Richard Reading

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
389 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Richard Reading is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Reading has authored 389 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in General Health Professions, 87 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 78 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Reading's work include Child and Adolescent Health (83 papers), Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (39 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (37 papers). Richard Reading is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Health (83 papers), Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (39 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (37 papers). Richard Reading collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Richard Reading's co-authors include Shirley Reynolds, Robin Haynes, Suzanne Jarvis, Konstantinos Daras, Andy Jones, Ian H. Langford, Andrew Lovett, Stan Openshaw, Peter Phillimore and June Thoburn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Richard Reading

348 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Closing the gap in a gene... 2009 2026 2014 2020 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. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
    2009 1.5k citations Richard Reading Child Care Health and Development profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Richard Reading 1.8k 1.0k 1.0k 955 866 389 5.4k
Tina L. Cheng 1.8k 1.0× 858 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 1.0k 1.2× 195 5.5k
Nora Groce 1.1k 0.6× 618 0.6× 639 0.6× 819 0.9× 766 0.9× 159 5.4k
Richard Layte 1.6k 0.9× 854 0.8× 877 0.9× 516 0.5× 473 0.5× 155 5.0k
Antti Uutela 2.5k 1.4× 1.5k 1.4× 1.4k 1.4× 983 1.0× 601 0.7× 160 7.2k
Nazeem Muhajarine 1.2k 0.7× 674 0.6× 1.8k 1.8× 936 1.0× 682 0.8× 213 4.4k
Frances K. Barg 2.4k 1.4× 665 0.6× 1.6k 1.6× 1.3k 1.3× 825 1.0× 247 7.3k
Thérèse Hesketh 1.5k 0.8× 751 0.7× 797 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 152 6.9k
Hilary Graham 2.4k 1.3× 1.8k 1.7× 1.6k 1.6× 818 0.9× 617 0.7× 138 6.8k
Robert S. Kahn 2.4k 1.4× 852 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 1.0k 1.2× 160 7.9k
Finn Diderichsen 4.2k 2.3× 2.0k 2.0× 1.1k 1.1× 900 0.9× 703 0.8× 210 9.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Reading

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Reading

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Reading

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Reading. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Reading 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 Richard Reading. Richard Reading 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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Reading, Richard. (2011). Pediatric HIV – a neglected disease?. Child Care Health and Development. 37(6). 896–897.
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Reading, Richard, Gwenda Hughes, Julia L. Hill, & Geoff Debelle. (2011). Genital herpes in children under 11 years and investigations for sexual abuse. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 96(8). 752–757. 4 indexed citations
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Bachmann, Max, Margaret O’Brien, Christopher T. Husbands, et al.. (2009). Integrating children's services in England: national evaluation of children's trusts. Child Care Health and Development. 35(2). 257–265. 27 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, Andy Jones, Robin Haynes, Konstantinos Daras, & Alan Emond. (2008). Individual factors explain neighbourhood variations in accidents to children under 5 years of age. Social Science & Medicine. 67(6). 915–927. 34 indexed citations
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Haynes, Robin, Konstantinos Daras, Richard Reading, & Andy Jones. (2007). Modifiable neighbourhood units, zone design and residents’ perceptions. Health & Place. 13(4). 812–825. 104 indexed citations
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Bachmann, Max, Richard Reading, Christopher T. Husbands, et al.. (2006). What are children's trusts? Early findings from a national survey. Child Care Health and Development. 32(2). 137–146. 10 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, Robin Haynes, & R.C. Beach. (2006). Deprivation and incidence of epilepsy in children. Seizure. 15(3). 190–193. 15 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, et al.. (2006). Evidence for sexual transmission of genital herpes in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 92(7). 608–613. 14 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, Robin Haynes, & Edmond D. Shenassa. (2005). Neighbourhood influences on child injury risk. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 15(1). 165–185. 10 indexed citations
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Beach, R.C. & Richard Reading. (2004). The Clinical Spectrum of epilepsy and turns - 'possible epilepsy' as a credible diagnosis. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 2 indexed citations
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Shemilt, Ian, Miranda Mugford, I. Harvey, et al.. (2004). A national evaluation of school breakfast clubs: where does economics fit in?. Child Care Health and Development. 30(5). 429–437. 10 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard. (2003). Emergency asthma inhalers in school. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 88(5). 384–386. 10 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, et al.. (2003). Household and neighbourhood risks for injury to 5–14 year old children. Social Science & Medicine. 57(4). 625–636. 107 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, et al.. (2002). The recruitment and training crisis in community paediatrics: what do registrars think?. Child Care Health and Development. 28(4). 289–294. 2 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard & Shirley Reynolds. (2001). Debt, social disadvantage and maternal depression. Social Science & Medicine. 53(4). 441–453. 170 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard. (2000). Cluster randomised trials in maternal and child health: implications for power and sample size. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 82(1). 79–83. 50 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard. (1997). Poverty and the health of children and adolescents. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 76(5). 463–467. 43 indexed citations
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Majeed, Azeem, Nish Chaturvedi, Richard Reading, & Yoav Ben‐Shlomo. (1994). Equity in the NHS Monitoring and promoting equity in primary and secondary care. BMJ. 308(6941). 1426–1429. 44 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, Simon Raybould, & Suzanne Jarvis. (1993). Deprivation, low birth weight, and children's height: a comparison between rural and urban areas.. BMJ. 307(6917). 1458–1462. 49 indexed citations
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Reading, Richard, Stan Openshaw, & Suzanne Jarvis. (1990). Measuring child health inequalities using aggregations of Enumeration Districts. Journal of Public Health. 12(3-4). 160–167. 19 indexed citations

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