Melanie Cowan

34.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
19 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Melanie Cowan is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie Cowan has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 5 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Melanie Cowan's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (5 papers). Melanie Cowan is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (5 papers). Melanie Cowan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Melanie Cowan's co-authors include Leanne M Riley, Farshad Farzadfar, Timothy Armstrong, Gretchen A Stevens, Gitanjali M Singh, John K. Lin, Christopher Paciorek, Mariel M. Finucane, Goodarz Danaei and Majid Ezzati and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Melanie Cowan

19 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma g... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2011 2011 2012 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melanie Cowan Switzerland 17 2.5k 1.9k 1.5k 1.5k 1.3k 19 8.7k
Farshad Farzadfar Iran 43 2.6k 1.1× 2.4k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 303 11.4k
Nizal Sarrafzadegan Iran 51 2.7k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 2.6k 1.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 429 9.6k
Naomi Levitt South Africa 57 2.1k 0.8× 3.4k 1.8× 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 2.5k 1.9× 362 11.9k
Young‐Ho Khang South Korea 39 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 166 11.2k
Anna Peeters Australia 51 4.7k 1.9× 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 2.2k 1.5× 999 0.8× 318 10.9k
Maximilian de Courten Australia 52 1.9k 0.8× 3.5k 1.9× 1.1k 0.8× 2.5k 1.7× 1.8k 1.4× 185 9.9k
Arch G. Mainous United States 60 3.1k 1.3× 1.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 2.3k 1.6× 2.3k 1.7× 415 14.2k
Krisela Steyn South Africa 49 2.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 869 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 178 7.9k
Adrian J. Cameron Australia 46 4.5k 1.8× 2.7k 1.4× 969 0.7× 2.3k 1.6× 1.3k 1.0× 160 10.0k
Yuan Lu United States 30 1.5k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 2.0k 1.4× 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 143 8.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Melanie Cowan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melanie Cowan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melanie Cowan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melanie Cowan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melanie Cowan 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 Melanie Cowan. Melanie Cowan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Strain, Tessa, Seth Flaxman, Regina Guthold, et al.. (2024). National, regional, and global trends in insufficient physical activity among adults from 2000 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 507 population-based surveys with 5·7 million participants. The Lancet Global Health. 12(8). e1232–e1243. 264 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bruni, Laia, Beatriz Serrano, Esther Roura, et al.. (2022). Cervical cancer screening programmes and age-specific coverage estimates for 202 countries and territories worldwide: a review and synthetic analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 10(8). e1115–e1127. 282 indexed citations breakdown →
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Strain, Tessa, Katrien Wijndaele, Leandro García, et al.. (2020). Levels of domain-specific physical activity at work, in the household, for travel and for leisure among 327 789 adults from 104 countries. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(24). 1488–1497. 98 indexed citations
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Varghese, Cherian, Oyere K. Onuma, Melanie Cowan, Stephen M. Davis, & Bo Norrving. (2016). World Health Organization. Stroke. 47(8). e210–e210. 86 indexed citations
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Aryal, Krishna Kumar, Suresh Mehata, Abhinav Vaidya, et al.. (2015). The Burden and Determinants of Non Communicable Diseases Risk Factors in Nepal: Findings from a Nationwide STEPS Survey. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0134834–e0134834. 214 indexed citations
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Riley, Leanne M, Regina Guthold, Melanie Cowan, et al.. (2015). The World Health Organization STEPwise Approach to Noncommunicable Disease Risk-Factor Surveillance: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities. American Journal of Public Health. 106(1). 74–78. 408 indexed citations breakdown →
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Winkler, Volker, Jördis J. Ott, Melanie Cowan, & Heiko Becher. (2013). Smoking prevalence and its impacts on lung cancer mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: An epidemiological study. Preventive Medicine. 57(5). 634–640. 15 indexed citations
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Cesare, Mariachiara Di, Young‐Ho Khang, Perviz Asaria, et al.. (2013). Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses. The Lancet. 381(9866). 585–597. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Danaei, Goodarz, Gitanjali M Singh, Christopher Paciorek, et al.. (2013). The Global Cardiovascular Risk Transition. Circulation. 127(14). 1493–1502. 193 indexed citations
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Stevens, Gretchen A, Gitanjali M Singh, Yuan Lu, et al.. (2012). National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences. Population Health Metrics. 10(1). 22–22. 683 indexed citations breakdown →
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Singh, Gitanjali M, Goodarz Danaei, Pamela M Pelizzari, et al.. (2012). The Age Associations of Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Glucose. Circulation. 125(18). 2204–2211. 58 indexed citations
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Danaei, Goodarz, Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M. Finucane, et al.. (2011). O5-3.1 Global, regional and national trends in metabolic risk factors of chronic diseases: analysis of health surveys and epidemiologic studies since 1980. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 65(Suppl 1). A52.1–A52. 3 indexed citations
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Armstrong, Timothy, et al.. (2011). Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2011.. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. 2(S3). S36–S36. 1320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Farzadfar, Farshad, Mariel M. Finucane, Goodarz Danaei, et al.. (2011). National, regional, and global trends in serum total cholesterol since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 321 country-years and 3·0 million participants. The Lancet. 377(9765). 578–586. 389 indexed citations breakdown →
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Danaei, Goodarz, Mariel M. Finucane, John K. Lin, et al.. (2011). National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants. The Lancet. 377(9765). 568–577. 960 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guthold, Regina, Leanne M Riley, Melanie Cowan, et al.. (2011). Physical Activity in 22 African Countries. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 41(1). 52–60. 141 indexed citations
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Danaei, Goodarz, Mariel M. Finucane, Yuan Lu, et al.. (2011). National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants. The Lancet. 378(9785). 31–40. 2756 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guthold, Regina, Melanie Cowan, Christine S. Autenrieth, Laura Kann, & Leanne M Riley. (2010). Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Among Schoolchildren: A 34-Country Comparison. The Journal of Pediatrics. 157(1). 43–49.e1. 323 indexed citations

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