Tainayah Thomas

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Tainayah Thomas is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Tainayah Thomas has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Tainayah Thomas's work include Diabetes Management and Education (7 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (4 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (3 papers). Tainayah Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes Management and Education (7 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (4 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (3 papers). Tainayah Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Tainayah Thomas's co-authors include Mimi V. Chapman, Yesenia Merino, Eugenia Eng, Tamera Coyne‐Beasley, Steven H. Day, William J. Hall, Kent M. Lee, B. Keith Payne, Aubrey Florom-Smith and Rosa M. González‐Guarda and has published in prestigious journals such as Diabetes Care, American Journal of Public Health and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Tainayah Thomas

18 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review

2015 1.5k citations William J. Hall, Mimi V. Chapman et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tainayah Thomas United States	9	607	549	384	346	162	23	1.8k
Yesenia Merino United States	8	564 0.9×	528 1.0×	384 1.0×	348 1.0×	160 1.0×	12	1.7k
Kent M. Lee United States	9	490 0.8×	488 0.9×	356 0.9×	491 1.4×	152 0.9×	17	1.8k
Chloë FitzGerald Switzerland	4	542 0.9×	446 0.8×	485 1.3×	301 0.9×	221 1.4×	6	1.7k
Tiffani J. Johnson United States	18	562 0.9×	377 0.7×	345 0.9×	301 0.9×	178 1.1×	43	1.7k
Janice Blanchard United States	21	788 1.3×	407 0.7×	297 0.8×	266 0.8×	95 0.6×	67	1.9k
Steven H. Day United States	17	666 1.1×	714 1.3×	385 1.0×	803 2.3×	171 1.1×	24	2.4k
Rosario Costas-Muñíz United States	15	445 0.7×	259 0.5×	468 1.2×	234 0.7×	165 1.0×	63	1.3k
José J. Arbelaez United States	10	736 1.2×	292 0.5×	272 0.7×	221 0.6×	98 0.6×	11	1.4k
Camara Phyllis Jones United States	18	746 1.2×	732 1.3×	242 0.6×	444 1.3×	63 0.4×	40	2.1k
Maria van den Muijsenbergh Netherlands	27	1.1k 1.7×	457 0.8×	584 1.5×	800 2.3×	123 0.8×	140	2.2k

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Schmittdiel, Julie A., David Arterburn, Romain Neugebauer, et al.. (2025). Clinical and Demographic Characteristics Associated With Diabetes Remission in Six Integrated Health Care Systems: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Diabetes Care. 48(10). 1737–1743.

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Thomas, Tainayah, et al.. (2024). Dyadic concordance and other considerations for matching pairs for peer support diabetes prevention interventions: A mixed methods assessment. Patient Education and Counseling. 129. 108407–108407.

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Chen, Wei‐Ting, Lan Xiao, Patricia Rodríguez Espinosa, et al.. (2024). Addressing diabetes by elevating access to nutrition (ADELANTE) - A multi-level approach for improving household food insecurity and glycemic control among Latinos with diabetes: A randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 146. 107699–107699.

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Thomas, Tainayah, et al.. (2024). Identifying pre-diabetes ‘hotspots’ in Northern California using geospatial analysis: opportunities to target diabetes prevention strategies and improve health equity. BMJ Open. 14(12). e087274–e087274.

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Rodríguez, Luis A., Romain Neugebauer, Tainayah Thomas, et al.. (2024). Race and ethnicity and pharmacy dispensing of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists in type 2 diabetes. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 34. 100759–100759. 18 indexed citations

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Thomas, Tainayah, Stephanie Ann Hooker, & Julie A. Schmittdiel. (2024). Principles for Stakeholder Engagement in Observational Health Research. JAMA Health Forum. 5(3). e240114–e240114. 3 indexed citations

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DYER, W. T. THISELTON, et al.. (2023). Hospital Readmissions Among Patients Experiencing Homelessness: An Electronic Health Record Data Study. The Permanente Journal. 28(1). 55–61.

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Thomas, Tainayah, et al.. (2023). Effects of COVID-19 shelter-in-place confinement on diabetes prevention health behaviors among US adults with prediabetes: A cross-sectional survey. Preventive Medicine Reports. 32. 102139–102139. 3 indexed citations

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Rodríguez, Luis A., et al.. (2022). Psychosocial and diabetes risk factors among racially/ethnically diverse adults with prediabetes. Preventive Medicine Reports. 27. 101821–101821. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Tainayah, Fei Xu, Sneha Sridhar, et al.. (2022). A Web-Based mHealth Intervention With Telephone Support to Increase Physical Activity Among Pregnant Patients With Overweight or Obesity: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Formative Research. 6(6). e33929–e33929. 13 indexed citations

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Thomas, Tainayah, Carol E. Golin, Alan C. Kinlaw, et al.. (2021). Did the 2015 USPSTF Abnormal Blood Glucose Recommendations Change Clinician Attitudes or Behaviors? A Mixed-Method Assessment. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 37(1). 15–22. 2 indexed citations

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Thomas, Tainayah, Carol E. Golin, Carmen D. Samuel‐Hodge, et al.. (2021). Race and gender differences in abnormal blood glucose screening and clinician response to prediabetes: A mixed-methods assessment. Preventive Medicine. 148. 106587–106587. 8 indexed citations

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Merino, Yesenia, Tainayah Thomas, Alexandra F. Lightfoot, et al.. (2019). “They were just waiting for me to mess up”: A critical discourse analysis of immigrant Latinx teens' perceptions of power dynamics. Journal of Community Psychology. 48(2). 605–622. 5 indexed citations

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Thomas, Tainayah, Carmen D. Samuel‐Hodge, Deborah S Porterfield, María Alva, & Jennifer Leeman. (2018). Scaling Up Diabetes Prevention Programs in North Carolina: Perceptions of Demand From Potential Program Recipients and Providers. The Diabetes Educator. 45(1). 116–124. 7 indexed citations

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Chapman, Mimi V., William J. Hall, Kenton Lee, et al.. (2017). Making a difference in medical trainees' attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes. Social Science & Medicine. 199. 202–208. 47 indexed citations

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Lightfoot, Alexandra F., Florence M. Simán, Eugenia Eng, et al.. (2017). “What I wish my doctor knew about my life”: Using photovoice with immigrant Latino adolescents to explore barriers to healthcare. Qualitative Social Work. 18(1). 60–80. 36 indexed citations

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Hall, William J., Mimi V. Chapman, Kent M. Lee, et al.. (2015). Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Public Health. 105(12). 2588–2588. 81 indexed citations

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Hall, William J., Mimi V. Chapman, Kent M. Lee, et al.. (2015). Implicit Racial/Ethnic Bias Among Health Care Professionals and Its Influence on Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review. American Journal of Public Health. 105(12). e60–e76. 1458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spratt, Susan E., Bryan C. Batch, Mark N. Feinglos, et al.. (2015). Methods and initial findings from the Durham Diabetes Coalition: Integrating geospatial health technology and community interventions to reduce death and disability. Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology. 2(1). 26–36. 23 indexed citations

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González‐Guarda, Rosa M., Aubrey Florom-Smith, & Tainayah Thomas. (2011). A Syndemic Model of Substance Abuse, Intimate Partner Violence, HIV Infection, and Mental Health Among Hispanics. Public Health Nursing. 28(4). 366–378. 90 indexed citations

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