Oli Williams

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 475 citations indexed

About

Oli Williams is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Pharmacy. According to data from OpenAlex, Oli Williams has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 475 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in General Health Professions, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Pharmacy. Recurrent topics in Oli Williams's work include Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (4 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 papers). Oli Williams is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (4 papers) and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 papers). Oli Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Australia. Oli Williams's co-authors include Brett Smith, Simone Fullagar, Ellen Annandale, Kass Gibson, Gareth Wiltshire, Jessica Lee, Glenn Robert, Sara Donetto, Louise Locock and Joanna Goodrich and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Psychology and Health & Place.

In The Last Decade

Oli Williams

18 papers receiving 469 citations

Hit Papers

Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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. Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences
    2022 154 citations Brett Smith, Oli Williams et al. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oli Williams United Kingdom 11 153 103 76 63 57 18 475
Alison Nelson Australia 16 163 1.1× 196 1.9× 69 0.9× 87 1.4× 51 0.9× 47 667
Joe Piggin United Kingdom 13 64 0.4× 189 1.8× 59 0.8× 100 1.6× 45 0.8× 36 502
Claire Drummond Australia 13 81 0.5× 153 1.5× 94 1.2× 159 2.5× 70 1.2× 53 699
Bridget C. Foley Australia 14 138 0.9× 145 1.4× 108 1.4× 214 3.4× 59 1.0× 41 618
Erica Bennett Canada 15 105 0.7× 103 1.0× 162 2.1× 56 0.9× 117 2.1× 36 714
Alex Dumas Canada 13 101 0.7× 89 0.9× 102 1.3× 111 1.8× 16 0.3× 29 468
Elizabeth M. Bertera United States 14 150 1.0× 99 1.0× 91 1.2× 75 1.2× 18 0.3× 23 536
Brad A. Meisner Canada 16 196 1.3× 170 1.7× 262 3.4× 107 1.7× 36 0.6× 38 1.1k
Cherisse L. Seaton Canada 14 266 1.7× 101 1.0× 96 1.3× 125 2.0× 57 1.0× 42 670
Andy Smith United Kingdom 12 60 0.4× 85 0.8× 139 1.8× 80 1.3× 82 1.4× 32 621

Countries citing papers authored by Oli Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oli Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oli Williams

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Williams, Oli, Phillip Baker, & Gary Sacks. (2023). Behind the ‘creative destruction’ of human diets: an analysis of the structure and dynamics of the ultra-processed food manufacturing industry and implications for public health. European Journal of Public Health. 33(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations
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Robert, Glenn, Louise Locock, Oli Williams, et al.. (2022). Co-Producing and Co-Designing. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 54 indexed citations
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Smith, Brett, et al.. (2022). Co-production: A resource to guide co-producing research in the sport, exercise, and health sciences. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health. 15(2). 159–187. 154 indexed citations breakdown →
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Williams, Oli, et al.. (2022). New development: Mitigating and negotiating the co-creation of dis/value—Elinor Ostrom’s design principles and co-creating public value. Public Money & Management. 43(1). 45–50. 6 indexed citations
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Evans, Adam B., Natalie Barker‐Ruchti, Joanna Blackwell, et al.. (2021). Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play. European Journal for Sport and Society. 18(1). 1–17. 20 indexed citations
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Rodgers, Lauren R., Peter Rouse, Oli Williams, et al.. (2021). Moving through Motherhood: Involving the Public in Research to Inform Physical Activity Promotion throughout Pregnancy and Beyond. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9). 4482–4482. 5 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli, Doreen Tembo, Josephine Ocloo, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 1: The Challenges and Necessity of Co-production. Policy Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli, Doreen Tembo, Josephine Ocloo, et al.. (2021). Co- production methods and working together at a distance:: Introduction to Volume 2. Research Portal (King's College London). 3–18. 1 indexed citations
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Beresford, Peter, Michelle Farr, Gary Hickey, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy, and Practice. Policy Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli & Ellen Annandale. (2019). Weight Bias Internalization as an Embodied Process: Understanding How Obesity Stigma Gets Under the Skin. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 953–953. 10 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli & Simone Fullagar. (2018). Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of ‘citizen shift’ in contemporary UK health policy. Sociology of Health & Illness. 41(1). 20–35. 62 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli & Ellen Annandale. (2018). Obesity, stigma and reflexive embodiment: Feeling the ‘weight’ of expectation. Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine. 24(4). 421–441. 29 indexed citations
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Wiltshire, Gareth, Jessica Lee, & Oli Williams. (2017). Understanding the reproduction of health inequalities: physical activity, social class and Bourdieu’s habitus. Sport Education and Society. 24(3). 226–240. 42 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli & Kass Gibson. (2017). Exercise as a poisoned elixir: inactivity, inequality and intervention. Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health. 10(4). 412–428. 32 indexed citations
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Williams, Oli. (2012). Eating for Excellence: Eating Disorders in Elite Sport – Inevitability and ‘Immunity’. European Journal for Sport and Society. 9(1-2). 33–55. 10 indexed citations

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