Sergio A. Costa

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 911 citations indexed

About

Sergio A. Costa is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio A. Costa has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 911 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 6 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Sergio A. Costa's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Sergio A. Costa is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 papers), Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (6 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (5 papers). Sergio A. Costa collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Sergio A. Costa's co-authors include Terry T.‐K. Huang, John Cawley, Marice Ashe, Kelly D. Brownell, Boyd Swinburn, Christina A. Roberto, Corinna Hawkes, Leah Frerichs, Estelle V. Lambert and Ross A. Hammond and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, BMC Public Health and Obesity.

In The Last Decade

Sergio A. Costa

20 papers receiving 877 citations

Hit Papers

Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples,... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
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. Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking
    2015 689 citations Christina A. Roberto, Boyd Swinburn et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sergio A. Costa United States 8 462 228 170 169 135 23 911
Diana Sonntag Germany 15 519 1.1× 302 1.3× 79 0.5× 151 0.9× 149 1.1× 32 977
Marice Ashe United States 13 801 1.7× 423 1.9× 264 1.6× 280 1.7× 198 1.5× 24 1.5k
Deepak Patel South Africa 14 325 0.7× 257 1.1× 81 0.5× 133 0.8× 61 0.5× 50 930
Rebecca Kanter Chile 14 715 1.5× 360 1.6× 174 1.0× 138 0.8× 89 0.7× 34 1.4k
Jo Jewell Denmark 23 993 2.1× 145 0.6× 175 1.0× 177 1.0× 72 0.5× 56 1.5k
Anne McMahon Australia 18 459 1.0× 157 0.7× 54 0.3× 219 1.3× 80 0.6× 81 1.0k
Roy Wada United States 12 621 1.3× 236 1.0× 124 0.7× 91 0.5× 113 0.8× 19 902
Naser Kalantari Iran 18 499 1.1× 219 1.0× 96 0.6× 150 0.9× 59 0.4× 101 1.1k
Oliver Huse Australia 11 774 1.7× 125 0.5× 156 0.9× 74 0.4× 57 0.4× 29 1.1k
Lenard I. Lesser United States 12 412 0.9× 375 1.6× 68 0.4× 99 0.6× 61 0.5× 28 900

Countries citing papers authored by Sergio A. Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sergio A. Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio A. Costa

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kodali, Hanish, Katarzyna Wyka, Sergio A. Costa, et al.. (2024). Association of Park Renovation With Park Use in New York City. JAMA Network Open. 7(4). e241429–e241429. 7 indexed citations
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Costa, Sergio A., et al.. (2023). Strategies to improve the implementation of intensive lifestyle interventions for obesity. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1202545–1202545. 7 indexed citations
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Costa, Sergio A., et al.. (2023). Development and Evaluation of an Online Simulated Hospital Unit for Nutrition Assessment Training. Topics in Clinical Nutrition. 38(2). 133–143. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Terry T.‐K., et al.. (2022). Advancing Public Health Entrepreneurship to Foster Innovation and Impact. Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 923764–923764. 2 indexed citations
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Costa, Sergio A., et al.. (2021). Policy implementation analysis on access to healthcare among undocumented immigrants in seven autonomous communities of Spain, 2012–2018. BMJ Open. 11(6). e045626–e045626. 5 indexed citations
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Flórez, Karen R., et al.. (2021). Prevalence of self‐reported obesity among diverse Latino adult populations in New York City, 2013–2017. Obesity Science & Practice. 7(4). 379–391. 4 indexed citations
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Costa, Sergio A., Ilias G. Kavouras, Nevin Cohen, & Terry T.‐K. Huang. (2021). Moving Education Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Thinking Back and Looking Ahead. Frontiers in Public Health. 9. 751685–751685. 10 indexed citations
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Flórez, Karen R., et al.. (2021). A qualitative study on mixed experiences of discrimination and healthcare access among HIV-positive immigrants in Spain. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 385–385. 7 indexed citations
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Huang, Terry T.‐K., Sergio A. Costa, Karen R. Flórez, et al.. (2021). Late HIV diagnosis among immigrants in Spain vs. native-born Spaniards, 2010–15. European Journal of Public Health. 31(6). 1123–1128. 2 indexed citations
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Novelli, William D., et al.. (2019). Informing a roadmap for cross‐sectoral collaboration on portion size management as a national strategy to improve population nutrition – a Delphi study. Obesity Science & Practice. 5(3). 189–202. 3 indexed citations
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Leung, May May, et al.. (2019). Assessing the Collective Impact of Community Health Programs Funded by Food and Beverage Companies: A New Community-Focused Methodology. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 40(2). 75–89. 4 indexed citations
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Roberto, Christina A., Boyd Swinburn, Corinna Hawkes, et al.. (2015). Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking. The Lancet. 385(9985). 2400–2409. 689 indexed citations breakdown →
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Huang, Terry T.‐K., John Cawley, Marice Ashe, et al.. (2015). Mobilisation of public support for policy actions to prevent obesity. The Lancet. 385(9985). 2422–2431. 132 indexed citations
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Costa, Sergio A., et al.. (2014). Early childhood TV viewing and subsequent BMI trajectories to mid-adulthood in the 1970 British Cohort Study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Frerichs, Leah, et al.. (2014). Perception of Childhood Obesity and Support for Prevention Policies among Latinos and Whites. Journal of Obesity. 2014. 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Joshi, Ashish, et al.. (2013). The role of information and communication technology in community outreach, academic and research collaboration, and education and support services (IT-CARES).. PubMed. 10. 1g–1g. 13 indexed citations

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