# Richard Peto

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/richard-peto/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 121,032 |
| Field | Smoking Behavior and Cessation |
| h-index | 141 |
| i10-index | 354 |
| Last Known Institution | University of Oxford |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5041941850 |
| ORCID iD | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8219-5339 |
| Works | 589 |

## Researcher papers

Showing 12 of 14.

- [Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents](https://scholariq.org/papers/body-mass-index-and-all-cause-mortality-individual-participant-data-meta/)
- [Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking](https://scholariq.org/papers/tobacco-smoke-and-involuntary-smoking/)
- [Interpretation of the evidence for the efficacy and safety of statin therapy](https://scholariq.org/papers/interpretation-of-the-evidence-for-the-efficacy-and-safety-of-statin-therapy/)
- [Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations](https://scholariq.org/papers/quality-of-primary-health-care-in-china-challenges-and-recommendations/)
- [Efficacy and safety of statin therapy in older people: a meta-analysis of individual participant data from 28 randomised controlled trials](https://scholariq.org/papers/efficacy-and-safety-of-statin-therapy-in-older-people-a-meta-analysis-of/)
- [HPS2-THRIVE randomized placebo-controlled trial in 25 673 high-risk patients of ER niacin/laropiprant: trial design, pre-specified muscle and liver outcomes, and reasons for stopping study treatment](https://scholariq.org/papers/hps2-thrive-randomized-placebo-controlled-trial-in-25-673-high-risk-patients-of/)
- [Lipids, Lipoproteins, and Metabolites and Risk of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke](https://scholariq.org/papers/lipids-lipoproteins-and-metabolites-and-risk-of-myocardial-infarction-and-stroke/)
- [Mortality and recurrent vascular events after first incident stroke: a 9-year community-based study of 0·5 million Chinese adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/mortality-and-recurrent-vascular-events-after-first-incident-stroke-a-9-year/)
- [Causal associations of blood lipids with risk of ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage in Chinese adults](https://scholariq.org/papers/causal-associations-of-blood-lipids-with-risk-of-ischemic-stroke-and/)
- [Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Diseases in the Chinese Population](https://scholariq.org/papers/adherence-to-healthy-lifestyle-and-cardiovascular-diseases-in-the-chinese/)
- [Sex-specific relevance of diabetes to occlusive vascular and other mortality: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual data from 980 793 adults from 68 prospective studies](https://scholariq.org/papers/sex-specific-relevance-of-diabetes-to-occlusive-vascular-and-other-mortality-a/)
- [Alcohol consumption in 0.5 million people from 10 diverse regions of China: prevalence, patterns and socio-demographic and health-related correlates](https://scholariq.org/papers/alcohol-consumption-in-0-5-million-people-from-10-diverse-regions-of-china/)

## Researcher topics

- [Smoking Behavior and Cessation](https://scholariq.org/topics/smoking-behavior-and-cessation/)
- [Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins](https://scholariq.org/topics/diabetes-cardiovascular-risks-and-lipoproteins/)
- [Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology](https://scholariq.org/topics/global-public-health-policies-and-epidemiology/)
- [Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health](https://scholariq.org/topics/lipoproteins-and-cardiovascular-health/)
- [Health disparities and outcomes](https://scholariq.org/topics/health-disparities-and-outcomes/)

## Researcher university

- [University of Oxford](https://scholariq.org/institutions/university-of-oxford/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.