Tom Palmer

15.8k citations

90 papers · 5.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 33

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Genetics top 1%
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Statistics and Probability top 1%
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques

Papers in

Genetics 28
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 25
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 10
Statistics and Probability 17
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques 11
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference 7

Co-authors: George Davey Smith (29 shared papers)Jonathan A C Sterne (12 shared papers)Debbie A. Lawlor (12 shared papers)Nicholas J. Timpson (8 shared papers)Michael V. Holmes (8 shared papers)Eleanor Sanderson (5 shared papers)Nuala A. Sheehan (6 shared papers)Roger Harbord (4 shared papers)
Journals: The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata (5 papers)International Journal of Epidemiology (5 papers)PLoS Medicine (5 papers)American Journal of Epidemiology (5 papers)BMJ Open (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Tom Palmer

85 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Mendelian randomization 2022 · 952 citations

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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.

2022 Nature Reviews Methods Primers
2020 PLoS Medicine
2011 Statistical Methods in Medical Research

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1	Mendelian randomization Nature Reviews Methods Primers ·Eleanor Sanderson, M. Maria Glymour, Michael V. Holmes, Hyunseung Kang, Jean Morrison, Marcus R. Munafò, Tom Palmer, C. Mary Schooling, Chris Wallace, Qingyuan Zhao, George Davey Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2022	952
2	Using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables for modifiable risk factors Statistical Methods in Medical Research ·Tom Palmer, Debbie A. Lawlor, Roger Harbord, Nuala A. Sheehan, Jonathan H. Tobias, Nicholas J. Timpson, George Davey Smith, Jonathan A C Sterne Hit paper breakdown →	2011	787
3	Evaluating the relationship between circulating lipoprotein lipids and apolipoproteins with risk of coronary heart disease: A multivariable Mendelian randomisation analysis PLoS Medicine ·Tom G. Richardson, Eleanor Sanderson, Tom Palmer, Mika Ala‐Korpela, Brian A. Ference, George Davey Smith, Michael V. Holmes Hit paper breakdown →	2020	491
4	Collider bias undermines our understanding of COVID-19 disease risk and severity Nature Communications ·Gareth J Griffith, Tim Morris, Matthew Tudball, Annie Herbert, Giulia Mancano, Lindsey Pike, Gemma C. Sharp, Jonathan A C Sterne, Tom Palmer, George Davey Smith, Kate Tilling, Luisa Zuccolo, Neil M Davies, Gibran Hemani	2020	464
5	Instrumental Variable Estimation of Causal Risk Ratios and Causal Odds Ratios in Mendelian Randomization Analyses American Journal of Epidemiology ·Tom Palmer, Jonathan A C Sterne, Roger Harbord, Debbie A. Lawlor, Nuala A. Sheehan, Meng Sha, Raquel Granell, George Davey Smith, Vanessa Didelez	2011	220
6	Association of plasma uric acid with ischaemic heart disease and blood pressure: mendelian randomisation analysis of two large cohorts BMJ ·Tom Palmer, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Marianne Benn, A. Tybjaerg-Hansen, George Davey Smith, Debbie A. Lawlor, Nicholas J. Timpson	2013	218
7	Contour-Enhanced Funnel Plots for Meta-Analysis The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata ·Tom Palmer, Alex J. Sutton, Jaime Peters, Santiago G. Moreno	2008	217
8	Meta-analysis in Stata : an updated collection from the Stata journal Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Tom Palmer, Jonathan A C Sterne	2015	217
9	The Effect of Elevated Body Mass Index on Ischemic Heart Disease Risk: Causal Estimates from a Mendelian Randomisation Approach PLoS Medicine ·Børge G. Nordestgaard, Tom Palmer, Marianne Benn, Jeppe Zacho, Anne Tybjærg‐Hansen, George Davey Smith, Nicholas J. Timpson	2012	206
10	Novel methods to deal with publication biases: secondary analysis of antidepressant trials in the FDA trial registry database and related journal publications BMJ ·Santiago G. Moreno, Alex J. Sutton, Erick H. Turner, Keith R. Abrams, Nicola J. Cooper, Tom Palmer, A. E. Ades	2009	145
11	The Economic Burden of Pediatric Asthma in the United States: Literature Review of Current Evidence PharmacoEconomics ·Richard Perry, George Braileanu, Tom Palmer, Paul Stevens	2018	138
12	Effects of Promoting Longer-term and Exclusive Breastfeeding on Adiposity and Insulin-like Growth Factor-I at Age 11.5 Years JAMA ·Richard M. Martin, Rita Patel, Michael S. Kramer, Lauren Guthrie, Konstantin Vilchuck, Natalia Bogdanovich, Natalia Sergeichick, Nina Gusina, Ying Foo, Tom Palmer, Sheryl L. Rifas‐Shiman, Matthew W. Gillman, George Davey Smith, Emily Oken	2013	128
13	Education and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation study BMJ ·Taavi Tillmann, Julien Vaucher, Aysu Okbay, Hynek Pikhart, Anne Peasey, Růžena Kubínová, Andrzej Pająk, Abdonas Tamošiūnas, Sofia Malyutina, Fernando Pires Hartwig, Krista Fischer, Giovanni Veronesi, Tom Palmer, Jack Bowden, George Davey Smith, Martin Bobák, Michael V. Holmes	2017	120
14	Software application profile: mrrobust—a tool for performing two-sample summary Mendelian randomization analyses International Journal of Epidemiology ·Wes Spiller, Neil M Davies, Tom Palmer	2018	91
15	Effects of BMI, Fat Mass, and Lean Mass on Asthma in Childhood: A Mendelian Randomization Study PLoS Medicine ·Raquel Granell, A. John Henderson, David M. Evans, George Davey Smith, Andy Ness, Sarah J. Lewis, Tom Palmer, Jonathan A C Sterne	2014	88
16	Common Variants in Genes Underlying Monogenic Hypertension and Hypotension and Blood Pressure in the General Population Hypertension ·Martin D. Tobin, Maciej Tomaszewski, Peter S. Braund, Cother Hajat, Stuart M. Raleigh, Tom Palmer, Mark J. Caulfield, Paul R. Burton, Nilesh J. Samani	2008	75
17	Systematic review and metaanalysis of genetic association studies of urinary symptoms and prolapse in women American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology ·Rufus Cartwright, Anna C. Kirby, Kari A.O. Tikkinen, Altaf Mangera, Gans Thiagamoorthy, Prabhakar Rajan, Jori S. Pesonen, Chris Ambrose, Juan Gonzalez‐Maffe, Phillip R. Bennett, Tom Palmer, Andrew J. Walley, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, Christopher R. Chapple, Vik Khullar	2014	74
18	Therapeutic potential of IL6R blockade for the treatment of sepsis and sepsis-related death: A Mendelian randomisation study PLoS Medicine ·Fergus Hamilton, Matt Thomas, David Arnold, Tom Palmer, Ed Moran, Alexander J. Mentzer, Nick Maskell, J. Kenneth Baillie, Charlotte Summers, Aroon D. Hingorani, Alasdair MacGowan, Golam M. Khandaker, Ruth E. Mitchell, George Davey Smith, Peter Ghazal, Nicholas J. Timpson	2023	69
19	Adjusting for bias and unmeasured confounding in Mendelian randomization studies with binary responses International Journal of Epidemiology ·Tom Palmer, John R. Thompson, Martin D. Tobin, Nuala A. Sheehan, Paul R. Burton	2008	61
20	Using Genetic Variation to Explore the Causal Effect of Maternal Pregnancy Adiposity on Future Offspring Adiposity: A Mendelian Randomisation Study PLoS Medicine ·Rebecca C. Richmond, Nicholas J. Timpson, Janine F. Felix, Tom Palmer, Romy Gaillard, George McMahon, George Davey Smith, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Debbie A. Lawlor	2017	58

About Tom Palmer

Tom Palmer is a scholar working on Genetics, Statistics and Probability, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Molecular Biology, having authored 90 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (25 papers), Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (11 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (10 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (10 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (7 papers), Gestational Diabetes Research and Management (5 papers) and Asthma and respiratory diseases (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (1.7k citations), Statistics and Probability (306 citations), Nephrology (255 citations), Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (500 citations) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (231 citations). Tom Palmer has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include George Davey Smith, Jonathan A C Sterne, Debbie A. Lawlor, Nicholas J. Timpson, Michael V. Holmes, Eleanor Sanderson, Nuala A. Sheehan, Roger Harbord, Jonathan H. Tobias and Marcus R. Munafò. Their work appears in journals such as The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, International Journal of Epidemiology, PLoS Medicine, American Journal of Epidemiology and BMJ Open.

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