Gary Sacks

21.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
221 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Gary Sacks is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Sacks has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 116 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 50 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Gary Sacks's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (145 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (116 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (101 papers). Gary Sacks is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (145 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (116 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (101 papers). Gary Sacks collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Gary Sacks's co-authors include Boyd Swinburn, Mélissa Mialon, Éric Ravussin, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Mike Rayner, Adrian J. Cameron, Mark Lawrence, Marj Moodie, Lennert Veerman and Steven Allender and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Gary Sacks

207 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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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.

INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non‐communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles

2013 444 citations Boyd Swinburn, Gary Sacks et al. Obesity Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Sacks Australia	46	5.1k	2.3k	1.6k	731	579	221	7.4k
Stefanie Vandevijvere Belgium	42	4.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	838 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	256 0.4×	258	7.5k
Sı́món Barquera Mexico	52	5.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.8×	328 0.6×	268	9.4k
Shu Wen Ng United States	41	7.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 2.7×	419 0.7×	163	10.5k
Corinna Hawkes United Kingdom	47	4.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	2.6k 3.6×	370 0.6×	111	9.4k
Cliona Ní Mhurchú New Zealand	60	6.4k 1.2×	690 0.3×	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.8×	398 0.7×	263	10.5k
Lisa M. Powell United States	52	6.5k 1.3×	653 0.3×	2.5k 1.6×	830 1.1×	588 1.0×	189	9.4k
Marion Nestle United States	37	3.6k 0.7×	642 0.3×	960 0.6×	660 0.9×	595 1.0×	151	6.2k
Kathryn Backholer Australia	36	2.9k 0.6×	670 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	439 0.6×	533 0.9×	198	5.5k
Camila Corvalán Chile	37	4.2k 0.8×	815 0.4×	990 0.6×	1.5k 2.1×	162 0.3×	172	7.0k
Bridget Kelly Australia	46	4.6k 0.9×	931 0.4×	766 0.5×	533 0.7×	241 0.4×	168	6.7k

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Gómez‐Donoso, Clara, Bridget Kelly, Florentine Martino, et al.. (2025). Public support for unhealthy food marketing policies in Australia: A cross-sectional analysis of the International Food Policy Study 2022. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 49(2). 100231–100231.

Gómez‐Donoso, Clara, Sadika Akhter, Adrian J. Cameron, et al.. (2025). Industry responses to unhealthy food retail promotion restrictions: a thematic analysis of two public consultations in Scotland. Public Health Nutrition. 28(1). e128–e128.

White, Christine M., Jean Adams, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, et al.. (2025). Perceived healthiness of sugary drinks and related social norms among adults in five countries: evidence from the International Food Policy Study. Nutrition Journal. 24(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations

Bennett, Rebecca, Gary Sacks, Christina Zorbas, et al.. (2025). Exploring the commercial determinants of health in the online food delivery sector: a case study of Uber Eats in Australia. Critical Public Health. 35(1). 3 indexed citations

Sacks, Gary, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking the healthiness, equity and environmental sustainability of university food environments in Australia, 2021/22. BMC Nutrition. 11(1). 38–38.

Chan, Jasmine, Gary Sacks, Laura Vergeer, et al.. (2024). Food and beverage manufacturing and retailing company policies and commitments to improve the healthfulness of Canadian food environments. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2419–2419.

Wood, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Protecting whose welfare? A document analysis of competition regulatory decisions in four jurisdictions across three harmful consumer product industries. Globalization and Health. 20(1). 70–70. 2 indexed citations

Wood, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Health in the age of asset manager capitalism. Health Promotion International. 39(5).

Lemieux, Simone, Rachel B. Acton, Tarra L. Penney, et al.. (2024). Children’s self-reported exposure to sugary beverage advertisements and association with intake across six countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeat cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2787–2787. 1 indexed citations

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Wood, Benjamin, Penelope Milsom, Phillip Baker, et al.. (2024). Using a systems thinking approach to map the global rise of ultra‐processed foods in population diets. Obesity Reviews. 26(4). e13877–e13877. 6 indexed citations

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Sacks, Gary, et al.. (2024). Local government stakeholders' perceptions of potential policy actions to influence both climate change and healthy eating in Victoria: A qualitative study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 35(4). 1158–1173. 1 indexed citations

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O’Hearn, Meghan, Julia Reedy, Ella Robinson, et al.. (2023). Landscape analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing metrics for consumer nutrition and health in the food and beverage sector. BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health. 6(2). 139–152. 3 indexed citations

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Wood, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: An analysis of the structure and market dynamics of the ultra‐processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health. Journal of Agrarian Change. 23(4). 811–843. 19 indexed citations

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Jones, Alexandra, et al.. (2023). Chocolate unicorns and smiling teddy biscuits: analysis of the use of child-directed marketing on the packages of Australian foods. Public Health Nutrition. 26(12). 3291–3302. 7 indexed citations

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Naughton, Shaan, Sinéad Boylan, Jasmine Chan, et al.. (2021). Development of the University Food Environment Assessment (Uni-Food) Tool and Process to Benchmark the Healthiness, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability of University Food Environments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(22). 11895–11895. 16 indexed citations

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Gearon, Emma, Kathryn Backholer, Adrian J. Cameron, et al.. (2020). Energy-dense, nutrient-poor food and beverage sales in Australia: where and when products are sold, and how sales are changing over time. Public Health Nutrition. 24(2). 193–202. 4 indexed citations

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Bennett, Rebecca, Christina Zorbas, Oliver Huse, et al.. (2019). Prevalence of healthy and unhealthy food and beverage price promotions and their potential influence on shopper purchasing behaviour: A systematic review of the literature. Obesity Reviews. 21(1). e12948–e12948. 85 indexed citations

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Sacks, Gary, Lana Vanderlee, Ella Robinson, et al.. (2019). BIA‐Obesity (Business Impact Assessment—Obesity and population‐level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level. Obesity Reviews. 20(S2). 78–89. 41 indexed citations

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Jones, Alexandra, Roger Magnusson, Boyd Swinburn, et al.. (2016). Designing a Healthy Food Partnership: lessons from the Australian Food and Health Dialogue. BMC Public Health. 16(1). 651–651. 92 indexed citations

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Burns, Cate, Gary Sacks, & Lisa Gold. (2008). Longitudinal study of Consumer Price Index (CPI) trends in core and non‐core foods in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 32(5). 450–453. 32 indexed citations

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