Benjamin J. Cairns

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Cairns is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Cairns has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 14 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 12 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Cairns's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 papers), Cancer Risks and Factors (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 papers). Benjamin J. Cairns is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (10 papers), Cancer Risks and Factors (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 papers). Benjamin J. Cairns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Benjamin J. Cairns's co-authors include Valerie Beral, Gillian Reeves, Jane Green, Miranda Elaine Glynis Armstrong, Timothy J. Key, Ruth C. Travis, Sean Coffey, Angela Balkwill, Robert J. H. Payne and Bernard Iung and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Cairns

73 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

Shift work and chronic disease: the epidemiological evidence

2011 482 citations Miranda Elaine Glynis Armstrong, Benjamin J. Cairns et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin J. Cairns United Kingdom	30	584	517	484	439	400	74	3.2k
Fuzhong Xue China	34	608 1.0×	433 0.8×	344 0.7×	335 0.8×	889 2.2×	244	4.3k
Francisco Gudé Spain	41	682 1.2×	954 1.8×	1.2k 2.5×	949 2.2×	875 2.2×	246	6.5k
Jessica Barrett United Kingdom	23	354 0.6×	251 0.5×	283 0.6×	657 1.5×	412 1.0×	67	3.9k
Joohon Sung South Korea	42	364 0.6×	819 1.6×	1.0k 2.1×	688 1.6×	1.1k 2.7×	237	5.9k
Stefan Lange Germany	26	290 0.5×	333 0.6×	254 0.5×	1.1k 2.4×	868 2.2×	97	5.0k
Roger Grimson United States	33	344 0.6×	368 0.7×	163 0.3×	414 0.9×	473 1.2×	94	4.7k
András Keszei Germany	31	386 0.7×	235 0.5×	241 0.5×	488 1.1×	262 0.7×	105	2.8k
Yoshimitsu Takahashi Japan	32	249 0.4×	522 1.0×	395 0.8×	473 1.1×	394 1.0×	197	3.4k
Scott Evans United States	40	438 0.8×	391 0.8×	381 0.8×	317 0.7×	1.6k 3.9×	194	6.5k
Rebecca Turner United Kingdom	34	409 0.7×	373 0.7×	264 0.5×	605 1.4×	574 1.4×	66	4.9k

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Li, Jin, Benjamin J. Cairns, Jingsong Li, & Tingting Zhu. (2023). Generating synthetic mixed-type longitudinal electronic health records for artificial intelligent applications. npj Digital Medicine. 6(1). 98–98. 47 indexed citations

Collister, Jennifer A., et al.. (2023). Independent external validation of the QRISK3 cardiovascular disease risk prediction model using UK Biobank. Heart. 109(22). 1690–1697. 20 indexed citations

Cairns, Benjamin J., Sally Griffin, Janette Walton, et al.. (2023). Exploring Health Behaviours, Attitudes and Beliefs of Women and Men during the Preconception and Interconception Periods: A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults on the Island of Ireland. Nutrients. 15(17). 3832–3832. 7 indexed citations

Floud, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Multimorbidity of cardiovascular disease subtypes in a prospective cohort of 1.2 million UK women. Open Heart. 10(2). e002552–e002552. 1 indexed citations

Webster, A, Kezia Gaitskell, Iain Turnbull, Benjamin J. Cairns, & Robert Clarke. (2021). Characterisation, identification, clustering, and classification of disease. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5405–5405. 22 indexed citations

Armstrong, Miranda Elaine Glynis, Jason Lacombe, Clare J. Wotton, et al.. (2019). The Associations Between Seven Different Types of Physical Activity and the Incidence of Fracture at Seven Sites in Healthy Postmenopausal UK Women. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 35(2). 277–290. 10 indexed citations

Canoy, Dexter, Benjamin J. Cairns, Angela Balkwill, et al.. (2016). Hypertension in pregnancy and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: A prospective study in a large UK cohort. International Journal of Cardiology. 222. 1012–1018. 36 indexed citations

Coffey, Sean, Benjamin J. Cairns, & Bernard Iung. (2015). The modern epidemiology of heart valve disease. Heart. 102(1). 75–85. 205 indexed citations

Yang, TienYu Owen, Francesca L. Crowe, Benjamin J. Cairns, Gillian Reeves, & Valerie Beral. (2015). Tea and coffee and risk of endometrial cancer: cohort study and meta-analysis. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 101(3). 570–578. 35 indexed citations

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Barnes, Isobel, et al.. (2014). Correction: Childhood cancer incidence in British Indians & Whites in Leicester, 1996-2008 (PLoS ONE (2013) 8, 4 (e61881) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone. 0061881). PLoS ONE. 9. 1 indexed citations

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Canoy, Dexter, Benjamin J. Cairns, Angela Balkwill, et al.. (2013). Body mass index and incident coronary heart disease in women: a population-based prospective study. BMC Medicine. 11(1). 87–87. 39 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Miranda Elaine Glynis, Benjamin J. Cairns, Emily Banks, et al.. (2012). Different effects of age, adiposity and physical activity on the risk of ankle, wrist and hip fractures in postmenopausal women. Bone. 50(6). 1394–1400. 61 indexed citations

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Cairns, Benjamin J., Ruth C. Travis, Wang Xs, et al.. (2012). A short-term increase in cancer risk associated with daytime napping is likely to reflect pre-clinical disease: prospective cohort study. British Journal of Cancer. 107(3). 527–530. 20 indexed citations

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Hutchinson, Jayne, Marleen A. H. Lentjes, Darren C. Greenwood, et al.. (2011). Vitamin C intake from diary recordings and risk of breast cancer in the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 66(5). 561–568. 20 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Miranda Elaine Glynis, et al.. (2011). Reported frequency of physical activity in a large epidemiological study: relationship to specific activities and repeatability over time. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 11(1). 97–97. 15 indexed citations

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Cairns, Benjamin J., Bette Liu, Rachel Cooper, et al.. (2011). Lifetime body size and reproductive factors: comparisons of data recorded prospectively with self reports in middle age. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 11(1). 7–7. 68 indexed citations

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Park, Jin Young, Christina C. Dahm, Ruth H. Keogh, et al.. (2010). Alcohol intake and risk of colorectal cancer: Results from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium. British Journal of Cancer. 103(5). 747–756. 15 indexed citations

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Vuilleumier, Séverine, Chris Wilcox, Benjamin J. Cairns, & Hugh P. Possingham. (2006). How patch configuration affects the impact of disturbances on metapopulation persistence. Theoretical Population Biology. 72(1). 77–85. 53 indexed citations

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Cairns, Benjamin J. & P. K. Pollett. (2003). Evaluating Persistence Times in Populations that are Subject to Local Catastrophes. Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 2. 747–752. 2 indexed citations

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Minichiello, Victor, et al.. (1996). University students' knowledge of STDs: labels, symptoms and transmission. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 7(5). 353–358. 10 indexed citations

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