Richard Saffery

20.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
369 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Richard Saffery is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Saffery has authored 369 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Molecular Biology, 146 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 73 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Recurrent topics in Richard Saffery's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (113 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (111 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (54 papers). Richard Saffery is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (113 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (111 papers) and Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (54 papers). Richard Saffery collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Richard Saffery's co-authors include Boris Novakovic, Jeffrey M. Craig, K. H. Andy Choo, Joanne Ryan, Ruth Morley, David Martino, Anne‐Louise Ponsonby, David Burgner, Lavinia Gordon and Peter Vuillermin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Richard Saffery

353 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences

2018 744 citations Richard Saffery et al. profile →
Adolescence and the next generation

2018 226 citations Richard Saffery, Peter Azzopardi et al. profile →
Sexual Dimorphism in Innate Immunity: The Role of Sex Hormones and Epigenetics

2021 189 citations Richard Saffery, Boris Novakovic et al. profile →

Peers

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Susan K. Murphy United States

P. Eline Slagboom Netherlands

Louis J. Muglia United States

Michael S. Kobor Canada

Jeffrey M. Craig Australia

Carmen J. Marsit United States

Zi‐Jiang Chen China

Kelle H. Moley United States

Robert A. Waterland United States

Benjamin Tycko United States

Susan K. Murphy United States

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Citations per year, relative to Richard Saffery Richard Saffery (= 1×) peers Susan K. Murphy

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Saffery

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Saffery

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Saffery

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hughes, Elizabeth K., Susan A Clifford, Simon J. Hall, et al.. (2025). Generation Victoria (GenV): protocol for a longitudinal birth cohort of Victorian children and their parents. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 20–20.

Mansell, Toby, Alexandra D. George, Sudip Paul, et al.. (2025). The protective effect of breastfeeding on infant inflammation: a mediation analysis of the plasma lipidome and metabolome. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 531–531.

Gogos, Andrea, Sarah Thomson, Martin O’Hely, et al.. (2024). Socioeconomic adversity, maternal nutrition, and the prenatal programming of offspring cognition and language at two years of age through maternal inflammation. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 122. 471–482. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Xuyang, Xinyi Tao, Min Wang, et al.. (2024). Circulating extracellular vesicle-derived miR-1299 disrupts hepatic glucose homeostasis by targeting the STAT3/FAM3A axis in gestational diabetes mellitus. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 22(1). 509–509. 1 indexed citations

Bekkering, Siroon, Christoph Saner, Boris Novakovic, et al.. (2024). Increased innate immune responses in adolescents with obesity and its relation to subclinical cardiovascular measures: An exploratory study. iScience. 27(5). 109762–109762. 1 indexed citations

Neeland, Melanie R., David Martino, Shyamali C. Dharmage, et al.. (2022). Immuno‐epigenomic analysis identifies attenuated interferon responses in naïve CD4 T cells of adolescents with peanut and multi‐food allergy. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. 33(11). e13890–e13890. 4 indexed citations

Ponsonby, Anne‐Louise, Fiona Collier, Martin O’Hely, et al.. (2022). Household size, T regulatory cell development, and early allergic disease: a birth cohort study. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. 33(6). e13810–e13810. 7 indexed citations

Pook, Chris, Beatrix Jones, Richard Saffery, et al.. (2022). Fat-Soluble Vitamers: Parent-Child Concordance and Population Epidemiology in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Nutrients. 14(23). 4990–4990.

Lange, Katherine, Jessica A. Kerr, Toby Mansell, et al.. (2022). Can adult polygenic scores improve prediction of body mass index in childhood?. International Journal of Obesity. 46(7). 1375–1383. 7 indexed citations

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Mansell, Toby, Costan G. Magnussen, Joel Nuotio, et al.. (2022). Decreasing severity of obesity from early to late adolescence and young adulthood associates with longitudinal metabolomic changes implicated in lower cardiometabolic disease risk. International Journal of Obesity. 46(3). 646–654. 5 indexed citations

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Mansell, Toby, Richard Saffery, Anne‐Louise Ponsonby, et al.. (2022). Early life infection and proinflammatory, atherogenic metabolomic and lipidomic profiles in infancy: a population-based cohort study. eLife. 11. 13 indexed citations

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Schierding, William, Richard Saffery, Jo K. Perry, et al.. (2021). Identifying the lungs as a susceptible site for allele-specific regulatory changes associated with type 1 diabetes risk. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1072–1072. 5 indexed citations

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Kerr, Jessica A., Richard Liu, Fiona Mensah, et al.. (2021). Diet quality trajectories and cardiovascular phenotypes/metabolic syndrome risk by 11–12 years. International Journal of Obesity. 45(7). 1392–1403. 14 indexed citations

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Mansell, Toby, David Burgner, Anne‐Louise Ponsonby, et al.. (2020). HIF3A cord blood methylation and systolic blood pressure at 4 years – a population-based cohort study. Epigenetics. 15(12). 1361–1369. 7 indexed citations

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Jones, Beatrix, Katherine Lange, Susan A Clifford, et al.. (2020). Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) Is not Associated with Cardiometabolic Phenotypes and Inflammatory Markers in Children and Adults. Current Developments in Nutrition. 5(1). nzaa179–nzaa179. 27 indexed citations

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Collier, Fiona, Anne‐Louise Ponsonby, Martin O’Hely, et al.. (2019). Naïve regulatory T cells in infancy: Associations with perinatal factors and development of food allergy. Allergy. 74(9). 1760–1768. 23 indexed citations

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Halliday, Jane, Sharon Lewis, David Burgner, et al.. (2019). Health of adults aged 22 to 35 years conceived by assisted reproductive technology. Fertility and Sterility. 112(1). 130–139. 44 indexed citations

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Ellul, Susan, Melissa Wake, Susan A Clifford, et al.. (2019). Metabolomics: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years and their parents. BMJ Open. 9(Suppl 3). 106–117. 47 indexed citations

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Novakovic, Boris, et al.. (2014). Postnatal stability, tissue, and time specific effects of AHRR methylation change in response to maternal smoking in pregnancy. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 2 indexed citations

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Martino, David, Meri K. Tulić, Lavinia Gordon, et al.. (2011). Evidence for age-related and individual-specific changes in DNA methylation profile of mononuclear cells during early immune development in humans. Epigenetics. 6(9). 1085–1094. 98 indexed citations

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