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Researcher · University of Pennsylvania · United States

Gary D. Foster

Gary D. Foster publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Pharmacy, on topics such as Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Obesity and Health Practices and Eating Disorders and Behaviors.

ORCID 0000-0002-3960-0332 OpenAlex
World rank
#26,610
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,964
of 1,627,098
Works
359
Citations
25k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
79
i10-index 227Top 0.5% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gary D. Foster

What does Gary D. Foster research?

Gary D. Foster's work is mostly in Medicine (34%), Health Professions (19%), Psychology (11%).

Health Sciences: 190 works · 52.8% of their workMedicine: 122 works · 34.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 64 works · 17.7% of their workPhysiology: 36 works · 9.9% of their workSurgery: 23 works · 6.5% of their workHealth Professions: 67 works · 18.7% of their workPharmacy: 38 works · 10.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 29 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 129 works · 35.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 11.3% of their workPsychology: 41 works · 11.3% of their workClinical Psychology: 41 works · 11.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGary D. Foster359works
Health Sciences53%Social Sciences11%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine12234.1%
    2. Health Professions6718.7%
  2. Everything else12935.9%
    1. Psychology4111.3%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health18% of their works
  2. 2Clinical Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacy11% of their works
  4. 4Physiology10% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions8% of their works
  6. 6Surgery6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gary D. Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Obesity, Public Health, Adolescents, Prevalence, Childhood, Overweight, Weight Loss and Obesity Stigma.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Obesity3054 topics
  2. Public Health2322 topics
  3. Adolescents2272 topics
  4. Prevalence2272 topics
  5. Childhood1281 topic
  6. Overweight1281 topic
  7. Weight Loss1213 topics
  8. Obesity Stigma1041 topic
  9. Weight Bias1041 topic
  10. Body Image991 topic
  11. Eating Disorders991 topic
  12. Inflammation702 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome702 topics
  14. Bariatric Surgery551 topic
  15. Diabetes551 topic
  16. Mobile Health441 topic
  17. mHealth441 topic
  18. Ketogenic Diet431 topic
  19. Low-Carbohydrate Diet431 topic
  20. Cardiovascular Disease271 topic
  21. Mediterranean Diet271 topic
  22. Anti-Obesity Drugs231 topic
  23. Pharmacotherapy231 topic

Where does Gary D. Foster work?

Gary D. Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gary D. Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 359 works and 24,587 citations for Gary D. Foster, an h-index of 79, ranking #26,610 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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