Anja Leist

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 976 citations indexed

About

Anja Leist is a scholar working on Health, Demography and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Anja Leist has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 976 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Health, 19 papers in Demography and 17 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Anja Leist's work include Health disparities and outcomes (21 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (15 papers) and Retirement, Disability, and Employment (12 papers). Anja Leist is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (21 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (15 papers) and Retirement, Disability, and Employment (12 papers). Anja Leist collaborates with scholars based in Luxembourg, United Kingdom and United States. Anja Leist's co-authors include Fabiana Silva Ribeiro, Louis Chauvel, Mauricio Avendaño, Philipp Hessel, James Nazroo, Paulo Caramelli, Graciela Muñiz‐Terrera, David H. Rehkopf, Johan P. Mackenbach and Sara Wade and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Anja Leist

60 papers receiving 947 citations

Hit Papers

Social Media Use of Older Adults: A Mini-Review 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Social Media Use of Older Adults: A Mini-Review
    2013 248 citations Anja Leist 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 Leist Luxembourg 16 256 247 207 203 137 66 976
Meire Cachioni Brazil 16 185 0.7× 172 0.7× 261 1.3× 95 0.5× 301 2.2× 121 1.0k
Émilie Raymond Canada 10 238 0.9× 630 2.6× 423 2.0× 227 1.1× 149 1.1× 48 1.3k
Hans-Werner Wahl Germany 10 382 1.5× 318 1.3× 227 1.1× 158 0.8× 113 0.8× 15 1.0k
Sarah L. Canham Canada 22 278 1.1× 305 1.2× 567 2.7× 276 1.4× 129 0.9× 85 1.3k
Christine Sheppard Canada 15 361 1.4× 223 0.9× 221 1.1× 139 0.7× 134 1.0× 64 1.1k
Sacramento Pinazo Hernandis Spain 15 219 0.9× 260 1.1× 225 1.1× 185 0.9× 46 0.3× 113 923
Kevin Kinsella United States 14 321 1.3× 248 1.0× 349 1.7× 274 1.3× 64 0.5× 25 1.1k
Sunghee H. Tak South Korea 15 310 1.2× 142 0.6× 305 1.5× 153 0.8× 150 1.1× 60 946
S. Sudha United States 14 133 0.5× 195 0.8× 275 1.3× 223 1.1× 206 1.5× 44 1.0k
Esteban Calvo United States 18 463 1.8× 260 1.1× 526 2.5× 147 0.7× 44 0.3× 56 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Anja Leist

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anja Leist

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anja Leist

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anja Leist. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anja Leist based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Anja Leist. Anja Leist is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hanff, Anne-Ma rie, Christopher McCrum, Armin Rauschenberger, et al.. (2025). Sex-specific progression of Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal mixed-models analysis. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 15(4). 805–818. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Jung Hyun, M. Maria Glymour, Kenneth M. Langa, & Anja Leist. (2025). Improving accuracy in the estimation of probable dementia in racially and ethnically diverse groups with penalized regression and transfer learning. American Journal of Epidemiology. 195(1). 237–245.
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Ghosh, Soumyabrata, Joëlle V. Fritz, Michel Vaillant, et al.. (2024). Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: identifying hesitant groups and exploring reasons for vaccination hesitancy, from adolescence to late adulthood. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1456265–1456265.
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Leist, Anja, et al.. (2023). Socioeconomic Deprivation, Genetic Risk, and Incident Dementia. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 64(5). 621–630. 20 indexed citations
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Muñiz‐Terrera, Graciela, et al.. (2023). Does (re-)entering the labour market at advanced ages protect against cognitive decline? A matching difference-in-differences approach. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 77(10). 663–669. 1 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja, et al.. (2023). Sex/gender and socioeconomic differences in modifiable risk factors for dementia. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 80–80. 23 indexed citations
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Pauly, Claire, et al.. (2022). Retrograde Procedural Memory in Parkinson's Disease. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg). 1 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Lindsay C., et al.. (2022). Childhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Pathways to Memory Performance in Mid to Late Adulthood: What Matters Most?. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 77(8). 1478–1489. 7 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja, et al.. (2022). Mapping of machine learning approaches for description, prediction, and causal inference in the social and health sciences. Science Advances. 8(42). eabk1942–eabk1942. 64 indexed citations
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Baumann, Michèle, Etienne Le Bihan, Benoît Pétré, et al.. (2021). Socioeconomic and behavioural factors associated with access to and use of Personal Health Records. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 21(1). 30 indexed citations
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Bertogg, Ariane & Anja Leist. (2021). Partnership and Cognitive Aging in Europe: Mediating Factors and Social Stratification. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 76(6). 1173–1185. 5 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja, et al.. (2021). Inequality of educational opportunity at time of schooling predicts cognitive functioning in later adulthood. SSM - Population Health. 15. 100837–100837. 11 indexed citations
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Batty, G. David, et al.. (2020). Examining gender differentials in the association of low control work with cognitive performance in older workers. European Journal of Public Health. 31(1). 174–180. 4 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja. (2018). Population Aging, Demographic Trends, And Consequences For Long-Term Care. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg). 3–19. 1 indexed citations
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Hessel, Philipp, Anja Leist, Carlos Riumalló‐Herl, & Mauricio Avendaño. (2015). Recessions, unemployment and the brain: Do individual and aggregate economic shocks prior to retirement leave a cognitive ‘scar’?. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg). 1 indexed citations
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Chauvel, Louis & Anja Leist. (2015). Socioeconomic hierarchy and health gradient in Europe: the role of income inequality and of social origins. International Journal for Equity in Health. 14(1). 132–132. 19 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja, M. Maria Glymour, Johan P. Mackenbach, Frank J. van Lenthe, & Mauricio Avendaño. (2013). Time away from work predicts later cognitive function: differences by activity during leave. Annals of Epidemiology. 23(8). 455–462. 44 indexed citations
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Leist, Anja, et al.. (2012). Social media use in old age: User profiles, effects, best practices. The Gerontologist. 52. 1 indexed citations

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