Patrick Royston

71.3k total citations · 30 hit papers
269 papers, 51.5k citations indexed

About

Patrick Royston is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Royston has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 51.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Statistics and Probability, 21 papers in Epidemiology and 20 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Patrick Royston's work include Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (78 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (72 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (57 papers). Patrick Royston is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (78 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (72 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (57 papers). Patrick Royston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Patrick Royston's co-authors include Ian R. White, Douglas G. Altman, Angela Wood, Willi Sauerbrei, Mahesh Parmar, Karel G.M. Moons, Yvonne Vergouwe, John B. Carlin, D G Altman and Michael J. Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Royston

262 papers receiving 50.3k citations

Hit Papers

Multiple imputation using chained e... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2010 2009 1990 2004 2006 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Royston United Kingdom 84 6.9k 6.3k 6.0k 5.5k 5.2k 269 51.5k
Nan M. Laird United States 78 7.1k 1.0× 9.0k 1.4× 8.1k 1.3× 7.4k 1.3× 3.3k 0.6× 240 68.9k
Ian R. White United Kingdom 82 4.6k 0.7× 3.7k 0.6× 5.4k 0.9× 5.9k 1.1× 3.7k 0.7× 445 43.5k
Gary G. Koch United States 75 8.3k 1.2× 12.7k 2.0× 3.6k 0.6× 8.1k 1.5× 3.4k 0.6× 485 89.9k
Alex J. Sutton United Kingdom 91 5.0k 0.7× 6.2k 1.0× 3.2k 0.5× 4.8k 0.9× 1.8k 0.3× 324 44.5k
Frank E. Harrell United States 90 6.8k 1.0× 10.5k 1.7× 3.5k 0.6× 4.1k 0.8× 2.3k 0.4× 325 51.4k
Sander Greenland United States 91 4.6k 0.7× 3.1k 0.5× 8.0k 1.3× 5.2k 1.0× 3.1k 0.6× 342 42.6k
Karel G.M. Moons Netherlands 99 10.0k 1.4× 10.2k 1.6× 3.0k 0.5× 4.2k 0.8× 2.8k 0.5× 469 54.1k
Stanley Lemeshow United States 71 11.0k 1.6× 6.8k 1.1× 2.1k 0.3× 5.1k 0.9× 2.7k 0.5× 227 59.4k
Stephen D. Walter Canada 96 6.5k 0.9× 6.2k 1.0× 2.2k 0.4× 3.5k 0.6× 7.8k 1.5× 451 43.7k
Stuart R. Lipsitz United States 93 3.0k 0.4× 9.7k 1.6× 3.8k 0.6× 6.2k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 767 39.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Royston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Royston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick Royston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick Royston based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick Royston. Patrick Royston is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Royston, Patrick & Mahesh Parmar. (2013). Restricted mean survival time: an alternative to the hazard ratio for the design and analysis of randomized trials with a time-to-event outcome. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 13(1). 152–152. 623 indexed citations breakdown →
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Royston, Patrick & Douglas G. Altman. (2013). External validation of a Cox prognostic model: principles and methods. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 13(1). 33–33. 603 indexed citations breakdown →
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Manola, Judith, Patrick Royston, Paul Elson, et al.. (2011). Prognostic Model for Survival in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the International Kidney Cancer Working Group. Clinical Cancer Research. 17(16). 5443–5450. 148 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick & Willi Sauerbrei. (2008). Multivariable Model-Building: A Pragmatic Approach to Regression Analysis based on Fractional Polynomials for Modelling Continuous Variables. UCL Discovery (University College London). 504 indexed citations breakdown →
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Royston, Patrick & Willi Sauerbrei. (2008). Multivariable Model‐Building. Wiley series in probability and statistics. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sauerbrei, Willi & Patrick Royston. (2007). Modelling to extract more information from clinical trials data: On some roles for the bootstrap. Statistics in Medicine. 26(27). 4989–5001. 12 indexed citations
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Atzpodien, Jens, et al.. (2007). Fractional Polynomials in a New Metastatic Renal Carcinoma Continuous Prognostic Index Involving Histology, Laboratory, and Clinical Predictors. Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals. 22(6). 812–818. 2 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick, John C. Galati, & John B. Carlin. (2007). A new architecture for handling multiply imputed data in Stata. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick & Willi Sauerbrei. (2005). Building multivariable regression models with continuous covariates, with a practical emphasis on fractional polynomials and applications in clinical epidemiology.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Ambler, Gareth & Patrick Royston. (2001). Fractional polynomial model selection procedures: investigation of type i error rate. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 69(1). 89–108. 75 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick, et al.. (2000). Nonlinear regression models involving power or exponential functions of covariates: update. Stata technical bulletin. 9(49). 4 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick, et al.. (2000). Multivariable fractional polynomials: update. Stata technical bulletin. 9(49). 7 indexed citations
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Wright, Eileen & Patrick Royston. (1997). Age-specific reference intervals (“normal ranges”). Stata technical bulletin. 6(34). 20 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick & Douglas G. Altman. (1995). Using fractional polynomials to model curved regression relationships. Stata technical bulletin. 4(21). 19 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick. (1994). Generalized linear models: revision of glm. Stata technical bulletin. 3(18). 1 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick. (1993). Nonlinear regression command. Stata technical bulletin. 2(7). 3 indexed citations
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Royston, Patrick. (1993). Centile estimation command. Stata technical bulletin. 2(8). 1 indexed citations
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Matthews, J. N. S., D G Altman, Michael J. Campbell, & Patrick Royston. (1990). Analysis of serial measurements in medical research.. BMJ. 300(6719). 230–235. 2738 indexed citations breakdown →
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Campbell, Stuart, V. Bhan, Patrick Royston, Malcolm Whitehead, & William P. Collins. (1989). Transabdominal ultrasound screening for early ovarian cancer.. BMJ. 299(6712). 1363–1367. 193 indexed citations
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Wald, N J, Howard Cuckle, J. W. Densem, et al.. (1989). Serum screening for Down's syndrome: Authors' reply. BMJ. 298(6665). 50.4–50. 1 indexed citations

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