Professor George Patton has been named among the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2022.
The Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate celebrates researchers ranked in the top 1 per cent in the Web of Science citation index, which demonstrates significant influence in their research field.
Professor Patton was highly cited in the cross-field category. He has appeared on the list for four consecutive years.
Professor Patton is a Professorial Fellow in adolescent health research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Centre for Adolescent Health and the University of Melbourne and a Senior Principal Research Fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). He has a clinical background in child and adolescent psychiatry and a research background in developmental epidemiology.
George has had extensive engagement globally around child and adolescent health, growth, and development. He is current chair of the Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health and he chaired the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, has led two special Series in adolescent health for the Journal and publishing sentinel papers on adolescent mortality, burden of disease, the adolescent investment case and intergenerational risks. He has had earlier consultancy and advisory roles with the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID and the World Bank and scientific advisory roles with international groups, including Peking University, Tokyo University and the University of Washington’s Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation.
He is a member of STAGE, the technical advisory group to WHO’s DG on Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition. George has also led long term Australian longitudinal studies on the mental health, growth and development of children and adolescents, including a prospective intergenerational cohort. His research extends to large scale early intervention, prevention and mental health promotion trials from primary-care, community and school platforms in both high resource and low resource settings.
Warmest congratulations from the Centre for Adolescent Health.
