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Social Sciences and Humanities
South Africa
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
81
Citations
37075
World Ranking
345
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Linda Richter is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's scholarly output includes numerous papers addressing critical topics related to child health and nutrition. Key research areas include Child Nutrition and Water Access, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, Birth, Development, and Health, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, and Infant Development and Preterm Care.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on early childhood and maternal health issues. Notable publications include:

  • "Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world" (2023, The Lancet)
  • "Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Term Risks and Mitigating Program and Policy Actions" (2020, The Journal of Pediatrics)
  • "Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy" (2023, The Lancet)
  • "Inequalities in early childhood care and development in low/middle-income countries: 2010-2018" (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • "Global estimates of the implications of COVID-19-related preprimary school closures for children's instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing" (2021, Child Development)

Linda Richter frequently collaborates with several coauthors, indicating a broad network of research partnerships. Frequent coauthors include Shane A. Norris, Aryeh D. Stein, Reynaldo Martorell, Linda S. Adair, and Alan Stein.

The scientist's work is published across a variety of venues, demonstrating a consistent engagement with both regional and international scholarly audiences. Their most common publication venues are UNC Libraries, The Lancet, BMJ Open, SSRN Electronic Journal, and BMJ Global Health.

Best Publications

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

    Cesar G. Victora;Linda S Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Pedro C. Hallal

  • Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries

    Sally Grantham-McGregor;Yin Bun Cheung;Santiago Cueto;Paul Glewwe

  • Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

    Nigel C Rollins;Nita Bhandari;Nemat Hajeebhoy;Susan Horton

  • Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development

    Susan P Walker;Theodore D Wachs;Sally Grantham-McGregor;Maureen M Black

  • Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better

    Thomas J Coates;Linda Richter;Carlos Caceres

  • Investing in the foundation of sustainable development: pathways to scale up for early childhood development

    Linda M Richter;Bernadette Daelmans;Joan Lombardi;Jody Heymann

  • Risk of childhood undernutrition related to small-for-gestational age and preterm birth in low- and middle-income countries

    Parul Christian;Sun Eun Lee;Moira Donahue Angel;Linda S. Adair

  • Risk of poor development in young children in low-income and middle-income countries: an estimation and analysis at the global, regional, and country level.

    Chunling Lu;Maureen M Black;Maureen M Black;Linda M Richter

  • Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration)

    Caroline H D Fall;Harshpal Singh Sachdev;Clive Osmond;Maria Clara Restrepo-Mendez

  • An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival and Early Childhood Development

    Jack P. Shonkoff;Linda Richter;Jacques van der Gaag;Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

  • Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: The 1990 birth to twenty study in South Africa

    Linda Richter;Shane Norris;John Pettifor;Derek Yach

  • Baba : men and fatherhood in South Africa

    L. Richter;R. Morrell

  • Early childhood development: the foundation of sustainable development

    Bernadette Daelmans;Gary L. Darmstadt;Joan Lombardi;Maureen M. Black;Maureen M. Black

  • Weight Gain in the First Two Years of Life Is an Important Predictor of Schooling Outcomes in Pooled Analyses from Five Birth Cohorts from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Reynaldo Martorell;Bernardo L. Horta;Linda S. Adair;Aryeh D Stein

  • Maternal height and child growth patterns.

    O. Yaw Addo;Aryeh D. Stein;Caroline H. Fall;Denise P. Gigante

  • Gender norms and health: insights from global survey data

    Ann M Weber;Beniamino Cislaghi;Valerie Meausoone;Safa Abdalla

  • Effects of the Global Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic on Early Childhood Development: Short- and Long-Term Risks and Mitigating Program and Policy Actions.

    Hirokazu Yoshikawa;Alice J. Wuermli;Pia Rebello Britto;Benard Dreyer

  • Community-based intervention to increase HIV testing and case detection in people aged 16–32 years in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Thailand (NIMH Project Accept, HPTN 043): a randomised study

    Michael Sweat;Stephen Morin;David Celentano;Marta Mulawa

  • Nonmedical use of prescription opioids among teenagers in the United States: Trends and correlates

    Hung-En Sung;Linda Richter;Roger Vaughan;Patrick B. Johnson

  • Maternal postnatal depression and children's growth and behaviour during the early years of life: exploring the interaction between physical and mental health

    Bilal Avan;Linda M Richter;Paul G Ramchandani;Shane A Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Stein
Alan Stein University of Oxford
Nuala McGrath
Nuala McGrath University of Southampton
Linda S. Adair
Linda S. Adair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Lorraine Sherr
Lorraine Sherr University College London
Maureen M. Black
Maureen M. Black University of Maryland, Baltimore
Oliver Laeyendecker
Oliver Laeyendecker Johns Hopkins University
Oscar A. Barbarin
Oscar A. Barbarin University of Maryland, College Park
Victoria Hosegood
Victoria Hosegood University of Southampton

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