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Overview

Mohammad Javad Koohsari is affiliated with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Their research spans primarily the fields of Social Sciences, Medicine, and Environmental Science, with notable contributions across 64, 43, and 40 publications respectively. Within these disciplines, Koohsari has focused on several subfields including Transportation, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Urban Transport and Accessibility, Urban Green Space and Health, Physical Activity and Health, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Noise Effects and Management, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and Place Attachment and Urban Studies.

Koohsari has published in a variety of academic venues, repeatedly contributing to journals like Scientific Reports (6 publications), Preventive Medicine Reports (4 publications), Landscape and Urban Planning (3 publications), Health & Place (3 publications), and PLoS ONE (3 publications).

Some recent papers by Mohammad Javad Koohsari include:

  • "Working from Home After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Do Company Employees Sit More and Move Less?" (2021, Sustainability)
  • "Changes in Workers' Sedentary and Physical Activity Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Relationships With Fatigue: Longitudinal Online Study" (2021, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance)
  • "Sedentary behaviour and sleep quality" (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • "Neighbourhood built environment and cardiovascular disease: knowledge and future directions" (2020, Nature Reviews Cardiology)
  • "Walking-friendly built environments and objectively measured physical function in older adults" (2020, Journal of Sport and Health Science)

Frequent collaborators include Koichiro Oka, Tomoki Nakaya, Ai Shibata, Gavin R. McCormack, and Kaori Ishii, highlighting a focus on interdisciplinary and collaborative research approaches.

Best Publications

  • Public open space, physical activity, urban design and public health: Concepts, methods and research agenda

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Suzanne Mavoa;Karen Villanueva;Karen Villanueva;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama

  • Are park proximity and park features related to park use and park-based physical activity among adults? Variations by multiple socio-demographic characteristics

    Andrew T Kaczynski;Gina M Besenyi;Sonja A Wilhelm Stanis;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari

  • Sedentary behaviour and health: mapping environmental and social contexts to underpin chronic disease prevention

    Neville Owen;Jo Salmon;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Gavin Turrell

  • Measuring objective accessibility to neighborhood facilities in the city (A case study: Zone 6 in Tehran, Iran)

    Sedigheh Lotfi;Mohammad Javad Koohsari

  • Developing indicators of public open space to promote health and wellbeing in communities

    Karen Villanueva;Karen Villanueva;Hannah Badland;Paula Hooper;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari

  • (Re)Designing the built environment to support physical activity: Bringing public health back into urban design and planning

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Hannah Badland;Billie Giles-Corti

  • Public Open Space and Walking: The Role of Proximity, Perceptual Qualities of the Surrounding Built Environment, and Street Configuration

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Justyna Anna Karakiewicz;Andrew T. Kaczynski

  • Effects of access to public open spaces on walking: Is proximity enough?

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Andrew T. Kaczynski;Billie Giles-Corti;Justyna Anna Karakiewicz

  • Advantages of public green spaces in enhancing population health

    Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama;Alison Carver;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Jenny Veitch

  • Analyzing Accessibility Dimension of Urban Quality of Life: Where Urban Designers Face Duality Between Subjective and Objective Reading of Place

    Sedigheh Lotfi;M. J. Koohsari

  • Street network measures and adults' walking for transport: Application of space syntax

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Takemi Sugiyama;Suzanne Mavoa;Karen Villanueva;Karen Villanueva

  • Neighborhood environmental attributes and adults' sedentary behaviors: Review and research agenda

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Takemi Sugiyama;Shannon Sahlqvist;Suzanne Mavoa

  • Walkability and walking for transport: Characterizing the built environment using space syntax

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Neville Owen;Neville Owen;Ester Cerin;Billie Giles-Corti

  • Mismatch between perceived and objectively measured land use mix and street connectivity: associations with neighborhood walking.

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Hannah Badland;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama;Suzanne Mavoa

  • Association of Street Connectivity and Road Traffic Speed With Park Usage and Park-Based Physical Activity

    Andrew T. Kaczynski;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Sonja A.Wilhelm Stanis;Ryan D Bergstrom

  • Validity of Walk Score® as a measure of neighborhood walkability in Japan.

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Takemi Sugiyama;Tomoya Hanibuchi;Ai Shibata

  • A systematic review of physical activity and sedentary behaviour research in the oil-producing countries of the Arabian Peninsula

    Ruth Mabry;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Fiona Bull;Neville Owen

  • Street connectivity and walking for transport: role of neighborhood destinations.

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Takemi Sugiyama;Karen Elaine Lamb;Karen Villanueva

  • Natural movement: A space syntax theory linking urban form and function with walking for transport

    Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Koichiro Oka;Neville Owen;Neville Owen;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama;Takemi Sugiyama

  • Adverse associations of car time with markers of cardio-metabolic risk

    Takemi Sugiyama;Katrien Wijndaele;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Stephanie K. Tanamas

Frequent Co-Authors

Takemi Sugiyama
Takemi Sugiyama Swinburne University of Technology
Gavin R. McCormack
Gavin R. McCormack University of Calgary
Suzanne Mavoa
Suzanne Mavoa University of Melbourne
Andrew T. Kaczynski
Andrew T. Kaczynski University of South Carolina
Hannah Badland
Hannah Badland RMIT University
Jo Salmon
Jo Salmon Deakin University
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Washington University in St. Louis
Gavin Turrell
Gavin Turrell RMIT University
Hayley Christian
Hayley Christian University of Western Australia
Jelle Van Cauwenberg
Jelle Van Cauwenberg Ghent University

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