Vicky Tam

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 908 citations indexed

About

Vicky Tam is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Vicky Tam has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 908 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 6 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Vicky Tam's work include Health disparities and outcomes (6 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (4 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 papers). Vicky Tam is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (6 papers), Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (4 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 papers). Vicky Tam collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Vicky Tam's co-authors include John M. MacDonald, Charles C. Branas, Tara Jackson, Rose Cheney, Jonathan M. Spergel, James P. Franciosi, Chris A. Liacouras, Lihai Song, Jason Kaufman and Gregory E. Tasian and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Neurology and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Vicky Tam

33 papers receiving 865 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.

A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space

2011 443 citations Charles C. Branas, Rose Cheney et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vicky Tam United States	12	302	206	146	134	127	37	908
Wil Lieberman‐Cribbin United States	20	172 0.6×	181 0.9×	112 0.8×	135 1.0×	107 0.8×	54	1.2k
Ofer Amram United States	22	263 0.9×	183 0.9×	67 0.5×	190 1.4×	117 0.9×	79	1.4k
Pedro Gullón Spain	17	299 1.0×	90 0.4×	80 0.5×	176 1.3×	157 1.2×	61	1.2k
Ana Isabel Ribeiro Portugal	22	684 2.3×	140 0.7×	189 1.3×	252 1.9×	339 2.7×	105	1.7k
Rozita Hod Malaysia	18	394 1.3×	95 0.5×	105 0.7×	124 0.9×	65 0.5×	129	1.3k
Nicole A. Errett United States	17	513 1.7×	364 1.8×	278 1.9×	266 2.0×	90 0.7×	80	1.5k
Jonathan Jay United States	19	115 0.4×	265 1.3×	83 0.6×	230 1.7×	325 2.6×	46	1.1k
Blake Byron Walker Canada	15	160 0.5×	105 0.5×	139 1.0×	58 0.4×	95 0.7×	44	726
Matthew Hobbs New Zealand	19	164 0.5×	175 0.8×	35 0.2×	206 1.5×	186 1.5×	75	1.4k
Mary Wolfe United States	11	151 0.5×	103 0.5×	100 0.7×	188 1.4×	108 0.9×	20	739

Countries citing papers authored by Vicky Tam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vicky Tam

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

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Edelson, Jonathan B., Jing Huang, Zi Wang, et al.. (2025). Identifying the determinants of health–related quality of life in children after heart transplant. JHLT Open. 8. 100250–100250.

Morales, Adriana, Yuan-Shung Huang, Vicky Tam, et al.. (2025). Lower Child Opportunity Index is associated with increased health care utilization following pediatric liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 31(10). 1258–1268.

Min, Jungwon, Vicky Tam, Joel A. Fein, et al.. (2024). Psychosocial Risks and Adolescent Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Objective Neighborhood Characteristics. Journal of Adolescent Health. 75(3). 442–450. 2 indexed citations

Vail, Emily A., Vicky Tam, Peter P. Reese, et al.. (2024). Characterizing proximity and transfers of deceased organ donors to donor care units in the United States. American Journal of Transplantation. 24(6). 983–992. 4 indexed citations

O’Byrne, Michael L., Vicky Tam, Heather Griffis, et al.. (2024). Association of Postnatal Opioid Exposure and 2-Year Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Infants Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 84(11). 1010–1021. 4 indexed citations

Min, Jungwon, et al.. (2024). Geospatial Disparities in Youth Sexually Transmitted Infections During COVID-19. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 67(2). 210–219. 2 indexed citations

Mayne, Stephanie L., Chloe Hannan, Vicky Tam, et al.. (2023). Feasibility and acceptability of mobile methods to assess home and neighborhood environments related to adolescent sleep. Sleep Health. 9(3). 331–338. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Jing, Vicky Tam, Therese M. Giglia, et al.. (2023). Neighborhood Social Vulnerability and Interstage Weight Gain: Evaluating the Role of a Home Monitoring Program. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(18). e030029–e030029. 3 indexed citations

Ruiz, Jenny, Yimei Li, Yuan‐Shung Huang, et al.. (2023). Association of the social disorganization index with time to first septic shock event in children with acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer. 130(6). 962–972.

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MacDonald, John M., Jason Gravel, Mitchell R. Smith, et al.. (2023). Lessons Learned From a Citywide Abandoned Housing Experiment. Journal of the American Planning Association. 90(1). 159–172. 6 indexed citations

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Winestone, Lena E., Kelly Getz, Yimei Li, et al.. (2023). Racial and ethnic disparities in acuity of presentation among children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 71(1). e30726–e30726. 4 indexed citations

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Kaufman, Jason, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Vicky Tam, et al.. (2022). The impact of heat on kidney stone presentations in South Carolina under two climate change scenarios. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 369–369. 24 indexed citations

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Faerber, Jennifer, Vicky Tam, Chitra Ravishankar, et al.. (2021). Early Evaluation and the Effect of Socioeconomic Factors on Neurodevelopment in Infants with Tetralogy of Fallot. Pediatric Cardiology. 42(3). 643–653. 21 indexed citations

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Mashalla, Yohana, et al.. (2020). Applying the Haddon matrix conceptual model to guide motor vehicle crash injury research and prevention in Botswana. African Journal of Emergency Medicine. 10(Suppl 1). S38–S43. 8 indexed citations

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Min, Jungwon, Heather Griffis, Vicky Tam, Kevin Meyers, & Shobha Natarajan. (2020). Association of neighborhood-level social determinants and food environments with pediatric hypertension care. Health & Place. 65. 102383–102383. 10 indexed citations

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Bleakley, Amy, et al.. (2020). How individual and neighborhood characteristics relate to health topic awareness and information seeking. SSM - Population Health. 12. 100657–100657. 2 indexed citations

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Potluri, Vishnu S., Deirdre Sawinski, Vicky Tam, et al.. (2020). Effect of Neighborhood Food Environment and Socioeconomic Status on Serum Phosphorus Level for Patients on Chronic Dialysis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(11). 2622–2630. 3 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Fenton H., Lingjiao Zhang, Vicky Tam, et al.. (2018). Geographically Derived Socioeconomic Factors to Improve Risk Prediction in Patients Having Aortic Valve Replacement. The American Journal of Cardiology. 123(1). 116–122. 11 indexed citations

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Branas, Charles C., et al.. (2011). A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space. American Journal of Epidemiology. 174(11). 1296–1306. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Franciosi, James P., Vicky Tam, Chris A. Liacouras, & Jonathan M. Spergel. (2008). A Case-Control Study of Sociodemographic and Geographic Characteristics of 335 Children With Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 7(4). 415–419. 80 indexed citations

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