Dasha Nicholls

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
160 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Dasha Nicholls is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Dasha Nicholls has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Clinical Psychology, 64 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 56 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Dasha Nicholls's work include Eating Disorders and Behaviors (85 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (55 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (50 papers). Dasha Nicholls is often cited by papers focused on Eating Disorders and Behaviors (85 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (55 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (50 papers). Dasha Nicholls collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Dasha Nicholls's co-authors include Tim Cole, Alan A. Jackson, Katherine M. Flegal, Russell Viner, Lee Hudson, Richard Lynn, Bryan Lask, Anne‐Lise Goddings, James Lock and Rachel Bryant‐Waugh and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dasha Nicholls

144 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children a... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2022 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
    2007 2.1k citations Tim Cole, Dasha Nicholls et al. profile →
  2. School Closures During Social Lockdown and Mental Health, Health Behaviors, and Well-being Among Children and Adolescents During the First COVID-19 Wave
    2022 377 citations Russell Viner, Helen Croker et al. profile →
  3. Roles of cyberbullying, sleep, and physical activity in mediating the effects of social media use on mental health and wellbeing among young people in England: a secondary analysis of longitudinal data
    2019 201 citations Russell Viner, Lee Hudson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dasha Nicholls United Kingdom 32 3.6k 2.9k 1.8k 694 691 160 6.3k
Cris Glazebrook United Kingdom 43 2.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 624 0.9× 1.5k 2.2× 137 7.4k
Alison E. Field United States 46 4.3k 1.2× 3.0k 1.0× 604 0.3× 715 1.0× 562 0.8× 98 7.6k
C. Nathan Marti United States 46 4.8k 1.3× 2.6k 0.9× 723 0.4× 971 1.4× 1.4k 2.0× 203 8.5k
Nadia Micali United Kingdom 49 6.4k 1.8× 3.2k 1.1× 2.6k 1.5× 725 1.0× 236 0.3× 254 8.1k
­Debra L. Franko United States 58 8.2k 2.3× 3.6k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 1.9× 844 1.2× 199 10.9k
Kathryn Parkinson United Kingdom 40 2.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 2.2k 1.2× 370 0.5× 506 0.7× 80 4.7k
Sheryl O. Hughes United States 47 3.1k 0.9× 5.4k 1.8× 3.3k 1.8× 279 0.4× 1.7k 2.4× 174 7.9k
Lawrence D. Hammer United States 25 1.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 841 0.5× 259 0.4× 418 0.6× 47 4.0k
Caroline Meyer United Kingdom 46 5.1k 1.4× 1.9k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.6× 423 0.6× 229 7.4k
Jennifer S. Savage United States 34 1.5k 0.4× 3.4k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 132 0.2× 780 1.1× 163 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dasha Nicholls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dasha Nicholls

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All Works

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Gallucci, Alessia, et al.. (2025). Attentional Processing Biases in Young People With Binging and Purging Behavior. Brain and Behavior. 15(2). e70322–e70322.
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Pearce, Anna, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Ruth Dundas, et al.. (2024). Childhood attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: socioeconomic inequalities in symptoms, impact, diagnosis and medication. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 29(2). 126–135. 4 indexed citations
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Shen, Chen, Rachel B. Smith, Rhiannon Thompson, et al.. (2024). Depression and Anxiety in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Relation to the Use of Digital Technologies: Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e45114–e45114. 5 indexed citations
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Chapman, Simon, et al.. (2024). Greater rate of weight loss predicts paediatric hospital admission in adolescent typical and atypical anorexia nervosa. European Journal of Pediatrics. 183(4). 1789–1799. 2 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Dasha, et al.. (2023). Negative interpretation bias in females with bulimia nervosa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 195–201. 1 indexed citations
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Hayhoe, Benedict, et al.. (2023). The effects of community interventions on unplanned healthcare use in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 117(1). 24–35. 5 indexed citations
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Tan, Jacinta, et al.. (2023). Decision-making and best practice when nasogastric tube feeding under restraint: multi-informant qualitative study. BJPsych Open. 9(2). e28–e28. 7 indexed citations
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Stavola, Bianca De, Yvonne Kelly, Gemma Lewis, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal pathways between childhood BMI, body dissatisfaction, and adolescent depression: an observational study using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 11(1). 47–55. 32 indexed citations
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McMaster, Caitlin M., Susan J. Paxton, Sarah Maguire, et al.. (2023). The need for future research into the assessment and monitoring of eating disorder risk in the context of obesity treatment. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 56(5). 914–924. 13 indexed citations
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Viner, Russell, Sanjay Kinra, Deborah Christie, et al.. (2020). Improving the assessment and management of obesity in UK children and adolescents: the PROMISE research programme including a RCT. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(3). 1–264. 7 indexed citations
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Viner, Russell, Sanjay Kinra, Dasha Nicholls, et al.. (2017). Burden of child and adolescent obesity on health services in England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 103(3). 247–254. 11 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Dasha, et al.. (2013). Refeeding Hypophosphatemia in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa. Nutrition in Clinical Practice. 28(3). 358–364. 76 indexed citations
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Hudson, Lee, Dasha Nicholls, Richard Lynn, & Russell Viner. (2012). Medical instability and growth of children and adolescents with early onset eating disorders. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 97(9). 779–784. 32 indexed citations

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