Sze Lin Yoong

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
191 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Sze Lin Yoong is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sze Lin Yoong has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 97 papers in General Health Professions and 28 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sze Lin Yoong's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (124 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (43 papers) and School Health and Nursing Education (25 papers). Sze Lin Yoong is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (124 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (43 papers) and School Health and Nursing Education (25 papers). Sze Lin Yoong collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Sze Lin Yoong's co-authors include Luke Wolfenden, John Wiggers, Nicole Nathan, Rebecca Wyse, Rachel Sutherland, Christopher Williams, Jannah Jones, Alice Grady, Meghan Finch and Rebecca K Hodder and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Sze Lin Yoong

184 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Designing and undertaking randomised implementation trials: guide for researchers

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sze Lin Yoong Australia	41	2.7k	1.9k	783	633	512	191	4.9k
Nicole Nathan Australia	36	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	325 0.5×	356 0.7×	143	4.1k
Rachel Sutherland Australia	37	2.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	330 0.5×	334 0.7×	149	4.0k
Yang Gao Hong Kong	25	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	716 0.9×	324 0.5×	252 0.5×	120	3.9k
Deanna M. Hoelscher United States	43	5.1k 1.9×	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	593 0.9×	520 1.0×	244	7.2k
Debra Haire‐Joshu United States	42	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	951 1.2×	395 0.6×	317 0.6×	145	6.4k
Tommy L.S. Visscher Netherlands	37	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	286 0.5×	213 0.4×	79	5.0k
Asheley Cockrell Skinner United States	39	3.7k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	953 1.2×	538 0.8×	290 0.6×	171	7.2k
Mary Kay Fox United States	30	3.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	566 0.7×	851 1.3×	162 0.3×	61	4.5k
Carry M. Renders Netherlands	31	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	410 0.5×	319 0.5×	173 0.3×	135	4.1k
Carine Vereecken Belgium	46	4.7k 1.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.8×	638 1.0×	345 0.7×	86	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sze Lin Yoong

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kipping, Ruth, Sze Lin Yoong, Rebecca Langford, et al.. (2025). Adapting the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment: A Cross-Country Case Study of Improving Early Childhood Health Environments in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Childhood Obesity. 21(3). 200–212.

Chapman, Anna, Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Hannah Beks, et al.. (2025). Implementation strategies for evidence-based healthcare interventions in rural and remote settings: a scoping review. The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific. 66. 101732–101732.

Anderson, Amy, Madeleine Hinwood, Luke Wolfenden, et al.. (2024). Examining Changes in Implementation of Priority Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices, and Related Barriers, Over Time in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Services: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study. Childhood Obesity. 21(3). 227–236. 1 indexed citations

Lum, Melanie, Sze Lin Yoong, Luke Wolfenden, et al.. (2023). Impact of a dissemination strategy on family day care educators’ intentions to adopt outdoor free play guidelines introduced in response to COVID-19: a randomized controlled trial. Health Education Research. 38(5). 458–468. 1 indexed citations

Sutherland, Rachel, Meghan Finch, Sze Lin Yoong, et al.. (2021). A cluster randomised controlled trial of a secondary school intervention to reduce intake of sugar‐sweetened beverages: Mid‐intervention impact of switchURsip environmental strategies. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 33(1). 176–186. 8 indexed citations

Clinton‐McHarg, Tara, Tessa Delaney, Christophe Lecathelinais, et al.. (2021). A Cross-Sectional Study of the Nutritional Quality of New South Wales High School Student Food and Drink Purchases Made via an Online Canteen Ordering System. Nutrients. 13(12). 4327–4327. 2 indexed citations

Jackson, Jacklyn, et al.. (2021). Obesity Prevention within the Early Childhood Education and Care Setting: A Systematic Review of Dietary Behavior and Physical Activity Policies and Guidelines in High Income Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(2). 838–838. 31 indexed citations

Delaney, Tessa, Matthew Mclaughlin, Alix Hall, et al.. (2021). Associations between Digital Health Intervention Engagement and Dietary Intake: A Systematic Review. Nutrients. 13(9). 3281–3281. 11 indexed citations

Barnes, Courtney, Sze Lin Yoong, Nicole Nathan, et al.. (2021). Feasibility of a Web-Based Implementation Intervention to Improve Child Dietary Intake in Early Childhood Education and Care: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(12). e25902–e25902. 14 indexed citations

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Grady, Alice, Courtney Barnes, Luke Wolfenden, Christophe Lecathelinais, & Sze Lin Yoong. (2020). Barriers and Enablers to Adoption of Digital Health Interventions to Support the Implementation of Dietary Guidelines in Early Childhood Education and Care: Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(11). e22036–e22036. 9 indexed citations

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Barnes, Courtney, Alice Grady, Nicole Nathan, et al.. (2020). A pilot randomised controlled trial of a web-based implementation intervention to increase child intake of fruit and vegetables within childcare centres. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 6(1). 163–163. 15 indexed citations

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Jones, Jannah, Tara Clinton‐McHarg, Luke Wolfenden, et al.. (2019). Implementation of policies and practices to increase physical activity among children attending centre‐based childcare: A cross‐sectional study. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 31(2). 207–215. 10 indexed citations

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Reilly, Kathryn, Sze Lin Yoong, Rachel Sutherland, et al.. (2019). Secondary school implementation of a healthy eating policy. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 32(1). 21–25. 6 indexed citations

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Williams, Amanda, Hopin Lee, Steven J. Kamper, et al.. (2019). Causal mechanisms of a healthy lifestyle intervention for patients with musculoskeletal pain who are overweight or obese. Clinical Rehabilitation. 33(6). 1088–1097. 9 indexed citations

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Reilly, Kathryn, Penny Reeves, Sze Lin Yoong, et al.. (2018). Economic analysis of three interventions of different intensity in improving school implementation of a government healthy canteen policy in Australia: costs, incremental and relative cost effectiveness. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 378–378. 28 indexed citations

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Reilly, Kathryn, Nicole Nathan, Alice Grady, et al.. (2018). Barriers to implementation of a healthy canteen policy: A survey using the theoretical domains framework. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 30(S1). 9–14. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Hopin, John Wiggers, Steven J. Kamper, et al.. (2017). Mechanism evaluation of a lifestyle intervention for patients with musculoskeletal pain who are overweight or obese: protocol for a causal mediation analysis. BMJ Open. 7(6). e014652–e014652. 13 indexed citations

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Jones, Jannah, Rebecca Wyse, John Wiggers, et al.. (2017). Dietary intake and physical activity levels of children attending Australian childcare services. Nutrition & Dietetics. 74(5). 446–453. 10 indexed citations

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Wolfenden, Luke, Christopher Williams, John Wiggers, Nicole Nathan, & Sze Lin Yoong. (2016). Improving the translation of health promotion interventions using effectiveness–implementation hybrid designs in program evaluations. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 27(3). 204–207. 41 indexed citations

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Yoong, Sze Lin, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson‐Fisher, et al.. (2012). Touch screen computer health assessment in Australian general practice patients: a cross-sectional study protocol. BMJ Open. 2(4). e001405–e001405. 30 indexed citations

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