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, Daryl Jones, G P Copeland, 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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
James Walters	3.2k	3.2k	2.5k	2.2k	1.8k	388	18.0k
Kaare Christensen	2.2k 0.7×	5.7k 1.8×	6.2k 2.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	810	33.1k
Michael L. Schwartz	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	665 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	320 0.2×	279	15.6k
David Gozal	1.8k 0.5×	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	760	36.7k
Edward L. Spitznagel	2.8k 0.9×	926 0.3×	545 0.2×	4.7k 2.2×	1.5k 0.8×	233	17.3k
Rudi G. J. Westendorp	3.4k 1.1×	4.0k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	528 0.2×	3.4k 1.9×	577	30.7k
Lisa Sullivan	4.2k 1.3×	4.0k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	8.7k 4.9×	393	35.1k
Rebecca Hardy	1.1k 0.3×	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	448	21.5k
Naomi R. Wray	2.2k 0.7×	7.5k 2.3×	13.0k 5.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	410	31.1k
Robert Stewart	1.2k 0.4×	3.0k 1.0×	639 0.3×	5.6k 2.6×	2.7k 1.5×	848	30.2k
Nancy L. Pedersen	2.1k 0.6×	5.0k 1.6×	5.6k 2.2×	5.4k 2.5×	1.9k 1.1×	652	37.5k

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Richards, Alexander, Nicholas E. Clifton, Darren Cameron, et al.. (2025). Effects of Shared and Nonshared Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Alleles on Cognition and Educational Attainment in the UK Biobank. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 5(6). 100601–100601.

Owen, Michael J., Nicholas J. Bray, James Walters, & Michael O’Donovan. (2025). Genomics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. Nature Reviews Genetics. 26(12). 862–877. 3 indexed citations

Holmans, Peter, Darren Cameron, Detelina Grozeva, et al.. (2025). Whole-exome sequencing analysis identifies risk genes for schizophrenia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7102–7102. 2 indexed citations

Barroso, Inês, Andrés Ingason, Daniel Stow, et al.. (2025). Contributions of common and rare genetic variation to different measures of mood and anxiety disorder in the UK Biobank. BJPsych Open. 11(3). e97–e97.

Walters, James, et al.. (2024). Team-based rehabilitation after mild traumatic brain injury – description of the clinical pathway. Brain Injury. 38(10). 807–817. 1 indexed citations

Cameron, Darren, Elizabeth A. Perry, James Walters, et al.. (2024). Genetic Implication of Prenatal GABAergic and Cholinergic Neuron Development in Susceptibility to Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 50(5). 1171–1184. 3 indexed citations

Cardno, Alastair G., Judith Allardyce, Steven C. Bakker, et al.. (2024). Associations of psychotic symptom dimensions with clinical and developmental variables in twin and general clinical samples. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 226(1). 16–23. 1 indexed citations

Caseras, Xavier, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Richard Anney, et al.. (2024). Common risk alleles for schizophrenia within the major histocompatibility complex predict white matter microstructure. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 194–194. 3 indexed citations

Guadamuz, Jenny S., Xiaoliang Wang, Rebecca A. Miksad, et al.. (2023). Socioeconomic status and inequities in treatment initiation and survival among patients with cancer, 2011-2022. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 7(5). 27 indexed citations

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Thompson, Katherine, Christopher Hübel, Rosa Cheesman, et al.. (2021). Age and sex‐related variability in the presentation of generalized anxiety and depression symptoms. Depression and Anxiety. 38(10). 1054–1065. 16 indexed citations

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Vassos, Evangelos, Sarah Tosato, Charlotte Dennison, et al.. (2021). Lack of Support for the Genes by Early Environment Interaction Hypothesis in the Pathogenesis of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 48(1). 20–26. 19 indexed citations

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Alsfouk, Bshra A., et al.. (2020). Characteristics and treatment outcomes of newly diagnosed epilepsy in older people: A 30‐year longitudinal cohort study. Epilepsia. 61(12). 2720–2728. 20 indexed citations

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Hall, Lynsey S., Oliver Pain, Antonio F. Pardiñas, et al.. (2019). A transcriptome-wide association study implicates specific pre- and post-synaptic abnormalities in schizophrenia. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(1). 159–167. 43 indexed citations

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Clifton, Nicholas E., Eilís Hannon, Janet Harwood, et al.. (2019). Dynamic expression of genes associated with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder across development. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 74–74. 27 indexed citations

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Harold, Denise, Brien P. Riley, Kenneth S. Kendler, et al.. (2019). Population‐based identity‐by‐descent mapping combined with exome sequencing to detect rare risk variants for schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 180(3). 223–231. 2 indexed citations

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Crawford, Karen, Matthew Bracher‐Smith, David Owen, et al.. (2018). Medical consequences of pathogenic CNVs in adults: analysis of the UK Biobank. Journal of Medical Genetics. 56(3). 131–138. 88 indexed citations

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Leonenko, Ganna, Arianna Di Florio, Judith Allardyce, et al.. (2018). A data‐driven investigation of relationships between bipolar psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia genome‐wide significant genetic loci. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 177(4). 468–475. 8 indexed citations

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Legge, Sophie E., Marian L. Hamshere, Richard D. Hayes, et al.. (2016). Reasons for discontinuing clozapine: A cohort study of patients commencing treatment. Schizophrenia Research. 174(1-3). 113–119. 99 indexed citations

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Jauchem, James R., Kathy L. Ryan, & James Walters. (2015). Pathophysiological alterations induced by sustained 35-GHz radio-frequency energy heating. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology. 27(1). 79–89. 7 indexed citations

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Toh, Simon, et al.. (1996). APACHE-O - A new predictor of severity in acute pancreatitis.. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 8 indexed citations

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