John Lynch

33.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
397 papers, 22.9k citations indexed

About

John Lynch is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, John Lynch has authored 397 papers receiving a total of 22.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in General Health Professions, 114 papers in Health and 79 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in John Lynch's work include Health disparities and outcomes (102 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (49 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (46 papers). John Lynch is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (102 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (49 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (46 papers). John Lynch collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. John Lynch's co-authors include George A. Kaplan, George Davey Smith, Sam Harper, Jukka T. Salonen, George A. Kaplan, Susan A. Everson‐Rose, Richard. D. Cohen, Elsie R. Pamuk, Jennifer L. Balfour and Marianne M. Hillemeier and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

John Lynch

374 papers receiving 21.4k citations

Hit Papers

Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 2000 1996 1997 1997 2004 250 500 750 1000
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. Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions
    2000 1.0k citations John Lynch BMJ profile →
  2. Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways
    1996 907 citations George A. Kaplan, John Lynch et al. BMJ profile →
  3. Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse
    1997 851 citations John Lynch, George A. Kaplan et al. profile →
  4. Cumulative Impact of Sustained Economic Hardship on Physical, Cognitive, Psychological, and Social Functioning
    1997 681 citations John Lynch, George A. Kaplan et al. profile →
  5. Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review
    2004 671 citations John Lynch, George Davey Smith et al. profile →
  6. A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY
    2005 670 citations John Lynch, George Davey Smith profile →
  7. Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries
    2005 538 citations John Lynch et al. profile →
  8. Epidemiologic evidence for the relation between socioeconomic status and depression, obesity, and diabetes
    2002 517 citations John Lynch, George A. Kaplan et al. profile →
  9. Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses
    2013 478 citations Young‐Ho Khang, John Lynch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Lynch Australia 74 9.4k 9.0k 4.0k 3.0k 2.7k 397 22.9k
Johan P. Mackenbach Netherlands 88 12.3k 1.3× 9.9k 1.1× 5.5k 1.4× 4.0k 1.4× 2.3k 0.9× 544 31.0k
Anton E. Kunst Netherlands 79 12.8k 1.4× 11.3k 1.3× 4.2k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 533 27.4k
S. V. Subramanian United States 92 11.6k 1.2× 10.3k 1.2× 5.8k 1.4× 5.0k 1.7× 5.4k 2.0× 649 32.3k
Eileen M. Crimmins United States 73 6.0k 0.6× 6.9k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 2.5k 0.9× 333 19.8k
Ichiro Kawachi United States 98 9.4k 1.0× 6.2k 0.7× 5.9k 1.5× 1.9k 0.6× 4.1k 1.5× 708 34.5k
Paula Braveman United States 60 9.1k 1.0× 5.2k 0.6× 3.5k 0.9× 3.5k 1.2× 2.9k 1.1× 148 20.1k
Jay S. Kaufman United States 82 5.1k 0.5× 4.3k 0.5× 3.7k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 2.7k 1.0× 448 22.7k
Ana V. Diez Roux United States 80 7.1k 0.7× 10.1k 1.1× 6.5k 1.6× 908 0.3× 3.7k 1.4× 365 26.1k
Pekka Martikainen Finland 72 9.6k 1.0× 7.8k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 919 0.3× 2.4k 0.9× 537 17.1k
David Stückler United Kingdom 73 9.5k 1.0× 5.2k 0.6× 3.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.4× 2.3k 0.9× 339 20.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Lynch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Lynch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Lynch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Lynch based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Lynch. John Lynch is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hoon, Elizabeth, et al.. (2022). Isolation, marginalisation and disempowerment – understanding how interactions with health providers can influence smoking cessation in pregnancy. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 22(1). 396–396. 4 indexed citations
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Mittinty, Murthy, John Lynch, Andrew Forbes, & Lyle C. Gurrin. (2019). Effect decomposition through multiple causally nonordered mediators in the presence of exposure‐induced mediator‐outcome confounding. Statistics in Medicine. 38(26). 5085–5102. 4 indexed citations
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Yisma, Engida, Ben W. Mol, John Lynch, & Lisa G. Smithers. (2019). Impact of caesarean section on breastfeeding indicators: within-country and meta-analyses of nationally representative data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. BMJ Open. 9(9). e027497–e027497. 27 indexed citations
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Gialamas, Angela, Angela Kinnell, Murthy Mittinty, et al.. (2018). Association of anthropometric measures and cardiovascular risk factors in children and adolescents: Findings from the Aboriginal Birth Cohort study. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0199280–e0199280. 6 indexed citations
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Denney‐Wilson, Elizabeth, Rachel Laws, Catherine G. Russell, et al.. (2015). Preventing obesity in infants: the Growing healthy feasibility trial protocol. BMJ Open. 5(11). e009258–e009258. 40 indexed citations
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Golley, Rebecca K., Lisa G. Smithers, Karen Campbell, & John Lynch. (2010). Understanding the role of infant and toddler nutrition on population health: epidemiological resources in Australasia. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 17(1). 11–16. 4 indexed citations
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Giles, Lynne, Vivienne Moore, Melissa J. Whitrow, et al.. (2009). Critical period, accumulation and social mobility hypotheses: using a regression framework to explore mothers' partner status in early childhood and externalising behaviours of children at 5½ years. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 16(3). 25–29. 2 indexed citations
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Lynch, John, et al.. (2007). Income Inequality and Mortality: A Multilevel Prospective Study of 521,248 Individuals in 50 US States. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations
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Shaw, Mary, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, et al.. (2007). The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Bristol University Press eBooks. 78 indexed citations
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Kaplan, George A., Nalini Ranjit, Trivellore E. Raghunathan, et al.. (2005). The health of poor women under welfare reform. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations
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Lynch, John, et al.. (2005). Dictadura franquista y democracia, 1939-2004. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 17(2). 287–296. 27 indexed citations
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Khang, Young‐Ho, John Lynch, & George A. Kaplan. (2005). Impact of economic crisis on cause-specific mortality in South Korea. International Journal of Epidemiology. 34(6). 1291–1301. 152 indexed citations
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Lerman, Caryn, Chanita Hughes, Judith Benkendorf, et al.. (1999). Racial differences in testing motivation and psychological distress following pretest education for BRCA1 gene testing.. PubMed. 8(4 Pt 2). 361–7. 127 indexed citations
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Muntaner, Carles, Gary Oates, & John Lynch. (1999). Social Class and Social Cohesion: A Content Validity Analysis Using a Nonrecursive Structural Equation Model. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 896(1). 409–413. 21 indexed citations
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Lynch, John, et al.. (1999). La España del siglo XVIII. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 5 indexed citations
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Krause, Niklas, et al.. (1997). Predictors of disability retirement. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 23(6). 403–413. 194 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Lizelle, et al.. (1997). A clinical tool for rating response to civil commitment for substance abuse treatment. Psychiatric Services. 48(10). 1317–1322. 3 indexed citations
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Kaplan, G. A, et al.. (1996). Kaplan and colleagues' reply: Table 1. BMJ. 313(7066). 1207.1–1207.1. 7 indexed citations

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