Thomas Owens

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Owens is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, General Health Professions and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Owens has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 3 papers in General Health Professions and 2 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Thomas Owens's work include Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (5 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (2 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (2 papers). Thomas Owens is often cited by papers focused on Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (5 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (2 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (2 papers). Thomas Owens collaborates with scholars based in United States. Thomas Owens's co-authors include Connie Schardt, Sheri A. Keitz, Paul Fontelo, Martha Adams, Scott Garrison, Steven D. Crowley, Josh F. Peterson, Peter B. Luh, David Turner and Irina A. Buhimschi and has published in prestigious journals such as Academic Medicine, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Owens

10 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching Pu... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions
    2007 2.1k citations Connie Schardt, Martha Adams et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Owens United States 5 402 349 248 228 204 11 2.2k
Martha Adams United States 14 572 1.4× 468 1.3× 308 1.2× 247 1.1× 221 1.1× 27 2.9k
Connie Schardt United States 12 679 1.7× 526 1.5× 270 1.1× 231 1.0× 230 1.1× 22 2.7k
Tanja Bekhuis United States 13 354 0.9× 355 1.0× 200 0.8× 156 0.7× 98 0.5× 26 1.9k
Cheryl Holly United States 19 613 1.5× 499 1.4× 239 1.0× 198 0.9× 144 0.7× 70 2.8k
Gordon Dooley United Kingdom 14 245 0.6× 281 0.8× 261 1.1× 135 0.6× 173 0.8× 23 1.9k
Kim Sears Canada 17 327 0.8× 316 0.9× 211 0.9× 269 1.2× 108 0.5× 57 2.1k
Tessa Rue United States 29 368 0.9× 433 1.2× 217 0.9× 119 0.5× 175 0.9× 75 2.6k
C. Acquadro France 18 526 1.3× 311 0.9× 283 1.1× 208 0.9× 148 0.7× 57 2.6k
Lorena P Rios Canada 10 484 1.2× 427 1.2× 265 1.1× 244 1.1× 128 0.6× 13 2.7k
Rong Chu Canada 13 490 1.2× 454 1.3× 279 1.1× 246 1.1× 148 0.7× 19 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Owens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Owens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas Owens. 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 Thomas Owens. The network helps show where Thomas Owens may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Owens

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Jayaram, Aswathi, et al.. (2021). Who said differentiating preeclampsia from COVID-19 infection was easy?. Pregnancy Hypertension. 26. 8–10. 13 indexed citations
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Turner, David, et al.. (2018). Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program. Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 10(6). 671–675. 12 indexed citations
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Dunlap, Nancy E., David J. Ballard, Robert A. Cherry, et al.. (2016). Observations from the Field: Reporting Quality Metrics in Health Care. NAM Perspectives. 6(7). 10 indexed citations
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Bae, Jonathan, et al.. (2012). Development of a real-time general medicine 30-day readmissions notification system. Journal of Hospital Administration. 2(1). 28–28. 1 indexed citations
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Schardt, Connie, Martha Adams, Thomas Owens, Sheri A. Keitz, & Paul Fontelo. (2007). Utilization of the PICO framework to improve searching PubMed for clinical questions. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 7(1). 16–16. 2095 indexed citations breakdown →
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Crowley, Steven D., Thomas Owens, Connie Schardt, et al.. (2003). A Web-based Compendium of Clinical Questions and Medical Evidence to Educate Internal Medicine Residents. Academic Medicine. 78(3). 270–274. 46 indexed citations
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Owens, Thomas & Peter B. Luh. (2003). Improving the time resolution of schedules generated via Lagrangian relaxation algorithms. 1390–1394. 2 indexed citations
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Owens, Thomas, et al.. (2002). A hybrid optimization and knowledge-based approach to job shop scheduling. 20. 32–38. 2 indexed citations
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Owens, Thomas & Peter B. Luh. (2002). A job completion time estimation method for work center scheduling. 110–115. 2 indexed citations
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Owens, Thomas & Peter B. Luh. (1991). An Integrated Optimization and Knowledge - Based Job Shop Scheduling System. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 24(14). 241–245. 2 indexed citations

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