Shauna Downs

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Shauna Downs is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Shauna Downs has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 44 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 28 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Shauna Downs's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (40 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (30 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (18 papers). Shauna Downs is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (40 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (30 papers) and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (18 papers). Shauna Downs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Shauna Downs's co-authors include Jessica Fanzo, Anne Marie Thow, Selena Ahmed, Jessica A. Gephart, Kyle Frankel Davis, Stephen Jan, Anna Herforth, Suparna Ghosh‐Jerath, Stephen Leeder and Linda J. McCargar and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The FASEB Journal and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Shauna Downs

95 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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. Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks
    2020 287 citations Kyle Frankel Davis, Shauna Downs et al. Nature Food profile →
  2. Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets
    2020 275 citations Shauna Downs, Jessica Fanzo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shauna Downs United States 29 1.4k 784 632 447 411 99 3.0k
Michelle Holdsworth United Kingdom 34 1.6k 1.1× 699 0.9× 725 1.1× 593 1.3× 386 0.9× 125 3.6k
Lindsay M. Jaacks United States 31 1.5k 1.0× 588 0.8× 420 0.7× 275 0.6× 335 0.8× 137 4.2k
Anna Herforth United States 23 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 735 1.2× 692 1.5× 1.0k 2.5× 60 3.3k
Helen Walls United Kingdom 27 979 0.7× 488 0.6× 694 1.1× 224 0.5× 251 0.6× 93 2.7k
Peilin Shi United States 20 1.9k 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 373 0.6× 273 0.6× 337 0.8× 39 3.2k
Bhavani Shankar United Kingdom 30 986 0.7× 746 1.0× 490 0.8× 289 0.6× 371 0.9× 111 3.0k
Amanda Lee Australia 31 1.4k 1.0× 381 0.5× 959 1.5× 203 0.5× 353 0.9× 96 3.0k
Farah Naja Lebanon 34 1.6k 1.1× 772 1.0× 632 1.0× 248 0.6× 168 0.4× 164 3.8k
Karen Lock United Kingdom 38 2.5k 1.8× 640 0.8× 1.8k 2.9× 497 1.1× 525 1.3× 121 6.1k
Ashkan Afshin United States 27 3.2k 2.3× 701 0.9× 935 1.5× 382 0.9× 426 1.0× 47 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Shauna Downs

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shauna Downs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shauna Downs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shauna Downs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shauna Downs 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 Shauna Downs. Shauna Downs 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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Downs, Shauna, et al.. (2025). Foraging, Farming or Shopping? A Decision Matrix Approach for Food Environment Assessments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 22(5). 711–711. 1 indexed citations
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Downs, Shauna, Christina Chrysohoou, Fotios Barkas, et al.. (2025). Sustainable, planetary healthy dietary patterns are associated with lower 20-year incidence of cardiovascular disease: the ATTICA study (2002–2022). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 79(6). 536–543.
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Downs, Shauna, et al.. (2024). Sustainability considerations are not influencing meat consumption in the US. Appetite. 203. 107667–107667. 4 indexed citations
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Kosti, Rena I., et al.. (2024). Comparing The Mediterranean and The Japanese Dietary Pattern in Relation to Longevity - A Narrative Review. Endocrine Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets. 24(15). 1746–1755. 3 indexed citations
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Bogard, Jessica, Shauna Downs, Penny Farrell, et al.. (2024). Convenience as a dimension of food environments: A systematic scoping review of its definition and measurement. Appetite. 194. 107198–107198. 9 indexed citations
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Downs, Shauna, et al.. (2024). Adapting food environment frameworks to recognize a wild-cultivated continuum. Frontiers in Nutrition. 11. 1343021–1343021. 4 indexed citations
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Downs, Shauna, Moussa Sarr, Souleymane Mboup, et al.. (2023). The impact and implementation of an mHealth intervention to improve infant and young child feeding in Senegal: IIMAANJE protocol for a cluster randomized control trial. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1258963–1258963. 2 indexed citations
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Barlow, S., et al.. (2023). People Plants and the Planet: Determinants of Food Choice and Factors Influencing How Adolescents Care for the Planet. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 55(7). 112–112.
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Sajobi, Tolulope T., Gavin R. McCormack, Raylene A. Reimer, et al.. (2023). The British Columbia Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program Reduces Short-Term Household Food Insecurity Among Adults With Low Incomes: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 124(4). 466–480.e16. 3 indexed citations
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Quick, Virginia, et al.. (2021). Food Waste in Schools: A Pre-/Post-test Study Design Examining the Impact of a Food Service Training Intervention to Reduce Food Waste. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(12). 6389–6389. 18 indexed citations
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Fanzo, Jessica & Shauna Downs. (2021). Climate change and nutrition-associated diseases. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 7(1). 90–90. 31 indexed citations
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Hawkes, Corinna, et al.. (2020). Child-centered food systems: Reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children. Global Food Security. 27. 100414–100414. 38 indexed citations
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Davis, Kyle Frankel, Shauna Downs, & Jessica A. Gephart. (2020). Towards food supply chain resilience to environmental shocks. Nature Food. 2(1). 54–65. 287 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cuevas, Soledad, et al.. (2019). Analysing the policy space for the promotion of healthy, sustainable edible oil consumption in India. Public Health Nutrition. 22(18). 3435–3446. 10 indexed citations
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Downs, Shauna, Anne Marie Thow, Suparna Ghosh‐Jerath, & Stephen Leeder. (2014). Aligning food-processing policies to promote healthier fat consumption in India. Health Promotion International. 30(3). 595–605. 9 indexed citations
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Hawkes, Corinna, Anne Marie Thow, Shauna Downs, et al.. (2013). Identifying effective food systems solutions for nutrition and noncommunicable diseases: creating policy coher-ence in the fats supply chain.. 39–47. 13 indexed citations
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Downs, Shauna, et al.. (2013). Factors and Barriers Associated with Early Adoption of Nutrition Guidelines in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 45(6). 510–517. 11 indexed citations

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