Roger Morbey

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Roger Morbey is a scholar working on Epidemiology, General Health Professions and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger Morbey has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Epidemiology, 17 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Roger Morbey's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (34 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (13 papers). Roger Morbey is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (34 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Respiratory viral infections research (13 papers). Roger Morbey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Roger Morbey's co-authors include Gillian Smith, Alex J. Elliot, Helen E. Hughes, Sue Smith, Sally Harcourt, Richard Pebody, Jeremy Hawker, Obaghe Edeghere, Paul Loveridge and Joanna Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Roger Morbey

65 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5 years in England during the COVID-19 pandemic, measured by laboratory, clinical, and syndromic surveillance: a retrospective observational study

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger Morbey United Kingdom	18	562	215	198	171	152	71	1.1k
Andrea L. Benin United States	22	732 1.3×	679 3.2×	328 1.7×	167 1.0×	230 1.5×	59	2.3k
Lorraine Moss Canada	8	441 0.8×	237 1.1×	133 0.7×	116 0.7×	93 0.6×	11	908
Hilary M. Babcock United States	21	878 1.6×	528 2.5×	110 0.6×	135 0.8×	112 0.7×	84	1.8k
Per H. Gesteland United States	21	774 1.4×	232 1.1×	132 0.7×	160 0.9×	117 0.8×	46	1.4k
Michael A. Jhung United States	25	720 1.3×	528 2.5×	106 0.5×	132 0.8×	92 0.6×	38	1.6k
Sue Smith United Kingdom	17	256 0.5×	73 0.3×	155 0.8×	57 0.3×	132 0.9×	34	771
Carol Pertowski United States	7	478 0.9×	275 1.3×	188 0.9×	79 0.5×	230 1.5×	11	1.2k
Shirley Paton Canada	20	544 1.0×	659 3.1×	158 0.8×	121 0.7×	171 1.1×	34	1.9k
Pia Hardelid United Kingdom	21	1.5k 2.7×	418 1.9×	291 1.5×	431 2.5×	191 1.3×	90	2.6k
Mike Catchpole United Kingdom	25	726 1.3×	302 1.4×	419 2.1×	216 1.3×	316 2.1×	61	1.7k

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Elson, William H., Anna Forbes, Roger Morbey, et al.. (2025). A Systematic Review of the Markers of Severity in Acute Respiratory Infections to Inform Primary Care Surveillance. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 19(10). e70172–e70172.

Morbey, Roger, et al.. (2024). Using a novel ‘difference-in-differences’ method and syndromic surveillance to estimate the change in local healthcare utilisation during periods of media reporting in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Public Health. 232. 132–137. 2 indexed citations

Elson, William H., Cecilia Okusi, Rachel Byford, et al.. (2024). Validation of an acute respiratory infection phenotyping algorithm to support robust computerised medical record-based respiratory sentinel surveillance, England, 2023. Eurosurveillance. 29(35).

Elliot, Alex J., Helen E. Hughes, Sally Harcourt, et al.. (2024). From Fax to Secure File Transfer Protocol: The 25-Year Evolution of Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance in England. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e58704–e58704. 1 indexed citations

Love, Nicola, Amy Douglas, Saheer E. Gharbia, et al.. (2023). Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic response on GI infection surveillance trends in England, January 2020–April 2022. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e147–e147. 9 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, et al.. (2023). DiD IT?: a differences-in-differences investigation tool to quantify the impact of local incidents on public health using real-time syndromic surveillance health data. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e56–e56. 1 indexed citations

Morbey, Roger, Daniel Todkill, Conall Watson, & Alex J. Elliot. (2023). Machine learning forecasts for seasonal epidemic peaks: Lessons learnt from an atypical respiratory syncytial virus season. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0291932–e0291932.

Morbey, Roger, Gillian Smith, Karen Exley, et al.. (2022). Estimating the Impact of Air Pollution on Healthcare-Seeking Behaviour by Applying a Difference-in-Differences Method to Syndromic Surveillance Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(12). 7097–7097. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Gillian, Sally Harcourt, Uy Hoang, et al.. (2022). Mental Health Presentations Across Health Care Settings During the First 9 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in England: Retrospective Observational Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 8(8). e32347–e32347. 3 indexed citations

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Loveridge, Paul, Roger Morbey, Daniel Todkill, et al.. (2022). The Utility of Ambulance Dispatch Call Syndromic Surveillance for Detecting and Assessing the Health Impact of Extreme Weather Events in England. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(7). 3876–3876. 3 indexed citations

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Elliot, Alex J., Helen E. Hughes, Roger Morbey, et al.. (2021). Spike in Asthma Healthcare Presentations in Eastern England during June 2021: A Retrospective Observational Study Using Syndromic Surveillance Data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(23). 12353–12353. 5 indexed citations

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Morbey, Roger, Alex J. Elliot, Gillian Smith, & André Charlett. (2020). Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Baselines After Public Health Interventions. Public Health Reports. 135(6). 737–745.

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Colón‐González, Felipe J., Roger Morbey, Paul Hunter, et al.. (2020). Demographic and socioeconomic patterns in healthcare-seeking behaviour for respiratory symptoms in England: a comparison with non-respiratory symptoms and between three healthcare services. BMJ Open. 10(11). e038356–e038356. 10 indexed citations

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Morbey, Roger, André Charlett, Iain Lake, et al.. (2020). Can syndromic surveillance help forecast winter hospital bed pressures in England?. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0228804–e0228804. 6 indexed citations

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Hughes, Helen E., Thomas Hughes, Roger Morbey, et al.. (2020). Emergency department use during COVID-19 as described by syndromic surveillance. Emergency Medicine Journal. 37(10). 600–604. 52 indexed citations

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Bundle, Nick, Neville Q. Verlander, Roger Morbey, et al.. (2019). Monitoring epidemiological trends in back to school asthma among preschool and school-aged children using real-time syndromic surveillance in England, 2012–2016. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 73(9). 825–831. 6 indexed citations

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Morbey, Roger, Helen E. Hughes, Gillian Smith, et al.. (2019). Potential added value of the new emergency care dataset to ED-based public health surveillance in England: an initial concept analysis. Emergency Medicine Journal. 36(8). 459–464. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Gillian, Alex J. Elliot, Iain Lake, et al.. (2019). Syndromic surveillance: two decades experience of sustainable systems – its people not just data!. Epidemiology and Infection. 147. e101–e101. 31 indexed citations

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Adams, Natalie, Tanith C. Rose, Alex J. Elliot, et al.. (2018). Social patterning of telephone health-advice for diarrhoea and vomiting: analysis of 24 million telehealth calls in England. Journal of Infection. 78(2). 95–100. 4 indexed citations

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Harcourt, Sally, Roger Morbey, Chris Bates, et al.. (2017). Estimating primary care attendance rates for fever in infants after meningococcal B vaccination in England using national syndromic surveillance data. Vaccine. 36(4). 565–571. 14 indexed citations

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