Phil Edwards

26.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
192 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Phil Edwards is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Edwards has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 44 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 34 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Phil Edwards's work include Traffic and Road Safety (44 papers), Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (37 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (31 papers). Phil Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Traffic and Road Safety (44 papers), Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (37 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (31 papers). Phil Edwards collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Phil Edwards's co-authors include Ian Roberts, Lambert Felix, Caroline Free, Vikram Patel, Andy Haines, Gemma Phillips, Reinhard Wentz, Ian Roberts, Pablo Perel and James Woodcock and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Phil Edwards

179 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: syste... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2013 2009 2018 2009 400 800 1.2k
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. Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review
    2002 1.5k citations Phil Edwards et al. BMJ profile →
  2. The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technology-Based Health Behaviour Change or Disease Management Interventions for Health Care Consumers: A Systematic Review
    2013 1.3k citations Caroline Free, Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  3. Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires
    2009 1.1k citations Phil Edwards, Ian Roberts et al. profile →
  4. Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis
    2018 916 citations Phil Edwards, James Woodcock et al. profile →
  5. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport
    2009 822 citations James Woodcock, Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  6. Change in stroke incidence, mortality, case-fatality, severity, and risk factors in Oxfordshire, UK from 1981 to 2004 (Oxford Vascular Study)
    2004 815 citations Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  7. The Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service Delivery Processes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2013 796 citations Caroline Free, Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  8. Effect of tranexamic acid on surgical bleeding: systematic review and cumulative meta-analysis
    2012 656 citations Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  9. The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass
    2012 631 citations Phil Edwards et al. profile →
  10. Smoking cessation support delivered via mobile phone text messaging (txt2stop): a single-blind, randomised trial
    2011 581 citations Caroline Free, Rochelle Knight 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
Phil Edwards United Kingdom 48 4.5k 3.0k 1.8k 1.6k 1.6k 192 15.4k
Ian Roberts United Kingdom 76 2.8k 0.6× 4.2k 1.4× 2.7k 1.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.2× 317 21.7k
Donald A. Redelmeier Canada 73 3.1k 0.7× 2.5k 0.8× 2.1k 1.2× 907 0.6× 407 0.3× 340 22.3k
Rebecca Lawton United Kingdom 53 3.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 789 0.4× 1.3k 0.8× 416 0.3× 228 13.1k
Eric Finkelstein Singapore 60 4.2k 0.9× 7.4k 2.5× 1.8k 1.0× 2.7k 1.7× 394 0.2× 365 19.9k
Thomas D. Koepsell United States 91 4.3k 1.0× 5.2k 1.7× 4.4k 2.5× 3.1k 1.9× 851 0.5× 335 28.9k
Amanda Sowden United Kingdom 52 4.4k 1.0× 3.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 337 0.2× 117 15.5k
Ichiro Kawachi United States 98 9.4k 2.1× 5.9k 2.0× 2.5k 1.4× 3.5k 2.2× 1.0k 0.6× 708 34.5k
Matthew Knuiman Australia 69 1.5k 0.3× 2.7k 0.9× 2.3k 1.3× 3.1k 1.9× 4.0k 2.5× 353 19.2k
Thomas A. Glass United States 56 4.0k 0.9× 2.1k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 998 0.6× 1.9k 1.2× 121 15.5k
Simon J. Griffin United Kingdom 72 4.3k 0.9× 7.8k 2.6× 2.7k 1.5× 5.0k 3.1× 2.0k 1.3× 423 20.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Edwards

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Edwards

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Robinson, Elizabeth, Phil Edwards, Anthony A Laverty, & Anna Goodman. (2025). Do sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and light truck vehicles (LTVs) cause more severe injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than passenger cars in the case of a crash? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Injury Prevention. 32(1). 16–24. 2 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (2021). Completeness of Police Records for Injury Surveillance: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Medicine and Public Health. 11(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Cohn, Ellen G., Suman Kakar, Chloe Perkins, Rebecca Steinbach, & Phil Edwards. (2020). Red light camera interventions for reducing traffic violations and traffic crashes: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 16(2). e1091–e1091. 17 indexed citations
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Perkins, Chloe, Helen Gray, Shakoor Hajat, et al.. (2020). Influence of temperature on prevalence of health and welfare conditions in pigs: time-series analysis of pig abattoir inspection data in England and Wales. Epidemiology and Infection. 148. e30–e30. 5 indexed citations
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McCarthy, Ona, Rebecca French, Paula Baraitser, et al.. (2016). Safetxt: a pilot randomised controlled trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone to increase safer sex behaviours in young people. BMJ Open. 6(12). e013045–e013045. 8 indexed citations
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Ploubidis, George B., et al.. (2015). Measuring behaviours for escaping from house fires: use of latent variable models to summarise multiple behaviours. BMC Research Notes. 8(1). 789–789. 5 indexed citations
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Steinbach, Rebecca, John Green, Michael G. Kenward, & Phil Edwards. (2014). Is ethnic density associated with risk of child pedestrian injury? A comparison of inter-census changes in ethnic populations and injury rates. Ethnicity and Health. 21(1). 1–19. 21 indexed citations
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Woodcock, James, Phil Edwards, Cathryn Tonne, et al.. (2009). Health and Climate Change 2 Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Bolton, Annette, et al.. (2007). Needs analysis: An assessment tool to strengthen local government delivery of water sensitive urban design. 93. 6 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (2007). Organisational change: Transdisciplinarity in urban stormwater quality management programs. 216. 2 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (2006). WSUD in Local Government-implementation Guidelines, Institutional Change and Creating an Enabling Environment for WSUD Adoption. 702. 6 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (2006). Deaths from injury in children and employment status in family: analysis of trends in class specific death rates. BMJ. 333(7559). 119–119. 147 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, Barbara Farrell, Rakesh P Mashru, et al.. (2002). The MRC CRASH Trial: study design, baseline data, and outcome in 1000 randomised patients in the pilot phase. Emergency Medicine Journal. 19(6). 510–514. 13 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (1991). THE INVOLVEMENT OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN ROAD ACCIDENTS: DATA FROM THREE STUDIES OF YOUNG PEDESTRIAN CASUALTIES. Traffic engineering & control. 32(1). 12–19. 19 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil. (1986). Small scale wind power guide for New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 87. 28177. 4 indexed citations
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Edwards, Phil, et al.. (1951). Dermal myiasis in eastern Canada.. PubMed. 64(1). 69–69. 3 indexed citations

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