Farah Naja

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
164 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Farah Naja is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Farah Naja has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 42 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 24 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Farah Naja's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (57 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (54 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (29 papers). Farah Naja is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (57 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (54 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (29 papers). Farah Naja collaborates with scholars based in Lebanon, United Arab Emirates and United States. Farah Naja's co-authors include Nahla Hwalla, Lara Nasreddine, Rena Hamadeh, Leila Itani, Abla Mehio Sibai, Lamis Jomaa, Marie Claire Chamieh, Nada Adra, Mohamad Alameddine and Samer Kharroubi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Farah Naja

157 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Nutrition amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-level frame... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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. Nutrition amid the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-level framework for action
    2020 375 citations Farah Naja 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
Farah Naja Lebanon 34 1.6k 772 632 629 337 164 3.8k
Josiemer Mattei United States 38 2.0k 1.2× 698 0.9× 607 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 303 0.9× 188 5.2k
Jaime Gahche United States 31 1.8k 1.1× 999 1.3× 352 0.6× 746 1.2× 205 0.6× 75 4.4k
Ashkan Afshin United States 27 3.2k 2.0× 701 0.9× 935 1.5× 1.3k 2.0× 310 0.9× 47 5.7k
Thandi Puoane South Africa 32 1.5k 0.9× 542 0.7× 933 1.5× 350 0.6× 347 1.0× 121 3.5k
José L. Peñalvo United States 39 2.8k 1.7× 945 1.2× 831 1.3× 912 1.4× 280 0.8× 134 5.6k
Valentine Njike United States 28 1.5k 0.9× 636 0.8× 619 1.0× 482 0.8× 161 0.5× 74 3.1k
Michelle C. McKinley United Kingdom 39 2.2k 1.4× 796 1.0× 504 0.8× 1.3k 2.1× 389 1.2× 181 5.0k
Jean Dallongeville France 30 2.0k 1.2× 634 0.8× 499 0.8× 793 1.3× 232 0.7× 59 3.5k
Hamed Mohammadi Iran 31 919 0.6× 625 0.8× 542 0.9× 718 1.1× 206 0.6× 147 3.2k
Jamie Stang United States 23 1.6k 1.0× 424 0.5× 494 0.8× 281 0.4× 182 0.5× 62 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Farah Naja

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Farah Naja'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 Farah Naja with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Farah Naja more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Farah Naja

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Farah Naja

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Eussen, Simone J. P. M., Mathilde R. Crone, Mariam Abdulmalik, et al.. (2025). Adherence to the Lebanese National Dietary and Lifestyle Guidelines for Pregnancy and Its Association With Postpartum Weight Retention. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 21(4). e70070–e70070.
2.
3.
Radwan, Hadia, Farah Naja, Nada Abbas, et al.. (2024). Influence of maternal characteristics and infant feeding patterns on infant growth from birth till 18 months: The MISC study. Pediatric Obesity. 19(5). e13106–e13106. 2 indexed citations
4.
Osaili, Tareq M., Anas A. Al‐Nabulsi, Dinesh Kumar Dhanasekaran, et al.. (2024). Role of marination, natural antimicrobial compounds, and packaging on microbiota during storage of chicken tawook. Poultry Science. 103(6). 103687–103687. 3 indexed citations
5.
Osaili, Tareq M., Dana N. Abdelrahim, Falak Zeb, et al.. (2024). Attachment to Meat and Willingness Towards Cultured Alternatives Among Consumers: A Cross-Sectional Study in the UAE. Nutrients. 17(1). 28–28. 1 indexed citations
6.
7.
Hashim, Mona, et al.. (2023). Sustainable diets among youth: Validity and reliability of a questionnaire assessing knowledge, attitudes, practices, and willingness to change. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36(6). 2280–2294. 2 indexed citations
8.
Osaili, Tareq M., Dinesh Kumar Dhanasekaran, Leila Cheikh Ismail, et al.. (2023). Preservative effect of pomegranate-based marination with β-resorcylic acid and cinnamaldehyde on the microbial quality of chicken liver. Poultry Science. 103(2). 103285–103285. 4 indexed citations
9.
Naja, Farah, et al.. (2023). The Bahraini food based dietary guidelines: a holistic perspective to health and wellbeing. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1182075–1182075. 1 indexed citations
10.
Osaili, Tareq M., Anas A. Al‐Nabulsi, Dinesh Kumar Dhanasekaran, et al.. (2021). Effect of Essential Oils and Vacuum Packaging on Spoilage-Causing Microorganisms of Marinated Camel Meat during Storage. Foods. 10(12). 2980–2980. 15 indexed citations
11.
Naja, Farah, et al.. (2021). Development of national dietary and lifestyle guidelines for pregnant women in Lebanon. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 17(4). e13199–e13199. 10 indexed citations
12.
13.
Nasreddine, Lara, Samer Kharroubi, Marie Claire Chamieh, et al.. (2019). Anthropometric Cutoffs for Increased Cardiometabolic Risk Among Lebanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study. Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders. 17(10). 486–493. 4 indexed citations
14.
Naja, Farah, et al.. (2019). Nutrition in the Prevention of Breast Cancer: A Middle Eastern Perspective. Frontiers in Public Health. 7. 316–316. 25 indexed citations
15.
16.
Sedaghat, Fatemeh, et al.. (2017). Adherence to a Mediterranean dietary pattern and overweight and obesity among female adolescents in Iran. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. 31(2). 6 indexed citations
17.
18.
Behrooz, Maryam, et al.. (2014). Nutrient Patterns and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Case-Control Study. Journal of Neurology Research. 4. 72–80. 2 indexed citations
19.
Naja, Farah, et al.. (2012). Dietary patterns and odds of Type 2 diabetes in Beirut, Lebanon: a case–control study. Nutrition & Metabolism. 9(1). 111–111. 51 indexed citations
20.
Nasreddine, Lara, Farah Naja, Marie Claire Chamieh, et al.. (2012). Trends in overweight and obesity in Lebanon: evidence from two national cross-sectional surveys (1997 and 2009).. Scopus. 14 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

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Josiemer Mattei Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jaime Gahche Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ashkan Afshin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Thandi Puoane Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by José L. Peñalvo Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Valentine Njike Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michelle C. McKinley Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jean Dallongeville Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Hamed Mohammadi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jamie Stang
Rankless by CCL
2026