Jon Heron

30.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
379 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

Jon Heron is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Heron has authored 379 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 122 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 116 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jon Heron's work include Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (120 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (85 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (78 papers). Jon Heron is often cited by papers focused on Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (120 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (85 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (78 papers). Jon Heron collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Jon Heron's co-authors include Jean Golding, Jonathan Evans, Thomas G. O’Connor, Vivette Glover, Glyn Lewis, Kate Tilling, Matthew Hickman, Carol Joinson, Rachael A. Hughes and David Gunnell and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jon Heron

363 papers receiving 19.5k citations

Hit Papers

Cohort study of depressed mood during pregnancy and after... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2003 2019 2021 2003 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. Cohort study of depressed mood during pregnancy and after childbirth
    2001 1.0k citations Jon Heron, Jean Golding et al. profile →
  2. The course of anxiety and depression through pregnancy and the postpartum in a community sample
    2003 915 citations Jon Heron, Thomas G. O’Connor et al. Journal of Affective Disorders profile →
  3. The proportion of missing data should not be used to guide decisions on multiple imputation
    2019 664 citations Kate Tilling, Jon Heron et al. profile →
  4. Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation
    2021 587 citations Eleanor Sanderson, Gemma Hammerton et al. profile →
  5. Maternal antenatal anxiety and behavioural/emotional problems in children: a test of a programming hypothesis
    2003 518 citations Thomas G. O’Connor, Jon Heron et al. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry profile →
  6. Maternal Depression During Pregnancy and the Postnatal Period
    2013 454 citations Jon Heron et al. profile →
  7. Accounting for missing data in statistical analyses: multiple imputation is not always the answer
    2019 427 citations Jon Heron, Kate Tilling et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
  8. Predictors of future suicide attempt among adolescents with suicidal thoughts or non-suicidal self-harm: a population-based birth cohort study
    2019 333 citations Jon Heron, Kate Tilling et al. The Lancet Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jon Heron United Kingdom 72 8.2k 6.6k 4.3k 2.8k 2.3k 379 20.2k
Jake M. Najman Australia 77 8.6k 1.1× 5.5k 0.8× 5.5k 1.3× 2.6k 0.9× 2.0k 0.9× 542 20.5k
Henning Tiemeier Netherlands 96 8.7k 1.1× 8.1k 1.2× 8.1k 1.9× 2.2k 0.8× 4.9k 2.1× 804 35.9k
Donna E. Stewart Canada 77 7.1k 0.9× 8.5k 1.3× 2.6k 0.6× 2.7k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 458 23.3k
Stephen L. Buka United States 72 6.1k 0.7× 3.3k 0.5× 3.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 292 19.6k
Ezra Susser United States 72 5.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.5× 5.4k 1.2× 1.2k 0.4× 3.9k 1.7× 356 22.6k
Gerald Gartlehner Austria 58 3.5k 0.4× 5.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 325 17.0k
Jean Golding United Kingdom 87 6.7k 0.8× 9.0k 1.4× 11.9k 2.8× 2.9k 1.0× 3.6k 1.6× 484 34.3k
Katherine M. Keyes United States 80 8.0k 1.0× 5.2k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 7.1k 2.6× 1.3k 0.6× 483 25.5k
Jan Sundquist Sweden 77 4.0k 0.5× 3.3k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 4.5k 1.6× 2.3k 1.0× 982 27.7k
Hein Raat Netherlands 63 3.0k 0.4× 4.3k 0.6× 3.5k 0.8× 1.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 460 15.9k

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All Works

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Power, Grace M., Tom Palmer, Nicole M. Warrington, et al.. (2025). A structural mean modeling Mendelian randomization approach to investigate the lifecourse effect of adiposity: applied and methodological considerations. American Journal of Epidemiology. 195(1). 21–31.
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Kingdon, Carol, Laura Bonnett, Christy Burden, et al.. (2025). How Should We Communicate Information Regarding Birth Choices to Women?: An Online Randomised Survey. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 132(13). 2177–2185. 1 indexed citations
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Burrows, Kimberley, Jon Heron, Gemma Hammerton, Ana Gonçalves Soares, & Carol Joinson. (2025). Adverse childhood experiences and lower urinary tract symptoms in adolescence: the mediating effect of inflammation. International Journal of Epidemiology. 54(4). 1 indexed citations
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Heron, Jon, et al.. (2024). Prospective relationships between patterns of religious belief/non-belief and mental health in adults: A UK cohort study. Social Science & Medicine. 361. 117342–117342. 1 indexed citations
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Barnes, Maria, Christine Barter, Annie Herbert, et al.. (2023). Young People and Intimate Partner Violence: Experiences of Institutional Support and Services in England. Journal of Family Violence. 39(8). 1609–1621. 3 indexed citations
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Heron, Jon, et al.. (2023). Investigating Change in Student Financial Stress at a UK University: Multi-Year Survey Analysis across a Global Pandemic and Recession. Education Sciences. 13(12). 1175–1175. 7 indexed citations
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Riglin, Lucy, Joanna Martin, Richard Anney, et al.. (2023). Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 337. 66–74. 7 indexed citations
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Allardyce, Judith, Rhys Bevan Jones, Olga Eyre, et al.. (2022). Developing and validating a prediction model of adolescent major depressive disorder in the offspring of depressed parents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 64(3). 367–375. 4 indexed citations
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Herbert, Annie, Abigail Fraser, Laura D Howe, et al.. (2022). Categories of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse Among Young Women and Men: Latent Class Analysis of Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Victimization and Perpetration in a UK Birth Cohort. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 38(1-2). 931–954. 8 indexed citations
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Morris, Tim, Jon Heron, Eleanor Sanderson, et al.. (2022). Interpretation of Mendelian randomization using a single measure of an exposure that varies over time. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(6). 1899–1909. 27 indexed citations
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Heron, Jon, Anita Thapar, Rhys Bevan Jones, et al.. (2021). The antecedents and outcomes of persistent and remitting adolescent depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal, population-based English study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 8(12). 1053–1061. 70 indexed citations
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Mills, Harriet L., Julian P. T. Higgins, Richard Morris, et al.. (2021). Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms. Epidemiology. 32(6). 846–854. 29 indexed citations
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Soares, Ana Gonçalves, Laura D Howe, Jon Heron, et al.. (2021). How does childhood maltreatment influence cardiovascular disease? A sequential causal mediation analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(2). 555–566. 15 indexed citations
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Parker, Randall M., George Leckie, Harvey Goldstein, et al.. (2020). Joint Modeling of Individual Trajectories, Within-Individual Variability, and a Later Outcome: Systolic Blood Pressure Through Childhood and Left Ventricular Mass in Early Adulthood. American Journal of Epidemiology. 190(4). 652–662. 5 indexed citations
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Hogarth, Lee, Steph Suddell, Jon Heron, et al.. (2020). State anxiety and alcohol choice: Evidence from experimental and online observational studies. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 34(11). 1237–1249. 7 indexed citations
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Yakubovich, Alexa R., Jon Heron, Gene Feder, Abigail Fraser, & David K. Humphreys. (2019). Long-term Exposure to Neighborhood Deprivation and Intimate Partner Violence Among Women: A UK Birth Cohort Study. Epidemiology. 31(2). 272–281. 19 indexed citations
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Leacy, Finbarr P., et al.. (2018). On the use of the not‐at‐random fully conditional specification (NARFCS) procedure in practice. Statistics in Medicine. 37(15). 2338–2353. 45 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Thomas G., Jon Heron, Jean Golding, Vivette Glover, & Alspac Study Team. (2003). Maternal antenatal anxiety and behavioural/emotional problems in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 44(7). 48 indexed citations

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