William Cameron Chumlea

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
70 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

William Cameron Chumlea is a scholar working on Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, William Cameron Chumlea has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Physiology, 14 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in William Cameron Chumlea's work include Body Composition Measurement Techniques (30 papers), Nutrition and Health in Aging (20 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (11 papers). William Cameron Chumlea is often cited by papers focused on Body Composition Measurement Techniques (30 papers), Nutrition and Health in Aging (20 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (11 papers). William Cameron Chumlea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. William Cameron Chumlea's co-authors include Alex F. Roche, Shumei Guo, Roger M. Siervogel, Wei Wu, Maria L Steinbaugh, Shumei S. Sun, Christine M. Schubert, Bradford Towne, Howard E. Kulin and Peter A. Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, PEDIATRICS and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Cameron Chumlea

64 papers receiving 6.6k citations

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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.

Predicting overweight and obesity in adulthood from body mass index values in childhood and adolescence

2002 877 citations Shumei Guo, Wei Wu et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Estimating Stature from Knee Height for Persons 60 to 90 Years of Age

1985 658 citations William Cameron Chumlea, Alex F. Roche et al. profile →
Tracking of body mass index in children in relation to overweight in adulthood

1999 523 citations Shumei Guo, William Cameron Chumlea American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →
Age at Menarche and Racial Comparisons in US Girls

2003 477 citations William Cameron Chumlea, Christine M. Schubert et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A changing pattern of childhood BMI growth during the 20th century: 70 y of data from the Fels Longitudinal Study 2012 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·William Johnson, Laura Soloway, Darin J. Erickson, Audrey C. Choh, Miryoung Lee, William Cameron Chumlea, Roger M. Siervogel, Stefan A. Czerwinski, Bradford Towne, Ellen W. Demerath	50
2	Presentation, Heritability, and Genome-Wide Linkage Analysis of the Midchildhood Growth Spurt in Healthy Children from the Fels Longitudinal Study 2008 ·Human Biology ·Bradford Towne, (unknown), John Blangero, Stefan A. Czerwinski, Ellen W. Demerath, Ramzi W. Nahhas, Thomas D. Dyer, Shelley A. Cole, Miryoung Lee, Audrey C. Choh, Dana L. Duren, Richard J. Sherwood, William Cameron Chumlea, Roger M. Siervogel	2
3	Genetic Architecture of Knee Radiographic Joint Space in Healthy Young Adults 2008 ·Human Biology ·Dana L. Duren, Richard J. Sherwood, Stefan A. Czerwinski, William Cameron Chumlea, Miryoung Lee, Ellen W. Demerath, Shumei S. Sun, Roger M. Siervogel, Bradford Towne	2
4	Visceral adiposity and its anatomical distribution as predictors of the metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic risk factor levels 2008 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Ellen W. Demerath, (unknown), Nikki Lynn Rogers, Shumei S. Sun, Miryoung Lee, Audrey C. Choh, William P. Couch, Stefan A. Czerwinski, William Cameron Chumlea, Roger M. Siervogel, Bradford Towne	169
5	Total body water volume for white children and adolescents and anthropometric prediction equations: The Fels Longitudinal Study 2005 ·Kidney International ·William Cameron Chumlea, Christine M. Schubert, Nicholas V. Reo, Shumei S. Sun, Roger M. Siervogel	20
6	Family History and Risk of Hair Loss 2004 ·Dermatology ·William Cameron Chumlea, Thomas Rhodes, Cynthia J. Girman, Amy O. Johnson‐Levonas, Flavius R. W. Lilly, (unknown), Shumei Guo	48
7	Reply to GM Owen 2003 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Shumei Sun, Wei Wu, William Cameron Chumlea, Alex F. Roche	1
8	Predicting overweight and obesity in adulthood from body mass index values in childhood and adolescence breakdown → 2002 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Shumei Guo, Wei Wu, William Cameron Chumlea, Alex F. Roche	877
9	Health status of children with moderate to severe cerebral palsy 2001 ·Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology ·Gregory S. Liptak, Maureen O’Donnell, Mark R. Conaway, William Cameron Chumlea, Gordon Worley, Richard C. Henderson, Ellen B. Fung, Virginia A. Stallings, Lisa Samson‐Fang, Randy Calvert, Peter Rosenbaum, Richard D. Stevenson	189
10	Total body water reference values and prediction equations for adults 2001 ·Kidney International ·William Cameron Chumlea, Shumei Guo, Christine Zeller, Nicholas V. Reo, R N Baumgartner, Philip J. Garry, Jack Wang, Richard N. Pierson, Steven B. Heymsfield, Roger M. Siervogel	118
11	Annual Changes in Total Body Fat and Fat‐free Mass in Children from 8 to 18 Years in Relation to Changes in Body Mass Index: The Fels Longitudinal Study 2000 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Roger M. Siervogel, L. Michele Maynard, Wayne Wisemandle, Alex F. Roche, Shumei Guo, William Cameron Chumlea, Bradford Towne	51
12	Tracking of body mass index in children in relation to overweight in adulthood breakdown → 1999 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Shumei Guo, William Cameron Chumlea	523
13	Aging, body composition, and lifestyle: the Fels Longitudinal Study 1999 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Shumei Guo, Christine Zeller, William Cameron Chumlea, Roger M. Siervogel	307
14	Body mass and bone mineral quality 1999 ·Current Opinion in Rheumatology ·William Cameron Chumlea, Shumei Guo	8
15	Bioelectric and Anthropometric Assessments and Reference Data in the Elderly 1993 ·Journal of Nutrition ·William Cameron Chumlea, Shumei Guo, Robert J. Kuczmarski, Bruno Vellas	22
16	Reliability for anthropometric measurements in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES 1982©1984) 1990 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·William Cameron Chumlea, Shumei Guo, Robert J. Kuczmarski, Clifford L. Johnson, (unknown)	56
17	Median skinfold thickness distributions and fat-wave patterns in Mexican-American children from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES 1982–1984) 1990 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Alan S. Ryan, Gilbert A. Martinez, Richard Baumgartner, Alex F. Roche, Shumei Guo, William Cameron Chumlea, Robert J. Kuczmarski	21
18	Kernel regression for smoothing percentile curves: reference data for calf and subscapular skinfold thicknesses in Mexican Americans 1990 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Shumei Guo, Alex F. Roche, Richard Baumgartner, William Cameron Chumlea, Alan S. Ryan	10
19	Status of anthropometry and body composition data in elderly subjects 1989 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·William Cameron Chumlea, Richard Baumgartner	119
20	Size and number of adipocytes and measures of body fat in boys and girls 10 to 18 years of age 1981 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·William Cameron Chumlea, Jerome L. Knittle, Alex F. Roche, R. M. Siervogel, Paul W. Webb	24

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