Ancel Keys

30.8k citations
219 papers · 19.8k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 64

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Papers in

Ancel Keys

211 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

THE DIET AND 15-YEAR DEATH RATE IN THE SEVEN COUNTRIES STUDY 1986 · 1.3k citations
1.3k195320261977200150010001.5k

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Ancel Keys
Comparison fields: 5 of 199
  • Nutrition and Dietetics 4.1k
  • Physiology 6.5k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5.3k
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 2.9k
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3.1k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Ancel Keys

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ancel Keys, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 199515
2 199373
3 199033
4 1989234
5 1984142
6
Seven Countries
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1980624
7 197243
8 197023
9 196949
10
Scale and specialization in Canadian manufacturing
196820
11 196712
12 1966154
13 19662
14 196544
15
Eat well & stay well
19636
16 195663
17 19562
18 195697
19
Studies on the diet, body fatness and serum cholesterol in Madrid, Spain.
195464
20
Modern health problems of the united states.
19533

About Ancel Keys

Ancel Keys is a scholar working on Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Nutrition and Dietetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 219 papers that have together received 19.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Diet and metabolism studies (25 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Fatty Acid Research and Health (20 papers), Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (11 papers), Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (11 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (10 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 papers) and Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (4.1k citations), Physiology (6.5k citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (5.3k citations), Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (2.9k citations) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (3.1k citations). Ancel Keys has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Francisco Grande, Joseph T. Anderson, Josef Brožek, Henry L. Taylor, Flaminio Fidanza, Henry Blackburn, Noboru Kimura, Martti J. Karvonen, S Punsar and Ernst Simonson. Their work appears in journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Circulation, The Lancet, Journal of Nutrition and Science.

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