Lee Murphy

42.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Lee Murphy is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Murphy has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Lee Murphy's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (5 papers). Lee Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (5 papers). Lee Murphy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Lee Murphy's co-authors include Michael A. Quail, Julian Parkhill, Riccardo E. Marioni, Bart Barrell, Sarah E. Harris, Stephen D. Bentley, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox, David Harris and Jude Gibson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Lee Murphy

41 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

2006 567 citations Stephen D. Bentley, David M. Aanensen et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

2015 397 citations Riccardo E. Marioni, Sonia Shah et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age

2023 65 citations Elena Bernabeu, Daniel L. McCartney et al. Genome Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Murphy United Kingdom	22	1.3k	567	411	279	228	44	2.5k
Julia-Stefanie Frick Germany	36	1.7k 1.3×	405 0.7×	399 1.0×	154 0.6×	67 0.3×	86	3.7k
Robert L. Taylor United States	25	488 0.4×	412 0.7×	244 0.6×	198 0.7×	114 0.5×	129	3.0k
Takashi Kaneko Japan	32	912 0.7×	351 0.6×	284 0.7×	205 0.7×	109 0.5×	117	3.7k
Shai Fuchs Canada	9	3.6k 2.7×	463 0.8×	416 1.0×	122 0.4×	121 0.5×	15	5.1k
Eloísa Amália Vieira Ferro Brazil	30	732 0.6×	810 1.4×	266 0.6×	56 0.2×	129 0.6×	135	2.6k
Ioannis Mylonas Germany	37	1.3k 1.0×	621 1.1×	479 1.2×	280 1.0×	588 2.6×	237	4.8k
Paul Smith United States	31	1.6k 1.2×	337 0.6×	515 1.3×	75 0.3×	95 0.4×	122	3.7k
Katherine A. Robinson United States	27	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 2.6×	128 0.3×	976 3.5×	197 0.9×	64	3.5k
Peter Hill United Kingdom	34	555 0.4×	597 1.1×	423 1.0×	173 0.6×	58 0.3×	150	4.3k
Jason Lloyd‐Price United States	20	3.0k 2.3×	332 0.6×	580 1.4×	132 0.5×	79 0.3×	43	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Murphy

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Bernabeu, Elena, Paul Yousefi, Matthew Suderman, et al.. (2025). A blood- and brain-based EWAS of smoking. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3210–3210. 1 indexed citations

McKinnon, K. I. M., Kadi Vaher, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic scores derived in saliva are associated with gestational age at birth. Clinical Epigenetics. 16(1). 84–84.

Gadd, Danni A., Yipeng Cheng, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic Contributions to Clinical Risk Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine. 17(1). e004265–e004265. 10 indexed citations

Boardman, James P., Ruth Andrew, Mark E. Bastin, et al.. (2024). Preterm birth as a determinant of neurodevelopment and cognition in children (PRENCOG): protocol for an exposure-based cohort study in the UK. BMJ Open. 14(9). e085365–e085365. 1 indexed citations

Barter, Matthew J., Danielle Rux, Nicola Wrobel, et al.. (2024). The methylomic landscape of human articular cartilage development contains epigenetic signatures of osteoarthritis risk. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(12). 2756–2772. 3 indexed citations

Hanson, Amy E., Jeremy L. Herrmann, Samer Abu‐Sultaneh, Lee Murphy, & Christopher W. Mastropietro. (2024). Prospective Evaluation of Extubation Failure in Neonates and Infants After Cardiac Surgery. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 16(1). 37–45.

Hardisty, Gareth, Sara Clohisey, N. Robinson, et al.. (2023). CAGE sequencing reveals CFTR-dependent dysregulation of type I IFN signaling in activated cystic fibrosis macrophages. Science Advances. 9(21). eadg5128–eadg5128. 12 indexed citations

Hillary, Robert F., Daniel L. McCartney, Elena Bernabeu, et al.. (2023). Blood-based epigenome-wide analyses of 19 common disease states: A longitudinal, population-based linked cohort study of 18,413 Scottish individuals. PLoS Medicine. 20(7). e1004247–e1004247. 33 indexed citations

Lees, Charlie W., Beatriz Gros, Nikolas Plevris, et al.. (2023). 477c HABITUAL MEAT INTAKE IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK OF DISEASE FLARE IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS: INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE PREDICCT STUDY. Gastroenterology. 164(6). S–1571. 1 indexed citations

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Bernabeu, Elena, Daniel L. McCartney, Danni A. Gadd, et al.. (2023). Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age. Genome Medicine. 15(1). 12–12. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hillary, Robert F., Archie Campbell, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2023). Integration of datasets for individual prediction of DNA methylation-based biomarkers. Genome biology. 24(1). 278–278. 1 indexed citations

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Raper, Anna, Beth E. P. Henderson, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2023). Cellular heterogeneity of the developing worker honey bee (Apis mellifera) pupa: a single cell transcriptomics analysis. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(10). 2 indexed citations

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Wheater, Emily, Paola Galdi, Daniel L. McCartney, et al.. (2022). DNA methylation in relation to gestational age and brain dysmaturation in preterm infants. Brain Communications. 4(2). fcac056–fcac056. 22 indexed citations

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Robertson, Neil, Benjamin Livesey, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2022). Longitudinal dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis identifies gene-specific fitness effects. Nature Medicine. 28(7). 1439–1446. 59 indexed citations

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Gadd, Danni A., Anna J. Stevenson, Robert F. Hillary, et al.. (2021). Epigenetic predictors of lifestyle traits applied to the blood and brain. Brain Communications. 3(2). fcab082–fcab082. 6 indexed citations

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Marioni, Riccardo E., Sonia Shah, Allan F. McRae, et al.. (2015). The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. International Journal of Epidemiology. 44(4). 1388–1396. 397 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murphy, Lee, et al.. (2012). SNP SCREENING FOR HLA HAPLOTYPES RELEVANT IN ESTABLISHING A HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED CELL BANK. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 79(6). 540–541. 1 indexed citations

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Bentley, Stephen D., David M. Aanensen, Angeliki Mavroidi, et al.. (2006). Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes. PLoS Genetics. 2(3). e31–e31. 567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bentley, Stephen D., Matthias Maiwald, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2003). Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. The Lancet. 361(9358). 637–644. 161 indexed citations

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Harris, David & Lee Murphy. (2003). Sequencing Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes. Humana Press eBooks. 175. 217–234. 2 indexed citations

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