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Stefanie Vandevijvere

Stefanie Vandevijvere

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
17019
World Ranking
1441
National Ranking
13

Stefanie Vandevijvere publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefanie Vandevijvere sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 279 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Stefanie Vandevijvere D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefanie Vandevijvere sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stefanie Vandevijvere is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their main field of study is Medicine, with a strong focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Additional subfields of research include Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions, Ecology, and Food Science.

The scientist's research covers multiple core topics such as Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet; Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling; Nutritional Studies and Diet; Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology; Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact; Child Nutrition and Water Access; and Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability.

Among Stefanie Vandevijvere's recent papers are the following:

  • Sociocultural Influences on Food Choices and Implications for Sustainable Healthy Diets, 2020, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
  • Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study, 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • Mechanisms for addressing and managing the influence of corporations on public health policy, research and practice: a scoping review, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity among 6- to 9-year-old children in 24 countries from the World Health Organization European region, 2021, Obesity Reviews
  • Implementation of healthy food environment policies to prevent nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in Ghana: National experts' assessment of government action, 2020, Food Policy

Vandevijvere has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Karin De Ridder
  • Brecht Devleesschauwer
  • Johan Van der Heyden
  • Boyd Swinburn
  • Vanessa Gorasso

Their publications are predominantly found in these venues:

  • European Journal of Public Health
  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Archives of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • 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 obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic

    Lindsay M Jaacks;Stefanie Vandevijvere;An Pan;Craig J McGowan

  • 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

  • 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

  • Increased food energy supply as a major driver of the obesity epidemic: a global analysis

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Carson C Chow;Kevin D Hall;Elaine Umali

  • Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environments: a proposed Government Healthy Food Environment Policy Index.

    Boyd Swinburn;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Vivica Kraak;Gary Sacks

  • Front-of-package nutrition labelling policy: global progress and future directions.

    Rebecca Kanter;Lana Vanderlee;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • Global trends in ultraprocessed food and drink product sales and their association with adult body mass index trajectories

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Lindsay M. Jaacks;Carlos A. Monteiro;Jean‐Claude Moubarac

  • Sociocultural Influences on Food Choices and Implications for Sustainable Healthy Diets

    Eva C. Monterrosa;Edward A. Frongillo;Adam Drewnowski;Saskia de Pee;Saskia de Pee

  • Monitoring the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages in community and consumer retail food environments globally.

    C. Ni Mhurchu;S. Vandevijvere;W. Waterlander;L. E. Thornton

  • Global benchmarking of children's exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across 22 countries

    Bridget Kelly;Stefanie Vandevijvere;See Hoe Ng;Jean Adams

  • Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study.

    Marcela Reyes;Lindsey Smith Taillie;Barry Popkin;Rebecca Kanter

  • Monitoring the price and affordability of foods and diets globally

    Andy Lee;Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Gary Sacks;Boyd Swinburn;Boyd Swinburn

  • High Prevalence of Thyroid Disorders in Pregnant Women in a Mildly Iodine-deficient Country: A Population-Based Study

    Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes;Daniel Glinoer;Herman Van Oyen;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • High Prevalence of Vitamin D Deficiency in Pregnant Women: A National Cross-Sectional Survey

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Sihame Amsalkhir;Herman Van Oyen;Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes

  • New Media but Same Old Tricks: Food Marketing to Children in the Digital Age

    Bridget Kelly;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Becky Freeman;Gabrielle Jenkin

  • Mild iodine deficiency in pregnancy in Europe and its consequences for cognitive and psychomotor development of children: A review

    Caroline Trumpff;Jean De Schepper;Jean Tafforeau;Herman Van Oyen

  • Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments.

    Sharon Friel;Libby Hattersley;Wendy Snowdon;Wendy Snowdon;Anne Marie Thow

  • Consumption of ultra-processed food products and diet quality among children, adolescents and adults in Belgium

    Stefanie Vandevijvere;Karin De Ridder;Thibault Fiolet;Sarah Bel

  • Reproducibility and validity of a diet quality index for children assessed using a FFQ

    Inge Huybrechts;Carine Vereecken;Dirk De Bacquer;Stefanie Vandevijvere

  • Monitoring the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages in community and consumer retail food environments globally

    Cliona Ni Mhurchu;Stefanie Vandevijvere;Wilma Waterlander;Lukar E. Thornton

Frequent Co-Authors

Boyd Swinburn
Boyd Swinburn University of Auckland
Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
Wendy Snowdon
Wendy Snowdon Deakin University
Bridget Kelly
Bridget Kelly University of Wollongong
Herman Van Oyen
Herman Van Oyen Ghent University
Inge Huybrechts
Inge Huybrechts International Agency For Research On Cancer
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal George Institute for Global Health
Mike Rayner
Mike Rayner University of Oxford
Corinna Hawkes
Corinna Hawkes City, University of London
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University

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