Kuntal Kumar Saha

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

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Kuntal Kumar Saha is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuntal Kumar Saha has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 13 papers in General Health Professions and 12 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Kuntal Kumar Saha's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (26 papers), Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (12 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 papers). Kuntal Kumar Saha is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (26 papers), Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (12 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 papers). Kuntal Kumar Saha collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Switzerland. Kuntal Kumar Saha's co-authors include Purnima Menon, Rahul Rawat, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Edward A. Frongillo, Marie T. Ruel, Disha Ali, Shams El Arifeen, Lan Mai Tran, Rebecca Heidkamp and Chika Hayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The FASEB Journal and Journal of Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Kuntal Kumar Saha

33 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Prevalence thresholds for wasting, overweight and stunting in children under 5 years

2018 259 citations Mercedes de Onís, Elaine Borghi et al. Public Health Nutrition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuntal Kumar Saha United States	16	909	460	353	259	196	34	1.1k
Sunny S. Kim United States	19	855 0.9×	400 0.9×	374 1.1×	227 0.9×	217 1.1×	55	1.2k
Amanda Zongrone United States	11	789 0.9×	262 0.6×	485 1.4×	204 0.8×	164 0.8×	17	1.1k
Dessalegn Tamiru Ethiopia	16	608 0.7×	292 0.6×	234 0.7×	137 0.5×	120 0.6×	97	897
John Phuka Malawi	22	1.2k 1.3×	336 0.7×	393 1.1×	246 0.9×	528 2.7×	70	1.5k
Giovanna Gatica‐Domínguez Brazil	14	693 0.8×	301 0.7×	327 0.9×	123 0.5×	186 0.9×	29	963
Scott Ickes United States	15	555 0.6×	327 0.7×	182 0.5×	181 0.7×	217 1.1×	42	969
Carmel Dolan United Kingdom	16	1.4k 1.5×	547 1.2×	551 1.6×	404 1.6×	418 2.1×	41	1.7k
Katherine L. Dickin United States	21	563 0.6×	335 0.7×	322 0.9×	127 0.5×	234 1.2×	75	1.1k
France Bégin United States	17	777 0.9×	272 0.6×	253 0.7×	164 0.6×	348 1.8×	33	1.1k
Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus Ethiopia	18	476 0.5×	297 0.6×	254 0.7×	121 0.5×	78 0.4×	54	869

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Newby, Holly, Regina Guthold, Elizabeth Saewyc, et al.. (2024). Towards Harmonized Adolescent Health Measurement: Assessing Alignment Between Current Recommendations and the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent Health–Recommended Indicators. Journal of Adolescent Health. 74(6). S56–S65. 1 indexed citations

Owais, Aatekah, Sara Wuehler, Rebecca Heidkamp, et al.. (2022). Critical assessment of the current indicator for antenatal iron‐containing supplementation coverage: Insights from a mixed‐methods study. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 18(2). e13314–e13314. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Sunny S., et al.. (2018). Factors influencing the uptake of a mass media intervention to improve child feeding in Bangladesh. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14(3). e12603–e12603. 16 indexed citations

Onís, Mercedes de, Elaine Borghi, Mary Arimond, et al.. (2018). Prevalence thresholds for wasting, overweight and stunting in children under 5 years. Public Health Nutrition. 22(1). 175–179. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

Zongrone, Amanda, Purnima Menon, Gretel H. Pelto, et al.. (2018). The Pathways from a Behavior Change Communication Intervention to Infant and Young Child Feeding in Bangladesh Are Mediated and Potentiated by Maternal Self-Efficacy. Journal of Nutrition. 148(2). 259–266. 19 indexed citations

Billah, Sk Masum, Kuntal Kumar Saha, Abdullah Nurus Salam Khan, et al.. (2017). Quality of nutrition services in primary health care facilities: Implications for integrating nutrition into the health system in Bangladesh. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0178121–e0178121. 40 indexed citations

Haider, Rukhsana & Kuntal Kumar Saha. (2016). Breastfeeding and infant growth outcomes in the context of intensive peer counselling support in two communities in Bangladesh. International Breastfeeding Journal. 11(1). 18–18. 31 indexed citations

Frongillo, Edward A., Phuong Hong Nguyen, Kuntal Kumar Saha, et al.. (2016). Large-Scale Behavior-Change Initiative for Infant and Young Child Feeding Advanced Language and Motor Development in a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition. 147(2). 256–263. 38 indexed citations

Menon, Purnima, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Kuntal Kumar Saha, et al.. (2016). Combining Intensive Counseling by Frontline Workers with a Nationwide Mass Media Campaign Has Large Differential Impacts on Complementary Feeding Practices but Not on Child Growth: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation in Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition. 146(10). 2075–2084. 114 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, et al.. (2015). Bangladesh National Nutrition Services. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, Tina Sanghvi, Kaosar Afsana, et al.. (2015). Social and Behavioral Change Interventions Delivered at Scale Have Large Impacts on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices in Bangladesh. The FASEB Journal. 29(S1). 7 indexed citations

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Rawat, Rahul, et al.. (2015). Delivery of Micronutrient Powder (MNP) Sachets through Sales by Frontline Health Workers (FLW) Enables High Reach, but Upstream Supply, Household (HH) Poverty and Variability in MNP Awareness are Challenges to Effectiveness. European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety. 5(5). 1142–1143. 1 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, et al.. (2014). Relationship between estimated foetal weight and renal volume in intra uterine growth retarded foetus in Bangladeshi women.. PubMed. 23(4). 752–7. 4 indexed citations

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Menon, Purnima, Rahul Rawat, Phuong Hong Nguyen, et al.. (2014). Early impact assessment of a large‐scale initiative to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in Bangladesh and Vietnam suggests improvements in IYCF practices and highlights importance of potential to benefit (119.6). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 3 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, Rahul Rawat, Tina Sanghvi, et al.. (2013). Behavior change counseling (BCC) by frontline health workers (FHW) and a mass media campaign improved complementary feeding (CF) practices more than mass media alone in rural Bangladesh. The FASEB Journal. 27(S1). 4 indexed citations

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Rawat, Rahul, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Disha Ali, et al.. (2013). Learning How Programs Achieve their Impact: Embedding Theory-Driven Process Evaluation and Other Program Learning Mechanisms in Alive & Thrive. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 34(3_suppl2). S212–S225. 77 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Rasmi Avula, Marie T. Ruel, et al.. (2013). Maternal and Child Dietary Diversity Are Associated in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Ethiopia1, 2. Journal of Nutrition. 143(7). 1176–1183. 149 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, Fahmida Tofail, Edward A. Frongillo, et al.. (2010). Household food security is associated with early childhood language development: results from a longitudinal study in rural Bangladesh. Child Care Health and Development. 36(3). 309–316. 20 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, et al.. (2009). Use of the new World Health Organization Child Growth Standards to Describe Longitudinal Growth of Breastfed Rural Bangladeshi Infants and Young Children. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 30(2). 137–144. 25 indexed citations

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Saha, Kuntal Kumar, Edward A. Frongillo, Dewan S Alam, et al.. (2008). Household Food Security Is Associated with Infant Feeding Practices in Rural Bangladesh. Journal of Nutrition. 138(7). 1383–1390. 91 indexed citations

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