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Researcher · University of Bristol · United Kingdom

George Davey Smith

George Davey Smith publishes mostly in Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Birth, Development, and Health and Health disparities and outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0002-1407-8314 OpenAlex
World rank
#4,335
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#268
of 367,258
Works
4,149
Citations
435k
Citations per work
104.8
h-index
270
i10-index 2,135Top 0.1% in Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology)
George Davey Smith

What does George Davey Smith research?

George Davey Smith's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (19%), Medicine (15%), Health Professions (5%).

Everything else: 2,543 works · 61.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 817 works · 19.7% of their workMedicine: 614 works · 14.8% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 253 works · 6.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 203 works · 4.9% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 158 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Professions: 203 works · 4.9% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 203 works · 4.9% of their workLife Sciences: 788 works · 19.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 788 works · 19.0% of their workGenetics: 573 works · 13.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 216 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorge DaveySmith4,149works
Life Sciences19%Health Sciences20%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else2,54361.3%
    1. Medicine61414.8%
    2. Health Professions2034.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology78819.0%
  1. 1Genetics14% of their works
  2. 2Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology5% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe George Davey Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Health, Genetic Variation, Genome-Wide Association, Chronic Disease, Metabolic Syndrome, Early-Life Conditions, Fetal Programming and Epidemiology.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Health8583 topics
  2. Genetic Variation7991 topic
  3. Genome-Wide Association7991 topic
  4. Chronic Disease6772 topics
  5. Metabolic Syndrome6712 topics
  6. Early-Life Conditions5261 topic
  7. Fetal Programming5261 topic
  8. Epidemiology4912 topics
  9. Obesity3792 topics
  10. Social Relationships3671 topic
  11. Socioeconomic Inequalities3671 topic
  12. Environmental Exposure2571 topic
  13. Exposome2571 topic
  14. Childhood2341 topic
  15. Overweight2341 topic
  16. Ageing Population1511 topic
  17. Health Care Expenditure1511 topic
  18. Cardiovascular Disease1451 topic
  19. Diabetes1451 topic
  20. DNA Methylation1391 topic
  21. Histone Modification1391 topic

Where does George Davey Smith work?

George Davey Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does George Davey Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 4,149 works and 434,653 citations for George Davey Smith, an h-index of 270, ranking #4,335 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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