Brian Walitt

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Brian Walitt is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Pharmacology and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Walitt has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 38 papers in Pharmacology and 13 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Brian Walitt's work include Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (55 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (36 papers) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (12 papers). Brian Walitt is often cited by papers focused on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (55 papers), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (36 papers) and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies (12 papers). Brian Walitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Brian Walitt's co-authors include Winfried Häuser, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, Frederick Wolfe, Frederick Wolfe, Robert S. Katz, Philip J. Mease, Anthony S. Russell, I. Jon Russell, Robert L. Katz and Don L. Goldenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Brian Walitt

90 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

2016 Revisions to the 2010/2011 fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria

2016 1.4k citations Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, Winfried Häuser et al. profile →
Fibromyalgia

2015 326 citations Winfried Häuser, Jacob N. Ablin et al. Nature Reviews Disease Primers profile →
Fibromyalgia diagnosis and biased assessment: Sex, prevalence and bias

2018 245 citations Frederick Wolfe, Brian Walitt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Walitt United States	36	3.6k	2.3k	606	584	571	91	5.2k
Marcus Schiltenwolf Germany	40	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 1.3×	332 0.5×	575 1.0×	548 1.0×	242	4.8k
Gareth T. Jones United Kingdom	39	2.6k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	1.6k 2.6×	717 1.2×	528 0.9×	163	7.3k
Muhammad B. Yunus United States	28	5.9k 1.6×	3.9k 1.7×	467 0.8×	759 1.3×	902 1.6×	55	7.2k
Jacob N. Ablin Israel	31	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	325 0.5×	369 0.6×	351 0.6×	132	3.3k
Kaisa Mannerkorpi Sweden	34	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	334 0.6×	479 0.8×	237 0.4×	107	3.6k
Geoffrey Littlejohn Australia	33	1.7k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	621 1.1×	338 0.6×	157	4.3k
Kim Dupree Jones United States	35	2.8k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	116 0.2×	359 0.6×	375 0.7×	102	4.1k
Manfred Harth Canada	33	1.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	552 0.9×	240 0.4×	285 0.5×	93	4.0k
Claudia M. Campbell United States	42	1.2k 0.3×	2.9k 1.2×	457 0.8×	2.0k 3.4×	1.3k 2.4×	154	6.8k
John L. Werth United States	14	915 0.3×	2.2k 0.9×	298 0.5×	1.0k 1.8×	670 1.2×	29	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Walitt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Walitt

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Roberts, Henry, Gina Norato, Nicholas Grayson, et al.. (2025). Prevalence and severity of neurologic symptoms in Long-COVID and the role of pre-existing conditions, hospitalization, and mental health. Frontiers in Neurology. 16. 1562084–1562084.

Stussman, Barbara, et al.. (2024). Mixed methods system for the assessment of post-exertional malaise in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an exploratory study. BMJ Neurology Open. 6(1). e000529–e000529. 6 indexed citations

Enose‐Akahata, Yoshimi, Dima A. Hammoud, Sandeep Narpala, et al.. (2023). Deep Phenotyping of Neurologic Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 10(4). 28 indexed citations

Munguía‐Izquierdo, Diego, Manuel Pulido‐Martos, Francisco M. Acosta, et al.. (2019). Objective and subjective measures of physical functioning in women with fibromyalgia: what type of measure is associated most clearly with subjective well-being?. Disability and Rehabilitation. 43(12). 1649–1656. 18 indexed citations

Wolfe, Frederick, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, Winfried Häuser, et al.. (2019). Revised chronic widespread pain criteria: development from and integration with fibromyalgia criteria. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 20(1). 77–86. 68 indexed citations

O’Connell, Katherine, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, Shawn A Rhoads, et al.. (2019). Increased similarity of neural responses to experienced and empathic distress in costly altruism. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10774–10774. 24 indexed citations

Brethel-Haurwitz, Kristin M., Elise M. Cardinale, Kruti M. Vekaria, et al.. (2018). Extraordinary Altruists Exhibit Enhanced Self–Other Overlap in Neural Responses to Distress. Psychological Science. 29(10). 1631–1641. 32 indexed citations

Wolfe, Frederick, Brian Walitt, Johannes J. Rasker, & Winfried Häuser. (2018). Primary and Secondary Fibromyalgia Are The Same: The Universality of Polysymptomatic Distress. The Journal of Rheumatology. 46(2). 204–212. 36 indexed citations

Walitt, Brian, Petra Klose, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, Tudor Phillips, & Winfried Häuser. (2016). Cannabinoids for fibromyalgia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020(8). CD011694–CD011694. 91 indexed citations

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Walitt, Brian, Marta Čeko, John L. Gracely, et al.. (2016). Characterizing “fibrofog”: Subjective appraisal, objective performance, and task-related brain activity during a working memory task. NeuroImage Clinical. 11. 173–180. 39 indexed citations

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Weaver, Kristen R., LeeAnne B. Sherwin, Brian Walitt, Gail D’Eramo Melkus, & Wendy A. Henderson. (2016). Neuroimaging the brain-gut axis in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 7(2). 320–320. 43 indexed citations

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Häuser, Winfried, Jacob N. Ablin, Mary‐Ann Fitzcharles, et al.. (2015). Fibromyalgia. Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 1(1). 15022–15022. 326 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wolfe, Frederick, Brian Walitt, Johannes J. Rasker, Robert S. Katz, & Winfried Häuser. (2015). The Use of Polysymptomatic Distress Categories in the Evaluation of Fibromyalgia (FM) and FM Severity. The Journal of Rheumatology. 42(8). 1494–1501. 75 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaomin, Brian Walitt, Leorey N. Saligan, et al.. (2015). Chemobrain: A critical review and causal hypothesis of link between cytokines and epigenetic reprogramming associated with chemotherapy. Cytokine. 72(1). 86–96. 141 indexed citations

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Lukkahatai, Nada, et al.. (2013). Gene expression profiles of fatigued fibromyalgia patients with different categories of pain and catastrophizing: A preliminary report. Nursing Outlook. 61(4). 216–224.e2. 14 indexed citations

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Constantinescu, Florina, et al.. (2010). Pericardial Tamponade as the Initial Presentation in a Patient With Polymyositis. JCR Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 16(6). 298–299. 1 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Frederick, Winfried Häuser, Afton L. Hassett, Robert S. Katz, & Brian Walitt. (2010). The development of fibromyalgia – I: Examination of rates and predictors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Pain. 152(2). 291–299. 113 indexed citations

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Parks, Christine G., Brian Walitt, Mary Pettinger, et al.. (2010). Insecticide use and risk of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study. Arthritis Care & Research. 63(2). 184–194. 90 indexed citations

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Urrútia, Gerard, et al.. (2008). Amitriptyline in the treatment of fibromyalgia: a systematic review of its efficacy. Lara D. Veeken. 47(12). 1741–1746. 69 indexed citations

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Walitt, Brian, et al.. (2007). The effects of multidisciplinary therapy on positron emission tomography of the brain in fibromyalgia: a pilot study. Rheumatology International. 27(11). 1019–1024. 21 indexed citations

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