Per Ashorn

15.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
276 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Per Ashorn is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Per Ashorn has authored 276 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 100 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 50 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Per Ashorn's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (150 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (50 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (46 papers). Per Ashorn is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (150 papers), Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (50 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (46 papers). Per Ashorn collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Malawi and United States. Per Ashorn's co-authors include Kenneth Maleta, Mark Manary, Kathryn G. Dewey, André Briend, Yin Bun Cheung, Ulla Ashorn, Teija Kulmala, John Phuka, MacDonald Ndekha and Bernard Moss and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Per Ashorn

268 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

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Author						Papers	Cites
Per Ashorn	4.2k	2.1k	1.6k	1.3k	1.3k	276	7.9k
Kenneth Maleta	4.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	249	7.5k
Jean H. Humphrey	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	725 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	550 0.4×	139	7.2k
Andrew J. Prendergast	3.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	737 0.5×	771 0.6×	515 0.4×	176	7.5k
Aamer Imdad	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	625 0.4×	814 0.6×	567 0.4×	86	5.1k
Nita Bhandari	5.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	185	9.6k
James A. Berkley	3.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.8×	237	9.2k
Henrik Friis	3.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	743 0.5×	707 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	332	8.6k
James Tumwine	2.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	762 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	802 0.6×	251	7.0k
José Martines	3.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	72	6.7k
Eduardo Villamor	2.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	277 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	2.5k 1.9×	207	8.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ruel, Marie T., Per Ashorn, James A. Berkley, et al.. (2025). Prevention of wasting and nutritional oedema: evidence gaps identified during WHO guideline development. BMJ Global Health. 10(Suppl 5). e016314–e016314. 1 indexed citations

Adu‐Afarwuah, Seth, Charles D. Arnold, Anna Lartey, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of morbidity symptoms among pregnant and postpartum women receiving different nutrient supplements in Ghana and Malawi: A secondary outcome analysis of two randomised controlled trials. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 19(3). e13501–e13501. 3 indexed citations

Sinha, Bireshwar, Halvor Sommerfelt, Per Ashorn, et al.. (2022). Effect of community‐initiated kangaroo mother care on breastfeeding performance in low birthweight infants: A randomized clinical trial. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 18(4). e13419–e13419. 6 indexed citations

Ashorn, Per, Ulla Ashorn, Jaden Bendabenda, et al.. (2022). Association between asymptomatic infections and linear growth in 18–24‐month‐old Malawian children. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 19(1). e13417–e13417. 6 indexed citations

Niemelä, Onni, Charles Mangani, Kenneth Maleta, et al.. (2022). Posture‐Related Differences in Cardiovascular Function Between Young Men and Women: Study of Noninvasive Hemodynamics in Rural Malawi. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(5). e022979–e022979. 5 indexed citations

Pyykkö, Juha, Ulla Ashorn, Kathryn G. Dewey, et al.. (2022). Association between prenatal provision of lipid‐based nutrient supplements and caesarean delivery: Findings from a randomised controlled trial in Malawi. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 18(4). e13414–e13414. 2 indexed citations

Ashorn, Ulla, Kenneth Maleta, Lotta Hallamaa, et al.. (2022). Provision of small‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplements does not improve intestinal health among rural Malawian children. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 18(3). e13331–e13331. 1 indexed citations

Adu‐Afarwuah, Seth, Charles D. Arnold, Anna Lartey, et al.. (2021). Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Increase Infants’ Plasma Essential Fatty Acid Levels in Ghana and Malawi: A Secondary Outcome Analysis of the iLiNS-DYAD Randomized Trials. Journal of Nutrition. 152(1). 286–301. 1 indexed citations

Paloniemi, Minna, Timo Vesikari, Maija Lappalainen, et al.. (2021). Human Protoparvovirus DNA and IgG in Children and Adults with and without Respiratory or Gastrointestinal Infections. Viruses. 13(3). 483–483. 13 indexed citations

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Fabiansen, Christian, Bernardette Cichon, Charles W. Yaméogo, et al.. (2020). Association between admission criteria and body composition among young children with moderate acute malnutrition, a cross-sectional study from Burkina Faso. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 13266–13266. 4 indexed citations

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Dhingra, Usha, Rodrick Kisenge, Christopher R. Sudfeld, et al.. (2020). Lower-Dose Zinc for Childhood Diarrhea — A Randomized, Multicenter Trial. New England Journal of Medicine. 383(13). 1231–1241. 32 indexed citations

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Dhingra, Pratibha, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, et al.. (2019). Effect of dose reduction of supplemental zinc for childhood diarrhoea: study protocol for a double-masked, randomised controlled trial in India and Tanzania. BMJ Paediatrics Open. 3(1). e000460–e000460. 4 indexed citations

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Cheung, Yin Bun, et al.. (2018). Depressive symptoms are common among rural Malawian adolescents. Child Care Health and Development. 44(4). 531–538. 6 indexed citations

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Kumwenda, Chiza, Jaimie Hemsworth, John Phuka, et al.. (2018). Association between breast milk intake at 9–10 months of age and growth and development among Malawian young children. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14(3). e12582–e12582. 4 indexed citations

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Stewart, Robert C., Per Ashorn, Eric Umar, et al.. (2018). Associations between antenatal depression and neonatal outcomes in Malawi. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 15(2). e12709–e12709. 11 indexed citations

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Prado, Elizabeth L., Ulla Ashorn, John Phuka, et al.. (2017). Associations of maternal nutrition during pregnancy and post‐partum with maternal cognition and caregiving. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14(2). e12546–e12546. 17 indexed citations

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Adams, Katherine P., Malay Kanti Mridha, Seth Adu‐Afarwuah, et al.. (2017). Maternal and Child Supplementation with Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements, but Not Child Supplementation Alone, Decreases Self-Reported Household Food Insecurity in Some Settings. Journal of Nutrition. 147(12). 2309–2318. 10 indexed citations

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Adu‐Afarwuah, Seth, Anna Lartey, Harriet Okronipa, et al.. (2017). Maternal Supplementation with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Compared with Multiple Micronutrients, but Not with Iron and Folic Acid, Reduces the Prevalence of Low Gestational Weight Gain in Semi-Urban Ghana: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Nutrition. 147(4). 697–705. 43 indexed citations

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Ashorn, Per, et al.. (2013). Talking about the institutional complexity of the integrated rehabilitation system – the importance of coordination. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Ashorn, Per. (2012). Child health-seeking in Lungwena, Malawi. Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University. 2 indexed citations

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