Rebecca Kanter

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Kanter is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Kanter has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in General Health Professions, 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Kanter's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (6 papers). Rebecca Kanter is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (11 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (6 papers). Rebecca Kanter collaborates with scholars based in Chile, United States and Guatemala. Rebecca Kanter's co-authors include Benjamı́n Caballero, Camila Corvalán, Marcela Reyes, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Manuel Ramírez‐Zea, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Roni Neff, Barry M. Popkin, María F Kroker-Lobos and Helen Walls and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Kanter

32 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Global Gender Disparities in Obesity: A Review

2012 462 citations Rebecca Kanter, Benjamı́n Caballero Advances in Nutrition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Kanter Chile	14	715	360	265	174	138	34	1.4k
Jo Jewell Denmark	23	993 1.4×	145 0.4×	263 1.0×	175 1.0×	177 1.3×	56	1.5k
Jennifer M. Poti United States	20	1.7k 2.4×	333 0.9×	344 1.3×	110 0.6×	269 1.9×	41	2.3k
Jalila El Ati Tunisia	24	633 0.9×	231 0.6×	392 1.5×	155 0.9×	417 3.0×	85	2.6k
Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso Brazil	20	1.1k 1.5×	412 1.1×	176 0.7×	91 0.5×	145 1.1×	89	1.8k
Frederick Cudhea United States	9	709 1.0×	164 0.5×	271 1.0×	57 0.3×	265 1.9×	27	1.3k
Sara C. Folta United States	28	1.1k 1.5×	597 1.7×	162 0.6×	90 0.5×	513 3.7×	144	2.1k
Maria Guzman-Castillo United Kingdom	17	597 0.8×	365 1.0×	166 0.6×	158 0.9×	151 1.1×	50	1.4k
Jessica C. Jones‐Smith United States	25	1.8k 2.5×	834 2.3×	516 1.9×	189 1.1×	225 1.6×	105	2.7k
Debra A. Krummel United States	16	643 0.9×	227 0.6×	196 0.7×	98 0.6×	264 1.9×	36	1.2k
Andrea Bersamin United States	23	836 1.2×	647 1.8×	363 1.4×	65 0.4×	425 3.1×	79	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Kanter

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Kanter, Rebecca & Meredith P. Fort. (2025). Shared burdens, shared responsibilities: advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Lancet. 406(10513). 1703–1705. 1 indexed citations

Fort, Meredith P., et al.. (2025). Agroforestry: a key land use system for sustainable food production and public health. Trees Forests and People. 20. 100848–100848.

Kanter, Rebecca & Meredith P. Fort. (2024). Rethinking health policy: life expectancy and mortality in an era of polycrisis. The Lancet. 403(10440). 1956–1958. 5 indexed citations

Kanter, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Pilot study of a digital literacy-based intervention to confront concomitant crises amongst key food system actors in Chile. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 1 indexed citations

Kanter, Rebecca, et al.. (2021). Local sustainable diets as a driver of the transition to agroecological food systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Kennedy, Gina, Rebecca Kanter, Namukolo Covic, et al.. (2021). Traditional and Indigenous Fruits and Vegetables for Food System Transformation. Current Developments in Nutrition. 5(8). nzab092–nzab092. 16 indexed citations

Reyes, Marcela, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Barry M. Popkin, et al.. (2020). Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study. PLoS Medicine. 17(7). e1003220–e1003220. 156 indexed citations

Kanter, Rebecca & Joel Gittelsohn. (2020). Measuring Food Culture: a Tool for Public Health Practice. Current Obesity Reports. 9(4). 480–492. 10 indexed citations

Kanter, Rebecca, Marcela Reyes, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Boyd Swinburn, & Camila Corvalán. (2019). Anticipatory effects of the implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on food and beverage product reformulation. Obesity Reviews. 20(S2). 129–140. 59 indexed citations

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Carrillo‐Larco, Rodrigo M., Safia S Jiwani, Francisco Diez‐Canseco, et al.. (2018). Implementation Tells Us More Beyond Pooled Estimates: Secondary Analysis of a Multicountry mHealth Trial to Reduce Blood Pressure. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 6(11). e10226–e10226. 7 indexed citations

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Kanter, Rebecca, et al.. (2017). Comparative Performance of NEMS S Surveys in Latino Food Stores in the Greater Boston Area. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición. 67(2). 98–105. 2 indexed citations

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Stoltze, Fernanda Mediano, Joshua Barker, Rebecca Kanter, et al.. (2017). Prevalence of child-directed and general audience marketing strategies on the front of beverage packaging: the case of Chile. Public Health Nutrition. 21(3). 454–464. 29 indexed citations

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Kanter, Rebecca, et al.. (2015). Risk assessment models in genetics clinic for array comparative genomic hybridization: Clinical information can be used to predict the likelihood of an abnormal result in patients. Journal of Pediatric Genetics. 2(1). 25–31. 2 indexed citations

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Diez‐Canseco, Francisco, Andrea Beratarrechea, Rebecca Kanter, et al.. (2015). Design and Multi-Country Validation of Text Messages for an mHealth Intervention for Primary Prevention of Progression to Hypertension in Latin America. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 3(1). e19–e19. 49 indexed citations

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Kanter, Rebecca, Manuel Ramírez‐Zea, & Homero Martı́nez. (2014). Gender differences in participation in a mHealth intervention to promote lifestyle changes in Latin America (380.8). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 2 indexed citations

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Ramírez‐Zea, Manuel, et al.. (2014). The double burden of malnutrition in indigenous and nonindigenous Guatemalan populations. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 100(6). 1644S–1651S. 99 indexed citations

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Kanter, Rebecca, et al.. (2014). Creation of a mobile‐phone application for assessing supermarket offerings for a Guatemalan‐based exploration of the Nutrient Environment Measurement Survey‐Stores (255.1). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 1 indexed citations

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Abbott, Patricia, Carlos Mendoza, Rebecca Kanter, et al.. (2013). Reducing Risk of CVD in Rural Guatemala with Integrated mHealth Interventions.. 1262. 1 indexed citations

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Kanter, Rebecca & Benjamı́n Caballero. (2012). Global Gender Disparities in Obesity: A Review. Advances in Nutrition. 3(4). 491–498. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barquera, Sı́món, Ismael Campos‐Nonato, Lucía Hernández-Barrera, et al.. (2009). Obesity and central adiposity in Mexican adults: results from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006. Salud Pública de México. 51. S595–603. 101 indexed citations

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