Kristina Petersen

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kristina Petersen is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristina Petersen has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 50 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 30 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kristina Petersen's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (65 papers), Sodium Intake and Health (24 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (21 papers). Kristina Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (65 papers), Sodium Intake and Health (24 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (21 papers). Kristina Petersen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Kristina Petersen's co-authors include Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, Peter Clifton, Jennifer Keogh, Michelle A. Briggs, Alyssa Tindall, Valerie Sullivan, Kate J. Bowen, Emily Johnston, Jacqui Webster and Linda Van Horn and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Journal of Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Kristina Petersen

97 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Popular Dietary Patterns: Alignment With American Heart Association 2021 Dietary Guidance: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kristina Petersen United States	25	1.1k	806	644	397	283	106	2.5k
Androniki Naska Greece	28	1.5k 1.4×	755 0.9×	591 0.9×	239 0.6×	149 0.5×	105	2.9k
Ahmad Jayedi Iran	30	1.5k 1.4×	558 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	378 1.0×	234 0.8×	114	3.2k
Noushin Mohammadifard Iran	26	1.2k 1.1×	599 0.7×	606 0.9×	402 1.0×	143 0.5×	149	2.6k
Marleen A. H. Lentjes United Kingdom	30	1.3k 1.2×	691 0.9×	787 1.2×	167 0.4×	359 1.3×	73	2.8k
Ming Ding United States	25	906 0.9×	512 0.6×	570 0.9×	166 0.4×	362 1.3×	56	2.6k
Adam Bernstein United States	24	1.9k 1.8×	964 1.2×	1.0k 1.6×	228 0.6×	300 1.1×	62	3.6k
Louise Hartley United Kingdom	21	868 0.8×	472 0.6×	508 0.8×	347 0.9×	232 0.8×	44	2.3k
Ann C. Skulas‐Ray United States	24	437 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	442 0.7×	351 0.9×	315 1.1×	38	2.2k
Ammar W. Ashor Iraq	27	653 0.6×	548 0.7×	871 1.4×	802 2.0×	252 0.9×	51	2.7k
Omid Sadeghi Iran	32	1.0k 1.0×	570 0.7×	776 1.2×	112 0.3×	461 1.6×	128	2.9k

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Kris‐Etherton, Penny M., Alice H. Lichtenstein, Nirupa R. Matthan, et al.. (2025). Effect of Daily Avocado Intake on Cardiovascular Health Assessed by Life's Essential 8: An Ancillary Study of HAT, a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(5). e039130–e039130. 1 indexed citations

Petersen, Kristina, Mark Messina, & Brent D. Flickinger. (2025). Health Implications of Linoleic Acid and Seed Oil Intake. Nutrition Today. 61(1). 19–25.

Hao, Fuhua, Jordan E. Bisanz, Andrew D. Patterson, et al.. (2025). Effect of Varying Quantities of Lean Beef as Part of a Mediterranean‐Style Dietary Pattern on Gut Microbiota and Plasma, Fecal, and Urinary Metabolites: A Randomized Crossover Controlled Feeding Trial. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(19). e041063–e041063. 1 indexed citations

Petersen, Kristina, et al.. (2025). The Effect of Red Meat Consumption on Circulating, Urinary, and Fecal Trimethylamine-N-Oxide: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Advances in Nutrition. 16(7). 100453–100453. 2 indexed citations

Petersen, Kristina, Kevin C. Maki, Philip C. Calder, et al.. (2024). Perspective on the health effects of unsaturated fatty acids and commonly consumed plant oils high in unsaturated fat. British Journal Of Nutrition. 132(8). 1039–1050. 12 indexed citations

Matthan, Nirupa R., Kristina Petersen, Penny M. Kris‐Etherton, et al.. (2024). Exploratory Analysis of Daily Avocado Consumption for 6-Months on Serum Metabolomic Profiles in Adults With Abdominal Obesity: Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial (HAT). Current Developments in Nutrition. 8. 102210–102210.

Yang, Jieping, Shrikant S. Bhute, Alice H. Lichtenstein, et al.. (2024). Impact of daily avocado consumption on gut microbiota in adults with abdominal obesity: an ancillary study of HAT, a randomized controlled trial. Food & Function. 16(1). 168–180. 2 indexed citations

Dong, Fangcong, Andrew J. Annalora, Iain A. Murray, et al.. (2023). Contribution of Circulating Host and Microbial Tryptophan Metabolites Toward Ah Receptor Activation. PubMed. 16. 934167214–934167214. 13 indexed citations

Petersen, Kristina, et al.. (2023). Walnut consumption and gut microbial metabolism: Results of an exploratory analysis from a randomized, crossover, controlled-feeding study. Clinical Nutrition. 42(11). 2258–2269. 7 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, et al.. (2022). The Effect of a Peanut-Enriched Weight Loss Diet Compared to a Low-Fat Weight Loss Diet on Body Weight, Blood Pressure, and Glycemic Control: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Nutrients. 14(14). 2986–2986. 12 indexed citations

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Arcand, JoAnne, Norm R.C. Campbell, Claire Johnson, et al.. (2022). The World Hypertension League Science of Salt: a regularly updated systematic review of salt and health outcomes studies (Sept 2019 to Dec 2020). Journal of Human Hypertension. 36(12). 1048–1058. 8 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, et al.. (2020). Circulating Concentrations of Essential Fatty Acids, Linoleic and α-Linolenic Acid, in US Adults in 2003–2004 and 2011–2012 and the Relation with Risk Factors for Cardiometabolic Disease: An NHANES Analysis. Current Developments in Nutrition. 4(10). nzaa149–nzaa149. 10 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, Sarah Rae, Sarah Dash, et al.. (2020). Further evidence that methods based on spot urine samples should not be used to examine sodium‐disease relationships from the Science of Salt: A regularly updated systematic review of salt and health outcomes (November 2018 to August 2019). Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 22(10). 1741–1753. 4 indexed citations

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McLean, Rachael, Kristina Petersen, JoAnne Arcand, et al.. (2019). Science of Salt: A regularly updated systematic review of salt and health outcomes studies (April to October 2018). Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 21(8). 1030–1042. 7 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, Jennifer Keogh, Natalie B. Lister, & Peter Clifton. (2018). Dietary quality and carotid intima media thickness in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: Follow-up of a randomised controlled trial. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 28(8). 830–838. 14 indexed citations

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Dunford, Elizabeth, Jason Wu, Lyndal Wellard‐Cole, et al.. (2017). A comparison of the Health Star Rating system when used for restaurant fast foods and packaged foods. Appetite. 117. 1–8. 16 indexed citations

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Trevena, Helen, Kristina Petersen, Anne Marie Thow, et al.. (2017). Effects of an Advocacy Trial on Food Industry Salt Reduction Efforts—An Interim Process Evaluation. Nutrients. 9(10). 1128–1128. 2 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, Peter Clifton, Natalie B. Lister, & Jennifer Keogh. (2016). Effect of Improving Dietary Quality on Arterial Stiffness in Subjects with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A 12 Months Randomised Controlled Trial. Nutrients. 8(6). 382–382. 9 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, et al.. (2014). Dietary quality in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes compared to age, sex and BMI matched controls. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 107(2). e7–e10. 10 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kristina, Jennifer Keogh, Peter J. Meikle, Manohar L. Garg, & Peter Clifton. (2014). Dietary predictors of arterial stiffness in a cohort with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Atherosclerosis. 238(2). 175–181. 18 indexed citations

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