Elspeth Anwar

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 798 citations indexed

About

Elspeth Anwar is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Elspeth Anwar has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 798 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in General Health Professions, 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Elspeth Anwar's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (2 papers). Elspeth Anwar is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (3 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (2 papers). Elspeth Anwar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Israel and United States. Elspeth Anwar's co-authors include Simon Capewell, Rebecca Masters, Brendan Collins, Richard Cookson, David Taylor‐Robinson, Ffion Lloyd‐Williams, Rory McGill, Martín O’Flaherty, Helen Bromley and Lois Orton and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Elspeth Anwar

8 papers receiving 779 citations

Hit Papers

Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effec... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact
    2015 291 citations Rory McGill, Elspeth Anwar et al. BMC Public Health profile →
  2. Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review
    2017 235 citations Rebecca Masters, Elspeth Anwar et al. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elspeth Anwar United Kingdom 8 317 311 126 103 94 8 798
Olufunke Alaba South Africa 16 162 0.5× 289 0.9× 111 0.9× 77 0.7× 184 2.0× 56 829
Christina Black United Kingdom 11 404 1.3× 287 0.9× 75 0.6× 29 0.3× 27 0.3× 15 832
Michele Polacsek United States 19 582 1.8× 492 1.6× 45 0.4× 32 0.3× 38 0.4× 51 955
M. Christopher Auld Canada 15 597 1.9× 348 1.1× 178 1.4× 48 0.5× 210 2.2× 27 1.3k
Paschal Kum Awah Cameroon 18 386 1.2× 369 1.2× 47 0.4× 272 2.6× 96 1.0× 41 1.4k
Lungiswa Tsolekile South Africa 15 310 1.0× 196 0.6× 25 0.2× 167 1.6× 48 0.5× 27 689
Peter Tinnemann Germany 16 316 1.0× 455 1.5× 37 0.3× 35 0.3× 63 0.7× 50 783
Erik Blas Switzerland 21 264 0.8× 589 1.9× 276 2.2× 154 1.5× 185 2.0× 35 1.5k
Alex Chung Australia 14 511 1.6× 243 0.8× 43 0.3× 111 1.1× 18 0.2× 47 827
Debbi Marais United Kingdom 18 290 0.9× 352 1.1× 64 0.5× 63 0.6× 32 0.3× 64 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Elspeth Anwar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elspeth Anwar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Elspeth Anwar. 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 Elspeth Anwar. The network helps show where Elspeth Anwar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elspeth Anwar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Elspeth Anwar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Elspeth Anwar 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 Elspeth Anwar. Elspeth Anwar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Masters, Rebecca, Elspeth Anwar, Brendan Collins, Richard Cookson, & Simon Capewell. (2017). Return on investment of public health interventions: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 71(8). 827–834. 235 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wickham, Sophie, Elspeth Anwar, Ben Barr, Catherine Law, & David Taylor‐Robinson. (2016). Poverty and child health in the UK: using evidence for action. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 101(8). 759–766. 90 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Duncan, Kirk Allen, Maria Guzman-Castillo, et al.. (2015). The Health Equity and Effectiveness of Policy Options to Reduce Dietary Salt Intake in England: Policy Forecast. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0127927–e0127927. 32 indexed citations
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McGill, Rory, Elspeth Anwar, Lois Orton, et al.. (2015). Are interventions to promote healthy eating equally effective for all? Systematic review of socioeconomic inequalities in impact. BMC Public Health. 15(1). 457–457. 291 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anwar, Elspeth, Elad Goldberg, Abigail Fraser, et al.. (2014). Vaccines for preventing typhoid fever (Review). LSTM Online Archive (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine). 7 indexed citations
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Lloyd‐Williams, Ffion, Helen Bromley, Lois Orton, et al.. (2014). Smorgasbord or symphony? Assessing public health nutrition policies across 30 European countries using a novel framework. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1195–1195. 50 indexed citations
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Anwar, Elspeth, Elad Goldberg, Abigail Fraser, et al.. (2014). Vaccines for preventing typhoid fever. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD001261–CD001261. 65 indexed citations

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