Stephen Clayton

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Stephen Clayton is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Demography and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Clayton has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Demography and 6 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Stephen Clayton's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (13 papers), Retirement, Disability, and Employment (8 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (6 papers). Stephen Clayton is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (13 papers), Retirement, Disability, and Employment (8 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (6 papers). Stephen Clayton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Stephen Clayton's co-authors include Margaret Whitehead, Steven Cummins, Theo Lorenc, Hilary Thomson, David Neary, Amanda Sowden, Mark Petticrew, Adrian Renton, Bo Bur­ström and Lotta Nylén and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Clayton

42 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and ... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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.

  1. Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: Mapping review of theories and causal pathways
    2012 358 citations Theo Lorenc, Stephen Clayton et al. Health & Place profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen Clayton United Kingdom 17 468 334 270 185 142 47 1.3k
Katherine E. King United States 18 157 0.3× 319 1.0× 242 0.9× 103 0.6× 135 1.0× 28 1.2k
Glória Macassa Sweden 21 498 1.1× 300 0.9× 378 1.4× 269 1.5× 53 0.4× 110 1.7k
Anthony Glendinning United Kingdom 17 323 0.7× 345 1.0× 280 1.0× 78 0.4× 51 0.4× 24 1.5k
Rong Zhu China 27 231 0.5× 319 1.0× 142 0.5× 217 1.2× 25 0.2× 95 1.7k
Richard Wilkinson United Kingdom 14 403 0.9× 372 1.1× 381 1.4× 47 0.3× 73 0.5× 47 1.5k
John Cromartie United States 19 280 0.6× 550 1.6× 89 0.3× 130 0.7× 113 0.8× 57 1.4k
Scott T. Yabiku United States 26 354 0.8× 763 2.3× 130 0.5× 413 2.2× 32 0.2× 61 2.1k
Sarah Wakefield Canada 22 460 1.0× 810 2.4× 287 1.1× 53 0.3× 140 1.0× 37 2.4k
Cornelia Guell United Kingdom 23 331 0.7× 129 0.4× 199 0.7× 79 0.4× 463 3.3× 77 1.5k
Mylène Riva Canada 22 544 1.2× 305 0.9× 620 2.3× 126 0.7× 558 3.9× 83 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Clayton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Clayton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Clayton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Clayton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Clayton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stephen Clayton. Stephen Clayton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stewart, Kenneth, et al.. (2025). Application of a Validated Assessment Tool to Compare Autonomy and Operative Performance Between Surgical Residency Programs. Journal of surgical education. 82(4). 103432–103432.
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Cuevas, Rachel Anderson de, et al.. (2024). Whose pollution, whose problem? Understanding perceptions of air pollution and implications for clean cooking (for health) in Nairobi schools. Health & Place. 91. 103398–103398. 3 indexed citations
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Pitron, Victor, et al.. (2024). Climate change anxiety and its association with somatic symptom distress and idiopathic environmental intolerances: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 187. 111937–111937. 1 indexed citations
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Clayton, Stephen, et al.. (2023). Surviving stomach bugs in UK ethnic groups: a qualitative study. The Lancet. 402. S95–S95.
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Richards, Michael, et al.. (2023). Caregiver-Implemented Feeding Interventions for Autistic Children with Food Selectivity: a Systematic Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 12(2). 224–242. 2 indexed citations
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Lorenc, Theo, Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead, et al.. (2013). Fear of crime and the environment: systematic review of UK qualitative evidence. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 496–496. 103 indexed citations
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Lorenc, Theo, Mark Petticrew, Margaret Whitehead, et al.. (2013). Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness. Systematic Reviews. 2(1). 30–30. 65 indexed citations
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Bur­ström, Bo, Lotta Nylén, Ben Barr, et al.. (2012). Delayed and differential effects of the economic crisis in Sweden in the 1990s on health-related exclusion from the labour market: A health equity assessment. Social Science & Medicine. 75(12). 2431–2436. 16 indexed citations
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Holland, Paula, Lotta Nylén, Karsten Thielen, et al.. (2011). How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? Part II: The Impact of Active and Passive Labor Market Policies. International Journal of Health Services. 41(3). 415–430. 44 indexed citations
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Holland, Paula, Bo Bur­ström, Margaret Whitehead, et al.. (2011). How Do Macro-Level Contexts and Policies Affect the Employment Chances of Chronically Ill and Disabled People? Part I: The Impact of Recession and Deindustrialization. International Journal of Health Services. 41(3). 395–413. 52 indexed citations
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Fritzell, Sara, Margaret Whitehead, Bo Bur­ström, et al.. (2011). Does non-employment contribute to the health disadvantage among lone mothers in Britain, Italy and Sweden? Synergy effects and the meaning of family policy. Health & Place. 18(2). 199–208. 21 indexed citations
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Clayton, Stephen, Ben Barr, Lotta Nylén, et al.. (2011). Effectiveness of return-to-work interventions for disabled people: a systematic review of government initiatives focused on changing the behaviour of employers. European Journal of Public Health. 22(3). 434–439. 74 indexed citations
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Bur­ström, Bo, Lotta Nylén, Stephen Clayton, & Margaret Whitehead. (2010). How equitable is vocational rehabilitation in Sweden? A review of evidence on the implementation of a national policy framework. Disability and Rehabilitation. 33(6). 453–466. 35 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Francis, et al.. (2010). Bronchoalveolar lavage in children with cystic fibrosis: how many lobes should be sampled?. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 96(3). 215–217. 40 indexed citations
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Bur­ström, Bo, et al.. (2010). Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes – The example of Italy, Sweden and Britain. Social Science & Medicine. 70(6). 912–920. 78 indexed citations
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Carroll, Will, et al.. (2009). Childhood evaluation of salmeterol tolerance - A double-blind randomized controlled trial. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. 21(2p1). 336–344. 14 indexed citations
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McGinnis, Ralph, F. Child, Stephen Clayton, et al.. (2002). Further support for the association of CCR5 allelic variants with asthma susceptibility. European Journal of Immunogenetics. 29(6). 525–528. 13 indexed citations

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