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Sharon E. Straus

Sharon E. Straus

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Medicine
Canada
2023

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
153
Citations
134423
World Ranking
138
National Ranking
4

Medicine

D-Index
161
Citations
159044
World Ranking
727
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Sharon E. Straus is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans various fields in medicine and health professions, with a particular focus on implementation science and public health.

The main fields of study they contribute to include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

The subfields of study where they have published extensively are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Economics and Econometrics

Key topics covered in their work include:

  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation

Their recent papers reflect a focus on clinical guidelines, evidence implementation, and infectious disease:

  • Reporting scoping reviews-PRISMA ScR extension (2020), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Systemic and mucosal IgA responses are variably induced in response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination and are associated with protection against subsequent infection (2022), Mucosal Immunology
  • Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based guidelines in long-term care: a qualitative evidence synthesis (2021), Implementation Science
  • Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess the Quality of Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations (2020), JAMA Network Open
  • Exploring the prevalence of gaming disorder and Internet gaming disorder: a rapid scoping review (2020), Systematic Reviews

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Andrea C. Tricco
  • Jennifer Watt
  • Christine Fahim
  • Areti Angeliki Veroniki
  • Ian D. Graham

The scientist has published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Open
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Systematic Reviews

Best Publications

  • PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

    Andrea C Tricco;Erin Lillie;Wasifa Zarin;Kelly K O'Brien

  • The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study

    Keiji Fukuda;Stephen E. Straus;Ian Hickie;Michael C. Sharpe

  • The PRISMA Extension Statement for Reporting of Systematic Reviews Incorporating Network Meta-analyses of Health Care Interventions: Checklist and Explanations

    Brian Hutton;Georgia Salanti;Deborah M Caldwell;Anna Chaimani

  • Lost in knowledge translation: time for a map?

    Ian D. Graham;Jo Logan;Margaret B. Harrison;Sharon E. Straus

  • A vaccine to prevent herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults.

    M. N. Oxman;M. N. Oxman;M. J. Levin;G. R. Johnson;K. E. Schmader

  • Scoping reviews: time for clarity in definition, methods, and reporting

    Heather L. Colquhoun;Danielle Levac;Kelly K. O'Brien;Sharon Straus

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Working Case Definition

    Gary P. Holmes;Jonathan E. Kaplan;Nelson M. Gantz;Anthony L. Komaroff

  • Dominant interfering Fas gene mutations impair apoptosis in a human autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome

    Galen H Fisher;Fredric J Rosenberg;Stephen E Straus;Janet K Dale

  • Mentoring in academic medicine: a systematic review.

    Dario Sambunjak;Sharon E. Straus;Ana Marušić

  • A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews

    Andrea C. Tricco;Andrea C. Tricco;Erin Lillie;Wasifa Zarin;Kelly O’Brien

  • Evidence-based medicine : how to practice and teach EBM

    Sharon E Straus

  • Defining knowledge translation

    Sharon E. Straus;Jacqueline Tetroe;Ian D. Graham

  • Evidence for impaired activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Mark A. Demitrack;Janet K. Dale;Stephen E. Straus;Louisa Laue

  • Local and systemic cytokine responses during experimental human influenza A virus infection. Relation to symptom formation and host defense.

    F. G. Hayden;R. S. Fritz;M. C. Lobo;W. G. Alvord

  • A scoping review of rapid review methods

    Andrea C. Tricco;Andrea C. Tricco;Jesmin Antony;Wasifa Zarin;Lisa Strifler;Lisa Strifler

  • Knowledge translation in health care : moving from evidence to practice

    Sharon E. Straus;Jacqueline Tetroe;Ian D. Graham

  • The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect.

    Dave Davis;Mike Evans;Alex Jadad;Laure Perrier

  • Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices in ambulatory care

    Sandra R Arnold;Sharon E Straus

  • Pleiotropic defects in lymphocyte activation caused by caspase-8 mutations lead to human immunodeficiency

    Hyung J. Chun;Lixin Zheng;Manzoor Ahmad;Jin Wang;Jin Wang

  • Postherpetic neuralgia--pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention

    Rhonda G. Kost;Stephen E. Straus

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea C. Tricco
Andrea C. Tricco St. Michael's Hospital
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn University of Calgary
Jennifer M. Puck
Jennifer M. Puck University of California, San Francisco
Ian D. Graham
Ian D. Graham Ottawa Hospital
Jeffrey I. Cohen
Jeffrey I. Cohen National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Brian Hutton
Brian Hutton Ottawa Hospital
Lehana Thabane
Lehana Thabane McMaster University
Michael J. Lenardo
Michael J. Lenardo National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Thomas A. Fleisher
Thomas A. Fleisher National Institutes of Health
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University

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