Paul Welsh

27.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
302 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Paul Welsh is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Welsh has authored 302 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 67 papers in Epidemiology and 59 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Paul Welsh's work include Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (37 papers), Heart Failure Treatment and Management (32 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (30 papers). Paul Welsh is often cited by papers focused on Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (37 papers), Heart Failure Treatment and Management (32 papers) and Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (30 papers). Paul Welsh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. Paul Welsh's co-authors include Naveed Sattar, Carlos Celis‐Morales, Jill P. Pell, Jason M. R. Gill, Stuart R. Gray, Daniel Mackay, Donald M. Lyall, Frederick K. Ho, Jana Anderson and Gordon Lowe and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Paul Welsh

288 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respir... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2020 2019 2024 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Associations of grip strength with cardiovascular, respiratory, and cancer outcomes and all cause mortality: prospective cohort study of half a million UK Biobank participants
    2018 519 citations Carlos Celis‐Morales, Paul Welsh et al. profile →
  2. Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study
    2017 383 citations Carlos Celis‐Morales, Donald M. Lyall et al. profile →
  3. Vitamin D concentrations and COVID-19 infection in UK Biobank
    2020 339 citations Claire E. Hastie, Daniel Mackay et al. profile →
  4. Cardiac Troponin T and Troponin I in the General Population
    2019 211 citations Paul Welsh, Caroline Hayward et al. Circulation profile →
  5. 5-year follow-up of the randomised Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) of continued support for weight loss maintenance in the UK: an extension study
    2024 63 citations Paul Welsh, Alex McConnachie et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Welsh United Kingdom 64 3.3k 2.5k 2.0k 1.7k 1.7k 302 12.1k
Erik Ingelsson Sweden 63 3.3k 1.0× 2.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 2.9k 1.8× 209 12.8k
Ioanna Tzoulaki United Kingdom 58 2.3k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.2× 186 13.9k
Carlos Iribarren United States 63 3.2k 1.0× 2.7k 1.1× 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 227 13.0k
Yoshihiro Miyamoto Japan 50 5.1k 1.5× 2.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.3× 454 10.9k
Yutaka Kiyohara Japan 76 3.2k 1.0× 3.2k 1.3× 3.0k 1.5× 2.5k 1.5× 2.3k 1.4× 291 16.6k
Amit V. Khera United States 34 3.3k 1.0× 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 2.3k 1.4× 104 11.5k
Johan Sundström Sweden 72 6.9k 2.1× 2.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.2× 3.1k 1.8× 2.3k 1.4× 363 17.0k
Gunnar Engström Sweden 68 5.1k 1.5× 2.3k 0.9× 2.9k 1.5× 1.9k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 514 16.2k
Colby Ayers United States 56 6.7k 2.0× 2.1k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 2.1k 1.2× 891 0.5× 269 12.5k
Lars J. Vatten Norway 76 3.1k 0.9× 3.0k 1.2× 1.8k 0.9× 2.6k 1.5× 1.9k 1.1× 330 20.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Welsh, Paul, Anna Louise Pouncey, Naveed Sattar, & Janet T. Powell. (2025). Sex-Specific Risk of Smoking for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Exploration of Potential Mechanism: Meta-Analysis and Prospective Cohort Study. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 45(7). 1316–1325. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Qiaoling, Carlos Celis‐Morales, Naveed Sattar, & Paul Welsh. (2024). Association of glycaemic control with intraocular pressure in a large general population: Results from the UK Biobank. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 26(11). 5192–5201. 3 indexed citations
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Anderson, Jana, Salil V. Deo, Paul Welsh, et al.. (2024). In which common chronic conditions can (or cannot) obesity and lifestyle factors explain higher concentrations of C‐reactive protein?. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 26(12). 5786–5794. 1 indexed citations
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Logan, Greig, Graham Baker, Stuart R. Gray, et al.. (2023). Benefits, risks, barriers, and facilitators to cycling: a narrative review. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 5. 1168357–1168357. 19 indexed citations
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Welsh, Paul, Dorien M. Kimenai, Anoop Shah, et al.. (2023). Multiple Cardiac Biomarkers to Improve Prediction of Cardiovascular Events: Findings from the Generation Scotland Scottish Family Health Study. Clinical Chemistry. 70(2). 403–413. 6 indexed citations
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Boonpor, Jirapitcha, Solange Parra‐Soto, Fanny Petermann‐Rocha, et al.. (2023). Dose–response relationship between device-measured physical activity and incident type 2 diabetes: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 191–191. 11 indexed citations
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Adamson, Carly, Colette E. Jackson, Ross T. Campbell, et al.. (2023). Neuropeptide Y is Elevated in Heart Failure and is an Independent Predictor of Outcomes. European Journal of Heart Failure. 26(1). 107–116. 16 indexed citations
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Mooney, Leanne, Colette E. Jackson, Carly Adamson, et al.. (2023). Adverse Outcomes Associated With Interleukin-6 in Patients Recently Hospitalized for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Circulation Heart Failure. 16(4). 33 indexed citations
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Karusheva, Yanislava, Alexander Mörseburg, Peter Barker, et al.. (2022). The Common H202D Variant in GDF-15 Does Not Affect Its Bioactivity but Can Significantly Interfere with Measurement of Its Circulating Levels. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 7(6). 1388–1400. 19 indexed citations
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Pazoki, Raha, Ville Karhunen, Urmo Võsa, et al.. (2022). Genetic analysis of over half a million people characterises C-reactive protein loci. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2198–2198. 95 indexed citations
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Welsh, Paul, Claire Welsh, Pardeep S. Jhund, et al.. (2021). Derivation and Validation of a 10-Year Risk Score for Symptomatic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Cohort Study of Nearly 500 000 Individuals. Circulation. 144(8). 604–614. 16 indexed citations
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Ho, Frederick K., Carlos Celis‐Morales, Stuart R. Gray, et al.. (2021). Association and pathways between shift work and cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study of 238 661 participants from UK Biobank. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(2). 579–590. 29 indexed citations
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Jani, Bhautesh, Barbara I. Nicholl, Peter Hanlon, et al.. (2021). Family history of diabetes and risk of SARS‐COV‐2 in UK Biobank: A prospective cohort study. Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism. 4(4). e00283–e00283. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Jana, Frederick K. Ho, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, et al.. (2021). Remote history of VTE is associated with severe COVID‐19 in middle and older age: UK Biobank cohort study. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 19(10). 2533–2538. 4 indexed citations
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Ho, Frederick K., Carlos Celis‐Morales, Stuart R. Gray, et al.. (2020). Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for COVID-19, and comparison to risk factors for influenza and pneumonia: results from a UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 10(11). e040402–e040402. 108 indexed citations
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Welsh, Paul, Claire Welsh, Carlos Celis‐Morales, et al.. (2020). Lipoprotein(a) and cardiovascular disease: prediction, attributable risk fraction and estimating benefits from novel interventions. European Heart Journal. 41(Supplement_2). 6 indexed citations
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Wright, Alison K., Paul Welsh, Jason M. R. Gill, et al.. (2020). Age-, sex- and ethnicity-related differences in body weight, blood pressure, HbA1c and lipid levels at the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes relative to people without diabetes. Diabetologia. 63(8). 1542–1553. 77 indexed citations
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Delles, Christian, Naomi Rankin, Charles Boachie, et al.. (2018). Nuclear magnetic resonance‐based metabolomics identifies phenylalanine as a novel predictor of incident heart failure hospitalisation:results from PROSPER and FINRISK 1997. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 51 indexed citations
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