Eleanor Sanderson

179 total papers · 12.0k total citations
63 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Eleanor Sanderson is a scholar working on Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Eleanor Sanderson has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Genetics, 15 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Eleanor Sanderson's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (47 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (14 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (9 papers). Eleanor Sanderson is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (47 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (14 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (9 papers). Eleanor Sanderson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and United States. Eleanor Sanderson's co-authors include George Davey Smith, Frank Windmeijer, Jack Bowden, Michael V. Holmes, Tom Palmer, Tom G. Richardson, Marcus R. Munafò, Wes Spiller, Neil M Davies and Hyunseung Kang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Eleanor Sanderson

57 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Mendelian randomization 2015 2026 2018 2022 2022 2018 2021 2020 2015 250 500 750
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mendelian randomization
    2022 907 citations Eleanor Sanderson, M. Maria Glymour et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →
  2. An examination of multivariable Mendelian randomization in the single-sample and two-sample summary data settings
    2018 621 citations Eleanor Sanderson, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  3. Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation
    2021 562 citations Alice R Carter, Eleanor Sanderson et al. European Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  4. Evaluating the relationship between circulating lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins with risk of coronary heart disease: A multivariable Mendelian randomisation analysis
    2020 479 citations Tom G. Richardson, Eleanor Sanderson et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  5. A weak instrument F-test in linear IV models with multiple endogenous variables
    2015 458 citations Eleanor Sanderson, Frank Windmeijer Journal of Econometrics profile →
  6. Multivariable Mendelian Randomization and Mediation
    2020 432 citations Eleanor Sanderson Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine profile →
  7. Testing and correcting for weak and pleiotropic instruments in two‐sample multivariable Mendelian randomization
    2021 290 citations Eleanor Sanderson, Wes Spiller et al. Statistics in Medicine profile →
  8. Use of genetic variation to separate the effects of early and later life adiposity on disease risk: mendelian randomisation study
    2020 175 citations Tom G. Richardson, Eleanor Sanderson et al. BMJ profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Eleanor Sanderson 2.3k 1.1k 709 601 515 63 5.1k
Stephen Leslie 2.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 591 0.8× 513 0.9× 548 1.1× 65 6.3k
Tom Palmer 1.7k 0.7× 945 0.9× 908 1.3× 723 1.2× 727 1.4× 89 5.8k
A. Cecile J.W. Janssens 1.9k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 568 0.8× 519 0.9× 676 1.3× 143 6.6k
Muin J. Khoury 2.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 522 0.7× 444 0.7× 429 0.8× 95 7.0k
Evangelia Ntzani 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 1.5× 596 0.8× 717 1.2× 733 1.4× 118 6.8k
Mary E. Haas 1.4k 0.6× 941 0.9× 553 0.8× 590 1.0× 327 0.6× 53 3.6k
Brandon L. Pierce 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 534 0.8× 343 0.6× 605 1.2× 100 5.2k
Krishna G. Aragam 1.6k 0.7× 678 0.6× 439 0.6× 585 1.0× 300 0.6× 48 4.1k
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos 683 0.3× 876 0.8× 544 0.8× 539 0.9× 482 0.9× 53 6.0k
Niels V. Holm 2.1k 0.9× 2.2k 2.1× 586 0.8× 1.2k 2.0× 768 1.5× 99 9.3k

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