Benjamin Seligman

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 814 citations indexed

About

Benjamin Seligman is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Seligman has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 814 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Health Professions, 11 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Seligman's work include Frailty in Older Adults (11 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers). Benjamin Seligman is often cited by papers focused on Frailty in Older Adults (11 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers). Benjamin Seligman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Benjamin Seligman's co-authors include David E. Bloom, Rajesh Vedanthan, Valentı́n Fuster, Simiao Chen, Daniel L. Tortorice, Arindam Nandi, Daniel E. Vigo, Nathaniel Z. Counts, Shripad Tuljapurkar and Maddalena Ferranna and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Seligman

25 papers receiving 791 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global and regional projections of the economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias from 2019 to 2050: A value of statistical life approach

2022 208 citations Arindam Nandi, Nathaniel Z. Counts et al. EClinicalMedicine profile →
The global macroeconomic burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: estimates and projections for 152 countries or territories

2024 70 citations Simiao Chen, Zhong Cao et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →
Cost of care for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States: 2016 to 2060

2024 59 citations Arindam Nandi, Nathaniel Z. Counts et al. PubMed profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Seligman United States	11	153	127	124	91	83	28	814
Xurui Jin China	14	151 1.0×	68 0.5×	115 0.9×	69 0.8×	66 0.8×	30	718
Kylie Thaler Austria	17	74 0.5×	183 1.4×	65 0.5×	70 0.8×	181 2.2×	53	1.2k
Cuiling Wang China	12	254 1.7×	49 0.4×	93 0.8×	64 0.7×	212 2.6×	33	1.3k
Satya Mohapatra India	10	126 0.8×	194 1.5×	173 1.4×	61 0.7×	89 1.1×	30	1.8k
Chad Blackshear United States	17	265 1.7×	72 0.6×	157 1.3×	77 0.8×	38 0.5×	42	968
Anwar Mulugeta Ethiopia	16	90 0.6×	52 0.4×	194 1.6×	37 0.4×	92 1.1×	39	969
Abdonas Tamošiūnas Lithuania	13	228 1.5×	125 1.0×	119 1.0×	228 2.5×	45 0.5×	33	961
Keiko Honda Japan	19	66 0.4×	145 1.1×	168 1.4×	47 0.5×	56 0.7×	50	1.2k
Filipa Alves da Costa Portugal	21	338 2.2×	182 1.4×	128 1.0×	52 0.6×	68 0.8×	108	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Seligman

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Cai, Wenjie, Eve Wittenberg, Dae Hyun Kim, et al.. (2025). The Relationships Between Subjective Well-Being and Frailty: Staying With a Positive Mind, Stepping Away From Accelerated Aging. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(4). 1 indexed citations

Schaenman, Joanna, Harry Pickering, Elaine F. Reed, et al.. (2024). T cell immune senescence is associated with frailty and sarcopenia in lung transplant candidates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100199–100199.

Seligman, Benjamin, Sarah R. Preis, Manas Rane, et al.. (2024). Measuring Frailty Using Self‐Report or Automated Tools to Identify Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality: The Million Veteran Program. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(16). e033111–e033111. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Simiao, Zhong Cao, Arindam Nandi, et al.. (2024). The global macroeconomic burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: estimates and projections for 152 countries or territories. The Lancet Global Health. 12(9). e1534–e1543. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

Nandi, Arindam, Nathaniel Z. Counts, Simiao Chen, et al.. (2024). Cost of care for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States: 2016 to 2060. PubMed. 10(1). 13–13. 59 indexed citations breakdown →

Austin, Charles, Benjamin Seligman, George A. Kuchel, et al.. (2024). Aging precisely: Precision medicine through the lens of an older adult. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 72(10). 2972–2980. 3 indexed citations

Park, Catherine, Shahriar Tavakoli–Tabasi, Amir Sharafkhaneh, et al.. (2023). Inflammatory Biomarkers Differ among Hospitalized Veterans Infected with Alpha, Delta, and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 2987–2987. 8 indexed citations

Schaenman, Joanna, Richard Ahn, Christine Lee, et al.. (2023). Physical Frailty Predicts Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings. 55(10). 2372–2377. 2 indexed citations

Seligman, Benjamin, Arunika Agarwal, & David E. Bloom. (2023). Frailty Among Older Indians: State-Level Factors. Journal of Population Ageing. 17(1). 149–163. 3 indexed citations

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Brook, Jenny, et al.. (2022). Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes: Interplay of frailty, comorbidity, and age in COVID-19 prognosis. Medicine. 101(51). e32343–e32343.

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Seligman, Benjamin, Kevin S Ikuta, Greg Orshansky, & Matthew Bidwell Goetz. (2022). Frailty, vaccination, and hospitalization following COVID ‐19 positivity in older veterans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70(7). 1941–1943.

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Nandi, Arindam, Nathaniel Z. Counts, Simiao Chen, et al.. (2022). Global and regional projections of the economic burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias from 2019 to 2050: A value of statistical life approach. EClinicalMedicine. 51. 101580–101580. 208 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seligman, Benjamin, Sarah D. Berry, Lewis A. Lipsitz, Thomas G. Travison, & Douglas P. Kiel. (2022). Epigenetic Age Acceleration and Change in Frailty in MOBILIZE Boston. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 77(9). 1760–1765. 14 indexed citations

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Seligman, Benjamin, Maddalena Ferranna, & David E. Bloom. (2021). Social determinants of mortality from COVID-19: A simulation study using NHANES. PLoS Medicine. 18(1). e1003490–e1003490. 71 indexed citations

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Seligman, Benjamin, Shripad Tuljapurkar, & David H. Rehkopf. (2017). Machine learning approaches to the social determinants of health in the health and retirement study. SSM - Population Health. 4. 95–99. 58 indexed citations

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Seligman, Benjamin, Rajesh Vedanthan, & Valentı́n Fuster. (2016). Acute coronary syndromes in low- and middle-income countries: Moving forward. International Journal of Cardiology. 217. S10–S12. 11 indexed citations

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Bendavid, Eran, Benjamin Seligman, & Jessica Kubo. (2011). Comparative Analysis of Old-Age Mortality Estimations in Africa. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e26607–e26607. 12 indexed citations

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Siegel, Karen R., Sandeep P. Kishore, Mark D. Huffman, et al.. (2011). Trans-Disciplinary Education and Training for NCD Prevention and Control. Global Heart. 6(4). 191–191. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Brian, Benjamin Seligman, John W. Farquhar, & Jeremy D. Goldhaber‐Fiebert. (2011). Multi-Country analysis of palm oil consumption and cardiovascular disease mortality for countries at different stages of economic development: 1980-1997. Globalization and Health. 7(1). 45–45. 58 indexed citations

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Seligman, Benjamin, Mark R. Cullen, & Ralph I. Horwitz. (2011). Aging, Transition, and Estimating the Global Burden of Disease. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e20264–e20264. 7 indexed citations

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