Jon Shelton

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jon Shelton is a scholar working on Oncology, Epidemiology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Shelton has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Oncology, 9 papers in Epidemiology and 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Jon Shelton's work include Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (16 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (13 papers) and Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers (5 papers). Jon Shelton is often cited by papers focused on Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (16 papers), Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection (13 papers) and Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers (5 papers). Jon Shelton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Ireland. Jon Shelton's co-authors include Lucy Elliss‐Brookes, Sean McPhail, M. Victoria Greenslade, Marcus Richards, A. Ives, Sara Hiom, Nick Ormiston‐Smith, Katrina Brown, Sally Vernon and Georgios Lyratzopoulos and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, BMJ and British Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Jon Shelton

22 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Routes to diagnosis for cancer – determining the patient journey using multiple routine data sets

2012 398 citations Lucy Elliss‐Brookes, Sean McPhail et al. British Journal of Cancer profile →
The fraction of cancer attributable to modifiable risk factors in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom in 2015

2018 357 citations Katrina Brown, Harriet Rumgay et al. British Journal of Cancer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jon Shelton United Kingdom	11	865	220	193	175	154	25	1.4k
Lorraine Shack Canada	16	686 0.8×	153 0.7×	215 1.1×	225 1.3×	97 0.6×	51	1.3k
Dylan E. O’Sullivan Canada	19	1.0k 1.2×	210 1.0×	318 1.6×	182 1.0×	246 1.6×	77	1.9k
Alexandre L. Pavluck United States	18	737 0.9×	238 1.1×	151 0.8×	250 1.4×	322 2.1×	39	1.6k
Nirmala Bhoo‐Pathy Malaysia	25	1.1k 1.3×	196 0.9×	301 1.6×	209 1.2×	216 1.4×	113	2.0k
Manuela Quaresma United Kingdom	14	656 0.8×	128 0.6×	164 0.8×	134 0.8×	172 1.1×	29	1.1k
Sheetal Kircher United States	22	972 1.1×	251 1.1×	210 1.1×	222 1.3×	434 2.8×	108	1.8k
Carin Perkins United States	12	862 1.0×	237 1.1×	171 0.9×	178 1.0×	160 1.0×	17	1.5k
Johan Ahlgren Sweden	23	1.0k 1.2×	281 1.3×	253 1.3×	81 0.5×	140 0.9×	68	1.7k
Verna Vanderpuye Ghana	18	709 0.8×	247 1.1×	145 0.8×	175 1.0×	296 1.9×	102	1.2k
Libby Ellis United Kingdom	16	1.2k 1.4×	180 0.8×	275 1.4×	366 2.1×	338 2.2×	29	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Jon Shelton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jon Shelton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon Shelton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jon Shelton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jon Shelton 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 Jon Shelton. Jon Shelton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Coleman, Michel P., M Matz, Pamela Minicozzi, et al.. (2025). Trends over 48 years in a one-number index of survival for all cancers combined, England and Wales (1971–2018): a population-based registry study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 56. 101385–101385. 2 indexed citations

Earp, Madalene A., et al.. (2025). A-416 Clinical and Analytical Evaluation of the 15-minute, FDA-Cleared, CLIA-Waived, DASH® SARS-CoV-2 and Flu A/B Test Performed on the Point-of-Care DASH® Rapid PCR System. Clinical Chemistry. 71(Supplement_1).

Swann, Ruth, Kevin J. Roberts, Fahmina Fardus‐Reid, et al.. (2025). CT and MRI activity in England: insights from the diagnostic imaging dataset. Clinical Radiology. 91. 107087–107087.

Shelton, Jon, Lesley Smith, Shane A. Johnson, et al.. (2024). 25 year trends in cancer incidence and mortality among adults aged 35-69 years in the UK, 1993-2018: retrospective secondary analysis. BMJ. 384. e076962–e076962. 35 indexed citations

Fry, Anna, et al.. (2023). Relationship between ethnicity and stage at diagnosis in England: a national analysis of six cancer sites. BMJ Open. 13(1). e062079–e062079. 20 indexed citations

Pearson, Clare, et al.. (2023). Estimating surgery, radiotherapy and systemic anti-cancer therapy treatment costs for cancer patients by stage at diagnosis. The European Journal of Health Economics. 25(5). 763–774. 7 indexed citations

Shelton, Jon. (2023). The Education Myth. Cornell University Press eBooks.

Delon, Christine, et al.. (2022). Differences in cancer incidence by broad ethnic group in England, 2013–2017. British Journal of Cancer. 126(12). 1765–1773. 66 indexed citations

Payne, Nick, et al.. (2022). Socio-economic deprivation and cancer incidence in England: Quantifying the role of smoking. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0272202–e0272202. 9 indexed citations

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Pearson, Clare, Michael Peake, Roland Valori, et al.. (2019). Establishing population-based surveillance of diagnostic timeliness using linked cancer registry and administrative data for patients with colorectal and lung cancer. Cancer Epidemiology. 61. 111–118. 21 indexed citations

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White, Becky L., Andrew Nordin, Amar Ahmad, et al.. (2019). Geographic variation in the use of lymphadenectomy and external‐beam radiotherapy for endometrial cancer: a cross‐sectional analysis of population‐based data. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 126(12). 1456–1465. 2 indexed citations

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Pearson, Clare, et al.. (2019). Using linked English cancer registration data to assess variation in diagnostic pathway length. International Journal for Population Data Science. 4(3). 1 indexed citations

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Brown, Katrina, Harriet Rumgay, Alison Cox, et al.. (2018). The fraction of cancer attributable to modifiable risk factors in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom in 2015. British Journal of Cancer. 118(8). 1130–1141. 357 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Yin, Sílvia Mendonça, Gary Abel, et al.. (2018). Variation in 'Fast-Track' Referrals for Suspected Cancer by Patient Characteristic and Cancer Diagnosis: Evidence From 670,000 Patients With Cancers of 35 Different Sites. Journal of Global Oncology. 4(Supplement 2). 39s–39s. 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yin, Sílvia Mendonça, Gary Abel, et al.. (2017). Variation in ‘fast-track’ referrals for suspected cancer by patient characteristic and cancer diagnosis: evidence from 670 000 patients with cancers of 35 different sites. British Journal of Cancer. 118(1). 24–31. 58 indexed citations

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Abel, Gary, et al.. (2015). Cancer-specific variation in emergency presentation by sex, age and deprivation across 27 common and rarer cancers. British Journal of Cancer. 112(S1). S129–S136. 90 indexed citations

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Rubin, Greg, et al.. (2015). Assessing the impact of an English national initiative for early cancer diagnosis in primary care. British Journal of Cancer. 112(S1). S57–S64. 11 indexed citations

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McPhail, Sean, Lucy Elliss‐Brookes, Jon Shelton, et al.. (2013). Emergency presentation of cancer and short-term mortality. British Journal of Cancer. 109(8). 2027–2034. 159 indexed citations

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Elliss‐Brookes, Lucy, Sean McPhail, A. Ives, et al.. (2012). Routes to diagnosis for cancer – determining the patient journey using multiple routine data sets. British Journal of Cancer. 107(8). 1220–1226. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sasieni, Peter, Jon Shelton, Nick Ormiston‐Smith, C S Thomson, & P Silcocks. (2011). What is the lifetime risk of developing cancer?: the effect of adjusting for multiple primaries. British Journal of Cancer. 105(3). 460–465. 113 indexed citations

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