Peter Brocklehurst

25.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
245 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Peter Brocklehurst is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Brocklehurst has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 94 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology and 60 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Peter Brocklehurst's work include Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (62 papers), Maternal and fetal healthcare (56 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (46 papers). Peter Brocklehurst is often cited by papers focused on Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (62 papers), Maternal and fetal healthcare (56 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (46 papers). Peter Brocklehurst collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Peter Brocklehurst's co-authors include Marian Knight, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, P Spark, A. David Edwards, Marianne Thoresen, Andrew Whitelaw, Henry L. Halliday, Malcolm I. Levene, Denis Azzopardi and Brenda Strohm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Peter Brocklehurst

239 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Moderate Hypothermia to Treat Perinatal Asphyxial Encephalopathy

2009 1.3k citations Denis Azzopardi, Brenda Strohm et al. profile →
Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study

2020 705 citations Marian Knight, Kathryn Bunch et al. profile →
Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data

2010 698 citations A. David Edwards, Peter Brocklehurst et al. profile →
Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caesarean-section birth

2019 671 citations Yan Shao, Mark Stares et al. profile →
Effects of Hypothermia for Perinatal Asphyxia on Childhood Outcomes

2014 498 citations Denis Azzopardi, Brenda Strohm et al. profile →
Assessment of brain tissue injury after moderate hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy: a nested substudy of a randomised controlled trial

2009 426 citations A. David Edwards, Peter Brocklehurst et al. profile →
The incidence, characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women hospitalized with symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK from March to September 2020: A national cohort study using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS)

2021 123 citations Nicola Vousden, Kathryn Bunch et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Characteristics of Women, Intrapartum Interventions, and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Among Users of Intrapartum Water Immersion: The UK POOL Cohort Study 2025 ·Birth ·Julia Sanders, (unknown), Peter Brocklehurst, Rebecca Cannings‐John, Sue Channon, (unknown), Billie Hunter, Mervi Jokinen, Fiona Lugg‐Widger, (unknown), Chris Gale, Rebecca Milton, (unknown), Shantini Paranjothy, Rachel Plachcinski, Michael Robling	0
2	Perinatal outcomes after admission with COVID-19 in pregnancy: a UK national cohort study 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Hilde Engjom, Rema Ramakrishnan, Nicola Vousden, Kathryn Bunch, Edward Morris, Nigel Simpson, Chris Gale, Pat O’Brien, Maria Quigley, Peter Brocklehurst, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Marian Knight	8
3	Incidence and outcomes of vasa praevia in the United Kingdom 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·George Attilakos, Anna L. David, R. Tunn, Marian Knight, Peter Brocklehurst	0
4	Maternal and neonatal outcomes among spontaneous vaginal births occurring in or out of water following intrapartum water immersion: The POOL cohort study 2024 ·BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology ·Julia Sanders, (unknown), Peter Brocklehurst, Rebecca Cannings‐John, Sue Channon, (unknown), Billie Hunter, Mervi Jokinen, Fiona Lugg‐Widger, (unknown), Chris Gale, Rebecca Milton, (unknown), Shantini Paranjothy, Rachel Plachcinski, Michael Robling	4
5	Primary succession of Bifidobacteria drives pathogen resistance in neonatal microbiota assembly 2024 ·Nature Microbiology ·Yan Shao, Cristina García-Mauriño, Simon Clare, (unknown), Andre Mu, Anne Adoum, Katherine Harcourt, (unknown), Hilary P. Browne, Mark Stares, Alison Rodger, Peter Brocklehurst, Nigel Field, Trevor D. Lawley	20
6	Cerclage suture type to prevent pregnancy loss in women requiring a vaginal cervical cerclage: the C-STICH RCT 2024 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Victoria Hodgetts Morton, Catherine A Moakes, Jane Daniels, Lee Middleton, Andrew Shennan, Peter Brocklehurst, (unknown), Andrew K Ewer, J. Gray, Nigel Simpson, Jane E. Norman, C. Lees, (unknown), Clive Stubbs, Max Hughes, R. Katie Morris, Philip Toozs‐Hobson	1
7	Incidence and outcomes of vasa praevia in the United Kingdom 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·George Attilakos, Anna L. David, R. Tunn, Marian Knight, Peter Brocklehurst	1
8	Prevalence of polypharmacy in pregnancy: a systematic review 2023 ·BMJ Open ·Astha Anand, Katherine W. Phillips, Anuradhaa Subramanian, Siang Ing Lee, Zhaonan Wang, (unknown), Utkarsh Agrawal, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Catherine Nelson‐Piercy, Peter Brocklehurst, Christine Damase‐Michel, Maria Loane, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo	5
9	Severity of maternal infection and perinatal outcomes during periods of SARS-CoV-2 wildtype, alpha, and delta variant dominance in the UK: prospective cohort study 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Nicola Vousden, Rema Ramakrishnan, Kathryn Bunch, (unknown), Nigel Simpson, Chris Gale, Patrick O’Brien, Maria Quigley, Peter Brocklehurst, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Marian Knight	53
10	Long-term impact of pre-incision antibiotics on children born by caesarean section: a longitudinal study based on UK electronic health records 2022 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Dana Šumilo, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Brian H Willis, Gavin Rudge, James Martín, Krishna Gokhale, Rasiah Thayakaran, Nicola J. Adderley, Joht Singh Chandan, Kelvin Okoth, Isobel Marion Harris, (unknown), Magdalena Skrybant, Jonathan J Deeks, Peter Brocklehurst	3
11	Severity of maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and perinatal outcomes of women admitted to hospital during the omicron variant dominant period using UK Obstetric Surveillance System data: prospective, national cohort study 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Hilde Engjom, Rema Ramakrishnan, Nicola Vousden, Kathryn Bunch, (unknown), Nigel Simpson, Chris Gale, Patrick O’Brien, Maria Quigley, Peter Brocklehurst, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Marian Knight	21
12	Establishing the safety of waterbirth for mothers and babies: a cohort study with nested qualitative component: the protocol for the POOL study 2021 ·BMJ Open ·Rebecca Milton, Julia Sanders, (unknown), Peter Brocklehurst, Rebecca Cannings‐John, Sue Channon, Chris Gale, (unknown), Billie Hunter, Shantini Paranjothy, Fiona Lugg‐Widger, (unknown), (unknown), Rachel Plachcinski, Mary Nolan, Michael Robling	3
13	Vaginal preparation with chlorhexidine at cesarean section to reduce endometritis and prevent sepsis: A randomized pilot trial (PREPS) 2019 ·Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica ·Victoria Hodgetts Morton, Catherine A Hewitt, Amie Wilson, (unknown), Annalise Weckesser, (unknown), Peter Brocklehurst, Pollyanna Hardy, R. Katie Morris	7
14	Developing routinely recorded clinical data from electronic patient records as a national resource to improve neonatal health care: the Medicines for Neonates research programme 2019 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Neena Modi, Deborah Ashby, Cheryl Battersby, Peter Brocklehurst, (unknown), Kate Costeloe, Elizabeth S. Draper, Victoria Foster, (unknown), Azeem Majeed, Joanna Murray, Stavros Petrou, Katherine Rogers, Shalini Santhakumaran, Sonia Saxena, Yevgeniy Statnikov, Hilary Wong, Alys Young	21
15	Uncertainties in Screening and Prevention of Group B Streptococcus Disease 2018 ·Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Kirsty Le Doaré, Paul T. Heath, Jane A. Plumb, Natalie Owen, Peter Brocklehurst, Lucy C. Chappell	15
16	Caesarean section surgical techniques: 3 year follow-up of the CORONIS fractional, factorial, unmasked, randomised controlled trial 2016 ·The Lancet ·Peter Brocklehurst, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	49
17	Effects of Hypothermia for Perinatal Asphyxia on Childhood Outcomes 2014 ·Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey ·Denis Azzopardi, Brenda Strohm, Neil Marlow, Peter Brocklehurst, Aniko Deierl, Oya Eddama, Julia Goodwin, Henry L. Halliday, Edmund Juszczak, Olga Kapellou, Malcolm Levene, Louise Linsell, Omar Omar, Marianne Thoresen, Nora Tusor, Andrew Whitelaw, A. David Edwards	9
18	Influenza A/H1N1v in pregnancy: an investigation of the characteristics and management of affected women and the relationship to pregnancy outcomes for mother and infant. 2010 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Laura Yates, Matthias Pierce, Sally Stephens, (unknown), P Spark, JJ Kurinczuk, Manoj Valappil, Peter Brocklehurst, Shl Thomas, Marian Knight	105
19	Erratum: Systematic review of effects of low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on pregnancy outcome (BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2007) 114 (243-252)) 2007 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Jon Henderson, Rebecca Gray, Peter Brocklehurst	3
20	UK obstetric surveillance system uncovered. 2005 ·PubMed ·Marian Knight, Jennifer J. Kurinczuk, Peter Brocklehurst	5

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