Heather Brown

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Heather Brown is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Brown has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in General Health Professions, 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 26 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Heather Brown's work include Health disparities and outcomes (26 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (21 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (17 papers). Heather Brown is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (26 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (21 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (17 papers). Heather Brown collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Heather Brown's co-authors include Susanna Mills, Jean Adams, Martin White, Wendy Wrieden, Jennifer Roberts, Nicola Heslehurst, Judith Rankin, Clare Bambra, Viviana Albani and Joel Halligan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Heather Brown

83 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Perinatal health outcomes and care among asylum seekers and refugees: a systematic review of systematic reviews

2018 224 citations Nicola Heslehurst, Heather Brown et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather Brown United Kingdom	23	717	653	378	253	235	92	2.1k
Gauden Galea Denmark	23	510 0.7×	650 1.0×	292 0.8×	169 0.7×	315 1.3×	59	2.2k
J. Michael Bowling United States	26	624 0.9×	449 0.7×	321 0.8×	189 0.7×	366 1.6×	68	2.2k
Clare Hughes Australia	23	652 0.9×	1.4k 2.2×	288 0.8×	158 0.6×	158 0.7×	84	2.5k
Hamid Allahverdipour Iran	26	580 0.8×	479 0.7×	535 1.4×	229 0.9×	376 1.6×	145	2.5k
Rob Moodie Australia	20	964 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	340 0.9×	229 0.9×	405 1.7×	69	3.1k
Mary O. Hearst United States	28	641 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	347 0.9×	179 0.7×	237 1.0×	86	2.6k
Catherine Chittleborough Australia	30	646 0.9×	836 1.3×	513 1.4×	349 1.4×	238 1.0×	96	2.6k
David Alejandro González‐Chica Australia	27	600 0.8×	816 1.2×	517 1.4×	295 1.2×	352 1.5×	167	2.8k
Zoe Jane‐Lara Hildon Singapore	17	728 1.0×	293 0.4×	418 1.1×	351 1.4×	138 0.6×	49	2.0k
Nora Gottlieb Germany	16	1.0k 1.5×	467 0.7×	364 1.0×	124 0.5×	207 0.9×	41	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Brown

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

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Moore, Helen, Claire O’Malley, Scott Lloyd, et al.. (2024). Measuring the association between the opening of a new multi-national restaurant with young people's eating behaviours. Appetite. 203. 107651–107651. 1 indexed citations

Dodd, Steven, et al.. (2024). Health impacts of climate change in the UK: A qualitative synthesis detailing the conjuncture of social structure, extreme weather, and mental health. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100475–100475. 2 indexed citations

Rezaei, Satar, et al.. (2024). Household financial burden associated with out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Iran: insights from a cross-sectional survey. BMC Health Services Research. 24(1). 1062–1062. 1 indexed citations

Brown, Heather, et al.. (2024). Comparing health service usage of migrant groups in Australia: Evidence from the household income and labour dynamics survey of Australia. Journal of Migration and Health. 10. 100277–100277.

Brown, Heather, et al.. (2024). Regional trends in mental health inequalities in young people aged 16–25 in the UK and the role of cuts to local government expenditure: Repeated cross-sectional analysis using the British household panel Survey/UK household longitudinal survey. Social Science & Medicine. 353. 117068–117068. 4 indexed citations

Faulkner, Thomas, Carol Holland, Kerry Hanna, et al.. (2024). The effects of singing interventions on quality of life, mood and levels of agitation in community-dwelling people living with dementia: A quantitative systematic review. Dementia. 24(4). 738–766. 2 indexed citations

Dodd, Steven, et al.. (2023). Lived Experience of Climate Change and The Impact on Health and Health Inequalities: A systematic review of qualitative studies from the UK. 2 indexed citations

Brown, Heather, et al.. (2023). The feasibility of identifying health inequalities in social prescribing referrals and declines using primary care patient records. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1–1. 7 indexed citations

Allen, Zack van, Simon Bacon, Paquito Bernard, et al.. (2023). Clustering of Health Behaviors in Canadians: A Multiple Behavior Analysis of Data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 57(8). 662–675. 5 indexed citations

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Albani, Viviana, Heather Brown, Esperanza Vera‐Toscano, et al.. (2022). Investigating the impact on mental wellbeing of an increase in pensions: A longitudinal analysis by area-level deprivation in England, 1998–2002. Social Science & Medicine. 311. 115316–115316.

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Allen, Zack van, Simon Bacon, Paquito Bernard, et al.. (2021). Clustering of Unhealthy Behaviors: Protocol for a Multiple Behavior Analysis of Data From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. JMIR Research Protocols. 10(6). e24887–e24887. 2 indexed citations

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Bishop, Tom, Stephanie von Hinke, Bruce Hollingsworth, et al.. (2021). Automatic classification of takeaway food outlet cuisine type using machine (deep) learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100106–100106. 7 indexed citations

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Thomson, Katie, Catherine Richmond, Clare Bambra, et al.. (2021). Socioeconomic inequalities and adverse pregnancy outcomes in the UK and Republic of Ireland: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 11(3). e042753–e042753. 63 indexed citations

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Brown, Heather, et al.. (2021). Assessing the relationship between adverse pregnancy outcomes and area-level deprivation in Wales 2014–2019: a national population-based cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 11(11). e052330–e052330. 2 indexed citations

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Brown, Heather. (2020). Understanding the role of policy on inequalities in the intergenerational correlation in health and wages: Evidence from the UK from 1991–2017. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234737–e0234737. 2 indexed citations

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Kaner, Eileen, Elaine McColl, Denise Howel, et al.. (2020). A pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of two behaviour change interventions compared to usual care to reduce substance misuse in looked after children and care leavers aged 12-20 years: The SOLID study. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238286–e0238286. 12 indexed citations

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Sniehotta, Falko F., Elizabeth H. Evans, Kirby Sainsbury, et al.. (2019). Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial). PLoS Medicine. 16(5). e1002793–e1002793. 41 indexed citations

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Brown, Heather, et al.. (2018). Decomposing inequality in financial protection situation in Iran after implementing the health reform plan: What does the evidence show based on national survey of households' budget?. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 33(3). 652–661. 19 indexed citations

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Ali, Ased, Alaa Abouhajar, Catherine Brennand, et al.. (2018). ALternatives To prophylactic Antibiotics for the treatment of Recurrent urinary tract infection in women (ALTAR): study protocol for a multicentre, pragmatic, patient-randomised, non-inferiority trial. Trials. 19(1). 616–616. 16 indexed citations

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Brown, Heather, Gulnar Fattakhova, Clare Bambra, & Paul Taylor. (2017). Making healthy homes? A pilot study of the return on investment from an external wall insulation intervention. BMC Research Notes. 10(1). 736–736. 1 indexed citations

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