Indi Trehan

15.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Indi Trehan is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Psychiatry and Mental health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Indi Trehan has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 37 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 24 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Indi Trehan's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (61 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (37 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (22 papers). Indi Trehan is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (61 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (37 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (22 papers). Indi Trehan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malawi and United Kingdom. Indi Trehan's co-authors include Mark Manary, Kenneth Maleta, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, M. Isabel Ordiz, Michelle I. Smith, Richard J. Wang, Andrew L. Kau, Tanya Yatsunenko and Jie Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Indi Trehan

104 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Gut Microbiomes of Malawian Twin Pairs Discordant for Kwashiorkor

2013 826 citations Michelle I. Smith, Tanya Yatsunenko et al. Science profile →
Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

2016 542 citations Laura V. Blanton, Mark R. Charbonneau et al. Science profile →
Severe childhood malnutrition

2017 258 citations Zulfiqar A Bhutta, James A. Berkley et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Indi Trehan	2.4k	1.7k	974	833	711	107	4.9k
Mustafa Mahfuz	1.6k 0.7×	838 0.5×	414 0.4×	624 0.7×	340 0.5×	143	2.9k
Aldo Â. M. Lima	3.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	848 0.9×	4.2k 5.0×	537 0.8×	255	9.8k
Andrew J. Prendergast	3.3k 1.4×	820 0.5×	737 0.8×	2.5k 3.0×	771 1.1×	176	7.5k
Kenneth Maleta	4.8k 2.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.9×	698 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	249	7.5k
Mark Manary	6.1k 2.5×	2.4k 1.4×	2.7k 2.8×	1.4k 1.7×	2.0k 2.8×	243	10.6k
Henrik Friis	3.1k 1.3×	309 0.2×	743 0.8×	1.6k 2.0×	707 1.0×	332	8.6k
Sunil Sazawal	3.8k 1.6×	403 0.2×	372 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	455 0.6×	98	6.8k
Charles B. Stephensen	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	123 0.1×	965 1.2×	221 0.3×	161	6.5k
Eric R. Houpt	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	276 0.3×	5.3k 6.4×	256 0.4×	230	8.2k
Sanja Kolaček	2.1k 0.9×	864 0.5×	744 0.8×	802 1.0×	194 0.3×	134	6.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

D’Mello-Guyett, Lauren, et al.. (2025). Association of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Animal Ownership With Relapse to Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 6–59 Months in Mali, South Sudan and Somalia: A Multi‐Site Prospective Cohort Study. Maternal and Child Nutrition. e70116–e70116.

Townes, David A., et al.. (2024). Conflicts in Gaza and around the world create a perfect storm for infectious disease outbreaks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). e0002927–e0002927. 7 indexed citations

Hess, Sonja Y., Taryn J. Smith, Charles D. Arnold, et al.. (2024). Assessment of Erythrocyte Transketolase, Whole Blood Thiamine Diphosphate, and Human Milk Thiamine Concentrations to Identify Infants and Young Children Responding Favorably to Therapeutic Thiamine Administration: Findings from the Lao Thiamine Study, a Prospective Cohort Study. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8(6). 103786–103786. 2 indexed citations

Hess, Sonja Y., Charles D. Arnold, Taryn J. Smith, et al.. (2024). Relationship between lactate and thiamine-responsive disorders in hospitalised infants and children in Lao PDR: secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. Paediatrics and International Child Health. 44(3-4). 95–104. 1 indexed citations

Relan, Pryanka, Stephanie C. Garbern, Gerard O’Reilly, et al.. (2023). Emergency care interventions for paediatric severe acute respiratory infections in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Global Health. 13. 4065–4065. 4 indexed citations

D’Mello-Guyett, Lauren, et al.. (2022). A multi-country, prospective cohort study to measure rate and risk of relapse among children recovered from severe acute malnutrition in Mali, Somalia, and South Sudan: a study protocol. BMC Nutrition. 8(1). 90–90. 5 indexed citations

Noori, Navideh, Laura Skrip, Assaf P. Oron, et al.. (2022). Potential Impacts of Mass Nutritional Supplementation on Measles Dynamics: A Simulation Study. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 107(4). 863–872. 2 indexed citations

Hess, Sonja Y., Taryn J. Smith, Philip R. Fischer, et al.. (2020). Establishing a case definition of thiamine responsive disorders among infants and young children in Lao PDR: protocol for a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 10(2). e036539–e036539. 11 indexed citations

Agapova, Sophia, Kevin Stephenson, Chrissie Thakwalakwa, et al.. (2019). Consumption of Animal-Source Protein is Associated with Improved Height-for-Age z Scores in Rural Malawian Children Aged 12–36 Months. Nutrients. 11(2). 480–480. 54 indexed citations

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Agapova, Sophia, Kevin Stephenson, Kenneth Maleta, et al.. (2018). Additional Common Bean in the Diet of Malawian Children Does Not Affect Linear Growth, but Reduces Intestinal Permeability. Journal of Nutrition. 148(2). 267–274. 26 indexed citations

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Bhutta, Zulfiqar A, et al.. (2017). Severe childhood malnutrition. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 3(1). 17 indexed citations

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Stephenson, Kevin, Sophia Agapova, Kenneth Maleta, et al.. (2017). Complementary feeding with cowpea reduces growth faltering in rural Malawian infants: a blind, randomized controlled clinical trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 106(6). 1500–1507. 35 indexed citations

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Semba, Richard D., Indi Trehan, Ximin Li, et al.. (2017). Low serum ω-3 and ω-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and other metabolites are associated with poor linear growth in young children from rural Malawi. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 106(6). 1490–1499. 25 indexed citations

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Blanton, Laura V., Mark R. Charbonneau, Tarek Salih, et al.. (2016). Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children. Science. 351(6275). 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shulman, Robert J., Chrissie Thakwalakwa, Kenneth Maleta, et al.. (2016). A Combined Intervention of Zinc, Multiple Micronutrients, and Albendazole Does Not Ameliorate Environmental Enteric Dysfunction or Stunting in Rural Malawian Children in a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Nutrition. 147(1). 97–103. 32 indexed citations

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Semba, Richard D., Indi Trehan, Marta González‐Freire, et al.. (2016). Perspective: The Potential Role of Essential Amino Acids and the Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1) Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Child Stunting. Advances in Nutrition. 7(5). 853–865. 42 indexed citations

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Semba, Richard D., Pingbo Zhang, Marta González‐Freire, et al.. (2016). The association of serum choline with linear growth failure in young children from rural Malawi. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 104(1). 191–197. 38 indexed citations

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Smith, Hannah, Kelsey Ryan, Kevin Stephenson, et al.. (2014). Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Transiently Ameliorates Environmental Enteropathy in Malawian Children Aged 12–35 Months in a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Journal of Nutrition. 144(12). 2059–2065. 35 indexed citations

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Smith, Michelle I., Tanya Yatsunenko, Mark Manary, et al.. (2013). Gut Microbiomes of Malawian Twin Pairs Discordant for Kwashiorkor. Science. 339(6119). 548–554. 826 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chang, Cindy Y., Indi Trehan, Richard J. Wang, et al.. (2012). Children Successfully Treated for Moderate Acute Malnutrition Remain at Risk for Malnutrition and Death in the Subsequent Year after Recovery. Journal of Nutrition. 143(2). 215–220. 91 indexed citations

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