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Researcher · Hunter Water · Australia

Derek Richard SMITH

Derek Richard SMITH publishes mostly in Surgery, General Health Professions and Epidemiology, on topics such as Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Occupational health in dentistry and Contact Dermatitis and Allergies.

ORCID 0000-0002-8202-2523 OpenAlex
World rank
#590,871
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#20,280
of 140,210
Works
667
Citations
11k
Citations per work
16.1
h-index
55
i10-index 187Top 1% in Surgery
Derek Richard SMITH

What does Derek Richard SMITH research?

Derek Richard SMITH's work is mostly in Medicine (20%), Health Professions (7%), Engineering (4%).

Everything else: 462 works · 69.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 178 works · 26.7% of their workMedicine: 131 works · 19.7% of their workSurgery: 51 works · 7.7% of their workEpidemiology: 33 works · 4.9% of their workInfectious Diseases: 24 works · 3.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 23 works · 3.5% of their workHealth Professions: 47 works · 7.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 47 works · 7.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 27 works · 4.1% of their workEngineering: 27 works · 4.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 27 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek RichardSMITH667works
Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences27%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else46269.2%
    1. Medicine13119.7%
    2. Health Professions477.0%
    1. Engineering274.1%
  1. 1Surgery8% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions7% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology5% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek Richard SMITH's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Chronic Pain, Global Burden, Dentists, Occupational Health, Contact Allergy, Skin Sensitization and Occupational Safety.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology772 topics
  2. Chronic Pain421 topic
  3. Global Burden421 topic
  4. Dentists391 topic
  5. Occupational Health391 topic
  6. Contact Allergy351 topic
  7. Skin Sensitization351 topic
  8. Occupational Safety291 topic
  9. Safety Culture291 topic
  10. Bibliometric Analysis281 topic
  11. Research Evaluation281 topic
  12. Smoking Cessation281 topic
  13. Tobacco Use281 topic
  14. Hand Hygiene231 topic
  15. Infection Control231 topic
  16. Psychosocial Work Environment231 topic
  17. Work-related Stress231 topic

Where does Derek Richard SMITH work?

Derek Richard SMITH's main affiliation in the publication record is Hunter Water, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Derek Richard SMITH have?

OpenAlex counts 667 works and 10,710 citations for Derek Richard SMITH, an h-index of 55, ranking #590,871 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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