Blake Thomson

19.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
31 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Blake Thomson is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Blake Thomson has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 8 papers in Oncology and 8 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Blake Thomson's work include Smoking Behavior and Cessation (8 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers). Blake Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Smoking Behavior and Cessation (8 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers). Blake Thomson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Blake Thomson's co-authors include Emmanuela Gakidou, Marie Ng, Alexandra Wollum, Christopher J L Murray, Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren, Sarah Wulf, Michael K Freeman, Ella Sanman, Alan D López and Thomas Fleming and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Blake Thomson

27 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit 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.

Smoking Prevalence and Cigarette Consumption in 187 Countries, 1980-2012

2014 1.2k citations Marie Ng, Michael K Freeman et al. JAMA profile →
American Cancer Society's report on the status of cancer disparities in the United States, 2021

2021 173 citations Farhad Islami, K. Robin Yabroff et al. CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians profile →
Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019

2024 65 citations Farhad Islami, Emily C. Marlow et al. CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Blake Thomson United States	14	603	462	289	285	254	31	2.0k
Marie Ng United States	13	568 0.9×	389 0.8×	148 0.5×	280 1.0×	246 1.0×	27	1.8k
Alessandra Lugo Italy	31	836 1.4×	525 1.1×	363 1.3×	254 0.9×	140 0.6×	109	2.9k
Sarah Wulf United States	7	484 0.8×	385 0.8×	164 0.6×	208 0.7×	180 0.7×	12	1.6k
Margaret Robinson United States	9	590 1.0×	487 1.1×	136 0.5×	278 1.0×	246 1.0×	12	1.8k
Alexandra Wollum United States	12	481 0.8×	405 0.9×	125 0.4×	259 0.9×	218 0.9×	42	1.5k
Michael K Freeman United States	7	550 0.9×	373 0.8×	143 0.5×	462 1.6×	245 1.0×	10	2.1k
Thomas Fleming United States	6	526 0.9×	313 0.7×	131 0.5×	190 0.7×	184 0.7×	9	1.4k
Office on Smoking	7	1.1k 1.9×	482 1.0×	218 0.8×	326 1.1×	127 0.5×	11	2.1k
Premila Webster United Kingdom	25	584 1.0×	865 1.9×	136 0.5×	508 1.8×	148 0.6×	56	3.3k
Zubair Kabir Ireland	21	464 0.8×	343 0.7×	84 0.3×	256 0.9×	129 0.5×	106	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Blake Thomson

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Blake Thomson's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Blake Thomson with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Blake Thomson more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Blake Thomson

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Blake Thomson. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Blake Thomson. The network helps show where Blake Thomson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Blake Thomson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Blake Thomson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Blake Thomson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Blake Thomson. Blake Thomson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Wilkinson, Chris, Ramesh Nadarajah, Eva Prescott, et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic deprivation: barriers to guideline implementation for cardiovascular disease. European Heart Journal. 47(3). 292–305.

Bandi, Priti, Christina C. Newton, Zheng Xue, et al.. (2025). Association of menthol-flavoured cigarette smoking with all-cause and cause-specific mortality risk. Tobacco Control. tc–2024. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Xiang, Wei Wei, Blake Thomson, et al.. (2025). The global burden of disease attributable to suboptimal fruit and vegetable intake, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis of the global burden of disease study. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 456–456.

Islami, Farhad, Emily C. Marlow, Blake Thomson, et al.. (2024). Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019. CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 74(5). 405–432. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

Thomson, Blake, Fiona Bragg, Shoa L. Clarke, et al.. (2024). Abstract 4113475: Association of Age at Diabetes Diagnosis and All-cause and Cardiovascular Mortality among 600,000 US Adults. Circulation. 150(Suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

Thomson, Blake, Ahmedin Jemal, & Farhad Islami. (2024). Association of Age at Smoking Initiation, Age at Smoking Cessation, and Lower Respiratory Mortality. CHEST Journal. 166(5). 1151–1154.

Thomson, Blake & Farhad Islami. (2023). Association of Smoking Cessation and Cardiovascular, Cancer, and Respiratory Mortality. JAMA Internal Medicine. 184(1). 110–110. 10 indexed citations

Islami, Farhad, Emily C. Marlow, Jingxuan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Person‐years of life lost and lost earnings from cigarette smoking‐attributable cancer deaths, United States, 2019. International Journal of Cancer. 151(12). 2095–2106. 12 indexed citations

Abhari, Roxanna E., Blake Thomson, Ling Yang, et al.. (2022). External validation of models for predicting risk of colorectal cancer using the China Kadoorie Biobank. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 302–302. 5 indexed citations

10.

Marlow, Emily C., Ahmedin Jemal, Blake Thomson, et al.. (2022). Mortality by Education Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, U.S., 2017–2020. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 64(1). 105–116. 4 indexed citations

11.

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

12.

Islami, Farhad, Stacey A. Fedewa, Blake Thomson, et al.. (2021). Association between disparities in intergenerational economic mobility and cause-specific mortality among Black and White persons in the United States. Cancer Epidemiology. 74. 101998–101998. 6 indexed citations

13.

Manoharan, Lakshmi, K. David Newell, Blake Thomson, et al.. (2021). Evaluating clinical characteristics studies produced early in the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0251250–e0251250. 4 indexed citations

14.

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

15.

Pinho‐Gomes, Ana‐Catarina, Sanne A. E. Peters, Blake Thomson, & Mark Woodward. (2020). Sex differences in prevalence, treatment and control of cardiovascular risk factors in England. Heart. 107(6). 462–467. 37 indexed citations

16.

Templin, Tara, Tiago Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, Blake Thomson, Joseph L. Dieleman, & Eran Bendavid. (2019). The overweight and obesity transition from the wealthy to the poor in low- and middle-income countries: A survey of household data from 103 countries. PLoS Medicine. 16(11). e1002968–e1002968. 156 indexed citations

17.

Ng, Marie, Patrick Liu, Blake Thomson, & Christopher J L Murray. (2016). A novel method for estimating distributions of body mass index. Population Health Metrics. 14(1). 6–6. 11 indexed citations

18.

Gabert, Rose, Blake Thomson, Emmanuela Gakidou, & Gregory A. Roth. (2016). Identifying High-Risk Neighborhoods Using Electronic Medical Records: A Population-Based Approach for Targeting Diabetes Prevention and Treatment Interventions. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0159227–e0159227. 26 indexed citations

19.

Ng, Marie, Michael K Freeman, Thomas Fleming, et al.. (2014). Smoking Prevalence and Cigarette Consumption in 187 Countries, 1980-2012. JAMA. 311(2). 183–183. 1169 indexed citations breakdown →

20.

Barthel, P. D., David Tytler, & Blake Thomson. (1990). Optical spectra of distant radio loud quasars. I. Data: spectra of 67 quasars. Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series. 82(2). 339–389. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact