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Richard P. Allen publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard P. Allen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 438 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Richard P. Allen D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard P. Allen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 113 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Richard P. Allen was a researcher affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their work spanned multiple areas within medicine, focusing extensively on the study of sleep disorders and neurological conditions.

Their research primarily addressed topics such as restless legs syndrome (RLS), sleep and wakefulness, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, dysphagia assessment and management, obstructive sleep apnea, and child nutrition and feeding issues.

Richard P. Allen published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication sources included Sleep Medicine, arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Sleep Medicine Reviews, and SLEEP. Their contributions spanned a range of topics within these journals, reflecting interdisciplinary interests involving epidemiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology, as well as applications of artificial intelligence and speech and hearing studies.

Among their recent papers were:

  • Consensus diagnostic criteria for a newly defined pediatric sleep disorder: restless sleep disorder (RSD), 2020, Sleep Medicine
  • Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • We need to do better: A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy of restless legs syndrome screening instruments, 2021, Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Clinical efficacy and safety of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose treatment of pediatric restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder, 2021, Sleep Medicine
  • Consensus Guidelines on Rodent Models of Restless Legs Syndrome, 2020, Movement Disorders

Richard P. Allen collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Christopher J. Earley, Diego García-Borreguero, Lourdes M. DelRosso, Daniel L. Picchietti, and Raffaele Ferri. These connections indicate engagement within a professional network specializing in sleep medicine and neurological research.

Their research output reflected a strong emphasis on restless legs syndrome research, with 38 publications dedicated to this area, while sleep and wakefulness research accounted for 28 publications. Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatment was another substantial focus with 24 publications. Additional research covered topics like dysphagia assessment and management, sleep-related disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, and child nutrition issues.

Subfields of study included epidemiology (19 publications), cognitive neuroscience (16 publications), and neurology (13 publications), complemented by work in artificial intelligence and speech and hearing (4 publications each), demonstrating a multidisciplinary approach to medical research.

Best Publications

  • Restless legs syndrome: diagnostic criteria, special considerations, and epidemiology. A report from the restless legs syndrome diagnosis and epidemiology workshop at the National Institutes of Health.

    Richard P Allen;Daniel Picchietti;Wayne A Hening;Claudia Trenkwalder

  • Validation of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome

    Jun Horiguchi;Magdolna Hornyak;Ulrich Voderholzer;Meir Kryger

  • Restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbom disease diagnostic criteria: updated International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG) consensus criteria--history, rationale, description, and significance.

    Richard P. Allen;Daniel L. Picchietti;Diego Garcia-Borreguero;William G. Ondo

  • Toward a better definition of the restless legs syndrome

    Arthur S. Walters;Michael S. Aldrich;Richard Allen;Sonia Ancoli‐Israel

  • Restless Legs Syndrome Prevalence and Impact: REST General Population Study

    Richard P. Allen;Arthur S. Walters;Jacques Montplaisir;Wayne Hening

  • Impact, diagnosis and treatment of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a primary care population: The REST (RLS epidemiology, symptoms, and treatment) primary care study

    Wayne Hening;Arthur S Walters;Arthur S Walters;Richard P Allen;Jacques Montplaisir

  • Abnormalities in CSF concentrations of ferritin and transferrin in restless legs syndrome

    Christopher J. Earley;J. R. Connor;J. L. Beard;E. A. Malecki

  • MRI measurement of brain iron in patients with restless legs syndrome.

    Richard P. Allen;P. B. Barker;F. Wehrl;H. K. Song

  • Computerized tomography in obstructive sleep apnea. Correlation of airway size with physiology during sleep and wakefulness

    E F Haponik;P L Smith;M E Bohlman;R P Allen

  • Neuropathological examination suggests impaired brain iron acquisition in restless legs syndrome.

    James R. Connor;P. J. Boyer;P. J. Boyer;S. L. Menzies;B. Dellinger

  • Restless legs syndrome: a review of clinical and pathophysiologic features.

    Richard P. Allen;Christopher J. Earley

  • The official World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) standards for recording and scoring periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) and wakefulness (PLMW) developed in collaboration with a task force from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG)

    Marco Zucconi;Raffaele Ferri;Richard Allen;Paul Christian Baier

  • Iron and the Restless Legs Syndrome

    Erica R. Sun;Clara A. Chen;George Ho;Christopher J. Earley

  • Augmentation of the restless legs syndrome with carbidopa/levodopa.

    Richard P. Allen;Christopher J. Earley

  • Hyperactive Children: Diagnosis and Management

    Daniel J. Safer;Richard P. Allen

  • The treatment of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder. An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Review.

    Wayne Hening;Richard Allen;Christopher Earley;Clete Kushida

  • Dopamine and iron in the pathophysiology of restless legs syndrome (RLS).

    Richard Allen

  • Restless Legs Syndrome: Prevalence and Impact in Children and Adolescents—The Peds REST Study

    Daniel Picchietti;Richard P. Allen;Arthur S. Walters;Julie E. Davidson

  • Phase-shifting effects of bright morning light as treatment for delayed sleep phase syndrome.

    Norman E. Rosenthal;Jean R. Joseph-Vanderpool;Alytia A. Levendosky;Scott H. Johnston

  • An Algorithm for the Management of Restless Legs Syndrome

    Michael H. Silber;Bruce L. Ehrenberg;Richard P. Allen;Mark J. Buchfuhrer

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Earley
Christopher J. Earley Johns Hopkins University
Wayne A. Hening
Wayne A. Hening Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Arthur S. Walters
Arthur S. Walters Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Diego Garcia-Borreguero
Diego Garcia-Borreguero Instituto de Investigaciones del Sueño
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
James R. Connor
James R. Connor Pennsylvania State University
Juliane Winkelmann
Juliane Winkelmann Technical University of Munich
Luigi Ferini-Strambi
Luigi Ferini-Strambi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Wolfgang H. Oertel
Wolfgang H. Oertel Philipp University of Marburg

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