Lauren McGale

522 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 328 citations indexed

About

Lauren McGale is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Lauren McGale has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 328 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 4 papers in Clinical Psychology and 3 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Lauren McGale's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (6 papers), Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (5 papers) and Eating Disorders and Behaviors (4 papers). Lauren McGale is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (6 papers), Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (5 papers) and Eating Disorders and Behaviors (4 papers). Lauren McGale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Netherlands. Lauren McGale's co-authors include E. Boyland, Andrew Jones, Juliet Hounsome, Angela Boland, Michelle Maden, Jason C. G. Halford, Kathryn Angus, Bethan R. Mead, Andrew R. Jones and Carl Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, The Journal of Pediatrics and International Journal of Obesity.

In The Last Decade

Lauren McGale

11 papers receiving 320 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.

Association of Food and Nonalcoholic Beverage Marketing With Children and Adolescents’ Eating Behaviors and Health

2022 107 citations E. Boyland, Lauren McGale et al. JAMA Pediatrics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lauren McGale United Kingdom	7	181	75	67	45	43	11	328
Lauren P. Cleveland United States	12	276 1.5×	41 0.5×	44 0.7×	33 0.7×	30 0.7×	18	348
Jennifer Norman Australia	6	178 1.0×	56 0.7×	38 0.6×	41 0.9×	47 1.1×	26	269
Tobias Effertz Germany	10	112 0.6×	97 1.3×	42 0.6×	19 0.4×	54 1.3×	26	342
Iana A. Castro United States	11	140 0.8×	30 0.4×	176 2.6×	41 0.9×	74 1.7×	18	404
Ninya Maubach New Zealand	11	291 1.6×	30 0.4×	85 1.3×	51 1.1×	40 0.9×	15	475
Ameena Batada United States	10	231 1.3×	75 1.0×	61 0.9×	11 0.2×	39 0.9×	16	381
Jennifer Crawford Australia	8	358 2.0×	25 0.3×	96 1.4×	33 0.7×	57 1.3×	10	489
Christiane Schroeter United States	10	213 1.2×	32 0.4×	32 0.5×	26 0.6×	12 0.3×	32	392
Mary-Ann Carter New Zealand	7	248 1.4×	32 0.4×	25 0.4×	53 1.2×	20 0.5×	9	317
Nienke de Vlieger Australia	10	346 1.9×	61 0.8×	72 1.1×	17 0.4×	21 0.5×	16	553

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lauren McGale

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Boyland, E., Nicholas W. Davies, Andrew Jones, et al.. (2025). Impact of food, beverage, and alcohol brand marketing on consumptive behaviors and health in children and adults: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews. 26(9). e13932–e13932. 2 indexed citations

Monk, Rebecca L., et al.. (2023). In people who drink more, facets of theory of mind may be impaired by alcohol stimuli. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 245. 109811–109811. 1 indexed citations

Boyland, E., Lauren McGale, Michelle Maden, et al.. (2022). Systematic review of the effect of policies to restrict the marketing of foods and non‐alcoholic beverages to which children are exposed. Obesity Reviews. 23(8). e13447–e13447. 76 indexed citations

Boyland, E., Lauren McGale, Michelle Maden, et al.. (2022). Association of Food and Nonalcoholic Beverage Marketing With Children and Adolescents’ Eating Behaviors and Health. JAMA Pediatrics. 176(7). e221037–e221037. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

McGale, Lauren, et al.. (2022). Do front-of-pack ‘green labels’ increase sustainable food choice and willingness-to-pay in U.K. consumers?. Journal of Cleaner Production. 371. 133466–133466. 32 indexed citations

Boyland, E., Paul Christiansen, Lauren McGale, et al.. (2020). See it, want it, buy it, eat it: How food advertising is associated with unhealthy eating behaviours in 7 – 11 year old children. DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University). 4 indexed citations

Hardman, Charlotte A., Andrew Jones, Lauren McGale, et al.. (2020). Food-related attentional bias and its associations with appetitive motivation and body weight: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Appetite. 157. 104986–104986. 47 indexed citations

McGale, Lauren, et al.. (2019). The influence of front‐of‐pack portion size images on children's serving and intake of cereal. Pediatric Obesity. 15(2). e12583–e12583. 11 indexed citations

Wittekind, Anna, Kelly Higgins, Lauren McGale, et al.. (2017). A workshop on ‘Dietary Sweetness—Is It an Issue?’. International Journal of Obesity. 42(4). 934–938. 11 indexed citations

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McGale, Lauren, et al.. (2016). The Influence of Brand Equity Characters on Children's Food Preferences and Choices. The Journal of Pediatrics. 177. 33–38. 36 indexed citations

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McGale, Lauren, J.A. Harrold, Jason C. G. Halford, & E. Boyland. (2015). Does the presence of brand equity characters on food packaging affect the taste preferences and choices of children?. Appetite. 87. 390–390. 1 indexed citations

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