Robert Winston

15.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
164 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Robert Winston is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Winston has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 67 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 54 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Robert Winston's work include Reproductive Biology and Fertility (58 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (52 papers) and Ovarian function and disorders (30 papers). Robert Winston is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive Biology and Fertility (58 papers), Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics (52 papers) and Ovarian function and disorders (30 papers). Robert Winston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Robert Winston's co-authors include Alan H. Handyside, Kate Hardy, R. Margara, E. Kontogianni, Joyce Harper, Joy Delhanty, Asangla Ao, Outi Hovatta, J. Conaghan and Henry J. Leese and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robert Winston

161 papers receiving 10.3k citations

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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.

Pregnancies from biopsied human preimplantation embryos sexed by Y-specific DNA amplification

1990 1.1k citations Alan H. Handyside, E. Kontogianni et al. Nature profile →
The human blastocyst: cell number, death and allocation during late preimplantation development in vitro

1989 457 citations Kate Hardy, Alan H. Handyside et al. profile →
Birth of a Normal Girl after in Vitro Fertilization and Preimplantation Diagnostic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis

1992 374 citations Alan H. Handyside, Robert Winston et al. profile →
MICROSURGICAL TUBOCORNUAL ANASTOMOSIS FOR REVERSAL OF STERILISATION

1977 330 citations Robert Winston profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Winston United Kingdom	55	5.3k	4.8k	3.6k	3.3k	2.3k	164	10.9k
André Van Steirteghem Belgium	62	6.3k 1.2×	4.8k 1.0×	7.8k 2.2×	2.7k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	214	12.1k
Luca Gianaroli Italy	58	5.9k 1.1×	5.4k 1.1×	5.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	189	10.8k
Jacques Cohen United States	71	9.1k 1.7×	7.9k 1.6×	6.1k 1.7×	3.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	242	14.2k
Peter Braude United Kingdom	44	3.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	141	7.1k
Sjoerd Repping Netherlands	50	3.8k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	4.9k 1.4×	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.3×	213	9.6k
S. Munné United States	78	8.4k 1.6×	13.0k 2.7×	4.4k 1.2×	3.7k 1.1×	5.8k 2.5×	295	17.1k
René Frydman France	58	4.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.5×	4.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.3×	705 0.3×	197	8.6k
José Remohı́ Spain	62	7.5k 1.4×	3.9k 0.8×	8.3k 2.3×	1.4k 0.4×	741 0.3×	197	11.1k
Howard W. Jones United States	54	3.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	4.9k 1.4×	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	325	9.9k
Sherman J. Silber United States	64	5.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.4×	8.2k 2.3×	5.4k 1.6×	4.6k 2.0×	208	13.7k

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Lavery, Stuart, et al.. (2008). Live birth following preimplantation genetic screening for trisomy 21. Should aneuploidy screening be offered to all older patients undergoing IVF?. Human Fertility. 11(1). 29–32. 2 indexed citations

Carlsson, Inger, Mika Laitinen, Jennifer E. Scott, et al.. (2006). Kit ligand and c-Kit are expressed during early human ovarian follicular development and their interaction is required for the survival of follicles in long-term culture. Reproduction. 131(4). 641–649. 81 indexed citations

Broecke, Rudy Van den, Jun Liu, Alan H. Handyside, et al.. (2001). Follicular growth in fresh and cryopreserved human ovarian cortical grafts transplanted to immunodeficient mice. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 97(2). 193–201. 74 indexed citations

Wright, Catherine, Outi Hovatta, R. Margara, et al.. (1999). Effects of follicle-stimulating hormone and serum substitution on the in-vitro growth of human ovarian follicles. Human Reproduction. 14(6). 1555–1562. 206 indexed citations

Conaghan, J., Kate Hardy, Henry J. Leese, Robert Winston, & Alan H. Handyside. (1998). Culture of human preimplantation embryos to the blastocyst stage: a comparison of 3 media. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 42(7). 885–893. 15 indexed citations

Taylor, Deborah M., Pierre F. Ray, Asangla Ao, Robert Winston, & Alan H. Handyside. (1997). Paternal transcripts for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and adenosine deaminase are first detectable in the human preimplantation embryo at the Three- to Four-Cell stage. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 48(4). 442–448. 53 indexed citations

Lighten, Antony D., Kate Hardy, Robert Winston, & Gudrun E. Moore. (1997). Expression of mRNA for the insulin-like growth factors and their receptors in human preimplantation embryos. Molecular Reproduction and Development. 47(2). 134–139. 126 indexed citations

Hardy, Kate, et al.. (1995). Fertilization and early embryology: Normal development and metabolic activity of preimplantation embryos in vitro from patients with polycystic ovaries. Human Reproduction. 10(8). 2125–2135. 59 indexed citations

Winston, Robert, Pai C. Kao, & David T. Kiang. (1994). Regulation of insulin-like growth factors by antiestrogen. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 31(1). 107–115. 17 indexed citations

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Griffin, Darren K., L. Wilton, Alan H. Handyside, et al.. (1993). Diagnosis of sex in preimplantation embryos by fluorescent in situ hybridisation.. BMJ. 306(6889). 1382–1382. 48 indexed citations

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Winston, Robert & R. Margara. (1991). Microsurgical salpingostomy is not an obsolete procedure. BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 98(7). 637–642. 49 indexed citations

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Golombok, Susan, et al.. (1990). Psychological development of children of the new reproductive technologies: Issues and a pilot study of children conceived by IVF. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 8(1). 37–43. 15 indexed citations

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Handyside, Alan H., E. Kontogianni, Kate Hardy, & Robert Winston. (1990). Pregnancies from biopsied human preimplantation embryos sexed by Y-specific DNA amplification. Nature. 344(6268). 768–770. 1061 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coutelle, C., Carolyn Williams, Alan H. Handyside, et al.. (1989). Genetic analysis of DNA from single human oocytes: a model for preimplantation diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.. BMJ. 299(6690). 22–24. 61 indexed citations

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Fisch, Benjamin, R. Margara, Robert Winston, & Stephen G. Hillier. (1989). Cellular basis of luteal steroidogenesis in the human ovary. Journal of Endocrinology. 122(1). 303–NP. 34 indexed citations

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Golan, Abraham, et al.. (1986). The effect of treatment on experimentally produced endometrial peritoneal implants. Fertility and Sterility. 46(5). 954–958. 15 indexed citations

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Beyth, Yoram & Robert Winston. (1981). Ovum capture and fertility following microsurgical fimbriectomy in the rabbit. Fertility and Sterility. 35(4). 464–472. 24 indexed citations

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Wallach, Edward E. & Robert Winston. (1980). Microsurgery of the Fallopian Tube: From Fantasy to Reality. Fertility and Sterility. 34(6). 521–530. 95 indexed citations

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Brosens, Ivo & Robert Winston. (1978). Reversibility of female sterilization. Academic Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Winston, Robert. (1971). Cadmium fume poisoning.. BMJ. 2(5758). 401.2–401. 7 indexed citations

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