Jenny Head

19.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
215 papers, 14.6k citations indexed

About

Jenny Head is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jenny Head has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 14.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in General Health Professions, 54 papers in Health and 53 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Jenny Head's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (90 papers), Workplace Health and Well-being (84 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (54 papers). Jenny Head is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (90 papers), Workplace Health and Well-being (84 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (54 papers). Jenny Head collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden. Jenny Head's co-authors include Michael Marmot, Stephen Stansfeld, Mika Kivimäki, Eric J. Brunner, Jussi Vahtera, A Feeney, Frederick North, Ian R. White, Chandra Patel and George Davey Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Jenny Head

208 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whi... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
    1991 2.6k citations Michael Marmot, Jenny Head 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
Jenny Head United Kingdom 66 7.0k 2.9k 1.8k 1.7k 1.5k 215 14.6k
Jaana Pentti Finland 64 6.7k 1.0× 1.9k 0.6× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 371 13.3k
Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen Netherlands 65 4.4k 0.6× 3.0k 1.0× 973 0.6× 2.1k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 302 17.7k
Thomas A. Glass United States 56 4.0k 0.6× 5.7k 1.9× 1.6k 0.9× 2.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 121 15.5k
Eero Lahelma Finland 64 7.6k 1.1× 4.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 2.5k 1.4× 910 0.6× 315 13.1k
Hans Bosma Netherlands 49 4.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.6× 899 0.6× 226 10.2k
Marianna Virtanen Finland 69 8.8k 1.3× 2.1k 0.7× 2.5k 1.4× 974 0.6× 2.1k 1.4× 366 15.2k
Marcia G. Ory United States 61 7.0k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.7× 3.5k 2.0× 2.6k 1.7× 460 18.3k
Carlos F. Mendes de Leon United States 67 3.4k 0.5× 5.5k 1.9× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 219 16.8k
Marko Elovainio Finland 73 10.1k 1.4× 2.2k 0.7× 3.5k 2.0× 1.7k 1.0× 3.1k 2.0× 524 19.9k
David L. Roth United States 72 4.7k 0.7× 2.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 3.2k 2.1× 333 17.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Jenny Head

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jenny Head

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jenny Head. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jenny Head. The network helps show where Jenny Head may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jenny Head

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jenny Head. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jenny Head 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 Jenny Head. Jenny Head 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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Head, Jenny, et al.. (2024). Adherence to MIND Diet and Risk of Recurrent Depressive Symptoms: Prospective Whitehall II Cohort Study. Nutrients. 16(23). 4062–4062. 3 indexed citations
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Carr, Ewan, Maria Fleischmann, Emily Murray, et al.. (2021). The role of loneliness in the development of depressive symptoms among partnered dementia caregivers: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging. European Psychiatry. 64(1). e28–e28. 13 indexed citations
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Lagström, Hanna, Sari Stenholm, Tasnime Akbaraly, et al.. (2019). Diet quality as a predictor of cardiometabolic disease–free life expectancy: the Whitehall II cohort study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 111(4). 787–794. 33 indexed citations
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Hanson, Linda L. Magnusson, Hugo Westerlund, Holendro Singh Chungkham, et al.. (2018). Job strain and loss of healthy life years between ages 50 and 75 by sex and occupational position: analyses of 64 934 individuals from four prospective cohort studies. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 75(7). 486–493. 26 indexed citations
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Virtanen, Marianna, Jenni Ervasti, Jenny Head, et al.. (2018). Lifestyle factors and risk of sickness absence from work: a multicohort study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Stansfeld, Stephen, Martin J. Shipley, Jenny Head, Rebecca Fuhrer, & Mika Kivimäki. (2013). Work Characteristics and Personal Social Support as Determinants of Subjective Well-Being. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e81115–e81115. 72 indexed citations
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Katzenschlager, Regina, Jenny Head, Anette Schrag, et al.. (2008). Fourteen-year final report of the randomized PDRG-UK trial comparing three initial treatments in PD. Neurology. 71(7). 474–480. 181 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Jane E., et al.. (2007). CORRECTION. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 64(6). 428.2–428. 2 indexed citations
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Kivimäki, Mika, Jenny Head, Jane E. Ferrie, et al.. (2007). Hypertension Is Not the Link Between Job Strain and Coronary Heart Disease in the Whitehall II Study<xref ref-type="author-notes" rid="fn1"><sup>*</sup></xref><subtitle />. American Journal of Hypertension. 20(11). 1146–53. 26 indexed citations
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Ferrie, J. E., et al.. (2006). Injustice at work and incidence of psychiatric morbidity: The Whitehall II study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Clark, Charlotte, et al.. (2006). Exposure-effect relations between aircraft and road traffic noise exposure at school and reading comprehension: the RANCH project.. Noise and Health. 163(1). 27–37. 15 indexed citations
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Viner, Russell, Mary Haines, Jenny Head, et al.. (2005). Variations in associations of health risk behaviors among ethnic minority early adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. 38(1). 55.e15–55.e23. 60 indexed citations
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Stafford, Mai, Gill Mein, Michael Marmot, et al.. (2004). Work, stress and health: the Whitehall II Study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 31 indexed citations
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Head, Jenny, Pekka Martikainen, Mamta Kumari, Hilda Kuper, & Michael Marmot. (2002). Work environment, alcohol consumption and ill-health: The Whitehall II Study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 11 indexed citations
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Stansfeld, Stephen, Jenny Head, & Jane E. Ferrie. (1999). Short-Term Disability, Sickness Absence, and Social Gradients in the Whitehall II Study. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 22(5-6). 425–439. 37 indexed citations
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Grulich, AE, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Jenny Head, & Michael Marmot. (1992). Cancer mortality in African and Caribbean migrants to England and Wales. British Journal of Cancer. 66(5). 905–911. 66 indexed citations
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Head, Jenny, et al.. (1990). A prospective study of mortality among middle-aged diabetic patients (the London cohort of the WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetics) II: associated risk factors.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 9 indexed citations

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