Artur Direito

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Artur Direito is a scholar working on Physiology, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Artur Direito has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Physiology, 15 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Artur Direito's work include Physical Activity and Health (17 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (13 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (13 papers). Artur Direito is often cited by papers focused on Physical Activity and Health (17 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (13 papers) and Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (13 papers). Artur Direito collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. Artur Direito's co-authors include Ralph Maddison, Robyn Whittaker, Jonathan C Rawstorn, Yannan Jiang, Nicholas Gant, Christina Beckmann, Eliana V. Carraça, Emma Norris, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Tommy van Steen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, British Journal of Sports Medicine and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Artur Direito

29 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit 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.

Telehealth exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2016 256 citations Jonathan C Rawstorn, Artur Direito et al. profile →
Physically active lessons in schools and their impact on physical activity, educational, health and cognition outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2019 184 citations Emma Norris, Tommy van Steen et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers

Artur Direito

GHP

PHEOH

PHYSI

DEP

Leila Pfaeffli Dale New Zealand

Sarah Edney Australia

Katia Ferrar Australia

Janet R. Wojcik United States

Brent Hutto United States

Zakkoyya H. Lewis United States

Christine A. Pellegrini United States

Karen A. Croteau United States

Sami Kokko Finland

Christine Delisle Nyström Sweden

Leila Pfaeffli Dale New Zealand

Artur Direito

777 ×0.9

GHP

432 ×0.8

PHEOH

509 ×1.0

PHYSI

526 ×1.3

111 ×0.4

DEP

Citations per year, relative to Artur Direito Artur Direito (= 1×) peers Leila Pfaeffli Dale

Countries citing papers authored by Artur Direito

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Artur Direito's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Artur Direito with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Artur Direito more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Artur Direito

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Artur Direito. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Artur Direito. The network helps show where Artur Direito may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Artur Direito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Artur Direito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Artur Direito based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Artur Direito. Artur Direito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

MURPHY, JOSEPH JOHN, Karen Milton, Matthew Mclaughlin, et al.. (2022). Advocating for Implementation of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: Challenges and Support Requirements. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 20(1). 10–19. 10 indexed citations

Mahmood, Amreen, Manikandan Natarajan, Dianne L. Marsden, et al.. (2022). Development of strategies to support home-based exercise adherence after stroke: a Delphi consensus. BMJ Open. 12(1). e055946–e055946. 11 indexed citations

Norris, Emma, Tommy van Steen, Artur Direito, & Emmanuel Stamatakis. (2020). Physically active lessons in schools: A systematic review and meta-analysis of effects on physical activity, educational, health and cognition outcomes. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

Direito, Artur, Jonathan C Rawstorn, Jacqueline L. Mair, et al.. (2019). Multifactorial e- and mHealth interventions for cardiovascular disease primary prevention: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 1344245040–1344245040. 9 indexed citations

Direito, Artur, Hilary Groarke, Janna Hastings, et al.. (2019). An ontology-based modelling system (OBMS) for representing behaviour change theories. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

Direito, Artur, Mark Tooley, Rami Albatal, et al.. (2019). Tailored Daily Activity: An Adaptive Physical Activity Smartphone Intervention. Telemedicine Journal and e-Health. 26(4). 426–437. 12 indexed citations

Norris, Emma, Tommy van Steen, Artur Direito, & Emmanuel Stamatakis. (2019). Physically active lessons in schools and their impact on physical activity, educational, health and cognition outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(14). 826–838. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

Hill, Elizabeth M., et al.. (2019). Patient and public involvement and application of the Behaviour Change Wheel to promote physical activity following pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: an intervention development study. PA653–PA653. 1 indexed citations

Ek, Anna, Christina Alexandrou, Christine Delisle Nyström, et al.. (2018). The Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI) study to promote physical activity through active transportation in healthy adults: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 880–880. 27 indexed citations

10.

Schöeppe, Stephanie, Stephanie Alley, Amanda L. Rebar, et al.. (2017). Apps to improve diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents: a review of quality, features and behaviour change techniques. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 14(1). 83–83. 187 indexed citations

11.

Maddison, Ralph, Luke Gemming, Javier Monedero, et al.. (2017). Quantifying Human Movement Using the Movn Smartphone App: Validation and Field Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 5(8). e122–e122. 16 indexed citations

12.

Direito, Artur, et al.. (2017). Application of the behaviour change wheel framework to the development of interventions within the City4Age project. 70. 1–6. 3 indexed citations

13.

Baghaei, Nilufar, et al.. (2016). Diabetic Mario: Designing and Evaluating Mobile Games for Diabetes Education. Games for Health Journal. 5(4). 270–278. 28 indexed citations

14.

Direito, Artur, Eliana V. Carraça, Jonathan C Rawstorn, Robyn Whittaker, & Ralph Maddison. (2016). mHealth Technologies to Influence Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors: Behavior Change Techniques, Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 51(2). 226–239. 232 indexed citations

15.

Direito, Artur, Yannan Jiang, Robyn Whittaker, & Ralph Maddison. (2015). Apps for IMproving FITness and Increasing Physical Activity Among Young People: The AIMFIT Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17(8). e210–e210. 136 indexed citations

16.

Direito, Artur, Yannan Jiang, Robyn Whittaker, & Ralph Maddison. (2015). Smartphone apps to improve fitness and increase physical activity among young people: protocol of the Apps for IMproving FITness (AIMFIT) randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 15(1). 635–635. 52 indexed citations

17.

Maddison, Ralph, Yannan Jiang, Louise Foley, et al.. (2015). The association between the activity profile and cardiovascular risk. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 19(8). 605–610. 26 indexed citations

18.

Direito, Artur, Leila Pfaeffli Dale, Emma Shields, et al.. (2014). Do physical activity and dietary smartphone applications incorporate evidence-based behaviour change techniques?. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 646–646. 242 indexed citations

19.

Scudder, Mark R., Kara D. Federmeier, Lauren B. Raine, et al.. (2014). The association between aerobic fitness and language processing in children: Implications for academic achievement. Brain and Cognition. 87. 140–152. 58 indexed citations

20.

Maddison, Ralph, Andrew Jull, Samantha Marsh, Artur Direito, & Cliona Ní Mhurchú. (2013). Active Videogames and Weight Management: Is There a Future?. Games for Health Journal. 2(3). 179–182. 5 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact