Robin Walters

25.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
102 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Robin Walters is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin Walters has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Robin Walters's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (23 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers) and Light effects on plants (15 papers). Robin Walters is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (23 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (17 papers) and Light effects on plants (15 papers). Robin Walters collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Robin Walters's co-authors include Peter Horton, Alexander V. Ruban, Stefan Jansson, Shaun Bailey, Iona Y. Millwood, Zhengming Chen, Liming Li, Canqing Yu, Alexandra I. F. Blakemore and Philippe Froguel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robin Walters

97 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

REGULATION OF LIGHT HARVESTING IN GREEN PLANTS

1996 1.4k citations Peter Horton, Alexander V. Ruban et al. profile →
Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Metabolites and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke

2018 329 citations Michael V. Holmes, Iona Y. Millwood et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology profile →
Causal associations of blood lipids with risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese adults

2019 209 citations Luanluan Sun, Robert Clarke et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robin Walters United Kingdom	35	4.0k	2.9k	718	565	500	102	6.2k
David J. Kyle United States	36	2.5k 0.6×	956 0.3×	680 0.9×	378 0.7×	641 1.3×	88	4.9k
Hiroyuki Koike Japan	39	3.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	83 0.1×	875 1.8×	161	4.9k
Christos D. Georgiou Greece	41	1.8k 0.5×	992 0.3×	452 0.6×	203 0.4×	118 0.2×	158	5.1k
David A. Walker United Kingdom	49	5.4k 1.4×	5.1k 1.7×	657 0.9×	101 0.2×	1.1k 2.3×	184	8.1k
Lello Zolla Italy	51	4.2k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	225 0.3×	491 0.9×	233 0.5×	242	9.0k
David J. Oliver United States	40	3.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	96 0.1×	113 0.2×	179 0.4×	151	7.0k
John H. Miller United States	43	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	439 0.6×	309 0.5×	61 0.1×	417	8.3k
Guy A. Thompson United States	36	3.4k 0.8×	684 0.2×	216 0.3×	141 0.2×	809 1.6×	126	5.2k
Jeffrey F. Harper United States	61	7.6k 1.9×	10.2k 3.5×	276 0.4×	340 0.6×	214 0.4×	127	13.6k
Wang‐Xia Wang United States	34	5.4k 1.4×	4.3k 1.5×	249 0.3×	342 0.6×	79 0.2×	62	10.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robin Walters

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yiorkas, Andrianos M., Robin Walters, Harvinder Chahal, et al.. (2024). Oligogenic inheritance in severe adult obesity. International Journal of Obesity. 48(6). 815–820.

Song, Mingyu, Yuting Han, LV Jun, et al.. (2024). Association of autosomal mosaic chromosomal alterations with risk of bladder cancer in Chinese adults: a prospective cohort study. Cell Death and Disease. 15(9). 706–706.

Zhuang, Zhenhuang, Jun Lv, Dianjianyi Sun, et al.. (2024). A genome-wide association study based on the China Kadoorie Biobank identifies genetic associations between snoring and cardiometabolic traits. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

Yu, Canqing, Dianjianyi Sun, Yuanjie Pang, et al.. (2024). Joint impact of polygenic risk score and lifestyles on early- and late-onset cardiovascular diseases. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(9). 1810–1818. 8 indexed citations

Li, Aolin, Canqing Yu, Pei Pei, et al.. (2024). Phenotypic Versus Genetic Mismatch of BMI and Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From Two Prospective Cohort Studies. Diabetes. 74(3). 320–331.

Walters, Robin, et al.. (2023). On robot grasp learning using equivariant models. Autonomous Robots. 47(8). 1175–1193. 3 indexed citations

Kartsonaki, Christiana, Pang Yao, Julia Butt, et al.. (2023). Infectious pathogens and risk of esophageal, gastric and duodenal cancers and ulcers in China: A case‐cohort study. International Journal of Cancer. 154(8). 1423–1432. 3 indexed citations

Clarke, Robert, Neil Wright, Robin Walters, et al.. (2023). Genetically Predicted Differences in Systolic Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Diseases: A Mendelian Randomization Study in Chinese Adults. Hypertension. 80(3). 566–576. 11 indexed citations

Boxall, Ruth, Michael V. Holmes, & Robin Walters. (2023). bubbleHeatmap: an R package for visualization of Nightingale Health metabolomics datasets. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad123–vbad123. 3 indexed citations

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Lv, Jun, Yuanjie Pang, Yu Guo, et al.. (2022). Association of egg consumption, metabolic markers, and risk of cardiovascular diseases: A nested case-control study. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations

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Yao, Pang, Iona Y. Millwood, Christiana Kartsonaki, et al.. (2022). Sero-prevalence of 19 infectious pathogens and associated factors among middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 12(5). e058353–e058353. 8 indexed citations

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Huang, Tao, Wenxiu Wang, Jingjia Wang, et al.. (2021). Conventional and Bidirectional Genetic Evidence on Resting Heart Rate and Cardiometabolic Traits. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 107(4). e1518–e1527. 6 indexed citations

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Sun, Luanluan, Robert Clarke, Derrick Bennett, et al.. (2019). Causal associations of blood lipids with risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese adults. Nature Medicine. 25(4). 569–574. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holmes, Michael V., Iona Y. Millwood, Christiana Kartsonaki, et al.. (2018). Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Metabolites and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71(6). 620–632. 329 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holmes, Michael V., Iona Y. Millwood, Christiana Kartsonaki, et al.. (2016). Serum NMR Metabolomics Identifies Similar Associations of Lipoproteins and Lipids With Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Stroke but Not With Hemorrhagic Stroke. Circulation. 134.

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Millwood, Iona Y., Robin Walters, Yuming Guo, et al.. (2014). Mthfr c677t genotype is not associated with ischaemic heart disease and stroke in a large prospective study in china. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Adam J. de, Carolin Purmann, Robin Walters, et al.. (2009). Elucidating the aetiology of Prader-Willi syndrome: deletion of the HBII-85 class of snoRNA is associated with hyperphagia, obesity and hypogonadism. Journal of Medical Genetics. 46. 1 indexed citations

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Andersson, Jenny, Mark Wentworth, Robin Walters, et al.. (2003). Absence of the main light-harvesting complex of photosystem II affects photosynthetic function.. The Plant Journal. 2003. 4 indexed citations

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Bailey, Shaun, Robin Walters, Stefan Jansson, & Peter Horton. (2001). Acclimation of Arabidopsis thaliana to the light environment: the existence of separate low light and high light responses. Planta. 213(5). 794–801. 333 indexed citations

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Walters, Robin. (1965). The Globorotalia zealandica and G. miozea lineages. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 8(1). 109–127. 34 indexed citations

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