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George Davey Smith publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Davey Smith sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 2,638 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

George Davey Smith D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Davey Smith sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 288 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2019 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

George Davey Smith is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on genetics and epidemiology, with extensive contributions in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Key subfields in their work include genetics, molecular biology, public health, epidemiology, and pediatrics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to genetic associations and epidemiology, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, birth and development health, genetic mapping and diversity, health and environmental factors, bioinformatics, genomic networks, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Tom G. Richardson
  • Kate Tilling
  • Neil M Davies
  • Eleanor Sanderson
  • Gibran Hemani

Their work is frequently published in several notable scientific venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Medicine
  • European Journal of Epidemiology

Recent papers by George Davey Smith include:

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization, 2021, JAMA
  • Mendelian randomization, 2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration, 2021, BMJ
  • Guidelines for performing Mendelian randomization investigations, 2020, Wellcome Open Research
  • Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation, 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology

George Davey Smith has been recognized by several prestigious organizations, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2019, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2008. In 2019, they also became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    Matthias Egger;George Davey Smith;Martin Schneider;Christoph Minder

  • A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity

    Timothy M. Frayling;Nicholas J. Timpson;Michael N. Weedon;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini;Eleftheria Zeggini

  • Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression

    Jack Bowden;George Davey Smith;Stephen Burgess

  • Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator.

    Jack Bowden;George Davey Smith;Philip C. Haycock;Stephen Burgess

  • The MR-Base platform supports systematic causal inference across the human phenome

    Gibran Hemani;Jie Zheng;Benjamin Elsworth;Kaitlin H Wade

  • ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?

    George Davey Smith;Shah Ebrahim

  • Mendelian randomization: using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology.

    Debbie A. Lawlor;Roger M. Harbord;Jonathan A. C. Sterne;Nicholas J Timpson

  • Mendelian randomization: genetic anchors for causal inference in epidemiological studies

    George Davey Smith;Gibran Hemani

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)

    Bruna Galobardes;Mary Shaw;Debbie A Lawlor;John W Lynch

  • Reading Mendelian randomisation studies: a guide, glossary, and checklist for clinicians

    Neil M Davies;Michael V Holmes;George Davey Smith

  • Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

    Andy Boyd;Jean Golding;John Macleod;Debbie A. Lawlor

  • Homocysteine and risk of ischemic heart disease and stroke: A meta-analysis

    R. Clarke;R. Collins;S. Lewington;A. Donald

  • Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations, Finite Difference Methods.

    G. D. Smith

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Systematic Reviews in Health Care : Meta-Analysis in Context

    Matthias Egger;George Davey Smith;Douglas G Altman

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

    Fiona Taylor;Mark D Huffman;Ana Filipa Macedo;Theresa H M Moore

  • Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort

    Abigail Fraser;Corrie Macdonald-Wallis;Kate Tilling;Andy Boyd

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