Paul Whaley

3.5k citations

33 papers · 1.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 14

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 2%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Chemical Health and Safety top 5%

Papers in

Chemical Health and Safety 2
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 17
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews 14

Co-authors: Kristina A. Thayer Holger J. Schünemann Rebecca L. Morgan Neal Haddaway Biljana Macura Andrew S. Pullin Taylor Wolffe Crispin Halsall
Journals: Environment International (10 papers)Environmental Evidence (3 papers)Toxicological Sciences (2 papers)Archives of Toxicology (2 papers)Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Paul Whaley

33 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Identifying the PECO: A framework for formulating good questions to explore the association of environmental and other exposures with health outcomes 2018 · 804 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Environment International
2018 Environmental Evidence

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1	Quantitative assessment of inconsistency in meta-analysis using decision thresholds with two new indices Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ·Bernardo Sousa‐Pinto, Ignacio Neumann, Rafael José Vieira, Antonio Bognanni, 隆高岡, H. Ibayashi, P. Small, Clareece R. Nevill, Gianluca Baio, Paul Whaley, Guido Schwarzer, James Steele, Gavin Stewart, Holger J. Schünemann, Luís Filipe Azevedo	2025	1
2	GRADE guidance 40: The GRADE evidence-to-decision framework for environmental and occupational health Environment International ·Emily Senerth, Paul Whaley, Elie A. Akl, Brandy Beverly, Pablo Alonso‐Coello, Andrew A. Rooney, Holger J. Schünemann, Kristina A. Thayer, Katya Tsaioun, Rebecca L. Morgan	2025	2
3	Identifying assessment criteria for in vitro studies: a method and item bank Toxicological Sciences ·Paul Whaley, Robyn Blain, J. Li, Andrew A. Rooney, Vickie R. Walker, Stephen Wattam, Roberta Bezerra Brite Brite, Carlijn R. Hooijmans	2024	4
4	Development of a framework to structure decision-making in environmental and occupational health: A systematic review and Delphi study Environment International ·Emily Senerth, Paul Whaley, Elie A. Akl, Brandy Beverly, Pablo Alonso‐Coello, Ting Ni, Eman Al-Laham, Arja Ameen, Andrew A. Rooney, Holger J. Schünemann, Kristina A. Thayer, Katya Tsaioun, Rebecca L. Morgan	2024	4
5	Assessing the effects of a precommitment policy applied during peer review Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Noah Haber, Timothy M. Errington, Haiming Lei, Paul Whaley, Brian A. Nosek	2024	1
6	Preregistration templates as a new addition to the evidence-based toxicology toolbox David Thomas Mellor, Katherine S. Corker, Paul Whaley	2024	2
7	Using bench protocol platforms to improve compliance with systematic review guidance documents and reporting checklists: Proof of concept Paul Whaley, Stephen Wattam, Anna Mae Scott, John Vidler, (unknown)	2023	1
8	A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants Environment International ·Nausheen Nausheen, Paul Whaley, Michelle Bellingham, Linda S. Birnbaum, Aleksandra Čavoški, Y.T. Lee, Ruth Garside, Stuart Harrad, Frank J. Kelly, Andreas Kortenkamp, Olwenn Martin, Anna A. Stec, Tom Woolley	2023	15
9	Reconciling chemical flame retardant exposure and fire risk in domestic furniture PLoS ONE ·Paul Whaley, Stephen Wattam, Jay Henry, N Ickolas, Stuart Harrad, Nicola Jones, Huber Marion, O Binswanger, C. Ian Kyer, 奈尾子福田, T. Richard Hull	2023	1
10	Principles and framework for assessing the risk of bias for studies included in comparative quantitative environmental systematic reviews Environmental Evidence ·Geoff K Frampton, Paul Whaley, Micah G. Bennett, Gary Bilotta, J.L.C.M. Dorne, Jacqualyn Eales, Katy James, Christian Kohl, Magnus Land, Barbara Livoreil, David Makowski, Evans Muchiri, Gillian Petrokofsky, Nicola Randall, Kate A. Schofield	2022	46
11	Assessing author willingness to enter study information into structured data templates as part of the manuscript submission process: A pilot study Heliyon ·J. Bahcall, Paul Whaley, Taiuani Marquine Raymundo, Ingrid L. Druwe, Janice S. Lee, Michele Taylor, Andrew J. Shapiro, Muji Laksono, Courtney Lemeris, Kristina A. Thayer	2022	4
12	Biological plausibility in environmental health systematic reviews: a GRADE concept paper Environment International ·Paul Whaley, Thomas Piggott, Rebecca L. Morgan, Sebastian Hoffmann, Katya Tsaioun, Lukas Schwingshackl, Mohammed Ansari, Kristina A. Thayer, Holger J. Schünemann	2022	9
13	Systematic reviews and meta-analyses for the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury Environment International ·Frank Pega, Natalie C. Momen, Yuka Ujita, Tim Driscoll, Paul Whaley	2021	19
14	An approach to quantifying the potential importance of residual confounding in systematic reviews of observational studies: A GRADE concept paper Environment International ·Jos Verbeek, Paul Whaley, Rebecca L. Morgan, Kyla W. Taylor, Andrew A. Rooney, Lukas Schwingshackl, Jan L. Hoving, Xianchen Shi, Beverley Shea, Reem A. Mustafa, M. Hassan Murad, Holger J. Schünemann	2021	20
15	Towards guidelines for time-trend reviews examining temporal variability in human biomonitoring data of pollutants Environment International ·Brij Mohan Sharma, Jiří Kalina, Paul Whaley, Martin Scheringer	2021	6
16	Achieving a High Level of Protection from Pesticides in Europe: Problems with the Current Risk Assessment Procedure and Solutions European Journal of Risk Regulation ·Julia De Pieri, Christopher J. Portier, Aleksandra Čavoški, Robin Mesnage, Geovana Camardelli Milhomens Azeredo, Peter Clausing, Paul Whaley, E. Coleridge Pilgrim, Angeliki Lyssimachou	2020	36
17	Knowledge Organization Systems for Systematic Chemical Assessments Environmental Health Perspectives ·Paul Whaley, Stephen W. Edwards, Andrew D. Kraft, Kate Nyhan, Andrew J. Shapiro, Graham Ross Chamberlain, Samantha Jaqueline Grey Lievanos, Taylor Wolffe, Michelle Angrish	2020	20
18	Artificial Intelligence for chemical risk assessment Computational Toxicology ·Clemens Wittwehr, Paul Blomstedt, John Paul Gosling, Tomi Peltola, W.N. Mobley, Andrea-Nicole Richarz, K. Rajah, Paul Whaley, Andrew Worth, Maurice Whelan	2019	27
19	Identifying the PECO: A framework for formulating good questions to explore the association of environmental and other exposures with health outcomes Environment International ·Rebecca L. Morgan, Paul Whaley, Kristina A. Thayer, Holger J. Schünemann Hit paper breakdown →	2018	804
20	A risk of bias instrument for non-randomized studies of exposures: A users' guide to its application in the context of GRADE Environment International ·Rebecca L. Morgan, Kristina A. Thayer, Nancy Santesso, Alison C. Holloway, Robyn Blain, Sorina Eftim, Alexandra E. Goldstone, Việt Trần Bảo, Mohammed Ansari, Elie A. Akl, Tommaso Filippini, Anna Hansell, Joerg J Meerpohl, Reem A. Mustafa, Jos Verbeek, Marco Vinceti, Paul Whaley, Holger J. Schünemann	2018	174

About Paul Whaley

Paul Whaley is a scholar working on Chemical Health and Safety, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Small Animals and History and Philosophy of Science, having authored 33 papers that have together received 1.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Meta-analysis and systematic reviews (14 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (6 papers), Animal testing and alternatives (6 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (4 papers), Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals (4 papers), Delphi Technique in Research (3 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (3 papers) and Academic Writing and Publishing (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (502 citations), Chemical Health and Safety (16 citations), Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (133 citations), Pollution (134 citations) and Ecological Modeling (50 citations). Paul Whaley has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Kristina A. Thayer, Holger J. Schünemann, Rebecca L. Morgan, Neal Haddaway, Biljana Macura, Andrew S. Pullin, Taylor Wolffe, Crispin Halsall, Andrew A. Rooney and Vickie R. Walker. Their work appears in journals such as Environment International, Environmental Evidence, Toxicological Sciences, Archives of Toxicology and Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

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