Fahmida Tofail

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Fahmida Tofail is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Fahmida Tofail has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 51 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 24 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Fahmida Tofail's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (73 papers), Infant Development and Preterm Care (32 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (24 papers). Fahmida Tofail is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (73 papers), Infant Development and Preterm Care (32 papers) and Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (24 papers). Fahmida Tofail collaborates with scholars based in Bangladesh, United States and Sweden. Fahmida Tofail's co-authors include Jena Hamadani, Marie Vahter, Maria Kippler, Sally Grantham‐McGregor, Matteo Bottai, Renee M. Gardner, Barbro Nermell, Syed Nazmul Huda, Shamima Shiraji and Syed N. Huda and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Fahmida Tofail

107 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Immediate impact of stay-at-home orders to control COVID-19 transmission on socioeconomic conditions, food insecurity, mental health, and intimate partner violence in Bangladeshi women and their families: an interrupted time series

2020 328 citations Jena Hamadani, Mohammed Imrul Hasan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fahmida Tofail Bangladesh	34	1.7k	1.3k	1.1k	414	370	115	3.9k
Jena Hamadani Bangladesh	39	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	677 1.6×	589 1.6×	116	4.8k
Katarzyna Kordas United States	34	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	287 0.3×	126 0.3×	140 0.4×	122	3.3k
Jiahu Hao China	37	373 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	187 0.5×	1.1k 2.8×	169	4.7k
Ondine S. von Ehrenstein United States	30	235 0.1×	1.4k 1.0×	413 0.4×	169 0.4×	1.0k 2.8×	62	3.6k
Renee M. Gardner Sweden	33	458 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	547 0.5×	513 1.2×	228 0.6×	68	3.5k
Kathleen M. Rasmussen United States	45	2.6k 1.5×	469 0.3×	4.3k 3.8×	1.3k 3.1×	291 0.8×	185	11.2k
Anne Lise Brantsæter Norway	52	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	2.2k 2.0×	289 0.7×	168 0.5×	214	8.1k
Rachel Kaufmann United States	25	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	542 0.5×	56 0.1×	98 0.3×	49	4.5k
Marisa Rebagliato Spain	47	605 0.3×	2.2k 1.6×	2.2k 2.0×	220 0.5×	230 0.6×	131	6.0k
Mary L. Hediger United States	39	546 0.3×	487 0.4×	2.4k 2.2×	349 0.8×	245 0.7×	102	5.3k

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Yeasmin, Farzana, Aaron J. E. Bach, Jean Palutikof, et al.. (2025). Heat impacts on health and productivity: the case of two ready-made garment factories in tropical Bangladesh. PubMed. 7(1). n/a–n/a.

Sanin, Kazi Istiaque, Mansura Khanam, Md. Safiqul Islam, et al.. (2025). Comparing Antibody Responses to Homologous vs. Heterologous COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in an Urban Bangladeshi Population. Vaccines. 13(1). 67–67.

Rahman, Md Sajjadur, et al.. (2025). Maternal Mental Health and Infant Parasympathetic Activity in the Context of Forced Displacement: Insights From the Rohingya Camps and Surrounding Communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Developmental Psychobiology. 67(6). e70102–e70102.

Haque, Mohammad Rashedul, et al.. (2024). Role of Parental Supervision on Digital Screen Use and Its Effects on Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing in Bangladesh: A Cross Sectional Study. BJPsych Open. 10(S1). S50–S50. 1 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Subhra, Shamim Al Mamun, Mohammad Ali, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Non-Dysentery Shigella Infection on the Growth and Health of Children over Time (INSIGHT)—A Prospective Case–Control Study Protocol. Microorganisms. 12(8). 1677–1677. 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Helal Uddin, et al.. (2024). Effectiveness of a package of community-based mental healthcare services to address perinatal mental disorders in Bangladesh: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 102. 104290–104290. 1 indexed citations

O’Sullivan, Justin M., Fahmida Tofail, Md Iqbal Hossain, et al.. (2024). Multidimensional evaluation of the early emergence of executive function and development in Bangladeshi children using nutritional and psychosocial intervention: A randomized controlled trial protocol. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0296529–e0296529. 1 indexed citations

Sullivan, Eileen, et al.. (2024). Parental communicative input as a protective factor in Bangladeshi families living in poverty: A multi‐dimensional perspective. Developmental Science. 27(6). e13494–e13494. 2 indexed citations

Soron, Tanjir Rashid, et al.. (2024). Supervised and Unsupervised Screen Time and Its Association With Physical, Mental, and Social Health of School-Going Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 8. e62943–e62943.

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Hossain, Sheikh Jamal, Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, et al.. (2024). Factors associated with children's cognitive, language, and motor development in deprived urban settings in Bangladesh. Child Care Health and Development. 50(1). e13225–e13225. 1 indexed citations

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Mehrin, Syeda Fardina, Mohammed Imrul Hasan, Fahmida Tofail, et al.. (2022). Integrating a Group-Based, Early Childhood Parenting Intervention Into Primary Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 10. 886542–886542. 12 indexed citations

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Mihrshahi, Seema, Gulshan Ara, Mansura Khanam, et al.. (2021). The Shishu Pushti Trial–Extended Peer Counseling for Improving Feeding Practices and Reducing Undernutrition in Children Aged 0-48 Months in Urban Bangladesh: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 11(2). e31475–e31475. 1 indexed citations

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Pitchik, Helen O., Fahmida Tofail, Mahbubur Rahman, et al.. (2021). A holistic approach to promoting early child development: a cluster randomised trial of a group-based, multicomponent intervention in rural Bangladesh. BMJ Global Health. 6(3). e004307–e004307. 25 indexed citations

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Pitchik, Helen O., Fahmida Tofail, Tarique Md. Nurul Huda, et al.. (2021). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on caregiver mental health and the child caregiving environment in a low-resource, rural context. Child Development. 92(5). e764–e780. 18 indexed citations

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Tofail, Fahmida, M Munirul Islam, Mustafa Mahfuz, et al.. (2019). Association of vitamin D nutrition with neuro-developmental outcome of infants of slums in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221805–e0221805. 6 indexed citations

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Ali, Hasmot, Jena Hamadani, Sucheta Mehra, et al.. (2017). Effect of maternal antenatal and newborn supplementation with vitamin A on cognitive development of school-aged children in rural Bangladesh: a follow-up of a placebo-controlled, randomized trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 106(1). 77–87. 20 indexed citations

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Hasan, Mohammed Imrul, Sheikh Jamal Hossain, Sabine Braat, et al.. (2017). Benefits and risks of Iron interventions in children (BRISC): protocol for a three-arm parallel-group randomised controlled field trial in Bangladesh. BMJ Open. 7(11). e018325–e018325. 17 indexed citations

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Hamadani, Jena, Fahmida Tofail, Barbro Nermell, et al.. (2011). Critical windows of exposure for arsenic-associated impairment of cognitive function in pre-school girls and boys: a population-based cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology. 40(6). 1593–1604. 210 indexed citations

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Tofail, Fahmida, Lars Åke Persson, Shams El Arifeen, et al.. (2008). Effects of prenatal food and micronutrient supplementation on infant development: a randomized trial from the Maternal and Infant Nutrition Interventions, Matlab (MINIMat) study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 87(3). 704–711. 136 indexed citations

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Islam, M. Sirajul, et al.. (2005). Vaccination coverage survey in Dhaka District.. PubMed. 31(2). 46–53. 15 indexed citations

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