Alexia Sawyer

1.1k total citations
22 papers, 680 citations indexed

About

Alexia Sawyer is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexia Sawyer has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 680 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 10 papers in Transportation and 10 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Alexia Sawyer's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers), Physical Activity and Health (10 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 papers). Alexia Sawyer is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers), Physical Activity and Health (10 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (10 papers). Alexia Sawyer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Norway. Alexia Sawyer's co-authors include Lee Smith, Marcella Ucci, Alexi Marmot, Abigail Fisher, Jane Wardle, Karien Stronks, Mary Nicolaou, Abi Fisher, Mark Hamer and Benjamin Gardner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alexia Sawyer

21 papers receiving 665 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexia Sawyer United Kingdom	15	274	262	177	145	111	22	680
Jennifer Robertson‐Wilson Canada	15	218 0.8×	197 0.8×	106 0.6×	158 1.1×	102 0.9×	35	782
Tomi Mäki‐Opas Finland	15	229 0.8×	256 1.0×	153 0.9×	91 0.6×	53 0.5×	36	616
Jean‐Michel Oppert France	14	470 1.7×	333 1.3×	179 1.0×	161 1.1×	49 0.4×	20	901
Jan Birdsey United States	12	153 0.6×	290 1.1×	142 0.8×	73 0.5×	65 0.6×	15	812
Sven Messing Germany	14	357 1.3×	366 1.4×	160 0.9×	115 0.8×	41 0.4×	46	697
Christiaan G. Abildso United States	13	178 0.6×	165 0.6×	119 0.7×	161 1.1×	65 0.6×	47	654
Jonathan Kurka United States	14	371 1.4×	336 1.3×	154 0.9×	252 1.7×	47 0.4×	22	865
Silvia A. González Colombia	18	556 2.0×	333 1.3×	331 1.9×	200 1.4×	49 0.4×	39	973
Julie L. Pickrel United States	15	441 1.6×	239 0.9×	189 1.1×	179 1.2×	34 0.3×	21	807
Sarah Forberger Germany	16	262 1.0×	366 1.4×	308 1.7×	114 0.8×	38 0.3×	60	874

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Sawyer, Alexia, Kelly Parsons, Jean Adams, et al.. (2025). Towards a collaborative interdisciplinary systems approach to urban food system transformation: a case study from the Mandala research consortium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1935). 20240155–20240155. 1 indexed citations

Sawyer, Alexia, Frank van Lenthe, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, et al.. (2024). Hypothetical mechanisms driving physical activity levels in ethnic minority groups living in Europe: a systematically identified evidence-based conceptual systems model. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 21(1). 87–87.

Quax, Rick, Alexia Sawyer, Vítor V. Vasconcelos, et al.. (2023). Using network analysis to identify leverage points based on causal loop diagrams leads to false inference. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 21046–21046. 13 indexed citations

Djojosoeparto, Sanne K., Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, J M Harrington, et al.. (2022). How theory can help to understand the potential impact of food environment policies on socioeconomic inequalities in diet: an application of Bourdieu’s capital theory and the scarcity theory. European Journal of Public Health. 32(Supplement_4). iv66–iv70. 9 indexed citations

Djojosoeparto, Sanne K., J M Harrington, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, et al.. (2022). The potential of food environment policies to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in diets and to improve healthy diets among lower socioeconomic groups: an umbrella review. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 433–433. 31 indexed citations

Sawyer, Alexia, Frank van Lenthe, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, et al.. (2021). Dynamics of the complex food environment underlying dietary intake in low-income groups: a systems map of associations extracted from a systematic umbrella literature review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 18(1). 96–96. 104 indexed citations

Nicolaou, Mary, et al.. (2021). Understanding the impact of exposure to adverse socioeconomic conditions on chronic stress from a complexity science perspective. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 242–242. 47 indexed citations

Sawyer, Alexia, Karen den Hertog, Arnoud P. Verhoeff, Vincent Busch, & Karien Stronks. (2021). Developing the logic framework underpinning a whole‐systems approach to childhood overweight and obesity prevention: Amsterdam Healthy Weight Approach. Obesity Science & Practice. 7(5). 591–605. 31 indexed citations

Sawyer, Alexia, Russell Jones, Marcella Ucci, et al.. (2017). Cross-sectional interactions between quality of the physical and social environment and self-reported physical activity in adults living in income-deprived communities. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0188962–e0188962. 16 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Alexia, Marcella Ucci, Russell Jones, Lee Smith, & Abi Fisher. (2017). Simultaneous evaluation of physical and social environmental correlates of physical activity in adults: A systematic review. SSM - Population Health. 3. 506–515. 25 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Alexia, Marcella Ucci, Russell Jones, Lee Smith, & Abi Fisher. (2017). Supportive environments for physical activity in deprived communities in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study using photo elicitation. Social Science & Medicine. 197. 49–58. 10 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Alexia, Lee Smith, Marcella Ucci, et al.. (2017). Perceived office environments and occupational physical activity in office-based workers. Occupational Medicine. 67(4). 260–267. 22 indexed citations

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Smith, Lee, Orla McCourt, Alexia Sawyer, et al.. (2016). A review of occupational physical activity and sedentary behaviour correlates. Occupational Medicine. 66(3). 185–192. 87 indexed citations

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Ucci, Marcella, Stephen Law, Richard Andrews, et al.. (2015). Indoor school environments, physical activity, sitting behaviour and pedagogy: a scoping review. Building Research & Information. 43(5). 566–581. 25 indexed citations

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Smith, Lee, Mark Hamer, Marcella Ucci, et al.. (2015). Weekday and weekend patterns of objectively measured sitting, standing, and stepping in a sample of office-based workers: the active buildings study. BMC Public Health. 15(1). 9–9. 124 indexed citations

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Fisher, Abigail, Lee Smith, Cornelia H.M. van Jaarsveld, Alexia Sawyer, & Jane Wardle. (2015). Are children's activity levels determined by their genes or environment? A systematic review of twin studies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 548–553. 20 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Alexia, Abi Fisher, Clare Llewellyn, & Alice M. Gregory. (2015). Self-reported sleep quality, weight status and depression in young adult twins and siblings. BMC Obesity. 2(1). 50–50. 5 indexed citations

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Spinney, Richard E., Lee Smith, Marcella Ucci, et al.. (2015). Indoor Tracking to Understand Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: Exploratory Study in UK Office Buildings. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127688–e0127688. 35 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Alexia, Lee Smith, Stephanie Schrempft, et al.. (2014). Primary caregiver knowledge of paediatric physical activity recommendations in the United Kingdom and its association with caregiver behaviour: an observational study. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 795–795. 14 indexed citations

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Smith, Lee, Marcella Ucci, Alexi Marmot, et al.. (2013). Active buildings: modelling physical activity and movement in office buildings. An observational study protocol. BMJ Open. 3(11). e004103–e004103. 29 indexed citations

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