Flora Douglas

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Flora Douglas is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pharmacy. According to data from OpenAlex, Flora Douglas has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in General Health Professions, 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 18 papers in Pharmacy. Recurrent topics in Flora Douglas's work include Obesity and Health Practices (18 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (14 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (13 papers). Flora Douglas is often cited by papers focused on Obesity and Health Practices (18 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (14 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (13 papers). Flora Douglas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Flora Douglas's co-authors include Edwin van Teijlingen, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Nicola Torrance, Alison Avenell, Anne Ludbrook, Pat Hoddinott, Dwayne Boyers, Daryll Archibald, Clare Robertson and Fiona Stewart and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Flora Douglas

56 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Eating like there's no tomorrow: Public awareness of the environmental impact of food and reluctance to eat less meat as part of a sustainable diet

2015 423 citations Jennie I. Macdiarmid, Flora Douglas et al. Appetite profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Flora Douglas United Kingdom	16	496	458	333	319	255	69	1.5k
Ramona Robinson‐O’Brien United States	13	1.7k 3.4×	708 1.5×	177 0.5×	217 0.7×	176 0.7×	15	2.5k
J. A. Swift United Kingdom	27	1.3k 2.6×	573 1.3×	151 0.5×	566 1.8×	261 1.0×	60	2.9k
Margareta Wandel Norway	28	1.1k 2.2×	485 1.1×	113 0.3×	254 0.8×	258 1.0×	93	3.1k
Gilly A. Hendrie Australia	32	2.0k 4.1×	668 1.5×	681 2.0×	175 0.5×	358 1.4×	131	3.2k
Sara C. Folta United States	28	1.1k 2.2×	597 1.3×	120 0.4×	118 0.4×	513 2.0×	144	2.1k
Rachel Pechey United Kingdom	24	854 1.7×	222 0.5×	197 0.6×	65 0.2×	106 0.4×	67	1.6k
Christine E. Blake United States	26	1.2k 2.4×	918 2.0×	144 0.4×	196 0.6×	110 0.4×	128	2.5k
Elena Serrano United States	26	1.3k 2.5×	590 1.3×	97 0.3×	110 0.3×	150 0.6×	125	2.2k
Maartje P. Poelman Netherlands	22	884 1.8×	316 0.7×	102 0.3×	71 0.2×	151 0.6×	86	1.6k
Julia A. Wolfson United States	32	1.9k 3.9×	1.2k 2.6×	278 0.8×	188 0.6×	188 0.7×	131	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Flora Douglas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Flora Douglas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Flora Douglas

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

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Christiansen, Paul, et al.. (2025). Understanding the barriers to purchasing healthier, more environmentally sustainable food for people living with obesity and varying experiences of food insecurity in the UK. Food Policy. 131. 102798–102798. 4 indexed citations

Griffiths, Claire, Charlotte A. Hardman, Flora Douglas, et al.. (2025). Characteristics of supermarket-based interventions in high-income countries, aimed at improving the dietary quality and environmental sustainability of diets of people living with obesity and/or overweight and food insecurity: A Scoping Review. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University).

Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2024). Nutritics GB23 database: an enhancement of the McCance Widdowson’s The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID) database. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 83(OCE4).

Crabtree, Daniel R., Alison Fildes, Alice R. Kininmonth, et al.. (2024). Diet and health inequalities: Connecting with vulnerable groups to address food insecurity—the DIO food project. Nutrition Bulletin. 49(4). 561–571.

Douglas, Flora, Catriona Kennedy, Diane Skåtun, et al.. (2024). Disrupted Candidacy: A Longitudinal Examination of the Constrained Healthcare‐Access Journeys of National Health Service Workers in Scotland Seeking Supports for Long COVID Illness. Health Expectations. 27(5). e70050–e70050.

Brown, Adrian, et al.. (2024). “We go hunting …”: Understanding experiences of people living with obesity and food insecurity when shopping for food in the supermarket to meet their weight related goals. Appetite. 205. 107794–107794. 3 indexed citations

Grant, Aileen, Diane Skåtun, Neil Scott, et al.. (2024). Long COVID in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study. Occupational Medicine. 75(3-4). 171–178.

Avenell, Alison, et al.. (2024). Investigating health professionals' perspectives and experiences of food security‐related conversations in diabetes care. Diabetic Medicine. 42(3). e15470–e15470. 2 indexed citations

Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2020). Failure as Learning: Photovoice as Methodology in Research with Marginalised Young People. Open Access Institutional Repository at Robert Gordon University (Robert Gordon University). 7(1). 67–92.

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Douglas, Flora, Edwin van Teijlingen, Cairns Smith, & Mandy Moffat. (2015). Implementing health policy: lessons from the Scottish Well Mens policy initiative. AIMS Public Health. 2(4). 887–905. 1 indexed citations

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Archibald, Daryll, Flora Douglas, Pat Hoddinott, et al.. (2015). A qualitative evidence synthesis on the management of male obesity. BMJ Open. 5(10). e008372–e008372. 31 indexed citations

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Robertson, Clare, Alison Avenell, Charles Boachie, et al.. (2015). Should weight loss and maintenance programmes be designed differently for men? A systematic review of long-term randomised controlled trials presenting data for men and women: The ROMEO project. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 10(1). 70–84. 76 indexed citations

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Macdiarmid, Jennie I., et al.. (2015). Eating like there's no tomorrow: Public awareness of the environmental impact of food and reluctance to eat less meat as part of a sustainable diet. Appetite. 96. 487–493. 423 indexed citations breakdown →

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Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2014). “It’s a balance of just getting things right”:mothers’ views about pre-school childhood obesity and obesity prevention in Scotland. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1009–1009. 17 indexed citations

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Stewart, Fiona, Cynthia Fraser, Clare Robertson, et al.. (2014). Are men difficult to find? Identifying male-specific studies in MEDLINE and Embase. Systematic Reviews. 3(1). 78–78. 9 indexed citations

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Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2012). Public Health Governance. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 53(4). 1065–1073.

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Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2010). Using a realist approach to evaluate smoking cessation interventions targeting pregnant women and young people. BMC Health Services Research. 10(1). 49–49. 17 indexed citations

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Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2010). More of the same? Conflicting perspectives of obesity causation and intervention amongst overweight people, health professionals and policy makers. Social Science & Medicine. 70(7). 1042–1049. 98 indexed citations

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Robertson, Lynn, Flora Douglas, Anne Ludbrook, Garth Reid, & Edwin van Teijlingen. (2008). What works with men? A systematic review of health promoting interventions targeting men. BMC Health Services Research. 8(1). 141–141. 102 indexed citations

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Douglas, Flora, et al.. (2005). Designing questionnaires for midwifery research.. PubMed. 8(5). 212–5. 7 indexed citations

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