Christopher Martyn

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher Martyn is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Martyn has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 7 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Christopher Martyn's work include Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers), Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (7 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (3 papers). Christopher Martyn is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (12 papers), Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (7 papers) and Retinal Diseases and Treatments (3 papers). Christopher Martyn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and India. Christopher Martyn's co-authors include Catharine R. Galé, D J Ewing, Robert J. Young, B F Clarke, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer, Finbar O’Callaghan, Fiona Godlee, Nigel F. Hall and David I. W. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Martyn

47 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

The Value of Cardiovascular Autonomic Function Tests: 10 Years Experience in Diabetes

1985 1.1k citations Christopher Martyn et al. profile →
Grip strength, body composition, and mortality

2006 556 citations Catharine R. Galé, Christopher Martyn et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Martyn United Kingdom	25	1.1k	959	919	677	512	49	4.2k
Terry Dwyer Australia	38	951 0.9×	913 1.0×	633 0.7×	834 1.2×	482 0.9×	112	5.1k
Pirjo Halonen Finland	32	795 0.7×	810 0.8×	645 0.7×	280 0.4×	460 0.9×	65	3.8k
Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen Norway	41	697 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	701 0.8×	975 1.4×	534 1.0×	174	6.0k
Helen B. Hubert United States	32	1.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	307 0.3×	1.5k 2.3×	988 1.9×	46	7.0k
Varsha Parag New Zealand	39	913 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	778 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	585 1.1×	90	8.7k
Yechiel Friedlander Israel	45	1.2k 1.1×	781 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	1.3k 2.6×	207	7.4k
MaryFran Sowers United States	54	473 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	484 0.5×	1.8k 2.6×	832 1.6×	121	9.2k
Rodolfo Valdéz United States	43	985 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	1.8k 2.7×	757 1.5×	99	7.3k
Zung Vu Tran United States	42	1.2k 1.1×	2.0k 2.1×	293 0.3×	1.3k 1.9×	653 1.3×	107	6.1k
Bjarne K. Jacobsen Norway	46	1.3k 1.2×	913 1.0×	346 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	776 1.5×	166	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Martyn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Martyn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Martyn

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20 of 20 papers shown

Martyn, Christopher. (2010). Why medicine is overweight. BMJ. 340(jun02 1). c2800–c2800. 5 indexed citations

Martyn, Christopher. (2009). Fighting a lost cause?. BMJ. 338(apr21 1). b1621–b1621.

Galé, Catharine R., Christopher Martyn, Lynne D. Marriott, et al.. (2009). Dietary patterns in infancy and cognitive and neuropsychological function in childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 50(7). 816–823. 76 indexed citations

Coggon, David, Christopher Martyn, Keith T Palmer, & Bradley Evanoff. (2005). Assessing case definitions in the absence of a diagnostic gold standard. International Journal of Epidemiology. 34(4). 949–952. 56 indexed citations

O’Callaghan, Finbar, et al.. (2004). An epidemiological study of renal pathology in tuberous sclerosis complex. British Journal of Urology. 94(6). 853–857. 145 indexed citations

Galé, Catharine R., Nigel F. Hall, David I. W. Phillips, & Christopher Martyn. (2003). Lutein and Zeaxanthin Status and Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 44(6). 2461–2461. 192 indexed citations

Hall, Nigel F., Catharine R. Galé, Holly Syddall, Christopher Martyn, & David I. W. Phillips. (2002). Relation between size at birth and risk of age-related macular degeneration.. PubMed. 43(12). 3641–5. 12 indexed citations

Galé, Catharine R., et al.. (2002). Size at birth and carotid atherosclerosis in later life. Atherosclerosis. 163(1). 141–147. 27 indexed citations

Kumaran, Kalyanaraman, Caroline Fall, Christopher Martyn, et al.. (2002). Left ventricular mass and arterial compliance: relation to coronary heart disease and its risk factors in South Indian adults. International Journal of Cardiology. 83(1). 1–9. 12 indexed citations

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Loukogeorgakis, Stavros, et al.. (2002). Validation of a device to measure arterial pulse wave velocity by a photoplethysmographic method. Physiological Measurement. 23(3). 581–596. 126 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher & Nigel F. Hall. (2002). Could statins prevent age-related macular degeneration?. Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. 3(7). 803–807. 7 indexed citations

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Galé, Catharine R., Christopher Martyn, S Kellingray, Richard Eastell, & Cyrus Cooper. (2001). Intrauterine Programming of Adult Body Composition¹. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 86(1). 267–272. 257 indexed citations

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Yudkin, John, Christopher Martyn, David I. W. Phillips, & Catharine R. Galé. (2001). Associations of Micro-Albuminuria with Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation. The Nephron journals/Nephron journals. 89(3). 309–314. 30 indexed citations

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Edington, J., et al.. (1999). Outcomes of undernutrition in patients in the community with cancer or cardiovascular disease. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 58(3). 655–661. 24 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher & R. A. C. Hughes. (1998). The epidemiology of neurological disorders. 5 indexed citations

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Godlee, Fiona, Catharine R. Galé, & Christopher Martyn. (1998). Effect on the Quality of Peer Review of Blinding Reviewers and Asking Them to Sign Their Reports. JAMA. 280(3). 237–237. 215 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher, et al.. (1998). Impaired fetal growth and atherosclerosis of carotid and peripheral arteries. The Lancet. 352(9123). 173–178. 128 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher, Anthony F. Lever, & James J. Morton. (1996). Plasma concentrations of inactive renin in adult life are related to indicators of foetal growth. Journal of Hypertension. 14(7). 881–886. 25 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher. (1996). Not quite as random as I pretended. The Lancet. 347(8994). 70–70. 11 indexed citations

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Martyn, Christopher. (1990). Aluminium and Alzheimer's disease: An epidemiological approach. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 12(1-2). 169–171. 11 indexed citations

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