John Beard

19.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
144 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

John Beard is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Beard has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Health, 45 papers in General Health Professions and 22 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Recurrent topics in John Beard's work include Health disparities and outcomes (47 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (22 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (20 papers). John Beard is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (47 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (22 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (20 papers). John Beard collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Switzerland. John Beard's co-authors include Eric van Beurden, Lisa M. Barnett, Philip J. Morgan, Islène Araujo de Carvalho, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Lyndon Brooks, Somnath Chatterji, Peter Lloyd‐Sherlock, David E. Bloom and Jean‐Pierre Michel and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

John Beard

140 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing

2015 1.8k citations John Beard, Alana Officer et al. The Lancet profile →
Childhood Motor Skill Proficiency as a Predictor of Adolescent Physical Activity

2008 705 citations Lisa M. Barnett, Eric van Beurden et al. profile →
Frailty: An Emerging Public Health Priority

2016 501 citations Martin Prince, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan et al. profile →
Evidence for the Domains Supporting the Construct of Intrinsic Capacity

2018 416 citations Islène Araujo de Carvalho, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan et al. profile →
Towards a comprehensive public health response to population ageing

2014 383 citations John Beard et al. The Lancet profile →
Hypertension among older adults in low- and middle-income countries: prevalence, awareness and control

2014 367 citations Peter Lloyd‐Sherlock, John Beard et al. profile →
The structure and predictive value of intrinsic capacity in a longitudinal study of ageing

2019 236 citations John Beard, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Beard Australia	47	2.3k	2.0k	1.8k	1.8k	1.8k	144	10.7k
Hein Raat Netherlands	63	2.4k 1.1×	941 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	589 0.3×	508 0.3×	460	15.9k
Catharine R. Galé United Kingdom	74	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	4.1k 2.3×	1.9k 1.0×	268 0.2×	264	18.9k
Diana Kuh United Kingdom	60	2.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	3.0k 1.7×	594 0.3×	329 0.2×	236	14.8k
Rachel Cooper United Kingdom	50	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	4.0k 2.2×	1.3k 0.7×	232 0.1×	229	10.6k
G. David Batty United Kingdom	90	3.9k 1.7×	3.7k 1.8×	4.4k 2.4×	921 0.5×	367 0.2×	492	26.1k
Sijmen A. Reijneveld Netherlands	58	4.1k 1.8×	1.6k 0.8×	852 0.5×	224 0.1×	486 0.3×	623	13.8k
Ai Koyanagi Spain	63	3.4k 1.5×	3.8k 1.9×	3.8k 2.1×	1.3k 0.7×	185 0.1×	637	19.7k
Parminder Raina Canada	54	1.3k 0.6×	828 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	610 0.3×	230 0.1×	269	13.0k
Frank J. van Lenthe Netherlands	54	3.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	238 0.1×	422 0.2×	269	11.1k
Anne Taylor Australia	63	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	355 0.2×	187 0.1×	421	17.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Beard

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cohen, Alan A., Martin Picard, John Beard, et al.. (2025). Intrinsic health as a foundation for a science of health. Science Advances. 11(25). eadu8437–eadu8437. 1 indexed citations

Beard, John, Katja Hanewald, Yafei Si, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, & Darío Moreno‐Agostino. (2024). Cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China. Nature Aging. 5(1). 87–98. 10 indexed citations

Wieczorek, Maud, Matthias Kliegel, John Beard, et al.. (2024). Can ChatGPT Provide Useful Guidance to Assess the Current State of and Future Priorities for Aging Research in the Social Sciences?. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. 37(4). 531–546. 1 indexed citations

Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Emmanuel González-Bautista, Heike A. Bischoff‐Ferrari, et al.. (2024). Real-life intrinsic capacity screening data from the ICOPE-Care program. Nature Aging. 4(9). 1279–1289. 13 indexed citations

Fried, Linda P., et al.. (2023). Public Health 4.0: Creating Health for Longer Lives. Public Policy & Aging Report. 33(3). 86–91. 2 indexed citations

Si, Yafei, Katja Hanewald, Shu Chen, et al.. (2023). Life-course inequalities in intrinsic capacity and healthy ageing, China. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 101(5). 307–316C. 24 indexed citations

Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Yves Rolland, Luigi Ferrucci, et al.. (2023). Looking at frailty and intrinsic capacity through a geroscience lens: the ICFSR & Geroscience Task Force. Nature Aging. 3(12). 1474–1479. 15 indexed citations

Xia, Weibo, Cyrus Cooper, Mei Li, et al.. (2019). East meets West: current practices and policies in the management of musculoskeletal aging. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 31(10). 1351–1373. 29 indexed citations

Beard, John, Alana Officer, Islène Araujo de Carvalho, et al.. (2015). The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing. The Lancet. 387(10033). 2145–2154. 1803 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dias, Amit, et al.. (2015). Identifying common impairments in frail and dependent older people: validation of the COPE assessment for non-specialised health workers in low resource primary health care settings. BMC Geriatrics. 15(1). 123–123. 20 indexed citations

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Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza, Jennifer Stewart Williams, Avni Amin, et al.. (2012). Social Determinants of Self-Reported Health in Women and Men: Understanding the Role of Gender in Population Health. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34799–e34799. 126 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lisa M., Eric van Beurden, Philip J. Morgan, Lyndon Brooks, & John Beard. (2010). Gender Differences in Motor Skill Proficiency From Childhood to Adolescence. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 81(2). 162–170. 202 indexed citations

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Beard, John, Shannon Blaney, Magdalena Cerdá, et al.. (2009). Neighborhood Characteristics and Disability in Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 64B(2). 252–257. 152 indexed citations

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Beard, John, Sandro Galea, & David Vlahov. (2008). Longitudinal population-based studies of affective disorders: Where to from here?. BMC Psychiatry. 8(1). 83–83. 15 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lisa M., Eric van Beurden, Philip J. Morgan, Lyndon Brooks, & John Beard. (2008). Does Childhood Motor Skill Proficiency Predict Adolescent Fitness?. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 40(12). 2137–2144. 288 indexed citations

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Barnett, Lisa M., Philip J. Morgan, Eric van Beurden, & John Beard. (2008). Perceived sports competence mediates the relationship between childhood motor skill proficiency and adolescent physical activity and fitness: a longitudinal assessment. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 5(1). 40–40. 356 indexed citations

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Summerhayes, Richard, Paul Holder, John Beard, et al.. (2006). Automated geocoding of routinely collected health data in New South Wales. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin. 17(4). 33–33. 8 indexed citations

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Einfeld, Stewart, et al.. (2002). Evidence-based practice for young people who self harm: can it be sustained and does it improve outcomes?. Australian Health Review. 25(4). 178–188. 3 indexed citations

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Teesson, Maree, U. Dietrich, Louisa Degenhardt, Michael T. Lynskey, & John Beard. (2002). Substance use disorders in an Australian community survey. Drug and Alcohol Review. 21(3). 275–280. 4 indexed citations

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Andrews, Gavin, Kristy Sanderson, & John Beard. (1998). Burden of disease. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 173(2). 123–131. 175 indexed citations

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