Lisa K. Micklesfield

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
173 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Lisa K. Micklesfield is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Lisa K. Micklesfield has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 65 papers in Physiology and 35 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Recurrent topics in Lisa K. Micklesfield's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (68 papers), Bone health and osteoporosis research (29 papers) and Body Composition Measurement Techniques (27 papers). Lisa K. Micklesfield is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (68 papers), Bone health and osteoporosis research (29 papers) and Body Composition Measurement Techniques (27 papers). Lisa K. Micklesfield collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Lisa K. Micklesfield's co-authors include Shane A. Norris, Julia H. Goedecke, John Μ. Pettifor, Estelle V. Lambert, Catherine E. Draper, Mark Punyanitya, Kevin E. Wilson, Thomas L. Kelly, Aryeh D. Stein and Stephen Tollman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lisa K. Micklesfield

162 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies

2013 600 citations Shane A. Norris, Lisa K. Micklesfield et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lisa K. Micklesfield South Africa	28	1.4k	1.0k	764	667	461	173	3.7k
Amudha Poobalan United Kingdom	25	1.2k 0.8×	759 0.7×	197 0.3×	457 0.7×	557 1.2×	60	4.2k
Marieke B. Snijder Netherlands	32	1.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	489 0.6×	206 0.3×	454 1.0×	116	5.2k
Jonathon L. Maguire Canada	31	1.0k 0.7×	411 0.4×	694 0.9×	698 1.0×	453 1.0×	215	3.9k
Ana Maria Baptista Menezes Brazil	37	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	408 0.5×	648 1.0×	928 2.0×	174	5.0k
Anita C.J. Ravelli Netherlands	40	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	818 1.1×	5.0k 7.5×	741 1.6×	184	7.9k
Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção Brazil	30	1.4k 1.0×	599 0.6×	447 0.6×	416 0.6×	589 1.3×	137	2.9k
Catherine S. Birken Canada	27	1.4k 1.0×	517 0.5×	500 0.7×	560 0.8×	463 1.0×	177	2.8k
Gilberto Kac Brazil	37	1.9k 1.3×	736 0.7×	982 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	828 1.8×	240	4.6k
Goutham Rao United States	27	1.6k 1.2×	822 0.8×	192 0.3×	445 0.7×	674 1.5×	87	3.8k
A. Roche United States	3	1.8k 1.3×	513 0.5×	419 0.5×	680 1.0×	515 1.1×	5	3.2k

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Wright, Caradee Y., R. D. Diab, Simon Kunene, et al.. (2024). Assessing the human health risks of indoor PM2.5 exposure in urban and rural households in two provinces of South Africa. Atmospheric Environment. 343. 120996–120996.

Micklesfield, Lisa K., Pascal Bovet, Kweku Bedu-Addo, et al.. (2024). Silhouette showcards confirm altered obesity-associated body image perception in international cohort study of African-origin populations. BMJ Open. 14(3). e065498–e065498.

Mendham, Amy E., Karl‐Heinz Storbeck, Tinashe Chikowore, et al.. (2024). SHBG, Free Testosterone, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Middle-aged African Men: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 8(8). bvae129–bvae129.

Chikowore, Tinashe, Kristi Läll, Lisa K. Micklesfield, et al.. (2024). Variability of polygenic prediction for body mass index in Africa. Genome Medicine. 16(1). 74–74. 2 indexed citations

Wade, Alisha N., Innocent Maposa, Godfred Agongo, et al.. (2023). Diabetes care cascade and associated factors in 10 700 middle-aged adults in four sub-Saharan African countries: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 13(4). e069193–e069193. 14 indexed citations

Muti, Monica, Lisa J. Ware, Lisa K. Micklesfield, et al.. (2023). Physical Activity and Its Association With Body Mass Index: A Cross-Sectional Analysis in Middle-Aged Adults From 4 Sub-Saharan African Countries. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 20(3). 217–225. 1 indexed citations

Ayeni, Oluwatosin, Maureen Joffe, Witness Mapanga, et al.. (2023). Multimorbidity and overall survival among women with breast cancer: results from the South African Breast Cancer and HIV Outcomes Study. Breast Cancer Research. 25(1). 7–7. 6 indexed citations

Choudhury, Ananyo, Scott Hazelhurst, Nigel J. Crowther, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of blood pressure traits and hypertension in sub-Saharan African populations: an AWI-Gen study. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8376–8376. 12 indexed citations

Goedecke, Julia H., Maphoko Masemola, Tinashe Chikowore, et al.. (2022). Physical behaviors and their association with type 2 diabetes mellitus risk markers in urban South African middle-aged adults: an isotemporal substitutionapproach. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 10(4). e002815–e002815. 1 indexed citations

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Mendham, Amy E., Lisa K. Micklesfield, Fredrik Karpe, et al.. (2022). Targeted proteomics identifies potential biomarkers of dysglycaemia, beta cell function and insulin sensitivity in Black African men and women. Diabetologia. 66(1). 174–189. 2 indexed citations

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Micklesfield, Lisa K., Kate Westgate, Amy E. Mendham, et al.. (2022). Physical Activity Behaviors of a Middle-Age South African Cohort as Determined by Integrated Hip and Thigh Accelerometry. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 54(9). 1493–1505. 5 indexed citations

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Goedecke, Julia H., Kim Nguyen, Maphoko Masemola, et al.. (2022). Waist circumference thresholds predicting incident dysglycaemia and type 2 diabetes in Black African men and women. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 24(5). 918–927. 15 indexed citations

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Boua, Palwendé Romuald, Jean‐Tristan Brandenburg, Ananyo Choudhury, et al.. (2022). Genetic associations with carotid intima-media thickness link to atherosclerosis with sex-specific effects in sub-Saharan Africans. Nature Communications. 13(1). 855–855. 13 indexed citations

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Brugulat-Panés, Anna, James Woodcock, Lisa J. Ware, et al.. (2022). Active travel and paratransit use in African cities: Mixed-method systematic review and meta-ethnography. Journal of Transport & Health. 28. 101558–101558. 10 indexed citations

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Goedecke, Julia H., Kate A. Ward, Nigel J. Crowther, et al.. (2020). The Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Menopause on Bone Mineral Density: A Longitudinal Study of Urban-Dwelling South African Women. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 38(5). 619–630. 11 indexed citations

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Goedecke, Julia H., Amy E. Mendham, Pamela A. Nono Nankam, et al.. (2018). An Exercise Intervention to Unravel the Mechanisms Underlying Insulin Resistance in a Cohort of Black South African Women: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial and Baseline Characteristics of Participants. JMIR Research Protocols. 7(4). e75–e75. 19 indexed citations

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Watson, Estelle D., Mireille N. M. van Poppel, Rachel A. Jones, Shane A. Norris, & Lisa K. Micklesfield. (2017). Are South African Mothers Moving? Patterns and Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Pregnant Black South African Women. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 14(5). 329–335. 18 indexed citations

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Pedro, Titilola M, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Kathleen Kahn, et al.. (2016). Body Image Satisfaction, Eating Attitudes and Perceptions of Female Body Silhouettes in Rural South African Adolescents. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0154784–e0154784. 48 indexed citations

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Runciman, Phoebe, et al.. (2016). Site-Specific Bone Mineral Density Is Unaltered Despite Differences in Fat-Free Soft Tissue Mass Between Affected and Nonaffected Sides in Hemiplegic Paralympic Athletes with Cerebral Palsy. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 95(10). 771–778. 7 indexed citations

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Goedecke, Julia H., Lisa K. Micklesfield, Naomi Levitt, et al.. (2013). Effect of Different Antiretroviral Drug Regimens on Body Fat Distribution of HIV-Infected South African Women. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 29(3). 557–563. 30 indexed citations

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