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2023

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D-Index
126
Citations
68341
World Ranking
2919
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award
  • 1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John B. Carlin is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their academic contributions span significant fields including Medicine and Mathematics, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary research combining statistical methodologies and health sciences.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Mathematics

Within these, their subfields of research feature:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Physiology

The primary research topics explored by Carlin encompass:

  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and application of their research, including:

  • "Effect of Minimally Invasive Surfactant Therapy vs Sham Treatment on Death or Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants With Respiratory Distress Syndrome" (2021, JAMA)
  • "Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy associates with protection against food allergy in the offspring" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Gut microbiota composition during infancy and subsequent behavioural outcomes" (2020, EBioMedicine)
  • "Multiple imputation methods for handling incomplete longitudinal and clustered data where the target analysis is a linear mixed effects model" (2020, Biometrical Journal)
  • "Evaluation of approaches for multiple imputation of three-level data" (2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology)

Carlin frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, notably:

  • Margarita Moreno-Betancur
  • Katherine J. Lee
  • Richard Saffery
  • David Burgner
  • Peter Vuillermin

Their work is commonly published in several specialized academic venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Statistics in Medicine
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Biometrical Journal
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

Among distinctions, John B. Carlin is recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an award received in 1966.

Best Publications

  • Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls.

    Jonathan A C Sterne;Ian R White;John B Carlin;Michael Spratt

  • Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations

    Sander Greenland;Stephen J. Senn;Kenneth J. Rothman;John B. Carlin

  • Bias, prevalence and kappa

    Ted Byrt;Ted Byrt;Janet Bishop;Janet Bishop;John B. Carlin;John B. Carlin

  • Nasal CPAP or Intubation at Birth for Very Preterm Infants

    Colin J. Morley;Colin J. Morley;Colin J. Morley;Peter G. Davis;Peter G. Davis;Lex W. Doyle;Lex W. Doyle;Luc P. Brion

  • Does Bullying Cause Emotional Problems? A Prospective Study of Young Teenagers

    Lyndal Bond;John B. Carlin;Lyndal Thomas;Kerryn Rubin

  • Social and School Connectedness in Early Secondary School as Predictors of Late Teenage Substance Use, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes

    Lyndal Bond;Helen Butler;Lindsey A. Thomas;J. Carlin

  • Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study

    George C Patton;Carolyn Coffey;John B Carlin;Louisa Degenhardt

  • Onset of adolescent eating disorders: population based cohort study over 3 years

    G C Patton;R Selzer;C Coffey;J B Carlin

  • The epidemiology of childhood cardiomyopathy in Australia.

    Alan W. Nugent;Piers E F Daubeney;Patty Chondros;John B. Carlin

  • Multiple Imputation for Missing Data: Fully Conditional Specification Versus Multivariate Normal Imputation

    Katherine J. Lee;John B. Carlin

  • Standardized interpretation of paediatric chest radiographs for the diagnosis of pneumonia in epidemiological studies

    Thomas Cherian;E. Kim Mulholland;John B. Carlin;Harald Ostensen

  • Bias and efficiency of multiple imputation compared with complete‐case analysis for missing covariate values

    Ian R White;John B Carlin;John B Carlin

  • The natural history of self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood: a population-based cohort study

    Paul A Moran;Carolyn Coffey;Helena Romaniuk;Craig A. Olsson

  • Depression, anxiety, and smoking initiation: a prospective study over 3 years.

    G C Patton;J B Carlin;C Coffey;R Wolfe

  • The prognosis of common mental disorders in adolescents: a 14-year prospective cohort study

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Carolyn Coffey;Helena Romaniuk;Helena Romaniuk;Andrew Mackinnon

  • Regression models for twin studies: a critical review

    John B. Carlin;Lyle C. Gurrin;Jonathan A. C. Sterne;Ruth Morley

  • Lower airway inflammation in infants and young children with cystic fibrosis

    David S. Armstrong;Keith Grimwood;John B. Carlin;Rosemary Carzino

  • Validation of Questionnaire and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness against Respiratory Physician Assessment in the Diagnosis of Asthma

    Mark A Jenkins;Jane R Clarke;John B Carlin;Colin F Robertson

  • Teenage drinking and the onset of alcohol dependence: a cohort study over seven years

    Yvonne A. Bonomo;Glenn Bowes;Carolyn Coffey;John B. Carlin

  • General growth mixture modeling for randomized preventive interventions.

    Bengt Muthen;C. H. Brown;Katherine Masyn;Booil Jo

Frequent Co-Authors

George C. Patton
George C. Patton Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Anne-Louise Ponsonby
Anne-Louise Ponsonby University of Melbourne
Melissa Wake
Melissa Wake University of Melbourne
Keith Grimwood
Keith Grimwood Griffith University
Colin F. Robertson
Colin F. Robertson Royal Children's Hospital
Terence Dwyer
Terence Dwyer University of Oxford
Andrew Gelman
Andrew Gelman Columbia University
Terry Nolan
Terry Nolan University of Melbourne
Lex W. Doyle
Lex W. Doyle University of Melbourne
Donald B. Rubin
Donald B. Rubin Temple University

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