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Richard C. Franklin

Richard C. Franklin

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
58
Citations
134511
World Ranking
1598
National Ranking
118

Overview

Richard C. Franklin is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and emergency medicine. The breadth of research also touches on health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as plant science.

The research topics that Richard C. Franklin frequently explores include:

  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Agriculture and Farm Safety
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • "Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990-2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" (2023) published in The Lancet Rheumatology
  • "Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990-2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2021) published in The Lancet
  • "Global, regional, and national burden of spinal cord injury, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019" (2023) published in The Lancet Neurology
  • "The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study" (2020) published in Injury Prevention
  • "Global, regional, and national burden of neck pain, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021" (2024) published in The Lancet Rheumatology

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

  • Amy E. Peden
  • Peter A. Leggat
  • Sue Devine
  • Stacey Willcox-Pidgeon
  • Jemma C King

The venues where Richard C. Franklin has frequently published their research are:

  • Abstracts
  • Australian Journal of Rural Health
  • Journal of Agromedicine
  • Injury Prevention
  • PLoS ONE

Their book contributions include a publication with Frontiers Media titled Safeguarding Youth from Agricultural Injury and Illness: International Experiences released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi;Kyle Foreman;Stephen Lim

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Theo Vos;Christine Allen;Megha Arora;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Haidong Wang;Mohsen Naghavi;Christine Allen;Ryan M Barber

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

    Christina Fitzmaurice;Christina Fitzmaurice;Daniel Dicker;Daniel Dicker;Amanda Pain;Hannah Hamavid

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016

    Simon I. Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Megha Arora;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Case Study Research: Foundations and Methodological Orientations

    Helena Harrison;Melanie Birks;Richard C Franklin;Jane Mills

  • The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013

    Juanita A Haagsma;Nicholas Graetz;Ian Bolliger;Mohsen Naghavi

  • Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Ryan M. Barber;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Leggat
Peter A. Leggat James Cook University
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mustafa Z Younis
Mustafa Z Younis Jackson State University
Paul S. F. Yip
Paul S. F. Yip University of Hong Kong
Rakhi Dandona
Rakhi Dandona Public Health Foundation of India
Guoqing Hu
Guoqing Hu Central South University
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Foad Abd-Allah
Foad Abd-Allah Cairo University

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