D-Index & Metrics Best Publications

Kenneth Rockwood

Dalhousie University
Canada

Medicine

Canada

2023

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Medicine D-index 125 Citations 88,015 844 World Ranking 1700 National Ranking 55

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study Kenneth Rockwood is best known for:

Alzheimer's disease
Statistics
Diabetes mellitus

His research brings together the fields of Frailty Index and Gerontology. His research on Frailty Index frequently links to adjacent areas such as Gerontology. Kenneth Rockwood regularly ties together related areas like Prospective cohort study in his Internal medicine studies. Prospective cohort study is closely attributed to Internal medicine in his work. His Psychiatry study frequently links to other fields, such as Cognition. His Cognition study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Psychiatry. Disease connects with themes related to Dementia in his study. In his works, Kenneth Rockwood undertakes multidisciplinary study on Demography and Statistics. He connects Statistics with Demography in his research.

His most cited work include:

Frailty in elderly people (5316 citations)
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care (3574 citations)
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission (3052 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date

His work on Population is being expanded to include thematically relevant topics such as Environmental health and Demography. He regularly links together related areas like Population in his Environmental health studies. His work blends Demography and Gerontology studies together. Kenneth Rockwood regularly ties together related areas like Frailty Index in his Gerontology studies. His Internal medicine study typically links adjacent topics like Confidence interval. His research on Confidence interval often connects related topics like Internal medicine. Many of his studies involve connections with topics such as Dementia and Disease. Dementia is often connected to Pathology in his work. He conducted interdisciplinary study in his works that combined Pathology and Disease.

Kenneth Rockwood most often published in these fields:

Internal medicine (65.20%)
Gerontology (57.23%)
Disease (46.75%)

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Best Publications

Frailty in elderly people

Andrew Clegg;John Young;Steve Iliffe;Marcel Olde Rikkert.
The Lancet (2013)

6403 Citations

A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people

Kenneth Rockwood;Xiaowei Song;Chris MacKnight;Howard Bergman.
Canadian Medical Association Journal (2005)

5822 Citations

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care

Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Andrew Sommerlad;Vasiliki Orgeta;Sergi G Costafreda;Sergi G Costafreda.
The Lancet (2017)

4154 Citations

Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action

John E. Morley;Bruno Vellas;G. Abellan van Kan;Stefan D. Anker.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (2013)

3297 Citations

Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission.

Gill Livingston;Gill Livingston;Jonathan Huntley;Andrew Sommerlad;Andrew Sommerlad;David Ames.
The Lancet (2020)

2279 Citations

Physical activity and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly persons.

Danielle Laurin;René Verreault;Joan Lindsay;Kathleen MacPherson.
JAMA Neurology (2001)

2188 Citations

Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits

Kenneth Rockwood;Arnold Mitnitski.
Journals of Gerontology Series A-biological Sciences and Medical Sciences (2007)

2184 Citations

A standard procedure for creating a frailty index

Samuel D Searle;Arnold Mitnitski;Arnold Mitnitski;Evelyne A Gahbauer;Thomas M Gill.
BMC Geriatrics (2008)

2175 Citations

Vascular Cognitive Impairment

John T O'Brien;Timo Erkinjuntti;Barry Reisberg;Gustavo Roman.
(2002)

2041 Citations

Accumulation of deficits as a proxy measure of aging.

Arnold B. Mitnitski;Alexander J. Mogilner;Kenneth Rockwood.
The Scientific World Journal (2001)

1966 Citations

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External Links

Personal Website for Kenneth Rockwood