Thomas A. Farley

11.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Farley is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Farley has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in General Health Professions, 46 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 36 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Farley's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (32 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (31 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (25 papers). Thomas A. Farley is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (32 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (31 papers) and Reproductive tract infections research (25 papers). Thomas A. Farley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Thomas A. Farley's co-authors include Deborah A. Cohen, Richard Scribner, Janet C. Rice, J. Nicholas Bodor, Donald Rose, Karen Mason, David H. Martin, Patricia Kissinger, Ricky N. Bluthenthal and Thomas R. Frieden and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Farley

173 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

The Public Health and Economic Benefits of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Farley	2.7k	2.7k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	181	8.2k
George Reed	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	3.6k 2.5×	1.0k 0.9×	559 0.5×	325	16.6k
Ken Kleinman	5.5k 2.0×	2.2k 0.8×	4.9k 3.4×	1.1k 0.9×	521 0.4×	279	21.8k
Robert S. Thompson	3.2k 1.2×	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	564 0.5×	341 0.3×	143	11.7k
David E. Nelson	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	322 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	122	8.4k
Helen Ward	854 0.3×	1.8k 0.7×	2.3k 1.6×	2.6k 2.2×	1.5k 1.3×	285	8.2k
Allison E. Aiello	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	2.3k 1.6×	2.0k 1.7×	251 0.2×	322	12.4k
Joseph W. Hogan	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	362 0.3×	197	8.2k
Steven M. Teutsch	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.9×	1.9k 1.6×	111 0.1×	164	13.5k
Sarah Hawkes	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	932 0.6×	991 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	137	6.1k
Rafael Mikolajczyk	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	4.5k 3.1×	1.3k 1.1×	177 0.2×	310	11.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Farley, Thomas A.. (2025). Risky Prescribing and the Epidemic of Deaths From Falls. JAMA Health Forum. 6(8). e253031–e253031.

Thornton, A., et al.. (2024). The infrared thermography system on the MAST-U tokamak. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(11). 1 indexed citations

Walkden, N., Fabio Riva, J. Harrison, et al.. (2022). The physics of turbulence localised to the tokamak divertor volume. Communications Physics. 5(1). 21 indexed citations

Farley, Thomas A., et al.. (2017). Analysis of filament statistics in fast camera data on MAST. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017.

Farley, Thomas A. & Gretchen Van Wye. (2012). Reversing the Obesity Epidemic. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 43(3). S93–S94. 14 indexed citations

Farley, Thomas A.. (2011). A healthier urban jungle. (Cover story). Scientific American. 304(2). 46–46. 1 indexed citations

Mohammed, Hamish, Jami S. Leichliter, Norine Schmidt, Thomas A. Farley, & Patricia Kissinger. (2010). Does Patient-Delivered Partner Treatment Improve Disclosure for Treatable Sexually Transmitted Diseases?. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 24(3). 183–188. 18 indexed citations

Farley, Thomas A., et al.. (2009). New York City's Fight Over Calorie Labeling. Health Affairs. 28(Supplement 1). w1098–w1109. 53 indexed citations

Theall, Katherine P., et al.. (2008). Social capital and the neighborhood alcohol environment. Health & Place. 15(1). 323–332. 46 indexed citations

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Bodor, J. Nicholas, et al.. (2007). Neighbourhood fruit and vegetable availability and consumption: the role of small food stores in an urban environment. Public Health Nutrition. 11(4). 413–420. 339 indexed citations

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Cohen, Deborah A., et al.. (2005). Cost-Effective Allocation Of Government Funds To Prevent HIV Infection. Health Affairs. 24(4). 915–926. 37 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., Deborah A. Cohen, & Whitney L Elkins. (2003). Asymptomatic sexually transmitted diseases: the case for screening. Preventive Medicine. 36(4). 502–509. 233 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., Deborah A. Cohen, & Whitney L Elkins. (2003). Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Annals of Transplantation. 1(1). 9–14. 3 indexed citations

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Urban, Martin, et al.. (2003). The Fusarium graminearum MAP1 gene is essential for pathogenicity and development of perithecia. Molecular Plant Pathology. 4(5). 347–359. 127 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., et al.. (2003). Maximizing the Benefit: HIV Prevention Planning Based on Cost-Effectiveness : A Practical Tool for Community Planning Groups and Health Departments. RAND Corporation eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., et al.. (2001). Fixing a Fat Nation. 656. 341–373. 8 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., et al.. (2000). A Structural Model of Health Behavior. International Journal of Dermatology. 11(4). 231–2. 12 indexed citations

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Mahoney, Frank, et al.. (1993). Evaluation of an Intervention Program for the Control of an Outbreak of Shigellosis among Institutionalized Persons. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 168(5). 1177–1180. 12 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A., James L. Hadler, & Robert A. Gunn. (1990). The Syphilis Epidemic in Connecticut. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 17(4). 163–168. 44 indexed citations

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Farley, Thomas A.. (1986). Severe hypernatremic dehydration after use of an activated charcoal-sorbitol suspension. The Journal of Pediatrics. 109(4). 719–722. 42 indexed citations

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