Leon Straker

22.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
442 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Leon Straker is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Social Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Straker has authored 442 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Pharmacology, 131 papers in Social Psychology and 94 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Leon Straker's work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (157 papers), Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders (118 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (64 papers). Leon Straker is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (157 papers), Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders (118 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (64 papers). Leon Straker collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Denmark. Leon Straker's co-authors include Peter O’Sullivan, Anne Smith, Angus Burnett, Grace Szeto, Clare Pollock, Sharon Parry, Erin K. Howie, Wim Dankaerts, Pieter Coenen and Ev Innes and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Leon Straker

425 papers receiving 14.4k 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.

What does best practice care for musculoskeletal pain look like? Eleven consistent recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines: systematic review

2019 619 citations Robert Waller, Leon Straker et al. profile →
The contribution of office work to sedentary behaviour associated risk

2013 372 citations Sharon Parry, Leon Straker BMC Public Health profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Leon Straker	6.8k	4.4k	2.4k	2.3k	2.0k	442	15.1k
Allard J. van der Beek	6.4k 0.9×	4.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	463	19.3k
Gary J. Macfarlane	9.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	400	22.0k
Peter O’Sullivan	12.9k 1.9×	2.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	787 0.3×	2.2k 1.1×	365	17.3k
Steven J. Linton	16.1k 2.4×	1.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	275	23.1k
Andreas Holtermann	3.7k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.8×	3.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.6×	361	11.2k
Karen Søgaard	4.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	764 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	738 0.4×	290	9.4k
Fin Biering‐Sørensen	6.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	354	21.3k
Lars L. Andersen	5.0k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	558 0.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	505	13.9k
Eira Viikari‐Juntura	7.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	633 0.3×	486 0.2×	1.4k 0.7×	196	11.0k
Robert J. Gatchel	12.1k 1.8×	1.3k 0.3×	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	744 0.4×	400	20.2k

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Rasmussen, Charlotte Lund, George Thomas, Sarah Stearne, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the ActiMotus Software to Accurately Classify Postures and Movements in Children Aged 3–14. Sensors. 24(20). 6705–6705.

Graham, Petra L., Deborah Schofield, Robert J. Tait, et al.. (2024). Adolescent risk behaviours are associated with educational attainment in early adulthood: results from the Raine Study cohort. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 2728–2728.

Straker, Leon, Charlotte Lund Rasmussen, Nidhi Gupta, & Andreas Holtermann. (2024). What’s Your Poison? Is Sitting Always Health Hindering and Moving Always Health Promoting?. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 21(9). 845–846. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Hang, Tatiana Plekhanova, Rosemary Walmsley, et al.. (2024). Self-supervised learning of accelerometer data provides new insights for sleep and its association with mortality. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 86–86. 15 indexed citations

Peddle‐McIntyre, Carolyn J., Sanjeevan Muruganandan, Joanne McVeigh, et al.. (2023). Device assessed activity behaviours in patients with indwelling pleural catheter: A sub‐study of the Australasian Malignant PLeural Effusion (AMPLE)‐2 randomized trial. Respirology. 28(6). 561–570. 6 indexed citations

Thøgersen‐Ntoumani, Cecilie, Daniel F. Gucciardi, Joanne McVeigh, et al.. (2023). Health behaviour profiles in young Australian adults in relation to physical and mental health: The Raine Study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 35(4). 1010–1021. 2 indexed citations

McVeigh, Joanne, David Manners, Terry Boyle, et al.. (2022). Sedentary Behaviour, Physical Activity, and Their Associations with Health Outcomes at the Time of Diagnosis in People with Inoperable Lung Cancer. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(19). 5870–5870. 2 indexed citations

Zabatiero, Juliana, et al.. (2022). ‘There’s good and bad’: parent perspectives on the influence of mobile touch screen device use on prenatal attachment. Ergonomics. 65(12). 1593–1608. 4 indexed citations

Straker, Leon, et al.. (2022). Academic implications of screen use and sedentary behaviour in a school with a 1-to-1 device policy. Technology Pedagogy and Education. 31(4). 525–539. 3 indexed citations

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Zabatiero, Juliana, et al.. (2021). The association of mobile touch screen device use with parent-child attachment: a systematic review. Ergonomics. 64(12). 1606–1622. 19 indexed citations

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Hunter, Michael, Matthew Knuiman, Arthur W. Musk, et al.. (2021). Prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in Australian baby boomers: the Busselton healthy ageing study. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 1539–1539. 17 indexed citations

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Waller, Robert, Phillip E. Melton, Michelle Kendell, et al.. (2021). Heritability of musculoskeletal pain and pain sensitivity phenotypes: 2 generations of the Raine Study. Pain. 163(4). e580–e587. 3 indexed citations

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Launbo, Natja, et al.. (2020). Can Childcare Work Be Designed to Promote High Intensity Physical Activity for Improved Fitness and Health? A Proof of Concept Study of the Goldilocks Principle. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(20). 7419–7419. 15 indexed citations

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Parry, Sharon, et al.. (2019). Standing Desks in a Grade 4 Classroom over the Full School Year. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(19). 3590–3590. 11 indexed citations

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Waller, Robert, Anne Smith, Helen Slater, et al.. (2019). Associations of physical activity or sedentary behaviour with pain sensitivity in young adults of the Raine Study. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 19(4). 679–691. 5 indexed citations

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Trevenen, Michelle, Kevin Murray, Berwin A. Turlach, Leon Straker, & Peter R. Eastwood. (2017). Development and validation of an algorithm to temporally align polysomnography and actigraphy data. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. 4(2). 25014–25014. 1 indexed citations

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Brakenridge, Charlotte L., Brianna S. Fjeldsoe, Elisabeth Winkler, et al.. (2016). Organizational-Level Strategies With or Without an Activity Tracker to Reduce Office Workers’ Sitting Time: Rationale and Study Design of a Pilot Cluster-Randomized Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 5(2). e73–e73. 25 indexed citations

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Waller, Robert, Anne Smith, Peter O’Sullivan, et al.. (2016). Pressure and cold pain threshold reference values in a large, young adult, pain-free population. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 13(1). 114–122. 40 indexed citations

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Waller, Robert, Leon Straker, Peter O’Sullivan, Michele Sterling, & Anne Smith. (2015). Reliability of pressure pain threshold testing in healthy pain free young adults. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 9(1). 38–41. 65 indexed citations

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Straker, Leon & Svend Erik Mathiassen. (2009). Increased physical work loads in modern work – a necessity for better health and performance?. Ergonomics. 52(10). 1215–1225. 154 indexed citations

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