G. David Batty

47.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
492 papers, 26.1k citations indexed

About

G. David Batty is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, G. David Batty has authored 492 papers receiving a total of 26.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 110 papers in Health and 101 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in G. David Batty's work include Health disparities and outcomes (107 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (103 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (71 papers). G. David Batty is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (107 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (103 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (71 papers). G. David Batty collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and United States. G. David Batty's co-authors include Mika Kivimäki, Ian J. Deary, Catharine R. Galé, Mark Hamer, Archana Singh‐Manoux, Markus Jokela, Emmanuel Stamatakis, George Davey Smith, Martin J. Shipley and Michael Marmot and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

G. David Batty

484 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

2018 548 citations Camille Lassale, G. David Batty et al. profile →
Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study

2020 467 citations Mika Kivimäki, G. David Batty et al. profile →
Early‐life determinants of overweight and obesity: a review of systematic reviews

2010 463 citations G. David Batty et al. profile →
Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies

2012 454 citations Tom C. Russ, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis

2020 434 citations G. David Batty, Catharine R. Galé et al. profile →
Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK

2020 366 citations Mark Hamer, Mika Kivimäki et al. Brain Behavior and Immunity profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
G. David Batty United Kingdom	90	4.9k	4.4k	3.9k	3.8k	3.7k	492	26.1k
Janet B. Croft United States	80	4.0k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	4.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.6×	319	25.8k
Ichiro Kawachi United States	98	5.9k 1.2×	3.5k 0.8×	9.4k 2.4×	5.5k 1.5×	6.2k 1.7×	708	34.5k
Jos W. R. Twisk Netherlands	94	6.7k 1.4×	5.3k 1.2×	4.6k 1.2×	3.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	801	36.9k
Archana Singh‐Manoux United Kingdom	90	4.7k 1.0×	5.4k 1.2×	5.6k 1.4×	2.2k 0.6×	4.8k 1.3×	377	25.9k
Eric J. Brunner United Kingdom	85	6.8k 1.4×	6.2k 1.4×	7.1k 1.8×	1.8k 0.5×	4.2k 1.1×	432	32.0k
Anita L. Stewart United States	73	5.0k 1.0×	3.7k 0.8×	11.2k 2.9×	6.0k 1.6×	4.2k 1.1×	222	35.8k
Jan Sundquist Sweden	77	3.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	3.6k 0.9×	4.0k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	982	27.7k
Mark Hamer United Kingdom	90	7.2k 1.5×	10.8k 2.5×	4.7k 1.2×	3.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	513	29.2k
Somnath Chatterji Switzerland	74	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	6.1k 1.6×	5.5k 1.5×	5.1k 1.4×	244	29.9k
Karina W. Davidson United States	87	4.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	5.1k 1.3×	3.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.4×	409	30.6k

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Iveson, Matthew H., Emily Ball, Heather C. Whalley, et al.. (2023). Childhood cognitive ability and self-harm and suicide in later life. SSM - Population Health. 25. 101592–101592. 1 indexed citations

Batty, G. David, Ian J. Deary, & Drew Altschul. (2022). Pre-pandemic mental and physical health as predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: evidence from a UK-wide cohort study. Annals of Medicine. 54(1). 274–282. 27 indexed citations

Batty, G. David, Bamba Gaye, Catharine R. Galé, Mark Hamer, & Camille Lassale. (2021). Explaining Ethnic Differentials in COVID-19 Mortality: A Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 191(2). 275–281. 18 indexed citations

Kvaavik, Elisabeth, Aage Tverdal, & G. David Batty. (2021). Biomarker-assessed passive smoking in relation to cause-specific mortality: pooled data from 12 prospective cohort studies comprising 36 584 individuals. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(8). 794–799. 2 indexed citations

Batty, G. David & Ian J. Deary. (2021). Predicting COVID-19 vaccine take-up: Moving beyond demographics. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 95. 17–18. 3 indexed citations

Batty, G. David, Ian J. Deary, & Catharine R. Galé. (2021). Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 mortality: prospective cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(5). 559–564. 17 indexed citations

Mestral, Carlos de, et al.. (2020). Association of public care in childhood with social, criminal, cognitive, and health outcomes in middle-age: five decades of follow-up of members of the 1958 birth cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(3). 289–296. 10 indexed citations

Batty, G. David, et al.. (2020). Examining gender differentials in the association of low control work with cognitive performance in older workers. European Journal of Public Health. 31(1). 174–180. 4 indexed citations

Mestral, Carlos de, Steven Bell, Mark Hamer, & G. David Batty. (2019). Out‐of‐home care in childhood and biomedical risk factors in middle‐age: National birth cohort study. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(3). e23343–e23343. 8 indexed citations

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Batty, G. David, Keum Ji Jung, Sunmi Lee, Joung Hwan Back, & Sun Ha Jee. (2018). Systemic inflammation and suicide risk: cohort study of 419 527 Korean men and women. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 72(7). 572–574. 21 indexed citations

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Batty, G. David, George B. Ploubidis, Alissa Goodman, & David Bann. (2018). Association of nursery and early school attendance with later health behaviours, biomedical risk factors, and mortality: evidence from four decades of follow-up of participants in the 1958 birth cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 72(7). 658–663. 5 indexed citations

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Galé, Catharine R., Iva Čukić, G. David Batty, et al.. (2017). When Is Higher Neuroticism Protective Against Death? Findings From UK Biobank. Psychological Science. 28(9). 1345–1357. 49 indexed citations

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Russ, Tom C., et al.. (2017). Childhood Cognitive Ability and Incident Dementia. Epidemiology. 28(3). 361–364. 43 indexed citations

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Batty, G. David, et al.. (2015). Is the Relationship between Common Mental Disorder and Adiposity Bidirectional? Prospective Analyses of a UK General Population-Based Study (vol 10, e0119970, 2015). UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Hamer, Mark, Sèverine Sabia, G. David Batty, et al.. (2012). Physical Activity and Inflammatory Markers Over 10 Years. Circulation. 126(8). 928–933. 209 indexed citations

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Kivimäki, Mika, G. David Batty, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2011). Using Additional Information on Working Hours to Predict Coronary Heart Disease. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Kivimäki, Mika, Markus Jokela, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2011). Examining Overweight and Obesity as Risk Factors for Common Mental Disorders Using Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Genotype-Instrumented Analysis. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations

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Calvin, Catherine M., G. David Batty, Gordon Lowe, & Ian J. Deary. (2011). Childhood intelligence and midlife inflammatory and hemostatic biomarkers: The National Child Development Study (1958) cohort.. Health Psychology. 30(6). 710–718. 17 indexed citations

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Hunt, Kate & G. David Batty. (2009). Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and health behaviours: an overview. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1 indexed citations

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Batty, G. David. (2002). Socio-economic position and coronary heart disease risk factors in children and young people: Evidence from UK epidemiological studies. European Journal of Public Health. 12(4). 263–272. 98 indexed citations

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