W. Scott Richardson

75 total papers · 21.7k total citations
46 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

W. Scott Richardson is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Scott Richardson has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in General Health Professions, 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in W. Scott Richardson's work include Health Sciences Research and Education (13 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (10 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (6 papers). W. Scott Richardson is often cited by papers focused on Health Sciences Research and Education (13 papers), Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (10 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (6 papers). W. Scott Richardson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. W. Scott Richardson's co-authors include R. Brian Haynes, William Rosenberg, David L. Sackett, J. A. Muir Gray, Julie A. Gray, Roman Z. Jaeschke, Lee A. Green, C. David Naylor, Robert Haynes and Richard J. Cook and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

W. Scott Richardson

45 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

Evidence based medicine: ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 2007 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't
    1996 9.6k citations David L. Sackett, William Rosenberg et al. BMJ profile →
  2. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. 1996.
    2007 682 citations David L. Sackett, William Rosenberg et al. PubMed profile →
  3. Users' Guides to the Medical Literature
    2000 548 citations Gordon H. Guyatt, Robert Haynes et al. JAMA profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
W. Scott Richardson 5.2k 3.2k 1.9k 1.5k 830 46 12.0k
J. A. Muir Gray 5.0k 1.0× 2.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 649 0.8× 104 12.3k
Signe Flottorp 6.5k 1.2× 3.6k 1.1× 509 0.3× 1.8k 1.2× 836 1.0× 129 13.1k
Jeremy C Wyatt 4.1k 0.8× 2.7k 0.8× 504 0.3× 854 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 187 13.7k
Kate Seers 5.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 316 0.2× 698 0.5× 692 0.8× 145 10.5k
Sasha Shepperd 6.1k 1.2× 2.3k 0.7× 474 0.3× 1.7k 1.1× 1.2k 1.4× 120 13.4k
Shaun Treweek 6.0k 1.2× 4.3k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 3.1k 2.1× 1.0k 1.2× 240 15.2k
Christina Godfrey 4.5k 0.9× 3.1k 1.0× 439 0.2× 895 0.6× 860 1.0× 98 15.9k
Steven H. Woolf 7.1k 1.4× 5.7k 1.8× 999 0.5× 3.1k 2.1× 1.7k 2.0× 202 20.9k
Jo Rycroft‐Malone 7.7k 1.5× 2.5k 0.8× 243 0.1× 1.2k 0.8× 411 0.5× 123 12.1k
Sandra Eldridge 4.1k 0.8× 2.2k 0.7× 884 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 879 1.1× 231 13.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. Scott Richardson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Scott Richardson

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