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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

David L. Sackett

David L. Sackett publishes mostly in General Health Professions, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Health Sciences Research and Education and Clinical practice guidelines implementation.

World rank
#5,263
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#127
of 38,960
Works
57
Citations
3k
Citations per work
52.7

What does David L. Sackett research?

General Health Professions: 18.5%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 13.0%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11.1%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 9.3%other fields: 48.1%18%top field
General Health Professions18.5%Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty13.0%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine11.1%Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9.3%other fields48.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1General Health Professions18% of their works
  2. 2Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty13% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine11% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David L. Sackett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quality Assessment, Meta-Analysis, PRISMA Statement, Evidence-Based Practice, Barriers and Facilitators, Clinical Guidelines, Guideline Development and Healthcare Professionals.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Quality Assessment112 topics
  2. Meta-Analysis71 topic
  3. PRISMA Statement71 topic
  4. Evidence-Based Practice62 topics
  5. Barriers and Facilitators41 topic
  6. Clinical Guidelines41 topic
  7. Guideline Development41 topic
  8. Healthcare Professionals41 topic
  9. Global Health32 topics
  10. Public Health32 topics
  11. Antithrombotic Therapy21 topic
  12. Clinical Reasoning21 topic
  13. Diagnostic Error21 topic
  14. Implementation Science21 topic
  15. Latin America21 topic
  16. Qualitative Research21 topic
  17. Social Medicine21 topic
  18. Venous Thromboembolism21 topic
  19. Nutrition Science11 topic
  20. Sustainability11 topic

Where does David L. Sackett work?

David L. Sackett's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does David L. Sackett have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 3,002 citations for David L. Sackett, ranking #5,263 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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