Matthew Whitaker

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Matthew Whitaker is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Neurology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Whitaker has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Infectious Diseases, 7 papers in Neurology and 5 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Matthew Whitaker's work include COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (15 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (12 papers) and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (6 papers). Matthew Whitaker is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies (15 papers), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (12 papers) and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 (6 papers). Matthew Whitaker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Greece and France. Matthew Whitaker's co-authors include Paul Elliott, Joshua Elliott, Helen Ward, Graham Cooke, Marc Chadeau‐Hyam, Ara Darzi, Steven Riley, Barbara Bodinier, Christl A. Donnelly and William Barclay and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Whitaker

29 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in a community study of 606,434 people in England

2022 231 citations Matthew Whitaker, Joshua Elliott et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Whitaker United Kingdom	17	595	367	271	217	128	30	1.3k
Maria De Martino Italy	16	343 0.6×	300 0.8×	174 0.6×	76 0.4×	98 0.8×	59	996
Jianbo Shao China	17	1.0k 1.7×	279 0.8×	248 0.9×	35 0.2×	255 2.0×	51	2.2k
Ravi Patel United States	10	204 0.3×	159 0.4×	230 0.8×	55 0.3×	65 0.5×	49	932
Lauren F. Collins United States	15	618 1.0×	286 0.8×	168 0.6×	27 0.1×	309 2.4×	59	1.2k
Thamir Al-khlaiwi Saudi Arabia	12	258 0.4×	87 0.2×	105 0.4×	86 0.4×	80 0.6×	44	904
Anu Vinod Ranade India	19	222 0.4×	140 0.4×	72 0.3×	55 0.3×	116 0.9×	67	1.2k
Jaffer Shah United States	17	202 0.3×	95 0.3×	141 0.5×	42 0.2×	146 1.1×	109	937
Amirhossein Erfani Iran	11	275 0.5×	171 0.5×	112 0.4×	32 0.1×	96 0.8×	45	690
Tianyou Wang China	10	375 0.6×	88 0.2×	128 0.5×	48 0.2×	68 0.5×	28	760

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Whitaker, Matthew, et al.. (2026). Profiling vaccine attitudes and subsequent uptake in 1·1 million people in England: a nationwide cohort study. The Lancet. 407(10526). 350–362. 1 indexed citations

Whitaker, Matthew, Bethan Davies, Christina Atchison, et al.. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 rapid antibody test results and subsequent risk of hospitalisation and death in 361,801 people. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4957–4957. 6 indexed citations

Atchison, Christina, Bethan Davies, Emily Cooper, et al.. (2023). Long-term health impacts of COVID-19 among 242,712 adults in England. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6588–6588. 44 indexed citations

Atchison, Christina, Matthew Whitaker, Christl A. Donnelly, et al.. (2023). Characteristics and predictors of persistent symptoms post-COVID-19 in children and young people: a large community cross-sectional study in England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 108(7). e12–e12. 16 indexed citations

Cooper, Emily, Adam Lound, Christina Atchison, et al.. (2023). Awareness and perceptions of Long COVID among people in the REACT programme: Early insights from a pilot interview study. PLoS ONE. 18(1). e0280943–e0280943. 13 indexed citations

Atchison, Christina, Maya Moshe, Jonathan C. Brown, et al.. (2022). Validity of Self-testing at Home With Rapid Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Antibody Detection by Lateral Flow Immunoassay. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(4). 658–666. 9 indexed citations

Ward, Helen, Matthew Whitaker, Barnaby Flower, et al.. (2022). Population antibody responses following COVID-19 vaccination in 212,102 individuals. Nature Communications. 13(1). 907–907. 90 indexed citations

Turbé, Valérian, Matthew Whitaker, Maya Moshe, et al.. (2022). Machine learning to support visual auditing of home-based lateral flow immunoassay self-test results for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 78–78. 22 indexed citations

Elliott, Paul, Oliver Eales, Nicholas Steyn, et al.. (2022). Twin peaks: The Omicron SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 and BA.2 epidemics in England. Science. 376(6600). eabq4411–eabq4411. 67 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Matthew, Joshua Elliott, Marc Chadeau‐Hyam, et al.. (2022). Persistent COVID-19 symptoms in a community study of 606,434 people in England. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1957–1957. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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Whitaker, Matthew, Joshua Elliott, Barbara Bodinier, et al.. (2022). Variant-specific symptoms of COVID-19 in a study of 1,542,510 adults in England. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6856–6856. 83 indexed citations

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Chadeau‐Hyam, Marc, Oliver Eales, Barbara Bodinier, et al.. (2022). Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections in double and triple vaccinated adults and single dose vaccine effectiveness among children in Autumn 2021 in England: REACT-1 study. EClinicalMedicine. 48. 101419–101419. 10 indexed citations

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Elliott, Joshua, Matthew Whitaker, Barbara Bodinier, et al.. (2021). Predictive symptoms for COVID-19 in the community: REACT-1 study of over 1 million people. PLoS Medicine. 18(9). e1003777–e1003777. 65 indexed citations

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Ward, Helen, Christina Atchison, Matthew Whitaker, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in England following the first peak of the pandemic. Nature Communications. 12(1). 905–905. 110 indexed citations

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Bowden, Sarah, Barbara Bodinier, Ilkka Kalliala, et al.. (2021). Genetic variation in cervical preinvasive and invasive disease: a genome-wide association study. The Lancet Oncology. 22(4). 548–557. 58 indexed citations

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Elliott, Joshua, Barbara Bodinier, Matthew Whitaker, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(3). 299–309. 71 indexed citations

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Chadeau‐Hyam, Marc, Barbara Bodinier, Joshua Elliott, et al.. (2020). Risk factors for positive and negative COVID-19 tests: a cautious and in-depth analysis of UK biobank data. International Journal of Epidemiology. 49(5). 1454–1467. 83 indexed citations

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Ward, Helen, Christina Atchison, Matthew Whitaker, et al.. (2020). Antibody prevalence for SARS-CoV-2 in England following first peak of the pandemic: REACT2 study in 100,000 adults. medRxiv. 65 indexed citations

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Chadeau‐Hyam, Marc, Barbara Bodinier, Roel Vermeulen, et al.. (2020). Education, biological ageing, all-cause and cause-specific mortality and morbidity: UK biobank cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 29-30. 100658–100658. 41 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Matthew, et al.. (2018). Final Report of the Federal Commission on School Safety. Presented to the President of the United States.. 7 indexed citations

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