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Obesity and Health Practices

Obesity and Health Practices is a research topic within Pharmacy. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of weight stigma on obesity management, including its effects on public health, physician attitudes, psychological well-being, and the role of primary care. It addresses discrimination and bias in healthcare settings, as well as the societal and cultural implications of obesity stigma.

  • Obesity Stigma
  • Weight Bias
  • Health Care
  • Discrimination
  • Public Health
  • Physician Attitudes
  • Psychological Well-being
  • Primary Care
  • Social Identity
  • Nutrition Education
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Obesity and Health Practices

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Obesity and Health Practices research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.9k and 560 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 560 works
  3. 3 Australia 295 works
  4. 4 Canada 252 works
  5. 5 Germany 190 works
  6. 6 India 181 works
  7. 7 China 161 works
  8. 8 Brazil 137 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 125 works
  10. 10 Spain 119 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 48.0%United Kingdom: 14.4%Australia: 7.6%Canada: 6.5%6 others listed: 23.5%48%largest
United States1,863 · 48.0%United Kingdom560 · 14.4%Australia295 · 7.6%Canada252 · 6.5%6 others listed913 · 23.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Obesity and Health Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Obesity and Health Practices research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 69 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 42 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 28 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 27 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 26 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 25 works
  7. 7 Monash UniversityAustralia 23 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 23 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 The University of QueenslandAustralia 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Obesity and Health Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Obesity and Health Practices include Christopher J L Murray, Theo Vos and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  5. 5 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  6. 6 Julian P. T. Higgins United Kingdom 390k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  10. 10 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Obesity and Health Practices?

The most cited paper in Obesity and Health Practices is "Impact of Informing Overweight Individuals about the Role of Genetics in Obesity: An Online Experimental Study" (Natalie C. Lippa, Saskia C. Sanderson, 2013), with 6,093 citations. Next come "The three-factor eating questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger" (4,737) and "Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health" (4,089).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Impact of Informing Overweight Individuals about the Role of Genetics in Obesity: An Online Experimental Study Natalie C. Lippa, Saskia C. Sanderson · Human Heredity 2013 6,093
2 The three-factor eating questionnaire to measure dietary restraint, disinhibition and hunger Albert J. Stunkard, Samuel Messick · Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1985 4,737
3 Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health Will H. Courtenay · Social Science & Medicine May 2000 4,089
4 The Social Determinants of Health: It's Time to Consider the Causes of the Causes Paula Braveman, Laura M. Gottlieb · Public Health Reports Open access 2014 3,859
5 Individualism and collectivism JOHN G. OETZEL · International Journal of Intercultural Relations Jun 1996 3,806
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Where is Obesity and Health Practices research done?

The largest centres of Obesity and Health Practices research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Boston (United States) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 132 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 66 works
  3. 3 BostonUnited States 64 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 64 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 53 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 48 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 45 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 41 works
  9. 9 PhiladelphiaUnited States 40 works
  10. 10 Chapel HillUnited States 40 works
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Where is the best place to study Obesity and Health Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Monash University and University of Connecticut score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 77.016.0%4.6×68 +31.9%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 63.119.1%5.2×23 +37.8%
3University of ConnecticutUnited States 56.025.7%6.0×13 -33.6%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.610.6%4.0×26 +13.5%
5Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 52.715.9%9.1×12 +19.4%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.117.5%2.7×20 -13.0%
7University of TorontoCanada 50.816.2%3.0×28 -15.2%
8University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 49.113.8%3.2×16 +12.3%
9Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 48.921.9%3.4×8 +83.5%
10Deakin UniversityAustralia 48.710.6%7.0×14 +8.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Obesity and Health Practices, country by country

Is Obesity and Health Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Obesity and Health Practices.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Obesity and Health Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Obesity and Health Practices over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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