Simon Sheard

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 989 citations indexed

About

Simon Sheard is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Sheard has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 989 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 3 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simon Sheard's work include Magnetic Properties and Applications (4 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (2 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 papers). Simon Sheard is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic Properties and Applications (4 papers), Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (2 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 papers). Simon Sheard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Simon Sheard's co-authors include Tim Peakman, Christopher G. Owen, Thomas Plötz, Vincent T. van Hees, Patrick Olivier, Malcolm Granat, Stephen Preece, Michael I. Trenell, Nicholas J. Wareham and Dan Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Applied Physics and British Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Simon Sheard

13 papers receiving 976 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.

Large Scale Population Assessment of Physical Activity Using Wrist Worn Accelerometers: The UK Biobank Study

2017 790 citations Aiden Doherty, Dan Jackson et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Sheard United Kingdom	6	487	333	141	93	93	13	989
Tom White United Kingdom	13	1.1k 2.3×	735 2.2×	287 2.0×	185 2.0×	239 2.6×	18	1.8k
Frederick J. Wilson United Kingdom	14	422 0.9×	104 0.3×	122 0.9×	118 1.3×	175 1.9×	28	1.4k
Junrui Di United States	15	292 0.6×	155 0.5×	78 0.6×	153 1.6×	37 0.4×	33	718
Bart Visser Netherlands	25	251 0.5×	117 0.4×	198 1.4×	63 0.7×	47 0.5×	88	2.0k
Shabina Hayat United Kingdom	25	267 0.5×	265 0.8×	73 0.5×	122 1.3×	14 0.2×	69	1.7k
Paul Albert United States	14	282 0.6×	106 0.3×	36 0.3×	73 0.8×	43 0.5×	22	1.3k
Chiara Milanese Italy	23	510 1.0×	262 0.8×	29 0.2×	49 0.5×	199 2.1×	104	1.8k
Jonathon R. Fowles Canada	23	626 1.3×	257 0.8×	217 1.5×	34 0.4×	357 3.8×	70	2.1k
Reza Hosseini Ghomi United States	20	728 1.5×	118 0.4×	139 1.0×	112 1.2×	11 0.1×	34	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Sheard

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13 of 13 papers shown

Holliday, Jo, Nicola Doherty, N.C. Wood, et al.. (2023). Social determinants of ethnic disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection: UK Biobank SARS-CoV-2 Serology Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 78(1). 3–10. 1 indexed citations

Foster, Paul J., Denize Atan, Anthony P. Khawaja, et al.. (2023). Cohort profile: rationale and methods of UK Biobank repeat imaging study eye measures to study dementia. BMJ Open. 13(6). e069258–e069258. 5 indexed citations

Conroy, Megan, Ben Lacey, Jelena Bešević, et al.. (2022). UK Biobank: a globally important resource for cancer research. British Journal of Cancer. 128(4). 519–527. 70 indexed citations

Atri, Alireza, Simon Sheard, & Danielle Goldfarb. (2019). A Multidisciplinary Approach for Addressing Challenges in Alzheimer’s Disease. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 80(5). 2 indexed citations

Goldfarb, Danielle, Simon Sheard, Lynn Shaughnessy, & Alireza Atri. (2019). Disclosure of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 80(2). 12 indexed citations

Atri, Alireza, Danielle Goldfarb, Simon Sheard, & Lynn Shaughnessy. (2019). Current and Emerging Solutions to Challenges in the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 80(6). 3 indexed citations

Shaughnessy, Lynn, Simon Sheard, Danielle Goldfarb, & Alireza Atri. (2019). Cognitive Assessment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementias in Clinical Practice. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 80(4). 5 indexed citations

Welsh, Samantha, Tim Peakman, Simon Sheard, & Rachael Almond. (2017). Comparison of DNA quantification methodology used in the DNA extraction protocol for the UK Biobank cohort. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 26–26. 49 indexed citations

Doherty, Aiden, Dan Jackson, Nils Hammerla, et al.. (2017). Large Scale Population Assessment of Physical Activity Using Wrist Worn Accelerometers: The UK Biobank Study. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0169649–e0169649. 790 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheard, Simon, Wei Gao, M.R.J. Gibbs, & B. Cantor. (1989). The effects of controlled crystallization and oxidation on the magnetic properties of Fe40Ni40B20, Fe78Si9B13 and Co58Ni10Fe5Si11B16 metallic glasses. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 78(3). 347–351. 5 indexed citations

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Squire, P.T., et al.. (1988). Digital M-H plotter for low-coercivity metallic glasses. Journal of Physics E Scientific Instruments. 21(12). 1167–1172. 44 indexed citations

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Sheard, Simon, M.R.J. Gibbs, & Reginald K. Avery. (1988). Effect of induced anisotropy on saturating pulse performance. Journal of Applied Physics. 64(10). 6035–6037. 2 indexed citations

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Sheard, Simon, M.R.J. Gibbs, & Reginald K. Avery. (1988). Characterisation of Co-based metallic glasses for saturable inductor cores. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 75(3). 397–406. 1 indexed citations

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