Jack Bowden

60.4k total citations · 20 hit papers
121 papers, 30.7k citations indexed

About

Jack Bowden is a scholar working on Genetics, Statistics and Probability and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack Bowden has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 30.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Genetics, 54 papers in Statistics and Probability and 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Jack Bowden's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (51 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (30 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (26 papers). Jack Bowden is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (51 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (30 papers) and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (26 papers). Jack Bowden collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Jack Bowden's co-authors include George Davey Smith, Stephen Burgess, Philip Haycock, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Gibran Hemani, Nuala A. Sheehan, Cosetta Minelli, Fabiola Del Greco M, John R. Thompson and Michael V. Holmes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Jack Bowden

117 papers receiving 30.6k citations

Hit Papers

Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2015 2016 2018 2017 2016 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression
    2015 5.6k citations Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  2. Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator
    2016 5.2k citations Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. Genetic Epidemiology profile →
  3. The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome
    2018 4.4k citations Jack Bowden, David M. Evans et al. profile →
  4. Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption
    2017 1.9k citations Fernando Pires Hartwig, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  5. Sensitivity Analyses for Robust Causal Inference from Mendelian Randomization Analyses with Multiple Genetic Variants
    2016 1.2k citations Jack Bowden et al. profile →
  6. A framework for the investigation of pleiotropy in two‐sample summary data Mendelian randomization
    2017 1.1k citations Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. profile →
  7. Methods to estimate the between‐study variance and its uncertainty in meta‐analysis
    2015 1.0k citations Dan Jackson, Jack Bowden et al. profile →
  8. Assessing the suitability of summary data for two-sample Mendelian randomization analyses using MR-Egger regression: the role of the I2 statistic
    2016 1.0k citations Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  9. Meta‐analysis andMendelianrandomization: A review
    2019 881 citations Jack Bowden, Michael V. Holmes profile →
  10. Evaluating the potential role of pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization studies
    2018 871 citations Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. profile →
  11. Recent Developments in Mendelian Randomization Studies
    2017 662 citations Jack Bowden, David M. Evans et al. profile →
  12. A comparison of heterogeneity variance estimators in simulated random‐effects meta‐analyses
    2018 641 citations Dan Jackson, Jack Bowden et al. profile →
  13. An examination of multivariable Mendelian randomization in the single-sample and two-sample summary data settings
    2018 634 citations Eleanor Sanderson, George Davey Smith et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  14. Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption
    2018 547 citations Jack Bowden, Fabiola Del Greco M et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  15. Improving the visualization, interpretation and analysis of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization via the Radial plot and Radial regression
    2018 536 citations Jack Bowden, Wes Spiller et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  16. Quantifying, displaying and accounting for heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of RCTs using standard and generalised Qstatistics
    2011 438 citations Jack Bowden et al. profile →
  17. Statistical inference in two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization using robust adjusted profile score
    2020 426 citations Qingyuan Zhao, Jack Bowden et al. profile →
  18. Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the design, analysis, and interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies
    2016 356 citations Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith et al. profile →
  19. Testing and correcting for weak and pleiotropic instruments in two‐sample multivariable Mendelian randomization
    2021 302 citations Eleanor Sanderson, Wes Spiller et al. profile →
  20. The use of two-sample methods for Mendelian randomization analyses on single large datasets
    2021 200 citations Cosetta Minelli, Fabiola Del Greco M 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Jack Bowden United Kingdom 40 14.2k 6.6k 4.6k 3.8k 3.2k 121 30.7k
Nicholas J. Timpson United Kingdom 62 9.3k 0.7× 5.2k 0.8× 3.1k 0.7× 3.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.6× 250 22.6k
Stephen Burgess United Kingdom 78 22.5k 1.6× 11.2k 1.7× 7.4k 1.6× 6.0k 1.6× 5.1k 1.6× 334 48.2k
Graham G. Giles Australia 88 4.2k 0.3× 5.8k 0.9× 4.0k 0.9× 4.2k 1.1× 2.3k 0.7× 778 31.9k
Naomi E. Allen United Kingdom 50 5.8k 0.4× 3.7k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 3.8k 1.0× 1.0k 0.3× 134 23.0k
John Danesh United Kingdom 59 4.6k 0.3× 3.9k 0.6× 5.7k 1.3× 3.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 129 29.9k
John L. Hopper Australia 88 7.8k 0.6× 7.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.5× 3.8k 1.0× 936 0.3× 769 32.6k
Carl D. Langefeld United States 66 4.0k 0.3× 4.3k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 423 17.6k
Valerie Beral United Kingdom 84 6.9k 0.5× 3.3k 0.5× 5.3k 1.2× 3.6k 0.9× 777 0.2× 343 33.2k
Mark I. McCarthy United Kingdom 95 13.3k 0.9× 13.0k 2.0× 3.1k 0.7× 4.1k 1.1× 789 0.2× 516 36.4k
L. Adrienne Cupples United States 112 7.1k 0.5× 7.9k 1.2× 4.7k 1.0× 8.3k 2.2× 2.0k 0.6× 539 43.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Green, Harry, Ji Chen, Jonathan P Evans, et al.. (2024). Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies. International Journal of Epidemiology. 53(1). 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Nicholas J., Robert Challen, Angus G. Jones, et al.. (2024). Safety and effectiveness of SGLT2 inhibitors in a UK population with type 2 diabetes and aged over 70 years: an instrumental variable approach. Diabetologia. 67(9). 1817–1827. 9 indexed citations
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Bowden, Jack, et al.. (2024). SLCO1B1 Exome Sequencing and Statin Treatment Response in 64,000 UK Biobank Patients. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(8). 4426–4426. 1 indexed citations
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Casanova, Francesco, Amanda Hughes, Zammy Fairhurst-Hunter, et al.. (2023). BMI and well-being in people of East Asian and European ancestry: a Mendelian randomisation study. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 251–251. 2 indexed citations
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Masoli, Jane, João Delgado, Chia‐Ling Kuo, et al.. (2022). Calcium‐channel blockers: Clinical outcome associations with reported pharmacogenetics variants in 32 000 patients. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 89(2). 853–864. 9 indexed citations
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Bowden, Jack, Beverly M. Shields, Debbie A. Lawlor, et al.. (2022). Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 52(1). 178–189. 5 indexed citations
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Masoli, Jane, et al.. (2022). Statin treatment effectiveness and the SLCO1B1 *5 reduced function genotype: Long‐term outcomes in women and men. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 88(7). 3230–3240. 9 indexed citations
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Grace, Sian, Jack Bowden, Helen C. Walkey, et al.. (2022). Islet Autoantibody Level Distribution in Type 1 Diabetes and Their Association With Genetic and Clinical Characteristics. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 107(12). e4341–e4349. 8 indexed citations
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Windmeijer, Frank, et al.. (2021). Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 13 indexed citations
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Pilling, Luke C., Janice L. Atkins, João Delgado, et al.. (2021). Analysis of CYP2C19 genetic variants with ischaemic events in UK patients prescribed clopidogrel in primary care: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(12). e053905–e053905. 6 indexed citations
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Tudball, Matthew, Jack Bowden, Rachael A. Hughes, et al.. (2021). Mendelian randomisation with coarsened exposures. Genetic Epidemiology. 45(3). 338–350. 19 indexed citations
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Sanderson, Eleanor, George Davey Smith, Jack Bowden, & Marcus R. Munafò. (2019). Mendelian randomisation analysis of the effect of educational attainment and cognitive ability on smoking behaviour. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2949–2949. 42 indexed citations
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Bowden, Jack, Fabiola Del Greco M, Cosetta Minelli, et al.. (2018). Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption. International Journal of Epidemiology. 48(3). 728–742. 547 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bowden, Jack, Wes Spiller, Fabiola Del Greco M, et al.. (2018). Improving the visualization, interpretation and analysis of two-sample summary data Mendelian randomization via the Radial plot and Radial regression. International Journal of Epidemiology. 47(4). 1264–1278. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sanderson, Eleanor, George Davey Smith, Frank Windmeijer, & Jack Bowden. (2018). An examination of multivariable Mendelian randomization in the single-sample and two-sample summary data settings. International Journal of Epidemiology. 48(3). 713–727. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hartwig, Fernando Pires, George Davey Smith, & Jack Bowden. (2017). Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption. International Journal of Epidemiology. 46(6). 1985–1998. 1877 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tillmann, Taavi, Julien Vaucher, Aysu Okbay, et al.. (2017). Education and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation study. BMJ. 358. j3542–j3542. 120 indexed citations
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Hartwig, Fernando Pires, Jack Bowden, Christian Loret de Mola, et al.. (2016). Body mass index and psychiatric disorders: a Mendelian randomization study. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32730–32730. 40 indexed citations
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Lane, Jacqueline M., Jingjing Liang, Irma Vlasac, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits. Nature Genetics. 49(2). 274–281. 226 indexed citations
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Jackson, Dan, Jack Bowden, & Rose Baker. (2009). How does the DerSimonian and Laird procedure for random effects meta-analysis compare with its more efficient but harder to compute counterparts?. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 140(4). 961–970. 160 indexed citations

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