Peter Watt

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Watt is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Watt has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Physiology, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 31 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Peter Watt's work include Thermoregulation and physiological responses (30 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (27 papers) and Exercise and Physiological Responses (23 papers). Peter Watt is often cited by papers focused on Thermoregulation and physiological responses (30 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (27 papers) and Exercise and Physiological Responses (23 papers). Peter Watt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Qatar. Peter Watt's co-authors include Neil Maxwell, Michael J. Rennie, Kenneth Smith, Michael J. Rennie, Andrew Philp, Harinder S. Hundal, Joanne E. Cecil, Marion M. Hetherington, Adam MacDonald and Roger Tavendale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Watt

123 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

An Obesity-AssociatedFTOG... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. An Obesity-AssociatedFTOGene Variant and Increased Energy Intake in Children
    2008 497 citations Joanne E. Cecil, Peter Watt et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Watt 2.6k 1.9k 1.9k 929 809 124 6.0k
Daniel J. Wilkinson 2.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 2.1k 1.2× 658 0.7× 713 0.9× 142 5.7k
Michael D. Roberts 2.5k 0.9× 2.4k 1.3× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.7× 285 7.5k
Benjamin F. Miller 2.1k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 2.4k 1.3× 843 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 210 6.6k
Stephen Welle 4.2k 1.6× 2.4k 1.3× 3.8k 2.0× 553 0.6× 464 0.6× 130 8.8k
Steven L. Britton 3.5k 1.4× 1.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 617 0.7× 449 0.6× 261 6.9k
Jacques Mercier 2.4k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 492 0.5× 925 1.1× 179 5.7k
Brendan Egan 2.9k 1.1× 1.4k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 785 0.8× 638 0.8× 112 5.2k
Andreas M. Nieß 1.6k 0.6× 906 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 456 0.6× 168 4.2k
Espen E. Spangenburg 1.8k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 2.5k 1.4× 798 0.9× 405 0.5× 112 4.8k
David Halliday 3.0k 1.2× 3.0k 1.6× 1.3k 0.7× 418 0.4× 601 0.7× 143 6.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Watt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Watt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Watt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Watt 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 Peter Watt. Peter Watt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Watt, Peter, et al.. (2022). Pain Neuroscience Education and Motor Control Exercises versus Core Stability Exercises on Pain, Disability, and Balance in Women with Chronic Low Back Pain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(5). 2694–2694. 36 indexed citations
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Richardson, Alan, et al.. (2022). Inflammatory and psychological consequences of chronic high exposure firefighting. Journal of Thermal Biology. 111. 103399–103399. 4 indexed citations
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Walter, Edward, et al.. (2021). Exercise hyperthermia induces greater changes in gastrointestinal permeability than equivalent passive hyperthermia. Physiological Reports. 9(16). e14945–e14945. 17 indexed citations
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Vliet, Stephan van, Scott A. Paluska, Kenneth R. Wilund, et al.. (2020). Integrin‐associated ILK and PINCH1 protein content are reduced in skeletal muscle of maintenance haemodialysis patients. The Journal of Physiology. 598(24). 5701–5716. 5 indexed citations
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Watkins, Emily, Mark Hayes, Peter Watt, & Alan Richardson. (2018). Practical pre-cooling methods for occupational heat exposure. Applied Ergonomics. 70. 26–33. 29 indexed citations
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Watt, Peter, et al.. (2017). Reproducibility of shear wave elastography measuresof the Achilles tendon. Skeletal Radiology. 47(6). 779–784. 49 indexed citations
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Gibson, Oliver R., et al.. (2013). Extracellular Hsp72 concentration relates to a minimum endogenous criteria during acute exercise-heat exposure. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 19(3). 389–400. 55 indexed citations
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Wilkinson, Daniel J., Nicholas J. Smeeton, Paul C. Castle, & Peter Watt. (2011). Absence of neuropsychological impairment in hyperammonaemia in healthy young adults; possible synergism in development of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) symptoms?. Metabolic Brain Disease. 26(3). 203–212. 13 indexed citations
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Castle, Paul, Richard Mackenzie, Neil Maxwell, Nick Webborn, & Peter Watt. (2011). Heat acclimation improves intermittent sprinting in the heat but additional pre-cooling offers no further ergogenic effect. Journal of Sports Sciences. 29(11). 1125–1134. 53 indexed citations
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Mackenzie, Richard, Neil Maxwell, Paul Castle, Gary Brickley, & Peter Watt. (2010). Acute hypoxia and exercise improve insulin sensitivity (SI2*) in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews. 27(1). 94–101. 82 indexed citations
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Atherton, Philip J., Timothy Etheridge, Peter Watt, et al.. (2010). Muscle full effect after oral protein: time-dependent concordance and discordance between human muscle protein synthesis and mTORC1 signaling. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 92(5). 1080–1088. 314 indexed citations
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Castle, Paul C., Richard Mackenzie, Neil Maxwell, Nick Webborn, & Peter Watt. (2009). Heat acclimation improves intermittent sprint performance in the heat, but additional pre-cooling is not further ergogenic. WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster). 2 indexed citations
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Mackenzie, Richard, Peter Watt, & Neil Maxwell. (2008). Acute Normobaric Hypoxia Stimulates Erythropoietin Release. High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 9(1). 28–37. 25 indexed citations
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Castle, Paul, et al.. (2005). Quantifying heat strain and its effect on intermittent sprint exercise in male games players under climatic heat stress. Proceedings of The Physiological Society. 2 indexed citations
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Boon, Paul, Peter Watt, Kenny Smith, & G. Henk Visser. (2001). Day Length Has a Major Effect on the Response of Protein Synthesis Rates to Feeding in Growing Japanese Quail. Journal of Nutrition. 131(2). 268–275. 8 indexed citations
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Helge, Jørn Wulff, Peter Watt, Erik A. Richter, Michael J. Rennie, & Bente Kiens. (2001). Fat utilization during exercise: adaptation to a fat-rich diet increases utilization of plasma fatty acids and very low density lipoprotein-triacylglycerol in humans. The Journal of Physiology. 537(3). 1009–1020. 145 indexed citations
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Scrimgeour, Charles M., et al.. (1987). Use of tert.-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives for gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of dipeptides. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 419. 263–270. 5 indexed citations
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Watt, Peter, Geoffrey Goldspink, & Paul Ward. (1984). Changes in fiber type composition in growing muscle as a result of dynamic exercise and static overload. Muscle & Nerve. 7(1). 50–53. 19 indexed citations

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