Jason C. G. Halford

17.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
239 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Jason C. G. Halford is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason C. G. Halford has authored 239 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 71 papers in Clinical Psychology and 54 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Jason C. G. Halford's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (75 papers), Eating Disorders and Behaviors (66 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (53 papers). Jason C. G. Halford is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (75 papers), Eating Disorders and Behaviors (66 papers) and Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (53 papers). Jason C. G. Halford collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Spain. Jason C. G. Halford's co-authors include John E. Blundell, E. Boyland, Terence M. Dovey, Joanne A. Harrold, E. Leigh Gibson, Paul Staples, Charlotte A. Hardman, Clare Lawton, Paul Christiansen and Eric Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jason C. G. Halford

232 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Food neophobia and ‘picky/fussy’ eating in children: A review

2007 856 citations Jason C. G. Halford et al. Appetite profile →
Advertising as a cue to consume: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of acute exposure to unhealthy food and nonalcoholic beverage advertising on intake in children and adults

2016 404 citations E. Boyland, Jason C. G. Halford et al. profile →
Social Media Influencer Marketing and Children’s Food Intake: A Randomized Trial

2019 213 citations Jason C. G. Halford, Paul Christiansen et al. profile →
A new framework for the diagnosis, staging and management of obesity in adults

2024 147 citations Gema Frühbeck, Jason C. G. Halford et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason C. G. Halford United Kingdom	61	4.3k	2.9k	2.4k	2.1k	1.6k	239	11.5k
Corby K. Martin United States	61	5.2k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	6.7k 2.8×	1.3k 0.6×	996 0.6×	297	13.6k
Donald A. Williamson United States	60	4.5k 1.1×	6.0k 2.1×	3.8k 1.6×	771 0.4×	768 0.5×	233	13.0k
Suzanne Higgs United Kingdom	49	2.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	933 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	209	7.9k
Susan B. Roberts United States	66	6.3k 1.5×	2.5k 0.9×	7.0k 3.0×	994 0.5×	2.7k 1.7×	270	15.8k
Adam Drewnowski United States	66	5.9k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	4.3k 2.7×	222	14.5k
Gary D. Foster United States	69	7.1k 1.6×	5.3k 1.8×	6.3k 2.7×	1.5k 0.7×	953 0.6×	288	17.5k
Myles S. Faith United States	61	10.8k 2.5×	6.7k 2.3×	3.3k 1.4×	844 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	202	20.0k
E. Leigh Gibson United Kingdom	53	4.0k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	977 0.4×	554 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	132	10.6k
France Bellisle France	57	5.7k 1.3×	2.4k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	869 0.4×	2.5k 1.6×	204	10.0k
Susan Carnell United States	41	7.4k 1.7×	4.6k 1.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	104	12.6k

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Kininmonth, Alice R., et al.. (2025). Customer awareness and perceptions of the high in fat, sugar, and salt (HFSS) placement legislation and impacts on self-reported food purchasing. Food Policy. 135. 102941–102941. 1 indexed citations

Suckling, James, Nikiforos Misailidis, Alexandros Koulouris, et al.. (2025). Environmental life cycle assessment of producing sorbitol and maltitol from wheat starch using process simulation: The SWEET project. Journal of Cleaner Production. 494. 144985–144985.

Suckling, James, Stephen Morse, Richard Murphy, et al.. (2024). Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(2). 251–272. 1 indexed citations

Halford, Jason C. G., Volkan Yumuk, Grace O’Malley, et al.. (2024). Providing a common language for obesity: the European Association for the Study of Obesity obesity taxonomy. International Journal of Obesity. 49(2). 182–191. 7 indexed citations

Harrold, Joanne A., Louise Kjølbæk, Jason C. G. Halford, et al.. (2023). The effect of weight loss on whole‐body and tissue‐specific insulin sensitivity and hepatic lipid content and composition: SWEET substudy. Obesity. 31(7). 1745–1754. 4 indexed citations

Suckling, James, Stephen Morse, Richard Murphy, et al.. (2023). Environmental life cycle assessment of production of the non-nutritive sweetener sucralose (E955) derived from cane sugar produced in the United States of America: The SWEET project. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(12). 1689–1704. 6 indexed citations

Mead, Bethan R., E. Boyland, Paul Christiansen, et al.. (2021). Associations between hedonic hunger and BMI during a two-year behavioural weight loss trial. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252110–e0252110. 9 indexed citations

Papandreou, Christopher, Jesús García‐Gavilán, Lucía Camacho‐Barcia, et al.. (2021). Changes in Circulating Metabolites During Weight Loss are Associated with Adiposity Improvement, and Body Weight and Adiposity Regain During Weight Loss Maintenance: The SATIN Study. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 65(17). e2001154–e2001154. 11 indexed citations

Camacho‐Barcia, Lucía, Jesús García‐Gavilán, Christopher Papandreou, et al.. (2021). Circulating Metabolites Associated with Postprandial Satiety in Overweight/Obese Participants: The SATIN Study. Nutrients. 13(2). 549–549. 5 indexed citations

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Papandreou, Christopher, Jesús García‐Gavilán, Lucía Camacho‐Barcia, et al.. (2021). Circulating Metabolites Associated with Body Fat and Lean Mass in Adults with Overweight/Obesity. Metabolites. 11(5). 317–317. 16 indexed citations

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Hjorth, Mads F., Christian Ritz, Anders Sjödin, et al.. (2020). No effects on appetite or body weight in weight-reduced individuals of foods containing components previously shown to reduce appetite - Results from the SATIN (Satiety Innovation) study. Obesity Medicine. 17. 100188–100188. 2 indexed citations

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Boyland, E., Paul Christiansen, Lauren McGale, et al.. (2020). See it, want it, buy it, eat it: How food advertising is associated with unhealthy eating behaviours in 7 – 11 year old children. DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University). 4 indexed citations

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Roberts, Carl, Paul Christiansen, & Jason C. G. Halford. (2019). Pharmaceutical approaches to weight management: behavioural mechanisms of action. Current Opinion in Physiology. 12. 26–32. 3 indexed citations

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Mead, Bethan R., Jesús García‐Gavilán, Joanne A. Harrold, et al.. (2019). Is reduction in appetite beneficial for body weight management in the context of overweight and obesity? Yes, according to the SATIN (Satiety Innovation) study. Journal of Nutritional Science. 8. e39–e39. 25 indexed citations

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Roberts, Carl & Jason C. G. Halford. (2018). How does lorcaserin facilitate weight loss and who will benefit?. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 14(12). 692–693. 2 indexed citations

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Hebebrand, Johannes, Jens‐Christian Holm, Euan Woodward, et al.. (2017). A Proposal of the European Association for the Study of Obesity to Improve the ICD-11 Diagnostic Criteria for Obesity Based on the Three Dimensions Etiology, Degree of Adiposity and Health Risk. Obesity Facts. 10(4). 284–307. 65 indexed citations

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Harrold, J.A., et al.. (2012). Acute effects of a herb extract formulation and inulin fibre on appetite, energy intake and food choice. Appetite. 62. 84–90. 40 indexed citations

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Halford, Jason C. G., Joanne A. Harrold, E. Boyland, Clare Lawton, & John E. Blundell. (2007). Serotonergic Drugs. Drugs. 67(1). 27–55. 242 indexed citations

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Blundell, John E., Susan A. Jebb, R. James Stubbs, et al.. (2006). Effect of rimonabant on energy intake, motivation to eat and body weight with or without hypocaloric diet: the REBA study. Obesity Reviews. 7. 8 indexed citations

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Ahrens, Wolfgang, Karin Bammann, Stefaan De Henauw, et al.. (2006). Understanding and preventing childhood obesity and related disorders—IDEFICS: A European multilevel epidemiological approach. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 16(4). 302–308. 124 indexed citations

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