Alison Field
#92,493
Most Influential Person Now
US epidemiologist
Alison Field's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Alison Fieldmedical Degrees
Medical
#1627
World Rank
#1986
Historical Rank
Public Health
#451
World Rank
#466
Historical Rank
Epidemiology
#549
World Rank
#573
Historical Rank

Download Badge
Medical
Alison Field's Degrees
- Masters Public Health University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
Similar Degrees You Can Earn
Why Is Alison Field Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alison Ellen Field is an American epidemiologist. Field currently serves as professor and chair of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health and professor of pediatrics at Brown's Alpert Medical School.
Alison Field's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity. (1999) (4905)
- Impact of overweight on the risk of developing common chronic diseases during a 10-year period. (2001) (1721)
- Family dinner and diet quality among older children and adolescents. (2000) (860)
- Risk of overweight among adolescents who were breastfed as infants. (2001) (831)
- Validation of a youth/adolescent food frequency questionnaire. (1997) (707)
- Activity, Dietary Intake, and Weight Changes in a Longitudinal Study of Preadolescent and Adolescent Boys and Girls (2000) (688)
- Maternal gestational diabetes, birth weight, and adolescent obesity. (2003) (685)
- Relation between dieting and weight change among preadolescents and adolescents. (2003) (628)
- Sugar-added beverages and adolescent weight change. (2004) (607)
- Peer, parent, and media influences on the development of weight concerns and frequent dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boys. (2001) (603)
- Impact of a school-based interdisciplinary intervention on diet and physical activity among urban primary school children: eat well and keep moving. (1999) (413)
- Longitudinal study of skipping breakfast and weight change in adolescents (2003) (392)
- Exposure to the mass media and weight concerns among girls. (1999) (373)
- Weight status in childhood as a predictor of becoming overweight or hypertensive in early adulthood. (2005) (371)
- Maternal Gestational Weight Gain and Offspring Weight in Adolescence (2008) (367)
- Sexual orientation and bullying among adolescents in the growing up today study. (2010) (358)
- Relation of peer and media influences to the development of purging behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girls. (1999) (308)
- Association of Consumption of Fried Food Away From Home With Body Mass Index and Diet Quality in Older Children and Adolescents (2005) (305)
- A 10-year longitudinal study of body weight, dieting, and eating disorder symptoms. (1997) (268)
- Family dinner and adolescent overweight. (2005) (264)
- Dietary Fat and Weight Gain Among Women in the Nurses’ Health Study (2007) (260)
- Longitudinal associations between binge eating and overeating and adverse outcomes among adolescents and young adults: does loss of control matter? (2013) (247)
- Association between fruit and vegetable intake and change in body mass index among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United States (2003) (222)
- The development of associations among body mass index, body dissatisfaction, and weight and shape concern in adolescent boys and girls. (2012) (220)
- Patterns and determinants of physical activity in U.S. adolescents. (2008) (219)
- Food-addiction scale measurement in 2 cohorts of middle-aged and older women. (2014) (210)
- Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescents (2004) (204)
- Exposure to the Mass Media, Body Shape Concerns, and Use of Supplements to Improve Weight and Shape Among Male and Female Adolescents (2005) (198)
- Family, peer, and media predictors of becoming eating disordered. (2008) (193)
- Examination of shared risk and protective factors for overweight and disordered eating among adolescents. (2010) (188)
- Weight Concerns, Weight Control Behaviors, and Smoking Initiation (1999) (177)
- Sexual orientation disparities in purging and binge eating from early to late adolescence. (2009) (177)
- Longitudinal Relationship Between Television Viewing and Leisure-Time Physical Activity During Adolescence (2007) (173)
- Prospective Association of Common Eating Disorders and Adverse Outcomes (2012) (164)
- Reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire among fourth to seventh grade inner-city school children: implications of age and day-to-day variation in dietary intake (1999) (156)
- Adolescent Eating Disorders Predict Psychiatric, High-Risk Behaviors and Weight Outcomes in Young Adulthood. (2015) (153)
- Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity in Offspring in Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood. (2016) (149)
- The effect of social desirability trait on self-reported dietary measures among multi-ethnic female health center employees. (2001) (144)
- Sexual orientation, weight concerns, and eating-disordered behaviors in adolescent girls and boys. (2004) (141)
- Review Article: The Role of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology in the Study of Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Diseases in the Era of Precision Medicine (2016) (140)
- Self-assessment of pubertal stage in overweight children. (2002) (137)
- Comparison of 4 questionnaires for assessment of fruit and vegetable intake. (1998) (134)
- Body Satisfaction, Weight Gain, and Binge Eating Among Overweight Adolescent Girls (2012) (131)
- Sexual orientation, gender, and alcohol use in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent girls and boys. (2007) (129)
- Correlates of Stress Fractures Among Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls (2005) (126)
- The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girls. (2005) (115)
- Prospective associations of concerns about physique and the development of obesity, binge drinking, and drug use among adolescent boys and young adult men. (2014) (114)
- Adiposity and Different Types of Screen Time (2013) (111)
- Which metric of relative weight best captures body fatness in children? (2003) (109)
- The Validity of Self‐reported Weight Change among Adolescents and Young Adults (2007) (104)
- Weight cycling and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes among adult women in the United States. (2004) (102)
- A prospective study of overeating, binge eating, and depressive symptoms among adolescent and young adult women. (2012) (101)
- Comparison of self-report to interview assessment of bulimic behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boys. (2004) (101)
- Frequent Tanning Bed Use, Weight Concerns, and Other Health Risk Behaviors in Adolescent Females (United States) (2006) (100)
- Alcohol intake and 8-year weight gain in women: a prospective study. (2004) (99)
- Anabolic steroid abuse among teenage girls: an illusory problem? (2007) (99)
- Cross-sectional measurement of nutrient intake among adolescents in 1996. (2001) (99)
- Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status (2016) (97)
- Development of muscularity and weight concerns in heterosexual and sexual minority males. (2013) (95)
- Longitudinal relations of television, electronic games, and digital versatile discs with changes in diet in adolescents. (2014) (94)
- ABUSE VICTIMIZATION IN CHILDHOOD OR ADOLESCENCE AND RISK OF FOOD ADDICTION IN ADULT WOMEN (2013) (94)
- The Adverse Effect of Negative Comments About Weight and Shape From Family and Siblings on Women at High Risk for Eating Disorders (2006) (91)
- Adolescent eating disorder behaviours and cognitions: gender-specific effects of child, maternal and family risk factors (2015) (88)
- The merits of subtyping obesity: one size does not fit all. (2013) (85)
- Prospective study of physical activity and risk of developing a stress fracture among preadolescent and adolescent girls. (2011) (81)
- Association between maternal adherence to healthy lifestyle practices and risk of obesity in offspring: results from two prospective cohort studies of mother-child pairs in the United States (2018) (79)
- Weight cycling and mortality among middle-aged or older women. (2009) (79)
- Race and Gender Differences in the Association of Dieting and Gains in BMI among Young Adults (2007) (77)
- Vitamin d, calcium, and dairy intakes and stress fractures among female adolescents. (2012) (76)
- Can School Income and Racial/Ethnic Composition Explain the Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Adolescent Physical Activity Participation? (2006) (73)
- Family Dinner and Disordered Eating Behaviors in a Large Cohort of Adolescents (2009) (72)
- Breast-feeding and Overweight in Adolescence (2006) (71)
- Patterns of body image concerns and disordered weight- and shape-related behaviors in heterosexual and sexual minority adolescent males. (2015) (69)
- Perception of overweight and self-esteem during adolescence. (2009) (69)
- Sexual Orientation Disparities in Weight Status in Adolescence: Findings From a Prospective Study (2009) (67)
- Epidemiology and health and economic consequences of obesity. (2002) (66)
- The influence of wanting to look like media figures on adolescent physical activity. (2004) (64)
- Comparing physical activity questionnaires for youth: seasonal vs annual format. (2001) (63)
- Hypertension Awareness and Control Among Young Adults in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (2014) (62)
- Racial/ethnic and gender differences in concern with weight and in bulimic behaviors among adolescents. (1997) (62)
- Combining global positioning system and accelerometer data to determine the locations of physical activity in children. (2012) (61)
- Smoking, getting drunk, and engaging in bulimic behaviors: in which order are the behaviors adopted? (2002) (61)
- Validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire in Assessing Nutrient Intakes of Low-Income Pregnant Women (2004) (60)
- Physical Activity in Relation to Long‐term Weight Maintenance After Intentional Weight Loss in Premenopausal Women (2010) (60)
- Childhood hyperactivity/inattention and eating disturbances predict binge eating in adolescence (2015) (59)
- Physical activity patterns and prevention of weight gain in premenopausal women (2009) (57)
- The relationship of caloric intake to frequency of dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls. (1993) (53)
- Male Eating Disorder Symptom Patterns and Health Correlates From 13 to 26 Years of Age. (2016) (52)
- Adolescents’ use of the built environment for physical activity (2015) (51)
- Weight concerns and weight control behaviors of adolescents and their mothers. (2005) (50)
- Weight-control behaviors and subsequent weight change among adolescents and young adult females. (2010) (49)
- Distinguishing recovery from remission in a cohort of bulimic women: how should asymptomatic periods be described? (1997) (49)
- Subtyping eating disorders: is it justified? (1996) (45)
- Are obesity risk genes associated with binge eating in adolescence? (2015) (43)
- Offspring risk of obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: a sex-specific association. (2017) (39)
- Association of sports drinks with weight gain among adolescents and young adults (2014) (37)
- A genome‐wide investigation of food addiction (2016) (36)
- Eating disorder behaviours amongst adolescents: investigating classification, persistence and prospective associations with adverse outcomes using latent class models (2016) (36)
- Child Maltreatment's Heavy Toll: The Need for Trauma-Informed Obesity Prevention. (2016) (34)
- Molecular pathological epidemiology gives clues to paradoxical findings (2015) (34)
- Assessing eating disorder symptoms in adolescence: is there a role for multiple informants? (2014) (34)
- Longitudinal Associations Among Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Disordered Eating, and Weight Gain in Military Men and Women. (2016) (34)
- Perceived and actual obesity in childhood and adolescence and risk of adult depression (2012) (34)
- The Course of Eating Disorders Involving Bingeing and Purging Among Adolescent Girls: Prevalence, Stability, and Transitions. (2019) (33)
- Prospective association between overvaluation of weight and binge eating among overweight adolescent girls. (2015) (32)
- Adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern and BMI change among U.S. adolescents (2016) (31)
- Race differences in accuracy of self-reported childhood body size among white and black women. (2004) (30)
- Food and beverage consumption and food addiction among women in the Nurses' Health Studies (2018) (30)
- Achieving Cardiovascular Health in Young Adulthood-Which Adolescent Factors Matter? (2016) (28)
- Lifestyle of women before pregnancy and the risk of offspring obesity during childhood through early adulthood (2018) (26)
- A latent class analysis to empirically describe eating disorders through developmental stages. (2012) (26)
- A novel classification paradigm for understanding the positive and negative outcomes associated with dieting. (2015) (24)
- Association Between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Offspring Atopic Dermatitis: A Prospective Cohort Study. (2019) (21)
- Exploring the Role of Family Functioning in the Association Between Frequency of Family Dinners and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents and Young Adults. (2018) (21)
- Age at menarche and risk of developing migraine or non-migraine headaches by young adulthood: A prospective cohort study (2017) (20)
- Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent inactivity? (2007) (20)
- Injury Risk Associated With Sports Specialization and Activity Volume in Youth (2019) (19)
- Disordered eating: can women accurately recall their binging and purging behaviors 10 years later? (1996) (19)
- Secular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents (2016) (19)
- Using latent class analysis to empirically classify maltreatment according to the developmental timing, duration, and co-occurrence of abuse types. (2020) (17)
- Prevalence of purging at age 16 and associations with negative outcomes among girls in three community-based cohorts (2014) (17)
- Television Viewing Is Not Predictive of BMI in Black and Hispanic Young Adult Females (2010) (15)
- Smoking during pregnancy in relation to grandchild birth weight and BMI trajectories (2017) (14)
- Predicting sexual initiation in a prospective cohort study of adolescents. (2008) (13)
- The Development of Associations Among BMI, Body Dissatisfaction, and Weight and Shape Concern in Adolescent Boys and Girls (2012) (13)
- Association of Obesity Subtypes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study and 3‐Year Postoperative Weight Change (2018) (12)
- Epidemiology of the health and economic consequences of pediatric obesity. (2005) (12)
- Pregnancy loss of control over eating: a longitudinal study of maternal and child outcomes. (2018) (11)
- Is grand-parental smoking associated with adolescent obesity? A three-generational study (2015) (11)
- Commentary: Considerations for the use of registry data to study adolescent eating disorders. (2016) (10)
- Maternal healthful dietary patterns during peripregnancy and long-term overweight risk in their offspring (2020) (10)
- Activity, dietary intake and weight changes in a longitudinal study of preadoloescent boys and girls (2000) (10)
- Maternal vegetable intake during and after pregnancy (2019) (10)
- Night Shift Work Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Weight Outcomes Through Adolescence (2018) (9)
- Prospective cohort study of body mass index and risk of asthma in children (2003) (9)
- Frequent dieting and the development of obesity among children and adolescents. (2001) (9)
- Migraine and Puberty: Potential Susceptible Brain Sites. (2016) (8)
- Offspring risk of obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: a sex-specific association. (2017) (8)
- Common eating disorders predictive of adverse outcomes are missed by the DSM-IV and DSM-5 classifications (2012) (7)
- BMI Trajectories from Birth to Young Adulthood (2018) (7)
- The obesity problem. (1998) (6)
- Seasonal Variations in Meeting Physical Activity Recommendations and Development of Overweight during Adolescence. (2018) (6)
- A food addiction scale measurement in two cohorts of middleaged and older women (2013) (6)
- Maternal Eating Disorders and Eating Disorder Treatment Among Girls in the Growing up Today Study. (2019) (6)
- Purging behaviours at age 16: Prevalence in three community-based international cohorts (2012) (6)
- Child and adolescent maltreatment patterns and risk of eating disorder behaviors developing in young adulthood. (2021) (6)
- Racial Differences in Bulimic Behaviors among High School Females a (1997) (5)
- The Course of Weight/Shape Concerns and Disordered Eating Symptoms Among Adolescent and Young Adult Males. (2021) (5)
- Primary care of the elite or elite-emulating adolescent male athlete. (2003) (5)
- Elucidating the role of overweight and obesity in racial and ethnic disparities in cesarean delivery risk. (2020) (4)
- Season of birth and disordered eating in a population-based sample of young U.S. females. (2011) (4)
- Sense of Mission and Sexual Health Outcomes Among Young Adult Women. (2016) (4)
- Associations of breastfeeding with bulimic behaviors and eating disorders among adolescents. (2013) (4)
- Eating and Weight Concerns in Eating Disorders (2010) (3)
- Sexual orientation and overweight: a cohort study of U.S. adolescents (2003) (3)
- Overweight, central adiposity, and cardiovascular disease risk patterns in children. (1999) (3)
- 22: Sexual orientation and bullying in adolescents (2007) (3)
- Term Labor Induction and Cesarean Delivery Risk among Obese Women with and without Comorbidities (2020) (3)
- High shape concerns predicts becoming obese , binge drinking , and drug use among adolescent and young adult males (2014) (3)
- Residential Mobility and Flourishing Among United States School-Age Children, 2011/2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (2018) (3)
- High normal weight status in childhood as a predictor of being overweight or hypertensive in early adulthood (2003) (2)
- Indoor tanning bed use and risk of food addiction based on the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale (2016) (2)
- U.S. adolescents at risk for not meeting physical activity recommendations by season (2018) (2)
- PEDIATRIC HIGHLIGHT Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescents (2004) (2)
- Intake of snack foods does not predict weight gain among children and adolescents (2004) (2)
- 5: Predicting sexual initiation in adolescents (2006) (1)
- Injury Risk Associated with Sports Specialization in Youth (2019) (1)
- 191. At Risk but Undiagnosed and Undertreated: Disparities in Diabetes in Young Adults (2013) (1)
- Childhood Atopic Dermatitis and Risk of Problematic Substance Use. (2018) (1)
- Child and Adolescent Abuse Patterns and Incident Obesity Risk in Young Adulthood. (2022) (1)
- Social and interpersonal influences on obesity in youth: family, peers, society. (2009) (1)
- Abstract MP21: Achieving Cardiovascular Health in Young Adulthood - Do Adolescent Factors Matter? (2015) (1)
- Self-Reported Total Screen Time and Viewing Modes Are Associated with Body Dissatisfaction, Disordered Eating, and Cosmetic Surgery Intentions among Young Adults (2022) (1)
- Childhood whole‐grain intake and young adult obesity (2013) (1)
- Comparing Physical Activity Questionnaires for Youth vs Annual Format (2001) (1)
- Validity of TV viewing estimated by a frequency questionnaire as a risk indicator for adolescent overweight (1998) (0)
- Research Agenda for Eating Disorders (2017) (0)
- Do Not Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water: It Is Too Early to Know Whether School Food Policy Can Shape Dietary Choices and Prevent Obesity. (2020) (0)
- Secular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents (2016) (0)
- Maternal diet during pregnancy and child weight outcomes (2020) (0)
- Response to “are the results likely biased toward the null?” (2014) (0)
- Correlates of stress fracture among adolescents (2005) (0)
- Maternal vegetable intake during and after pregnancy Maternal vegetable intake during and after pregnancy (2022) (0)
- 100. Gender Differences in Relationships Between Having a Sense of Mission in Life and Sexual Health Behaviors in Emerging Adults (2013) (0)
- Exploring the role of family functioning in the association between family dinner frequency and dietary intake among adolescents and young adults (2019) (0)
- Youth/Adolescent Questionnaire--Revised (2018) (0)
- Is set-shifting a risk factor for anorexia nervosa or a broader range of disordered eating? (2022) (0)
- Binge Eating Behavior Measure (2015) (0)
- Sexual orientation and disordered eating: a national cohort study of adolescent girls and boys (2002) (0)
- Does shade use impact on time reported outside and ultraviolet radiation exposure of young children residing in south east Queensland, Australia? (2002) (0)
- 41: Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent media use? (2006) (0)
- Dairy consumption with onset of overweight and obesity among U.S. adolescents (370.7) (2014) (0)
- “Causal” effects of dieting on obesity: what is the impact of adjustment for time dependent confounding by prior weight? (2008) (0)
- Abstract P170: Associations of Calibrated Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intakes With the Risk of Heart Failure and its Subtypes in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative (2018) (0)
- Abstract P097: Association Of Non-appetitive Eating With Hypertension In Women: Mediation By Body Mass Index (2021) (0)
- Obesity Prevention During Preadolescence and Adolescence (2007) (0)
- 216 Indoor tanning bed use and increased risk of food addiction in US women (2016) (0)
- BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS OF EATING DISORDERS AND RISK OF ENDOMETRIOSIS: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY (2022) (0)
- Self-Assessment of Pubertal Maturation in Overweight African American and Caucasian Children (1999) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Alison Field
What Schools Are Affiliated With Alison Field?
Alison Field is affiliated with the following schools: