Armin Sprečo

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 830 citations indexed

About

Armin Sprečo is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Epidemiology and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, Armin Sprečo has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 830 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 13 papers in Epidemiology and 12 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in Armin Sprečo's work include Sports injuries and prevention (16 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (12 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (11 papers). Armin Sprečo is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (16 papers), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (12 papers) and Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (11 papers). Armin Sprečo collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Qatar and Kenya. Armin Sprečo's co-authors include Jan Ekstrand, Toomas Timpka, Håkan Bengtsson, Örjan Dahlström, Roald Bahr, Jenny Jacobsson, Werner Krutsch, Craig Roberts, Tim Meyer and Victor Bargoria and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Armin Sprečo

39 papers receiving 802 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Injury rates decreased in men’s professional football: an 18-year prospective cohort study of almost 12 000 injuries sustained during 1.8 million hours of play

2021 125 citations Jan Ekstrand, Armin Sprečo et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Armin Sprečo Sweden	13	529	230	174	142	114	41	830
Mark Roe Ireland	14	577 1.1×	182 0.8×	150 0.9×	109 0.8×	29 0.3×	36	792
Alejandro López‐Valenciano Spain	20	1.1k 2.0×	365 1.6×	259 1.5×	320 2.3×	39 0.3×	52	1.5k
Cameron Gosling Australia	17	157 0.3×	50 0.2×	129 0.7×	128 0.9×	65 0.6×	60	750
Daniel Pfirrmann Germany	12	236 0.4×	118 0.5×	111 0.6×	99 0.7×	93 0.8×	24	732
Symone M. Brown United States	16	407 0.8×	122 0.5×	172 1.0×	300 2.1×	207 1.8×	48	841
Nirmala Kanthi Panagodage Perera Australia	14	251 0.5×	133 0.6×	93 0.5×	120 0.8×	41 0.4×	47	671
Hilton Donson South Africa	8	648 1.2×	250 1.1×	452 2.6×	198 1.4×	165 1.4×	10	943
Leo M. Harvill United States	14	154 0.3×	55 0.2×	97 0.6×	295 2.1×	173 1.5×	22	1.0k
Mark A. Faghy United Kingdom	20	105 0.2×	150 0.7×	139 0.8×	15 0.1×	19 0.2×	92	1.0k
Richard Weiler United Kingdom	14	222 0.4×	80 0.3×	202 1.2×	67 0.5×	65 0.6×	34	570

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Ekstrand, Jan, Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2025). Higher level of communication between the medical staff and the performance staff is associated with a lower hamstring injury burden: a substudy on 14 teams from the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(1). e002182–e002182. 1 indexed citations

Agnafors, Sara, Christina L. Ekegren, Kristina Fagher, et al.. (2023). A cross-sectional study of anxiety and depression caseness in female competitive figure skaters in Sweden. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 9(1). e001491–e001491.

Sprečo, Armin, Christer Andersson, Rune Sjödahl, & Toomas Timpka. (2023). Concordance between COVID-19 mortality statistics derived from clinical audit and death certificates in Östergötland county, Sweden. Public Health. 221. 46–49. 3 indexed citations

Sprečo, Armin, Örjan Dahlström, Anna Jöud, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine Compared with Hybrid Immunity in Populations Prioritized and Non-Prioritized for COVID-19 Vaccination in 2021–2022: A Naturalistic Case-Control Study in Sweden. Vaccines. 10(8). 1273–1273. 1 indexed citations

Sprečo, Armin, Anna Jöud, Olle Eriksson, et al.. (2022). Nowcasting (Short-Term Forecasting) of COVID-19 Hospitalizations Using Syndromic Healthcare Data, Sweden, 2020. Emerging infectious diseases. 28(3). 564–571. 3 indexed citations

Ekstrand, Jan, Armin Sprečo, Håkan Bengtsson, & Roald Bahr. (2021). Injury rates decreased in men’s professional football: an 18-year prospective cohort study of almost 12 000 injuries sustained during 1.8 million hours of play. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55(19). 1084–1092. 125 indexed citations breakdown →

Gerlee, Philip, Julia Karlsson, Thomas Brezicka, et al.. (2021). Predicting regional COVID-19 hospital admissions in Sweden using mobility data. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 24171–24171. 4 indexed citations

Jacobsson, Jenny, Armin Sprečo, Jan Kowalski, Toomas Timpka, & Örjan Dahlström. (2021). Assessing parents, youth athletes and coaches subjective health literacy: A cross-sectional study. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 24(7). 627–634. 5 indexed citations

Święcicki, Łukasz, et al.. (2021). Clinical effectiveness of the electrodermal orienting reactivity test for evaluating relapse and recurrence risk in patients hospitalized for depression. BMC Psychiatry. 21(1). 88–88. 2 indexed citations

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Agnafors, Sara, Christina L. Ekegren, Kristina Fagher, et al.. (2021). Determinants of Sports Injury in Young Female Swedish Competitive Figure Skaters. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 3. 686019–686019. 12 indexed citations

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Ekstrand, Jan, Werner Krutsch, Armin Sprečo, et al.. (2019). Time before return to play for the most common injuries in professional football: a 16-year follow-up of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(7). 421–426. 165 indexed citations

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Holm, Einar, Örjan Dahlström, Joakim Ekberg, et al.. (2017). Place-based social contact and mixing: a typology of generic meeting places of relevance for infectious disease transmission. Epidemiology and Infection. 145(12). 2582–2593. 8 indexed citations

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Sprečo, Armin, Olle Eriksson, Örjan Dahlström, Benjamin J. Cowling, & Toomas Timpka. (2017). Integrated Detection and Prediction of Influenza Activity for Real-Time Surveillance: Algorithm Design. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(6). e211–e211. 14 indexed citations

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Sprečo, Armin & Toomas Timpka. (2016). Algorithms for detecting and predicting influenza outbreaks: metanarrative review of prospective evaluations. BMJ Open. 6(5). e010683–e010683. 8 indexed citations

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Timpka, Toomas, Håkan Eriksson, Einar Holm, et al.. (2016). Relevance of workplace social mixing during influenza pandemics: an experimental modelling study of workplace cultures. Epidemiology and Infection. 144(10). 2031–2042. 9 indexed citations

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Périard, Julien D., Sébastien Racinais, Toomas Timpka, et al.. (2016). Strategies and factors associated with preparing for competing in the heat: a cohort study at the 2015 IAAF World Athletics Championships. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 51(4). 264–270. 82 indexed citations

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Timpka, Toomas, Jenny Jacobsson, Victor Bargoria, et al.. (2016). Preparticipation predictors for championship injury and illness: cohort study at the Beijing 2015 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 51(4). 271–276. 41 indexed citations

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Alonso, Juan Manuel, Jenny Jacobsson, Toomas Timpka, et al.. (2015). Preparticipation injury complaint is a risk factor for injury: a prospective study of the Moscow 2013 IAAF Championships. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 49(17). 1118–1124. 56 indexed citations

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Timpka, Toomas, Armin Sprečo, Örjan Dahlström, et al.. (2014). Performance of eHealth Data Sources in Local Influenza Surveillance: A 5-Year Open Cohort Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16(4). e116–e116. 18 indexed citations

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Timpka, Toomas, Olle Eriksson, Armin Sprečo, et al.. (2012). Age as a Determinant for Dissemination of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza: An Open Cohort Study of Influenza Outbreaks in Östergötland County, Sweden. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31746–e31746. 11 indexed citations

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