Anna Herforth

5.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
60 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Anna Herforth is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Herforth has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 28 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Anna Herforth's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (27 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (18 papers). Anna Herforth is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (27 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (18 papers). Anna Herforth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. Anna Herforth's co-authors include Selena Ahmed, Jennifer Coates, Jessica Fanzo, Cristina Álvarez-Sánchez, Mary Arimond, Ellen Muehlhoff, Shauna Downs, Sofia Kalamatianou, Suneetha Kadiyala and Anju Aggarwal and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Anna Herforth

57 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

A Global Review of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines

2019 559 citations Anna Herforth et al. profile →
Concepts and critical perspectives for food environment research: A global framework with implications for action in low- and middle-income countries

2018 365 citations Anna Herforth et al. Global Food Security profile →
The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study

2020 330 citations Marco Springmann, Luke Spajic et al. BMJ profile →
The food environment, its effects on dietary consumption, and potential for measurement within agriculture-nutrition interventions

2015 320 citations Anna Herforth et al. Food Security profile →
Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets

2020 275 citations Jessica Fanzo, Anna Herforth et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna Herforth United States	23	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	735	692	60	3.3k
Shauna Downs United States	29	1.4k 1.0×	784 0.7×	411 0.4×	632 0.9×	447 0.6×	99	3.0k
Jennifer Coates United States	27	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	423 0.4×	1.8k 2.4×	359 0.5×	67	3.7k
Inge D. Brouwer Netherlands	34	757 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	563 0.5×	741 1.0×	537 0.8×	144	4.0k
Michelle Holdsworth United Kingdom	34	1.6k 1.1×	699 0.6×	386 0.4×	725 1.0×	593 0.9×	125	3.6k
Phillip Baker Australia	38	2.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	713 0.7×	919 1.3×	693 1.0×	114	5.4k
Gina Kennedy Italy	26	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	441 0.4×	960 1.3×	256 0.4×	69	3.3k
Donald Rose United States	33	2.7k 1.9×	947 0.9×	630 0.6×	2.0k 2.7×	351 0.5×	95	4.7k
Carl Lachat Belgium	43	2.7k 1.9×	1.8k 1.6×	464 0.4×	1.3k 1.7×	714 1.0×	191	6.2k
Bhavani Shankar United Kingdom	30	986 0.7×	746 0.7×	371 0.4×	490 0.7×	289 0.4×	111	3.0k
Saskia de Pee United States	43	1.1k 0.8×	4.1k 3.8×	502 0.5×	1.9k 2.5×	350 0.5×	161	7.1k

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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2025). Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health. Global Food Security. 44. 100825–100825. 10 indexed citations

Bai, Yan, et al.. (2025). Environmental impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide. Nature Food. 6(12). 1176–1185.

Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2025). The Healthy Diet Basket is a valid global standard that highlights lack of access to healthy and sustainable diets. Nature Food. 6(6). 622–631. 6 indexed citations

Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2025). Validity of the Diet Quality Questionnaire Compared with Observed Intake for Estimating Population-Level Diet Quality in Rwandan Adults. Current Developments in Nutrition. 10(2). 107628–107628.

Manners, Rhys, et al.. (2025). Validating self-administration as an agile modality for high-frequency diet quality data collection. PLoS ONE. 20(6). e0317611–e0317611. 1 indexed citations

Martínez, Elena, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Parke Wilde, Anna Herforth, & William A. Masters. (2025). Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 122(5). 1265–1274. 1 indexed citations

Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2024). Adaptation of the Diet Quality Questionnaire as a Global Public Good for Use in 140 Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 9(Suppl 1). 104499–104499. 3 indexed citations

Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2024). Development of the Diet Quality Questionnaire for Measurement of Dietary Diversity and Other Diet Quality Indicators. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8(8). 103798–103798. 9 indexed citations

Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2023). Cost and affordability of healthy diets in Vietnam. Public Health Nutrition. 27(1). e3–e3. 5 indexed citations

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Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew, et al.. (2023). Affordability of healthy diets is associated with increased food systems performance in Nigeria: state-level analysis. Agricultural and Food Economics. 11(1). 4 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, Alexandra L. Bellows, Quinn Marshall, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0270712–e0270712. 12 indexed citations

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Carducci, Bianca, Christina Oh, Daniel Roth, et al.. (2021). Gaps and priorities in assessment of food environments for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Food. 2(6). 396–403. 19 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Inge D., Marti van Liere, Alan de Brauw, et al.. (2021). Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations. Food Security. 13(6). 1497–1523. 53 indexed citations

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Madzorera, Isabel, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Robert Paarlberg, et al.. (2021). Food Systems as Drivers of Optimal Nutrition and Health: Complexities and Opportunities for Research and Implementation. Current Developments in Nutrition. 5(Suppl 3). nzab062–nzab062. 10 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2021). An Emergent Framework of the Market Food Environment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 5(4). nzab023–nzab023. 18 indexed citations

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Springmann, Marco, Luke Spajic, Michael Clark, et al.. (2020). The healthiness and sustainability of national and global food based dietary guidelines: modelling study. BMJ. 370. m2322–m2322. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Raghunathan, Kalyani, Derek Headey, & Anna Herforth. (2020). Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India. Food Policy. 99. 101982–101982. 69 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2016). Compendium of indicators for nutrition-sensitive agriculture.. Population Studies. 70(3). 23 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2013). Key Recommendations for Improving Nutrition through Agriculture: establishing a global consensus.. 33–38. 6 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, et al.. (2005). Seeking optimal means to address micronutrient deficiencies in food supplements: A case study from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project.. PubMed. 23(4). 369–76. 14 indexed citations

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