Meghan O’Hearn

961 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 378 citations indexed

About

Meghan O’Hearn is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Meghan O’Hearn has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 378 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Meghan O’Hearn's work include Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (6 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (4 papers). Meghan O’Hearn is often cited by papers focused on Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (6 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (4 papers). Meghan O’Hearn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Meghan O’Hearn's co-authors include Dariush Mozaffarian, Renata Micha, John B. Wong, Frederick Cudhea, Brianna N. Lauren, Junxiu Liu, David D. Kim, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Peilin Shi and Paul F. Jacques and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Meghan O’Hearn

15 papers receiving 368 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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. Trends and Disparities in Cardiometabolic Health Among U.S. Adults, 1999-2018
    2022 100 citations Meghan O’Hearn, Brianna N. Lauren et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Meghan O’Hearn United States 7 166 55 52 51 43 17 378
Gabriela Macedo‐Ojeda Mexico 13 179 1.1× 97 1.8× 65 1.3× 21 0.4× 21 0.5× 25 513
Nino Berdzuli Denmark 9 151 0.9× 17 0.3× 45 0.9× 15 0.3× 65 1.5× 18 475
C. Kelly United Kingdom 11 196 1.2× 19 0.3× 60 1.2× 31 0.6× 18 0.4× 25 477
Archik Das United Kingdom 5 198 1.2× 38 0.7× 141 2.7× 41 0.8× 18 0.4× 8 364
Emily Johnston United States 10 192 1.2× 15 0.3× 107 2.1× 18 0.4× 24 0.6× 24 350
Meredith L. Wilcox United States 13 177 1.1× 14 0.3× 162 3.1× 24 0.5× 25 0.6× 38 602
Deksha Kapoor India 9 95 0.6× 6 0.1× 52 1.0× 39 0.8× 40 0.9× 19 318
S.M.A.J. Tielemans Netherlands 8 109 0.7× 14 0.3× 69 1.3× 84 1.6× 11 0.3× 11 317
N. S. Karamnova Russia 11 139 0.8× 25 0.5× 103 2.0× 71 1.4× 3 0.1× 74 511
Day N United Kingdom 7 338 2.0× 27 0.5× 116 2.2× 30 0.6× 7 0.2× 10 562

Countries citing papers authored by Meghan O’Hearn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meghan O’Hearn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meghan O’Hearn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Meghan O’Hearn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Meghan O’Hearn based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Meghan O’Hearn. Meghan O’Hearn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Barrett, Eden M., Peilin Shi, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, et al.. (2024). Food Compass 2.0 is an improved nutrient profiling system to characterize healthfulness of foods and beverages. Nature Food. 5(11). 911–915. 6 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Victoria Miller, Peilin Shi, et al.. (2024). Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Burdens Attributable to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Among Adults in 184 Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8. 103510–103510. 4 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Julia Reedy, Ella Robinson, et al.. (2023). Landscape analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing metrics for consumer nutrition and health in the food and beverage sector. BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health. 6(2). 139–152. 3 indexed citations
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Shekar, Meera, Meghan O’Hearn, E. Eric Knudsen, et al.. (2023). Innovative financing for nutrition. Nature Food. 4(6). 464–471. 3 indexed citations
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Robinson, Ella, Jasmine Chan, Meghan O’Hearn, Dariush Mozaffarian, & Gary Sacks. (2023). A comparative analysis of nutrition-related assessment criteria and associated nutrition performance scores of food companies across three prominent corporate sustainability assessment tools. Public Health Nutrition. 26(12). 2677–2690.
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O’Hearn, Meghan, et al.. (2023). Changes in Food Security, Healthfulness, and Access During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Results From a National United States Survey. Current Developments in Nutrition. 7(3). 100060–100060. 6 indexed citations
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Erndt‐Marino, Josh, Meghan O’Hearn, & Giulia Menichetti. (2023). An integrative analytical framework to identify healthy, impactful, and equitable foods: a case study on 100% orange juice. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 74(6). 668–684. 1 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Brianna N. Lauren, Christina D. Economos, et al.. (2022). Validation of Food Compass with a healthy diet, cardiometabolic health, and mortality among U.S. adults, 1999–2018. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7066–7066. 27 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, et al.. (2022). The time is ripe for ESG + Nutrition: evidence-based nutrition metrics for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 76(8). 1047–1052. 21 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Brianna N. Lauren, John B. Wong, David D. Kim, & Dariush Mozaffarian. (2022). Trends and Disparities in Cardiometabolic Health Among U.S. Adults, 1999-2018. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 80(2). 138–151. 100 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reedy, Julia, et al.. (2022). How Americans Define Health for Food and Beverages. Current Developments in Nutrition. 6. 484–484. 1 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Junxiu Liu, Frederick Cudhea, Renata Micha, & Dariush Mozaffarian. (2021). Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hospitalizations Attributable to Cardiometabolic Conditions in the United States: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association. 10(5). e019259–e019259. 111 indexed citations
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Mozaffarian, Dariush, Naglaa El-Abbadi, Meghan O’Hearn, et al.. (2021). Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods. Nature Food. 2(10). 809–818. 77 indexed citations
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Harris–Fry, Helen, Meghan O’Hearn, Sneha Krishnan, et al.. (2020). How to design a complex behaviour change intervention: experiences from a nutrition-sensitive agriculture trial in rural India. BMJ Global Health. 5(6). e002384–e002384. 8 indexed citations
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Gitanjali Singh, Frederick Cudhea, et al.. (2020). The Impact of Suboptimal Diet on Type 2 Diabetes at Global, Regional, National, and Sub-National Levels: A Comparative Risk Assessment Analysis. Current Developments in Nutrition. 4. nzaa053_082–nzaa053_082.
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O’Hearn, Meghan, Fumiaki Imamura, Frederick Cudhea, et al.. (2019). The State of Diet Quality Globally: A Systematic Assessment of Worldwide Dietary Patterns Using the Global Dietary Database (P10-045-19). Current Developments in Nutrition. 3. nzz034.P10–45. 7 indexed citations

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