Jane Battersby

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jane Battersby is a scholar working on Plant Science, General Health Professions and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Jane Battersby has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 14 papers in General Health Professions and 10 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Jane Battersby's work include Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (26 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (14 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (12 papers). Jane Battersby is often cited by papers focused on Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (26 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (14 papers) and Organic Food and Agriculture (12 papers). Jane Battersby collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Jane Battersby's co-authors include Vanessa Watson, Jonathan Crush, William G. Moseley, Melanie Bryant, Vaughan Higgins, Ana Moragues‐Faus, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Chika Hayashi, Mariachiara Di Cesare and Phillip Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as BMC Public Health, Sustainability and Appetite.

In The Last Decade

Jane Battersby

56 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

2018 Global Nutrition Report: Shining a light to spur act... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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. 2018 Global Nutrition Report: Shining a light to spur action on nutrition
    2018 369 citations Corinna Hawkes, Jane Battersby 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
Jane Battersby South Africa 24 829 609 467 376 320 59 2.2k
James Leo Garrett United States 21 299 0.4× 902 1.5× 713 1.5× 378 1.0× 94 0.3× 58 2.1k
Scott Drimie South Africa 26 258 0.3× 390 0.6× 532 1.1× 147 0.4× 130 0.4× 73 1.8k
David Tschirley United States 23 486 0.6× 454 0.7× 265 0.6× 268 0.7× 329 1.0× 92 2.4k
Tim Lang United Kingdom 27 756 0.9× 128 0.2× 433 0.9× 574 1.5× 504 1.6× 73 2.5k
WFP WFP 7 459 0.6× 410 0.7× 457 1.0× 108 0.3× 221 0.7× 13 2.0k
Tim Lang United Kingdom 25 571 0.7× 188 0.3× 399 0.9× 621 1.7× 545 1.7× 47 2.4k
Daniel Maxwell United States 31 715 0.9× 1.2k 1.9× 1.4k 3.0× 215 0.6× 136 0.4× 94 3.7k
Deborah Johnston United Kingdom 23 185 0.2× 398 0.7× 507 1.1× 288 0.8× 104 0.3× 70 2.3k
Margaret Armar‐Klemesu Ghana 25 269 0.3× 846 1.4× 627 1.3× 171 0.5× 76 0.2× 41 1.9k
William A. Masters United States 31 237 0.3× 649 1.1× 404 0.9× 569 1.5× 362 1.1× 161 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jane Battersby

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jane Battersby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jane Battersby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jane Battersby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jane Battersby 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 Jane Battersby. Jane Battersby 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
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Moragues‐Faus, Ana, Jill K. Clark, Jane Battersby, & Anna Davies. (2024). The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet. Global Food Security. 40. 100751–100751. 6 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane, Nevin Cohen, Meena Daivadanam, et al.. (2023). “The People's Summit”: A case for lived experience of food environments as a critical source of evidence to inform the follow-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. Global Food Security. 37. 100690–100690. 6 indexed citations
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Higgins, Vaughan, et al.. (2023). Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation. Journal of Rural Studies. 100. 103023–103023. 21 indexed citations
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Kamkuemah, Monika, et al.. (2022). Mapping food and physical activity environments in low- and middle-income countries: A systematised review. Health & Place. 75. 102809–102809. 8 indexed citations
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Moragues‐Faus, Ana, Jill K. Clark, Jane Battersby, & Anna Davies. (2022). Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance. Research Repository (University of Gloucestershire). 15 indexed citations
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Moseley, William G. & Jane Battersby. (2020). The Vulnerability and Resilience of African Food Systems, Food Security, and Nutrition in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. African Studies Review. 63(3). 449–461. 87 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane. (2020). South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti-informality bias. Agriculture and Human Values. 37(3). 543–544. 23 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane, et al.. (2020). Health care providers’ perspectives of diet-related non-communicable disease in South Africa. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 262–262. 4 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane, et al.. (2020). No Looking Back: [Food]ways Forward for Healthy African Cities in Light of Climate Change. Journal of Urban Health. 97(2). 226–229. 3 indexed citations
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Odunitan-Wayas, Feyisayo A., Kufre Okop, Olufunke Alaba, et al.. (2020). Food purchasing behaviour of shoppers from different South African socio-economic communities: results from grocery receipts, intercept surveys and in-supermarkets audits. Public Health Nutrition. 24(4). 665–676. 13 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane & Vanessa Watson. (2018). Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 99 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane & Vanessa Watson. (2018). Addressing food security in African cities. Nature Sustainability. 1(4). 153–155. 42 indexed citations
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Moseley, William G., et al.. (2015). Implications of supermarket expansion on urban food security in Cape Town, South Africa. African Geographical Review. 34(1). 36–54. 72 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane & Jonathan Crush. (2014). Africa’s Urban Food Deserts. Urban Forum. 25(2). 143–151. 76 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane. (2012). Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in south africa. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 94(2). 141–159. 69 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane. (2011). Urban food insecurity in Cape Town, South Africa: An alternative approach to food access. Development Southern Africa. 28(4). 545–561. 78 indexed citations
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Vivancos, Roberto, et al.. (2009). Vaccination of Poultry Workers: Delivery and Uptake of Seasonal Influenza Immunization. Zoonoses and Public Health. 58(2). 126–130. 3 indexed citations

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