TJ Kaptchuk

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 757 citations indexed

About

TJ Kaptchuk is a scholar working on Complementary and alternative medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, TJ Kaptchuk has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 757 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Complementary and alternative medicine, 2 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in TJ Kaptchuk's work include Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (3 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (2 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). TJ Kaptchuk is often cited by papers focused on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (3 papers), Pain Management and Placebo Effect (2 papers) and Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 papers). TJ Kaptchuk collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. TJ Kaptchuk's co-authors include Alyson Gamble, Charlotte Blease, Felicity L. Bishop, E Ernst, George Lewith and P.J. White and has published in prestigious journals such as BMJ, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies.

In The Last Decade

TJ Kaptchuk

6 papers receiving 669 citations

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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.

Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica

1986 665 citations Alyson Gamble, TJ Kaptchuk et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
TJ Kaptchuk United Kingdom	6	273	251	176	146	114	6	757
Mathias Schmidt Germany	13	312 1.1×	231 0.9×	234 1.3×	105 0.7×	167 1.5×	39	851
K. Simon Yeung United States	19	562 2.1×	212 0.8×	181 1.0×	143 1.0×	280 2.5×	26	1.2k
Vikram Khetani United States	15	77 0.3×	155 0.6×	165 0.9×	95 0.7×	74 0.6×	25	817
B. Kopp Austria	17	146 0.5×	336 1.3×	312 1.8×	69 0.5×	59 0.5×	46	793
Jue Zhou China	13	225 0.8×	193 0.8×	99 0.6×	105 0.7×	110 1.0×	51	770
G Nosálóvá Slovakia	20	152 0.6×	222 0.9×	322 1.8×	164 1.1×	87 0.8×	91	1.0k
Amin Suria Pakistan	15	83 0.3×	169 0.7×	202 1.1×	117 0.8×	57 0.5×	23	635
Hossein Rezaeizadeh Iran	14	199 0.7×	132 0.5×	114 0.6×	90 0.6×	65 0.6×	72	725
Xiuyang Li China	13	192 0.7×	381 1.5×	81 0.5×	153 1.0×	100 0.9×	21	712

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of TJ Kaptchuk

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Blease, Charlotte, Felicity L. Bishop, & TJ Kaptchuk. (2017). Informed consent and clinical trials: where is the placebo effect?. BMJ. 356. j463–j463. 49 indexed citations

2.

Kaptchuk, TJ, et al.. (2008). William Cullen and a missing mind-body link in the early history of placebos. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 101(2). 89–92. 27 indexed citations

3.

Lewith, George, P.J. White, & TJ Kaptchuk. (2005). Developing a research strategy for acupuncture. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies. 10(s1). 32–32. 5 indexed citations

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Ernst, E & TJ Kaptchuk. (1996). Complementary Medicine—The Case for Dialogue. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 30(5). 410–412. 5 indexed citations

5.

Gamble, Alyson, et al.. (1986). Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 665 indexed citations breakdown →

6.

Kaptchuk, TJ. (1982). The holistic logic of Chinese medicine.. PubMed. 90(11). 32, 34–32, 34. 6 indexed citations

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