Julia Díez

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 879 citations indexed

About

Julia Díez is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia Díez has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 879 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 14 papers in General Health Professions and 9 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Julia Díez's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (22 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (9 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Julia Díez is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (22 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (9 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Julia Díez collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Australia. Julia Díez's co-authors include Manuel Franco, Usama Bilal, Pedro Gullón, Paloma Conde, Marta Gutiérrez Sastre, Mariano Hernán, Francisco Escobar, Alba Cebrecos, Joel Gittelsohn and María Sandín Vázquez and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Nutrients and British journal of surgery.

In The Last Decade

Julia Díez

36 papers receiving 850 citations

Hit Papers

Photovoice and empowerment: evaluating the transformative... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150
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. Photovoice and empowerment: evaluating the transformative potential of a participatory action research project
    2018 184 citations Julia Díez, Paloma Conde 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
Julia Díez Spain 16 273 257 211 197 195 41 879
Laura Macdonald United Kingdom 18 411 1.5× 211 0.8× 131 0.6× 453 2.3× 227 1.2× 30 1.1k
Kathrin Sommerhalder Switzerland 7 262 1.0× 424 1.6× 131 0.6× 53 0.3× 242 1.2× 12 1.0k
Amy V. Ries United States 11 312 1.1× 287 1.1× 182 0.9× 224 1.1× 198 1.0× 12 871
Nicoleta Cutumisu Canada 17 712 2.6× 202 0.8× 143 0.7× 485 2.5× 150 0.8× 25 1.2k
Sanae Inagami United States 6 360 1.3× 255 1.0× 214 1.0× 351 1.8× 141 0.7× 8 887
Madhumita Ghosh‐Dastidar United States 14 482 1.8× 269 1.0× 84 0.4× 204 1.0× 90 0.5× 31 919
Mariëlle A. Beenackers Netherlands 20 386 1.4× 276 1.1× 211 1.0× 410 2.1× 347 1.8× 54 1.4k
Martine Shareck Canada 16 190 0.7× 158 0.6× 112 0.5× 289 1.5× 131 0.7× 42 749
Benjamin W. Chrisinger United States 15 170 0.6× 225 0.9× 117 0.6× 77 0.4× 96 0.5× 53 661
Brian L. Cole United States 17 273 1.0× 278 1.1× 100 0.5× 107 0.5× 84 0.4× 30 889

Countries citing papers authored by Julia Díez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Julia Díez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia Díez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Julia Díez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Julia Díez 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 Julia Díez. Julia Díez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Borrell, Luisa N., et al.. (2025). Immigration status and depression in Spain: analysis of the European Health Interview Surveys of 2014 and 2020. Gaceta Sanitaria. 39. 102445–102445. 1 indexed citations
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Kain, Juliana, et al.. (2023). Socio-Spatial Segregation of Unhealthy Food Environments across Public Schools in Santiago, Chile. Nutrients. 16(1). 108–108. 1 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Navarro, Jesús, et al.. (2023). Factors influencing dietary inequalities among adolescents in Madrid and Bilbao: a qualitative research project. Gaceta Sanitaria. 37. 102325–102325. 1 indexed citations
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Lovasi, Gina S., Philip M. Hurvitz, Andrew Rundle, et al.. (2023). Time-Varying Food Retail and Incident Disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 64(6). 877–887. 4 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Escobar, Carlos, et al.. (2022). Food availability and affordability in a Mediterranean urban context: associations by store type and area-level socio-economic status. Public Health Nutrition. 26(2). 446–454. 2 indexed citations
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Díez, Julia, Pedro Gullón, Mario Fontán‐Vela, et al.. (2021). Influence of home/school environments on children's obesity, diet, and physical activity: the SUECO study protocol. Gaceta Sanitaria. 36(1). 78–81. 4 indexed citations
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Gullón, Pedro, Julia Díez, Miguel Cainzos‐Achirica, Manuel Franco, & Usama Bilal. (2020). Social inequities in cardiovascular risk factors in women and men by autonomous regions in Spain. Gaceta Sanitaria. 35(4). 326–332. 16 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Navarro, Jesús, Paloma Conde, Julia Díez, et al.. (2020). Urban environment and dietary behaviours as perceived by residents living in socioeconomically diverse neighbourhoods: A qualitative study in a Mediterranean context. Appetite. 157. 104983–104983. 14 indexed citations
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Gravina, Leyre, et al.. (2019). Residents’ perceptions of their local food environment in socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods: A photovoice study. Appetite. 147. 104543–104543. 23 indexed citations
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Díez, Julia, Usama Bilal, & Manuel Franco. (2018). Unique features of the Mediterranean food environment: Implications for the prevention of chronic diseases Rh: Mediterranean food environments. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72(S1). 71–75. 23 indexed citations
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Bilal, Usama, Jessica C. Jones‐Smith, Julia Díez, et al.. (2018). Neighborhood social and economic change and retail food environment change in Madrid (Spain): The heart healthy hoods study. Health & Place. 51. 107–117. 34 indexed citations
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Conde, Paloma, Marta Gutiérrez Sastre, María Sandín Vázquez, et al.. (2018). Changing Neighborhoods and Residents’ Health Perceptions: The Heart Healthy Hoods Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15(8). 1617–1617. 10 indexed citations
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Cebrecos, Alba, Francisco Escobar, Luisa N. Borrell, et al.. (2018). A multicomponent method assessing healthy cardiovascular urban environments: The Heart Healthy Hoods Index. Health & Place. 55. 111–119. 16 indexed citations
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Díez, Julia, Usama Bilal, Alba Cebrecos, et al.. (2016). Understanding differences in the local food environment across countries: A case study in Madrid (Spain) and Baltimore (USA). Preventive Medicine. 89. 237–244. 43 indexed citations
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Cebrecos, Alba, Julia Díez, Pedro Gullón, et al.. (2016). Characterizing physical activity and food urban environments: a GIS-based multicomponent proposal. International Journal of Health Geographics. 15(1). 35–35. 12 indexed citations
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Díez, Julia, et al.. (2016). Understanding the local food environment: A participatory photovoice project in a low-income area in Madrid, Spain. Health & Place. 43. 95–103. 82 indexed citations
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Gullón, Pedro, Hannah Badland, Usama Bilal, et al.. (2015). Assessing Walking and Cycling Environments in the Streets of Madrid: Comparing On-Field and Virtual Audits. Journal of Urban Health. 92(5). 923–939. 74 indexed citations

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