Leah Salm

576 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 360 citations indexed

About

Leah Salm is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Leah Salm has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 360 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in General Health Professions, 6 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Leah Salm's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (4 papers). Leah Salm is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (6 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (4 papers). Leah Salm collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Leah Salm's co-authors include Bryony Sinclair, Marie T. Ruel, Corinna Hawkes, Francesco Branca, Stuart Gillespie, Nicholas Nisbett, Philip K. Thornton, Laura Cramer, Andrew Booth and Michelle Holdsworth and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Obesity Reviews and Appetite.

In The Last Decade

Leah Salm

8 papers receiving 351 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.

Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms

2019 272 citations Corinna Hawkes, Marie T. Ruel et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leah Salm United Kingdom	6	224	178	116	44	39	11	360
Bryony Sinclair United Kingdom	4	191 0.9×	182 1.0×	102 0.9×	37 0.8×	28 0.7×	4	322
Chelsey R. Canavan United States	14	251 1.1×	154 0.9×	204 1.8×	51 1.2×	43 1.1×	34	439
Sutapa Agrawal India	10	227 1.0×	103 0.6×	113 1.0×	89 2.0×	41 1.1×	16	423
Robert Akparibo United Kingdom	12	168 0.8×	153 0.9×	148 1.3×	65 1.5×	27 0.7×	37	402
John Msuya Tanzania	13	275 1.2×	143 0.8×	138 1.2×	78 1.8×	36 0.9×	44	517
Kathrin Demmler United States	8	156 0.7×	261 1.5×	98 0.8×	17 0.4×	36 0.9×	15	436
Winnie Bell United States	10	174 0.8×	265 1.5×	123 1.1×	28 0.6×	40 1.0×	29	500
Gervais Ntandou-Bouzitou Italy	6	180 0.8×	95 0.5×	127 1.1×	22 0.5×	78 2.0×	7	415
Isabel Madzorera United States	13	202 0.9×	132 0.7×	119 1.0×	73 1.7×	27 0.7×	33	388
Esi K Colecraft Ghana	13	343 1.5×	99 0.6×	162 1.4×	57 1.3×	19 0.5×	38	497

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leah Salm

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leah Salm

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leah Salm. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leah Salm 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 Leah Salm. Leah Salm is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Nicholls, Elizabeth, Leah Salm, María Clara Castellanos, et al.. (2025). Understanding Pollination in Urban Food Production: The Importance of Data Validation and Participant Feedback for Citizen Science Project Design. Plants People Planet. 8(1). 157–175.

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Barnett, Inka, et al.. (2025). Factors shaping adolescent snack choices in urban Bangladeshi schools: a mixed methods study. Appetite. 212. 108019–108019.

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Harris, Jody, Jessica Gordon, Anna Isaacs, et al.. (2025). Equity and equality in diets and nutrition: Frameworks, evidence, and four country case studies. Food Security. 17(4). 1023–1037.

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Salm, Leah, et al.. (2023). A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. Food Security. 15(4). 919–935. 2 indexed citations

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Turner, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 65. 101364–101364. 6 indexed citations

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Nisbett, Nicholas, Jody Harris, Derek Headey, et al.. (2022). Stories of change in nutrition: lessons from a new generation of studies from Africa, Asia and Europe. Food Security. 15(1). 133–149. 9 indexed citations

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Salm, Leah, Roosmarijn Verstraeten, Nicholas Nisbett, & Andrew Booth. (2021). Exploring the drivers of malnutrition in West Africa from health and social science perspectives: A comparative methodological review. Methodological Innovations. 14(3). 7 indexed citations

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Verstraeten, Roos, Leah Salm, Michelle Holdsworth, et al.. (2020). Factors influencing obesogenic behaviours of adolescent girls and women in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Obesity Reviews. 22(4). e13163–e13163. 34 indexed citations

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Salm, Leah, Nicholas Nisbett, Laura Cramer, Stuart Gillespie, & Philip K. Thornton. (2020). How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 12(2). 28 indexed citations

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Verstraeten, Roos, et al.. (2020). Adolescent nutrition in West Africa: A rapid review of the research evidence. International Food Policy Research Institute (International Food Policy Research Institute). 2 indexed citations

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Hawkes, Corinna, Marie T. Ruel, Leah Salm, Bryony Sinclair, & Francesco Branca. (2019). Double-duty actions: seizing programme and policy opportunities to address malnutrition in all its forms. The Lancet. 395(10218). 142–155. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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