2026 Boyd Swinburn: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	113	4829	4530	10	8	666	77139

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Medicine in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Boyd Swinburn is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Ecology.

Their research covers several key topics, which include:

Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Community Health and Development
Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Child Nutrition and Water Access

Swinburn has contributed to recent scholarly publications such as:

"The effect of food taxes and subsidies on population health and health costs: a modelling study" (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
"What is the impact of food reformulation on individuals' behaviour, nutrient intakes and health status? A systematic review of empirical evidence" (2020, Obesity Reviews)
"The need to reshape global food processing: a call to the United Nations Food Systems Summit" (2021, BMJ Global Health)
"Community Group Model Building as a Method for Engaging Participants and Mobilising Action in Public Health" (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
"Toward healthy and sustainable diets for the 21st century: Importance of sociocultural and economic considerations" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent collaborators include Sally Mackay, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Sarah Gerritsen, Steven Allender, and Gary Sacks. These co-authors have worked with Swinburn on numerous occasions, contributing to a network of research in public health and nutrition.

The venues where Swinburn most frequently publishes reflect a focus on environmental health, nutrition, and global health issues. These include:

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Public Health Nutrition
Globalization and Health
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
PLoS ONE

Best Publications

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

8465
Citations
The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments

Boyd A Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Kevin D Hall;Klim McPherson

6004
Citations
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

5734
Citations
Dissecting obesogenic environments: the development and application of a framework for identifying and prioritizing environmental interventions for obesity.

Boyd Swinburn;Garry Egger;Fezeela Raza;Fezeela Raza

2890
Citations
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

Boyd A Swinburn;Boyd A Swinburn;Vivica I Kraak;Steven Allender;Vincent J Atkins

2889
Citations
Diet, nutrition and the prevention of excess weight gain and obesity

Boyd Swinburn;I. Caterson;J. C. Seidell;W. P. T. James

1661
Citations
Changing the future of obesity: Science, policy, and action

Steven L. Gortmaker;Boyd A. Swinburn;David Levy;Rob Carter

1469
Citations
Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight

Kevin D Hall;Gary Sacks;Dhruva Chandramohan;Carson C Chow

1431
Citations
A century of trends in adult human height

James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

1428
Citations
Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture

Tim Lobstein;Rachel Jackson-Leach;Marjory L Moodie;Kevin D Hall

1406
Citations
How much physical activity is enough to prevent unhealthy weight gain? Outcome of the IASO 1st Stock Conference and consensus statement

W. H. M. Saris;S. N. Blair;M. A. van Baak;S. B. Eaton

1363
Citations
An ecological approach to the obesity pandemic

Garry Egger;Boyd Swinburn

1300
Citations
Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking

Christina A. Roberto;Boyd Swinburn;Corinna Hawkes;Terry T.-K. Huang;Terry T.-K. Huang

1218
Citations
The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic

Lindsay M Jaacks;Stefanie Vandevijvere;An Pan;Craig J McGowan

1206
Citations
Low ratio of fat to carbohydrate oxidation as predictor of weight gain: study of 24-h RQ

F. Zurlo;S. Lillioja;A. Esposito del Puente;B. L. Nyomba

966
Citations
Impaired glucose tolerance as a disorder of insulin action. Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies in Pima Indians

Stephen Lillioja;David M. Mott;Barbara V. Howard;Peter H. Bennett

846
Citations
INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non-communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles

Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Shiriki Kumanyika

741
Citations
Preventive strategies against weight gain and obesity.

Boyd Swinburn;G. Egger

735
Citations
Increased food energy supply is more than sufficient to explain the US epidemic of obesity.

Boyd Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Eric Ravussin

693
Citations
Obesity prevention: a proposed framework for translating evidence into action.

Boyd Swinburn;T. Gill;S. Kumanyika

533
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Sacks Deakin University

Stefanie Vandevijvere University of Auckland

Wendy Snowdon Deakin University

Peter Kremer Deakin University

Steven Allender Deakin University

Elizabeth Waters University of Melbourne

Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health

Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies

Marita P. McCabe Swinburne University of Technology

Bridget Kelly University of Wollongong

External Links

Personal website of Boyd Swinburn

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