Jonathan C. K. Wells

38.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
603 papers, 26.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan C. K. Wells is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan C. K. Wells has authored 603 papers receiving a total of 26.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 239 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 233 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 228 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Jonathan C. K. Wells's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (213 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (201 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (152 papers). Jonathan C. K. Wells is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (213 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (201 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (152 papers). Jonathan C. K. Wells collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and United States. Jonathan C. K. Wells's co-authors include Mary Fewtrell, Tim Cole, César G. Victora, Adrian Bauman, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Ruth J. F. Loos, Brian Martin, James F. Sallis, M. J. Wells and Jay T. Stock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan C. K. Wells

574 papers receiving 25.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

2012 2.9k citations Jonathan C. K. Wells et al. profile →
Adolescent Physical Activity and Health

2006 717 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells et al. profile →
Sexual dimorphism of body composition

2007 631 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells profile →
Measuring body composition

2005 587 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells profile →
The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health

2019 536 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells, Rasmus Wibæk et al. profile →
Sarcopenic obesity: A Critical appraisal of the current evidence

2012 439 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells, Mario Siervo et al. profile →
Understanding the rise of cardiometabolic diseases in low- and middle-income countries

2019 221 citations Jonathan C. K. Wells et al. profile →

Peers

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Andy Ness United Kingdom

Zuguo Mei United States

Andrew M. Prentice United Kingdom

Michael I. Goran United States

Nancy F. Butte United States

Robert J. Kuczmarski United States

Gerald S. Berenson United States

Matthew W. Gillman United States

Luís A. Moreno Spain

Kim F. Michaelsen Denmark

Andy Ness United Kingdom

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan C. K. Wells

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All Works

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Lewis, Jack Windsor, Christian Ritz, Suzanne Filteau, et al.. (2024). Correlates of Body Composition in Children with Stunting: A Cross-sectional Study in Uganda. Journal of Nutrition. 154(10). 3105–3115. 1 indexed citations

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Lelijveld, Natasha, Abena S. Amoah, Charles Opondo, et al.. (2023). Post-malnutrition growth and its associations with child survival and non-communicable disease risk: a secondary analysis of the Malawi ‘ChroSAM’ cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 26(8). 1658–1670. 7 indexed citations

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Stock, Jay T. & Jonathan C. K. Wells. (2023). Dairying and the evolution and consequences of lactase persistence in humans. Animal Frontiers. 13(3). 7–13. 4 indexed citations

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Dib, Sarah, Mary Fewtrell, & Jonathan C. K. Wells. (2023). Maternal capital predicts investment in infant growth and development through lactation. Frontiers in Nutrition. 10. 1272938–1272938. 2 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Fengxiu, Xiaobin Wang, Jonathan C. K. Wells, et al.. (2023). The Associations of Birthweight for Gestational Age Status with Its Differential 0–2 Year Growth Trajectory and Blood Pressure at Two Years of Age in Chinese Boys and Girls. Nutrients. 15(4). 979–979. 5 indexed citations

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Filteau, Suzanne, Jack Windsor Lewis, Jonathan C. K. Wells, et al.. (2023). Effect of milk protein and whey permeate in large quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement on linear growth and body composition among stunted children: A randomized 2 × 2 factorial trial in Uganda. PLoS Medicine. 20(5). e1004227–e1004227. 15 indexed citations

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Dib, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Interventions to Improve Breastfeeding Outcomes in Late Preterm and Early Term Infants. Breastfeeding Medicine. 17(10). 781–792. 3 indexed citations

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Wells, Jonathan C. K., Akanksha A. Marphatia, Mario Cortina‐Borja, et al.. (2022). Associations of maternal age at marriage and pregnancy with infant undernutrition: Evidence from first‐time mothers in rural lowland Nepal. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 178(4). 557–573. 12 indexed citations

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Wells, Jonathan C. K., et al.. (2022). Community Participation and Multidimensional Child Growth: Evidence from the Vietnam Young Lives Study. Current Developments in Nutrition. 6(4). nzac022–nzac022. 2 indexed citations

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Lewis, Jack Windsor, Henrik Friis, Ezekiel Mupere, Jonathan C. K. Wells, & Benedikte Grenov. (2022). Calibration of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Against Deuterium Dilution for Body Composition Assessment in Stunted Ugandan Children. Journal of Nutrition. 153(2). 426–434. 3 indexed citations

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Sadler, Kate, Philip James, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, et al.. (2022). How Can Nutrition Research Better Reflect the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting in Children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting Project. Journal of Nutrition. 152(12). 2645–2651. 14 indexed citations

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Vázquez‐Vázquez, Adriana, et al.. (2021). Does maternal grandmother's support improve maternal and child nutritional health outcomes? Evidence from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1827). 13 indexed citations

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Caleyachetty, Rishi, Niraj Kumar, Nuredin Mohammed, et al.. (2021). Exposure to household air pollution from solid cookfuels and childhood stunting: a population-based, cross-sectional study of half a million children in low- and middle-income countries. International Health. 14(6). 639–647. 6 indexed citations

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Marphatia, Akanksha A., Jonathan C. K. Wells, Alice Reid, & Chittaranjan S. Yajnik. (2021). Biosocial life‐course factors associated with women's early marriage in rural India: The prospective longitudinal Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 177(1). 147–161. 10 indexed citations

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Wells, Jonathan C. K., et al.. (2021). Technical report: Trial experience and data capture in the Low Birth Weight South Asia Trial, a large cluster-randomised controlled trial in lowland Nepal. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Andersen, Gregers S., Rasmus Wibæk, Pernille Kæstel, et al.. (2018). Body Composition Growth Patterns in Early Infancy: A Latent Class Trajectory Analysis of the Ethiopian iABC Birth Cohort. Obesity. 26(7). 1225–1233. 12 indexed citations

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Siervo, Mario, Jonathan C. K. Wells, & Giovanni Cizza. (2008). Evolutionary theories, psychosocial stress and the modern obesity epidemic. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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Wells, Jonathan C. K., et al.. (2007). Breast-milk intake in exclusively breastfed Pakistani infants: An estimation by deuterium dilution method. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Rennie, Kirsten L., Jonathan C. K. Wells, Tracy A. McCaffrey, & M. Barbara E. Livingstone. (2006). Symposium on ‘Nutrition and health in children and adolescents’ Session 4: Obesity prevention in children and adolescents The effect of physical activity on body fatness in children and adolescents. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 65(4). 393–402. 18 indexed citations

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Rennie, Kirsten L., Jonathan C. K. Wells, Tracy A. McCaffrey, & M. Barbara E. Livingstone. (2006). Symposium on ‘Nutrition and health in children and adolescents’ Session 4: Obesity prevention in children and adolescents The effect of physical activity on body fatness in children and adolescents. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 65(4). 393–402. 20 indexed citations

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