Anja Declercq

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
167 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Anja Declercq is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Anja Declercq has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in General Health Professions, 35 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Anja Declercq's work include Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (92 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (26 papers). Anja Declercq is often cited by papers focused on Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (92 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers) and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (26 papers). Anja Declercq collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Italy. Anja Declercq's co-authors include Chantal Van Audenhove, Johanna De Almeida Mello, Joke Duyck, Geertruida E Bekkering, Stefanie Krausch‐Hofmann, Nádia Cristina Fávaro Moreira, Christophe Matthys, Erika Vanhauwaert, Carine Vereecken and Jean Macq and has published in prestigious journals such as Gastroenterology, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Anja Declercq

147 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Older Adults: A Systemat... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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  1. Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature Based on Longitudinal Data
    2016 434 citations Nádia Cristina Fávaro Moreira, Stefanie Krausch‐Hofmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anja Declercq Belgium 25 1.2k 489 488 450 397 167 2.3k
Rosalina Aparecida Partezani Rodrigues Brazil 28 1.1k 0.9× 419 0.9× 314 0.6× 604 1.3× 555 1.4× 186 2.7k
Debbie Tolson United Kingdom 28 1.3k 1.1× 468 1.0× 500 1.0× 290 0.6× 257 0.6× 125 2.5k
Gill Lewin Australia 28 805 0.7× 390 0.8× 270 0.6× 221 0.5× 343 0.9× 85 2.3k
Erik van Rossum Netherlands 26 1.5k 1.3× 302 0.6× 618 1.3× 996 2.2× 679 1.7× 64 2.6k
Yea‐Ing Lotus Shyu Taiwan 30 981 0.8× 315 0.6× 686 1.4× 296 0.7× 176 0.4× 146 2.7k
Kalpa Kharicha United Kingdom 25 828 0.7× 238 0.5× 218 0.4× 357 0.8× 324 0.8× 67 2.0k
Renato Peixoto Veras Brazil 32 1.8k 1.5× 370 0.8× 450 0.9× 325 0.7× 449 1.1× 123 3.6k
Lynne Parkinson Australia 24 750 0.6× 390 0.8× 186 0.4× 183 0.4× 187 0.5× 104 2.0k
Óscar Ribeiro Portugal 27 673 0.6× 207 0.4× 390 0.8× 283 0.6× 234 0.6× 189 2.3k
Karen Spilsbury United Kingdom 25 1.7k 1.4× 459 0.9× 481 1.0× 262 0.6× 73 0.2× 106 2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anja Declercq

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All Works

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Declercq, Anja, et al.. (2024). Promoting meaningful activities by occupational therapy in elderly care in Belgium: the ProMOTE intervention. BMC Geriatrics. 24(1). 275–275. 3 indexed citations
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Mello, Johanna De Almeida, Anja Declercq, Jan De Lepeleire, et al.. (2024). Insights into the associated risk factors of malnutrition among nursing home residents: A longitudinal study. Clinical Nutrition. 43(11). 166–173. 1 indexed citations
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Mello, Johanna De Almeida, Hein van Hout, Jan De Lepeleire, et al.. (2024). Oral Health Problems Among Flemish and Dutch Nursing Home Residents Assessed by Nondental Caregivers Using the Novel Oral Health Section for Inclusion in interRAI. Innovation in Aging. 8(10). igae090–igae090. 1 indexed citations
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Mello, Johanna De Almeida, Nathalie Wellens, Matthieu de Stampa, et al.. (2023). The Implementation of Integrated Health Information Systems – Research Studies from 7 Countries Involving the InterRAI Assessment System. International Journal of Integrated Care. 23(1). 8–8. 9 indexed citations
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Guthrie, Dawn M., Joachim Cohen, Anja Declercq, et al.. (2022). A multi-stage process to develop quality indicators for community-based palliative care using interRAI data. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0266569–e0266569. 7 indexed citations
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Coninck, David De, et al.. (2022). Informal care burden during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Flanders, Belgium: The role of perceived threat, personality and resilience. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 37(2). 350–363. 2 indexed citations
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Coninck, David De, et al.. (2021). Examining Care Assessment Scores of Community-Dwelling Adults in Flanders, Belgium: The Role of Socio-Psychological and Assessor-Related Factors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(22). 11845–11845. 1 indexed citations
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Mello, Johanna De Almeida, Thérèse Van Durme, Chantal Van Audenhove, et al.. (2020). Comparing the case-mix of frail older people at home and of those being admitted into residential care: a longitudinal study. BMC Geriatrics. 20(1). 195–195. 7 indexed citations
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Mello, Johanna De Almeida, Nádia Cristina Fávaro Moreira, Stefanie Krausch‐Hofmann, et al.. (2020). Can the interRAI home care instrument be applied to the definition criteria of the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)? A longitudinal study. Clinical Nutrition. 39(11). 3477–3482. 5 indexed citations
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Roest, Henriëtte G. van der, Graziano Onder, Vjenka Garms-Homolová, et al.. (2019). Development of a novel benchmark method to identify and characterize best practices in home care across six European countries: design, baseline, and rationale of the IBenC project. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1). 13 indexed citations
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Declercq, Anja, et al.. (2019). Inter-organisational collaboration in palliative care trajectories for nursing home residents: A nation-wide mixed methods study among key persons. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 22(2). 69–80. 2 indexed citations
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Giovannini, Silvia, Henriëtte G. van der Roest, Angelo Carfì, et al.. (2018). Polypharmacy in Home Care in Europe: Cross-Sectional Data from the IBenC Study. Drugs & Aging. 35(2). 145–152. 36 indexed citations
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Anthierens, Sibyl, et al.. (2014). KCE Report 223: Support for informal caregivers – an exploratory analysis. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations
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Anthierens, Sibyl, Roy Remmen, Jean Macq, et al.. (2014). Support for informal caregivers. 2 indexed citations
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Durme, Thérèse Van, Jean Macq, Christiane Gosset, et al.. (2014). SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF PROJECTS OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF CARE OR SUPPORT OF CARE FOR FRAIL ELDERLY, IN ORDER TO ALLOW THEM TO MAINTAIN THEIR AUTONOMY AND TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY IN THEIR HOMES “PROTOCOL 3”. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 3 indexed citations
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Declercq, Anja, et al.. (2013). L’isolement social chez les personnes de 65 ans et plus en Belgique : sa prévalence et ses déterminants. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 75(8). 54–58.
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Durme, Thérèse Van, William D’Hoore, Micheline Gobert, et al.. (2010). Designing a protocol for innovative projects of care and support targeting community dwelling frail elderly. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 19(1). 15–16. 4 indexed citations
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Hustinx, Lesley, et al.. (2005). Bifurcated commitment, priorities, and social contagion: the dynamics and correlates of volunteering within a university student population. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 26(4). 523–538. 25 indexed citations

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