Andy Ness

45.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
359 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

Andy Ness is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Ness has authored 359 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 91 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 82 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Andy Ness's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (122 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (87 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (50 papers). Andy Ness is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (122 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (87 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (50 papers). Andy Ness collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Andy Ness's co-authors include George Davey Smith, Debbie A. Lawlor, John Powles, Sam Leary, Pauline Emmett, Abigail Fraser, Jean Golding, Jonathan H. Tobias, Calum Mattocks and Kate Tilling and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andy Ness

351 papers receiving 23.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

2012 2.0k citations Debbie A. Lawlor, Andy Ness et al. profile →
Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort

2012 1.6k citations George Davey Smith, Andy Ness et al. profile →
Early life risk factors for obesity in childhood: cohort study

2005 1.3k citations John J. Reilly, Andy Ness et al. BMJ profile →
Fruit and vegetables, and cardiovascular disease: a review.

1997 1.0k citations Andy Ness, John Powles profile →
Associations of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplement Use With Cardiovascular Disease Risks

2018 442 citations Andy Ness et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andy Ness United Kingdom	80	10.0k	6.0k	5.1k	3.6k	2.6k	359	24.6k
Olli T. Raitakari Finland	89	10.9k 1.1×	5.4k 0.9×	6.8k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	803	34.5k
Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman United States	84	8.4k 0.8×	6.9k 1.2×	2.9k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.1×	432	23.1k
Thorkild I. A. Sørensen Denmark	76	9.3k 0.9×	5.6k 0.9×	5.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	950 0.4×	476	25.3k
Jorma Viikari Finland	90	12.4k 1.2×	6.0k 1.0×	7.1k 1.4×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	826	37.2k
Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin Finland	87	5.7k 0.6×	6.2k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	976 0.4×	553	26.0k
Preben Bo Mortensen Denmark	105	5.5k 0.5×	4.3k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	604	42.0k
Peter H. Whincup United Kingdom	87	8.1k 0.8×	4.3k 0.7×	7.9k 1.5×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	495	29.2k
Andrew M. Prentice United Kingdom	73	6.8k 0.7×	4.5k 0.8×	6.1k 1.2×	6.4k 1.8×	847 0.3×	404	23.1k
Henning Tiemeier Netherlands	96	8.1k 0.8×	8.1k 1.4×	2.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.8k 1.1×	804	35.9k
Jonathan C. K. Wells United Kingdom	76	10.3k 1.0×	7.1k 1.2×	9.5k 1.8×	5.4k 1.5×	1.0k 0.4×	603	26.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ness, Andy, et al.. (2024). Community-Based Participatory Research: Lessons and Challenges. Symposium Special Communication. JDR Clinical & Translational Research. 10(2). 96–99.

Gormley, Mark, Tom Dudding, Steven J. Thomas, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the effect of metabolic traits on oral and oropharyngeal cancer risk using Mendelian randomization. eLife. 12. 16 indexed citations

James, Sharon, Charlotte Atkinson, Linda Hunt, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of urinary chloride dipsticks for the rapid estimation of hydration status in patients receiving artificial nutrition: Feasibility study. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 42. 339–347. 2 indexed citations

Leary, Sam, Yvonne Wren, John Thompson, et al.. (2020). Educational Attainment of Children Born with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate in the United Kingdom. The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. 58(5). 587–596. 10 indexed citations

Lang, Samantha, Sarah Schimansky, Rhona Beynon, et al.. (2019). Dietary behaviors and survival in people with head and neck cancer: Results from Head and Neck 5000. Head & Neck. 41(7). 2074–2084. 6 indexed citations

Schimansky, Sarah, Samantha Lang, Rhona Beynon, et al.. (2018). Association between comorbidity and survival in head and neck cancer: Results from Head and Neck 5000. Head & Neck. 41(4). 1053–1062. 34 indexed citations

Jansen, Femke, Irma M. Verdonck‐de Leeuw, Pim Cuijpers, et al.. (2018). Depressive symptoms in relation to overall survival in people with head and neck cancer: A longitudinal cohort study. Psycho-Oncology. 27(9). 2245–2256. 36 indexed citations

Ambatipudi, Srikant, Ryan Langdon, Rebecca C. Richmond, et al.. (2018). DNA methylation derived systemic inflammation indices are associated with head and neck cancer development and survival. Oral Oncology. 85. 87–94. 12 indexed citations

Cade, Janet, Marisol Warthon-Medina, Salwa Albar, et al.. (2017). DIET@NET: Best Practice Guidelines for dietary assessment in health research. BMC Medicine. 15(1). 202–202. 71 indexed citations

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Neogi, Sutapa Bandyopadhyay, Samiksha Singh, Rashmi Pant, et al.. (2017). Risk factors for orofacial clefts in India: A case–control study. Birth Defects Research. 109(16). 1284–1291. 18 indexed citations

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Hamilton, Fergus, et al.. (2017). Can Quantab titrator sticks reliably predict urinary sodium?. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 23. 217–221. 4 indexed citations

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Sell, Debbie, Sue Mildinhall, Liz Albery, et al.. (2015). The Cleft Care UK study. Part 4: perceptual speech outcomes. Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research. 18(S2). 36–46. 99 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Lucy, Mario Cortina‐Borja, Francesco Sera, et al.. (2013). How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. BMJ Open. 3(8). e002893–e002893. 178 indexed citations

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Hughes, Adrienne, Andrea Sherriff, Debbie A. Lawlor, Andy Ness, & John J. Reilly. (2011). Timing of Excess Weight Gain in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). PEDIATRICS. 127(3). e730–e736. 26 indexed citations

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Bowen, Liza, Shah Ebrahim, Bianca De Stavola, et al.. (2011). Dietary Intake and Rural-Urban Migration in India: A Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e14822–e14822. 95 indexed citations

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Benfield, L., D.M. Peters, Kenneth R Fox, et al.. (2008). Validity of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry for the estimation of MRI-assessed abdominal adiposity in children. International Journal of Obesity. 32. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Steven J., et al.. (2006). Betel quid not containing tobacco and oral cancer: A report on a case–control study in Papua New Guinea and a meta‐analysis of current evidence. International Journal of Cancer. 120(6). 1318–1323. 63 indexed citations

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Appleton, Katherine M., D. Gunnell, T. J. Peters, et al.. (2005). Systematic review of published trials on the effects on n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids on depressed mood. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 5 indexed citations

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Bingley, Polly J., Alastair Norcross, R J Lock, Andy Ness, & Richard W. Jones. (2004). Undiagnosed coeliac disease at age seven: population based prospective birth cohort study. BMJ. 328(7435). 322–323. 197 indexed citations

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Powles, John, et al.. (1999). Fruit and vegetables and ischaemic heart disease in Eastern Europe a hospital-based case control study in Sofia Bulgaria. Central European Journal of Public Health. 7(2). 87–90. 2 indexed citations

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