Mark Hamer

49.4k total citations · 19 hit papers
513 papers, 29.2k citations indexed

About

Mark Hamer is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Hamer has authored 513 papers receiving a total of 29.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 239 papers in Physiology, 196 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 138 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Mark Hamer's work include Physical Activity and Health (179 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (163 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (66 papers). Mark Hamer is often cited by papers focused on Physical Activity and Health (179 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (163 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (66 papers). Mark Hamer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Mark Hamer's co-authors include Emmanuel Stamatakis, Andrew Steptoe, Yoichi Chida, G. David Batty, Mika Kivimäki, Y Chida, Gary O’Donovan, Jane Wardle, Lee Smith and Gerard J. Molloy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Mark Hamer

500 papers receiving 28.3k citations

Hit Papers

The effects of acute psyc... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2008 2008 2007 2013 250 500 750
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. The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: A review and meta-analysis
    2007 979 citations Andrew Steptoe, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  2. Physical activity and risk of neurodegenerative disease: a systematic review of prospective evidence
    2008 715 citations Mark Hamer, Y Chida profile →
  3. Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival?
    2008 693 citations Mark Hamer, Andrew Steptoe et al. profile →
  4. Active commuting and cardiovascular risk: A meta-analytic review
    2007 535 citations Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  5. Social Isolation and Loneliness
    2013 465 citations Mark Hamer, Anne McMunn et al. profile →
  6. Association between psychological distress and mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 10 prospective cohort studies
    2012 454 citations Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  7. Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
    2012 439 citations Mark Hamer, Emmanuel Stamatakis profile →
  8. Sitting Time, Physical Activity, and Risk of Mortality in Adults
    2019 404 citations Emmanuel Stamatakis, Ulf Ekelund et al. profile →
  9. Lifestyle risk factors, inflammatory mechanisms, and COVID-19 hospitalization: A community-based cohort study of 387,109 adults in UK
    2020 366 citations Mark Hamer, Mika Kivimäki et al. profile →
  10. Metabolically healthy obesity and risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta‐analysis of prospective cohort studies
    2014 351 citations Mika Kivimäki, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  11. How to reduce sitting time? A review of behaviour change strategies used in sedentary behaviour reduction interventions among adults
    2015 348 citations Lee Smith, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  12. Associations between social isolation, loneliness, and objective physical activity in older men and women
    2019 325 citations Mark Hamer, Andrew Steptoe et al. profile →
  13. The sedentary office: an expert statement on the growing case for change towards better health and productivity
    2015 309 citations Mark Hamer et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  14. Association of “Weekend Warrior” and Other Leisure Time Physical Activity Patterns With Risks for All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer Mortality
    2017 306 citations Gary O’Donovan, I‐Min Lee et al. profile →
  15. Social isolation and loneliness: Prospective associations with functional status in older adults.
    2016 292 citations Anne McMunn, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  16. How does light-intensity physical activity associate with adult cardiometabolic health and mortality? Systematic review with meta-analysis of experimental and observational studies
    2018 285 citations Sébastien Chastin, Mark Hamer et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  17. Sleep and physical activity in relation to all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality risk
    2021 184 citations Bo‐Huei Huang, Mark Hamer et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  18. Effects of Regular Physical Activity on the Immune System, Vaccination and Risk of Community-Acquired Infectious Disease in the General Population: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2021 168 citations Sébastien Chastin, Mark Hamer et al. profile →
  19. Association of wearable device-measured vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity with mortality
    2022 150 citations Emmanuel Stamatakis, Matthew Ahmadi et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Mark Hamer 10.8k 7.2k 4.7k 4.7k 3.5k 513 29.2k
Eric J. Brunner 6.2k 0.6× 6.8k 0.9× 4.5k 0.9× 7.1k 1.5× 1.8k 0.5× 432 32.0k
G. David Batty 4.4k 0.4× 4.9k 0.7× 3.6k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 492 26.1k
Archana Singh‐Manoux 5.4k 0.5× 4.7k 0.7× 3.5k 0.7× 5.6k 1.2× 2.2k 0.6× 377 25.9k
Nicola Veronese 9.1k 0.8× 3.7k 0.5× 2.4k 0.5× 2.6k 0.6× 3.5k 1.0× 704 29.8k
Raymond Niaura 16.8k 1.6× 6.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.4× 3.4k 0.7× 5.1k 1.5× 459 29.7k
Brendon Stubbs 14.8k 1.4× 6.7k 0.9× 4.1k 0.9× 4.7k 1.0× 10.8k 3.1× 815 47.7k
Eleanor M. Simonsick 15.3k 1.4× 4.4k 0.6× 5.3k 1.1× 3.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 503 45.1k
Nancy L. Pedersen 7.9k 0.7× 3.8k 0.5× 1.9k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 5.4k 1.6× 652 37.5k
Dorly J. H. Deeg 5.2k 0.5× 3.1k 0.4× 2.2k 0.5× 6.0k 1.3× 4.2k 1.2× 444 29.6k
James A. Blumenthal 5.4k 0.5× 3.4k 0.5× 17.8k 3.8× 4.6k 1.0× 4.7k 1.3× 411 34.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Hamer

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All Works

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Burgess, Paul W., et al.. (2024). Association between physical activity and inhibitory control in children. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 23(7). 1256–1272. 2 indexed citations
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Fancourt, Daisy, et al.. (2024). Life-course social participation and physical activity in midlife: longitudinal associations in the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70). European Journal of Epidemiology. 39(6). 643–651. 1 indexed citations
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Chattopadhyay, Kaushik, Pallavi Mishra, Kavita Singh, et al.. (2023). Yoga Programme for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention (YOGA-DP) Among High-Risk People in India: A Multicenter Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial. Diabetes Therapy. 14(7). 1137–1154. 6 indexed citations
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Bloomberg, Mikaela, Laura Brocklebank, Mark Hamer, & Andrew Steptoe. (2023). Joint associations of physical activity and sleep duration with cognitive ageing: longitudinal analysis of an English cohort study. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 4(7). e345–e353. 51 indexed citations
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Blodgett, Joanna M., Matthew Ahmadi, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Kenneth Rockwood, & Mark Hamer. (2023). Fractal complexity of daily physical activity and cognitive function in a midlife cohort. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20340–20340. 1 indexed citations
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Stamatakis, Emmanuel, Matthew Ahmadi, Christine M. Friedenreich, et al.. (2023). Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence Among Nonexercising Adults. JAMA Oncology. 9(9). 1255–1255. 70 indexed citations
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Paudel, Susan, Matthew Ahmadi, Philayrath Phongsavan, Mark Hamer, & Emmanuel Stamatakis. (2023). Do associations of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with cardiovascular disease and mortality differ across socioeconomic groups? A prospective analysis of device-measured and self-reported UK Biobank data. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 57(14). 921–929. 41 indexed citations
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Ladwig, Karl-Heinz, Thomas C. Baghai, Frank Doyle, et al.. (2022). Mental health-related risk factors and interventions in patients with heart failure: a position paper endorsed by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC). European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 29(7). 1124–1141. 35 indexed citations
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Batty, G. David, Bamba Gaye, Catharine R. Galé, Mark Hamer, & Camille Lassale. (2021). Explaining Ethnic Differentials in COVID-19 Mortality: A Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 191(2). 275–281. 18 indexed citations
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Huang, Bo‐Huei, Mark Hamer, Sébastien Chastin, et al.. (2020). Cross‐sectional associations of device‐measured sedentary behaviour and physical activity with cardio‐metabolic health in the 1970 British Cohort Study. Diabetic Medicine. 38(2). e14392–e14392. 17 indexed citations
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Smith, Lee, Claudio Luchini, Jacopo Demurtas, et al.. (2019). Telomere length and health outcomes: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies. Ageing Research Reviews. 51. 1–10. 56 indexed citations
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Ku, Po‐Wen, et al.. (2019). Device‐measured light‐intensity physical activity and mortality: A meta‐analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 30(1). 13–24. 40 indexed citations
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Hamer, Mark, Gary O’Donovan, & Emmanuel Stamatakis. (2018). High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Mortality. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 38(3). 669–672. 102 indexed citations
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Hamer, Mark, et al.. (2018). Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Kuwaiti adolescents and associations with socioeconomic indicators: the study of health and activity among adolescents in Kuwait. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Hamer, Mark & Emmanuel Stamatakis. (2013). Sedentary behavior and risk of future depression and cognitive decline in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Hamer, Mark, Sèverine Sabia, G. David Batty, et al.. (2012). Physical Activity and Inflammatory Markers Over 10 Years. Circulation. 126(8). 928–933. 209 indexed citations
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Kivimäki, Mika, G. David Batty, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2011). Using Additional Information on Working Hours to Predict Coronary Heart Disease. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Kivimäki, Mika, Markus Jokela, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2011). Examining Overweight and Obesity as Risk Factors for Common Mental Disorders Using Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Genotype-Instrumented Analysis. UCL Discovery (University College London). 6 indexed citations
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Stamatakis, Emmanuel A., Mark Hamer, & Debbie A. Lawlor. (2009). Physical Activity, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Disease: Is Domestic Physical Activity Beneficial?. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations
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Chida, Y & Mark Hamer. (2009). Chronic Psychosocial Factors and Acute Physiological Responses to Laboratory-Induced Stress in Healthy Populations: A Quantitative Review of 30 Years of Investigations (vol 134, pg 829, 2008). UCL Discovery (University College London). 16 indexed citations

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