Steve Platt

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Steve Platt is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Genetics and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Platt has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Clinical Psychology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Steve Platt's work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (5 papers), Smoking Behavior and Cessation (4 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (4 papers). Steve Platt is often cited by papers focused on Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (5 papers), Smoking Behavior and Cessation (4 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (4 papers). Steve Platt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Steve Platt's co-authors include Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Heather McClelland, Kathryn A. Robb, Tiago C. Zortea, Karen Wetherall, Ronan E. O’Carroll, Daryl B. O’Connor, Eamonn Ferguson, Ambrose J. Melson and Billy Watson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Steve Platt

28 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study

2020 776 citations Rory C. O’Connor, Karen Wetherall et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve Platt United Kingdom	15	918	463	290	288	198	29	1.7k
Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn Netherlands	28	950 1.0×	331 0.7×	201 0.7×	239 0.8×	294 1.5×	122	2.4k
Shufang Sun United States	23	911 1.0×	490 1.1×	157 0.5×	288 1.0×	302 1.5×	85	1.9k
Donald B. Chambers United States	14	622 0.7×	437 0.9×	177 0.6×	859 3.0×	301 1.5×	21	2.9k
A. J. Baglioni Australia	22	668 0.7×	497 1.1×	95 0.3×	605 2.1×	251 1.3×	36	2.3k
Benita Jackson United States	18	752 0.8×	428 0.9×	152 0.5×	213 0.7×	234 1.2×	39	1.4k
R. Warwick Blood Australia	20	1.1k 1.2×	409 0.9×	232 0.8×	197 0.7×	545 2.8×	58	1.8k
Karen Allen United States	18	248 0.3×	419 0.9×	168 0.6×	267 0.9×	247 1.2×	40	2.0k
Kimberly Thomson Canada	21	1.7k 1.8×	682 1.5×	155 0.5×	370 1.3×	273 1.4×	51	2.5k
Annie J. Zhou United States	13	954 1.0×	295 0.6×	211 0.7×	379 1.3×	484 2.4×	15	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Platt

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Davies, Matthew, Brechje de Gier, Rebecca Guy, et al.. (2025). Streptococcus pyogenes emm Type 3.93 Emergence, the Netherlands and England. Emerging infectious diseases. 31(2). 229–236. 4 indexed citations

O’Connor, Daryl B., Sarah Wilding, Eamonn Ferguson, et al.. (2022). Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 mental health & wellbeing study. Journal of Mental Health. 32(6). 1122–1133. 23 indexed citations

Wetherall, Karen, Seonaid Cleare, Heather McClelland, et al.. (2022). Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH). BJPsych Open. 8(4). e103–e103. 24 indexed citations

Chandler, Amy, Caroline King, Christopher Burton, & Steve Platt. (2020). The social life of self-harm in general practice. Social Theory & Health. 18(3). 240–256. 6 indexed citations

O’Connor, Rory C., Karen Wetherall, Seonaid Cleare, et al.. (2020). Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 218(6). 326–333. 776 indexed citations breakdown →

Arnold, Cath, Kirstin J. Edwards, Meeta Desai, et al.. (2018). Setup, Validation, and Quality Control of a Centralized Whole-Genome-Sequencing Laboratory: Lessons Learned. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 56(8). 9 indexed citations

Chalker, Victoria J., Aleksey Jironkin, Juliana Coelho, et al.. (2017). Genome analysis following a national increase in Scarlet Fever in England 2014. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 224–224. 47 indexed citations

Chattaway, Marie Anne, Claire Jenkins, Alejandro Cravioto, et al.. (2014). Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Have Evolved Independently as Distinct Complexes within the E. coli Population with Varying Ability to Cause Disease. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112967–e112967. 16 indexed citations

Stewart‐Brown, Sarah, Steve Platt, Alan Tennant, et al.. (2011). The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a valid and reliable tool for measuring mental well-being in diverse populations and projects. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 65(Suppl 2). A38.2–A39. 206 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Deborah, Wendy Gnich, Odette Parry, & Steve Platt. (2008). 'People pull the rug from under your feet': barriers to successful public health programmes. BMC Public Health. 8(1). 173–173. 11 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve, et al.. (2006). A bioinformatics pipeline for high-throughput microbial multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analyses. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 12(11). 1144–1146. 19 indexed citations

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Giskes, Katrina, Anton E. Kunst, Joan Benach, et al.. (2005). Trends in smoking behaviour between 1985 and 2000 in nine European countries by education. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 59(5). 395–401. 12 indexed citations

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Squires, T.J., et al.. (1999). Reduction in drug related suicide in Scotland 1990-1996: an artefactual explanation.. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 53(7). 436–437. 2 indexed citations

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Ratcliffe, Julie, John Cairns, & Steve Platt. (1997). Cost effectiveness of a mass media-led anti-smoking campaign in Scotland. Tobacco Control. 6(2). 104–110. 40 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve & Michael Bach. (1997). Uses and misinterpretations of genetics in psychology. Genetica. 99(2-3). 135–143. 6 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve, et al.. (1997). Effectiveness of antismoking telephone helpline: follow up survey. BMJ. 314(7091). 1371–1371. 69 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve & Charles A. Sanislow. (1988). Norm-of-reaction: Definition and misinterpretation of animal research.. Journal of comparative psychology. 102(3). 254–261. 52 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve, et al.. (1980). Discrimination learning of an instrumental response in individual Drosophila melanogaster... Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes. 6(4). 301–311. 14 indexed citations

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Weisman, Ronald G., M. Ray Denny, Steve Platt, & Dominic J. Zerbolio. (1966). Facilitation of extinction by a stimulus associated with long nonshock confinement periods.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 62(1). 26–30. 14 indexed citations

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Platt, Steve. (1959). THE NATURE OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION. The Lancet. 274(7091). 55–57. 62 indexed citations

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