Tom Quested

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Tom Quested is a scholar working on Food Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Quested has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Food Science, 10 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Tom Quested's work include Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (21 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (7 papers). Tom Quested is often cited by papers focused on Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (21 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (10 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (7 papers). Tom Quested collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Tom Quested's co-authors include Andrew D. Parry, Eliza Marsh, Åsa Stenmarck, Carl Jensen, G. K. Moates, Richard Swannell, Christian Reynolds, Erica van Herpen, Nancy Holthuysen and I.A. van der Lans and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Waste Management.

In The Last Decade

Tom Quested

26 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spaghetti soup: The complex world of food waste behaviours

2013 662 citations Tom Quested, Eliza Marsh et al. Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →
Estimates of European food waste levels

2016 410 citations Åsa Stenmarck, Tom Quested et al. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling profile →
Review: Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions – What works and how to design better interventions

2019 330 citations Christian Reynolds, Tom Quested et al. Food Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Quested United Kingdom	16	2.2k	1.1k	676	498	444	27	2.5k
Hanna Hartikainen Finland	14	1.5k 0.7×	774 0.7×	440 0.7×	435 0.9×	313 0.7×	21	1.9k
Matteo Vittuari Italy	27	1.4k 0.6×	744 0.7×	436 0.6×	351 0.7×	298 0.7×	81	2.1k
Ludovica Principato Italy	22	1.8k 0.8×	834 0.8×	413 0.6×	768 1.5×	365 0.8×	39	2.4k
Julian Parfitt United Kingdom	10	2.0k 0.9×	908 0.8×	705 1.0×	322 0.6×	319 0.7×	12	2.9k
Juha‐Matti Katajajuuri Finland	17	1.3k 0.6×	695 0.6×	404 0.6×	575 1.2×	270 0.6×	68	2.1k
Mattias Eriksson Sweden	29	1.8k 0.8×	890 0.8×	460 0.7×	300 0.6×	429 1.0×	75	2.6k
David Pearson Australia	26	1.3k 0.6×	345 0.3×	1.2k 1.8×	861 1.7×	273 0.6×	110	2.8k
Christian Reynolds United Kingdom	27	1.1k 0.5×	520 0.5×	353 0.5×	177 0.4×	434 1.0×	109	2.2k
Karin Dobernig Austria	8	964 0.4×	401 0.4×	289 0.4×	287 0.6×	188 0.4×	8	1.3k
Karin Schanes Austria	9	960 0.4×	424 0.4×	240 0.4×	394 0.8×	157 0.4×	11	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Quested

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Quested

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Quested

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Quested, Tom, et al.. (2025). Modelling the impact of shelf-life extension on fresh produce waste in UK homes. Cleaner Waste Systems. 10. 100210–100210.

Papargyropoulou, Effie, Guy M. Poppy, Tom Quested, et al.. (2025). Research framework for food security and sustainability. npj Science of Food. 9(1). 13–13. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Rui, Christian Reynolds, D. Rees, et al.. (2024). Assessing the environmental sustainability of consumer-centric poultry chain in the UK through life cycle approaches and the household simulation model. The Science of The Total Environment. 929. 172634–172634. 3 indexed citations

Herpen, Erica van, et al.. (2023). Convenient tools and social norms: Measuring the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce household food waste. Journal of Cleaner Production. 429. 139604–139604. 17 indexed citations

Unsworth, Kerrie, et al.. (2023). Food waste interventions: Experimental evidence of the effectiveness of environmental messages. Journal of Cleaner Production. 414. 137596–137596. 15 indexed citations

Unsworth, Kerrie, et al.. (2022). Don't put all your eggs in one basket: Testing an integrative model of household food waste. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 185. 106442–106442. 27 indexed citations

Quested, Tom, et al.. (2020). Comparing diaries and waste compositional analysis for measuring food waste in the home. Journal of Cleaner Production. 262. 121263–121263. 86 indexed citations

Reynolds, Christian, et al.. (2020). Using discrete event simulation to explore food wasted in the home. Journal of Simulation. 16(4). 415–435. 15 indexed citations

Reynolds, Christian, Tom Quested, Sarah Bromley, et al.. (2019). Review: Consumption-Stage Food Waste Reduction Interventions – What Works and How to Do Better. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Christian, Tom Quested, Sarah Bromley, et al.. (2019). Review: Consumption-stage food waste reduction interventions – What works and how to design better interventions. Food Policy. 83. 7–27. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herpen, Erica van, et al.. (2019). A validated survey to measure household food waste. MethodsX. 6. 2767–2775. 64 indexed citations

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Herpen, Erica van, I.A. van der Lans, Nancy Holthuysen, Mariska Nijenhuis‐de Vries, & Tom Quested. (2019). Comparing wasted apples and oranges: An assessment of methods to measure household food waste. Waste Management. 88. 71–84. 122 indexed citations

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Spang, Edward S., Sara A. Pace, Yigal Achmon, et al.. (2019). Food Loss and Waste: Measurement, Drivers, and Solutions. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 44(1). 117–156. 145 indexed citations

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Swannell, Richard, et al.. (2019). The Food Waste Atlas: An important tool to track food loss and waste and support the creation of a sustainable global food system. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 146. 534–535. 5 indexed citations

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Cooper, Karen, et al.. (2018). Nutrition in the Bin: A Nutritional and Environmental Assessment of Food Wasted in the UK. Frontiers in Nutrition. 5. 19–19. 40 indexed citations

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Östergren, Karin, et al.. (2016). Food waste quantification manual to monitor food waste amounts and progression. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 56 indexed citations

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Freeman, Rachel, et al.. (2013). Evidence building for waste prevention: understanding the causal influences that result in waste. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Quested, Tom, et al.. (2013). Spaghetti soup: The complex world of food waste behaviours. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 79. 43–51. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freeman, Rachel, et al.. (2013). The 31st International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. 3 indexed citations

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Quested, Tom, P.E. Cook, L.G.M. Gorris, & Martin Cole. (2010). Trends in technology, trade and consumption likely to impact on microbial food safety. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 139. S29–S42. 52 indexed citations

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