Leah Li

4.2k total citations
95 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Leah Li is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah Li has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 47 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 22 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leah Li's work include Birth, Development, and Health (42 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (30 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (14 papers). Leah Li is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (42 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (30 papers) and Child Abuse and Trauma (14 papers). Leah Li collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and China. Leah Li's co-authors include Chris Power, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Clyde Hertzman, Rebecca Hardy, William Johnson, Catherine Law, Andrew Copas, Ian R. White, Ruth Gilbert and Shaun R. Seaman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leah Li

86 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leah Li United Kingdom	32	1.1k	985	750	502	345	95	2.9k
Erika R. Cheng United States	24	1.3k 1.2×	999 1.0×	529 0.7×	576 1.1×	182 0.5×	66	2.6k
Marcel F. van der Wal Netherlands	29	734 0.7×	732 0.7×	779 1.0×	339 0.7×	235 0.7×	66	2.8k
Alan M. Delamater United States	43	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	984 1.3×	1.2k 2.4×	173 0.5×	186	6.1k
Sixto E. Sánchez United States	39	1.6k 1.5×	954 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	531 1.1×	527 1.5×	150	4.4k
Fernando C. Wehrmeister Brazil	33	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	678 0.9×	961 1.9×	555 1.6×	274	4.5k
Madeleine U. Shalowitz United States	27	668 0.6×	400 0.4×	551 0.7×	555 1.1×	142 0.4×	76	2.2k
Ana Maria Baptista Menezes Brazil	32	984 0.9×	525 0.5×	431 0.6×	670 1.3×	252 0.7×	189	3.4k
Christian Loret de Mola Brazil	27	1.2k 1.1×	944 1.0×	549 0.7×	512 1.0×	197 0.6×	86	3.6k
Helen Gonçalves Brazil	33	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.0×	838 1.1×	1.3k 2.5×	390 1.1×	256	5.1k
Marie‐Josèphe Saurel‐Cubizolles France	35	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	610 0.8×	816 1.6×	291 0.8×	140	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Leah Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leah Li

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Pavlov, Ivan P., et al.. (2025). Developing the evidence-base to inform policy on inclusive research design. Royal Society Open Science. 12(3). 241380–241380.

Ren, Ziyang, Xingru Zhang, Lei Cao, et al.. (2025). Lifelong associations between childhood multimorbidity and early-onset and late-onset dementia: A multi-cohort study. Public Health. 244. 105768–105768.

Li, Leah, et al.. (2025). Effectiveness of home-based cardiac rehabilitation interventions delivered via mHealth technologies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Digital Health. 7(4). e238–e254. 1 indexed citations

Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo, et al.. (2024). Recent changes in growth trajectories: a population-based cohort study of over 5 million Brazilian children born between 2001 and 2014. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 32. 100721–100721. 4 indexed citations

Li, Leah, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro‐Silva, Daniela Rodrigues, et al.. (2023). Association between rapid weight gain in early years and subsequent adiposity indices in Portuguese children aged 3 to 5 years. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 111–121.

Yu, Yongfu, et al.. (2023). Parental exposure to famine in early life and child overweight in offspring in Chinese populations. Clinical Nutrition. 42(4). 458–466. 3 indexed citations

Norris, Tom, Tim Cole, David Bann, et al.. (2020). Duration of obesity exposure between ages 10 and 40 years and its relationship with cardiometabolic disease risk factors: A cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 17(12). e1003387–e1003387. 51 indexed citations

Fan, Heng, Ruth Gilbert, Finbar O’Callaghan, & Leah Li. (2020). Associations between macrolide antibiotics prescribing during pregnancy and adverse child outcomes in the UK: population based cohort study. BMJ. 368. m331–m331. 53 indexed citations

Bann, David, William Johnson, Leah Li, Diana Kuh, & Rebecca Hardy. (2017). Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970. PLoS Medicine. 14(1). e1002214–e1002214. 73 indexed citations

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Pereira, Snehal M. Pinto, Karin van Veldhoven, Leah Li, & Chris Power. (2016). Combined early and adult life risk factor associations for mid-life obesity in a prospective birth cohort: assessing potential public health impact. BMJ Open. 6(4). e011044–e011044. 11 indexed citations

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Power, Chris, Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, & Leah Li. (2015). Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectories to Mid-Adult Life: Follow-Up to Age 50y in a British Birth Cohort. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119985–e0119985. 64 indexed citations

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Herbert, Annie, Ruth Gilbert, Arturo González-Izquierdo, & Leah Li. (2015). Violence, self-harm and drug or alcohol misuse in adolescents admitted to hospitals in England for injury: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 5(2). e006079–e006079. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Leah. (2014). Trends in blood pressure in 9-11 year-old children in the UK 1980-2008: the impact of obesity. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Leah, Angela Pinot de Moira, & Chris Power. (2011). Predicting cardiovascular disease risk factors in midadulthood from childhood body mass index: utility of different cutoffs for childhood body mass index. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 93(6). 1204–1211. 32 indexed citations

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Moira, Angela Pinot de, Christopher Power, & Leah Li. (2010). Changing Influences on Childhood Obesity: A Study of 2 Generations of the 1958 British Birth Cohort. American Journal of Epidemiology. 171(12). 1289–1298. 34 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Jennifer E. V., Leah Li, & Clyde Hertzman. (2009). Early experiences matter: Lasting effect of concentrated disadvantage on children's language and cognitive outcomes. Health & Place. 16(2). 371–380. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Leah, Catherine Law, Rossella Lo Conte, & Chris Power. (2008). Intergenerational influences on childhood body mass index: the effect of parental body mass index trajectories. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 89(2). 551–557. 135 indexed citations

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Li, Leah, Chris Power, Shona Kelly, Clemens Kirschbaum, & Clyde Hertzman. (2007). Life-time socio-economic position and cortisol patterns in mid-life. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 32(7). 824–833. 83 indexed citations

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Li, Leah, Orly Manor, & Chris Power. (2004). Early environment and child-to-adult growth trajectories in the 1958 British birth cohort. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 80(1). 185–192. 91 indexed citations

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Power, Chris, Leah Li, & Orly Manor. (2000). A prospective study of limiting longstanding illness in early adulthood. International Journal of Epidemiology. 29(1). 131–139. 32 indexed citations

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