His work carries an h-index of 25 on Google Scholar and has contributed to international clinical guidance, such as the IFSO 2020 position statement on Barrett's Oesophagus and bariatric surgery.

It was the problem-solving aspect that got me interested in surgery
A/Prof Michael TalbotObes Surg 2026.
Hany M, Zidan MH, Parmar C, Shahmiri SS, Altabbaa H, El-Shamarka A, Amgad A, Abdelkhalek IM, Assal AA, Abdou ME, Kermansaravi M; MBS Global Expert Collaborative Group.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-026-08562-z
Ann Surg 2026.
Wickremasinghe AC, Garduce P, Brown DL, Budin AJ, Chadwick C, Leang YJ, Talbot M, Ahern S, MacCormick AD, Caterson ID, Brown WA.
https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000007013
J Robot Surg 2025;19(1):214.
Leang YJ, Hensman CS, Paul E; Australian Robotic Bariatric Interest Group (ARBIG); Kong JCH, Burton PR, Brown WA.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11701-025-02355-9
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Volume 101, Issue 5, S604
Fayyaz, Farimah et al.
https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(25)01012-0/abstract
Curr Surg Rep (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40137-024-00426-8
Chan, D.L., Chen, K.L., Indja, B.E. et al.
March 2023. Surgery Open Digestive Advance 9(4):100085. DOI: 10.1016/j.soda.2023.100085.
Daniel Leonard, Brenda W Huang, Jim Yip, Michael L Talbot.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667008923000071
Surgery Open Digestive Advance. 2022-06. DOI: 10.1016/j.soda.2022.100042.
Daniel Leonard Chan; Sonia Tran; Shaveen Kanakaratne; Hannah Mary Bruce; Cynthuja Thilakanathan; Nicholas
Bull; Annemarie Hennessy; Jim Iliopoulos; Michael Leonard Talbot
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667008922000040
Surg Pract. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-1633.12491
Askari, A., Riaz, A.A., Brittain, R., Zhou, J., Irwin, S. and Talbot, M. (2021)
Int J Obes (Lond). 2021 Jan;45(1):235-246. doi: 10.1038/s41366-020-00660-x. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
Malgorzata M Brzozowska, Thach Tran, Dana Bliuc, John Jorgensen, Michael Talbot, Douglas Fenton-Lee, Weiwen Chen, Angel Hong, Alex Viardot, Chris P White, Tuan V Nguyen, Nicholas Pocock, John A Eisman, Paul A Baldock, Jacqueline R Center.