Andrew Pleasant

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Andrew Pleasant is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Pleasant has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in General Health Professions, 7 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Andrew Pleasant's work include Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (18 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (9 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (7 papers). Andrew Pleasant is often cited by papers focused on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (18 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (9 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (7 papers). Andrew Pleasant collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Andrew Pleasant's co-authors include Christina Zarcadoolas, David S. Greer, Shyama Kuruvilla, Julie McKinney, R. V. Rikard, Gill Walt, Kristine Sørensen, Nicholas Mays, Thao T. P. Nguyen and Hiep Thanh Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and BMC Health Services Research.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Pleasant

39 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fear of COVID-19 Scale—Associations of Its Scores with Health Literacy and Health-Related Behaviors among Medical Students

2020 264 citations Hiep Thanh Nguyen, Nguyễn Văn Bình et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Pleasant United States	18	1.4k	393	292	280	233	39	2.0k
Karen Adams Australia	19	1.2k 0.9×	405 1.0×	321 1.1×	238 0.8×	140 0.6×	90	2.2k
Ivaylo Vassilev United Kingdom	24	1.2k 0.9×	421 1.1×	243 0.8×	247 0.9×	541 2.3×	76	2.2k
Mark Kutner United States	8	1.8k 1.3×	351 0.9×	213 0.7×	127 0.5×	233 1.0×	15	2.6k
Irving Rootman Canada	30	1.9k 1.4×	387 1.0×	335 1.1×	210 0.8×	250 1.1×	86	2.8k
Nadia Islam United States	27	1.1k 0.8×	419 1.1×	408 1.4×	452 1.6×	296 1.3×	148	2.5k
Tammy Boyce United Kingdom	15	748 0.5×	426 1.1×	229 0.8×	146 0.5×	156 0.7×	25	1.6k
Gary King United States	25	615 0.5×	266 0.7×	347 1.2×	465 1.7×	329 1.4×	61	2.0k
Leila Posenato García Brazil	24	475 0.3×	337 0.9×	346 1.2×	216 0.8×	162 0.7×	95	1.8k
David V. McQueen United States	24	1.4k 1.0×	374 1.0×	354 1.2×	233 0.8×	329 1.4×	98	2.6k
Peter Messeri United States	29	1.1k 0.8×	303 0.8×	606 2.1×	252 0.9×	482 2.1×	73	3.0k

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Nguyen, Hiep Thanh, Nguyễn Văn Bình, Phạm Minh Khuê, et al.. (2020). Fear of COVID-19 Scale—Associations of Its Scores with Health Literacy and Health-Related Behaviors among Medical Students. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(11). 4164–4164. 264 indexed citations breakdown →

Pleasant, Andrew, Catina O’Leary, & Richard Carmona. (2020). Health Literacy: Global Advances with a Focus Upon the Shanghai Declaration on Promoting Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Studies in health technology and informatics. 269. 481–496. 8 indexed citations

O’Leary, Catina, et al.. (2020). How Health Literacy Can Enhance the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials from Consent to Conclusion. Studies in health technology and informatics. 269. 275–284. 1 indexed citations

Pleasant, Andrew, Catina O’Leary, & Richard Carmona. (2020). Health literacy: Global advances with a focus upon the Shanghai Declaration on promoting health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Information Services & Use. 40(1-2). 3–16. 9 indexed citations

Pleasant, Andrew, Rima E. Rudd, Catina O’Leary, et al.. (2016). Considerations for a New Definition of Health Literacy. NAM Perspectives. 6(4). 75 indexed citations

Pleasant, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Strategies to Enhance Numeracy Skills. NAM Perspectives. 6(5). 2 indexed citations

Appelhans, Bradley M., et al.. (2016). Development and Validation of a Technology-Based System for Tracking and Reporting Dietary Intake at School Meals. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 50(1). 51–55.e1. 3 indexed citations

Poureslami, Iraj, Irving Rootman, Andrew Pleasant, & J. Mark FitzGerald. (2016). The Emerging Role of Health Literacy in Chronic Disease Management: The Response to a Call for Action in Canada. Population Health Management. 19(4). 230–231. 7 indexed citations

Pleasant, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Health Literacy Research and Practice: A Needed Paradigm Shift. Health Communication. 30(12). 1176–1180. 38 indexed citations

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Pleasant, Andrew. (2014). Advancing Health Literacy Measurement: A Pathway to Better Health and Health System Performance. Journal of Health Communication. 19(12). 1481–1496. 105 indexed citations

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Pleasant, Andrew & Julie McKinney. (2011). Coming to consensus on health literacy measurement: An online discussion and consensus-gauging process. Nursing Outlook. 59(2). 95–106.e1. 68 indexed citations

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Pleasant, Andrew, Julie McKinney, & R. V. Rikard. (2011). Health Literacy Measurement: A Proposed Research Agenda. Journal of Health Communication. 16(sup3). 11–21. 133 indexed citations

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Kuruvilla, Shyama, Katherine Semrau, Donald M. Thea, et al.. (2011). Analyzing Media Coverage of the Global Fund Diseases Compared with Lower Funded Diseases (Childhood Pneumonia, Diarrhea and Measles). PLoS ONE. 6(6). e20438–e20438. 16 indexed citations

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Pleasant, Andrew, et al.. (2009). Knowledge, Attitudes, and Informational Behaviors of College Students in Regard to the Human Papillomavirus. Journal of American College Health. 58(2). 141–149. 97 indexed citations

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Pleasant, Andrew & Shyama Kuruvilla. (2008). A tale of two health literacies: public health and clinical approaches to health literacy. Health Promotion International. 23(2). 152–159. 144 indexed citations

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Kuruvilla, Shyama, Nicholas Mays, Andrew Pleasant, & Gill Walt. (2006). Describing the impact of health research: a Research Impact Framework. BMC Health Services Research. 6(1). 134–134. 146 indexed citations

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Zarcadoolas, Christina, Andrew Pleasant, & David S. Greer. (2005). Understanding health literacy: an expanded model. Health Promotion International. 20(2). 195–203. 374 indexed citations

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Kuruvilla, Shyama, et al.. (2004). Digital bridges need concrete foundations: lessons from the Health InterNetwork India. BMJ. 328(7449). 1193–1196. 18 indexed citations

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Zarcadoolas, Christina, Andrew Pleasant, & David S. Greer. (2003). Elaborating a Definition of Health Literacy: A Commentary. Journal of Health Communication. 8(sup1). 119–120. 55 indexed citations

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Zarcadoolas, Christina, et al.. (2002). Unweaving the Web: An Exploratory Study of Low-Literate Adults' Navigation Skills on the World Wide Web. Journal of Health Communication. 7(4). 309–324. 67 indexed citations

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