Val Curtis

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
45 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Val Curtis is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Val Curtis has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 15 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Val Curtis's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (29 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (7 papers). Val Curtis is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (29 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 papers) and Global Maternal and Child Health (7 papers). Val Curtis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Zambia. Val Curtis's co-authors include Sandy Cairncross, Robert Aunger, Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Tamer Rabie, Marion W. Jenkins, Adam Biran, Sophie Boisson, Caroline Hunt, Kristof Bostoen and Isaac Chun‐Hai Fung and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Val Curtis

43 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review

2003 883 citations Val Curtis, Sandy Cairncross The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease

2004 588 citations Val Curtis, Robert Aunger et al. profile →
Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention of diarrhoea

2010 484 citations Sandy Cairncross, Val Curtis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Val Curtis United Kingdom	25	2.1k	787	637	567	564	45	4.0k
Valérie Curtis United Kingdom	25	1.7k 0.8×	539 0.7×	715 1.1×	839 1.5×	459 0.8×	44	4.1k
Adam Biran United Kingdom	23	912 0.4×	355 0.5×	334 0.5×	301 0.5×	296 0.5×	47	2.0k
Michael Merson United States	39	784 0.4×	448 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	303 0.5×	148 0.3×	106	6.6k
Robert E. Klein United States	37	978 0.5×	972 1.2×	508 0.8×	162 0.3×	212 0.4×	162	4.0k
Yemane Berhane Ethiopia	54	2.3k 1.1×	3.2k 4.1×	2.6k 4.1×	144 0.3×	725 1.3×	380	10.5k
Mark Nichter United States	48	325 0.2×	733 0.9×	1.4k 2.2×	223 0.4×	111 0.2×	178	7.1k
Donald A. P. Bundy United Kingdom	61	2.7k 1.3×	2.0k 2.6×	670 1.1×	57 0.1×	758 1.3×	222	9.7k
Wolf‐Peter Schmidt United Kingdom	40	3.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.8×	973 1.5×	50 0.1×	1.0k 1.8×	115	6.1k
Girmay Medhin Ethiopia	53	997 0.5×	1.6k 2.1×	1.3k 2.1×	63 0.1×	239 0.4×	358	9.7k
Carol Levin United States	38	1.1k 0.5×	794 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	38 0.1×	544 1.0×	116	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Val Curtis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Val Curtis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Val Curtis

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

White, Sian, et al.. (2022). How is hygiene behaviour affected by conflict and displacement? A qualitative case study in Northern Iraq. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0264434–e0264434. 9 indexed citations

White, Sian, et al.. (2022). How does handwashing behaviour change in response to a cholera outbreak? A qualitative case study in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0266849–e0266849. 11 indexed citations

White, Sian, et al.. (2020). The determinants of handwashing behaviour in domestic settings: An integrative systematic review. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 227. 113512–113512. 107 indexed citations

Bonell, Chris, Susan Michie, Stephen Reicher, et al.. (2020). Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 74(8). 617–619. 132 indexed citations

Aunger, Robert, et al.. (2019). Theory-driven formative research to inform the design of a national sanitation campaign in Tanzania. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0221445–e0221445. 13 indexed citations

Tidwell, James B., et al.. (2019). Effect of a behaviour change intervention on the quality of peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia: a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Planetary Health. 3(4). e187–e196. 28 indexed citations

Greenland, Katie, et al.. (2017). Disentangling the effects of a multiple behaviour change intervention for diarrhoea control in Zambia: a theory-based process evaluation. Globalization and Health. 13(1). 78–78. 11 indexed citations

Gibson, S. L., et al.. (2017). ‘Unfit for human consumption’: a study of the contamination of formula milk fed to young children in East Java, Indonesia. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 22(10). 1275–1282. 12 indexed citations

Greenland, Katie, et al.. (2016). Exploring the potential of antimicrobial hand hygiene products in reducing the infectious burden in low-income countries: An integrative review. American Journal of Infection Control. 44(7). 764–771. 11 indexed citations

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Mills, Joanna Esteves, et al.. (2015). Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors. PubMed Central. 20(4). 164–171. 1 indexed citations

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Rajaraman, Divya, Kiruba Sankar Varadharajan, Katie Greenland, et al.. (2014). Implementing effective hygiene promotion: lessons from the process evaluation of an intervention to promote handwashing with soap in rural India. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1179–1179. 22 indexed citations

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Barra, Mícheál de, M. Sirajul Islam, & Val Curtis. (2014). Disgust Sensitivity Is Not Associated with Health in a Rural Bangladeshi Sample. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e100444–e100444. 26 indexed citations

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Victora, César G., Kenneth J. Rothman, Patrick S. Moore, et al.. (2013). John Snow's legacy: epidemiology without borders. The Lancet. 381(9874). 1302–1311. 31 indexed citations

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Biran, Adam, Wolf‐Peter Schmidt, Richard L. Wright, et al.. (2009). The effect of a soap promotion and hygiene education campaign on handwashing behaviour in rural India: a cluster randomised trial. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 14(10). 1303–1314. 92 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Wolf‐Peter, et al.. (2009). Determinants of handwashing practices in Kenya: the role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 14(12). 1534–1541. 78 indexed citations

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Rubio, Miguel, Robert Aunger, & Val Curtis. (2006). Serotonin – A link between disgust and immunity?. Medical Hypotheses. 68(1). 61–66. 37 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Marion W. & Val Curtis. (2005). Achieving the ‘good life’: Why some people want latrines in rural Benin. Social Science & Medicine. 61(11). 2446–2459. 198 indexed citations

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Curtis, Val & Sandy Cairncross. (2003). Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 3(5). 275–281. 883 indexed citations breakdown →

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Curtis, Val, et al.. (2003). Hygiene in the home: relating bugs and behaviour. Social Science & Medicine. 57(4). 657–672. 83 indexed citations

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Guiguemdé, T. R., et al.. (1994). Household expenditure on malaria prevention and treatment for families in the town of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 88(3). 285–287. 31 indexed citations

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