Arnold Mitnitski

17.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
83 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

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Arnold Mitnitski is a scholar working on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Economics and Econometrics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arnold Mitnitski has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology, 46 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 44 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Arnold Mitnitski's work include Frailty in Older Adults (63 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (46 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (42 papers). Arnold Mitnitski is often cited by papers focused on Frailty in Older Adults (63 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (46 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (42 papers). Arnold Mitnitski collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Arnold Mitnitski's co-authors include Kenneth Rockwood, Xiaowei Song, Samuel D. Searle, Thomas M. Gill, Evelyne A. Gahbauer, Melissa K. Andrew, Kenneth Rockwood, Olga Theou, Thomas D. Brothers and Ingmar Skoog and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In The Last Decade

Arnold Mitnitski

81 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A standard procedure for creating a frailty index

2008 2.4k citations Samuel D. Searle, Arnold Mitnitski et al. BMC Geriatrics profile →
Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits

2007 2.0k citations Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski The Journals of Gerontology Series A profile →
A Comparison of Two Approaches to Measuring Frailty in Elderly People

2007 963 citations Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski et al. The Journals of Gerontology Series A profile →
Prevalence and 10‐Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation

2010 792 citations Xiaowei Song, Arnold Mitnitski et al. profile →
Frailty Defined by Deficit Accumulation and Geriatric Medicine Defined by Frailty

2010 706 citations Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski profile →
Operationalization of Frailty Using Eight Commonly Used Scales and Comparison of Their Ability to Predict All‐Cause Mortality

2013 486 citations Olga Theou, Thomas D. Brothers et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arnold Mitnitski Canada	44	9.7k	6.6k	4.7k	2.0k	1.5k	83	12.5k
Andrew Clegg United Kingdom	43	9.1k 0.9×	6.0k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	181	14.4k
Eva Topinková Czechia	37	5.9k 0.6×	9.7k 1.5×	1.4k 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	931 0.6×	147	16.0k
Luis Miguel Gutiérrez‐Robledo Mexico	36	4.7k 0.5×	4.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	605 0.4×	157	9.0k
Ruth E. Hubbard Australia	45	4.4k 0.5×	2.7k 0.4×	1.9k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	173	7.1k
Mirko Petrović Belgium	49	3.9k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	1.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	303	8.8k
Vasi Naganathan Australia	44	3.2k 0.3×	2.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	769 0.4×	889 0.6×	278	8.5k
Alessandra Marengoni Italy	54	3.9k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	2.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	187	10.6k
Davide Liborio Vetrano Sweden	48	3.0k 0.3×	2.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	755 0.5×	253	7.1k
Jonathan Darer United States	22	2.6k 0.3×	1.4k 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	2.3k 1.1×	541 0.4×	36	6.6k
Mara McAdams‐DeMarco United States	51	2.3k 0.2×	2.1k 0.3×	908 0.2×	864 0.4×	573 0.4×	275	8.0k

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Zeng, An, Xiaowei Song, Jiahui Dong, et al.. (2015). Mortality in Relation to Frailty in Patients Admitted to a Specialized Geriatric Intensive Care Unit. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 70(12). 1586–1594. 64 indexed citations

Hubbard, Ruth E., Nancye M. Peel, Mayukh Samanta, et al.. (2015). Derivation of a frailty index from the interRAI acute care instrument. BMC Geriatrics. 15(1). 27–27. 96 indexed citations

Rutenberg, Andrew D., et al.. (2014). A dynamical network model for frailty-induced mortality. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2014. 2 indexed citations

Mitnitski, Arnold & Kenneth Rockwood. (2014). Aging as a Process of Deficit Accumulation: Its Utility and Origin. PubMed. 40. 85–98. 75 indexed citations

Mitnitski, Arnold, Xiaowei Song, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2013). Assessing biological aging: the origin of deficit accumulation. Biogerontology. 14(6). 709–717. 146 indexed citations

Theou, Olga, et al.. (2013). Exploring the relationship between national economic indicators and relative fitness and frailty in middle-aged and older Europeans. Age and Ageing. 42(5). 614–619. 109 indexed citations

Rolfson, Darryl, Gordon Wilcock, Arnold Mitnitski, et al.. (2013). An assessment of neurocognitive speed in relation to frailty. Age and Ageing. 42(2). 191–196. 25 indexed citations

Theou, Olga, Michael R.H. Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2012). Disability and co-morbidity in relation to frailty: How much do they overlap?. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 55(2). e1–e8. 167 indexed citations

Fang, Xianghua, Jing Shi, Xiaowei Song, et al.. (2012). And mortality in older Chinese adults: Results from the Beijing longitudinal study of aging. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 16(10). 903–907. 93 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold & Kenneth Rockwood. (2012). Advancing our understanding of aging using mathematical modeling of longitudinal data. Physics of Life Reviews. 9(2). 193–194. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Chong, et al.. (2012). Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Smoking and Frailty: Results From the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 68(3). 338–346. 44 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold, Xiaowei Song, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2012). Trajectories of changes over twelve years in the health status of Canadians from late middle age. Experimental Gerontology. 47(12). 893–899. 53 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold, Nader Fallah, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2011). A Multistate Model of Cognitive Dynamics in Relation to Frailty in Older Adults. Annals of Epidemiology. 21(7). 507–516. 35 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold, Nader Fallah, Michael R.H. Rockwood, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2011). Transitions in cognitive status in relation to frailty in older adults: A Comparison of three frailty measures. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 15(10). 863–867. 110 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold, Nader Fallah, Yougui Wu, Kenneth Rockwood, & Amy R. Borenstein. (2010). Changes in Cognition During the Course of Eight Years in Elderly Japanese Americans: A Multistate Transition Model. Annals of Epidemiology. 20(6). 480–486. 10 indexed citations

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Peters, Ruth, Nigel Beckett, Robert Beardmore, et al.. (2010). Modelling Cognitive Decline in the Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial [HYVET] and Proposed Risk Tables for Population Use. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11775–e11775. 11 indexed citations

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Mitnitski, Arnold, Xiaowei Song, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2007). Improvement and decline in health status from late middle age: Modeling age-related changes in deficit accumulation. Experimental Gerontology. 42(11). 1109–1115. 50 indexed citations

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Camicioli, Richard, Yingjun Wang, Colin Powell, Arnold Mitnitski, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2007). Gait and posture impairment, parkinsonism and cognitive decline in older people. Journal of Neural Transmission. 114(10). 1355–1361. 37 indexed citations

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Rockwood, Kenneth & Arnold Mitnitski. (2006). Limits to deficit accumulation in elderly people. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 127(5). 494–496. 183 indexed citations

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Song, Xiaowei, Arnold Mitnitski, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2005). Index Variables for Studying Outcomes in Vascular Cognitive Impairment. Neuroepidemiology. 25(4). 196–204. 15 indexed citations

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