Matthew Hobbs

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Matthew Hobbs is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Hobbs has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 21 papers in Transportation and 18 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Matthew Hobbs's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (29 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers). Matthew Hobbs is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (29 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (21 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (14 papers). Matthew Hobbs collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. Matthew Hobbs's co-authors include Claire Griffiths, Emma Wilkins, Lukáš Marek, Jim McKenna, Emily Henderson, Stephen Zwolinsky, Christina Vogel, Mark Green, Stuart Biddle and Malcolm Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Hobbs

70 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Hobbs New Zealand	19	537	233	214	206	186	75	1.4k
Fei Xu China	24	771 1.4×	124 0.5×	144 0.7×	301 1.5×	115 0.6×	91	1.6k
Claire Griffiths United Kingdom	21	728 1.4×	216 0.9×	128 0.6×	298 1.4×	115 0.6×	54	1.5k
Anju Aggarwal India	26	1.2k 2.2×	128 0.5×	324 1.5×	396 1.9×	109 0.6×	127	2.5k
Abiodun Oluyomi United States	20	271 0.5×	227 1.0×	59 0.3×	179 0.9×	125 0.7×	73	1.1k
Ofer Amram United States	22	423 0.8×	140 0.6×	115 0.5×	190 0.9×	117 0.6×	79	1.4k
Heather Manson Canada	20	535 1.0×	132 0.6×	140 0.7×	723 3.5×	231 1.2×	75	1.8k
Karen E. Lamb Australia	27	1.0k 1.9×	635 2.7×	269 1.3×	268 1.3×	201 1.1×	134	2.4k
Sarah E. Wiehe United States	26	373 0.7×	159 0.7×	160 0.7×	715 3.5×	255 1.4×	128	2.2k
Andrea Ramírez Varela Colombia	22	669 1.2×	168 0.7×	112 0.5×	379 1.8×	77 0.4×	128	1.5k
Anniza de Villiers South Africa	22	774 1.4×	124 0.5×	118 0.6×	287 1.4×	93 0.5×	78	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Hobbs

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Marek, Lukáš, Sandra Mandic, John C. Spence, et al.. (2025). Access to Healthy Built and Natural Environments and Physical Activity and Screen Time in New Zealand Adolescents: A Geospatial Cross‐Sectional Study. GeoHealth. 9(1). e2024GH001101–e2024GH001101.

Campbell, Malcolm & Matthew Hobbs. (2024). Up in smoke. The unravelling of world-leading policy changes in Smokefree legislation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 48(6). 100209–100209. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Bowen, Joseph M. Boden, Ning Ye, et al.. (2024). Life in green: Associations between greenspace availability and mental health over the lifecourse – A 40-year prospective birth cohort study. Environment International. 195. 109223–109223. 2 indexed citations

Webster, Angela C, et al.. (2024). In-Center Hemodialysis and Patient Travel Time in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Nationwide Geospatial and Data Linkage Study. Kidney International Reports. 10(3). 921–934. 1 indexed citations

Hobbs, Matthew, Lukáš Marek, Lianne J. Woodward, et al.. (2024). Exploring the feasibility of linking historical air pollution data to the Christchurch Health and Development study: A birth cohort study in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 50. 100675–100675. 1 indexed citations

Marek, Lukáš, et al.. (2023). Towards a better understanding of residential mobility and the environments in which adults reside: A nationwide geospatial study from Aotearoa New Zealand. Habitat International. 133. 102762–102762. 11 indexed citations

Hobbs, Matthew, Samuel P. Hills, Lukáš Marek, Mike Tipton, & Martin J. Barwood. (2023). Investigating the spatial clustering of drowning events in the United Kingdom: A geospatial cross-sectional study. Applied Geography. 158. 103006–103006. 1 indexed citations

Chambers, Tim, et al.. (2023). The development and validation of a nationwide dataset of water distribution zones in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-sectional geospatial study. Data in Brief. 49. 109349–109349. 4 indexed citations

Braund, Rhiannon, et al.. (2023). Disparities in utilisation of combined oral contraceptives in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross‐sectional whole‐of‐population study. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 63(3). 441–447. 2 indexed citations

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Schlüter, Philip J., et al.. (2023). Adolescents and oral health service utilization in Canterbury, New Zealand: A geospatial cross‐sectional study. Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology. 51(3). 388–398. 5 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Examining spatial variation for immunisation coverage in pregnant women: A nationwide and geospatial retrospective cohort study in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social Science & Medicine. 335. 116228–116228. 1 indexed citations

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Schofield, Deborah, Evelyn Lee, Simon Kelly, et al.. (2023). Economic evaluation of population-based, expanded reproductive carrier screening for genetic diseases in Australia. Genetics in Medicine. 25(5). 100813–100813. 11 indexed citations

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Mackenbach, Joreintje D., Matthew Hobbs, & Maria Gabriela Matias de Pinho. (2022). Where do Dutch adults obtain their snack foods? Cross-sectional exploration of individuals' interactions with the food environment. Health & Place. 75. 102802–102802. 15 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, et al.. (2022). Investigating the transmission risk of infectious disease outbreaks through the Aotearoa Co-incidence Network (ACN): a population-based study. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 20. 100351–100351. 3 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, Taciano L. Milfont, Lukáš Marek, Kumar Yogeeswaran, & Chris G. Sibley. (2022). The environment an adult resides within is associated with their health behaviours, and their mental and physical health outcomes: a nationwide geospatial study. Social Science & Medicine. 301. 114801–114801. 11 indexed citations

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Marek, Lukáš, et al.. (2021). Understanding vulnerability to COVID‐19 in New Zealand: a nationwide cross‐sectional study. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 51(S1). 15 indexed citations

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Daly-Smith, Andy, et al.. (2021). Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity in Primary School Children: Inactive Lessons Are Dominated by Maths and English. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(3). 990–990. 9 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Investigating change in the food environment over 10 years in urban New Zealand: A longitudinal and nationwide geospatial study. Social Science & Medicine. 269. 113522–113522. 25 indexed citations

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Hobbs, Matthew, Mitch J. Duncan, Peter Collins, et al.. (2018). Clusters of health behaviours in Queensland adults are associated with different socio-demographic characteristics. Journal of Public Health. 41(2). 268–277. 20 indexed citations

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Dickinson, Federico, et al.. (2013). Maternal short stature does not predict their children's fatness indicators in a nutritional dual‐burden sample of urban Mexican Maya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 153(4). 627–634. 11 indexed citations

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