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D-Index
154
Citations
131533
World Ranking
982
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102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Clive Osmond is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Nutrition and Dietetics. Additional areas of study include Obstetrics and Gynecology and Physiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably Birth, Development, and Health; Child Nutrition and Water Access; Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet; Global Health Care Issues; Health Disparities and Outcomes; Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare; and Infant Development and Preterm Care.

Frequently published venues for their research include UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Indian Pediatrics, Research Square, and The Lancet.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Clive Osmond include:

  • Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital, 2022, The Lancet
  • Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs, 2022, The Lancet
  • Rare Genetic Variants in Complement Factor I Lead to Low FI Plasma Levels Resulting in Increased Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 2020, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
  • The duration of embryo culture after mouse IVF differentially affects cardiovascular and metabolic health in male offspring, 2020, Human Reproduction
  • Consequences of ignoring clustering in linear regression, 2021, BMC Medical Research Methodology

Clive Osmond frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including Caroline Fall, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Aryeh D. Stein, Reynaldo Martorell, and Linda Richter. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of research outputs spanning multiple disciplines related to child health, nutrition, and public health methodology.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Weight in infancy and death from ischaemic heart disease.

    D.J.P Barker;Clive Osmond;P.D Winter;B Margetts

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Infant mortality, childhood nutrition, and ischaemic heart disease in England and Wales.

    D.J.P. Barker;Clive Osmond

  • Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64.

    C. N. Hales;D. J. P. Barker;P. M. S. Clark;L. J. Cox

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia (syndrome X): relation to reduced fetal growth

    D. J. P. Barker;C. N. Hales;C. H. D. Fall;C. Osmond

  • Growth in utero, blood pressure in childhood and adult life, and mortality from cardiovascular disease.

    D. J.P. Barker;C. Osmond;J. Golding;D. Kuh

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Fetal origins of adult disease: strength of effects and biological basis

    D. J. P. Barker;J. G. Eriksson;T. Forsen;C. Osmond

  • Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life

    Djp Barker;AR Bull;C Osmond;SJ Simmonds

  • Glucose tolerance in adults after prenatal exposure to famine.

    A. C. J. Ravelli;J. H. P. Van Der Meulen;R. P. J. Michels;C. Osmond

  • Trajectories of growth among children who have coronary events as adults.

    David J P Barker;Clive Osmond;Tom J Forsén;Eero Kajantie

  • Obesity at the age of 50 y in men and women exposed to famine prenatally

    A. C. J. Ravelli;J. H. P. Van Der Meulen;C. Osmond;D. J. P. Barker

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Catch-up growth in childhood and death from coronary heart disease: longitudinal study

    J G Eriksson;T Forsén;J Tuomilehto;P D Winter

  • Early growth and coronary heart disease in later life: longitudinal study

    Johan G Eriksson;Tom Johan Forsen;Jaakko Tuomilehto;Clive Osmond

  • Relation of serial changes in childhood body-mass index to impaired glucose tolerance in young adulthood

    Santosh K. Bhargava;Harshpal Singh Sachdev;Caroline H.D. Fall;Clive Osmond

  • Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. 2, the Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies

    Clive Osmond

Frequent Co-Authors

Eero Kajantie
Eero Kajantie Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
David J. P. Barker
David J. P. Barker University of Southampton
Caroline H.D. Fall
Caroline H.D. Fall University of Southampton
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Anu-Katriina Pesonen
Anu-Katriina Pesonen University of Helsinki
Kati Heinonen
Kati Heinonen University of Helsinki
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Terrence Forrester
Terrence Forrester University of the West Indies
Jari Lahti
Jari Lahti University of Helsinki

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