Alan Dyer is one of Canada's best known astronomers and is a contributing editor for Sky & Telescope magazine.

British Historian Alan Dyer has contributed many articles  to English Heritage Historical Review.

Risk Factor Burden in Middle Age and Lifetime Risks for Cardiovascular and Non-Cardiovascular Death by Alan Dyer, Martha Daviglus, Philip Greenland, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Renwei Wang in American Journal of Cardiology