W. Henry Smithson

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

W. Henry Smithson is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Henry Smithson has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 10 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in W. Henry Smithson's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (11 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (9 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (4 papers). W. Henry Smithson is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (11 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (9 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (4 papers). W. Henry Smithson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. W. Henry Smithson's co-authors include Cynthia L. Harden, Dale C. Hesdorffer, J. Helen Cross, Elizabeth Donner, Thaddeus S. Walczak, Torbjörn Tomson, David Gloss, Jacqueline A. French, Philippe Ryvlin and Jeffrey Buchhalter and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and Epilepsia.

In The Last Decade

W. Henry Smithson

28 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Practice guideline summary: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy incidence rates and risk factors

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Henry Smithson United Kingdom	15	838	616	353	163	148	28	1.3k
Andrea M. Schultz United States	7	532 0.6×	382 0.6×	118 0.3×	126 0.8×	118 0.8×	24	889
Morten I. Lossius Norway	23	1.6k 1.9×	1.2k 1.9×	145 0.4×	204 1.3×	46 0.3×	90	2.0k
Emily O. Westbrook United States	14	582 0.7×	397 0.6×	133 0.4×	143 0.9×	331 2.2×	24	1.5k
Patricia Osborne Shafer United States	19	1.0k 1.2×	813 1.3×	66 0.2×	161 1.0×	59 0.4×	40	1.3k
Monica E. Lemmon United States	23	312 0.4×	970 1.6×	356 1.0×	95 0.6×	125 0.8×	113	1.5k
Margaret C. McBride United States	15	647 0.8×	629 1.0×	281 0.8×	213 1.3×	60 0.4×	26	1.3k
Laura S. Boylan United States	12	770 0.9×	418 0.7×	69 0.2×	192 1.2×	181 1.2×	21	1.3k
M. Haim Erder United States	21	1.1k 1.3×	298 0.5×	119 0.3×	366 2.2×	50 0.3×	71	2.2k
Adam Noble United Kingdom	23	604 0.7×	452 0.7×	67 0.2×	62 0.4×	149 1.0×	76	1.3k
Larisa M. Strawbridge United States	8	503 0.6×	371 0.6×	49 0.1×	114 0.7×	101 0.7×	15	889

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Walsh, Elaine, Laura J. Sahm, Colin Bradley, et al.. (2019). The Patient-Held Active Record of Medication Status (PHARMS) study: a mixed-methods feasibility analysis. British Journal of General Practice. 69(682). e345–e355. 5 indexed citations

Foley, Tony, et al.. (2017). “We’re certainly not in our comfort zone”: a qualitative study of GPs’ dementia-care educational needs. BMC Family Practice. 18(1). 66–66. 59 indexed citations

Foley, Tony, et al.. (2017). The development and evaluation of peer-facilitated dementia workshops in general practice. Education for Primary Care. 29(1). 27–34. 6 indexed citations

Boote, Jonathan, Steven A. Julious, Michelle Horspool, et al.. (2016). PPI in the PLEASANT trial: involving children with asthma and their parents in designing an intervention for a randomised controlled trial based within primary care. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 17(6). 536–548. 10 indexed citations

Horspool, Michelle, et al.. (2015). Preventing and Lessening Exacerbations of Asthma in School-aged children Associated with a New Term (PLEASANT): Recruiting Primary Care Research Sites–the PLEASANT experience. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. 25(1). 15066–15066. 8 indexed citations

Burke, Tom, et al.. (2015). A study of the impact of VNS on health care utilisation in England. Seizure. 34. 12–17. 5 indexed citations

Camp, Charlotte, W. Henry Smithson, Mark Bunker, Tom Burke, & David Hughes. (2015). Impact of vagus nerve stimulation on secondary care burden in children and adults with epilepsy: Review of routinely collected hospital data in England. Epilepsy & Behavior. 52(Pt A). 68–73. 13 indexed citations

Seale, Clive, Kasper Raus, Sophie Bruinsma, et al.. (2014). The language of sedation in end-of-life care: The ethical reasoning of care providers in three countries. Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine. 19(4). 339–354. 26 indexed citations

Smithson, W. Henry, Brigitte Colwell, & Jane Hanna. (2014). Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Addressing the Challenges. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 14(12). 502–502. 18 indexed citations

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Seymour, Jane, Judith Rietjens, Sophie Bruinsma, et al.. (2014). Using continuous sedation until death for cancer patients: A qualitative interview study of physicians’ and nurses’ practice in three European countries. Palliative Medicine. 29(1). 48–59. 91 indexed citations

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Chapman, Sarah, et al.. (2013). Patients' perspectives on antiepileptic medication: Relationships between beliefs about medicines and adherence among patients with epilepsy in UK primary care. Epilepsy & Behavior. 31. 312–320. 92 indexed citations

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Horspool, Michelle, Steven A. Julious, Jonathan Boote, et al.. (2013). Preventing and lessening exacerbations of asthma in school-age children associated with a new term (PLEASANT): study protocol for a cluster randomised control trial. Trials. 14(1). 297–297. 16 indexed citations

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Anquinet, Livia, Judith Rietjens, Agnes van der Heide, et al.. (2013). Physicians' experiences and perspectives regarding the use of continuous sedation until death for cancer patients in the context of psychological and existential suffering at the end of life. Psycho-Oncology. 23(5). 539–546. 25 indexed citations

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Smithson, W. Henry, et al.. (2012). Adherence to medicines and self-management of epilepsy: A community-based study. Epilepsy & Behavior. 26(1). 109–113. 45 indexed citations

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Smithson, W. Henry, et al.. (2012). Developing a method to identify medicines non-adherence in a community sample of adults with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior. 24(1). 49–53. 17 indexed citations

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Campbell, Ellen, Emma Devenney, Jim Morrow, et al.. (2012). Recurrence risk of congenital malformations in infants exposed to antiepileptic drugs in utero. Epilepsia. 54(1). 165–171. 39 indexed citations

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Delanty, N, Beverly Irwin, Ailsa Russell, et al.. (2009). UPDATED EXPERIENCE FROM THE COMBINED UK AND IRELAND EPILEPSY AND PREGNANCY REGISTER. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1 indexed citations

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Hunt, Stephen J., B. Irwin, Ailsa Russell, et al.. (2009). LAMOTRIGINE IN HUMAN PREGNANCY: UPDATED EXPERIENCE FROM THE UK EPILEPSY AND PREGNANCY REGISTER. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 80. 97–97. 1 indexed citations

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Smithson, W. Henry, et al.. (1998). Patient views on primary care services for epilepsy and areas where additional professional knowledge would be welcome. Seizure. 7(6). 447–457. 30 indexed citations

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Smithson, W. Henry, et al.. (1979). 'Red'flu': a study of an epidemic in a girls' boarding school in February 1978.. PubMed. 29(200). 151–4. 4 indexed citations

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