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53
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2215
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394

Phil Edwards publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Phil Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 218 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Phil Edwards D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Phil Edwards sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Phil Edwards is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly centers on Medicine, with significant contributions across several specialized subfields including General Health Professions, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Infectious Diseases.

The scope of Edwards' work covers a variety of main topics such as Traffic and Road Safety, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Survey Methodology and Nonresponse, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, and Urban Transport and Accessibility.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Edwards include:

  • Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires, 2023, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet
  • Colorectal Endoscopic Stenting Trial (CReST) for obstructing left-sided colorectal cancer: randomized clinical trial, 2022, British journal of surgery
  • Effect of tranexamic acid by baseline risk of death in acute bleeding patients: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 28 333 patients, 2020, British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • Red light camera interventions for reducing traffic violations and traffic crashes: A systematic review, 2020, Campbell Systematic Reviews

Edwards frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Ian Roberts
  • Benjamin Woolf
  • Haleema Shakur-Still
  • Chloe Perkins
  • Rebecca Steinbach

Publications by Edwards have appeared predominantly in journals such as BMC Medical Research Methodology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Injury Prevention, Poster presentations, and Findings, reflecting a broad engagement with both peer-reviewed and pre-publication research forums.

Best Publications

  • The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review

    Caroline Free;Gemma Phillips;Leandro Galli;Louise Watson

  • Effect of early tranexamic acid administration on mortality, hysterectomy, and other morbidities in women with post-partum haemorrhage (WOMAN): an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Haleema Shakur;Ian Roberts;Bukola Fawole;Rizwana Chaudhri

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    James Woodcock;Phil Edwards;Cathryn Tonne;Ben G Armstrong

  • Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis

    Richard Patterson;Eoin McNamara;Marko Tainio;Thiago Hérick de Sá

  • The effectiveness of mobile-health technologies to improve health care service delivery processes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Caroline Free;Gemma Phillips;Louise Watson;Leandro Galli

  • Predicting outcome after traumatic brain injury: practical prognostic models based on large cohort of international patients.

    Pablo Perel;Miguel Arango;Tim Clayton

  • Effect of intravenous corticosteroids on death within 14 days in 10008 adults with clinically significant head injury (MRC CRASH trial): randomised placebo-controlled trial.

    Ian Roberts;David Yates;Peter Sandercock;Barbara Farrell

  • Change in stroke incidence, mortality, case-fatality, severity, and risk factors in Oxfordshire, UK from 1981 to 2004 (Oxford Vascular Study)

    PM Rothwell;AJ Coull;MF Giles;SC Howard

  • Effect of tranexamic acid on surgical bleeding: systematic review and cumulative meta-analysis

    Katharine Ker;Phil Edwards;Pablo Perel;Haleema Shakur

  • The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass

    Sarah Catherine Walpole;David Prieto-Merino;Phil Edwards;John Cleland

  • Final results of MRC CRASH, a randomised placebo-controlled trial of intravenous corticosteroid in adults with head injury-outcomes at 6 months.

    Phil Edwards;Miguel Arango;Laura Balica;Rowland Cottingham

  • Smoking cessation support delivered via mobile phone text messaging (txt2stop): a single-blind, randomised trial

    Caroline Free;Rosemary Knight;Steven Robertson;Robyn Whittaker

  • The effectiveness of M-health technologies for improving health and health services: a systematic review protocol

    Caroline Free;Gemma Phillips;Lambert Felix;Leandro Galli

  • Energy and transport

    James Woodcock;David Banister;Phil Edwards;Andrew M Prentice

  • Systematic review of prognostic models in traumatic brain injury.

    Pablo Perel;Phil Edwards;Reinhard Wentz;Ian Roberts

  • Cycling and the city: a case study of how gendered, ethnic and class identities can shape healthy transport choices.

    Rebecca Steinbach;Judith Green;Jessica Datta;Phil Edwards

  • Effect of treatment delay on the effectiveness and safety of antifibrinolytics in acute severe haemorrhage: a meta-analysis of individual patient-level data from 40 138 bleeding patients

    Angèle Gayet-Ageron;Angèle Gayet-Ageron;David Prieto-Merino;Katharine Ker;Haleema Shakur

  • Identification of randomized controlled trials in systematic reviews: accuracy and reliability of screening records.

    Phil Edwards;Mike Clarke;Carolyn DiGuiseppi;Sarah Pratap

  • Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Ian Roberts;Haleema Shakur-Still;Adefemi Afolabi;Adegboyega Akere

  • Patient outcome after traumatic brain injury in high-, middle- and low-income countries: analysis of data on 8927 patients in 46 countries

    Mary J De Silva;Ian Roberts;Pablo Perel;Phil Edwards

  • Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

    J Woodcock;P Edwards;C Tonne;BG Armstrong

  • questionnaires: systematic review Increasing response rates to postal

    Reinhard Wentz;Irene Kwan;Phil Edwards;Ian Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Judith Green
Judith Green King's College London
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Anna Goodman
Anna Goodman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Helen Roberts
Helen Roberts University College London
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray University College London
Shane D. Johnson
Shane D. Johnson University College London
Karen Devries
Karen Devries London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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