Robert Lillywhite

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Lillywhite is a scholar working on Soil Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Lillywhite has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Soil Science, 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 8 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Robert Lillywhite's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (10 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers). Robert Lillywhite is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (10 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers). Robert Lillywhite collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. Robert Lillywhite's co-authors include Andrea J. MacNeill, Carl J. Brown, Chantelle Rizan, Mahmood F. Bhutta, Malcolm Reed, C.R. Rahn, Matthew W Cooke, Andrew Connor, Ingeborg Steinbach and Oyinlola Oyebode and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Annals of Surgery and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Robert Lillywhite

42 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

The impact of surgery on global climate: a carbon footpri... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 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. The impact of surgery on global climate: a carbon footprinting study of operating theatres in three health systems
    2017 458 citations Andrea J. MacNeill, Robert Lillywhite et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Lillywhite United Kingdom 20 962 552 342 194 171 43 1.7k
Ka Man Lai United Kingdom 23 1.2k 1.3× 110 0.2× 109 0.3× 98 0.5× 106 0.6× 56 2.5k
Ivan Hanigan Australia 30 1.7k 1.8× 400 0.7× 155 0.5× 54 0.3× 82 0.5× 78 2.5k
Shaohua Gu China 24 987 1.0× 279 0.5× 142 0.4× 153 0.8× 769 4.5× 60 2.6k
Nicholas Warren United States 28 437 0.5× 468 0.8× 161 0.5× 150 0.8× 366 2.1× 86 2.2k
Sumithra Muthayya India 29 163 0.2× 360 0.7× 475 1.4× 147 0.8× 937 5.5× 56 3.9k
Mengmeng Ji China 17 315 0.3× 135 0.2× 241 0.7× 49 0.3× 46 0.3× 80 1.9k
Zailina Hashim Malaysia 30 1.2k 1.2× 82 0.1× 154 0.5× 14 0.1× 209 1.2× 134 2.5k
Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira Brazil 28 1.7k 1.8× 208 0.4× 105 0.3× 15 0.1× 79 0.5× 68 2.2k
Tanvir Kaur India 31 115 0.1× 140 0.3× 337 1.0× 169 0.9× 1.1k 6.5× 128 3.4k
Teresa González‐Cossío Mexico 21 514 0.5× 355 0.6× 421 1.2× 34 0.2× 54 0.3× 37 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Lillywhite

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Lillywhite

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

All Works

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Byrne, J. M., et al.. (2025). Quantifying integrated pest management adoption in food horticulture. Crop Protection. 191. 107165–107165. 2 indexed citations
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Rayns, Francis, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Different Biochar Characteristics on Soil Nitrogen Transformation Processes: A Review. Sustainability. 15(23). 16446–16446. 10 indexed citations
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Rizan, Chantelle, Robert Lillywhite, Malcolm Reed, & Mahmood F. Bhutta. (2023). The carbon footprint of products used in five common surgical operations: identifying contributing products and processes. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 116(6). 199–213. 65 indexed citations
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Surendran, Arthy, et al.. (2023). The current status, challenges, and future perspectives for managing diseases of brassicas. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1209258–1209258. 20 indexed citations
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Rizan, Chantelle, Sophia Park, Janet Simons, et al.. (2023). Patient, hospital and environmental costs of unnecessary bloodwork: capturing the triple bottom line of inappropriate care in general surgery patients. BMJ Open Quality. 12(3). e002316–e002316. 26 indexed citations
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Rizan, Chantelle, Mahmood F. Bhutta, Malcolm Reed, & Robert Lillywhite. (2020). The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital. Journal of Cleaner Production. 286. 125446–125446. 125 indexed citations
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MacNeill, Andrea J., Robert Lillywhite, & Carl J. Brown. (2017). The impact of surgery on global climate: a carbon footprinting study of operating theatres in three health systems. The Lancet Planetary Health. 1(9). e381–e388. 458 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maughan, Daniel, Robert Lillywhite, Steve Pearce, Toby Pillinger, & Scott Weich. (2016). Evaluating sustainability: a retrospective cohort analysis of the Oxfordshire therapeutic community. BMC Psychiatry. 16(1). 285–285. 5 indexed citations
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Maughan, Daniel, et al.. (2014). Sustainability. Get in step with the NHS carbon footprint target.. PubMed. 124(6405). 23–5. 1 indexed citations
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Connor, Andrew, Robert Lillywhite, & Matthew W Cooke. (2011). The carbon footprints of home and in‐center maintenance hemodialysis in the United Kingdom. Hemodialysis International. 15(1). 39–51. 105 indexed citations
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Connor, Andrew, Robert Lillywhite, & Matthew W Cooke. (2010). The carbon footprint of a renal service in the United Kingdom. QJM. 103(12). 965–975. 91 indexed citations
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Rahn, C.R., Robert Lillywhite, Carlos Ramos-Galarza, et al.. (2010). EU-Rotate_N - a decision support system - to predict environmental and economic consequences of the management of nitrogen fertiliser in crop rotations. European Journal of Horticultural Science. 20–32. 65 indexed citations
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Lillywhite, Robert & Rosemary Collier. (2009). Why carbon footprinting (and carbon labelling) only tells half the story. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 73–77. 2 indexed citations
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Cook, S. K., et al.. (2009). Contribution of integrated farm management (IFM) to Defra objectives.. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 131–138. 4 indexed citations
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Schmutz, Ulrich, Francis Rayns, Chris Firth, et al.. (2008). National-scale modelling of N leaching in organic and conventional horticultural crop rotations - policy implications. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture). 1 indexed citations
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Lillywhite, Robert, Dave Chandler, Wyn Grant, et al.. (2007). Environmental Footprint and Sustainability of Horticulture (including Potatoes) – A Comparison with other Agricultural Sectors. Final report produced for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) UK. 7 indexed citations

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