Ruth Gilbert

19.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
331 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Ruth Gilbert is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Gilbert has authored 331 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in General Health Professions, 82 papers in Epidemiology and 75 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Ruth Gilbert's work include Child and Adolescent Health (53 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (46 papers) and Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies (40 papers). Ruth Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Health (53 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (46 papers) and Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies (40 papers). Ruth Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and Denmark. Ruth Gilbert's co-authors include Staffan Janson, Elspeth Webb, David M. Fergusson, Kevin D. Browne, Cathy Spatz Widom, Eskild Petersen, Martine Wallon, Katie Harron, Pia Hardelid and Catherine Peckham and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Gilbert

311 papers receiving 12.1k 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.

Burden and consequences of child maltreatment in high-income countries

2008 2.8k citations Ruth Gilbert et al. profile →
Recognising and responding to child maltreatment

2008 426 citations Ruth Gilbert, Alison Kemp et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Gilbert

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evaluation of special educational needs and disability provision in English primary schools using administrative health and education data in the ECHILD database 2026 ·International Journal for Population Data Science ·Ruth Gilbert, Jennifer Saxton, (unknown), (unknown), Vincent Nguyen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jugnoo S. Rahi, (unknown), (unknown), William Farr, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Negotiating Access to Health and Wellbeing Support in Schools for Young People with Chronic Health Conditions in English Secondary Schools: A Qualitative Multi-Informant Study 2025 ·PubMed ·Lauren Herlitz, Matthew A Jay, Claire Powell, Ruth Gilbert, Ruth Blackburn	2
3	The economic burden of child maltreatment and co-occurring parental domestic violence and abuse in the UK 2025 ·Child Abuse & Neglect ·(unknown), Gene Feder, Ruth Gilbert, Claire Powell, Emma Howarth, Stephen Morris	1
4	Health and education outcomes from adolescence to adulthood for young people with neurodisability and their peers: protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked hospital and education data from England 2025 ·BMJ Open ·Lance Macaulay, Jennifer Saxton, Tamsin Ford, Stuart Logan, Katie Harron, Ruth Gilbert, Ania Zylbersztejn	0
5	Primary school attainment outcomes in children with neurodisability: Protocol for a population-based cohort study using linked education and hospital data from England 2024 ·NIHR Open Research ·A J Cant, Ania Zylbersztejn, (unknown), Ruth Gilbert, Katie Harron	2
6	Domestic abuse, primary care and child mental health services: A systems analysis of service coordination from professionals’ perspectives 2024 ·Children and Youth Services Review ·Claire Powell, (unknown), Lauren Herlitz, Satinder Bains, (unknown), Jessica Deighton, Shabeer Syed, Ruth Gilbert, Gene Feder, Emma Howarth	0
7	Identifying opportunities for upstream evaluations relevant to child and maternal health: a UK policy-mapping review 2023 ·Archives of Disease in Childhood ·Emma Stewart, Anna Pearce, Joanne Given, Ruth Gilbert, Sinéad Brophy, Richard Cookson, Pia Hardelid, Katie Harron, Alastair H. Leyland, Rachael Wood, Ruth Dundas	5
8	Evaluation of variation in special educational needs provision and its impact on health and education using administrative records for England: umbrella protocol for a mixed-methods research programme 2023 ·BMJ Open ·Ania Zylbersztejn, (unknown), Vincent Nguyen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Barnes, (unknown), Jennifer Saxton, (unknown), Kate Boddy, Johnny Downs, Stuart Logan, Jugnoo S. Rahi, Kristine Black‐Hawkins, Lorraine Dearden, Tamsin Ford, Katie Harron, Bianca De Stavola, Ruth Gilbert	7
9	Birth prevalence of anorectal malformations in England and 5-year survival: a national birth cohort study 2022 ·Archives of Disease in Childhood ·Kathryn Ford, (unknown), Ania Zylbersztejn, Joe Curry, Ruth Gilbert	10
10	Autism spectrum disorders as a risk factor for adolescent self-harm: a retrospective cohort study of 113,286 young people in the UK 2022 ·BMC Medicine ·Emily Widnall, Sophie Epstein, Catherine Polling, Sumithra Velupillai, Amelia Jewell, Rina Dutta, Emily Simonoff, Robert Stewart, Ruth Gilbert, Tamsin Ford, Matthew Hotopf, Richard D. Hayes, Johnny Downs	11
11	Linking data on women in public family law court proceedings concerning their children to mental health service records in South London 2021 ·International Journal for Population Data Science ·Rachel Pearson, Amelia Jewell, Linda Wijlaars, (unknown), Emily Finch, Karen Broadhurst, Johnny Downs, Ruth Gilbert	5
12	Antimicrobial-impregnated central venous catheters for preventing neonatal bloodstream infection: the PREVAIL RCT 2020 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Ruth Gilbert, Michaela Brown, Rita Faria, Caroline Fraser, Chloe Donohue, Naomi Rainford, (unknown), Ajay Sinha, Jon Dorling, J. Gray, Berit Müller‐Pebody, Katie Harron, Tracy Moitt, (unknown), Laura Bojke, Carrol Gamble, Sam Oddie	12
13	Cost-effectiveness of strategies preventing late-onset infection in preterm infants 2019 ·Archives of Disease in Childhood ·(unknown), Rita Faria, Laura Bojke, Chloe Donohue, Caroline Fraser, Katie Harron, Sam Oddie, Ruth Gilbert	7
14	An approach to linking education, social care and electronic health records for children and young people in South London: a linkage study of child and adolescent mental health service data 2019 ·BMJ Open ·Johnny Downs, Tamsin Ford, Robert Stewart, Sophie Epstein, Hitesh Shetty, Ryan Little, Amelia Jewell, Matthew Broadbent, Jessica Deighton, Tarek Mostafa, Ruth Gilbert, Matthew Hotopf, Richard D. Hayes	50
15	A simple clinical coding strategy to improve recording of child maltreatment concerns: an audit study 2015 ·Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics ·Andrew McGovern, Jenny Woodman, (unknown), Jeremy van Vlymen, Harshana Liyanage, Simon Jones, Imran Rafi, Simon de Lusignan, Ruth Gilbert	6
16	Accuracy of bacterial DNA testing for central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infection in children with cancer 2011 ·Health Technology Assessment ·M. Millar, Weiwei Zhou, Roderick Skinner, Barry Pizer, Enid Hennessy, Mark Wilks, Ruth Gilbert	11
17	Child Maltreatment 2 Recognising and responding to child maltreatment 2009 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Ruth Gilbert, Alison Kemp, June Thoburn, Peter Sidebotham, Lorraine Radford, Danya Glaser, Harriet L. MacMillan	20
18	Effect of antibiotics for otitis media on mastoiditis in children: A retrospective cohort study using the UK General Practice Research Database 2008 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Ruth Gilbert, (unknown), Sonia Saxena, Mike Sharland, Ian Chi Kei Wong	1
19	Performance of screening tests for child physical abuse in accident and emergency departments 2008 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Jenny Woodman, Martin Pitt, Reinhard Wentz, Bruce G. Taylor, Deborah Hodes, Ruth Gilbert	85
20	Prenatal screening and treatment strategies to prevent group B streptococcal and other bacterial infections in early infancy: cost-effectiveness and expected value of information analyses 2007 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Tim Colbourn, Christian Asseburg, Laura Bojke, Z Philips, Karl Claxton, A. E. Ades, Ruth Gilbert	58

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