Bjørge Herman Hansen

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Bjørge Herman Hansen is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bjørge Herman Hansen has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Physiology, 51 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Bjørge Herman Hansen's work include Physical Activity and Health (55 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (51 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (10 papers). Bjørge Herman Hansen is often cited by papers focused on Physical Activity and Health (55 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (51 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (10 papers). Bjørge Herman Hansen collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and Denmark. Bjørge Herman Hansen's co-authors include Sigmund A. Anderssen, Ingar Holme, Sindre M. Dyrstad, Ulf Ekelund, Elin Kolle, Jostein Steene‐Johannessen, Maria Hildebrand, Vincent T. van Hees, Jakob Tarp and Morten Wang Fagerland and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Bjørge Herman Hansen

68 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis

2019 1.0k citations Ulf Ekelund, Jakob Tarp et al. BMJ profile →
Comparison of Self-reported versus Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity

2013 550 citations Bjørge Herman Hansen, Ingar Holme et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bjørge Herman Hansen Norway	29	2.7k	2.0k	726	587	437	71	4.1k
Dale Esliger United Kingdom	36	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	971 1.3×	503 0.9×	365 0.8×	105	4.7k
Tiago V. Barreira United States	35	2.3k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	804 1.1×	420 0.7×	350 0.8×	129	4.1k
Jostein Steene‐Johannessen Norway	29	2.3k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	780 1.1×	421 0.7×	320 0.7×	53	3.6k
Sarah Kozey Keadle United States	31	2.8k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	848 1.2×	496 0.8×	255 0.6×	77	4.0k
Heather R. Bowles United States	27	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	789 1.1×	284 0.5×	226 0.5×	65	4.0k
Jairo H. Migueles Spain	29	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	715 1.0×	413 0.7×	439 1.0×	106	4.8k
Anders Grøntved Denmark	36	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	573 0.8×	382 0.7×	463 1.1×	115	3.9k
Örjan Ekblom Sweden	35	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	515 0.7×	513 0.9×	571 1.3×	149	3.6k
Shannon S. D. Bredin Canada	31	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	926 1.3×	761 1.3×	1.0k 2.3×	118	6.0k
Sandra Mahecha Matsudo Brazil	23	1.8k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	295 0.5×	277 0.6×	134	4.1k

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Razieh, Cameron, et al.. (2025). Adapting the Intensity Gradient for Use Across Commonly Derived Accelerometer Epoch Summary Measures: A Learning Network for Advanced Behavioural Data Analysis (LABDA) Project. Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour. 8(1).

Rowlands, Alex V., Andrew P. Kingsnorth, Bjørge Herman Hansen, et al.. (2024). Enhancing clinical and public health interpretation of accelerometer-assessed physical activity with age-referenced values based on UK Biobank data. Journal of sport and health science. 14. 100977–100977. 6 indexed citations

Sluijs, Esther van, Ulf Ekelund, Pedro Curi Hallal, et al.. (2024). Family Car Ownership: Driving Inactivity in Young People? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses in the International Children’s Accelerometry Database. Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 21(12). 1391–1400.

Salway, Ruth, Russell Jago, Frank de Vocht, et al.. (2024). School-level intra-cluster correlation coefficients and autocorrelations for children’s accelerometer-measured physical activity in England by age and gender. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 24(1). 179–179. 1 indexed citations

Hansen, Bjørge Herman, et al.. (2023). Association between sociodemographic determinants and health behaviors, and clustering of health risk behaviors among 28,047 adults: a cross-sectional study among adults from the general Norwegian population. BMC Public Health. 23(1). 541–541. 6 indexed citations

Stavnsbo, Mette, Andreas Stenling, Sveinung Berntsen, et al.. (2023). Does an obesogenic family environment moderate the association between sports participation and body composition in children? The ENERGY project. Pediatric Obesity. 18(7). e13031–e13031. 2 indexed citations

Dalene, Knut Eirik, Elin Kolle, Jostein Steene-Johannessen, et al.. (2022). Device-measured sedentary time in Norwegian children and adolescents in the era of ubiquitous internet access: secular changes between 2005, 2011 and 2018. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(5). 1556–1567. 13 indexed citations

Migueles, Jairo H., Eivind Aadland, Lars Bo Andersen, et al.. (2021). GRANADA consensus on analytical approaches to assess associations with accelerometer-determined physical behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep) in epidemiological studies. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 56(7). 376–384. 87 indexed citations

Hansen, Bjørge Herman, Knut Eirik Dalene, Ulf Ekelund, et al.. (2020). Step by step: Association of device‐measured daily steps with all‐cause mortality—A prospective cohort Study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 30(9). 1705–1711. 42 indexed citations

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Stensrud, Trine, et al.. (2019). Are fitness club members likely to meet the current physical activity recommendations?. Translational Sports Medicine. 3(2). 75–83. 7 indexed citations

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Ekelund, Ulf, Jakob Tarp, Jostein Steene‐Johannessen, et al.. (2019). Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis. BMJ. 366. l4570–l4570. 1047 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hansen, Bjørge Herman, Sigmund A. Anderssen, Lars Bo Andersen, et al.. (2018). Cross-Sectional Associations of Reallocating Time Between Sedentary and Active Behaviours on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Young People: An International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD) Analysis. Sports Medicine. 48(10). 2401–2412. 60 indexed citations

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Mathisen, Therese Fostervold, Jan H. Rosenvinge, Oddgeir Friborg, et al.. (2018). Body composition and physical fitness in women with bulimia nervosa or binge‐eating disorder. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 51(4). 331–342. 29 indexed citations

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Dalene, Knut Eirik, Sigmund A. Anderssen, Lars Bo Andersen, et al.. (2018). Cross-sectional and prospective associations between sleep, screen time, active school travel, sports/exercise participation and physical activity in children and adolescents. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 28 indexed citations

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Dalene, Knut Eirik, Sigmund A. Anderssen, L. B. Andersen, et al.. (2017). Secular and longitudinal physical activity changes in population‐based samples of children and adolescents. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(1). 161–171. 79 indexed citations

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Kuzik, Nicholas, Valerie Carson, Lars Bo Andersen, et al.. (2017). Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Associations with Metabolic Health Across Weight Statuses in Children and Adolescents. Obesity. 25(10). 1762–1769. 41 indexed citations

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Atkin, Andrew J., Stuart Biddle, Stephanie T. Broyles, et al.. (2017). Harmonising data on the correlates of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in young people: Methods and lessons learnt from the international Children’s Accelerometry database (ICAD). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 14(1). 174–174. 13 indexed citations

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Aadland, Eivind, Geir Kåre Resaland, Jostein Steene‐Johannessen, et al.. (2016). Reference values for and cross‐validation of time to exhaustion on a modified Balke protocol in Norwegian men and women. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 27(11). 1248–1257. 16 indexed citations

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Hildebrand, Maria, Elin Kolle, Bjørge Herman Hansen, et al.. (2015). Association between birth weight and objectively measured sedentary time is mediated by central adiposity: data in 10,793 youth from the International Children’s Accelerometry Database. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 101(5). 983–990. 23 indexed citations

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Hansen, Bjørge Herman, Ingar Holme, Sigmund A. Anderssen, & Elin Kolle. (2013). Patterns of Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Normal Weight, Overweight, and Obese Individuals (20–85 Years): A Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53044–e53044. 56 indexed citations

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