Malek Batal

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Malek Batal is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Malek Batal has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in General Health Professions, 44 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 28 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Malek Batal's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (39 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (30 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (29 papers). Malek Batal is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (39 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (30 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (29 papers). Malek Batal collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Lebanon and United States. Malek Batal's co-authors include Jean‐Claude Moubarac, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Maria Laura da Costa Louzada, Eurídice Martínez Steele, Hing Man Chan, Amy Ing, Karen Fediuk, Tonio Sadik, Louise Johnson‐Down and Constantine Tikhonov and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Malek Batal

100 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Consumption of ultra-processed foods predicts diet qualit... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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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. Consumption of ultra-processed foods predicts diet quality in Canada
    2016 465 citations Malek Batal 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
Malek Batal Canada 28 1.4k 849 624 273 241 106 3.0k
Helen Walls United Kingdom 27 979 0.7× 694 0.8× 488 0.8× 192 0.7× 224 0.9× 93 2.7k
Amanda Lee Australia 31 1.4k 1.0× 959 1.1× 381 0.6× 259 0.9× 203 0.8× 96 3.0k
Oyinlola Oyebode United Kingdom 24 708 0.5× 536 0.6× 396 0.6× 253 0.9× 159 0.7× 94 2.6k
Jessica C. Jones‐Smith United States 25 1.8k 1.2× 834 1.0× 516 0.8× 333 1.2× 97 0.4× 105 2.7k
Joseph R. Sharkey United States 30 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 458 0.7× 296 1.1× 90 0.4× 94 2.8k
Lindsay M. Jaacks United States 31 1.5k 1.0× 420 0.5× 588 0.9× 158 0.6× 275 1.1× 137 4.2k
Joceline Pomerleau United Kingdom 28 1.6k 1.1× 856 1.0× 362 0.6× 284 1.0× 138 0.6× 50 3.0k
Sangita Sharma Canada 42 2.9k 2.0× 1.7k 2.0× 923 1.5× 524 1.9× 224 0.9× 169 5.1k
Barrie Margetts United Kingdom 34 1.6k 1.1× 930 1.1× 1.2k 1.9× 137 0.5× 123 0.5× 87 4.2k
Shufa Du United States 31 2.5k 1.7× 509 0.6× 1.3k 2.0× 356 1.3× 137 0.6× 93 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Malek Batal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Malek Batal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malek Batal

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All Works

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Béland, Daniel, Rachel Engler‐Stringer, Judy White, et al.. (2024). Are residency and type of refugee settlement program associated with food (in)security among Syrian refugees who have resettled in Canada since 2015?. Food Security. 16(5). 1175–1202.
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Batal, Malek, et al.. (2024). Exploring Indigenous food sovereignty and food environments characteristics through food interventions in Canada: a scoping review. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 84(1). 2438428–2438428.
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Batal, Malek, et al.. (2022). Determinants of dietary diversity among children 6–23 months: a cross‐sectional study in three regions of Haiti. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36(3). 833–847. 3 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek, Hing Man Chan, Karen Fediuk, et al.. (2021). Associations of health status and diabetes among First Nations Peoples living on-reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 112(S1). 154–167. 22 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek, Hing Man Chan, Amy Ing, et al.. (2021). Comparison of measures of diet quality using 24-hour recall data of First Nations adults living on reserves in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 112(S1). 41–51. 8 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek, Hing Man Chan, Amy Ing, et al.. (2021). First Nations households living on-reserve experience food insecurity: prevalence and predictors among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 112(S1). 52–63. 36 indexed citations
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Mercille, Geneviève, et al.. (2021). Promoting traditional foods for human and environmental health: lessons from agroecology and Indigenous communities in Ecuador. BMC Nutrition. 7(1). 1–1. 21 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek, Hing Man Chan, Karen Fediuk, et al.. (2021). Importance of the traditional food systems for First Nations adults living on reserves in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 112(S1). 20–28. 35 indexed citations
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Kenny, Tiff‐Annie, Matthew Little, P. Joshua Griffin, et al.. (2020). The Retail Food Sector and Indigenous Peoples in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(23). 8818–8818. 18 indexed citations
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Kenny, Tiff‐Annie, Malek Batal, William W. L. Cheung, et al.. (2019). Potential impacts of climate-related decline of seafood harvest on nutritional status of coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211473–e0211473. 33 indexed citations
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Mercille, Geneviève, et al.. (2019). The Agroecological Farmer’s Pathways from Agriculture to Nutrition: A Practice-Based Case from Ecuador’s Highlands. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 58(2). 142–165. 33 indexed citations
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Kristjansson, Elizabeth, Damian Francis, Selma Liberato, et al.. (2015). Food Supplementation for Improving the Physical and Psychosocial Health of Socio‐economically Disadvantaged Children Aged Three Months to Five Years: A Systematic Review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 11(1). 1–226. 16 indexed citations
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Kristjansson, Elizabeth, Damian Francis, Selma Liberato, et al.. (2013). PROTOCOL: Feeding Interventions for Improving the Physical and Psychosocial Health of Disadvantaged Children Aged Three Months to Five Years: Protocol for a Systematic Review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 9(1). 1–41. 3 indexed citations
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Mattar, Lama, et al.. (2010). Stimulation of postprandial in vivo glycogenesis and lipogenesis of rats fed high fructose diet with varied phosphate content. Nutrition Research. 30(2). 151–155. 6 indexed citations
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Johns, Timothy, et al.. (2009). Perceived health and medicinal properties of six species of wild edible plants in north-east Lebanon. Public Health Nutrition. 12(10). 1902–1911. 38 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek & Elizabeth Hunter. (2007). Traditional Lebanese Recipes Based on Wild Plants: An Answer to Diet Simplification?. Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 28(2_suppl2). S303–S311. 37 indexed citations
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Batal, Malek, Katherine Gray‐Donald, Harriet V. Kuhnlein, & Olivier Receveur. (2005). Estimation of traditional food intake in indigenous communities in Denendeh and the Yukon.. Scopus. 3 indexed citations

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