Department of Family Practice Faculty Named in Top 50 Cited Primary Care Researchers List

Four members of the UBC Department of Family Practice have been named to the primary care researchers most-cited list.

The 50 most-cited primary care researchers in Canada—as published by Canadian Family Physician—were identified by analyzing data from the Scopus database. Various parameters, including the number of publications and citations, research themes, content analysis, journal impact factors, and field-weighted citation impact for their publications, were assessed.

The University of British Columbia ranked third in number of researchers identified.

The following department researchers were among the academics named to this list:

  • Martin Dawes, Professor Emeritus and former Department Head
  • Michael Klein, Professor Emeritus
  • Robert Petrella, Department Head, Professor
  • Ellen Wiebe, Clinical Professor

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