Ben Lacey

74.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
61 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Ben Lacey is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Lacey has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 11 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Ben Lacey's work include COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (7 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers) and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts (7 papers). Ben Lacey is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (7 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers) and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts (7 papers). Ben Lacey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Malaysia. Ben Lacey's co-authors include Sarah Lewington, Paul Sherliker, William G. Herrington, Jane Armitage, Nazrul Islam, Ichiro Kawachi, Martin White, Sharmin Shabnam, Gerardo Chowell and Kamlesh Khunti and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Ben Lacey

58 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis and the Potential to Redu... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2020 2016 2021 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Epidemiology of Atherosclerosis and the Potential to Reduce the Global Burden of Atherothrombotic Disease
    2016 1.1k citations William G. Herrington, Ben Lacey et al. profile →
  2. Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries
    2020 391 citations Nazrul Islam, Gerardo Chowell et al. BMJ profile →
  3. The Burden of Hypertension and Associated Risk for Cardiovascular Mortality in China
    2016 290 citations Sarah Lewington, Ben Lacey et al. JAMA Internal Medicine profile →
  4. Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries
    2021 285 citations Nazrul Islam, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov et al. BMJ profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Lacey United Kingdom 21 671 431 408 359 355 61 3.2k
Zoltán Vokó Hungary 30 373 0.6× 231 0.5× 340 0.8× 228 0.6× 394 1.1× 153 2.9k
Jonathan Pearson‐Stuttard United Kingdom 28 603 0.9× 387 0.9× 871 2.1× 408 1.1× 583 1.6× 87 3.6k
Khai Tran Canada 30 403 0.6× 682 1.6× 394 1.0× 639 1.8× 347 1.0× 87 3.8k
Jin-Ling Tang China 23 259 0.4× 470 1.1× 327 0.8× 870 2.4× 223 0.6× 73 3.4k
Li Zhu China 16 332 0.5× 804 1.9× 736 1.8× 778 2.2× 100 0.3× 54 7.0k
Kee Seng Chia Singapore 41 443 0.7× 858 2.0× 844 2.1× 789 2.2× 285 0.8× 138 5.2k
Xue Li China 38 293 0.4× 1.5k 3.5× 745 1.8× 717 2.0× 151 0.4× 209 5.4k
Perviz Asaria United Kingdom 13 1.1k 1.6× 200 0.5× 323 0.8× 167 0.5× 495 1.4× 16 2.9k
Jing Wu China 24 351 0.5× 285 0.7× 509 1.2× 225 0.6× 244 0.7× 137 2.7k
Nicholas Jones United Kingdom 24 1.0k 1.5× 189 0.4× 241 0.6× 173 0.5× 168 0.5× 74 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Lacey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Lacey

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All Works

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Razieh, Cameron, Sharmin Shabnam, Hajira Dambha‐Miller, et al.. (2024). Socioeconomic inequalities in risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants in the UK, 2020-22: analysis of the longitudinal COVID-19 Infection Survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e000624–e000624. 1 indexed citations
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Conroy, Megan, Naomi E. Allen, Ben Lacey, Elizabeth J. Soilleux, & Thomas J. Littlejohns. (2023). Association between coeliac disease and cardiovascular disease: prospective analysis of UK Biobank data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). e000371–e000371. 20 indexed citations
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Li, Chaoyang, Nazrul Islam, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, et al.. (2023). Associations of diabetes, hypertension and obesity with COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Global Health. 8(12). e012581–e012581. 18 indexed citations
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Lovegrove, Catherine, Jelena Bešević, Akira Wiberg, et al.. (2023). Central Adiposity Increases Risk of Kidney Stone Disease through Effects on Serum Calcium Concentrations. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 34(12). 1991–2011. 22 indexed citations
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Jin, Danyao, Eirini Trichia, Nazrul Islam, et al.. (2023). Lipoprotein Characteristics and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: Prospective Cohort of Nearly 90 000 Individuals in UK Biobank. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(20). e029552–e029552. 7 indexed citations
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Feng, Qi, Ben Lacey, Jelena Bešević, et al.. (2023). UK biobank: Enhanced assessment of the epidemiology and long-term impact of coronavirus disease-2019. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. e30–e30. 1 indexed citations
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Jin, Danyao, Eirini Trichia, Nazrul Islam, Sarah Lewington, & Ben Lacey. (2023). Predictive value of metabolic profiling in cardiovascular risk scores: analysis of 75 000 adults in UK Biobank. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 77(12). 802–808. 2 indexed citations
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Trichia, Eirini, Deborah E. Malden, Danyao Jin, et al.. (2023). Independent relevance of adiposity measures to coronary heart disease risk among 0.5 million adults in UK Biobank. International Journal of Epidemiology. 52(6). 1836–1844. 1 indexed citations
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Holliday, Jo, Nicola Doherty, N.C. Wood, et al.. (2023). Social determinants of ethnic disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection: UK Biobank SARS-CoV-2 Serology Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 78(1). 3–10. 1 indexed citations
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Ross, Stephanie, Sarah Lewington, Sandra Albert, et al.. (2022). The burden of risk factors for non-communicable disease in rural Bihar, India: a comparative study with national health surveys. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 1538–1538. 7 indexed citations
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Islam, Nazrul, Ben Lacey, Sharmin Shabnam, et al.. (2021). Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(6). 496–500. 73 indexed citations
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Li, Chaoyang, Nazrul Islam, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, et al.. (2021). Diabetes, obesity, hypertension and risk of severe COVID-19: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 11(11). e051711–e051711. 5 indexed citations
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Thomson, Blake, Roberto Tapia‐Conyer, Ben Lacey, et al.. (2021). Low-intensity daily smoking and cause-specific mortality in Mexico: prospective study of 150 000 adults. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(3). 955–964. 9 indexed citations
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Wright, Lucy, Nick Townsend, Melanie Greenland, et al.. (2021). Long-term trends in population-based hospitalisation rates for myocardial infarction in England: a national database study of 3.5 million admissions, 1968–2016. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 76(1). 45–52. 4 indexed citations
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Islam, Nazrul, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Rolando J. Acosta, et al.. (2021). Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries. BMJ. 373. n1137–n1137. 285 indexed citations breakdown →
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Thomson, Blake, Ben Lacey, Julie Ann Burrett, et al.. (2020). Association of childhood smoking and adult mortality: prospective study of 120 000 Cuban adults. The Lancet Global Health. 8(6). e850–e857. 39 indexed citations
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Clarke, Robert, Ben Lacey, Xiang Ling Kong, et al.. (2018). Blood Pressure and Risk of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in China. Stroke. 50(1). 38–44. 13 indexed citations
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Lacey, Ben, William G. Herrington, David Preiss, Sarah Lewington, & Jane Armitage. (2017). The Role of Emerging Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Outcomes. Current Atherosclerosis Reports. 19(6). 28–28. 48 indexed citations
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Lewington, Sarah, Ben Lacey, Robert Clarke, et al.. (2016). The Burden of Hypertension and Associated Risk for Cardiovascular Mortality in China. JAMA Internal Medicine. 176(4). 524–524. 290 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allender, Steven, Ben Lacey, Premila Webster, et al.. (2010). Nivel de urbanización y factores de riesgo de enfermedades no transmisibles en Tamil Nadu, India. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 88(4). 297–304. 1 indexed citations

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