John Powles

24.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
82 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

John Powles is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Powles has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 15 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in John Powles's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (8 papers). John Powles is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (21 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (8 papers). John Powles collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. John Powles's co-authors include Andy Ness, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian, Saman Fahimi, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Anthony J. McMichael, Colin D. Butler, Ricardo Uauy, Rebecca E Engell and Majid Ezzati and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John Powles

82 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Fruit and vegetables, and cardiovascular disease: a review.

1997 1.0k citations Andy Ness, John Powles profile →
Global Sodium Consumption and Death from Cardiovascular Causes

2014 862 citations Dariush Mozaffarian, Saman Fahimi et al. profile →
Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health

2007 822 citations Anthony J. McMichael, John Powles et al. The Lancet profile →
Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide

2013 658 citations John Powles, Saman Fahimi et al. BMJ Open profile →
Dietary quality among men and women in 187 countries in 1990 and 2010: a systematic assessment

2015 581 citations Fumiaki Imamura, Renata Micha et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →
Global, regional, and national consumption levels of dietary fats and oils in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis including 266 country-specific nutrition surveys

2014 429 citations Renata Micha, Shahab Khatibzadeh et al. profile →
Etiologic effects and optimal intakes of foods and nutrients for risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses from the Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Expert Group (NutriCoDE)

2017 308 citations Renata Micha, Saman Fahimi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Powles United Kingdom	31	3.1k	2.1k	977	818	753	82	7.0k
Mark L. Wahlqvist Australia	52	3.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	2.4k 2.4×	622 0.8×	494 0.7×	334	10.7k
Marga C. Ocké Netherlands	51	5.4k 1.7×	2.3k 1.1×	2.4k 2.4×	561 0.7×	505 0.7×	141	9.2k
Jayne V. Woodside United Kingdom	50	2.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 1.7×	488 0.6×	353 0.5×	358	8.1k
Ingeborg A. Brouwer Netherlands	51	2.0k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.7×	316 0.4×	266 0.4×	168	7.8k
Geraldine McNeill United Kingdom	51	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 2.9×	483 0.6×	508 0.7×	182	8.2k
José L. Peñalvo United States	39	2.8k 0.9×	945 0.4×	912 0.9×	831 1.0×	229 0.3×	134	5.6k
Teresa Norat United Kingdom	57	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	2.7k 2.7×	520 0.6×	685 0.9×	87	12.2k
Karen Charlton Australia	45	2.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	3.3k 3.4×	1.0k 1.2×	227 0.3×	307	8.9k
Alanna Moshfegh United States	35	5.3k 1.7×	2.4k 1.1×	2.2k 2.3×	751 0.9×	229 0.3×	156	8.1k
Michael J. Gibney Ireland	56	4.4k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	3.0k 3.0×	681 0.8×	274 0.4×	277	11.0k

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Imamura, Fumiaki, Renata Micha, Shahab Khatibzadeh, et al.. (2015). Dietary quality among men and women in 187 countries in 1990 and 2010: a systematic assessment. The Lancet Global Health. 3(3). e132–e142. 581 indexed citations breakdown →

Powles, John, Saman Fahimi, Renata Micha, et al.. (2013). Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide. BMJ Open. 3(12). e003733–e003733. 658 indexed citations breakdown →

Gouda, Hebe, Julia Critchley, John Powles, & Simon Capewell. (2012). Why choice of metric matters in public health analyses: a case study of the attribution of credit for the decline in coronary heart disease mortality in the US and other populations. BMC Public Health. 12(1). 88–88. 8 indexed citations

Aston, Louise M, James Smith, & John Powles. (2012). Impact of a reduced red and processed meat dietary pattern on disease risks and greenhouse gas emissions in the UK: a modelling study. BMJ Open. 2(5). e001072–e001072. 102 indexed citations

Gouda, Hebe & John Powles. (2011). Why my disease is important: metrics of disease occurrence used in the introductory sections of papers in three leading general medical journals in 1993 and 2003. Population Health Metrics. 9(1). 14–14. 5 indexed citations

Micha, Renata, Shadi Kalantarian, T. Byers, et al.. (2011). Estimating the global and regional burden of suboptimal nutrition on chronic disease: methods and inputs to the analysis. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 66(1). 119–129. 86 indexed citations

Kunutsor, Setor K. & John Powles. (2010). The effect of ambient temperature on blood pressure in a rural West African adult population: a cross-sectional study. Cardiovascular Research. 21(1). 17–20. 1 indexed citations

Shroufi, Amir & John Powles. (2010). Adherence and chemoprevention in major cardiovascular disease: a simulation study of the benefits of additional use of statins. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 64(2). 109–113. 32 indexed citations

Jaiswal, Vikash, Sarah Ross, Deidre Wild, et al.. (2009). Abstracts of oral presentations to the ENT UK meeting, 5 September 2008, London, UK. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 123(5). 3 indexed citations

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McMichael, Anthony J., John Powles, Colin D. Butler, & Ricardo Uauy. (2007). Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health. The Lancet. 370(9594). 1253–1263. 822 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pashayan, Nora, John Powles, C. Hendricks Brown, & Stephen Duffy. (2006). Excess cases of prostate cancer and estimated overdiagnosis associated with PSA testing in East Anglia. British Journal of Cancer. 95(3). 401–405. 32 indexed citations

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Powles, John, Witold Zatoński, Stephen Vander Hoorn, & Majid Ezzati. (2005). The contribution of leading diseases and risk factors to excess losses of healthy life in eastern Europe: burden of disease study. BMC Public Health. 5(1). 116–116. 34 indexed citations

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Powles, John, et al.. (2002). Stroke in urban and rural populations in north-east Bulgaria: incidence and case fatality findings from a 'hot pursuit' study. BMC Public Health. 2(1). 24–24. 30 indexed citations

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Powles, John, et al.. (1999). Fruit and vegetables and ischaemic heart disease in Eastern Europe a hospital-based case control study in Sofia Bulgaria. Central European Journal of Public Health. 7(2). 87–90. 2 indexed citations

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Ness, Andy & John Powles. (1999). The Role of Diet, Fruit and Vegetables and Antioxidants in the Aetiology of Stroke. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation. 6(4). 229–234. 22 indexed citations

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McMichael, Anthony J. & John Powles. (1999). Human numbers, environment, sustainability, and health. BMJ. 319(7215). 977–980. 21 indexed citations

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Zatoński, Witold, Anthony J. McMichael, & John Powles. (1998). Ecological study of reasons for sharp decline in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Poland since 1991. BMJ. 316(7137). 1047–1051. 173 indexed citations

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Ness, Andy, John Powles, & Kay‐Tee Khaw. (1996). Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation. 3(6). 513–521. 44 indexed citations

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Powles, John. (1992). Health, lifestyle and environment: Countering the panic. Social Science & Medicine. 35(8). 1077–1078. 4 indexed citations

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Powles, John. (1978). The effects of health services on adult male mortality in relation to the effects of social and economic factors.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 5(1). 1–13. 7 indexed citations

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