Bruno Vellas

103.9k total citations · 27 hit papers
704 papers, 50.0k citations indexed

About

Bruno Vellas is a scholar working on Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruno Vellas has authored 704 papers receiving a total of 50.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 376 papers in Physiology, 309 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 222 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology. Recurrent topics in Bruno Vellas's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (285 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (203 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (196 papers). Bruno Vellas is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (285 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (203 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (196 papers). Bruno Vellas collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Italy. Bruno Vellas's co-authors include Y. Guigoz, Matteo Cesari, Yves Rolland, Philip J. Garry, Fati Nourhashémi, Sandrine Andrieu, Gabor Abellán van Kan, Antoni Salvà, S Lauque and John E. Morley and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Bruno Vellas

684 papers receiving 48.5k citations

Hit Papers

Frailty Consensus: A Call... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2013 2022 2001 1999 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Frailty Consensus: A Call to Action
    2013 2.7k citations Bruno Vellas et al. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association profile →
  2. Lecanemab in Early Alzheimer’s Disease
    2022 2.7k citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  3. Screening for Undernutrition in Geriatric Practice: Developing the Short-Form Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA-SF)
    2001 1.9k citations Bruno Vellas et al. The Journals of Gerontology Series A profile →
  4. The mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and its use in grading the nutritional state of elderly patients
    1999 1.5k citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  5. Gait speed at usual pace as a predictor of adverse outcomes in community-dwelling older people an International Academy on Nutrition and Aging (IANA) Task Force
    2009 1.5k citations Yves Rolland, Sandrine Andrieu et al. The journal of nutrition health & aging profile →
  6. Validation of the Mini Nutritional Assessment short-form (MNA®-SF): A practical tool for identification of nutritional status
    2009 1.4k citations Bruno Vellas et al. The journal of nutrition health & aging profile →
  7. Phase 3 Trials of Solanezumab for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
    2014 1.2k citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  8. Assessing the Nutritional Status of the Elderly: The Mini Nutritional Assessment as Part of the Geriatric Evaluation
    2009 968 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  9. A Phase 3 Trial of Semagacestat for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
    2013 903 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  10. Proinflammatory Cytokines, Aging, and Age-Related Diseases
    2013 808 citations Bruno Vellas et al. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association profile →
  11. The I.A.N.A. task force on frailty assessment of older people in clinical practice
    2008 741 citations Yves Rolland, Bruno Vellas et al. The journal of nutrition health & aging profile →
  12. Identifying the elderly at risk for malnutrition
    2002 739 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  13. Cognitive frailty: Rational and definition from an (I.A.N.A./I.A.G.G.) International Consensus Group
    2013 725 citations Philippe Robert, Sandrine Andrieu et al. The journal of nutrition health & aging profile →
  14. Frequency of Malnutrition in Older Adults: A Multinational Perspective Using the Mini Nutritional Assessment
    2010 718 citations Bruno Vellas et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  15. Mini Nutritional Assessment: a practical assessment tool for grading the nutritional state of elderly patients.
    1994 672 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  16. Fear of falling and restriction of mobility in elderly fallers
    1997 667 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  17. Longitudinal changes in testosterone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone in healthy older men
    1997 623 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  18. The frailty phenotype and the frailty index: different instruments for different purposes
    2013 568 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  19. Exercise Program for Nursing Home Residents with Alzheimer's Disease: A 1‐Year Randomized, Controlled Trial
    2007 504 citations Yves Rolland, Sandrine Andrieu et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  20. Frailty: An Emerging Public Health Priority
    2016 501 citations Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas, John Beard et al. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association profile →
  21. Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease
    2018 471 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  22. Evidence for the Domains Supporting the Construct of Intrinsic Capacity
    2018 416 citations Bruno Vellas, John Beard et al. The Journals of Gerontology Series A profile →
  23. Randomized Trial of Verubecestat for Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease
    2019 380 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  24. An International Definition for “Nursing Home”
    2015 312 citations Hidenori Arai, Yves Rolland et al. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association profile →
  25. Blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: Current state and future use in a transformed global healthcare landscape
    2023 121 citations Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  26. Current and investigational medications for the treatment of sarcopenia
    2023 90 citations Yves Rolland, Bruno Vellas et al. profile →
  27. Individual and additive effects of vitamin D, omega-3 and exercise on DNA methylation clocks of biological aging in older adults from the DO-HEALTH trial
    2025 27 citations Heike A. Bischoff‐Ferrari, Maud Wieczorek et al. Nature Aging profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Bruno Vellas 26.3k 14.7k 14.1k 5.4k 4.7k 704 50.0k
John E. Morley 30.3k 1.2× 11.5k 0.8× 6.3k 0.4× 3.3k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 993 70.4k
Anne B. Newman 48.2k 1.8× 22.8k 1.6× 12.0k 0.9× 8.2k 1.5× 6.5k 1.4× 983 114.9k
Jack M. Guralnik 33.5k 1.3× 20.1k 1.4× 13.5k 1.0× 6.7k 1.2× 8.7k 1.9× 768 91.7k
Laura Fratiglioni 12.5k 0.5× 4.7k 0.3× 19.4k 1.4× 3.1k 0.6× 6.1k 1.3× 517 48.5k
Linda P. Fried 26.8k 1.0× 28.1k 1.9× 8.1k 0.6× 11.9k 2.2× 8.2k 1.7× 424 72.2k
Matteo Cesari 20.3k 0.8× 14.8k 1.0× 5.9k 0.4× 5.2k 1.0× 3.1k 0.7× 555 39.4k
Roberto Bernabei 12.5k 0.5× 12.4k 0.8× 5.3k 0.4× 4.3k 0.8× 5.1k 1.1× 516 35.8k
Kenneth Rockwood 25.0k 1.0× 34.0k 2.3× 10.6k 0.8× 15.8k 2.9× 8.6k 1.8× 665 61.1k
Marshal F. Folstein 15.5k 0.6× 6.9k 0.5× 37.4k 2.7× 3.3k 0.6× 9.0k 1.9× 147 85.1k
Carol Brayne 13.4k 0.5× 3.9k 0.3× 19.9k 1.4× 2.6k 0.5× 6.6k 1.4× 731 55.9k

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All Works

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Bischoff‐Ferrari, Heike A., Maud Wieczorek, Daniel W. Belsky, et al.. (2025). Individual and additive effects of vitamin D, omega-3 and exercise on DNA methylation clocks of biological aging in older adults from the DO-HEALTH trial. Nature Aging. 5(3). 376–385. 27 indexed citations breakdown →
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Molino, Caroline de Godoi Rezende Costa, Bruno Vellas, John А. Kanis, et al.. (2024). Effect of vitamin D, omega‐3 supplementation, or a home exercise program on muscle mass and sarcopenia: DO ‐ HEALTH trial. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 73(4). 1049–1059. 2 indexed citations
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Willett, Walter C., E. John Orav, Ralph C. Schimmer, et al.. (2024). Adherence to the MIND diet and the odds of mild cognitive impairment in generally healthy older adults: The 3-year DO-HEALTH study. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 28(3). 100034–100034. 1 indexed citations
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Sadlon, Angélique, Caroline de Godoi Rezende Costa Molino, Walter C. Willett, et al.. (2024). Effects of vitamin D, omega-3 and a simple strength exercise programme in cardiovascular disease prevention: The DO-HEALTH randomized controlled trial. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 28(2). 100037–100037. 6 indexed citations
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Stuck, Anna K., Bruno Vellas, John А. Kanis, et al.. (2023). Comparing Prevalence of Sarcopenia Using Twelve Sarcopenia Definitions in a Large Multinational European Population of Community-Dwelling Older Adults. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 27(3). 205–212. 28 indexed citations
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Lu, Wan‐Hsuan, Yves Rolland, Sophie Guyonnet, Philipe de Souto Barreto, & Bruno Vellas. (2023). Reference centiles for intrinsic capacity throughout adulthood and their association with clinical outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis from the INSPIRE-T cohort. Nature Aging. 3(12). 1521–1528. 18 indexed citations
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Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Yves Rolland, Luigi Ferrucci, et al.. (2023). Looking at frailty and intrinsic capacity through a geroscience lens: the ICFSR & Geroscience Task Force. Nature Aging. 3(12). 1474–1479. 15 indexed citations
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Molino, Caroline de Godoi Rezende Costa, Patricia Chocano-Bedoya, Angélique Sadlon, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of polypharmacy in community-dwelling older adults from seven centres in five European countries: a cross-sectional study of DO-HEALTH. BMJ Open. 12(4). e051881–e051881. 14 indexed citations
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González-Bautista, Emmanuel, Philipe de Souto Barreto, Aarón Salinas‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2022). Development and Validation of a Cutoff for the Chair Stand Test as a Screening for Mobility Impairment in the Context of the Integrated Care for Older People Program. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 78(1). 104–110. 6 indexed citations
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Pagès, Arnaud, Laure Rouch, Nadège Costa, et al.. (2021). Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescribing Detected by Computer Algorithm among Older Patients: Results from the MAPT Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(4). 189–189. 3 indexed citations
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Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Bruno Vellas, & Yves Rolland. (2021). Physical activity and exercise in the context of SARS-Cov-2: A perspective from geroscience field. Ageing Research Reviews. 66. 101258–101258. 5 indexed citations
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Vellas, Bruno, et al.. (2020). Antidepressant Use and Progression of Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease: Results from the European ICTUS Cohort. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 22(2). 433–439. 3 indexed citations
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Desmidt, Thomas, Julien Delrieu, Thibaud Lebouvier, et al.. (2019). Benzodiazepine use and brain amyloid load in nondemented older individuals: a florbetapir PET study in the Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial cohort. Neurobiology of Aging. 84. 61–69. 13 indexed citations
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Maltais, Mathieu, Yves Rolland, Danny Spampinato, et al.. (2019). The association between apathy and frailty in older adults: a new investigation using data from the Mapt study. Aging & Mental Health. 24(12). 1985–1989. 10 indexed citations
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Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Yves Rolland, Mathieu Maltais, & Bruno Vellas. (2018). Associations of Multidomain Lifestyle Intervention with Frailty: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. The American Journal of Medicine. 131(11). 1382.e7–1382.e13. 35 indexed citations
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Mårtensson, Gustav, Joana B. Pereira, Patrizia Mecocci, et al.. (2018). Stability of graph theoretical measures in structural brain networks in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 11592–11592. 38 indexed citations
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Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Sandrine Andrieu, Yves Rolland, & Bruno Vellas. (2017). Physical activity domains and cognitive function over three years in older adults with subjective memory complaints: Secondary analysis from the MAPT trial. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 21(1). 52–57. 13 indexed citations
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Barreto, Philipe de Souto, Philippe Denormandie, Benoît Lepage, et al.. (2016). Effects of a long-term exercise programme on functional ability in people with dementia living in nursing homes: Research protocol of the LEDEN study, a cluster randomised controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 47. 289–295. 15 indexed citations
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Dupuy, Charlotte, Philipe de Souto Barreto, A. Ghisolfi, et al.. (2015). Indicators of oral nutritional supplements prescription in nursing home residents: A cross-sectional study. Clinical Nutrition. 35(5). 1047–1052. 6 indexed citations
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Scheltens, Philip, Jos W. R. Twisk, Rafael Blesa, et al.. (2012). Souvenaid (R) Improves Memory in Drug-Naive Patients with Mild Alzheimer's Disease: Results from a Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Study (Souvenir II). Pure Amsterdam UMC. 3 indexed citations

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