Tim Cole

101.9k total citations · 21 hit papers
668 papers, 72.8k citations indexed

About

Tim Cole is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Cole has authored 668 papers receiving a total of 72.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 188 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 138 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Tim Cole's work include Birth, Development, and Health (206 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (160 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (85 papers). Tim Cole is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (206 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (160 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (85 papers). Tim Cole collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and United States. Tim Cole's co-authors include Alan Lucas, Tim Lobstein, Jenny Freeman, M A Preece, Mary Fewtrell, Ruth Morley, Katherine M. Flegal, Ann Prentice, Jonathan C. K. Wells and Atul Singhal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Tim Cole

646 papers receiving 69.6k citations

Hit Papers

Establishing a standard definition for child overweight a... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2000 2012 2012 1992 2007 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
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. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey
    2000 13.1k citations Tim Cole BMJ profile →
  2. Multi-ethnic reference values for spirometry for the 3–95-yr age range: the global lung function 2012 equations
    2012 4.0k citations Sanja Stanojevic, Tim Cole et al. profile →
  3. Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut‐offs for thinness, overweight and obesity
    2012 2.4k citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  4. Smoothing reference centile curves: The lms method and penalized likelihood
    1992 2.2k citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  5. Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
    2007 2.1k citations Tim Cole, Dasha Nicholls et al. BMJ profile →
  6. Body mass index reference curves for the UK, 1990.
    1995 1.7k citations Tim Cole et al. Archives of Disease in Childhood profile →
  7. Cross sectional stature and weight reference curves for the UK, 1990.
    1995 1.3k citations Tim Cole et al. Archives of Disease in Childhood profile →
  8. Breast milk and neonatal necrotising enterocolitis
    1990 1.2k citations Alan Lucas, Tim Cole profile →
  9. Body Mass Index variations: centiles from birth to 87 years.
    1991 957 citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  10. British 1990 growth reference centiles for weight, height, body mass index and head circumference fitted by maximum penalized likelihood
    1998 927 citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  11. Breast milk and subsequent intelligence quotient in children born preterm
    1992 920 citations Alan Lucas, Ruth Morley et al. profile →
  12. Targeted disruption of the glucocorticoid receptor gene blocks adrenergic chromaffin cell development and severely retards lung maturation.
    1995 748 citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  13. Body fat reference curves for children
    2006 700 citations Tim Cole, Susan A. Jebb et al. profile →
  14. Fetal origins of adult disease---the hypothesis revisited
    1999 618 citations Alan Lucas, Tim Cole et al. BMJ profile →
  15. What is the best measure of adiposity change in growing children: BMI, BMI %, BMI z-score or BMI centile?
    2005 570 citations Tim Cole et al. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
  16. Human energy expenditure in affluent societies: an analysis of 574 doubly-labelled water measurements.
    1996 541 citations W. A. Coward, Tim Cole et al. profile →
  17. Reference Ranges for Spirometry Across All Ages
    2007 536 citations Sanja Stanojevic, Angie Wade et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  18. Review: Measurement and long-term health risks of child and adolescent fatness
    1997 524 citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  19. Rapidly available glucose in foods: an in vitro measurement that reflects the glycemic response
    1999 520 citations Tim Cole et al. profile →
  20. Randomised trial of early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient
    1998 502 citations Alan Lucas, Ruth Morley et al. BMJ profile →
  21. Adverse neurodevelopmental outcome of moderate neonatal hypoglycaemia.
    1988 469 citations Alan Lucas, Ruth Morley et al. BMJ profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tim Cole United Kingdom 115 29.6k 19.3k 15.5k 14.4k 9.8k 668 72.8k
Katherine M. Flegal United States 86 40.3k 1.4× 10.9k 0.6× 20.2k 1.3× 7.1k 0.5× 3.8k 0.4× 164 87.7k
Stephen R. Daniels United States 128 27.9k 0.9× 9.0k 0.5× 16.9k 1.1× 6.4k 0.4× 4.6k 0.5× 596 75.4k
Cynthia L. Ogden United States 77 36.8k 1.2× 9.9k 0.5× 14.7k 0.9× 6.4k 0.4× 3.0k 0.3× 171 71.0k
Albert Hofman Netherlands 166 15.1k 0.5× 12.0k 0.6× 17.4k 1.1× 6.5k 0.5× 16.5k 1.7× 1.5k 122.0k
Alan D López Australia 95 12.8k 0.4× 9.5k 0.5× 8.5k 0.5× 5.3k 0.4× 7.2k 0.7× 328 74.7k
Bernard Rosner United States 146 25.9k 0.9× 5.7k 0.3× 15.5k 1.0× 11.2k 0.8× 6.9k 0.7× 1.1k 97.0k
Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 167 11.7k 0.4× 11.2k 0.6× 21.6k 1.4× 6.2k 0.4× 3.7k 0.4× 1.7k 121.0k
Meir J. Stampfer United States 183 39.4k 1.3× 7.3k 0.4× 26.0k 1.7× 21.0k 1.5× 13.2k 1.3× 854 142.3k
Michael F. Holick United States 127 13.3k 0.5× 6.8k 0.4× 10.7k 0.7× 26.0k 1.8× 3.7k 0.4× 671 87.3k
Debbie A. Lawlor United Kingdom 119 14.1k 0.5× 15.0k 0.8× 8.5k 0.5× 3.2k 0.2× 2.8k 0.3× 1.1k 65.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Cole

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Cole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Cole

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Cole. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Cole 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 Tim Cole. Tim Cole 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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Cheung, Moira, et al.. (2025). The Head Circumference Height Index (HCH‐I) to Quantify Relative Macrocephaly and Aid Identification of Hypochondroplasia in Children. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 200(2). 353–359.
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Wright, Charlotte, et al.. (2024). Short-term weight variability in infants and toddlers: an observational study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 110(4). 283–286.
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Lelijveld, Natasha, Abena S. Amoah, Charles Opondo, et al.. (2023). Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk: a secondary analysis of the Malawi ‘ChroSAM’ cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 26(8). 1658–1670. 7 indexed citations
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Patcas, Raphael, et al.. (2021). Craniofacial growth and SITAR growth curve analysis. European Journal of Orthodontics. 44(3). 325–331. 4 indexed citations
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Freedman, David S., et al.. (2019). Distance and percentage distance from median BMI as alternatives to BMI z score. British Journal Of Nutrition. 124(5). 493–500. 35 indexed citations
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Viner, Russell, Sanjay Kinra, Dasha Nicholls, et al.. (2017). Burden of child and adolescent obesity on health services in England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 103(3). 247–254. 11 indexed citations
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Griffiths, Lucy, Mario Cortina‐Borja, Francesco Sera, et al.. (2013). How active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. BMJ Open. 3(8). e002893–e002893. 178 indexed citations
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Dawson, Jennifer A., C. Omar F. Kamlin, Máximo Vento, et al.. (2010). Defining the Reference Range for Oxygen Saturation for Infants After Birth. PEDIATRICS. 125(6). e1340–e1347. 372 indexed citations
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Gong, Haibiao, Michael J. Jarzynka, Tim Cole, et al.. (2008). Glucocorticoids Antagonize Estrogens by Glucocorticoid Receptor–Mediated Activation of Estrogen Sulfotransferase. Cancer Research. 68(18). 7386–7393. 130 indexed citations
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Shroff, Rukshana, M. Egerton, Vanita Shah, et al.. (2008). A Bimodal Association of Vitamin D Levels and Vascular Disease in Children on Dialysis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 19(6). 1239–1246. 136 indexed citations
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Chadwick, Paul, et al.. (2007). The MEND Trial: Sustained improvements on health outcomes in obese children at one year. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations
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Stanojevic, Sanja, Angie Wade, Janet Stocks, et al.. (2007). Reference Ranges for Spirometry Across All Ages. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 177(3). 253–260. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yousafzai, Aisha K., et al.. (2003). Comparison of armspan, arm length and tibia length as predictors of actual height of disabled and nondisabled children in Dharavi, Mumbai, India. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 57(10). 1230–1234. 32 indexed citations
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Prentice, Ann, et al.. (2002). Calcium supplementation increases height and bone mass of 16-18 year old boys.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 7 indexed citations
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Livingstone, M. Barbara E., et al.. (2000). Energy expenditure and its components in relation to body fatness and risk of obesity in primary school children.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Cole, Tim. (2000). Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey. BMJ. 320(7244). 1240–1240. 13071 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lindsay, Susan, Mark Ireland, Jill Clayton‐Smith, et al.. (1997). Large scale deletions in the GPC3 gene may account for a minority of cases of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome.. Journal of Medical Genetics. 34(6). 480–483. 58 indexed citations
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Lucas, Alan, O G Brooke, Ruth Morley, Tim Cole, & M F Bamford. (1990). Early diet of preterm infants and development of allergic or atopic disease: randomised prospective study.. BMJ. 300(6728). 837–840. 213 indexed citations
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Cole, Tim, et al.. (1989). Seasonal pattern of activity and its nutritional consequence in Gambia. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Cole, Tim, et al.. (1975). DIETARY AND SMOKING-HABITS IN GASTRIC CANCER - DETAILED STUDY OF 64 CASES AND CONTROLS. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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