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Reynaldo Martorell

Reynaldo Martorell

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
112
Citations
106199
World Ranking
5032
National Ranking
2727

Reynaldo Martorell publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reynaldo Martorell sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 592 publications — 71st percentile

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Reynaldo Martorell D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Reynaldo Martorell sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 112 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Reynaldo Martorell is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio focused on medicine and nursing, particularly within the fields of nutrition and dietetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and obstetrics and gynecology.

Their research addresses several critical topics including child nutrition and water access, birth, development, and health, obesity, physical activity and diet, iron metabolism and disorders, food security and health in diverse populations, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, and poverty, education and child welfare.

Frequent publication venues for Martorell's work include UNC Libraries, Current Developments in Nutrition, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Nature. The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, notably Aryeh D. Stein, Usha Ramakrishnan, Linda S. Adair, Manuel Ramírez-Zea, and Linda Richter.

Among recent published papers are the following:

  • Health and development from preconception to 20 years of age and human capital (2022, The Lancet)
  • Effects of early-life poverty on health and human capital in children and adolescents: analyses of national surveys and birth cohort studies in LMICs (2022, The Lancet)
  • Early-childhood linear growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries (2023, Nature)
  • Causes and consequences of child growth faltering in low-resource settings (2023, Nature)
  • Malnutrition in all its forms by wealth, education and ethnicity in Latin America: who are more affected? (2020, Public Health Nutrition)

Martorell received recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Anthropometric standardization reference manual

    T. J. Lohman;A. F. Roache;R. Martorell

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • WHO child growth standards: length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age - Methods and development

    Mercedes de Onis;Adelheid Onyango;Elaine Borghi;Amani Siyam

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world

    Patrice L Engle;Maureen M Black;Jere R Behrman;Meena Cabral de Mello

  • A century of trends in adult human height

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

  • Effect of a nutrition intervention during early childhood on economic productivity in Guatemalan adults

    John Hoddinott;John A Maluccio;Jere R Behrman;Rafael Flores

  • HEIGHT AND WEIGHT STANDARDS FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN: HOW RELEVANT ARE ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN GROWTH POTENTIAL ?

    Jean-Pierre Habicht;Charles Yarbrough;Reynaldo Martorell;RobertM. Malina

  • Prevention of diarrhea and pneumonia by zinc supplementation in children in developing countries: Pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials

    Z.A. Bhutta;R.E. Black;K.H. Brown;J.Meeks Gardner

  • The who Multicentre Growth Reference Study: Planning, Study Design, and Methodology:

    Mercedes de Onis;Cutberto Garza;Cesar G. Victora;Adelheid W. Onyango

  • Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference.

    Mercedes de Onis;Adelheid W Onyango;Jan Van den Broeck;Wm Cameron Chumlea

  • The impact of improving nutrition during early childhood on education among Guatemalan adults.

    John A. Maluccio;John Hoddinott;Jere R. Behrman;Reynaldo Martorell

  • Reversibility of stunting: epidemiological findings in children from developing countries.

    R Martorell;L K Khan;D G Schroeder

  • The Importance Of Women's Status For Child Nutrition In Developing Countries:

    Lisa C. Smith;Usha Ramakrishnan;Aida Ndiaye;Lawrence James Haddad

  • Associations of linear growth and relative weight gain during early life with adult health and human capital in countries of low and middle income: findings from five birth cohort studies

    Linda S. Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Clive Osmond;Aryeh D. Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan A Rivera
Juan A Rivera Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Phuong H. Nguyen
Phuong H. Nguyen Eindhoven University of Technology
Cesar G. Victora
Cesar G. Victora Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Caroline H.D. Fall
Caroline H.D. Fall University of Southampton
Linda Richter
Linda Richter University of the Witwatersrand
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London
Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College

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