2026 Samy Suissa: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	127	2815	2626	111	106	688	63834

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award
2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Samy Suissa is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has produced substantial research primarily in the field of medicine with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including physiology, statistics and probability, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, asthma and respiratory diseases, respiratory support and mechanisms, statistical methods in clinical trials, diabetes treatment and management, inhalation and respiratory drug delivery, and advanced causal inference techniques.

Suissa has a significant number of publications in these areas, contributing to both clinical and methodological aspects of medical research.

Frequent publication venues where Samy Suissa's work appears include:

COPD Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
CHEST Journal
BMJ
European Respiratory Journal
American Journal of Epidemiology

Some of the recent papers involving or authored by Samy Suissa include:

Emulation of Randomized Clinical Trials With Nonrandomized Database Analyses, 2023, JAMA
Time-related biases in pharmacoepidemiology, 2020, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
Aromatase Inhibitors and the Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes in Women With Breast Cancer, 2020, Circulation
Proton pump inhibitors and risk of gastric cancer: population-based cohort study, 2021, Gut
Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of major adverse cardiovascular events: multi-database retrospective cohort study, 2020, BMJ

Suissa has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Pierre Ernst, Sophie Dell'Aniello, Laurent Azoulay, Christel Renoux, and Kristian B. Filion.

Among recognized honors, Suissa was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2018 by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

Scientific monograph of the Quebec Task Force on Whiplash-Associated Disorders: redefining "whiplash" and its management.

W O Spitzer;M L Skovron;L R Salmi;J D Cassidy

2605
Citations
Incidence of and Risk Factors for Falls and Injurious Falls among the Community-dwelling Elderly

Jennifer L. O'loughlin;Yvonne Robitaille;Jean François Boivin;Samy Suissa

1592
Citations
The Use of β-Agonists and the Risk of Death and near Death from Asthma

W O Spitzer;S Suissa;P Ernst;R I Horwitz

1578
Citations
Immortal Time Bias in Pharmacoepidemiology

Samy Suissa

1546
Citations
Use of Gastric Acid-Suppressive Agents and the Risk of Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease

Sandra Dial;J. A. C. Delaney;Alan N. Barkun;Samy Suissa

1480
Citations
Low-Dose Inhaled Corticosteroids and the Prevention of Death From Asthma

S Suissa;P Ernst;S Benayoun;M Baltzan

1463
Citations
A clinical trial of estrogen-replacement therapy after ischemic stroke

Catherine M. Viscoli;Lawrence M. Brass;Walter N. Kernan;Philip M. Sarrel

1344
Citations
Problem of immortal time bias in cohort studies: example using statins for preventing progression of diabetes.

Linda E Lévesque;James A Hanley;Abbas Kezouh;Samy Suissa

1049
Citations
Renal and Retinal Effects of Enalapril and Losartan in Type 1 Diabetes

Michael Mauer;Bernard Zinman;Robert Gardiner;Samy Suissa

920
Citations
Dopamine agonists and the risk of cardiac-valve regurgitation.

René Schade;Frank Andersohn;Samy Suissa;Wilhelm Haverkamp

897
Citations
Long-term natural history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: severe exacerbations and mortality

Samy Suissa;Samy Suissa;Sophie Dell'Aniello;Pierre Ernst;Pierre Ernst

878
Citations
Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies. Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals

David J. Lederer;Scott C. Bell;Richard D. Branson;James D. Chalmers

738
Citations
Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in COPD.

Laetitia Huiart;Pierre Ernst;Samy Suissa

704
Citations
A population-based, randomized clinical trial on back pain management

Patrick Loisel;Lucien Abenhaim;Pierre Durand;John M. Esdaile

648
Citations
Immortal time bias in observational studies of drug effects

Samy Suissa;Samy Suissa

636
Citations
Use of Statins and the Risk of Death in Patients With Prostate Cancer

Oriana Yu;Maria Eberg;Serge Benayoun;Armen Aprikian

635
Citations
Vaccinations and the Risk of Relapse in Multiple Sclerosis

Christian Confavreux;Samy Suissa;Patricia Saddier;Valérie Bourdès

631
Citations
Pulmonary arterial hypertension: epidemiology and registries

Michael D. McGoon;Raymond L. Benza;Pilar Escribano-Subias;Xin Jiang

621
Citations
Benzodiazepine use and the risk of motor vehicle crash in the elderly

B Hemmelgarn;S Suissa;A Huang;J.F Boivin

584
Citations
A meta-analysis of the incidence of malignancy in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Allison L Smitten;Teresa A Simon;Marc C Hochberg;Samy Suissa

559
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Ernst McGill University

Robert W. Platt McGill University

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn University of Calgary

Marc C. Hochberg University of Maryland, Baltimore

Michael Pollak McGill University

Marc Tardieu University of Paris-Saclay

Themistocles L. Assimes Stanford University

Ralph I. Horwitz Temple University

Ronald Klein University of Wisconsin–Madison

David Henry Bond University

External Links

Personal website of Samy Suissa

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