Bengt Winblad

119.9k total citations · 21 hit papers
1.2k papers, 79.5k citations indexed

About

Bengt Winblad is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bengt Winblad has authored 1.2k papers receiving a total of 79.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 436 papers in Physiology, 380 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 285 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bengt Winblad's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (398 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (355 papers) and Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (129 papers). Bengt Winblad is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (398 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (355 papers) and Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases (129 papers). Bengt Winblad collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Bengt Winblad's co-authors include Laura Fratiglioni, Matti Viitanen, Anders Wimo, Miia Kivipelto, Chengxuan Qiu, Agneta Nordberg, Lars Bäckman, Hui‐Xin Wang, Hilkka Soininen and Rolf Adolfsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Bengt Winblad

1.2k papers receiving 76.5k citations

Hit Papers

An active and socially in... 1976 2026 1992 2009 2004 1992 2000 2005 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. An active and socially integrated lifestyle in late life might protect against dementia
    2004 1.5k citations Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  2. A pathogenic mutation for probable Alzheimer's disease in the APP gene at the N–terminus of β–amyloid
    1992 1.1k citations Henry Houlden, Lena Lilius et al. profile →
  3. Influence of social network on occurrence of dementia: a community-based longitudinal study
    2000 1.0k citations Laura Fratiglioni, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  4. Obesity and Vascular Risk Factors at Midlife and the Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease
    2005 961 citations Laura Fratiglioni, Ingemar Kåreholt et al. profile →
  5. Alzheimer's disease: clinical trials and drug development
    2010 940 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  6. The age-dependent relation of blood pressure to cognitive function and dementia
    2005 848 citations Chengxuan Qiu, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  7. The worldwide economic impact of dementia 2010
    2013 797 citations Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
  8. Risk score for the prediction of dementia risk in 20 years among middle aged people: a longitudinal, population-based study
    2006 775 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  9. Leisure-time physical activity at midlife and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease
    2005 759 citations Ingemar Kåreholt, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  10. The worldwide costs of dementia 2015 and comparisons with 2010
    2016 759 citations Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
  11. The amyloid β-peptide is imported into mitochondria via the TOM import machinery and localized to mitochondrial cristae
    2008 583 citations Homira Behbahani, Birgitta Wiehager et al. profile →
  12. DEFECTIVE BRAIN MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
    1986 578 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  13. A 1-year, randomized, placebo-controlled study of donepezil in patients with mild to moderate AD
    2001 578 citations Bengt Winblad, Gunhild Waldemar et al. Neurology profile →
  14. Cerebrospinal Fluid β-Amyloid(1-42) in Alzheimer Disease
    1999 543 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  15. Clinical trials and late‐stage drug development for Alzheimer's disease: an appraisal from 1984 to 2014
    2014 510 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  16. APP mouse models for Alzheimer's disease preclinical studies
    2017 500 citations John Hardy, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  17. Person-centred care of people with severe Alzheimer's disease: current status and ways forward
    2008 477 citations David Edvardsson, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  18. Distribution of different fiber types in human skeletal muscles: Effects of aging studied in whole muscle cross sections
    1983 435 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  19. Influence of age and time interval between death and autopsy on dopamine and 3-methoxytyramine Levels in human basal ganglia
    1976 245 citations Bengt Winblad et al. profile →
  20. The affordability of lecanemab, an amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer's disease: an EADC-EC viewpoint
    2023 75 citations Anders Wimo, Milica G. Kramberger et al. profile →
  21. Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and incident dementia in the community
    2025 29 citations Chengxuan Qiu, Bengt Winblad et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Bengt Winblad 27.8k 23.3k 16.3k 11.4k 9.2k 1.2k 79.5k
David A. Bennett 32.5k 1.2× 28.5k 1.2× 16.3k 1.0× 6.7k 0.6× 12.6k 1.4× 1.3k 86.1k
Steven T. DeKosky 25.4k 0.9× 29.5k 1.3× 9.0k 0.6× 6.5k 0.6× 9.2k 1.0× 549 64.0k
Jeffrey L. Cummings 30.8k 1.1× 45.3k 1.9× 11.7k 0.7× 7.4k 0.7× 11.8k 1.3× 994 104.0k
John C. Morris 44.1k 1.6× 48.0k 2.1× 15.1k 0.9× 7.1k 0.6× 15.1k 1.6× 999 116.2k
Guy M. McKhann 22.7k 0.8× 26.7k 1.1× 10.1k 0.6× 9.9k 0.9× 8.0k 0.9× 452 67.9k
Martin N. Rossor 23.6k 0.8× 23.7k 1.0× 10.3k 0.6× 6.6k 0.6× 9.5k 1.0× 475 55.1k
Albert Hofman 17.4k 0.6× 17.1k 0.7× 13.2k 0.8× 3.2k 0.3× 9.3k 1.0× 1.5k 122.0k
Donald D. Price 28.2k 1.0× 21.2k 0.9× 5.5k 0.3× 6.7k 0.6× 4.8k 0.5× 281 59.6k
Richard Mayeux 21.3k 0.8× 19.9k 0.9× 8.3k 0.5× 4.4k 0.4× 7.3k 0.8× 518 52.7k
Philip Scheltens 36.4k 1.3× 43.9k 1.9× 10.6k 0.6× 6.4k 0.6× 18.2k 2.0× 1.2k 100.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kramberger, Milica G., et al.. (2024). The relationship between change in cardiovascular health and rate of cognitive decline: a population-based study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100347–100347. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Rui, Juan Ren, Lin Song, et al.. (2024). Association of objective sleep duration with cognition and brain aging biomarkers in older adults. Brain Communications. 6(3). fcae144–fcae144. 10 indexed citations
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Winblad, Bengt, Christophe Mulle, Lars O. Tjernberg, et al.. (2021). Distinctive alteration of presynaptic proteins in the outer molecular layer of the dentate gyrus in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain Communications. 3(2). fcab079–fcab079. 15 indexed citations
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Benfeitas, Rui, Sophia Schedin‐Weiss, Erika Bereczki, et al.. (2021). Insights into the changes in the proteome of Alzheimer disease elucidated by a meta-analysis. Scientific Data. 8(1). 312–312. 19 indexed citations
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Sköldunger, Anders, Karin Sjögren, Hugo Lövheim, et al.. (2019). Well‐being and thriving in sheltered housing versus ageing in place: Results from the U‐age sheltered housing study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 76(3). 856–866. 9 indexed citations
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Euler, Mia von, Ingemar Kåreholt, Johan Fastbom, et al.. (2017). Thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke in patients with dementia. Neurology. 89(18). 1860–1868. 29 indexed citations
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Chiotis, Konstantinos, Laure Saint‐Aubert, Marina Boccardi, et al.. (2017). Clinical validity of increased cortical uptake of amyloid ligands on PET as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease in the context of a structured 5-phase development framework. Neurobiology of Aging. 52. 214–227. 48 indexed citations
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Čermáková, Pavla, Lars H. Lund, Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, et al.. (2015). Heart Failure and Dementia: Survival in Relation to Types of Heart Failure and Different Dementia Disorders. European Journal of Heart Failure. 17(6). 612–619. 62 indexed citations
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Čermáková, Pavla, Seyed‐Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Kristina Johnell, et al.. (2014). Cardiovascular medication burden in dementia disorders: a nationwide study of 19,743 dementia patients in the Swedish Dementia Registry. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 6(3). 34–34. 26 indexed citations
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Qiu, Chengxuan, Eva von Strauss, Lars Bäckman, Bengt Winblad, & Laura Fratiglioni. (2013). Twenty-year changes in dementia occurrence suggest decreasing incidence in central Stockholm, Sweden. Neurology. 80(20). 1888–1894. 219 indexed citations
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Kramberger, Milica G., Vesna Jelić, Ingemar Kåreholt, et al.. (2012). Cerebrospinal Fluid Alzheimer Markers in Depressed Elderly Subjects with and without Alzheimer’s Disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra. 2(1). 48–56. 40 indexed citations
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Werheid, Katja, et al.. (2010). Biased recognition of positive faces in aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment.. Psychology and Aging. 25(1). 1–15. 46 indexed citations
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Pavlov, Pavel F., Birgitta Wiehager, Jun Sakai, et al.. (2010). Mitochondrial γ‐secretase participates in the metabolism of mitochondria‐associated amyloid precursor protein. The FASEB Journal. 25(1). 78–88. 94 indexed citations
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Frisoni, Giovanni B., Wouter J.P. Henneman, Michael W. Weiner, et al.. (2008). The pilot European Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative of the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 4(4). 255–264. 36 indexed citations
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Folkesson, Ronnie, Bengt Winblad, & Eiríkur Benedikz. (2002). Alzheimer transgenic models. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 15(4). 433–439. 2 indexed citations
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Kristensson, Krister & Bengt Winblad. (1997). [1997 Nobel Prize to Stanley Prusiner for the discovery of prions].. PubMed. 159(51). 7645–9.
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Wåhlin, Åke, Robert D. Hill, Bengt Winblad, & Lars Bäckman. (1996). Effects of serum vitamin B₁₂ and folate status on episodic memory performance in very old age: A population-based study.. Psychology and Aging. 11(3). 487–496. 54 indexed citations
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Hardy, John, Henry Houlden, John Collinge, et al.. (1993). APOLIPOPROTEIN-E GENOTYPE AND ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE. UCL Discovery (University College London). 246 indexed citations
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Hardy, John, A.J.L. Barton, Gary Reynolds, et al.. (1987). GLUTAMATE DEFICITS IN ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations
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Stenfors, Lars‐Eric, Bengt Carlsöö, Bengt Salén, & Bengt Winblad. (1980). Repair of Experimental Tympanic Membrane Perforations. Acta Oto-Laryngologica. 90(1-6). 332–341. 68 indexed citations

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