Jillian Whelan

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jillian Whelan is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Jillian Whelan has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in General Health Professions, 21 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 8 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Jillian Whelan's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (20 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (19 papers) and Community Health and Development (13 papers). Jillian Whelan is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (20 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (19 papers) and Community Health and Development (13 papers). Jillian Whelan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Jillian Whelan's co-authors include Steven Allender, Julie Brimblecombe, Carmen Vargas, Colin Bell, Sue Booth, Penelope Love, Janette Lowe, Lynne Millar, Jill Kuhlberg and Andrew Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Jillian Whelan

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definitions and distinctions

2022 301 citations Carmen Vargas, Jillian Whelan et al. Public Health Research & Practice profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jillian Whelan Australia	18	717	371	127	111	87	47	1.2k
Tarra L. Penney Canada	24	573 0.8×	1.1k 2.9×	124 1.0×	179 1.6×	93 1.1×	85	2.0k
Jonathan L. Blitstein United States	25	634 0.9×	690 1.9×	234 1.8×	50 0.5×	105 1.2×	59	2.2k
Brent A. Langellier United States	22	579 0.8×	498 1.3×	72 0.6×	101 0.9×	36 0.4×	77	1.4k
Maria Cristina Marino Calvo Brazil	22	585 0.8×	511 1.4×	94 0.7×	42 0.4×	96 1.1×	120	1.4k
Belinda Morley Australia	22	330 0.5×	675 1.8×	63 0.5×	106 1.0×	62 0.7×	76	1.4k
Sarah Gerritsen New Zealand	16	237 0.3×	367 1.0×	111 0.9×	56 0.5×	97 1.1×	52	805
Penelope Love Australia	18	428 0.6×	455 1.2×	175 1.4×	73 0.7×	43 0.5×	76	883
H. Mavoa Australia	20	462 0.6×	664 1.8×	94 0.7×	241 2.2×	31 0.4×	47	1.1k
Wilma Waterlander Netherlands	28	524 0.7×	1.5k 3.9×	164 1.3×	197 1.8×	246 2.8×	71	2.5k
Maartje P. Poelman Netherlands	22	316 0.4×	884 2.4×	131 1.0×	105 0.9×	239 2.7×	86	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jillian Whelan

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Allender, Steven, Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Denise Becker, et al.. (2024). Three-year behavioural, health-related quality of life, and body mass index outcomes from the RESPOND randomized trial. Public Health. 237. 344–353. 3 indexed citations

Strugnell, Claudia, Denise Becker, Jillian Whelan, et al.. (2023). Understanding weight status and dietary intakes among Australian school children by remoteness: a cross-sectional study. Public Health Nutrition. 26(6). 1185–1193. 3 indexed citations

Whelan, Jillian, Penny Fraser, Steven Allender, et al.. (2023). Perceived impacts of COVID-19 and bushfires on the implementation of an obesity prevention trial in Northeast Victoria, Australia. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0287468–e0287468. 2 indexed citations

Vargas, Carmen, Claudia Strugnell, Steven Allender, et al.. (2023). Lived experience of participants who engaged in the co‐creation of initiatives to improve children's health in a rural Australian community. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 31(4). 659–669. 4 indexed citations

Whelan, Jillian, Julie Brimblecombe, Meaghan S Christian, et al.. (2023). CO-Creation and Evaluation of Food Environments to Advance Community Health (COACH). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 100111–100111. 4 indexed citations

Vargas, Carmen, et al.. (2023). Co-creation Approach in Practice: Naming a Cafe Located within a Rural Health Service Provides Added Value to a Health Strategy. Advances in Public Health. 2023. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

Whelan, Jillian, Penny Fraser, Kristy A. Bolton, et al.. (2023). Combining systems thinking approaches and implementation science constructs within community-based prevention: a systematic review. Health Research Policy and Systems. 21(1). 85–85. 15 indexed citations

Vargas, Carmen, Jillian Whelan, Julie Brimblecombe, & Steven Allender. (2022). Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definitions and distinctions. Public Health Research & Practice. 32(2). 301 indexed citations breakdown →

Vargas, Carmen, et al.. (2022). Co‐creation of healthier food retail environments: A systematic review to explore the type of stakeholders and their motivations and stage of engagement. Obesity Reviews. 23(9). e13482–e13482. 22 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, Penelope Love, R. John Aitken, et al.. (2022). A mixed‐methods evaluation of a health‐promoting café located in a small health service in rural Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 31(1). 61–69. 4 indexed citations

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Russell, Cherie, Jillian Whelan, & Penelope Love. (2022). Assessing the Cost of Healthy and Unhealthy Diets: A Systematic Review of Methods. Current Nutrition Reports. 11(4). 600–617. 11 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, Joshua Hayward, Melanie Nichols, et al.. (2022). Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevention Obesity and Non-communicable Disease (RESPOND): protocol and baseline outcomes for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised prevention trial. BMJ Open. 12(9). e057187–e057187. 18 indexed citations

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Bolton, Kristy A., Jillian Whelan, Penny Fraser, et al.. (2022). The Public Health 12 framework: interpreting the ‘Meadows 12 places to act in a system’ for use in public health. Archives of Public Health. 80(1). 72–72. 24 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, Andrew Brown, Claudia Strugnell, et al.. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives. Nutrients. 13(2). 417–417. 35 indexed citations

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Brown, Andrew, Jillian Whelan, Kristy A. Bolton, et al.. (2021). A Theory of Change for Community-Based Systems Interventions to Prevent Obesity. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 62(5). 786–794. 20 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, Claudia Strugnell, Steven Allender, et al.. (2020). Protocol for the measurement of changes in knowledge and engagement in the stepped wedge cluster randomised trial for childhood obesity prevention in Australia: (Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevent Obesity and Non-communicable Disease (RESPOND)). Trials. 21(1). 763–763. 10 indexed citations

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Love, Penelope, et al.. (2019). Measuring Rural Food Environments for Local Action in Australia: A Systematic Critical Synthesis Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(13). 2416–2416. 12 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, et al.. (2019). A rural community moves closer to sustainable obesity prevention - an exploration of community readiness pre and post a community-based participatory intervention. BMC Public Health. 19(1). 1420–1420. 19 indexed citations

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Whelan, Jillian, Lynne Millar, Colin Bell, et al.. (2018). You Can’t Find Healthy Food in the Bush: Poor Accessibility, Availability and Adequacy of Food in Rural Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(10). 2316–2316. 54 indexed citations

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Love, Penelope, Jillian Whelan, Colin Bell, et al.. (2018). Healthy Diets in Rural Victoria—Cheaper than Unhealthy Alternatives, Yet Unaffordable. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(11). 2469–2469. 30 indexed citations

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