Ashley Adamson

14.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
230 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Ashley Adamson is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashley Adamson has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 64 papers in Physiology and 52 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Ashley Adamson's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (155 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (69 papers) and Obesity and Health Practices (51 papers). Ashley Adamson is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (155 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (69 papers) and Obesity and Health Practices (51 papers). Ashley Adamson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Ashley Adamson's co-authors include John C. Mathers, Amelia A. Lake, Kathryn Parkinson, Mark S. Pearce, Laura Basterfield, John J. Reilly, Angela M. Craigie, A J Rugg-Gunn, Sarah Kelly and Martin White and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ashley Adamson

223 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tracking of obesity-related behaviours from childhood to adulthood: A systematic review

2011 794 citations Angela M. Craigie, Amelia A. Lake et al. profile →
Timing of the decline in physical activity in childhood and adolescence: Gateshead Millennium Cohort Study

2017 269 citations Kathryn Parkinson, Ashley Adamson et al. profile →
Mediterranean diet adherence is associated with lower dementia risk, independent of genetic predisposition: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study

2023 83 citations Oliver M. Shannon, Janice M. Ranson et al. BMC Medicine profile →
5-year follow-up of the randomised Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) of continued support for weight loss maintenance in the UK: an extension study

2024 63 citations Michael EJ Lean, W. S. Leslie et al. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ashley Adamson	5.3k	2.2k	1.6k	1.0k	729	230	7.8k
Leslie A. Lytle	5.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	712 1.0×	105	8.4k
Melissa C. Nelson	5.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	482 0.7×	42	8.0k
Deanna M. Hoelscher	5.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	735 0.7×	815 1.1×	244	7.2k
Mikael Fogelholm	5.6k 1.0×	4.9k 2.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	804 1.1×	264	11.9k
Rachel C. Lindstrom	4.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	528 0.7×	8	9.7k
Lawrence J. Cheskin	3.2k 0.6×	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	923 0.9×	609 0.8×	210	8.9k
Christina D. Economos	4.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.3×	808 0.8×	818 1.1×	243	6.9k
Lisa M. Klesges	3.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	455 0.6×	149	6.9k
Alison E. Field	4.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	685 0.9×	66	7.5k
Marj Moodie	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.5k 1.6×	663 0.7×	652 0.9×	249	8.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Goffe, Louis, et al.. (2025). How do families access holiday activities and food programmes and other support? Learnings from the Borough of Southwark holiday activities and food club’s evaluation. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1494180–1494180.

Evans, Elizabeth H., Ashley Adamson, Angela R. Jones, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms and outcomes of a very low intensity intervention to improve parental acknowledgement and understanding of childhood overweight/obesity, embedded in the National Child Measurement Programme: A sub‐study within a large cluster Randomized Controlled Trial ( MapMe2 ). British Journal of Health Psychology. 30(1). e12784–e12784. 1 indexed citations

Pallan, Miranda, Marie Murphy, Alice Sitch, et al.. (2024). School food policy in secondary schools in England and its impact on adolescents’ diets and dental health: the FUEL multiple-methods study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(12). 1–167.

Lean, Michael EJ, W. S. Leslie, Alison C. Barnes, et al.. (2024). 5-year follow-up of the randomised Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT) of continued support for weight loss maintenance in the UK: an extension study. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 12(4). 233–246. 63 indexed citations breakdown →

Shannon, Oliver M., Janice M. Ranson, Sarah Gregory, et al.. (2023). Mediterranean diet adherence is associated with lower dementia risk, independent of genetic predisposition: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 81–81. 83 indexed citations breakdown →

Jones, Angela R., Kay Mann, Mark S. Pearce, et al.. (2023). A Randomised Control Trial Investigating the Efficacy of the MapMe Intervention on Parental Ability to Correctly Categorise Overweight in Their Child and the Impact on Child BMI Z-Score Change at 1 Year. Children. 10(9). 1577–1577. 3 indexed citations

Murphy, Marie, Miranda Pallan, Emma Lancashire, et al.. (2020). The Food provision, cUlture and Environment in secondary schooLs (FUEL) study: protocol of a mixed methods evaluation of national School Food Standards implementation in secondary schools and their impact on pupils’ dietary intake and dental health. BMJ Open. 10(10). e042931–e042931. 6 indexed citations

Sniehotta, Falko F., Elizabeth H. Evans, Kirby Sainsbury, et al.. (2019). Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial). PLoS Medicine. 16(5). e1002793–e1002793. 41 indexed citations

Rowland, Maisie, Ashley Adamson, Ivan Poliakov, et al.. (2018). Field Testing of the Use of Intake24—An Online 24-Hour Dietary Recall System. Nutrients. 10(11). 1690–1690. 23 indexed citations

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Penn, Linda, Angela Rodrigues, Anna Haste, et al.. (2018). NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in England: formative evaluation of the programme in early phase implementation. BMJ Open. 8(2). e019467–e019467. 51 indexed citations

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Foster, Emma, Adrian Hawkins, Karen Barton, et al.. (2017). Development of food photographs for use with children aged 18 months to 16 years: Comparison against weighed food diaries – The Young Person’s Food Atlas (UK). PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0169084–e0169084. 29 indexed citations

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Granic, Antoneta, Nuno Mendonça, Avan Aihie Sayer, et al.. (2017). Low protein intake, muscle strength and physical performance in the very old: The Newcastle 85+ Study. Clinical Nutrition. 37(6). 2260–2270. 82 indexed citations

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Sainsbury, Kirby, Claire Cleland, Elizabeth H. Evans, et al.. (2016). Supporting the transition from weight loss to maintenance: development and optimisation of a face-to-face behavioural intervention component. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine. 5(1). 66–84. 7 indexed citations

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Leslie, W. S., Ian Ford, Naveed Sattar, et al.. (2016). The Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT): protocol for a cluster randomised trial. BMC Family Practice. 17(1). 20–20. 77 indexed citations

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Basterfield, Laura, Mark S. Pearce, Ashley Adamson, et al.. (2012). Effect of choice of outcome measure on studies of the etiology of obesity in children. Annals of Epidemiology. 22(12). 888–891. 20 indexed citations

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Lake, Amelia A., Tim Townshend, Seraphim Alvanides, Elaine Stamp, & Ashley Adamson. (2009). Diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour and perceptions of the environment in young adults. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 22(5). 444–454. 31 indexed citations

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Lake, Amelia A., et al.. (2004). Longitudinal dietary change from adolescence to adulthood: perceptions, attributions and evidence. Appetite. 42(3). 255–263. 55 indexed citations

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Fletcher, Evan, et al.. (2001). Abstracts of Original Communications (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. 10–12 July 2001). Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 60(4b). 171A–237A. 2 indexed citations

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Lake, Amelia A., et al.. (2001). Body mass index from young adolescence to adulthood: a 20 year follow-up. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 1 indexed citations

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Moynihan, Paula, et al.. (2001). The Good Food Club: setting up an after school food club to teach practical food preparation using healthy foods, at Key Stage 3. 6(3). 4 indexed citations

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