William Whiteley

18.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
134 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

William Whiteley is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, William Whiteley has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Epidemiology, 36 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 34 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in William Whiteley's work include Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (60 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (34 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (24 papers). William Whiteley is often cited by papers focused on Acute Ischemic Stroke Management (60 papers), Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases (34 papers) and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery (24 papers). William Whiteley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. William Whiteley's co-authors include Peter Sandercock, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Martin Dennis, Rustam Al‐Shahi Salman, David E. Newby, Nicholas L. Mills, Harish Nair, Anoop Shah, David McAllister and Kuan Ken Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

William Whiteley

130 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guidelines on intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke

2021 673 citations Eivind Berge, William Whiteley et al. European Stroke Journal profile →
Short term exposure to air pollution and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis

2015 618 citations William Whiteley et al. BMJ profile →
Global Burden of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in People Living With HIV

2018 557 citations William Whiteley et al. profile →
Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis

2009 519 citations William Whiteley, Joanna M. Wardlaw et al. profile →
Association of Blood Pressure Lowering With Incident Dementia or Cognitive Impairment

2020 270 citations Conor Judge, Robert Murphy et al. profile →
Post-trial monitoring of a randomised controlled trial of intensive glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes extended from 10 years to 24 years (UKPDS 91)

2024 46 citations William Whiteley et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Whiteley

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessment of Health System Readiness and Quality of Dementia Services in Peru: Protocol for a Qualitative Study With Stakeholder Interviews and Documentation Review 2025 ·JMIR Research Protocols ·María Lazo‐Porras, (unknown), Christopher Butler, María Sofía Cuba-Fuentes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), J. Jaime Miranda, Antonio Bernabé‐Ortiz, Francisco Diez‐Canseco, Graham Moore, Filipa Landeiro, María Kathia Cárdenas, (unknown), Lee White, Rafael A. Calvo, William Whiteley, Jemma Hawkins, (unknown)	0
2	Long-term benefits of atorvastatin on the incidence of cardiovascular events: the ASCOT-Legacy 20-year follow-up 2025 ·Heart ·Peter S. Sever, Somayeh Rostamian, William Whiteley, Cono Ariti, (unknown), Ajay Gupta, Judith Mackay, Andrew Whitehouse, Neil R Poulter	1
3	Blood pressure variability: a review 2025 ·Journal of Hypertension ·(unknown), Gianfranco Parati, Sripal Bangalore, Grzegorz Bilo, Bum Joon Kim, Kazuomi Kario, Franz H. Messerli, George S. Stergiou, Ji‐Guang Wang, William Whiteley, Ian B. Wilkinson, Peter S. Sever	7
4	Risks of major arterial and venous thrombotic diseases after hospitalisation for influenza, pneumonia, and COVID-19: A population-wide cohort in 2.6 million people in Wales 2024 ·Thrombosis Research ·Spencer Keene, Hoda Abbasizanjani, Fatemeh Torabi, Rochelle Knight, Venexia Walker, Elena Raffetti, Geneviève Cézard, Samantha Ip, Alexia Sampri, Thomas Bolton, Rachel Denholm, Kamlesh Khunti, Ashley Akbari, Jennifer K Quint, Spiros Denaxas, Cathie Sudlow, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Jonathan A C Sterne, Angela Wood, William Whiteley	6
5	Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Samantha Ip, Teri-Louise North, Fatemeh Torabi, (unknown), Hoda Abbasizanjani, Ashley Akbari, Elsie Horne, Rachel Denholm, Spencer Keene, Spiros Denaxas, Amitava Banerjee, Kamlesh Khunti, Cathie Sudlow, William Whiteley, Jonathan A C Sterne, Angela Wood, Venexia Walker, (unknown)	7
6	Ontology-driven and weakly supervised rare disease identification from clinical notes 2023 ·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ·Hang Dong, Víctor Suárez-Paniagua, Huayu Zhang, Minhong Wang, (unknown), Emma J. Davidson, Jiaoyan Chen, Beatrice Alex, William Whiteley, Honghan Wu	15
7	Harmonising electronic health records for reproducible research: challenges, solutions and recommendations from a UK-wide COVID-19 research collaboration 2023 ·BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ·Hoda Abbasizanjani, Fatemeh Torabi, Stuart Bedston, Thomas Bolton, Gareth Davies, Spiros Denaxas, Rowena Griffiths, (unknown), Sam Hollings, Spencer Keene, Kamlesh Khunti, Emily Lowthian, Jane Lyons, Mehrdad A. Mizani, (unknown), Cathie Sudlow, Venexia Walker, William Whiteley, Angela Wood, Ashley Akbari	12
8	Antiplatelet therapy and incident cognitive impairment or dementia—a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials 2023 ·Age and Ageing ·(unknown), Robert Murphy, (unknown), Catriona Reddin, John Ferguson, Jackie Bosch, William Whiteley, Michelle Canavan, Conor Judge, Martin O’Donnell	3
9	Cognitive performance following stroke, transient ischaemic attack, myocardial infarction, and hospitalisation: an individual participant data meta-analysis of six randomised controlled trials 2023 ·The Lancet Healthy Longevity ·(unknown), Shun Fu Lee, Aristeidis H. Katsanos, Tali Cukierman‐Yaffe, Michelle Canavan, Raed A. Joundi, Mukul Sharma, Ashkan Shoamanesh, Carol Brayne, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Martin O’Donnell, Graciela Muñiz‐Terrera, Salim Yusuf, Jackie Bosch, William Whiteley	3
10	C-Reactive Protein, Interleukin-6, and Vascular Recurrence According to Stroke Subtype 2023 ·Neurology ·John McCabe, Cathal Walsh, (unknown), Katie Harris, Pablo Hervella, Ramón Iglesias‐Rey, Christina Jern, Linxin Li, Nobukazu Miyamoto, Joan Montaner, Annie Pedersén, Francisco Purroy, Peter M. Rothwell, Cathie Sudlow, Yuji Ueno, (unknown), William Whiteley, Mark Woodward, Peter J. Kelly	14
11	New Insights into Stroke from Continuous Passively Collected Temperature and Sleep Data Using Wrist-Worn Wearables 2023 ·Sensors ·(unknown), Ho-Yan Yvonne Chun, William Whiteley, Athanasios Tsanas	8
12	Clinical Diagnosis and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Transient and Minor Neurological Symptoms: A Prospective Cohort Study 2022 ·Stroke ·William Whiteley, Allan MacRaild, Ying Wang, Martin Dennis, Rustam Al‐Shahi Salman, Alasdair Gray, Matthew J. Reed, Catriona Graham, Joanna M. Wardlaw	7
13	Association of COVID-19 vaccines ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 with major venous, arterial, or thrombocytopenic events: A population-based cohort study of 46 million adults in England 2022 ·PLoS Medicine ·William Whiteley, Samantha Ip, Jennifer Cooper, Thomas Bolton, Spencer Keene, Venexia Walker, Rachel Denholm, Ashley Akbari, (unknown), Sam Hollings, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Spiros Denaxas, Angela Wood, Jonathan A C Sterne, Cathie Sudlow	51
14	European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guidelines on intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke breakdown → 2021 ·European Stroke Journal ·Eivind Berge, William Whiteley, Heinrich J. Audebert, (unknown), Ana Catarina Fonseca, Chiara Padiglioni, Natàlia Pérez de la Ossa, Daniel Strbian, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Guillaume Turc	673
15	Linked electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort of more than 54 million people in England: data resource 2021 ·BMJ ·Angela Wood, Rachel Denholm, Sam Hollings, Jennifer Cooper, Samantha Ip, Venexia Walker, Spiros Denaxas, Ashley Akbari, Amitava Banerjee, William Whiteley, Alvina G. Lai, Jonathan A C Sterne, Cathie Sudlow	93
16	Stroke Prevention and Dementia: 15-year Follow-up of the Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial-1 (ACST-1) 2019 ·European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery ·Alison Halliday, Anders Gottsäter, Mary Sneade, William Whiteley, Rebecca Llewellyn-Bennett, Sarah Parish, Sarah T. Pendlebury, Richárd Pető, Martin Björck, Richard Bulbulia, Hongchao Pan	2
17	Cognition in People With End-Stage Kidney Disease Treated With Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 2016 ·American Journal of Kidney Diseases ·Emma O’Lone, Michael H. Connors, Philip Masson, Sunny Z. Wu, Patrick J. Kelly, David Gillespie, Daniel Parker, William Whiteley, Giovanni FM Strippoli, Suetonia C. Palmer, Jonathan C. Craig, Angela C Webster	179
18	Cognition in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2014 ·Transplantation ·Philip Masson, Sunny Z. Wu, Fiona Duthie, Suetonia C. Palmer, Giovanni FM Strippoli, William Whiteley, Angela C Webster	3
19	The performance of prognostic models for predicting occlusive vascular events after stroke 2013 ·Cerebrovascular Diseases ·David D. Thompson, Gordon Murray, William Whiteley	1
20	Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930) 2006 ·Journal of Neurology ·William Whiteley	1

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