Karl Smith-Byrne

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Karl Smith-Byrne is a scholar working on Genetics, Physiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Smith-Byrne has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Physiology and 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Karl Smith-Byrne's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Physical Activity and Health (6 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 papers). Karl Smith-Byrne is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Physical Activity and Health (6 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 papers). Karl Smith-Byrne collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Karl Smith-Byrne's co-authors include Aiden Doherty, Mattias Johansson, Kazem Rahimi, Karine Alcala, Florence Guida, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Ilona Urbárová, Terence Dwyer and Rema Ramakrishnan and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Karl Smith-Byrne

23 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank

2021 318 citations Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Karine Alcala et al. European Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,251 incident cases among 542,778 women in the UK

2025 21 citations Keren Papier, Kathryn E. Bradbury et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl Smith-Byrne United Kingdom	18	363	327	266	265	258	28	1.5k
Xiuying Qi China	22	301 0.8×	235 0.7×	105 0.4×	362 1.4×	272 1.1×	81	1.8k
Jens Steen Nielsen Denmark	23	577 1.6×	159 0.5×	185 0.7×	153 0.6×	197 0.8×	75	1.7k
Hans Olov Adami Sweden	14	620 1.7×	312 1.0×	116 0.4×	567 2.1×	209 0.8×	23	1.6k
Anton J. M. de Craen Netherlands	19	281 0.8×	242 0.7×	162 0.6×	72 0.3×	129 0.5×	27	1.3k
Antonino Catalano Italy	25	253 0.7×	390 1.2×	126 0.5×	66 0.2×	132 0.5×	108	2.1k
Jieyun Yin China	22	368 1.0×	331 1.0×	67 0.3×	230 0.9×	113 0.4×	74	1.4k
Daniel Cuadras Spain	21	275 0.8×	178 0.5×	103 0.4×	96 0.4×	89 0.3×	63	1.6k
Hanieh Yaghootkar United Kingdom	20	286 0.8×	88 0.3×	593 2.2×	300 1.1×	175 0.7×	54	1.8k
Lina Steinrud Mørch Denmark	24	197 0.5×	525 1.6×	430 1.6×	776 2.9×	61 0.2×	83	2.4k
Tina L. Skinner Australia	26	617 1.7×	568 1.7×	59 0.2×	218 0.8×	123 0.5×	94	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Karl Smith-Byrne

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Smith-Byrne

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Papier, Keren, Kathryn E. Bradbury, Angela Balkwill, et al.. (2025). Diet-wide analyses for risk of colorectal cancer: prospective study of 12,251 incident cases among 542,778 women in the UK. Nature Communications. 16(1). 375–375. 21 indexed citations breakdown →

Laskar, Ruhina Shirin, Neil Murphy, Pietro Ferrari, et al.. (2025). A prospective investigation of early-onset colorectal cancer risk factors–pooled analysis of three large-scale European cohorts. British Journal of Cancer. 134(5). 781–789.

Tong, Tammy Y. N., Karl Smith-Byrne, Keren Papier, et al.. (2025). The plasma proteome of plant-based diets: Analyses of 2920 proteins in 49,615 people. Clinical Nutrition. 53. 144–154.

Collister, Jennifer A., Karl Smith-Byrne, Joshua H. Atkins, Gillian Reeves, & David J. Hunter. (2025). Meta-analysis of exome-wide gene burden analysis of breast cancer susceptibility genes. npj Breast Cancer. 11(1). 111–111.

Nazarzadeh, Milad, Emma Copland, Karl Smith-Byrne, et al.. (2025). Blood Pressure Lowering and Risk of Cancer. JACC CardioOncology. 7(5). 609–623. 1 indexed citations

Papier, Keren, Joshua Atkins, Tammy Y. N. Tong, et al.. (2024). Identifying proteomic risk factors for cancer using prospective and exome analyses of 1463 circulating proteins and risk of 19 cancers in the UK Biobank. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4010–4010. 27 indexed citations

Cheng, Tuck Seng, Eleanor L. Watts, Michaël Pollak, et al.. (2024). Circulating free insulin-like growth factor-I and prostate cancer: a case-control study nested in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition. BMC Cancer. 24(1). 676–676.

Barker, Joseph, Xin Li, David Koeckerling, et al.. (2022). Machine learning in sudden cardiac death risk prediction: a systematic review. EP Europace. 24(11). 1777–1787. 30 indexed citations

Ramakrishnan, Rema, Aiden Doherty, Karl Smith-Byrne, et al.. (2021). Accelerometer measured physical activity and the incidence of cardiovascular disease: Evidence from the UK Biobank cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 18(1). e1003487–e1003487. 111 indexed citations

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Barker, Joseph, et al.. (2021). Electronic alerts for acute kidney injury across primary and secondary care. BMJ Open Quality. 10(2). e000956–e000956. 6 indexed citations

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Khoei, Nazlisadat Seyed, Robert Carreras‐Torres, Neil Murphy, et al.. (2021). Genetically Raised Circulating Bilirubin Levels and Risk of Ten Cancers: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Cells. 10(2). 394–394. 22 indexed citations

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Nøst, Therese Haugdahl, Karine Alcala, Ilona Urbárová, et al.. (2021). Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(8). 841–848. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nazarzadeh, Milad, Zeinab Bidel, Dexter Canoy, et al.. (2021). Blood pressure lowering and risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes: an individual participant data meta-analysis. The Lancet. 398(10313). 1803–1810. 71 indexed citations

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Watts, Eleanor L., Georgina K. Fensom, Karl Smith-Byrne, et al.. (2020). Circulating insulin‐like growth factor‐I, total and free testosterone concentrations and prostate cancer risk in 200 000 men in UK Biobank. International Journal of Cancer. 148(9). 2274–2288. 42 indexed citations

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Knüppel, Anika, Georgina K. Fensom, Eleanor L. Watts, et al.. (2020). Circulating Insulin-like Growth Factor-I Concentrations and Risk of 30 Cancers: Prospective Analyses in UK Biobank. Cancer Research. 80(18). 4014–4021. 62 indexed citations

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Murphy, Neil, Anika Knüppel, Nikos Papadimitriou, et al.. (2020). Insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3, and breast cancer risk: observational and Mendelian randomization analyses with ∼430 000 women. Annals of Oncology. 31(5). 641–649. 100 indexed citations

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Nazarzadeh, Milad, Ana‐Catarina Pinho‐Gomes, Zeinab Bidel, et al.. (2020). Genetic susceptibility, elevated blood pressure and risk of atrial fibrillation. European Heart Journal. 41(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations

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Smith-Byrne, Karl, Carmelo Velardo, Nathalie Conrad, et al.. (2020). Self-reported and objectively measured physical activity in people with and without chronic heart failure: UK Biobank analysis. Open Heart. 7(1). e001099–e001099. 33 indexed citations

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Pan, Feng, Karl Smith-Byrne, Rema Ramakrishnan, et al.. (2018). Association between musculoskeletal pain at multiple sites and objectively measured physical activity and work capacity: Results from UK Biobank study. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 22(4). 444–449. 34 indexed citations

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Doherty, Aiden, Karl Smith-Byrne, Teresa Ferreira, et al.. (2018). GWAS identifies 14 loci for device-measured physical activity and sleep duration. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5257–5257. 221 indexed citations

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