Ty Beal

5.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
48 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Ty Beal is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ty Beal has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 28 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ty Beal's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (30 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (18 papers). Ty Beal is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (30 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (21 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (18 papers). Ty Beal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Ty Beal's co-authors include Alison Tumilowicz, Lynnette M. Neufeld, Flaminia Ortenzi, Aang Sutrisna, Doddy Izwardy, Joanne E Arsenault, Jessica Fanzo, Robert J. Hijmans, Matthew R. Smith and Stella Nordhagen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ty Beal

43 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

A review of child stunting determinants in Indonesia

2018 421 citations Ty Beal, Alison Tumilowicz et al. Maternal and Child Nutrition profile →
Global trends in dietary micronutrient supplies and estimated prevalence of inadequate intakes

2017 311 citations Ty Beal, Joanne E Arsenault et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Food choice in transition: adolescent autonomy, agency, and the food environment

2021 165 citations Lynnette M. Neufeld, Ty Beal et al. profile →
Estimated micronutrient shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet

2023 150 citations Ty Beal, Flaminia Ortenzi et al. The Lancet Planetary Health profile →
Friend or Foe? The Role of Animal-Source Foods in Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Diets

2023 110 citations Ty Beal, Christopher D. Gardner et al. Journal of Nutrition profile →
The role of meat in the human diet: evolutionary aspects and nutritional value

2023 91 citations Frédéric Leroy, Nick W. Smith et al. Animal Frontiers profile →
Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis

2024 87 citations Simone Passarelli, Christopher M. Free et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ty Beal United States	21	932	732	699	475	373	48	2.3k
Gina Kennedy Italy	26	1.9k 2.0×	1.1k 1.4×	441 0.6×	315 0.7×	256 0.7×	69	3.3k
Liv Elin Torheim Norway	26	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	207 0.3×	426 0.9×	151 0.4×	76	2.8k
Shauna Downs United States	29	784 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	411 0.6×	125 0.3×	447 1.2×	99	3.0k
Inge D. Brouwer Netherlands	34	1.7k 1.8×	757 1.0×	563 0.8×	344 0.7×	537 1.4×	144	4.0k
Michelle Holdsworth United Kingdom	34	699 0.8×	1.6k 2.1×	386 0.6×	167 0.4×	593 1.6×	125	3.6k
Lora Iannotti United States	27	2.1k 2.3×	509 0.7×	303 0.4×	668 1.4×	185 0.5×	110	3.1k
Joanne E Arsenault United States	24	1.1k 1.2×	988 1.3×	222 0.3×	208 0.4×	169 0.5×	71	2.4k
Kalle Hirvonen United States	24	860 0.9×	328 0.4×	436 0.6×	129 0.3×	250 0.7×	61	2.2k
Jennifer Coates United States	27	1.6k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	423 0.6×	207 0.4×	359 1.0×	67	3.7k
Anna Herforth United States	23	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 2.0×	1.0k 1.5×	74 0.2×	692 1.9×	60	3.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leroy, Frédéric, Ty Beal, Stefaan De Smet, et al.. (2025). A framework for adequate nourishment: balancing nutrient density and food processing levels within the context of culturally and regionally appropriate diets. Animal Frontiers. 15(1). 10–23. 2 indexed citations

Beal, Ty, et al.. (2024). Opportunities for Consistent and Holistic Metrics to Support Food Systems Transformation: A Summary of a Symposium Presented at Nutrition 2023. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8(4). 102129–102129. 2 indexed citations

Beal, Ty. (2024). Achieving adequate nutrition in a malnourished world: the role of sustainable diets and animal source foods. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 83(OCE1). 1 indexed citations

Beal, Ty, et al.. (2024). There Are Significant Food Environment Interactions and Gender Differences but Few Urban-Rural Differences in Diet Quality in Northern Nigeria. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8. 102829–102829.

Rudert, Christiane, et al.. (2024). Improving complementary feeding practices, programs and policies for optimal early childhood nutrition in Kenya: What would work?. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(S3). e13616–e13616. 4 indexed citations

Ortenzi, Flaminia, et al.. (2024). Identifying and understanding barriers to optimal complementary feeding in Kenya. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(S3). e13617–e13617. 1 indexed citations

Passarelli, Simone, Christopher M. Free, Alon Shepon, et al.. (2024). Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 12(10). e1590–e1599. 87 indexed citations breakdown →

Beal, Ty, Swetha Manohar, Lais Miachon, & Jessica Fanzo. (2024). Nutrient-dense foods and diverse diets are important for ensuring adequate nutrition across the life course. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2319007121–e2319007121. 11 indexed citations

Leroy, Frédéric, Nick W. Smith, A.T. Adesogan, et al.. (2023). The role of meat in the human diet: evolutionary aspects and nutritional value. Animal Frontiers. 13(2). 11–18. 91 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beal, Ty, Christopher D. Gardner, Mario Herrero, et al.. (2023). Friend or Foe? The Role of Animal-Source Foods in Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Diets. Journal of Nutrition. 153(2). 409–425. 110 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beal, Ty. (2023). Big environmental gains from small dietary tweaks. Nature Food. 4(11). 935–936. 2 indexed citations

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Beal, Ty, Flaminia Ortenzi, & Jessica Fanzo. (2023). Estimated micronutrient shortfalls of the EAT–Lancet planetary health diet. The Lancet Planetary Health. 7(3). e233–e237. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ortenzi, Flaminia, Mark Lawrence, Frédéric Leroy, et al.. (2023). Limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System. Journal of Nutrition. 153(3). 610–614. 6 indexed citations

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Gordon, Molly R., Alexis N. Peña, Ty Beal, & Rachel Bezner Kerr. (2023). Suitability of Alternative Protein Foods for Agroecological Approaches to Address Nutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8(Suppl 1). 101998–101998. 3 indexed citations

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Herforth, Anna, Alexandra L. Bellows, Quinn Marshall, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing the performance of food systems to increase accountability toward healthy diets and environmental sustainability. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0270712–e0270712. 12 indexed citations

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McAuliffe, Graham A., Taro Takahashi, Ty Beal, et al.. (2022). Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA). The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(2). 146–155. 53 indexed citations

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Rachmi, Cut Novianti, et al.. (2020). Eating behaviour of Indonesian adolescents: a systematic review of the literature. Public Health Nutrition. 24(S2). s84–s97. 29 indexed citations

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Tumilowicz, Alison, Ty Beal, Lynnette M. Neufeld, & Edward A. Frongillo. (2019). Perspective: Challenges in Use of Adolescent Anthropometry for Understanding the Burden of Malnutrition. Advances in Nutrition. 10(4). 563–575. 23 indexed citations

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Beal, Ty, Alison Tumilowicz, Aang Sutrisna, Doddy Izwardy, & Lynnette M. Neufeld. (2018). A review of child stunting determinants in Indonesia. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14(4). e12617–e12617. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beal, Ty, et al.. (2017). Global trends in dietary micronutrient supplies and estimated prevalence of inadequate intakes. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0175554–e0175554. 311 indexed citations breakdown →

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