Standout Papers

Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test 1997 2026 2006 2016 43.3k
  1. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test (1997)
    Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith et al. BMJ
  2. Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression (2015)
    Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  3. Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator (2016)
    Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. Genetic Epidemiology
  4. The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome (2018)
    Gibran Hemani, Jie Zheng et al. eLife
  5. ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?* (2003)
    George Davey Smith, Shah Ebrahim International Journal of Epidemiology
  6. Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology (2007)
    Debbie A. Lawlor, Roger Harbord et al. Statistics in Medicine
  7. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study (1991)
    Michael Marmot, Chandra Patel et al. The Lancet
  8. Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies (2014)
    George Davey Smith, Gibran Hemani Human Molecular Genetics
  9. Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians (2018)
    Neil M Davies, Michael V. Holmes et al. BMJ
  10. Systematic Reviews in Health Care : Meta-Analysis in Context (2000)
    Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology
  11. Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (2012)
    Andy Boyd, Jean Golding et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  12. Meta-analysis: Principles and procedures (1997)
    Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith et al. BMJ
  13. Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption (2017)
    Fernando Pires Hartwig, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  14. Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization (2021)
    Veronika Skrivankova, Rebecca C. Richmond et al. JAMA
  15. Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis (2001)
    Jonathan A C Sterne, Matthias Egger et al. BMJ
  16. Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort (2012)
    Abigail Fraser, Corrie Macdonald‐Wallis et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  17. Orienting the causal relationship between imprecisely measured traits using GWAS summary data (2017)
    Gibran Hemani, Kate Tilling et al. PLoS Genetics
  18. Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (2013)
    Fiona Taylor, Mark D. Huffman et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  19. meta-analysis bias in location and selection of studies (1998)
    Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith BMJ
  20. A framework for the investigation of pleiotropy in two‐sample summary data Mendelian randomization (2017)
    Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. Statistics in Medicine
  21. Assessing the suitability of summary data for two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses using MR-Egger regression: the role of the I2 statistic (2016)
    Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  22. Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease (2015)
    Edward P. Havranek, Mahasin S. Mujahid et al. Circulation
  23. Using published data in Mendelian randomization: a blueprint for efficient identification of causal risk factors (2015)
    Stephen Burgess, Robert A. Scott et al. European Journal of Epidemiology
  24. Problems of reporting genetic associations with complex outcomes (2003)
    Helen M. Colhoun, Paul McKeigue et al. The Lancet
  25. Mendelian randomization (2022)
    Eleanor Sanderson, M. Maria Glymour et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  26. Evaluating the potential role of pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization studies (2018)
    Gibran Hemani, Jack Bowden et al. Human Molecular Genetics
  27. Effect of Infant Feeding on the Risk of Obesity Across the Life Course: A Quantitative Review of Published Evidence (2005)
    Christopher G. Owen, Richard M. Martin et al. PEDIATRICS
  28. Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration (2021)
    Veronika Skrivankova, Rebecca C. Richmond et al. BMJ
  29. Mendelian randomization: prospects, potentials, and limitations (2004)
    George Davey Smith International Journal of Epidemiology
  30. Using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables for modifiable risk factors (2011)
    Tom Palmer, Debbie A. Lawlor et al. Statistical Methods in Medical Research
  31. Meta-analysis Spurious precision? Meta-analysis of observational studies (1998)
    Matthias Egger, Marc P. Schneider et al. BMJ
  32. Impaired lung function and mortality risk in men and women: findings from the Renfrew and Paisley prospective population study (1996)
    David Hole, G. Watt et al. BMJ
  33. A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY (2005)
    John Lynch, George Davey Smith Annual Review of Public Health
  34. Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review (2004)
    John Lynch, George Davey Smith et al. Milbank Quarterly
  35. Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology (2016)
    Debbie A. Lawlor, Kate Tilling et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  36. Recent Developments in Mendelian Randomization Studies (2017)
    Jie Zheng, Denis Baird et al. Current Epidemiology Reports
  37. TRPV3 is a temperature-sensitive vanilloid receptor-like protein (2002)
    George Davey Smith, Martin J. Gunthorpe et al. Nature
  38. An examination of multivariable Mendelian randomization in the single-sample and two-sample summary data settings (2018)
    Eleanor Sanderson, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  39. Measuring socioeconomic position in health research (2007)
    Bruna Galobardes, John P. Lynch et al. British Medical Bulletin
  40. Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation (2021)
    Alice R Carter, Eleanor Sanderson et al. European Journal of Epidemiology
  41. Education and occupational social class: which is the more important indicator of mortality risk? (1998)
    George Davey Smith, Carole Hart et al. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  42. Improving the visualization, interpretation and analysis of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization via the Radial plot and Radial regression (2018)
    Jack Bowden, Wes Spiller et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  43. Reduction in saturated fat intake for cardiovascular disease (2015)
    Lee Hooper, Nicole Martin et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  44. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption (2018)
    Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  45. Variation inPCSK9andHMGCRand Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes (2016)
    Brian A. Ference, Jennifer G. Robinson et al. New England Journal of Medicine
  46. Collider scope: when selection bias can substantially influence observed associations (2017)
    Marcus R. Munafò, Kate Tilling et al. International Journal of Epidemiology
  47. Evaluating the relationship between circulating lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins with risk of coronary heart disease: A multivariable Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020)
    Tom G. Richardson, Eleanor Sanderson et al. PLoS Medicine
  48. CARDIOVASCULAR AND CATECHOLAMINE RESPONSES TO LARYNGOSCOPY WITH AND WITHOUT TRACHEAL INTUBATION (1987)
    George Davey Smith, K.J. ACHOLA et al. British Journal of Anaesthesia
  49. Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories from Birth to Adulthood (2019)
    Amit V. Khera, Mark Chaffin et al. Cell
  50. Mendelian randomization in cardiometabolic disease: challenges in evaluating causality (2017)
    Michael V. Holmes, Mika Ala‐Korpela et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology
  51. Robust research needs many lines of evidence (2018)
    Marcus R. Munafò, George Davey Smith Nature
  52. Mendelian Randomization: Concepts and Scope (2021)
    Rebecca C. Richmond, George Davey Smith Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
  53. Quantitative Serum Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Metabolomics in Large-Scale Epidemiology: A Primer on -Omic Technologies (2017)
    Peter Würtz, Antti J. Kangas et al. American Journal of Epidemiology
  54. Systematic identification of genetic influences on methylation across the human life course (2016)
    Tom R. Gaunt, Hashem A. Shihab et al. Genome biology
  55. Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the design, analysis, and interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies (2016)
    Philip Haycock, Stephen Burgess et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  56. Evidence for causal effects of lifetime smoking on risk for depression and schizophrenia: a Mendelian randomisation study (2019)
    Robyn E. Wootton, Rebecca C. Richmond et al. Psychological Medicine
  57. Mendelian Randomization: New Applications in the Coming Age of Hypothesis-Free Causality (2015)
    David M. Evans, George Davey Smith Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
  58. Intermittent claudication, heart disease risk factors, and mortality. The Whitehall Study. (1990)
    George Davey Smith, M Shipley et al. Circulation
  59. Adult height, nutrition, and population health (2016)
    Jessica M. Perkins, S. V. Subramanian et al. Nutrition Reviews
  60. Use of genetic variation to separate the effects of early and later life adiposity on disease risk: mendelian randomisation study (2020)
    Tom G. Richardson, Eleanor Sanderson et al. BMJ
  61. Characterising metabolomic signatures of lipid-modifying therapies through drug target mendelian randomisation (2022)
    Tom G. Richardson, Genevieve M Leyden et al. PLoS Biology

Immediate Impact

11 by Nobel laureates 29 from Science/Nature 156 standout
Sub-graph 1 of 18

Citing Papers

Polygenic scoring accuracy varies across the genetic ancestry continuum
2023 StandoutNature
Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
2021 Standout
8 intermediate papers

Works of George Davey Smith being referenced

Obesity and overweight in relation to organ-specific cancer mortality in London (UK): findings from the original Whitehall study
2005
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
1997 Standout
and 6 more

Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
George Davey Smith 28643 38064 31623 2.0k 209.0k
Graham A. Colditz 9036 18847 47661 1.4k 162.0k
Walter C. Willett 13436 21907 95400 1.9k 246.6k
JoAnn E. Manson 7953 21266 46422 1.7k 160.8k
John P. A. Ioannidis 7987 11852 20022 1.1k 180.8k
David Moher 29612 11562 64744 775 488.1k
Matthias Egger 12132 7296 24340 751 204.3k
Douglas G. Altman 37136 16691 70289 632 585.5k
Meir J. Stampfer 7102 14493 38524 844 138.2k
Frank B. Hu 7186 9832 65362 1.2k 156.0k
Julian P. T. Higgins 9250 7736 16645 446 178.4k

All Works

Loading papers...

Rankless by CCL
2026