2026 Rafael Perera: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	83	15342	14427	1409	1345	423	50091

Overview

Rafael Perera is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has a research focus in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several key subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Oncology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas such as:

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Chronic Disease Management Strategies
Healthcare cost, quality, practices
COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection

They have a notable publication record, including recent papers such as:

Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY (2020), published in Nature
OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients (2020), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cooling for sustainable development (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
Multi-cancer early detection test in symptomatic patients referred for cancer investigation in England and Wales (SYMPLIFY): a large-scale, observational cohort study (2023), published in The Lancet Oncology
A Biomarker-based Biological Age in UK Biobank: Composition and Prediction of Mortality and Hospital Admissions (2021), published in The Journals of Gerontology Series A

The venues where Rafael Perera frequently publishes include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
BMJ Open
SSRN Electronic Journal
Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
BMJ

Collaborations form an important aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

Brian D Nicholson
Richard Hobbs
Clare Bankhead
Daniel Lasserson
Jason Oke

Best Publications

Better reporting of interventions: Template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

Tammy C Hoffmann;Paul P Glasziou;Isabelle Boutron;Ruairidh Milne

10144
Citations
Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY.

Elizabeth J Williamson;Alex J Walker;Krishnan Bhaskaran;Seb Bacon

7110
Citations
Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation.

Lindsay F Stead;Rafael Perera;Christopher Bullen;David Mant

4703
Citations
Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.

Lindsay F Stead;Rafael Perera;Tim Lancaster

1605
Citations
Pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: an overview and network meta‐analysis

Kate Cahill;Sarah Stevens;Rafael Perera;Tim Lancaster

1566
Citations
School‐based programmes for preventing smoking

Roger E Thomas;Julie McLellan;Rafael Perera

1055
Citations
Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

Carl Heneghan;Alison Ward;Rafael Perera;Clare Bankhead

1045
Citations
Cardiovascular disease risk in healthy children and its association with body mass index: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Claire Friedemann;Carl Heneghan;Kamal Mahtani;Matthew Thompson

770
Citations
Personalised care planning for adults with chronic or long-term health conditions

Angela Coulter;Vikki A Entwistle;Abi Eccles;Sara Ryan

737
Citations
Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents

Matthew J Thompson;Nelly Ninis;Rafael Perera;Richard Mayon-White

680
Citations
Anticoagulation Control and Prediction of Adverse Events in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Systematic Review

Yi Wan;Carl Heneghan;Rafael Perera;Nia Roberts

638
Citations
Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

Pablo Martinez-Devesa;Rafael Perera;Megan Theodoulou;Angus Waddell

624
Citations
Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Heneghan;P Alonso-Coello;J M Garcia-Alamino;R Perera

592
Citations
OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients

Elizabeth Williamson;Alex J Walker;Krishnan J Bhaskaran

539
Citations
Effect of 3 to 5 years of scheduled CEA and CT follow-up to detect recurrence of colorectal cancer: the FACS randomized clinical trial.

John N. Primrose;Rafael Perera;Alastair Gray;Peter Rose

495
Citations
A systematic review and meta-analysis: probiotics in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome

Nourieh Hoveyda;Carl Heneghan;Kamal R Mahtani;Rafael Perera

437
Citations
Incentives for smoking cessation

Kate Cahill;Jamie Hartmann-Boyce;Rafael Perera

395
Citations
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Janine Hartweg;R. Perera;V. Montori;S. Dinneen

389
Citations
Adaptation and validation of the Charlson Index for Read/OXMIS coded databases

Nada F Khan;Rafael Perera;Stephen Harper;Peter W Rose

357
Citations
School-based programmes for preventing smoking: School-based programmes for preventing smoking

Roger E. Thomas;Julie McLellan;Rafael Perera

87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Heneghan University of Oxford

Paul Glasziou Bond University

David Mant University of Oxford

Philip Clarke University of Oxford

Jonathan J Deeks University of Birmingham

Paul Little University of Southampton

Luke Vale Newcastle University

Mandy Ryan University of Aberdeen

Marjan van den Akker Goethe University Frankfurt

Christopher W. Pugh University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Rafael Perera

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