Professor Derek Smith is an award-winning, multidisciplinary researcher based at the University of Newcastle in Australia. His wide variety of research interests include: Environmental & Occupational Health, Public Health, Bibliometrics and Research Utility, Hazard Assessment, Risk Factor Evaluation, Epidemiology, Tobacco Control, Tropical Health, Student Health and Medical History.
Experience
2008–2015
Adjunct Professor, James Cook University
2008–2015
Professor, University of Newcastle
Education
James Cook University, MSc
James Cook University, MPH
University of Southern Queensland, PhD
University of Yamanashi, PhD
Queensland University of Technology, MHSc
Griffith University, BSc
University of New England, BEd
Publications
2015
Assessing productivity among university academics and scientific researchers, Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
2014
Albert Sabin: The development of an oral poliovirus vaccine, Pioneers of Medicine Without a Nobel Prize
2013
Declining rates of tobacco use in the Japanese medical profession, 1965-2009, Journal of Epidemiology
2012
Impact factors, scientometrics and the history of citation-based research, Scientometrics
2011
Examining the dimensions of hospital safety climate and psychosocial risk factors among Japanese nurses, Journal of Transcultural Nursing