James Walters

64.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
388 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

James Walters is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, James Walters has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Genetics, 64 papers in Molecular Biology and 58 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in James Walters's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (65 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (40 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (31 papers). James Walters is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (65 papers), Schizophrenia research and treatment (40 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (31 papers). James Walters collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. James Walters's co-authors include Martin L. Hoffman, Lois Wladis Hoffman, G P Copeland, Daryl Jones, Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan, David G. Baer, Benjamin T. Corona, Jesse Dawson and John F Kragh and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

James Walters

372 papers receiving 16.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Review of Child Development Research

1965 2.9k citations James Walters et al. profile →
POSSUM: A scoring system for surgical audit

1991 1.3k citations James Walters et al. profile →
Adolescent Relations with Mothers, Fathers, and Friends

1986 560 citations James Walters et al. profile →
Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia

2018 326 citations Gerome Breen, Michael O’Donovan et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Effects of Shared and Nonshared Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Alleles on Cognition and Educational Attainment in the UK Biobank 2025 ·Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science ·Alexander Richards, (unknown), Nicholas E. Clifton, Darren Cameron, (unknown), Nicholas J. Bray, Sophie E. Legge, James Walters, Peter Holmans, Michael O’Donovan, Michael J. Owen	0
2	Contributions of common and rare genetic variation to different measures of mood and anxiety disorder in the UK Biobank 2025 ·BJPsych Open ·(unknown), Inês Barroso, (unknown), Andrés Ingason, Daniel Stow, Ruby S. M. Tsang, (unknown), George Kirov, James Walters, Michael J. Owen, Peter Holmans, Marianne van den Bree	0
3	Genomics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder 2025 ·Nature Reviews Genetics ·Michael J. Owen, Nicholas J. Bray, James Walters, Michael O’Donovan	3
4	Whole-exome sequencing analysis identifies risk genes for schizophrenia 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Peter Holmans, Darren Cameron, Detelina Grozeva, Rebecca Sims, Julie Williams, Nicholas J. Bray, Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan, James Walters, Elliott Rees	2
5	Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples 2024 ·The British Journal of Psychiatry ·Alastair G. Cardno, Judith Allardyce, Steven C. Bakker, Timothea Toulopoulou, Eugenia Kravariti, Marco Picchioni, Fergus Kane, Frühling Rijsdijk, Tariq Mahmood, (unknown), (unknown), Lisa Jones, Diego Quattrone, James Walters, Sophie E. Legge, Peter Holmans, Robin Murray, Evangelos Vassos	1
6	Team-based rehabilitation after mild traumatic brain injury – description of the clinical pathway 2024 ·Brain Injury ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), James Walters, (unknown), (unknown), Maayken van den Berg, Maggie Killington	1
7	Genetic Implication of Prenatal GABAergic and Cholinergic Neuron Development in Susceptibility to Schizophrenia 2024 ·Schizophrenia Bulletin ·Darren Cameron, (unknown), (unknown), Elizabeth A. Perry, James Walters, Meng Li, Michael O’Donovan, Nicholas J. Bray	3
8	Socioeconomic status and inequities in treatment initiation and survival among patients with cancer, 2011-2022 2023 ·JNCI Cancer Spectrum ·Jenny S. Guadamuz, Xiaoliang Wang, (unknown), Rebecca A. Miksad, Jeremy Snider, James Walters, Gregory S. Calip	27
9	Lack of Support for the Genes by Early Environment Interaction Hypothesis in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia 2021 ·Schizophrenia Bulletin ·Evangelos Vassos, (unknown), Sarah Tosato, (unknown), Charlotte Dennison, Sophie E. Legge, James Walters, Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan, Gerome Breen, Cathryn M. Lewis, Patrick F. Sullivan, Christina M. Hultman, Mirella Ruggeri, Muriel Walshe, Elvira Bramon, Sarah E. Bergen, Robin Murray	19
10	Age and sex‐related variability in the presentation of generalized anxiety and depression symptoms 2021 ·Depression and Anxiety ·Katherine Thompson, Christopher Hübel, Rosa Cheesman, (unknown), Chérie Armour, Molly R. Davies, Matthew Hotopf, Ian Jones, Gursharan Kalsi, Andrew M. McIntosh, Dina Monssen, Alicia J. Peel, Henry C. Rogers, Megan Skelton, Daniel J. Smıth, James Walters, Gerome Breen, Thalia C. Eley	16
11	Characteristics and treatment outcomes of newly diagnosed epilepsy in older people: A 30‐year longitudinal cohort study 2020 ·Epilepsia ·Bshra A. Alsfouk, (unknown), Zhibin Chen, James Walters, Martin J. Brodie, Patrick Kwan	20
12	A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre- and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia 2019 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Lynsey S. Hall, (unknown), Oliver Pain, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Elliott Rees, Valentina Escott‐Price, Andrew Pocklington, Nicholas J. Bray, Peter Holmans, James Walters, Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan	43
13	Population‐based identity‐by‐descent mapping combined with exome sequencing to detect rare risk variants for schizophrenia 2019 ·American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics ·Denise Harold, (unknown), Brien P. Riley, Kenneth S. Kendler, Shane McCarthy, W. Richard McCombie, (unknown), Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan, James Walters, Gary Donohoe, Michael Gill, Aiden Corvin, Derek W. Morris	2
14	Dynamic expression of genes associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder across development 2019 ·Translational Psychiatry ·Nicholas E. Clifton, Eilís Hannon, Janet Harwood, Arianna Di Florio, Kerrie L. Thomas, Peter Holmans, James Walters, Michael O’Donovan, Michael J. Owen, Andrew Pocklington, Jérémy Hall	27
15	Medical consequences of pathogenic CNVs in adults: analysis of the UK Biobank 2018 ·Journal of Medical Genetics ·Karen Crawford, Matthew Bracher‐Smith, David Owen, Kimberley Kendall, Elliott Rees, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Mark Einon, Valentina Escott‐Price, James Walters, Michael O’Donovan, Michael J. Owen, George Kirov	88
16	Cognitive Characterization of Schizophrenia Risk Variants Involved in Synaptic Transmission: Evidence of CACNA1C's Role in Working Memory 2017 ·Neuropsychopharmacology ·(unknown), Omar Mothersill, Kimberley Kendall, Bettina Konte, Denise Harold, Ina Giegling, Annette M. Hartmann, Alexander Richards, Kiran K. Mantripragada, Michael J. Owen, Michael O’Donovan, Michael Gill, Dan Rujescu, James Walters, Aiden Corvin, Derek W. Morris, Gary Donohoe	29
17	Reasons for discontinuing clozapine: A cohort study of patients commencing treatment 2016 ·Schizophrenia Research ·Sophie E. Legge, Marian L. Hamshere, Richard D. Hayes, Johnny Downs, Michael O’Donovan, Michael J. Owen, James Walters, James H. MacCabe	99
18	Pathophysiological alterations induced by sustained 35-GHz radio-frequency energy heating 2015 ·Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology ·James R. Jauchem, Kathy L. Ryan, James Walters	7
19	Slow-Adhering Stem Cells Derived from Injured Skeletal Muscle Have Improved Regenerative Capacity 2011 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Xiaodong Mu, Guosheng Xiang, Christopher R. Rathbone, Haiying Pan, (unknown), James Walters, Yong Li	11
20	APACHE-O - A new predictor of severity in acute pancreatitis. 1996 ·ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) ·Simon Toh, James Walters, (unknown)	8

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