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Jennifer O. Fisher

Jennifer O. Fisher

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
67
Citations
34236
World Ranking
879
National Ranking
419

Overview

Jennifer O. Fisher is affiliated with Temple University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health. Other notable subfields include psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, education, and general health professions.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to nutrition, health, and child development. Key research areas include obesity, physical activity, and diet; child nutrition and feeding issues; eating disorders and behaviors; nutritional studies and diet; early childhood education and development; child development and digital technology; and food security and health in diverse populations.

Jennifer O. Fisher has contributed to numerous publications in well-established venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Appetite
  • UNC Libraries
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on parental and environmental influences on child eating behaviors and weight status. Selected recent papers are:

  • Caregiver Influences on Eating Behaviors in Young Children, 2020, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Positive parenting approaches and their association with child eating and weight: A narrative review from infancy to adolescence, 2020, Pediatric Obesity
  • Obesity risk in Hispanic children: Bidirectional associations between child eating behavior and child weight status over time, 2020, Eating Behaviors
  • COVID-19 pandemic shifts in food-related parenting practices within an ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of families of preschool-aged children, 2021, Appetite
  • Maternal feeding style and child weight status among Hispanic families with low-income levels: a longitudinal study of the direction of effects, 2021, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

Collaborations are notable in their work, with frequent co-authors including Sheryl O. Hughes, Thomas G. Power, Gina L. Tripicchio, Teresia M. O'Connor, and Christina M. Croce, reflecting interdisciplinary and team-based research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • Development of eating behaviors among children and adolescents.

    Leann L. Birch;Jennifer O. Fisher

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Child Feeding Questionnaire: A Measure of Parental Attitudes, Beliefs and Practices About Child Feeding and Obesity Proneness

    L.L Birch;J.O Fisher;K Grimm-Thomas;C.N Markey

  • Parental Influence on Eating Behavior: Conception to Adolescence

    Jennifer S. Savage;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann L. Birch

  • Learning to overeat: maternal use of restrictive feeding practices promotes girls’ eating in the absence of hunger

    Leann L Birch;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Kirsten Krahnstoever Davison

  • Restricting access to palatable foods affects children's behavioral response, food selection, and intake

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann Lipps Birch

  • Mothers' child-feeding practices influence daughters' eating and weight

    Leann L Birch;Jennifer O Fisher

  • Revisiting a neglected construct: parenting styles in a child-feeding context.

    Sheryl O. Hughes;Thomas G. Power;Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Stephen Mueller

  • Restricting access to foods and children's eating.

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;L. L. Birch

  • Parental influences on young girls' fruit and vegetable, micronutrient, and fat intakes

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Diane C. Mitchell;Helen Smiciklas Wright;Leann Lipps Birch

  • Eating in the absence of hunger and overweight in girls from 5 to 7 y of age

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann L Birch

  • Fundamental constructs in food parenting practices: A content map to guide future research

    Amber E. Vaughn;Dianne S. Ward;Jennifer O. Fisher;Myles S. Faith

  • Children's bite size and intake of an entrée are greater with large portions than with age-appropriate or self-selected portions.

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Barbara J Rolls;Leann L Birch

  • Young girls' emerging dietary restraint and disinhibition are related to parental control in child feeding.

    J.L. Carper;J. Orlet Fisher;L.L. Birch

  • Relation between mothers' child-feeding practices and children's adiposity

    Donna Spruijt-Metz;Christine H Lindquist;Leann L Birch;Jennifer O Fisher

  • Like mother, like daughter: familial patterns of overweight are mediated by mothers' dietary disinhibition

    Tanja M Cutting;Jennifer O Fisher;Karen Grimm-Thomas;Leann L Birch

  • Fat Preferences and Fat Consumption of 3- to 5-year-old Children are Related to Parental Adiposity

    Jennifer Orlet Fisher;Leann L Birch

  • The role of responsive feeding in overweight during infancy and toddlerhood: a systematic review.

    K I DiSantis;E A Hodges;S L Johnson;J O Fisher

  • How parental dietary behavior and food parenting practices affect children's dietary behavior. Interacting sources of influence?

    Junilla K. Larsen;Roel C.J. Hermans;Ester F.C. Sleddens;Rutger C.M.E. Engels

  • Repeated exposure and associative conditioning promote preschool children’s liking of vegetables

    Stephanie Anzman-Frasca;Jennifer S. Savage;Michele E. Marini;Jennifer O. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Leann L. Birch
Leann L. Birch University of Georgia
Sheryl O. Hughes
Sheryl O. Hughes Baylor College of Medicine
Thomas G. Power
Thomas G. Power Washington State University
Kirsten K. Davison
Kirsten K. Davison Boston College
Barbara J. Rolls
Barbara J. Rolls Pennsylvania State University
Junilla K. Larsen
Junilla K. Larsen Radboud University
Adam Davey
Adam Davey University of Delaware
Katie A. Loth
Katie A. Loth University of Minnesota
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer University of Minnesota
Alison L. Miller
Alison L. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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