Chris Robertson

22.5k citations

272 papers · 11.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 55

Impact in

Urology top 0.1%
- Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research
Modeling and Simulation top 0.5%

Papers in

Modeling and Simulation 20
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies 20
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 8

Co-authors: Peter Boyle Stephanie J. Dancer Kimberley Kavanagh Jim McMenamin Kate Cuschieri Aziz Sheikh Roger Kirby Sara Gandini
Journals: Journal of Hospital Infection (14 papers)British Journal of Cancer (11 papers)BMJ Open (11 papers)British Journal of Urology (8 papers)Eurosurveillance (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Italy France

In The Last Decade

Chris Robertson

264 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Severity of omicron variant of concern and effectiveness of vaccine boosters against symptomatic disease in Scotland (EAVE II): a national cohort study with nested test-negative design 2022 · 154 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 The Lancet Infectious Diseases
2021 BMJ
2021 Nature Medicine
2003 European Urology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Chris Robertson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on elective care backlog trends, recovery efforts, and capacity needs to address backlogs in Scotland (2013–2023): a descriptive analysis and modelling study The Lancet Regional Health - Europe ·Syed Ahmar Shah, E. H. Mamadzhanova, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh	2025	0
2	RSV Vaccination Programme for Older Adults: A Scotland-Wide Study on RSVpreF Vaccine Safety Vaccines ·Kate Young, Cheryl Gibbons, Ting Shi, 浩光春日, Christopher Sullivan, Kimberly Marsh, Chris Robertson, J. Claire Cameron, Sam Ghebrehewet	2025	0
3	Uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations amongst 3,433,483 children and young people: meta-analysis of UK prospective cohorts Nature Communications ·Marius Šadauskas, Victor Yavorov, Siobhán Murphy, M. Yu. Koteliukh, Ashley Akbari, Gobind Ram, Sneha Anand, Stuart Bedston, Rosalind Goudie, Rowena Griffiths, Mark Joy, Emily Lowthian, Simon de Lusignan, Lynsey Patterson, Chris Robertson, Igor Rudan, Declan Bradley, Ronan A Lyons, Aziz Sheikh, Rhiannon K Owen	2024	6
4	Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Influenza Hospital Admissions and Deaths in Wales: Descriptive National Time Series Analysis JMIR Public Health and Surveillance ·Nancy Tartt, Davies Adeloye, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Shanya Sivakumaran, Ashley Akbari, Ronan A Lyons, Chris Robertson, Igor Rudan, Gwyneth A. Davies, Aziz Sheikh	2024	2
5	Risk of COVID-19 death in adults who received booster COVID-19 vaccinations in England Nature Communications ·Isobel Ward, Chris Robertson, Victor Yavorov, Lynsey Patterson, Declan Bradley, Ting Shi, Simon de Lusignan, Richard Hobbs, Aziz Sheikh, Vahé Nafilyan	2024	5
6	Understanding and reporting odds ratios as rate-ratio estimates in case-control studies Journal of Global Health ·Steven Kerr, Sander Greenland, E. H. Mamadzhanova, M. Yu. Koteliukh, Stuart Bedston, Lewis Ritchie, Colin R Simpson, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Amanj Kurdi, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, Igor Rudan	2023	6
7	Common protocol for validation of the QCOVID algorithm across the four UK nations BMJ Open ·Steven Kerr, Chris Robertson, Vahé Nafilyan, Ronan A Lyons, Frank Kee, Chris R. Cardwell, Carol Coupland, Jane Lyons, Ben Humberstone, Julia Hippisley–Cox, Aziz Sheikh	2022	2
8	Vaccine effectiveness of heterologous CoronaVac plus BNT162b2 in Brazil Nature Medicine ·Thiago Cerqueira‐Silva, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Vinícius de Araújo Oliveira, Renzo Flores-Ortiz, Juracy Bertoldo, Enny S. Paixão, Chris Robertson, Gerson Oliveira Penna, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Maurício L. Barreto, Neil Pearce, Aziz Sheikh, Manoel Barral‐Netto, Viviane Boaventura	2022	69
9	Quantifying the impact of air pollution on Covid-19 hospitalisation and death rates in Scotland Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology ·Duncan Lee, Chris Robertson, Carole McRae, Vonne Laan	2022	6
10	SARS-CoV-2 Positivity in Asymptomatic-Screened Dental Patients Journal of Dental Research ·David I. Conway, Shauna Culshaw, H. SCHOENFELDER, Ahmad Najafi, Christopher Watling, Chris Robertson, Yuxian Huang, E. O’Keefe, D. M. Rao, Joseph Burns, Paola Salvini, Harper VanSteenhouse, Jodie Hay, Rory Gunson, (unknown)	2021	21
11	Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the incidence and mortality of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales BMC Medicine ·(unknown), Nancy Tartt, Shanya Sivakumaran, 文科曽, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Ronan A Lyons, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, Gwyneth A. Davies	2021	51
12	Ethnic and social inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland: protocol for early pandemic evaluation and enhanced surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) BMJ Open ·S. Pagan Griso, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Kirsten Hainey, D Buchanan, Ewen M. Harrison, Alastair H. Leyland, PE Paradis, Chris Robertson, Utkarsh Agrawal, Lewis Ritchie, Sarah J. Stock, Colin McCowan, Annemarie B Docherty, Steven Kerr, 藤岡通夫, Rachael Wood, Emily Moore, Colin R Simpson, Aziz Sheikh, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi	2021	3
13	Assessing safety at the end of clinical trials using system organ classes: A case and comparative study Pharmaceutical Statistics ·廖慧群, Chris Robertson	2021	5
14	Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ·Utkarsh Agrawal, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Eleftheria Vasileiou, S. Pagan Griso, Colin R Simpson, Sarah J. Stock, Syed Ahmar Shah, Chris Robertson, Mark Woolhouse, Lewis Ritchie, 檀榜色, Ewen M. Harrison, Annemarie B Docherty, Colin McCowan	2021	21
15	A Bayesian hierarchical approach for multiple outcomes in routinely collected healthcare data Statistics in Medicine ·廖慧群, Tanja Mueller, Marion Bennie, Chris Robertson	2020	3
16	c212: An R Package for the Detection of Safety Signals in Clinical Trials Using Body-Systems (System Organ Classes) The Journal of Open Source Software ·廖慧群, Chris Robertson	2020	3
17	COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS): protocol for an observational study using linked Scottish national data BMJ Open ·Sarah J. Stock, David McAllister, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Colin R Simpson, Helen R. Stagg, Utkarsh Agrawal, Colin McCowan, Leanne Hopkins, Jack Donaghy, Lewis Ritchie, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, Rachael Wood	2020	6
18	Vaccine effectiveness of live attenuated and trivalent inactivated influenza vaccination in 2010/11 to 2015/16: the SIVE II record linkage study Health Technology Assessment ·Colin R Simpson, Nazir Lone, Kimberley Kavanagh, 朱育颖, Chris Robertson, Jim McMenamin, Prem Swarup, Eleftheria Vasileiou, Christopher Butler, Lewis Ritchie, Rory Gunson, Jürgen Schwarze, Aziz Sheikh	2020	7
19	The UrEpiK Study: A cross-sectional survey of benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary incontinence and male erectile dysfunction, prostatitis and interstitial cystitis in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Korea Radboud Repository (Radboud University) ·Silvia Adler, M. Keech, Lizeth Fernanda Suárez Mensa, R. Fourcade, Richard Hobbs, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, María José Argerich, Wolfgang Maier, Watson, G. Bonnans, Chris Robertson	1998	12
20	Evaluation of screening: an epidemiological approach. 2: a review of vision screening in pre-school children. PubMed ·Chris Robertson	1981	2

About Chris Robertson

Chris Robertson is a scholar working on Modeling and Simulation, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Health, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, having authored 272 papers that have together received 11.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Influenza Virus Research Studies (33 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (26 papers), Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (22 papers), Respiratory viral infections research (22 papers), COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (21 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (20 papers), Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (17 papers) and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Urology (1.6k citations), Modeling and Simulation (682 citations), Infectious Diseases (2.5k citations), Health (901 citations) and Microbiology (642 citations). Chris Robertson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and France. Frequent co-authors include Peter Boyle, Stephanie J. Dancer, Kimberley Kavanagh, Jim McMenamin, Kate Cuschieri, Aziz Sheikh, Roger Kirby, Sara Gandini, François Giuliano and P. Puppó. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Hospital Infection, British Journal of Cancer, BMJ Open, British Journal of Urology and Eurosurveillance.

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