Mary R. L’Abbé

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
261 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Mary R. L’Abbé is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary R. L’Abbé has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 111 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 21 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Mary R. L’Abbé's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (130 papers), Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (128 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (96 papers). Mary R. L’Abbé is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (130 papers), Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (128 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (96 papers). Mary R. L’Abbé collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Mary R. L’Abbé's co-authors include Peter W.F. Fischer, Jesse Bertinato, Mahsa Jessri, Wendy Lou, Mavra Ahmed, JoAnne Arcand, Keith D. Trick, Beatriz Franco‐Arellano, Alyssa Schermel and Jodi T. Bernstein and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mary R. L’Abbé

246 papers receiving 6.3k citations

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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.

INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non‐communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles

2013 444 citations Boyd Swinburn, Gary Sacks et al. Obesity Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mary R. L’Abbé Canada	43	3.4k	2.7k	653	590	488	261	6.5k
John Powles United Kingdom	31	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	977 1.5×	302 0.5×	508 1.0×	82	7.0k
Stefanie Vandevijvere Belgium	42	4.4k 1.3×	1.1k 0.4×	706 1.1×	373 0.6×	750 1.5×	258	7.5k
Anura V. Kurpad India	48	2.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 2.4×	308 0.5×	197 0.4×	415	8.3k
Camila Corvalán Chile	37	4.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	597 0.9×	369 0.6×	424 0.9×	172	7.0k
José M. Martin‐Moreno Spain	38	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	953 1.5×	753 1.3×	139 0.3×	143	6.2k
Francesco Branca Italy	37	1.5k 0.4×	3.0k 1.1×	601 0.9×	185 0.3×	187 0.4×	96	6.6k
José L. Peñalvo United States	39	2.8k 0.8×	945 0.4×	912 1.4×	134 0.2×	324 0.7×	134	5.6k
Fumiaki Imamura United Kingdom	36	4.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.2k 3.3×	136 0.2×	359 0.7×	97	8.6k
Léopold Fezeu France	47	3.6k 1.1×	792 0.3×	1.3k 2.0×	156 0.3×	328 0.7×	166	6.8k
Zumin Shi Qatar	48	3.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 2.7×	498 0.8×	130 0.3×	344	8.3k

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Tiscornia, María Victoria, et al.. (2025). Monitoring sodium content in packaged foods sold in the Americas and compliance with the updated regional sodium reduction targets. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0304922–e0304922.

Lee, Jennifer J., Christine Mulligan, Mavra Ahmed, & Mary R. L’Abbé. (2024). Comparing Canada’s 2018 proposed and 2022 final front-of-pack labelling regulations using generic food composition data and a nationally representative dietary intake survey. Public Health Nutrition. 27(1). e223–e223. 1 indexed citations

Ahmed, Mavra, et al.. (2023). Top Sodium Food Sources in the American Diet—Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Nutrients. 15(4). 831–831. 10 indexed citations

Mulligan, Christine, et al.. (2023). Qualitative analysis of front-of package labeling policy interactions between stakeholders and Health Canada. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 982908–982908. 2 indexed citations

Tiscornia, María Victoria, et al.. (2023). Accelerating the Classification of NOVA Food Processing Levels Using a Fine-Tuned Language Model: A Multi-Country Study. Nutrients. 15(19). 4167–4167. 8 indexed citations

Mulligan, Christine, Laura Vergeer, Monique Potvin Kent, & Mary R. L’Abbé. (2023). Child-appealing packaged food and beverage products in Canada–Prevalence, power, and nutritional quality. PLoS ONE. 18(5). e0284350–e0284350. 4 indexed citations

Blanco‐Metzler, Adriana, Beatriz Franco‐Arellano, Lorena Allemandi, et al.. (2021). Changes in the Sodium Content of Foods Sold in Four Latin American Countries: 2015 to 2018. Nutrients. 13(11). 4108–4108. 7 indexed citations

Carducci, Bianca, Christina Oh, Daniel Roth, et al.. (2021). Gaps and priorities in assessment of food environments for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries. Nature Food. 2(6). 396–403. 19 indexed citations

Smith, Brendan T., Mahsa Jessri, JoAnne Arcand, et al.. (2021). The Equity and Effectiveness of Achieving Canada’s Voluntary Sodium Reduction Guidance Targets: A Modelling Study Using the 2015 Canadian Community Health Survey—Nutrition. Nutrients. 13(3). 779–779. 5 indexed citations

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Franco‐Arellano, Beatriz, JoAnne Arcand, Min Ah Kim, Alyssa Schermel, & Mary R. L’Abbé. (2020). Progress towards eliminating industrially produced trans-fatty acids in the Canadian marketplace, 2013–2017. Public Health Nutrition. 23(13). 2257–2267. 31 indexed citations

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Dunford, Elizabeth, Cliona Ní Mhurchú, Liping Huang, et al.. (2019). A comparison of the healthiness of packaged foods and beverages from 12 countries using the Health Star Rating nutrient profiling system, 2013–2018. Obesity Reviews. 20(S2). 107–115. 43 indexed citations

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Sacks, Gary, Lana Vanderlee, Ella Robinson, et al.. (2019). BIA‐Obesity (Business Impact Assessment—Obesity and population‐level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level. Obesity Reviews. 20(S2). 78–89. 41 indexed citations

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Campbell, Norm R.C., Feng J. He, Monique Tan, et al.. (2019). The International Consortium for Quality Research on Dietary Sodium/Salt (TRUE) position statement on the use of 24‐hour, spot, and short duration (<24 hours) timed urine collections to assess dietary sodium intake. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 21(6). 700–709. 86 indexed citations

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Doktorchik, Chelsea, Mark Woodward, Mary E. Cogswell, et al.. (2018). Percentage of ingested sodium excreted in 24‐hour urine collections: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 20(9). 1220–1229. 64 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen, Jun Shen, Long Tan, et al.. (2018). Reproducible and reliable general semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire for evaluating iodine intake in Chinese children. Nutrition Research. 55. 72–80. 16 indexed citations

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Raine, Kim D., Dana Lee Olstad, Dominique Beaulieu, et al.. (2018). Healthy food procurement and nutrition standards in public facilities: evidence synthesis and consensus policy recommendations. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada. 38(1). 6–17. 28 indexed citations

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Franco‐Arellano, Beatriz, et al.. (2017). GLOBAL EVIDENCE ON NUTRIENT PROFILE MODELS WITH APPLICATIONS IN GOVERNMENT-LED NUTRITION POLICIES AIMED AT HEALTH PROMOTION AND NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 71. 718–718. 1 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Metzler, Adriana, et al.. (2017). Baseline and Estimated Trends of Sodium Availability and Food Sources in the Costa Rican Population during 2004–2005 and 2012–2013. Nutrients. 9(9). 1020–1020. 20 indexed citations

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Gallo, Sina, Tom J. Hazell, Catherine A. Vanstone, et al.. (2016). Vitamin D supplementation in breastfed infants from Montréal, Canada: 25-hydroxyvitamin D and bone health effects from a follow-up study at 3 years of age. Osteoporosis International. 27(8). 2459–2466. 25 indexed citations

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Fischer, Peter W.F., et al.. (1983). Effects of Zinc on Mucosal Copper Binding and on the Kinetics of Copper Absorption. Journal of Nutrition. 113(2). 462–469. 71 indexed citations

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