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Overview
The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, ONS Longitudinal Study (England and Wales), and Scottish Longitudinal Study include a vast range of data relevant to many different types of research question. Their combination of administrative, census and health data across time make them a rich and unique set of resources. Examples of the types of research enabled by these features of the LSs include: Assessing the contributions of the workplace and employment history, the local area, and individual health and social factors from childhood and adulthood to extended working life, The role of subject choices in secondary education on further education studies and labour market outcomes and Population characteristics of stigma, condition disclosure and chronic health conditions.
As an exploration of the many ways in which the LSs have been used, CALLS have conducted an analysis of the journal papers produced by LS researchers. This citation analysis demonstrates the impressive range of academic fields to which LS-based research has contributed in the last 7 years. Research featured in over 70 journals, and spanned more than 50 Scopus subject categories.
Research based on the LSs is regularly published in top quality international peer reviewed journals such as Demography, the International Journal of Epidemiology and Population, Space and Place. Eighteen papers included in the citation analysis were published in journals ranked within the top 5 for one of the following SCImago subject areas:
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Epidemiology
- Demography
- Health (Social Science)
- Urban Studies
- Community and Home Care
- Applied Psychology
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
- Biotechnology
Papers had excellent citation rates indicating the unique contribution LS data offer. Forty papers had been cited 10 or more times, and 13 papers had more than 20 citations.
LS | n papers published | Total citation count |
| NILS | 41 | 217 (avg 5.6) |
| ONS LS | 70 | 454 (avg 7.2) |
| SLS | 43 | 421 (avg 11.1) |
| All LSs | 139 | 1018 (avg 8.0) |
The subject categories of papers using the LSs reflect the strengths of the data that they offer. Whilst the categories were very similar, ONS LS’s top 5 included ‘Demography’, whereas the SLS and NILS had a higher proportion of ‘Health (social science)’ papers, likely due to their excellent linkages with health data.
Overall the analysis shows the valuable contribution of the NILS, ONS LS and SLS to a diverse range of academic fields including medicine, demography, geography, economics, business, psychology, environmental science and more.
Although we only focus on publications in academic journals in this report, LS research has considerable impact in other formats such as briefing notes, books and presentations to government, and has also formed the basis of a variety of PhD Theses. A full list of outputs can be explored in our outputs database.
The raw data for the analysis can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Methods
Using the CALLS Hub outputs database a total of 139 published papers from the period January 2010 – October 2017 were identified from the three LSs. It should be noted that whilst CALLS and the RSUs actively solicit LS users to notify them of all outputs, and also conduct occasional literature searches to maximise capture, it is possible that some further papers exist.
All papers published in journals or regularly produced official publications – such as ONS Population Trends – were included. We did not include working papers in this analysis. Citation counts were gathered from Scopus, taking the final counts as of 21 November 2017. Impact Factors were taken from the Scopus project SCImago using the SJR2 indicator.
Results
The LSs combined
Of the 139 papers identified, 16 were from non-peer-reviewed journals such as Population Trends. Ten papers used more than one LS for their analysis. (see figure 1)
figure 1. Number of published papers per LS, Jan 2010 – October 2017. n = 139
Papers from the three LSs were published in a total of 73 different journals, spanning 52 SCImago Subject Categories in 13 Subject Areas (figure 2). SJR Impact Factors for the journals ranged from 0.104 to 10.113, with an average of 1.573.
figure 2: Number of LS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The 5 most frequent subject categories for LS papers were:
- Public Health, Environment & Occupational Health (39 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (27 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (26 papers)
- Health(social science) (22 papers)
- Epidemiology (21 papers)
The ten most cited papers from the three LSs were:
| LS | year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| SLS | 2010 | van Ham, M. & Manley, D. | The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects | 74 | Journal of Economic Geography | 3.083 |
| ONS LS | 2013 | Clark, D. & Royer, H. | The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain | 67 | American Economic Review | 10.113 |
| SLS | 2011 | Boyle, P., Feng, Z. & Raab, G. | Does widowhood increase mortality risk? Comparing different causes of spousal death to test for selection effects | 37 | Epidemiology | 2.382 |
| SLS | 2013 | Spijker, J. & MacInnes, J. | Population ageing: the timebomb that isn’t? | 36 | BMJ | 2.064 |
| ONS LS | 2010 | Grundy, E. & Tomassini, C. | Marital history, health and mortality among older men and women in England and Wales | 29 | BMC Public Health | 1.245 |
| NILS | 2011 | O’Reilly, D., Rosato, M., Catney, G., Johnston, F. & Brolly, M. | Cohort description: The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) | 26 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 3.222 |
| SLS | 2014 | Gaye, A., Marcon, Y., Iseva, J. et al | DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis | 24 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 4.562 |
| ONS LS | 2013 | Elliot, P., Shaddick, G., Douglass, M. et al | Adult Cancers Near High-voltage Overhead Power Lines | 23 | Epidemiology | 2.759 |
| NILS | 2010 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study | 23 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2.563 |
| NILS, ONS LS & SLS | 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 23 | Population Trends | 0.262 |
Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study
During the period January 2010 to October 2017, a total of 41 journal papers were found which had used NILS data, including 3 paper which had used all 3 LSs and one which used the SLS and NILS. Five NILS publications appeared journals with top-5 ranked impact factor.
NILS journal papers were published in 27 different journals, spanning 13 SCImago Subject Areas and 33 Subject Categories (see below). SJR Impact Factors for the papers ranged from 0.216 to 4.914, with an average of 1.631.
figure 3: Number of NILS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The 5 most frequent subject categories for NILS papers were:
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (15 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (10 papers)
- Health(social science) (10 papers)
- Epidemiology (7 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (5 papers)
The 10 most cited NILS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2011 | O’Reilly, D., Rosato, M., Catney, G. et al | Cohort description: The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) | 26 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 3.222 |
| 2010 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study | 23 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2.563 |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 23 | Population Trends | 0.262 |
| 2011 | McCann, M., Donnelly, M., & O’Reilly, D. | Living arrangements, relationship to people in the household and admission to care homes for older people | 17 | Age and Ageing | 1.666 |
| 2011 | McCann, M., Grundy, E. & O’Reilly, D. | Why is housing tenure associated with a lower risk of admission to a nursing or residential home? Wealth, health and the incentive to keep ‘my home’ | 14 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.649 |
| 2011 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D., Rosato, M. & Cardwell, C. | Area of residence and alcohol-related mortality risk: a five-year follow-up study | 14 | Addiction | 2.220 |
| 2014 | Stockdale, A. & Catney, G. | A Life Course Perspective on Urban–Rural Migration: the Importance of the Local Context | 12 | Population, Space and Place | 1.385 |
| 2010 | O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | Dissonances in self-reported health and mortality across denominational groups in Northern Ireland | 11 | Social Science and Medicine | 1.652 |
| 2013 | O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | Worked to death? A census-based longitudinal study of the relationship between the numbers of hours spent working and mortality risk | 11 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 4.187 |
| 2012 | Shuttleworth, I., Barr, P.J. & Gould, M. | Does Internal Migration in Northern Ireland Increase Religious and Social Segregation? Perspectives from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) 2001–2007 | 9 | Population, Space & Place | 1.667 |
ONS LS
During the period in question, 70 journal papers were identified as having been produced from ONS LS projects (including 9 papers which also used other LSs). Of these, 14 appeared in non peer-reviewed journals. Nine papers appeared in top-5 ranked journals.
ONS LS papers appeared in 42 journals, and covered 27 SCImago Subject Categories in 9 Subject Areas. SJR Impact Factors for the journals ranged from 0.104 to 10.113 with an average of 1.443.
figure 4: Number of ONS LS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The most frequent subject categories in which ONS LS papers appeared were:
- Medicine(misc) (15 papers)
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (14 papers)
- Demography (12 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (11 papers)
- Epidemiology (11 papers)
The most cited ONS LS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2013 | Clark, D. & Royer, H. | The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain | 67 | American Economic Review | 10.113 |
| 2010 | Grundy, E. & Tomassini, C. | Marital history, health and mortality among older men and women in England and Wales | 29 | BMC Public Health | 1.245 |
| 2013 | Elliot, P., Shaddick, G., Douglass, M. et al | Adult Cancers Near High-voltage Overhead Power Lines | 23 | Epidemiology | 2.759 |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 23 | Population Trends | 0.262 |
| 2011 | Riva, M., Curtis, S., Norman, P. | Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality | 22 | Social Science and Medicine | 1.819 |
| 2012 | Blomgren J., Martikainen P., Grundy E. & Koskinen S. | Marital history 1971-91 and mortality 1991-2004 in England & Wales and Finland | 18 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.590 |
| 2011 | Popham, F., & Boyle, P.J. | Is there a ‘Scottish effect’ for mortality? Prospective observational study of census linkage studies | 16 | Journal of Public Health | 0.891 |
| 2013 | Scott, A.P. & Timæus, I.M. | Mortality differentials 1991−2005 by self-reported ethnicity: findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study | 14 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.881 |
| 2011 | Webb, R.T., Marshall, C.E. & Abel, K.M. | Teenage motherhood and risk of premature death: long-term follow-up in the ONS Longitudinal Study | 13 | Psychological Medicine | 3.192 |
| 2013 | Ramsay, S., Grundy, E. & O’Reilly, D. | The relationship between informal caregiving and mortality: an analysis using the ONS Longitudinal Study of England and Wales | 13 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.881 |
| 2013 | Blackburn, C.M., Spencer, N.J. & Read, J.M. | Is the onset of disabling chronic conditions in later childhood associated with exposure to social disadvantage in earlier childhood? A prospective cohort study using the ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales | 13 | BMC Pediatrics | 1.119 |
Scottish Longitudinal Study
During the period January 2010 – October 2017, 43 SLS-based journal papers were identified (including 10 papers which also used other LSs). Of these, 2 appeared in non peer-reviewed journals. Four papers were published in top-5 ranked journals.
The SLS papers were published in 33 different journals, spanning 32 SCImago Subject Categories in 12 Subject Areas. SJR Impact Factors for the journals ranged from 0.173 to 5.895, with an average of 1.466.
figure 5: Number of SLS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
SLS papers appeared most frequently under the following subject categories:
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (13 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (8 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (7 papers)
- Health(social science) (7 papers)
- Epidemiology (4 papers)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (misc) (4 papers)
- Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology (4 papers)
The 10 most cited SLS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2010 | van Ham, M. & Manley, D. | The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects | 74 | Journal of Economic Geography | 3.083 |
| 2011 | Boyle, P., Feng, Z. & Raab, G. | Does widowhood increase mortality risk? Comparing different causes of spousal death to test for selection effects | 37 | Epidemiology | 2.382 |
| 2013 | Spijker, J. & MacInnes, J. | Population ageing: the timebomb that isn’t? | 36 | BMJ | 2.064 |
| 2014 | Gaye, A., Marcon, Y., Iseva, J. et al | DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis | 24 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 4.562 |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 23 | Population Trends | 0.262 |
| 2012 | Bailey, N. | How spatial segregation changes over time: sorting out the sorting processes | 21 | Environment and Planning A | 1.456 |
| 2015 | Mackenbach, J.P., Kulhánová, I., Bopp, M. et al | Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers | 21 | PLoS Medicine | 5.895 |
| 2010 | Boyle, P.J., Popham, F. & Norman, P. | The Scottish excess in mortality compared to the English and Welsh: is it a country of residence or country of birth excess? | 19 | Health & Place | 1.297 |
| 2014 | Eikemo, T.A., Hoffman, R., Kulik, M.C. et al | How can inequalities in mortality be reduced? A quantitative analysis of 6 risk factors in 21 European populations | 17 | PLoS ONE | 1.545 |
| 2011 | Popham, F., & Boyle, P.J. | Is there a ‘Scottish effect’ for mortality? Prospective observational study of census linkage studies | 16 | Journal of Public Health | 0.891 |
| 2013 | Kulik, M.C., Menvielle, G., Eikemo, T.A. et al | Educational Inequalities in Three Smoking-Related Causes of Death in 18 European Populations | 16 | Nicotine & Tobacco Research | 1.388 |
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Overview
The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, ONS Longitudinal Study (England and Wales), and Scottish Longitudinal Study include a vast range of data relevant to many different types of research question. Their combination of administrative, census and health data across time make them a rich and unique set of resources. Examples of the types of research enabled by these features of the LSs include: The role of subject choices in secondary education on further education studies and labour market outcomes and Population characteristics of stigma, condition disclosure and chronic health conditions.
As an exploration of the many ways in which the LSs have been used, CALLS have conducted an analysis of the journal papers produced by LS researchers.
This citation analysis demonstrates the impressive range of academic fields to which LS-based research has contributed in the last 6 years. Research featured in almost 60 journals, and spanned more than 40 Scopus subject categories.
Research based on the LSs is regularly published in top quality international peer reviewed journals such as Demography, the International Journal of Epidemiology and Population, Space and Place. Fifteen papers in the citation analysis were published in journals ranked within the top 5 for their field (articles ranked by SJR Impact Rating for the relevant subject category in the publication year).
LS | n papers published | Total citation count |
| NILS | 29 | 119 (avg 4.1) |
| ONS LS | 51 | 264 (avg 5.2) |
| SLS | 32 | 259 (avg 8.1) |
| All LSs | 106 | 588 (avg 5.6) |
Papers had excellent citation rates indicating the acknowledgement of the unique contributions LS data offer. Papers published within the last 2-3 years were amongst the most highly cited. Eighteen papers had been cited 10 or more times.
The subject areas of papers using the LSs reflect the strengths of the data that they offer: SLS and NILS had a higher proportion of health-related papers, likely due to their excellent linkages with health data. Looking at subject categories for the LSs also reflect these variations: whilst the categories were very similar, ONS LS’s top 5 included ‘Demography’, whereas the SLS and NILS included ‘Health(social science)’.
Overall the analysis shows the valuable contribution of the NILS, ONS LS and SLS to a diverse range of academic fields including medicine, demography, geography, economics, business, psychology, environmental science and more.
Although we only focus on publications in academic journals here, LS research has considerable impact in other formats such as briefing notes, books and presentations to government, and has also formed part of a variety of PhD Theses. The full list of outputs can be explored in our Outputs database.
The raw data for the analysis can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Methods
Using the CALLS Hub outputs database a total of 106 published papers from the period January 2010 – May 2016 were identified from the three LSs. It should be noted that whilst CALLS and the RSUs actively solicit LS users to record all outputs, and also conducts literature searches to maximise capture, it is possible that some further papers exist.
All papers published in journals or regularly produced official publications – such as ONS Population Trends – were included. We did not include working papers in this analysis. Citation counts were gathered from Scopus, taking the final counts as of 30 June 2016. Impact Factors were taken from the Scopus project SCImago using the SJR2 indicator.
Results
The LSs combined
Of the 106 papers identified, 16 were from non-peer-reviewed journals such as Population Trends. Four papers used more than one LS for their analysis. (see figure 1)
figure 1. Number of published papers per LS, Jan 2010 – May 2016. n = 106
Papers from the three LSs were published in a total of 59 different journals, spanning 41 SCImago Subject Categories in 11 Subject Areas (figure 2). SJR Impact Factors for the papers ranged from 0.128 to 9.893, with an average of 1.577.
figure 2: Number of LS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The 5 most frequent subject categories for LS papers were:
- Public Health, Environment & Occupational Health (30 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (25 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (20 papers)
- Epidemiology (17 papers)
- Health(social science) (16 papers)
The ten most cited papers from the three LSs were:
| LS | year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| SLS | 2010 | van Ham, M. & Manley, D. | The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects | 64 | Journal of Economic Geography | 3.050 |
| ONS LS | 2013 | Clark, D. & Royer, H. | The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain | 37 | American Economic Review | 9.893 |
| SLS | 2011 | Boyle, P., Feng, Z. & Raab, G. | Does widowhood increase mortality risk? Comparing different causes of spousal death to test for selection effects | 31 | Epidemiology | 2.325 |
| ONS LS | 2010 | Grundy, E. & Tomassini, C. | Marital history, health and mortality among older men and women in England and Wales | 19 | BMC Public Health | 1.180 |
| NILS, ONS LS & SLS | 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 18 | Population Trends | 0.255 |
| NILS | 2010 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study | 17 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2.443 |
| SLS | 2010 | Boyle, P.J., Popham, F. & Norman, P. | The Scottish excess in mortality compared to the English and Welsh: is it a country of residence or country of birth excess? | 16 | Health & Place | 1.199 |
| ONS LS | 2011 | Riva, M., Curtis, S., Norman, P. | Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality | 16 | Social Science and Medicine | 1.743 |
| ONS LS | 2013 | Elliot, P., Shaddick, G., Douglass, M. et al | Adult Cancers Near High-voltage Overhead Power Lines | 16 | Epidemiology | 2.729 |
| SLS | 2012 | Bailey, N. | How spatial segregation changes over time: sorting out the sorting processes | 15 | Environment & Planning A | 1.446 |
Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study
During the period January 2010 to May 2016, a total of 29 journal papers were found which had used NILS data, including one paper which had used all 3 LSs. Five NILS publications appeared journals with top-5 ranked impact factor.
NILS journal papers were published in 18 different journals, spanning 8 SCImago Subject Areas and 22 Subject Categories (see below). SJR Impact Factors for the papers ranged from 0.219 to 4.381, with an average of 1.632.
figure 3: Number of NILS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The 5 most frequent subject categories for NILS papers were:
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (11 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (7 papers)
- Health(social science) (7 papers)
- Epidemiology (6 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (5 papers)
The 10 most cited NILS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 18 | Population Trends | 0.255 |
| 2010 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study | 17 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2.443 |
| 2011 | McCann, M., Donnelly, M., & O’Reilly, D. | Living arrangements, relationship to people in the household and admission to care homes for older people | 12 | Age and Ageing | 1.592 |
| 2011 | O’Reilly, D., Rosato, M., Catney, G. et al | Cohort description: The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) | 11 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 3.116 |
| 2011 | McCann, M., Grundy, E. & O’Reilly, D. | Why is housing tenure associated with a lower risk of admission to a nursing or residential home? Wealth, health and the incentive to keep ‘my home’ | 10 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.575 |
| 2011 | Connolly, S., O’Reilly, D., Rosato, M. & Cardwell, C. | Area of residence and alcohol-related mortality risk: a five-year follow-up study | 9 | Addiction | 2.199 |
| 2010 | O’Reilly, D. & Rosato, M. | Dissonances in self-reported health and mortality across denominational groups in Northern Ireland | 6 | Social Science and Medicine | 1.531 |
| 2011 | Connolly, S., Rosato, M. & O’Reilly, D. | The effect of population movement on the spatial distribution of socio-economic and health status: Analysis using the Northern Ireland mortality study | 6 | Health & Place | 1.344 |
| 2014 | Stockdale, A. & Catney, G. | A Life Course Perspective on Urban–Rural Migration: the Importance of the Local Context | 6 | Population, Space and Place | 1.339 |
| 2011 | Kinnear, H., Rosato, M., Mairs, A. et al | The low uptake of breast screening in cities is a major public health issue and may be due to organisational factors: A Census-based record linkage study | 6 | The Breast | 0.906 |
ONS LS
During the period in question, 51 journal papers were identified as having been produced from ONS LS projects (including 4 papers which also used other LSs). Of these, 14 appeared in non peer-reviewed journals. Seven papers appeared in top-5 ranked journals.
ONS LS papers appeared in 33 journals, and covered 20 SCImago Subject Categories in 7 Subject Areas. SJR Impact Factors for ONS LS papers ranged from 0.128 to 9.893 with an average of 1.453.
figure 4: Number of ONS LS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
The most frequent subject categories in which ONS LS papers appeared were:
- Medicine(misc) (14 papers)
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (11 papers)
- Epidemiology (8 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (7 papers)
- Demography (7 papers)
The most cited ONS LS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2013 | Clark, D. & Royer, H. | The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain | 37 | American Economic Review | 9.893 |
| 2010 | Grundy, E. & Tomassini, C. | Marital history, health and mortality among older men and women in England and Wales | 19 | BMC Public Health | 1.180 |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 18 | Population Trends | 0.255 |
| 2011 | Riva, M., Curtis, S., Norman, P. | Residential mobility within England and urban-rural inequalities in mortality | 16 | Social Science and Medicine | 1.743 |
| 2013 | Elliot, P., Shaddick, G., Douglass, M. et al | Adult Cancers Near High-voltage Overhead Power Lines | 16 | Epidemiology | 2.729 |
| 2012 | Blomgren J., Martikainen P., Grundy E. & Koskinen S. | Marital history 1971-91 and mortality 1991-2004 in England & Wales and Finland | 14 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.550 |
| 2011 | Popham, F., & Boyle, P.J. | Is there a ‘Scottish effect’ for mortality? Prospective observational study of census linkage studies | 11 | Journal of Public Health | 0.851 |
| 2013 | Scott, A.P. & Timæus, I.M. | Mortality differentials 1991−2005 by self-reported ethnicity: findings from the ONS Longitudinal Study | 10 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.845 |
| 2013 | Blackburn, C.M., Spencer, N.J. & Read, J.M. | Is the onset of disabling chronic conditions in later childhood associated with exposure to social disadvantage in earlier childhood? A prospective cohort study using the ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales | 9 | BMC Pediatrics | 1.086 |
| 2012 | Riva, M. & Curtis, S. | Long term local area employment rates as predictors of individual mortality and morbidity: a prospective study in England spanning more than two decades | 9 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.550 |
| 2011 | Akinwale, B., Lynch, K., Wiggins, R. et al | Work, permanent sickness and mortality risk: a prospective cohort study of England and Wales, 1971-2006 | 9 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 1.575 |
Scottish Longitudinal Study
During the period January 2010 – May 2016, 32 SLS-based journal papers were identified (including 4 papers which also used other LSs). Of these, 2 appeared in non peer-reviewed journals. Three papers were published in top-5 ranked journals.
The SLS papers were published in 26 different journals, spanning 23 SCImago Subject Categories in 8 Subject Areas. Impact Factors for the papers ranged from 0.226 to 5.667, with an average of 1.6.
figure 5: Percentage of SLS papers published by SCImago Subject Area [CLICK TO ENLARGE]
SLS papers appeared most frequently under the following subject categories:
- Public Health, Environmental & Occupational Health (9 papers)
- Medicine(misc) (8 papers)
- Geography, Planning & Development (6 papers)
- Health(social science) (5 papers)
- Epidemiology (3 papers)
The 10 most cited SLS papers were:
| year | Authors | Paper title | Scopus Citation count | Journal | Journal Impact Factor |
| 2010 | van Ham, M. & Manley, D. | The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects | 64 | Journal of Economic Geography | 3.050 |
| 2011 | Boyle, P., Feng, Z. & Raab, G. | Does widowhood increase mortality risk? Comparing different causes of spousal death to test for selection effects | 31 | Epidemiology | 2.325 |
| 2010 | Young, H., Grundy, E., O’Reilly, D. & Boyle, P. | Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies | 18 | Population Trends | 0.255 |
| 2010 | Boyle, P.J., Popham, F. & Norman, P. | The Scottish excess in mortality compared to the English and Welsh: is it a country of residence or country of birth excess? | 16 | Health & Place | 1.199 |
| 2012 | Bailey, N. | How spatial segregation changes over time: sorting out the sorting processes | 15 | Environment and Planning A | 1.446 |
| 2013 | Spijker, J. & MacInnes, J. | Population ageing: the timebomb that isn’t? | 14 | BMJ | 2.443 |
| 2011 | Popham, F., Boyle, P., O’Reilly, D. & Leyland, A.H. | Selective internal migration. Does it explain Glasgow’s worsening mortality record? | 12 | Health & Place | 1.344 |
| 2011 | Popham, F., & Boyle, P.J. | Is there a ‘Scottish effect’ for mortality? Prospective observational study of census linkage studies | 11 | Journal of Public Health | 0.851 |
| 2014 | Gaye, A., Marcon, Y., Isaeva, J. et al | DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data, not the data to the analysis | 9 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 4.353 |
| 2013 | Kulik, M.C., Menvielle, G., Eikemo, T.A. et al | Educational Inequalities in Three Smoking-Related Causes of Death in 18 European Populations | 9 | Nicotine & Tobacco Research | 1.354 |
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