthew G., Thomas E. Cowling, Arunan Sujenthiran, et al.. (2020). Risk stratification for prostate cancer management: value of the Cambridge Prognostic Group classification for assessing treatment allocation. BMC Medicine. 18(1). 114–114. 23 indexed citations

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Parry, Matthew G., Julie Nossiter, Thomas E. Cowling, et al.. (2020). Toxicity of Pelvic Lymph Node Irradiation With Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for High-Risk and Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer: A National Population-Based Study Using Patient-Reported Outcomes. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 108(5). 1196–1203. 6 indexed citations

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Parry, Matthew G., Thomas E. Cowling, Arunan Sujenthiran, et al.. (2019). Identifying skeletal-related events for prostate cancer patients in routinely collected hospital data. Cancer Epidemiology. 63. 101628–101628. 13 indexed citations

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Cowling, Thomas E., Azeem Majeed, & Matthew Harris. (2018). Patient experience of general practice and use of emergency hospital services in England: regression analysis of national cross-sectional time series data. BMJ Quality & Safety. 27(8). 643–654. 9 indexed citations

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Cowling, Thomas E., et al.. (2016). The Impact of Treatment Adherence on Clinical and Economic Outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis: Real-World Evidence from Alberta, Canada. Value in Health. 19(7). A437–A437. 5 indexed citations

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Calderón‐Larrañaga, Amaia, Michael Soljak, Thomas E. Cowling, Athanasios Gaitatzis, & Azeem Majeed. (2014). Association of primary care factors with hospital admissions for epilepsy in England, 2004–2010: National observational study. Seizure. 23(8). 657–661. 14 indexed citations

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Cowling, Thomas E., Elizabeth Cecil, Michael Soljak, et al.. (2013). Access to Primary Care and Visits to Emergency Departments in England: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66699–e66699. 125 indexed citations

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