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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 71 718 624 135 119 311 28092

Steven Cummins publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Steven Cummins between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Steven Cummins published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 14.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 53 publications in 2014. 33 of the 403 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
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Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 53. Peak 53 publications in 2014. 1999: 2 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 1 publication 2002: 5 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 13 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 10 publications 2013: 17 publications 2014: 53 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 17 publications 2017: 26 publications 2018: 23 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 18 publications 2021: 22 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 26 publications 2024: 31 publications 2025: 32 publications 2026: 1 publication
1999 2026

403 publications in total across all disciplines

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Steven Cummins: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 2
2000 1
2001 1
2002 5
2003 3
2004 3
2005 11
2006 3
2007 13
2008 9
2009 9
2010 3
2011 1
2012 10
2013 17
2014 53
2015 18
2016 17
2017 26
2018 23
2019 25
2020 18
2021 22
2022 20
2023 26
2024 31
2025 32
2026 1
Total 403
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Steven Cummins 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 Steven Cummins sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 304–313 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 311 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95 311
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Steven Cummins 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 Steven Cummins sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 71 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40 71
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Steven Cummins is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a particular emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Their work also intersects with subfields such as General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Health.

Their research covers topics including Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Steven Cummins has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSM Annual Scientific Meeting, PLoS Medicine, Social Science & Medicine, and The Lancet.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Impact of the announcement and implementation of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on sugar content, price, product size and number of available soft drinks in the UK, 2015-19: A controlled interrupted time series analysis (2020, PLoS Medicine)
  • Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review (2021, Social Science & Medicine)
  • RETRACTED: Changes in soft drinks purchased by British households associated with the UK soft drinks industry levy: controlled interrupted time series analysis (2021, BMJ)
  • Associations between commute mode and cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality, and cancer incidence, using linked Census data over 25 years in England and Wales: a cohort study (2020, The Lancet Planetary Health)
  • Associations between trajectories of obesity prevalence in English primary school children and the UK soft drinks industry levy: An interrupted time series analysis of surveillance data (2023, PLoS Medicine)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Martin White, Jean Adams, Oliver Mytton, Laura Cornelsen, and Richard Smith.

Best Publications

  • Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial

    James Lopez Bernal;Steven Cummins;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them?

    Sally Macintyre;Anne Ellaway;Steven Cummins

  • Understanding and representing place in health research a relational approach

    Steven Cummins;Sarah Curtis;Ana V. Diez-Roux;Sally Macintyre

  • The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health

    Harry Rutter;Natalie Savona;Ketevan Glonti;Jo Bibby

  • Food environments and obesity—neighbourhood or nation?

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Peer Reviewed: A Systematic Review of Food Deserts, 1966-2007

    Julie Beaulac;Elizabeth Kristjansson;Steven Cummins

  • “Food deserts”—evidence and assumption in health policy making

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • A systematic review of food deserts, 1966-2007.

    Julie Beaulac;Elizabeth Kristjansson;Steven Cummins

  • Crime, fear of crime, environment, and mental health and wellbeing: mapping review of theories and causal pathways.

    Theo Lorenc;Stephen Clayton;David Neary;Margaret Whitehead

  • New Neighborhood Grocery Store Increased Awareness Of Food Access But Did Not Alter Dietary Habits Or Obesity

    Steven Cummins;Ellen Flint;Stephen A. Matthews

  • The use of controls in interrupted time series studies of public health interventions.

    James Lopez Bernal;Steven Cummins;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Gender differences in the associations between health and neighbourhood environment.

    M. Stafford;S. Cummins;S. Macintyre;A. Ellaway

  • Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

    Camille Perchoux;Basile Chaix;Steven Cummins;Yan Kestens

  • A Systematic Study of an Urban Foodscape: The Price and Availability of Food in Greater Glasgow:

    Steven Cummins;Sally Macintyre

  • Natural experiments: an underused tool for public health?

    Mark Petticrew;Steven Cummins;Catherine Ferrell;Anne Findlay

  • Large scale food retailing as an intervention for diet and health: quasi-experimental evaluation of a natural experiment

    Steven Cummins;Mark Petticrew;Cassie Higgins;Anne Findlay

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Neighbourhood environment and its association with self rated health: evidence from Scotland and England

    Steven Cummins;Mai Stafford;Sally Macintyre;Michael Marmot

  • McDonald’s Restaurants and Neighborhood Deprivation in Scotland and England

    Steven C.J. Cummins;Laura McKay;Sally MacIntyre

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Cyberbullying Involvement and Adolescent Mental Health

    Amanda E. Fahy;Stephen A. Stansfeld;Melanie Smuk;Neil R. Smith

  • Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

    Peter Craig;Erica Di Ruggiero;Katherine L. Frohlich;Eric Mykhalovskiy

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Tim J. Cole
Tim J. Cole University College London
Anne Ellaway
Anne Ellaway University of Glasgow
Leigh Sparks
Leigh Sparks University of Stirling
Hilary Thomson
Hilary Thomson University of Glasgow
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Amanda Sowden
Amanda Sowden University of York
Margaret Whitehead
Margaret Whitehead University of Liverpool
Billie Giles-Corti
Billie Giles-Corti RMIT University
David Ogilvie
David Ogilvie University of Cambridge

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