Simon R. Cox

18.9k citations

173 papers · 5.6k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Cognitive Neuroscience top 1%
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Aging top 2%

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 65
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 60
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 5

Co-authors: Ian J. Deary Mark E. Bastin Stuart J. Ritchie Joanna M. Wardlaw Janie Corley Paul Redmond John M. Starr Susana Muñoz Maniega
Journals: Molecular Psychiatry (9 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (8 papers)NeuroImage (8 papers)Human Brain Mapping (8 papers)Intelligence (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Simon R. Cox

161 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Refining epigenetic prediction of chronological and biological age 2023 · 65 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Genome Medicine
2018 Cerebral Cortex
2017 Molecular Psychiatry
2016 Nature Communications
2015 International Journal of Epidemiology

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1	CheekAge, a next-generation epigenetic buccal clock, is predictive of mortality in human blood SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Maxim N. Shokhirev, Daniel J. Kramer, Janie Corley, Simon R. Cox, Trinna Cuellar, Adiv A. Johnson	2024	4
2	Life-course neighbourhood deprivation and brain structure in older adults: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 Molecular Psychiatry ·Gergő Baranyi, Colin R. Buchanan, V. Palichik, Ellen V. Backhouse, Susana Muñoz Maniega, María del C. Valdés Hernández, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox, Jamie Pearce	2024	3
3	Genetic control of DNA methylation is largely shared across European and East Asian populations Nature Communications ·Alesha Hatton, Feifei Cheng, Tian Lin, 成田正見, Jie Chen, Zhili Zheng, Jia Qu, Fan Lyu, Sarah E. Harris, Simon R. Cox, Zi‐Bing Jin, Nicholas G. Martin, Dongsheng Fan, Grant W. Montgomery, Jian Yang, Naomi R. Wray, Riccardo E. Marioni, Peter M. Visscher, Allan F. McRae	2024	5
4	Epigenetic scores derived in saliva are associated with gestational age at birth Clinical Epigenetics ·K. I. M. McKinnon, V. Palichik, Kadi Vaher, Robert F. Hillary, Danni A. Gadd, V. Amrutha, Gemma Sullivan, Anna J. Stevenson, Mital R Soni, Lee Murphy, Heather C. Whalley, Hilary Richardson, Riccardo E. Marioni, Simon R. Cox, James P. Boardman	2024	0
5	Classification accuracy of structural and functional connectomes across different depressive phenotypes Imaging Neuroscience ·L.-Y. Wu, Aleks Stolicyn, Xueyi Shen, Mark J. Adams, Liana Romaniuk, Ade Untoro, Colin R. Buchanan, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob, Mark E. Bastin, Andrew M. McIntosh, Simon R. Cox, Keith Smith, Heather C. Whalley	2023	1
6	General dimensions of human brain morphometry inferred from genome‐wide association data Human Brain Mapping ·Anna E. Fürtjes, Ryan Arathimos, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, James H. Cole, Simon R. Cox, Ian J. Deary, Javier de la Fuente, James W. Madole, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob, Stuart J. Ritchie	2023	15
7	Childhood intelligence and risk of depression in later-life: A longitudinal data-linkage study SSM - Population Health ·Emily Ball, Drew Altschul, Simon R. Cox, Ian J. Deary, Andrew M. McIntosh, Matthew H. Iveson	2023	1
8	Strong intercorrelations among global graph-theoretic indices of structural connectivity in the human brain NeuroImage ·James W. Madole, Colin R. Buchanan, Mijke Rhemtulla, Stuart J. Ritchie, Mark E. Bastin, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob	2023	7
9	Association of Life-Course Neighborhood Deprivation With Frailty and Frailty Progression From Ages 70 to 82 Years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 American Journal of Epidemiology ·Gergő Baranyi, Miles Welstead, Janie Corley, Ian J. Deary, Graciela Muñiz‐Terrera, Paul Redmond, Niamh Shortt, Adele M. Taylor, Catharine Ward Thompson, Simon R. Cox, Jamie Pearce	2022	7
10	Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82) Psychological Science ·Rechtsanwalt Prof, Judith A. Okely, Olivia KL Hamilton, Janie Corley, Danielle Page, Paul Redmond, Adele M. Taylor, Tom C. Russ, Ian J. Deary, Simon R. Cox	2022	14
11	DNA methylation in relation to gestational age and brain dysmaturation in preterm infants Brain Communications ·Emily Wheater, Paola Galdi, Daniel L. McCartney, Manuel Blesa, Gemma Sullivan, David Q. Stoye, Warren E. Stickle, Sarah Sparrow, Lee Murphy, Nicola Wrobel, Alan J. Quigley, Malcolm G. Semple, Michael J. Thrippleton, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Mark E. Bastin, Riccardo E. Marioni, Simon R. Cox, James P. Boardman	2022	22
12	Predicting sex, age, general cognition and mental health with machine learning on brain structural connectomes Human Brain Mapping ·L.-Y. Wu, Aleks Stolicyn, Colin R. Buchanan, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob, Mark E. Bastin, Saturnino Luz, Andrew M. McIntosh, Heather C. Whalley, Simon R. Cox, Keith Smith	2022	16
13	Increase in anticholinergic burden from 1990 to 2015: Age‐period‐cohort analysis in UK biobank British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology ·ไพลิน ทวีวงษ์, Simon R. Cox, Riccardo E. Marioni, Graciela Muñiz‐Terrera, Tom C. Russ	2021	16
14	Associations between alcohol use and accelerated biological ageing Addiction Biology ·涵宇王, Kadi Vaher, Laura de Nooij, Matthew Harris, James H. Cole, Simon R. Cox, Riccardo E. Marioni, Daniel L. McCartney, Rosie M. Walker, Andrew M. McIntosh, Kathryn L. Evans, Heather C. Whalley, Robyn E. Wootton, Toni‐Kim Clarke	2021	30
15	Early life predictors of late life cerebral small vessel disease in four prospective cohort studies Brain ·Shilan Jin, Susan D. Shenkin, Andrew M. McIntosh, Mark E. Bastin, Heather C. Whalley, Tanguy Medevielle, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Mathew A. Harris, Aleks Stolicyn, Archie Campbell, J. Douglas Steele, Gordon D. Waiter, Anca‐Larisa Sandu, Ali Hussein Ajaam, Alison D. Murray, Simon R. Cox, Susanne R. de Rooij, Tessa J. Roseboom, Joanna M. Wardlaw	2021	26
16	White matter, cognition and psychotic-like experiences in UK Biobank Psychological Medicine ·Kishnani Pankaj, Simon R. Cox, Tim Ziermans, Colin R. Buchanan, Xueyi Shen, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob, Mark J. Adams, Heather C. Whalley, Stephen M. Lawrie	2021	4
17	Spectral clustering based on structural magnetic resonance imaging and its relationship with major depressive disorder and cognitive ability European Journal of Neuroscience ·L.-Y. Wu, Xueyi Shen, Aleks Stolicyn, Laura de Nooij, Mathew A. Harris, Liana Romaniuk, Colin R. Buchanan, Gordon D. Waiter, Anca‐Larisa Sandu, Christopher J. McNeil, Alison D. Murray, J. Douglas Steele, Archie Campbell, David J. Porteous, Stephen M. Lawrie, Andrew M. McIntosh, Simon R. Cox, Keith Smith, Heather C. Whalley	2021	5
18	Hierarchical Complexity of the Macro-Scale Neonatal Brain Cerebral Cortex ·Manuel Blesa, Paola Galdi, Simon R. Cox, Gemma Sullivan, David Q. Stoye, Warren E. Stickle, Alan J. Quigley, Michael J. Thrippleton, Javier Escudero, Mark E. Bastin, Keith Smith, James P. Boardman	2020	20
19	Aging-Sensitive Networks Within the Human Structural Connectome Are Implicated in Late-Life Cognitive Declines Biological Psychiatry ·James W. Madole, Stuart J. Ritchie, Simon R. Cox, Colin R. Buchanan, María Valdés Hernández, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Mathew A. Harris, Mark E. Bastin, Ian J. Deary, Elliot M. Tucker–Drob	2020	26
20	Change in Physical Activity, Sleep Quality, and Psychosocial Variables during COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Judith A. Okely, Janie Corley, Miles Welstead, Adele M. Taylor, Danielle Page, Barbora Skarabela, Paul Redmond, Simon R. Cox, Tom C. Russ	2020	55

About Simon R. Cox

Simon R. Cox is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental health and Biological Psychiatry, having authored 173 papers that have together received 5.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (60 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (53 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (20 papers), Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (19 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (17 papers) and Cognitive Abilities and Testing (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (1.8k citations), Aging (126 citations), Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (106 citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (977 citations) and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (1.3k citations). Simon R. Cox has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Ian J. Deary, Mark E. Bastin, Stuart J. Ritchie, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Janie Corley, Paul Redmond, John M. Starr, Susana Muñoz Maniega, Alison Pattie and Sarah E. Harris. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Psychiatry, Neurobiology of Aging, NeuroImage, Human Brain Mapping and Intelligence.

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