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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

Tim J. Cole is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on information systems, artificial intelligence, and biomedical engineering. The scientist's work addresses topics such as library science and information systems, semantic web and ontologies, innovative microfluidic and catalytic techniques innovation, 3D printing in biomedical research, microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, data quality and management, and digital humanities and scholarship.

Tim J. Cole has contributed to various publication venues, including:

  • Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
  • Library Resources and Technical Services
  • iScience
  • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tim J. Cole include:

  • "An off-chip platform for on-demand, single-target encapsulation for ultrasensitive biomarker detection" (2025, Biosensors and Bioelectronics)
  • "Rethinking Authority Reconciliation Process" (2021, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly)
  • "Name and Subject Heading Reconciliation to Linked Open Data Authorities using Virtual International Authority File and Library of Congress Linked Data Service APIs: A Case Study featuring Emblematica Online" (2021, Library Resources and Technical Services)
  • "A crack compensation strategy for highly stretchable conductors based on liquid metal inclusions" (2023, iScience)
  • "Applying BIBFRAME in large-scale digital libraries: The HathiTrust Research Center's experience" (2020, Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tim J. Cole include:

  • Bayinqiaoge Bayinqiaoge
  • Shi-Yang Tang
  • Karen Yu
  • Yuxin Zhang
  • Jiahao Zheng

In their research, Tim J. Cole addresses interdisciplinary challenges, combining expertise in computer science and engineering with an emphasis on practical applications in digital libraries, data reconciliation, biomedical sensing technologies, and materials science. Their work in semantic web technologies and library science integrates data quality and management principles with innovative technical methods, reflecting a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied topics.

Best Publications

  • Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

    Tim J Cole;Mary C Bellizzi;Katherine M Flegal;William H Dietz

  • Multi-ethnic reference values for spirometry for the 3–95-yr age range: the global lung function 2012 equations

    Philip H. Quanjer;Sanja Stanojevic;Tim J. Cole;Xaver Baur

  • Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey

    Tim J Cole;Katherine M Flegal;Dasha Nicholls;Alan A Jackson

  • Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut-offs for thinness, overweight and obesity.

    T. J. Cole;T. Lobstein

  • Smoothing reference centile curves: The lms method and penalized likelihood

    T. J. Cole;P. J. Green

  • Body mass index reference curves for the UK, 1990.

    T J Cole;J V Freeman;M A Preece

  • Critical evaluation of energy intake data using fundamental principles of energy physiology: 1. Derivation of cut-off limits to identify under-recording.

    Goldberg Gr;Black Ae;Jebb Sa;Cole Tj

  • Breast milk and neonatal necrotising enterocolitis

    A. Lucas;T.J. Cole

  • Breast milk and subsequent intelligence quotient in children born preterm

    A. Lucas;R. Morley;T.J. Cole;G. Lister

  • The LMS method for constructing normalized growth standards

    Cole Tj

  • Cross sectional stature and weight reference curves for the UK, 1990.

    J. V. Freeman;T. J. Cole;S. Chinn;P. R. M. Jones

  • Body Mass Index variations: centiles from birth to 87 years.

    M F Rolland-Cachera;T J Cole;M Sempé;J Tichet

  • British 1990 growth reference centiles for weight, height, body mass index and head circumference fitted by maximum penalized likelihood.

    T. J. Cole;J. V. Freeman;M. A. Preece

  • Body fat reference curves for children

    H D McCarthy;T J Cole;T Fry;S A Jebb

  • Targeted disruption of the glucocorticoid receptor gene blocks adrenergic chromaffin cell development and severely retards lung maturation

    T J Cole;J A Blendy;A P Monaghan;K Krieglstein

  • Measurement and long-term health risks of child and adolescent fatness.

    C Power;J K Lake;T J Cole

  • Fetal origins of adult disease—the hypothesis revisited

    A Lucas;M S Fewtrell;T J Cole

  • Randomised trial of early diet in preterm babies and later intelligence quotient

    A Lucas;R Morley;T J Cole

  • What is the best measure of adiposity change in growing children: BMI, BMI %, BMI z-score or BMI centile?

    T J Cole;M S Faith;A Pietrobelli;A Pietrobelli;M Heo

  • Human energy expenditure in affluent societies: an analysis of 574 doubly-labelled water measurements

    A E Black;W A Coward;T J Cole;A M Prentice

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan C. K. Wells
Jonathan C. K. Wells University College London
Alan Lucas
Alan Lucas University College London
Andrew M. Prentice
Andrew M. Prentice London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Russell M. Viner
Russell M. Viner University College London
Ann Prentice
Ann Prentice University of Cambridge
Mary Fewtrell
Mary Fewtrell University College London
Ian C. K. Wong
Ian C. K. Wong University of Hong Kong
Stuart B. Hooper
Stuart B. Hooper Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Colin J Morley
Colin J Morley University of Cambridge

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