Peter Watkinson

11.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
184 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Peter Watkinson is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Watkinson has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Surgery, 56 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 44 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Peter Watkinson's work include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (43 papers), Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy (37 papers) and Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (35 papers). Peter Watkinson is often cited by papers focused on Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (43 papers), Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy (37 papers) and Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring (35 papers). Peter Watkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Peter Watkinson's co-authors include Lionel Tarassenko, David A. Clifton, Duncan Young, Peter Charlton, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Timothy Bonnici, David A Harrison, Julia Hippisley–Cox, Carol Coupland and Stephen Gerry and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Peter Watkinson

177 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

2014 422 citations Peter Charlton, Tim Bonnici et al. profile →
Risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and cardiac arrhythmias associated with COVID-19 vaccination or SARS-CoV-2 infection

2021 391 citations Martina Patone, Xue W. Mei et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Anxiety, Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after critical illness: a UK-wide prospective cohort study

2018 321 citations Robert Alan Hatch, Duncan Young et al. profile →
Neurological complications after first dose of COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection

2021 246 citations Martina Patone, Lahiru Handunnetthi et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Risk of thrombocytopenia and thromboembolism after covid-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 positive testing: self-controlled case series study

2021 212 citations Julia Hippisley–Cox, Martina Patone et al. profile →
Early warning scores for detecting deterioration in adult hospital patients: systematic review and critical appraisal of methodology

2020 199 citations Stephen Gerry, Peter Watkinson et al. profile →
Association between pre-existing respiratory disease and its treatment, and severe COVID-19: a population cohort study

2021 169 citations Paul Aveyard, Min Gao et al. profile →
Risk of Myocarditis After Sequential Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Age and Sex

2022 125 citations Martina Patone, Xue W. Mei et al. Circulation profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Watkinson	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	1.0k	184	6.6k
Tiejun Tong	1.5k 0.8×	347 0.2×	3.5k 2.2×	629 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	106	11.9k
Martin Hellmich	969 0.5×	420 0.2×	1.6k 1.0×	545 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	408	9.7k
Andrew Reisner	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	101 0.1×	764 0.7×	176	5.1k
Armand R. J. Girbes	1.4k 0.8×	392 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	423 0.4×	1.9k 1.8×	233	8.6k
Samuel M. Brown	751 0.4×	333 0.2×	941 0.6×	574 0.5×	1.8k 1.8×	227	4.9k
Diederik Gommers	661 0.4×	903 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	3.9k 3.5×	1.1k 1.0×	236	9.8k
Maarten van Smeden	931 0.5×	292 0.2×	939 0.6×	472 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	139	6.9k
Lucas M. Bachmann	1.1k 0.6×	431 0.2×	1.8k 1.1×	169 0.1×	1.4k 1.4×	229	11.3k
Anthony Gordon	981 0.5×	401 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	301 0.3×	3.7k 3.6×	116	6.9k
William J. Brady	2.8k 1.5×	485 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	685 0.6×	617 0.6×	287	6.4k

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Harrison, Charlotte H., et al.. (2025). Oxygen therapy in early warning scores: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax. 80(10). 693–701. 1 indexed citations

Redfern, Oliver, Stephen Gerry, Robert Alan Hatch, et al.. (2025). Development and external validation of a clinical prediction model for new-onset atrial fibrillation in intensive care: a multicentre, retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Digital Health. 7(9). 100896–100896.

Pimentel, Marco A. F., Alistair E. W. Johnson, Julie Darbyshire, et al.. (2024). Development of an enhanced scoring system to predict ICU readmission or in-hospital death within 24 hours using routine patient data from two NHS Foundation Trusts. BMJ Open. 14(4). e074604–e074604. 3 indexed citations

Briggs, Jim, Ina Kostakis, Paul Meredith, et al.. (2024). Safer and more efficient vital signs monitoring protocols to identify the deteriorating patients in the general hospital ward: an observational study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(3). 1–143. 3 indexed citations

Fields, Kara G., Gary S. Collins, Gregory Y.H. Lip, et al.. (2024). Atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: identifying candidate predictors through a Delphi process. BMJ Open. 14(9). e086589–e086589. 1 indexed citations

Kent, Bridie, et al.. (2023). Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in research: The Golden Thread. Nursing in Critical Care. 29(1). 10–13. 2 indexed citations

Fields, Kara G., Jie Ma, Tatjana Petrinic, et al.. (2023). Multivariable prediction models for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 13(3). e067260–e067260. 1 indexed citations

Harrison, Charlotte H., Maxime Taquet, Paul J. Harrison, Peter Watkinson, & Matthew Rowland. (2023). Sex and age effects on risk of non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: Retrospective cohort study of 124,234 cases using electronic health records. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 32(8). 107196–107196. 5 indexed citations

Darbyshire, Julie, et al.. (2023). Design and validation of a new Healthcare Systems Usability Scale (HSUS) for clinical decision support systems: a mixed-methods approach. BMJ Open. 13(1). e065323–e065323. 11 indexed citations

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Patone, Martina, Xue W. Mei, Lahiru Handunnetthi, et al.. (2022). Risk of Myocarditis After Sequential Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Age and Sex. Circulation. 146(10). 743–754. 125 indexed citations breakdown →

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Armitage, Laura C., Shaun Davidson, Adam Mahdi, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing hypertension in primary care: a retrospective cohort study to investigate the importance of night-time blood pressure assessment. British Journal of General Practice. 73(726). e16–e23. 6 indexed citations

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Ferrando-Vivas, Paloma, Oliver Redfern, Kim Rajappan, et al.. (2022). New-onset atrial fibrillation in intensive care: epidemiology and outcomes. European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care. 11(8). 620–628. 16 indexed citations

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Gao, Min, Paul Aveyard, Nicola Lindson, et al.. (2022). Association between smoking, e-cigarette use and severe COVID-19: a cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(4). 1062–1072. 32 indexed citations

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Areia, Carlos, Elizabeth King, Louise Young, et al.. (2021). Experiences of current vital signs monitoring practices and views of wearable monitoring: A qualitative study in patients and nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 78(3). 810–822. 29 indexed citations

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Drikite, Laura, Mark Corbett, James Doidge, et al.. (2021). Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and outcomes for new-onset atrial fibrillation in ICU patients: the CAFE scoping review and database analyses. Health Technology Assessment. 25(71). 1–174. 4 indexed citations

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Patone, Martina, Lahiru Handunnetthi, Defne Saatci, et al.. (2021). Neurological complications after first dose of COVID-19 vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Nature Medicine. 27(12). 2144–2153. 246 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shamout, Farah E., Tingting Zhu, Pulkit Sharma, Peter Watkinson, & David A. Clifton. (2019). Deep Interpretable Early Warning System for the Detection of Clinical Deterioration. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 24(2). 437–446. 61 indexed citations

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Harford, Mirae, et al.. (2018). Risk factors for new-onset atrial fibrillation on the general adult ICU: protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open. 8(9). e024640–e024640. 5 indexed citations

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Loerup, Lise, Andreas Triantafyllidis, Dario Salvi, et al.. (2017). Pregnancy physiology pattern prediction study (4P study): protocol of an observational cohort study collecting vital sign information to inform the development of an accurate centile-based obstetric early warning score. BMJ Open. 7(9). e016034–e016034. 8 indexed citations

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Charlton, Peter, Tim Bonnici, David A. Clifton, et al.. (2014). The Influence of Recording Equipment on the Accuracy of Respiratory Rate Estimation from the Electrocardiogram and Photoplethysmogram. Research Portal (King's College London). 2 indexed citations

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