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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 42 Citations 11,933 128 World Ranking 1949 National Ranking 131

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Marketing
  • Public health
  • Internal medicine

Gary Sacks mostly deals with Environmental health, Public economics, Obesity, Public health and Health policy. His work carried out in the field of Environmental health brings together such families of science as Tax revenue, Food labelling, Food packaging and Revenue. His studies in Public economics integrate themes in fields like Benchmarking and Public policy.

Gary Sacks has researched Obesity in several fields, including Gerontology and Animal science. His Gerontology research includes themes of Adult obesity, Overconsumption, Childhood obesity, Life expectancy and Developing country. The Health policy study combines topics in areas such as Food safety and Food processing.

His most cited work include:

  • The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments (2667 citations)
  • Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight (668 citations)
  • The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report (592 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Gary Sacks focuses on Environmental health, Public health, Obesity, Public economics and Food policy. As part of the same scientific family, Gary Sacks usually focuses on Environmental health, concentrating on Psychological intervention and intersecting with Local government, Intervention and Overweight. The concepts of his Public health study are interwoven with issues in Food industry and Public relations.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Economic growth, Gerontology, Body weight, Weight gain and Animal science in addition to Obesity. The various areas that Gary Sacks examines in his Animal science study include Endocrinology and Internal medicine. His Public economics study incorporates themes from Private sector, Benchmarking, Public policy and Health policy.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Environmental health (29.67%)
  • Public health (22.53%)
  • Obesity (19.78%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Public health (22.53%)
  • Environmental health (29.67%)
  • Food policy (16.48%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include Public health, Environmental health, Food policy, Context and Food industry. Gary Sacks conducts interdisciplinary study in the fields of Public health and Accountability through his works. Gary Sacks has included themes like Psychological intervention, Socioeconomic position, Obesity and Health promotion in his Environmental health study.

His Psychological intervention research incorporates themes from Intervention, Health care and Gerontology. His research investigates the connection between Obesity and topics such as Benchmarking that intersect with issues in Healthy food. His work in Food industry tackles topics such as Marketing which are related to areas like Food processing.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Prevalence of healthy and unhealthy food and beverage price promotions and their potential influence on shopper purchasing behaviour: A systematic review of the literature (19 citations)
  • What role should the commercial food system play in promoting health through better diet (12 citations)
  • Mechanisms for addressing and managing the influence of corporations on public health policy, research and practice: a scoping review. (11 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Marketing
  • Public health
  • Internal medicine

Gary Sacks mainly focuses on Environmental health, Public health, Context, Obesity and Metropolitan area. A majority of his Environmental health research is a blend of other scientific areas, such as Food systems and Intervention. His research in Public health is mostly concerned with Health promotion.

Among his Context studies, there is a synthesis of other scientific areas such as Benchmarking, Accountability, Accounting, Product and Market share. Gary Sacks combines subjects such as Quality-adjusted life year and Population health with his study of Obesity. His Civil society research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Public policy and Public relations.

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Best Publications

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

Boyd A Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Kevin D Hall;Klim McPherson.
The Lancet (2011)

4277 Citations

Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight

Kevin D Hall;Gary Sacks;Dhruva Chandramohan;Carson C Chow.
The Lancet (2011)

1032 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.
The Lancet (2019)

832 Citations

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

Boyd Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Eric Ravussin.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2009)

571 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.
Obesity Reviews (2013)

396 Citations

Impact of front-of-pack 'traffic-light' nutrition labelling on consumer food purchases in the UK.

Gary Sacks;Mike Rayner;Boyd Swinburn.
Health Promotion International (2009)

366 Citations

Strengthening of accountability systems to create healthy food environments and reduce global obesity

Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn;Vivica Kraak;Vivica Kraak;Harry Rutter;Stefanie Vandevijvere.
The Lancet (2015)

321 Citations

Estimating the changes in energy flux that characterize the rise in obesity prevalence

Boyd A Swinburn;Gary Sacks;Sing Kai Lo;Klaas R Westerterp.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2009)

312 Citations

Obesity Policy Action framework and analysis grids for a comprehensive policy approach to reducing obesity

Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Mark Lawrence.
Obesity Reviews (2009)

266 Citations

'Traffic-light' nutrition labelling and 'junk-food' tax: a modelled comparison of cost-effectiveness for obesity prevention

G Sacks;J L Veerman;M Moodie;B Swinburn.
International Journal of Obesity (2011)

260 Citations

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