Marcus Richards

24.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
421 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Marcus Richards is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Richards has authored 421 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 68 papers in Health and 63 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Marcus Richards's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (78 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (66 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (49 papers). Marcus Richards is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (78 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (66 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (49 papers). Marcus Richards collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Marcus Richards's co-authors include Rebecca Hardy, Michael Wadsworth, Diana Kuh, Diana Kuh, Yaakov Stern, Amanda Sacker, Sean Clouston, Rachel Cooper, Ian J. Deary and Mai Stafford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Richards

400 papers receiving 14.4k 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 Marcus Richards et al. profile →
Autism in England: assessing underdiagnosis in a population-based cohort study of prospectively collected primary care data

2023 85 citations Elizabeth O’Nions, Irene Petersen et al. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcus Richards United Kingdom	65	3.2k	2.3k	2.2k	2.0k	2.0k	421	15.1k
Yoav Ben‐Shlomo United Kingdom	88	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.5×	3.6k 1.8×	1.6k 0.8×	531	26.7k
Catharine R. Galé United Kingdom	74	1.9k 0.6×	3.5k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	4.1k 2.1×	1.9k 1.0×	264	18.9k
Brent J. Small United States	69	5.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	340	16.2k
Geir Selbæk Norway	47	5.7k 1.8×	1.2k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.6×	290	17.9k
M. Maria Glymour United States	64	4.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	525	19.6k
Rebecca Hardy United Kingdom	79	1.7k 0.5×	3.6k 1.6×	4.4k 2.0×	4.1k 2.0×	1.6k 0.8×	448	21.5k
Carl F. Pieper United States	83	3.9k 1.2×	957 0.4×	2.4k 1.1×	5.6k 2.8×	1.6k 0.8×	440	25.6k
Arnstein Mykletun Norway	70	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	3.5k 1.8×	223	15.9k
Neil Schneiderman United States	77	1.6k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	2.8k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	4.2k 2.1×	465	23.6k
Deborah E. Barnes United States	67	4.7k 1.4×	690 0.3×	3.1k 1.4×	3.1k 1.5×	1.3k 0.7×	234	20.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Saunders, Rob, Joshua E. J. Buckman, Dave Dagnan, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of psychological therapies for depression or anxiety in adults with intellectual disabilities: retrospective, matched, observational cohort study of primary care electronic healthcare records in England. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

Richards, Marcus, Anna Hansell, John Gulliver, et al.. (2025). Association of ambient air pollution exposure with psychological distress in mid and later adulthood: A 26-year prospective cohort study. PLoS ONE. 20(3). e0320332–e0320332. 1 indexed citations

O’Nions, Elizabeth, Dan Lewer, Irene Petersen, et al.. (2023). Estimating life expectancy and years of life lost for autistic people in the UK: a matched cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 36. 100776–100776. 19 indexed citations

Coutrot, Antoine, Alpár S. Lázár, Marcus Richards, et al.. (2022). Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7697–7697. 37 indexed citations

Saunders, Rob, Joshua E. J. Buckman, Georgina Charlesworth, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of primary care psychological therapy services for the treatment of depression and anxiety in people living with dementia: Evidence from national healthcare records in England. EClinicalMedicine. 52. 101692–101692. 10 indexed citations

Jongsma, Hannah E., Vanessa Moulton, George B. Ploubidis, et al.. (2022). Psychological Distress Across Adulthood: Equating Scales in Three British Birth Cohorts. Clinical Psychological Science. 11(1). 121–133. 2 indexed citations

Khanolkar, Amal R., Nish Chaturvedi, Valerie Kuan, et al.. (2021). Socioeconomic inequalities in prevalence and development of multimorbidity across adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of the MRC 1946 National Survey of Health and Development in the UK. PLoS Medicine. 18(9). e1003775–e1003775. 22 indexed citations

Green, Rebecca, Jodie Lord, Jin Xu, et al.. (2021). Metabolic correlates of late midlife cognitive outcomes: findings from the 1946 British Birth Cohort. Brain Communications. 4(1). fcab291–fcab291. 7 indexed citations

Stoner, Charlotte R., Martín Knapp, Jeroen Luyten, et al.. (2020). The cognitive footprint of medication: A review of cognitive assessments in clinical trials. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. 45(4). 874–880. 1 indexed citations

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Gardner, Michael P., Stafford L. Lightman, Diana Kuh, et al.. (2019). Dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and cognitive capability at older ages: individual participant meta-analysis of five cohorts. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4555–4555. 31 indexed citations

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Philippou, Elena, Gerda K. Pot, Alexandros Heraclides, Marcus Richards, & Rebecca Bendayan. (2018). Dietary glycaemic index and cognitive function: prospective associations in adults of the 1946 British birth cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 22(8). 1415–1424. 6 indexed citations

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Yamasaki, Syudo, Shuntaro Ando, Marcus Richards, et al.. (2018). Maternal diabetes in early pregnancy, and psychotic experiences and depressive symptoms in 10-year-old offspring: A population-based birth cohort study. Schizophrenia Research. 206. 52–57. 19 indexed citations

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Landy, Rebecca, Jenny Head, Marcus Richards, & Rebecca Hardy. (2017). The effect of life course socioeconomic position on crystallised cognitive ability in two large UK cohort studies: a structured modelling approach. BMJ Open. 7(5). e014461–e014461. 11 indexed citations

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Wieldraaijer, Thijs, Laura A M Duineveld, Kristel M. van Asselt, et al.. (2016). Follow-up of colon cancer patients; causes of distress and need for supportive care. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 43(1). 118–125. 21 indexed citations

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Xu, Man, Darya Gaysina, Jennifer H. Barnett, et al.. (2015). Psychometric precision in phenotype definition is a useful step in molecular genetic investigation of psychiatric disorders. Translational Psychiatry. 5(6). e593–e593. 10 indexed citations

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Cadar, Dorina, et al.. (2013). Increased Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Protects Memory Decline over 20 years in a Longitudinal Study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Richards, Marcus. (2011). Achieving World Class Outcomes in Cancer Treatment. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, Brooke, Rebecca Fuhrer, Michael Marmot, & Marcus Richards. (2010). Does retirement influence cognitive performance? The Whitehall II Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 65(11). 958–963. 42 indexed citations

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Mulla, Umme Z., GD Mishra, Marcus Richards, & A. M. Stephen. (2009). MAJOR FRUITS AS A COMMON MARKER IN CROSS-COHORT ANALYSIS USING DIETARY DATA ACQUIRED THROUGH DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS. View. 1 indexed citations

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Havenith, George, Victor Candas, Emiel den Hartog, et al.. (2005). Interaction effects of radiation and convection measured by a thermal manikin wearing protective clothing with different radiant properties. Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University). 5. 1. 9 indexed citations

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