Jake’s most notable research commitment has been as founder and lead investigator for Australia’s only major pre-birth cohort study, the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), which recruited more than 8000 pregnant women from 1981 to 1983. These study participants, and their children, were periodically surveyed over 30 years in order to examine the causes of mental and physical health throughout the life course. To date, this research has produced more than 200 papers.
Jake has published an average of over 25 papers a year for the last 5 years and has an H-Index of 48 in Web of Science and 68 in Scopus. His research work continues to be highly cited with 950 citations in 2015 alone and 14,500 citations across his publishing lifetime. Jake has published articles in major A-list academic journals including Addiction, Archives of General Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Public Health. He previously served as Editor of the Journal of Sociology (1997-2000) and is currently an Assistant Editor of Addiction.