M. Arantxa Colchero

5.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
89 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

M. Arantxa Colchero is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Arantxa Colchero has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 25 papers in General Health Professions and 24 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in M. Arantxa Colchero's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (45 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (24 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (19 papers). M. Arantxa Colchero is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (45 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (24 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (19 papers). M. Arantxa Colchero collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Slovenia. M. Arantxa Colchero's co-authors include Juan Á. Rivera, Barry M. Popkin, Shu Wen Ng, Carlos Manuel Guerrero-López, Mariana Molina, Stefano Bertozzi, Mishel Unar‐Munguía, Hugo López‐Gatell, Camila Corvalán and Lindsey Smith Taillie and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

M. Arantxa Colchero

81 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Severe Respiratory Disease Concurrent with the Circulatio... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2016 2017 2020 2021 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Severe Respiratory Disease Concurrent with the Circulation of H1N1 Influenza
    2009 533 citations M. Arantxa Colchero, Hugo López‐Gatell et al. profile →
  2. Beverage purchases from stores in Mexico under the excise tax on sugar sweetened beverages: observational study
    2016 520 citations M. Arantxa Colchero, Barry M. Popkin et al. BMJ profile →
  3. In Mexico, Evidence Of Sustained Consumer Response Two Years After Implementing A Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
    2017 417 citations M. Arantxa Colchero, Juan Á. Rivera et al. profile →
  4. An evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on sugar-sweetened beverage purchases from 2015 to 2017: A before-and-after study
    2020 299 citations M. Arantxa Colchero, Barry M. Popkin et al. PLoS Medicine profile →
  5. Changes in food purchases after the Chilean policies on food labelling, marketing, and sales in schools: a before and after study
    2021 149 citations Barry M. Popkin, M. Arantxa Colchero et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. Arantxa Colchero Mexico 25 2.2k 825 800 796 431 89 3.8k
Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza Brazil 33 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 349 0.4× 452 0.6× 180 0.4× 130 3.5k
David Guwatudde Uganda 31 900 0.4× 514 0.6× 461 0.6× 648 0.8× 158 0.4× 121 3.2k
Luke Allen United Kingdom 20 803 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 849 1.1× 497 0.6× 211 0.5× 103 3.0k
Syed Masud Ahmed Bangladesh 37 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.9× 353 0.4× 315 0.4× 598 1.4× 152 4.5k
Jaime Sepúlveda Mexico 25 3.0k 1.4× 2.7k 3.3× 396 0.5× 620 0.8× 387 0.9× 63 6.4k
Rajesh Kumar India 35 762 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 432 0.5× 616 0.8× 174 0.4× 222 5.9k
Gershim Asiki Kenya 28 476 0.2× 535 0.6× 350 0.4× 535 0.7× 161 0.4× 145 2.3k
Ellis Owusu‐Dabo Ghana 32 815 0.4× 394 0.5× 341 0.4× 935 1.2× 84 0.2× 213 3.8k
Taryn Young South Africa 31 1.3k 0.6× 1.5k 1.9× 112 0.1× 568 0.7× 324 0.8× 163 4.2k
Jeremy A. Lauer Switzerland 32 896 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 267 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 1.1k 2.5× 59 5.4k

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All Works

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Basto‐Abreu, Ana, et al.. (2025). Expected benefits of increasing taxes to nonessential energy-dense foods in Mexico: a modeling study. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 624–624.
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Unar‐Munguía, Mishel, et al.. (2025). Simulating price subsidies on healthy foods in Mexico. Public Health Nutrition. 28(1). e74–e74.
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Torres‐Ibarra, Leticia, Martha Carnalla, Ana Basto‐Abreu, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of Post-COVID conditions among Mexican COVID-19 survivors: a nationwide cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 1729–1729. 1 indexed citations
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Carnalla, Martha, Dalia Stern, M. Arantxa Colchero, et al.. (2024). Who is getting COVID-19 boosters? A latent class analysis in a nationally representative sample of Mexican adults 60 years and over. Vaccine. 42(14). 3273–3276. 1 indexed citations
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Colchero, M. Arantxa, et al.. (2023). Elección de proveedores de servicios de atención y necesidades de salud de la población mexicana, 2021. Salud Pública de México. 65(1, ene-feb). 28–35. 3 indexed citations
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Unar‐Munguía, Mishel, et al.. (2022). Changes in apparent consumption of staple food in Mexico associated with the gradual implementation of the NAFTA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(11). e0001144–e0001144. 2 indexed citations
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Mullachery, Pricila H., D. Alex Quistberg, Mariana Lazo, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the national sobriety checkpoints program in Mexico: a difference-in-difference approach with variation in timing of program adoption. Injury Epidemiology. 9(1). 32–32. 7 indexed citations
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Ng, Shu Wen, M. Arantxa Colchero, & Martin White. (2021). How should we evaluate sweetened beverage tax policies? A review of worldwide experience. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 1941–1941. 20 indexed citations
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Colchero, M. Arantxa, Guillermo Paraje, & Barry M. Popkin. (2021). The impacts on food purchases and tax revenues of a tax based on Chile’s nutrient profiling model. PLoS ONE. 16(12). e0260693–e0260693. 11 indexed citations
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Vidaña‐Pérez, Dèsirée, Ariela Braverman‐Bronstein, M. Arantxa Colchero, et al.. (2021). Equitability of Individual and Population Interventions to Reduce Obesity: A Modeling Study in Mexico. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 62(1). 105–113. 7 indexed citations
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Colchero, M. Arantxa, et al.. (2021). Health care utilization during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico: the cascade of care. Salud Pública de México. 63(6, Nov-Dic). 743–750. 13 indexed citations
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Basto‐Abreu, Ana, Francisco Canto‐Osorio, M. Arantxa Colchero, et al.. (2020). Predicting obesity reduction after implementing warning labels in Mexico: A modeling study. PLoS Medicine. 17(7). e1003221–e1003221. 53 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Romero, Luz María, Francisco Canto‐Osorio, M. Arantxa Colchero, et al.. (2020). Association between tax on sugar sweetened beverages and soft drink consumption in adults in Mexico: open cohort longitudinal analysis of Health Workers Cohort Study. BMJ. 369. m1311–m1311. 53 indexed citations
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Colchero, M. Arantxa, et al.. (2019). Caracterización de la “cascada de atención” en servicios públicos en México en localidades de menos de 100 000 habitantes. Salud Pública de México. 61(6, nov-dic). 734–734. 9 indexed citations
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Barrientos‐Gutiérrez, Tonatiuh, M. Arantxa Colchero, Luz María Sánchez‐Romero, Carolina Batis, & Juan Á. Rivera. (2018). Posicionamiento sobre los impuestos a alimentos no básicos densamente energéticos y bebidas azucaradas. Salud Pública de México. 60(5, sep-oct). 586–586. 31 indexed citations
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Guerrero-López, Carlos Manuel, Mishel Unar‐Munguía, & M. Arantxa Colchero. (2017). Price elasticity of the demand for soft drinks, other sugar-sweetened beverages and energy dense food in Chile. BMC Public Health. 17(1). 180–180. 69 indexed citations
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Colchero, M. Arantxa, et al.. (2015). The costs of inadequate breastfeeding of infants in Mexico. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 101(3). 579–586. 41 indexed citations
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Bautista‐Arredondo, Sergio, M. Arantxa Colchero, Martín Romero, Carlos J. Conde‐Glez, & Sandra G. Sosa‐Rubí. (2013). Is the HIV Epidemic Stable among MSM in Mexico? HIV Prevalence and Risk Behavior Results from a Nationally Representative Survey among Men Who Have Sex with Men. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e72616–e72616. 72 indexed citations
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Frick, Kevin D., et al.. (2003). Estimating the burden and economic impact of trachomatous visual loss. Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 10(2). 121–132. 58 indexed citations

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