Youfa Wang
Impact in
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- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Pharmacy top 0.05%
- Obesity and Health Practices
Papers in
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- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet 142
- Nutritional Studies and Diet 30
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling 13
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- Health and Lifestyle Studies 22
- Co-authors
- Tim Lobstein (3 shared papers)May A. Beydoun (18 shared papers)Barry M. Popkin (7 shared papers)Qi Zhang (9 shared papers)Hyunjung Lim (11 shared papers)Hong Xue (51 shared papers)Carlos Augusto Monteiro (2 shared papers)Benjamı́n Caballero (11 shared papers)
- Journals
- BMC Public Health (11 papers)The FASEB Journal (10 papers)American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (10 papers)Public Health Nutrition (10 papers)Obesity (10 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesChinaQatar
In The Last Decade
Youfa Wang
280 papers receiving 19.8k citations
Youfa Wang's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 204
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 8.3k
- Pharmacy 1.2k
- Nutrition and Dietetics 1.9k
- General Health Professions 2.5k
- Physiology 2.5k
Countries citing papers authored by Youfa Wang
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Fields of papers citing papers by Youfa Wang
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 2149 |
| 2 | Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 1153 |
| 3 | Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and Russia Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1020 |
| 4 | Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 897 |
| 5 | Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 836 |
| 6 | Is Sleep Duration Associated With Childhood Obesity? A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 645 |
| 7 | The global childhood obesity epidemic and the association between socio-economic status and childhood obesity Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 582 |
| 8 | Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers? Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 557 |
| 9 | Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 528 |
| 10 | Is Obesity Associated With Early Sexual Maturation? A Comparison of the Association in American Boys Versus Girls Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 523 |
| 11 | 2004 | 462 | |
| 12 | 2006 | 368 | |
| 13 | 2004 | 356 | |
| 14 | 2009 | 344 | |
| 15 | Health policy and public health implications of obesity in China Hit paper breakdown → | 2021 | 335 |
| 16 | Prevalence of mental health problems among children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis Hit paper breakdown → | 2021 | 331 |
| 17 | 2003 | 323 | |
| 18 | 2007 | 313 | |
| 19 | 2008 | 288 | |
| 20 | 2008 | 236 |
About Youfa Wang
Youfa Wang is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Pharmacy, having authored 291 papers that have together received 20.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (142 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (30 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (26 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (23 papers), Health and Lifestyle Studies (22 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (19 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (16 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (8.3k citations), Pharmacy (1.2k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (1.9k citations), General Health Professions (2.5k citations) and Physiology (2.5k citations). Youfa Wang has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Qatar. Frequent co-authors include Tim Lobstein, May A. Beydoun, Barry M. Popkin, Qi Zhang, Hyunjung Lim, Hong Xue, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Benjamı́n Caballero, Lan Liang and Shiriki Kumanyika. Their work appears in journals such as BMC Public Health, The FASEB Journal, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition and Obesity.
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