Roy Wada

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 902 citations indexed

About

Roy Wada is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Economics and Econometrics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roy Wada has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 902 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 6 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Roy Wada's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 papers), Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (5 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (4 papers). Roy Wada is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 papers), Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (5 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (4 papers). Roy Wada collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Roy Wada's co-authors include Frank J. Chaloupka, Lisa M. Powell, Jamie F. Chriqui, Tayyab Mumtaz Khan, Lynn M. Powell, Erdal Tekin, Shiriki Kumanyika, Youfa Wang, Joseph Persky and Miriam Laugesen and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine and Health Affairs.

In The Last Decade

Roy Wada

18 papers receiving 869 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.

Assessing the potential effectiveness of food and beverage taxes and subsidies for improving public health: a systematic review of prices, demand and body weight outcomes

2012 371 citations Lynn M. Powell, Jamie F. Chriqui et al. Obesity Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roy Wada United States	12	621	236	160	124	113	19	902
Jane Martin Australia	17	825 1.3×	248 1.1×	71 0.4×	264 2.1×	117 1.0×	61	1.2k
Lucia A. Leone United States	19	538 0.9×	390 1.7×	92 0.6×	36 0.3×	42 0.4×	54	972
Christina Zorbas Australia	15	466 0.8×	162 0.7×	59 0.4×	156 1.3×	50 0.4×	54	708
Nathan Tefft United States	21	589 0.9×	469 2.0×	347 2.2×	125 1.0×	57 0.5×	57	1.4k
Nadine Chan United States	14	626 1.0×	151 0.6×	53 0.3×	47 0.4×	48 0.4×	33	1.1k
Marion Devaux France	11	259 0.4×	356 1.5×	122 0.8×	68 0.5×	90 0.8×	18	887
Elizabeth Frazão United States	16	1.2k 1.9×	403 1.7×	143 0.9×	38 0.3×	85 0.8×	45	1.6k
Alyssa J. Moran United States	24	1.0k 1.7×	586 2.5×	83 0.5×	55 0.4×	66 0.6×	77	1.5k
Binh T. Nguyen United States	13	649 1.0×	351 1.5×	198 1.2×	34 0.3×	33 0.3×	22	1.0k
Elizabeth Anderson Steeves United States	21	651 1.0×	504 2.1×	65 0.4×	29 0.2×	85 0.8×	78	1.1k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Wada, Roy. (2022). Obesity and Physical Fitness in the Labor Market. Digital Archive @ GSU.

Shah, Snehal, et al.. (2018). No-cost gym visits are associated with lower weight and blood pressure among non-Latino black and Latino participants with a diagnosis of hypertension in a multi-site demonstration project. Preventive Medicine Reports. 10. 66–71. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Jidong, et al.. (2018). A comprehensive examination of own- and cross-price elasticities of tobacco and nicotine replacement products in the U.S.. Preventive Medicine. 117. 107–114. 60 indexed citations

Wada, Roy, et al.. (2017). Employment impacts of alcohol taxes. Preventive Medicine. 105. S50–S55. 1 indexed citations

Powell, Lisa M., et al.. (2017). Food and beverage television advertising exposure and youth consumption, body mass index and adiposity outcomes. Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique. 50(2). 345–364. 28 indexed citations

Wada, Roy, Euna Han, & Lisa M. Powell. (2015). Associations between soda prices and intake: Evidence from 24-h dietary recall data. Food Policy. 55. 54–60. 18 indexed citations

Powell, Lisa M., Roy Wada, & Shiriki Kumanyika. (2014). Racial/ethnic and income disparities in child and adolescent exposure to food and beverage television ads across the U.S. media markets. Health & Place. 29. 124–131. 98 indexed citations

Powell, Lisa M., Roy Wada, Joseph Persky, & Frank J. Chaloupka. (2014). Employment Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes. American Journal of Public Health. 104(4). 672–677. 57 indexed citations

Grossman, Michael, Erdal Tekin, & Roy Wada. (2013). Food prices and body fatness among youths. Economics & Human Biology. 12. 4–19. 20 indexed citations

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Grossman, Michael, Erdal Tekin, & Roy Wada. (2013). Food Prices and Body Fatness Among Youths. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Grossman, Michael, Erdal Tekin, & Roy Wada. (2013). Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Youth Body Composition. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Powell, Lisa M., et al.. (2012). Ethnic disparities in adolescent body mass index in the United States: The role of parental socioeconomic status and economic contextual factors. Social Science & Medicine. 75(3). 469–476. 64 indexed citations

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Laugesen, Miriam, et al.. (2012). In Setting Doctors’ Medicare Fees, CMS Almost Always Accepts The Relative Value Update Panel’s Advice On Work Values. Health Affairs. 31(5). 965–972. 37 indexed citations

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Powell, Lisa M., et al.. (2012). Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index. Journal of Obesity. 2012. 1–9. 20 indexed citations

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Powell, Lynn M., Jamie F. Chriqui, Tayyab Mumtaz Khan, Roy Wada, & Frank J. Chaloupka. (2012). Assessing the potential effectiveness of food and beverage taxes and subsidies for improving public health: a systematic review of prices, demand and body weight outcomes. Obesity Reviews. 14(2). 110–128. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Powell, Lisa M., et al.. (2012). Fast Food Consumption and Food Prices: Evidence from Panel Data on 5th and 8th Grade Children. Journal of Obesity. 2012. 1–8. 32 indexed citations

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Wada, Roy & Erdal Tekin. (2010). Body composition and wages. Economics & Human Biology. 8(2). 242–254. 81 indexed citations

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Wada, Roy & Erdal Tekin. (2007). Body Composition and Wages. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Wada, Roy. (2005). OUTREG2: Stata module to arrange regression outputs into an illustrative table. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7 indexed citations

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