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Researcher · Cancer Council Victoria · Australia

Melanie A Wakefield

Melanie A Wakefield publishes mostly in Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Applied Psychology, on topics such as Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

ORCID 0000-0002-6183-5699 OpenAlex
World rank
#111,118
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#3,695
of 140,210
Works
476
Citations
21k
Citations per work
44.9
h-index
73
i10-index 308Top 1.1% in Physiology (Medicine)
Melanie A Wakefield

What does Melanie A Wakefield research?

Melanie A Wakefield's work is mostly in Medicine (42%), Psychology (7%), Social Sciences (4%).

Everything else: 203 works · 42.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 198 works · 41.7% of their workMedicine: 198 works · 41.7% of their workPhysiology: 96 works · 20.1% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 77 works · 16.2% of their workEpidemiology: 26 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 15.7% of their workPsychology: 36 works · 7.5% of their workApplied Psychology: 36 works · 7.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 4.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 20 works · 4.2% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 19 works · 4.0% of their workMarketing: 19 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMelanie AWakefield476works
Health Sciences42%Social Sciences16%

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. Everything else20342.6%
    1. Medicine19841.7%
    1. Psychology367.5%
    2. Social Sciences204.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting194.0%
  1. 1Physiology20% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health16% of their works
  3. 3Applied Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology5% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Marketing4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Melanie A Wakefield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Psychiatric Disorders, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Use, Obesity, Childhood, Overweight, Self-Regulation and Theory of Planned Behaviour.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Psychiatric Disorders2852 topics
  2. Smoking Cessation2371 topic
  3. Tobacco Use2371 topic
  4. Obesity1682 topics
  5. Childhood981 topic
  6. Overweight981 topic
  7. Self-Regulation931 topic
  8. Theory of Planned Behaviour931 topic
  9. Consumer Acceptance701 topic
  10. Ultra-Processed Foods701 topic
  11. Corporate Political Activity491 topic
  12. Non-Communicable Diseases491 topic
  13. Alcohol Dependence481 topic
  14. Substance Use Disorders481 topic
  15. Narrative Persuasion461 topic
  16. Transportation461 topic
  17. Oxidative Stress301 topic
  18. UV Radiation301 topic

Where does Melanie A Wakefield work?

Melanie A Wakefield's main affiliation in the publication record is Cancer Council Victoria, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Melanie A Wakefield have?

OpenAlex counts 476 works and 21,359 citations for Melanie A Wakefield, an h-index of 73, ranking #111,118 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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