Wendy Wills

1.9k total citations
70 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Wendy Wills is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wendy Wills has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 20 papers in General Health Professions and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Wendy Wills's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (22 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (14 papers) and Culinary Culture and Tourism (10 papers). Wendy Wills is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (22 papers), Obesity and Health Practices (14 papers) and Culinary Culture and Tourism (10 papers). Wendy Wills collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Wendy Wills's co-authors include Julia Lawton, Kathryn Backett‐Milburn, Sue Gregory, Angela Dickinson, Josefine Magnusson, Daksha Trivedi, Frances Bunn, Angela Meah, Ariadne Beatrice Kapetanaki and Laura Hamilton and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Wendy Wills

61 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wendy Wills United Kingdom 19 559 340 284 260 255 70 1.3k
Margaret Jastran United States 12 765 1.4× 364 1.1× 354 1.2× 262 1.0× 140 0.5× 14 1.4k
Sue Booth Australia 28 515 0.9× 1.0k 3.0× 205 0.7× 152 0.6× 136 0.5× 75 1.9k
Fiona Lavelle United Kingdom 20 956 1.7× 238 0.7× 309 1.1× 274 1.1× 60 0.2× 45 1.4k
Christine E. Blake United States 26 1.2k 2.2× 918 2.7× 387 1.4× 429 1.6× 170 0.7× 128 2.5k
Jennifer Jabs United States 6 562 1.0× 245 0.7× 294 1.0× 173 0.7× 129 0.5× 6 1.1k
Leslie Cunningham‐Sabo United States 24 1.1k 1.9× 619 1.8× 183 0.6× 218 0.8× 76 0.3× 70 1.6k
Charlene Elliott Canada 23 838 1.5× 205 0.6× 266 0.9× 145 0.6× 192 0.8× 85 1.6k
Christina Fjellström Sweden 21 400 0.7× 188 0.6× 285 1.0× 160 0.6× 167 0.7× 59 1.2k
Flora Douglas United Kingdom 16 496 0.9× 458 1.3× 212 0.7× 211 0.8× 105 0.4× 69 1.5k
Laura McGowan United Kingdom 20 919 1.6× 258 0.8× 164 0.6× 315 1.2× 64 0.3× 54 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wendy Wills

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wendy Wills

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All Works

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Wills, Wendy, Olujoke Fakoya, Suzanne Bartington, et al.. (2025). Home working during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of drug and alcohol support workers. Journal of public health research. 14(4). 1224482282–1224482282.
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Smeeton, Nigel, et al.. (2025). Workplace Health and Wellbeing in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs): A Mixed Methods Evaluation of Provision and Support Uptake. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 22(1). 90–90.
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Breslin, Gavin, Olujoke Fakoya, Wendy Wills, et al.. (2024). Whole systems approaches to diet and healthy weight: A scoping review of reviews. PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0292945–e0292945. 8 indexed citations
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Walsh, Sebastian, Lindsay Wallace, Isla Kuhn, et al.. (2023). Population-level interventions for the primary prevention of dementia: a complex evidence review. The Lancet. 402. S13–S13. 8 indexed citations
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Battersby, Jane, Nevin Cohen, Meena Daivadanam, et al.. (2023). “The People's Summit”: A case for lived experience of food environments as a critical source of evidence to inform the follow-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit. Global Food Security. 37. 100690–100690. 6 indexed citations
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Walsh, Sebastian, Lindsay Wallace, Naaheed Mukadam, et al.. (2023). What is a population-level approach to prevention, and how could we apply it to dementia risk reduction?. Public Health. 225. 22–27. 12 indexed citations
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Walsh, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Are Population-Level Approaches to Dementia Risk Reduction Under-Researched? A Rapid Review of the Dementia Prevention Literature. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease. 11(1). 241–248. 15 indexed citations
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Rogers, Samantha, et al.. (2022). Mothers' accounts of mealtime and feeding challenges for children with Tourette syndrome or persistent tic disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 936796–936796. 5 indexed citations
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Watson, Duika Burges, Alizon Draper, & Wendy Wills. (2020). The chimera of choice in UK food policy 1976–2018. British Food Journal. 123(4). 1596–1609. 4 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy, et al.. (2019). Socio-Economic Factors, the Food Environment and Lunchtime Food Purchasing by Young People at Secondary School. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(9). 1605–1605. 22 indexed citations
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Hamilton, Laura & Wendy Wills. (2017). Patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption amongst young people aged 13–15 years during the school day in Scotland. Appetite. 116. 196–204. 8 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy, Jennie I. Macdiarmid, L. F. Masson, et al.. (2013). Children’s Food and Drink Purchasing Behaviour “Beyond the School Gate”: The Development of a Survey Module. PubMed. 2013. 1–8. 4 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy. (2012). Using Spoken and Written Qualitative Methods to Explore Children's and Young People's Food and Eating Practices. Sociological Research Online. 17(3). 114–123. 16 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy, et al.. (2011). Food and public health: contemporary issues and future directions. Critical Public Health. 21(4). 385–393. 15 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy, et al.. (2011). The Framing of Social Class Distinctions through Family Food and Eating Practices. The Sociological Review. 59(4). 725–740. 103 indexed citations
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Backett‐Milburn, Kathryn, et al.. (2010). Food, eating and taste: Parents’ perspectives on the making of the middle class teenager. Social Science & Medicine. 71(7). 1316–1323. 45 indexed citations
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Wills, Wendy, Jane V. Appleton, Josefine Magnusson, & Fiona Brooks. (2008). Exploring the limitations of an adult-led agenda for understanding the health behaviours of young people. Health & Social Care in the Community. 16(3). 244–252. 19 indexed citations

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