Katherine Wander

1.1k total citations
44 papers, 678 citations indexed

About

Katherine Wander is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Wander has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 678 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Katherine Wander's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (11 papers) and Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (6 papers). Katherine Wander is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 papers), Infant Nutrition and Health (11 papers) and Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (6 papers). Katherine Wander collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Bangladesh. Katherine Wander's co-authors include Bettina Shell‐Duncan, Eleanor Brindle, Amadou Moreau, Kathleen O’Connor, Ylva Hernlund, Siobhán M. Mattison, Thomas W. McDade, Masako Fujita, Sarah Smith and Tami Blumenfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Wander

43 papers receiving 645 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katherine Wander United States 13 265 162 145 108 91 44 678
Zephne M. van der Spuy South Africa 29 917 3.5× 60 0.4× 72 0.5× 157 1.5× 85 0.9× 79 2.5k
Abdellatif Baali Morocco 14 140 0.5× 82 0.5× 18 0.1× 48 0.4× 44 0.5× 67 529
Robert Cohen United States 14 252 1.0× 64 0.4× 225 1.6× 16 0.1× 39 0.4× 36 940
Pengsheng Li China 17 162 0.6× 39 0.2× 60 0.4× 25 0.2× 60 0.7× 57 1.1k
Jo Alexander United Kingdom 20 312 1.2× 87 0.5× 72 0.5× 43 0.4× 146 1.6× 51 1.0k
Élise de La Rochebrochard France 22 492 1.9× 48 0.3× 45 0.3× 154 1.4× 100 1.1× 91 1.8k
Maria Conceição Oliveira Costa Brazil 22 271 1.0× 82 0.5× 24 0.2× 24 0.2× 48 0.5× 86 1.2k
Anne Maria Herskind Denmark 15 101 0.4× 42 0.3× 245 1.7× 23 0.2× 42 0.5× 22 1.6k
Sheryl van der Poel United States 14 1.4k 5.1× 29 0.2× 66 0.5× 182 1.7× 94 1.0× 23 3.4k
Leena Merdad Saudi Arabia 19 118 0.4× 36 0.2× 41 0.3× 20 0.2× 39 0.4× 31 951

Countries citing papers authored by Katherine Wander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katherine Wander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katherine Wander

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Katherine Wander. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Katherine Wander 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 Katherine Wander. Katherine Wander 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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Miller, Elizabeth M., Masako Fujita, Katie Hinde, et al.. (2025). Celebrating Over 10 Years of Human Milk Research in the Human Biology Association. American Journal of Human Biology. 37(8). e70111–e70111.
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Fujita, Masako & Katherine Wander. (2025). Lactose in human milk is associated with lower rates of infection during a drought. Annals of Human Biology. 52(1). 2455703–2455703. 2 indexed citations
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Culver, Emma, Thien Ngoc Nguyen, Carol J. Cardona, et al.. (2024). Quantitative and qualitative analysis of stability for 16 serum immunoregulators over 50 freeze–thaw cycles. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(9). e24087–e24087. 1 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, et al.. (2024). Maternal and infant predictors of proinflammatory milk immune activity in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(6). e24061–e24061. 1 indexed citations
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Alam, Nurul, et al.. (2024). Do healthy people migrate more? A 21-year follow-up of a rural cohort in Bangladesh. Heliyon. 10(20). e39647–e39647. 2 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, et al.. (2023). Does the immune system of milk increase activity for infants experiencing infectious disease episodes in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania?. American Journal of Human Biology. 35(8). e23897–e23897. 3 indexed citations
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Sznajder, Kristin K., Mary K. Shenk, Nurul Alam, et al.. (2023). Betel quid use is associated with anemia among both men and women in Matlab, Bangladesh. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(6). e0001677–e0001677. 1 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2022). Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence. American Journal of Human Biology. 35(1). e23847–e23847. 9 indexed citations
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Mattison, Siobhán M., et al.. (2022). Community voices: broadening participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine among persons with disabilities. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7208–7208. 2 indexed citations
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Mattison, Siobhán M., et al.. (2022). Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e4–e4. 10 indexed citations
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Shenk, Mary K., Siobhán M. Mattison, Rebecca Sear, et al.. (2021). Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1827). 20200027–20200027. 12 indexed citations
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Sznajder, Kristin K., Katherine Wander, Siobhán M. Mattison, et al.. (2021). Labor migration is associated with lower rates of underweight and higher rates of obesity among left-behind wives in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study. Globalization and Health. 17(1). 81–81. 5 indexed citations
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Shell‐Duncan, Bettina, Amadou Moreau, Katherine Wander, & Sarah Smith. (2018). The role of older women in contesting norms associated with female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegambia: A factorial focus group analysis. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0199217–e0199217. 49 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine. (2017). Cultural evolution: Evolution of female genital cutting. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(3). 79–79. 2 indexed citations
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Shell‐Duncan, Bettina, Katherine Wander, Ylva Hernlund, & Amadou Moreau. (2013). Legislating Change? Responses to Criminalizing Female Genital Cutting in Senegal. Law & Society Review. 47(4). 803–835. 59 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, Eleanor Brindle, & Kathleen O’Connor. (2012). Sensitivity and specificity of C‐reactive protein and α1‐acid glycoprotein for episodes of acute infection among children in kilimanjaro, tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology. 24(4). 565–568. 27 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, Kathleen O’Connor, & Bettina Shell‐Duncan. (2012). Expanding the Hygiene Hypothesis: Early Exposure to Infectious Agents Predicts Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity to Candida among Children in Kilimanjaro. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37406–e37406. 10 indexed citations
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Shell‐Duncan, Bettina, Katherine Wander, Ylva Hernlund, & Amadou Moreau. (2011). Dynamics of change in the practice of female genital cutting in Senegambia: Testing predictions of social convention theory. Social Science & Medicine. 73(8). 1275–1283. 108 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, Eleanor Brindle, & Kathleen O’Connor. (2008). C‐reactive protein across the menstrual cycle. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 136(2). 138–146. 97 indexed citations
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Wander, Katherine, Bettina Shell‐Duncan, & Thomas W. McDade. (2008). Evaluation of iron deficiency as a nutritional adaptation to infectious disease: An evolutionary medicine perspective. American Journal of Human Biology. 21(2). 172–179. 61 indexed citations

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