Michaela Howells

487 total citations
22 papers, 301 citations indexed

About

Michaela Howells is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michaela Howells has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 301 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Michaela Howells's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (5 papers), Career Development and Diversity (3 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (3 papers). Michaela Howells is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (5 papers), Career Development and Diversity (3 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (3 papers). Michaela Howells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Michaela Howells's co-authors include Jill D. Pruetz, James E. Loudon, Thomas R. Gillespie, Agustín Fuentes, Daryl Codron, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Matt Sponheimer, Jacqui Codron and J. S. Alabaster and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Fish Biology and Journal of Human Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Michaela Howells

19 papers receiving 282 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michaela Howells United States 8 160 130 69 57 41 22 301
Victor Narat France 12 155 1.0× 84 0.6× 19 0.3× 66 1.2× 14 0.3× 26 309
Loretta A. Cormier United States 9 194 1.2× 141 1.1× 55 0.8× 46 0.8× 16 0.4× 22 408
James E. Loudon United States 9 288 1.8× 225 1.7× 102 1.5× 17 0.3× 66 1.6× 16 382
Ryan H. Boyko United States 7 198 1.2× 161 1.2× 66 1.0× 13 0.2× 60 1.5× 8 600
Fernando Ballejo Argentina 10 57 0.4× 187 1.4× 35 0.5× 9 0.2× 44 1.1× 18 295
Bruce P. Wheatley United States 9 153 1.0× 57 0.4× 26 0.4× 28 0.5× 25 0.6× 11 315
Sarah Elton Canada 11 53 0.3× 88 0.7× 95 1.4× 174 3.1× 125 3.0× 27 456
Tula Fang Peru 6 86 0.5× 205 1.6× 12 0.2× 23 0.4× 13 0.3× 9 297
Valéria Romano France 11 185 1.2× 59 0.5× 27 0.4× 28 0.5× 20 0.5× 18 348
Hirokazu Yasuoka Japan 11 45 0.3× 143 1.1× 30 0.4× 23 0.4× 16 0.4× 18 295

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michaela Howells

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michaela Howells

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2025). Climate change, evolution, and reproductive health: The impact of water insecurity and heat stress on pregnancy and lactation. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 13(1). 125–139. 1 indexed citations
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Loudon, James E., et al.. (2023). Healing Hanuman’s Army: Veterinary Care as a Core Component of One Health Principles in a Southeast Asian Monkey Forest. Animals. 14(1). 117–117. 2 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2022). Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence. American Journal of Human Biology. 35(1). e23847–e23847. 9 indexed citations
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Loudon, James E., et al.. (2022). Heavy metal ecotoxicology of vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) across field sites in South Africa. Primates. 63(5). 525–533. 3 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela & Kelsey N. Dancause. (2022). “Go with the Flo”: Conducting rapid research on prenatal stress following Hurricane Florence as participant observers. Frontiers in Sociology. 7. 957127–957127. 1 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2022). Is there a difference in student physical activity between a field school and a traditional classroom setting?. American Journal of Human Biology. 34(12). e23799–e23799. 1 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2022). Psychoneuroimmunology and Tattooing. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 8(3). 355–369.
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2021). Impacts of family and fieldwork on career/family balance among tenure‐track and tenured anthropologists. American Journal of Human Biology. 34(S1). e23686–e23686. 1 indexed citations
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Sarma, Mallika S., Theresa E. Gildner, Michaela Howells, et al.. (2021). There and back again: The biosocial dynamics of returning from the field. American Journal of Human Biology. 34(S1). e23673–e23673. 1 indexed citations
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Carney, Robert M., et al.. (2020). Comparing age and sex trends of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, hepatitis and syphilis infections in Samoa in 2012 and 2017. Western Pacific surveillance response journal. 11(1). 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2020). Maternal marital status predicts self‐reported stress among pregnant women following hurricane Florence. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(4). e23427–e23427. 9 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2019). The evolutionary adaptation of body art: Tattooing as costly honest signaling of enhanced immune response in American Samoa. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(4). e23347–e23347. 6 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2018). Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0203500–e0203500. 26 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2018). Zika virus in American Samoa: challenges to prevention in the context of health disparities and non-communicable disease. Annals of Human Biology. 45(3). 229–238. 10 indexed citations
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Howells, Michaela, et al.. (2016). Anthropologists under pressure: perceptions of stress, conflict and support in the pursuit of career-family balance. 2 indexed citations
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Sponheimer, Matt, James E. Loudon, Daryl Codron, et al.. (2006). Do “savanna” chimpanzees consume C4 resources?. Journal of Human Evolution. 51(2). 128–133. 101 indexed citations
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Loudon, James E., Michaela Howells, & Agustín Fuentes. (2006). The Importance of Integrative Anthropology: A Preliminary Investigation Employing Primatological and Cultural Anthropological Data CollectionMethods in Assessing Human-Monkey Co-existence in Bali, Indonesia. Insecta mundi. 43 indexed citations

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