Charles E. Matthews

46.1k total citations · 19 hit papers
314 papers, 30.6k citations indexed

About

Charles E. Matthews is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles E. Matthews has authored 314 papers receiving a total of 30.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 209 papers in Physiology, 166 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 73 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Charles E. Matthews's work include Physical Activity and Health (174 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (139 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (51 papers). Charles E. Matthews is often cited by papers focused on Physical Activity and Health (174 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (139 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (51 papers). Charles E. Matthews collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Charles E. Matthews's co-authors include Geneviève N. Healy, David W. Dunstan, Neville Owen, Maciej S. Buchowski, Richard P. Troiano, Patty S. Freedson, Steven C. Moore, Kong Y. Chen, Kerry S. Courneya and Kathryn H. Schmitz and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Charles E. Matthews

302 papers receiving 29.5k citations

Hit Papers

American College of Sport... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2010 2008 2019 2010 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable on Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors
    2010 2.1k citations Charles E. Matthews et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  2. Amount of Time Spent in Sedentary Behaviors in the United States, 2003-2004
    2008 2.1k citations Charles E. Matthews et al. profile →
  3. Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Consensus Statement from International Multidisciplinary Roundtable
    2019 1.7k citations Charles E. Matthews, Alpa V. Patel et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  4. Too Much Sitting
    2010 1.7k citations Charles E. Matthews, David W. Dunstan et al. profile →
  5. Validation of Accelerometer Wear and Nonwear Time Classification Algorithm
    2010 1.3k citations Charles E. Matthews et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  6. Sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in US adults: NHANES 2003–06
    2011 1.1k citations Charles E. Matthews, David W. Dunstan et al. profile →
  7. Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality
    2015 978 citations Hannah Arem, Steven C. Moore et al. profile →
  8. Daily Sitting Time and All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis
    2013 639 citations Charles E. Matthews et al. profile →
  9. Sedentary Behavior: Emerging Evidence for a New Health Risk
    2010 604 citations David W. Dunstan, Charles E. Matthews et al. profile →
  10. Accelerometer Data Reduction: A Comparison of Four Reduction Algorithms on Select Outcome Variables
    2005 549 citations Charles E. Matthews et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  11. Best Practices for Using Physical Activity Monitors in Population-Based Research
    2011 539 citations Charles E. Matthews et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  12. American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable Report on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Cancer Prevention and Control
    2019 534 citations Alpa V. Patel, Steven C. Moore et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
  13. Amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors and cause-specific mortality in US adults
    2012 511 citations Charles E. Matthews, Steven C. Moore et al. profile →
  14. Measurement of Adults' Sedentary Time in Population-Based Studies
    2011 500 citations Charles E. Matthews et al. American Journal of Preventive Medicine profile →
  15. Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis
    2012 461 citations Steven C. Moore, Alpa V. Patel et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  16. Association of Daily Step Count and Step Intensity With Mortality Among US Adults
    2020 427 citations Pedro F. Saint‐Maurice, Eric J. Shiroma et al. profile →
  17. Association of Step Volume and Intensity With All-Cause Mortality in Older Women
    2019 382 citations I‐Min Lee, Eric J. Shiroma et al. profile →
  18. Trends in Sedentary Behavior Among the US Population, 2001-2016
    2019 376 citations Charles E. Matthews, Yin Cao et al. profile →
  19. Systematic review of the prospective association of daily step counts with risk of mortality, cardiovascular disease, and dysglycemia
    2020 202 citations Kelly R. Evenson, I‐Min Lee et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Charles E. Matthews 16.4k 11.8k 6.3k 4.6k 3.0k 314 30.6k
Kathryn H. Schmitz 9.3k 0.6× 6.9k 0.6× 12.8k 2.0× 2.4k 0.5× 5.3k 1.8× 395 27.9k
I‐Min Lee 24.7k 1.5× 17.9k 1.5× 3.6k 0.6× 6.9k 1.5× 1.9k 0.6× 419 57.8k
Richard P. Troiano 16.4k 1.0× 16.6k 1.4× 1.3k 0.2× 5.5k 1.2× 1.8k 0.6× 111 30.6k
Jack M. Guralnik 33.5k 2.0× 8.4k 0.7× 4.1k 0.7× 8.7k 1.9× 1.7k 0.6× 768 91.7k
Melinda L. Irwin 8.5k 0.5× 5.7k 0.5× 8.6k 1.4× 1.7k 0.4× 3.3k 1.1× 197 20.1k
Robert B. Wallace 11.7k 0.7× 6.0k 0.5× 5.0k 0.8× 5.3k 1.2× 1.7k 0.6× 729 57.2k
Arthur S. Leon 14.9k 0.9× 10.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.3× 2.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 253 33.8k
William L. Haskell 24.8k 1.5× 17.6k 1.5× 4.4k 0.7× 7.1k 1.6× 2.0k 0.7× 329 61.0k
Peter T. Katzmarzyk 24.0k 1.5× 25.3k 2.1× 1.2k 0.2× 9.1k 2.0× 3.5k 1.2× 621 49.8k
Mark Hamer 10.8k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 4.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.4× 513 29.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wilson, Oliver W.A., Charles E. Matthews, Yelena N. Tarasenko, et al.. (2025). The Effects of Post-diagnosis Recreational Aerobic Exercise among Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review/Meta-Analysis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 34(8). 1252–1263. 1 indexed citations
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Abar, Leila, Sang‐Kyu Lee, Lisa Kahle, et al.. (2025). Identification and validation of poly-metabolite scores for diets high in ultra-processed food: An observational study and post-hoc randomized controlled crossover-feeding trial. PLoS Medicine. 22(5). e1004560–e1004560. 2 indexed citations
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Rees‐Punia, Erika, Lauren R. Teras, Christina C. Newton, et al.. (2025). Leisure-time physical activity after diagnosis and survival by cancer type: a pooled analysis. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 117(8). 1689–1698. 2 indexed citations
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Moniruzzaman, Mohammad, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Kelly Jones, et al.. (2025). County-level residential segregation and sedentary behavior in US adults. PubMed. 4(1). 15–15. 1 indexed citations
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Lynch, Brigid M., Julie K. Bassett, Roger L. Milne, et al.. (2025). Estimating cancer incidence attributable to physical inactivity in the United States. Cancer. 131(4). e35725–e35725. 3 indexed citations
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Freeman, Joshua R., et al.. (2024). Sleep and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in the UK Biobank. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 33(4). 624–627. 6 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Aubrey K., Pedro F. Saint‐Maurice, Yin Cao, et al.. (2024). Social, Behavioral, and Clinical Risk Factors Are Associated with Clonal Hematopoiesis. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 33(11). 1423–1432. 1 indexed citations
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Wilson, Oliver W.A., et al.. (2024). The associations of muscle-strengthening exercise with recurrence and mortality among breast cancer survivors: a systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 21(1). 100–100. 5 indexed citations
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Cuthbertson, Carmen C., Kelly R. Evenson, Christopher C. Moore, et al.. (2024). Associations of steps per day and step intensity with the risk of cancer: Findings from the Women's Health Accelerometry Collaboration cohort. Preventive Medicine. 186. 108070–108070. 2 indexed citations
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Matthews, Charles E., et al.. (2022). Impact of Moderate–Vigorous Physical Activity Trajectories on Colon Cancer Risk over the Adult Life Course. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 32(1). 30–36. 2 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Gómez, David, Pieter Coenen, Carlos Celis‐Morales, et al.. (2021). Lifetime high occupational physical activity and total and cause-specific mortality among 320 000 adults in the NIH-AARP study: a cohort study. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 79(3). 147–154. 16 indexed citations
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Vainshelboim, Baruch, Jonathan Myers, & Charles E. Matthews. (2020). Non-exercise estimated cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality from all-causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer in the NIH-AARP diet and health study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 29(4). 599–607. 18 indexed citations
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Berrigan, David, Ailing Liu, Britni R. Belcher, et al.. (2020). Physical Activity, Step Counts, and Grip Strength in the Chinese Children and Families Cohort Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(17). 6202–6202. 2 indexed citations
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Keadle, Sarah Kozey, David E. Conroy, Matthew P. Buman, David W. Dunstan, & Charles E. Matthews. (2017). Targeting Reductions in Sitting Time to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Health. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 49(8). 1572–1582. 111 indexed citations
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Chomistek, Andrea K., Susan E. Hankinson, Junaidah B. Barnett, et al.. (2017). Objective Measures of Physical Activity and Cardiometabolic and Endocrine Biomarkers. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 49(9). 1817–1825. 30 indexed citations
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Andersen, Shaneda Warren, Wei Zheng, Jennifer S. Sonderman, et al.. (2016). Combined Impact of Health Behaviors on Mortality in Low-Income Americans. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 51(3). 344–355. 27 indexed citations
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Arem, Hannah, Louise A. Brinton, Steven C. Moore, et al.. (2015). Physical Activity and Risk of Male Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(12). 1898–1901. 2 indexed citations
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Sampson, Joshua N., Simina M. Boca, Xiao Ou Shu, et al.. (2013). Metabolomics in Epidemiology: Sources of Variability in Metabolite Measurements and Implications. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 22(4). 631–640. 132 indexed citations
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Nigg, Claudio R., Gregory J. Norman, Patricia M. Burbank, et al.. (2008). Accumulation of behavioral validation evidence for physical activity stage of change.. Health Psychology. 27(1, Suppl). S43–S53. 33 indexed citations

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