Robert Luben

76.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
517 papers, 30.3k citations indexed

About

Robert Luben is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Luben has authored 517 papers receiving a total of 30.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 99 papers in Physiology and 73 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Robert Luben's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (95 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (48 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (34 papers). Robert Luben is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (95 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (48 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (34 papers). Robert Luben collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Robert Luben's co-authors include Kay‐Tee Khaw, Nicholas J. Wareham, Sheila Bingham, Ailsa Welch, Nicholas Day, Nita G. Forouhi, S. Matthijs Boekholdt, Suzy Oakes, Stephen J. Sharp and Angela A. Mulligan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robert Luben

510 papers receiving 29.2k 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.

Association of Hemoglobin A_1c with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Adults: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk

2004 767 citations Kay‐Tee Khaw, Nicholas J. Wareham et al. profile →
EPIC-Norfolk: study design and characteristics of the cohort. European Prospective Investigation of Cancer.

1999 640 citations Robert Luben, Kay‐Tee Khaw et al. profile →
Combined Impact of Health Behaviours and Mortality in Men and Women: The EPIC-Norfolk Prospective Population Study

2008 612 citations Kay‐Tee Khaw, Nicholas J. Wareham et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
Endogenous Testosterone and Mortality Due to All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer in Men

2007 580 citations Kay‐Tee Khaw, Sheila Bingham et al. profile →
Association of HDL cholesterol efflux capacity with incident coronary heart disease events: a prospective case-control study

2015 376 citations Robert Luben, S. Matthijs Boekholdt et al. profile →
Physical activity trajectories and mortality: population based cohort study

2019 239 citations Kay‐Tee Khaw, Robert Luben et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert Luben	6.5k	5.8k	5.3k	4.8k	3.5k	517	30.3k
Sheila Bingham	9.1k 1.4×	6.3k 1.1×	4.3k 0.8×	4.5k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	284	27.8k
Susanna C. Larsson	5.5k 0.9×	3.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.4×	4.6k 1.0×	2.6k 0.7×	460	25.0k
Kay‐Tee Khaw	8.9k 1.4×	7.8k 1.3×	9.4k 1.8×	4.6k 1.0×	6.6k 1.9×	617	41.4k
Andrea Z. LaCroix	4.7k 0.7×	6.4k 1.1×	5.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.4×	3.0k 0.9×	550	27.7k
Shoichiro Tsugane	8.0k 1.2×	4.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	4.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	883	31.0k
Alberto Ascherio	8.6k 1.3×	5.8k 1.0×	2.8k 0.5×	5.1k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	317	41.9k
Terho Lehtimäki	3.4k 0.5×	4.4k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	6.3k 1.3×	6.6k 1.9×	863	28.0k
Albert Hofman	2.6k 0.4×	4.0k 0.7×	6.9k 1.3×	4.6k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	360	31.4k
Yvonne T. van der Schouw	4.9k 0.8×	3.0k 0.5×	6.8k 1.3×	2.3k 0.5×	3.2k 0.9×	473	23.2k
Heiner Boeing	7.1k 1.1×	5.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	332	20.3k

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Warwick, Alasdair, et al.. (2025). gtexr: A convenient R interface to the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Portal API. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(109). 8249–8249.

Yun, Taedong, Jacqueline Baras Shreibati, Dongbing Lai, et al.. (2025). Applying multimodal AI to physiological waveforms improves genetic prediction of cardiovascular traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(7). 1562–1579.

Yun, Taedong, Zachary R. McCaw, Robert Luben, et al.. (2024). Unsupervised representation learning on high-dimensional clinical data improves genomic discovery and prediction. Nature Genetics. 56(8). 1604–1613. 13 indexed citations

Stuart, Kelsey V., Robert Luben, Sharon Chua, et al.. (2022). Alcohol, Intraocular Pressure, and Open-Angle Glaucoma. Ophthalmology. 129(6). 637–652. 27 indexed citations

Lim, Hong Kai, Robert Luben, Andrew Hart, & Paul Banim. (2021). P255 Dietary niacin intake is inversely associated with the development of gallstones: a prospective cohort study. A173.3–A174. 2 indexed citations

Wong, David, Jing Yu, Ismail Moghul, et al.. (2021). Cloud-based genomics pipelines for ophthalmology: reviewed from research to clinical practice. 3(1). 101–140. 2 indexed citations

Mulligan, Angela A., Richard Hayhoe, Robert Luben, & Ailsa Welch. (2021). Positive Associations of Dietary Intake and Plasma Concentrations of Vitamin E with Skeletal Muscle Mass, Heel Bone Ultrasound Attenuation and Fracture Risk in the EPIC-Norfolk Cohort. Antioxidants. 10(2). 159–159. 17 indexed citations

Littlejohns, Thomas J., Shabina Hayat, Robert Luben, et al.. (2021). Visual Impairment and Risk of Dementia in 2 Population-Based Prospective Cohorts: UK Biobank and EPIC-Norfolk. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 77(4). 697–704. 12 indexed citations

Zheng, Ju‐Sheng, Fumiaki Imamura, Stephen J. Sharp, et al.. (2019). Changes in plasma phospholipid fatty acid profiles over 13 years and correlates of change: European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 109(6). 1527–1534. 20 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, Javier I., Jennifer Kimball, Jodi L. Ensunsa, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of (−)-epicatechin metabolites as recovery biomarker of dietary flavan-3-ol intake. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13108–13108. 24 indexed citations

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Samraj, Annie N., Kimberly A. Bertrand, Robert Luben, et al.. (2018). Polyclonal human antibodies against glycans bearing red meat-derived non-human sialic acid N-glycolylneuraminic acid are stable, reproducible, complex and vary between individuals: Total antibody levels are associated with colorectal cancer risk. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0197464–e0197464. 44 indexed citations

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Mytton, Oliver, Nita G. Forouhi, Peter Scarborough, et al.. (2018). Association between intake of less-healthy foods defined by the United Kingdom's nutrient profile model and cardiovascular disease: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 15(1). e1002484–e1002484. 29 indexed citations

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Luben, Robert, Shabina Hayat, Angela A. Mulligan, et al.. (2018). Alcohol consumption and future hospital usage: The EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200747–e0200747. 3 indexed citations

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Lentjes, Marleen A. H., Ruth H. Keogh, Ailsa Welch, et al.. (2017). Longitudinal associations between marine omega-3 supplement users and coronary heart disease in a UK population-based cohort. BMJ Open. 7(10). e017471–e017471. 9 indexed citations

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Mulligan, Angela A., Marleen A. H. Lentjes, Robert Luben, Nicholas J. Wareham, & Kay‐Tee Khaw. (2017). Weight change and 15 year mortality: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer in Norfolk (EPIC-Norfolk) cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 33(1). 37–53. 23 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roman, Robert Luben, Kay‐Tee Khaw, & Nicholas J. Wareham. (2013). Common Genetic Variants of the Natriuretic Peptide Gene Locus are not Associated with Heart Failure Risk in Participants in the EPIC-Norfolk Study. European Journal of Heart Failure. 15(6). 624–627. 10 indexed citations

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Pfister, Roman, Guido Michels, Stephen J. Sharp, et al.. (2012). Resting Heart Rate and Incident Heart Failure in Apparently Healthy Men and Women in the EPIC-Norfolk Study. European Journal of Heart Failure. 14(10). 1163–1170. 32 indexed citations

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Pooley, Karen A., Manjinder S. Sandhu, Jonathan P. Tyrer, et al.. (2010). Telomere Length in Prospective and Retrospective Cancer Case-Control Studies. Cancer Research. 70(8). 3170–3176. 128 indexed citations

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Cebrián, Arancha, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Shahana Ahmed, et al.. (2006). Tagging Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Antioxidant Defense Enzymes and Susceptibility to Breast Cancer. Cancer Research. 66(2). 1225–1233. 68 indexed citations

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Boekholdt, S. Matthijs, Marijn C. Meuwese, Nicholas Day, et al.. (2006). Plasma concentrations of ascorbic acid and C-reactive protein, and risk of future coronary artery disease, in apparently healthy men and women: the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study. British Journal Of Nutrition. 96(3). 516–522. 39 indexed citations

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