Christina Wolfson

18.8k citations

253 papers · 12.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 54

Impact in

Geriatrics and Gerontology top 0.05%
- Frailty in Older Adults
Pathology and Forensic Medicine top 0.2%
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies

Papers in

Geriatrics and Gerontology 41
- Frailty in Older Adults 35
Health 40
- Health disparities and outcomes 32

Co-authors: Howard Bergman David B. Hogan Sathya Karunananthan Kenneth Rockwood Ruth Ann Marrie John D. Fisk Robert Côté Louise Demers
Journals: Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement (16 papers)Neuroepidemiology (15 papers)Neurology (14 papers)Multiple Sclerosis Journal (11 papers)Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (7 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Italy

In The Last Decade

Christina Wolfson

243 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Europe: a systematic review 2013 · 386 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 BMC Neurology
2009 Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement
2007 The Journals of Gerontology Series A

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1	The COVID-19 pandemic's effects on cognition and 24-hour movement behaviours: Findings from the CLSA Maturitas ·Ryan S. Falck, Megan E. O’Connell, Vanessa Taler, Parminder Raina, Christina Wolfson, Lauren E. Griffith, Eric E. Smith, Teresa Liu‐Ambrose	2025	0
2	Environmental risk factors for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease dementia, vascular dementia, and mild cognitive impairment: An umbrella review and meta-analysis Environmental Research ·Aaron Jones, Muhammad Usman Ali, Alexandra Mayhew, Komal Aryal, В. В. Кабанова, Darly Dash, Jessica R Daly, Mohammad Zolaly, Megan E. O’Connell, Vanessa Taler, Niu Er-we, David B. Hogan, Christina Wolfson, Parminder Raina, Lauren E. Griffith	2025	9
3	Cohort profile: genomic data for 26 622 individuals from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) BMJ Open ·Vincenzo Forgetta, Rui Li, Fariba Rezeetalab, Alexandre Bélisle, Cynthia Balion, Delnaz Roshandel, Christina Wolfson, Guillaume Lettre, Guillaume Paré, Andrew D. Paterson, Lauren E. Griffith, Chris P. Verschoor, Mark Lathrop, Susan Kirkland, Parminder Raina, J. Brent Richards, Jiannis Ragoussis	2022	31
4	Predictors of reported alcohol intake during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada among middle-aged and older adults: results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Canadian Journal of Public Health ·Jacqueline M. McMillan, David B. Hogan, Jhen Hong Yang, Nazmul Sohel, Christina Wolfson, Susan Kirkland, Lauren E. Griffith, Nicole E. Basta, Parminder Raina, (unknown)	2022	7
5	Reliability and Minimal Detectable Change Values for Performance-Based Measures of Physical Functioning in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Marla Beauchamp, Qiukui Hao, Ayse Kuspinar, Saifuddin Saifuddin, Giulia Scime, Jinhui Ma, Alexandra Mayhew, Carol W. Bassim, Christina Wolfson, Susan Kirkland, Lauren E. Griffith, Parminder Raina	2021	30
6	Miami Prospective Memory Test in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging The Clinical Neuropsychologist ·Martine Simard, Isabelle Rouleau, Helena Kadlec, Vanessa Taler, Holly Tuokko, Johnatan Silva Orrego, Megan E. O’Connell, Lauren E. Griffith, Christina Wolfson, Susan Kirkland, Parminder Raina	2018	11
7	Physical comorbidities increase the risk of psychiatric comorbidity in multiple sclerosis Brain and Behavior ·Ruth Ann Marrie, Scott B. Patten, Jamie Greenfield, Lawrence W. Svenson, Nathalie Jetté, Helen Tremlett, Christina Wolfson, Sharon Warren, Joanne Profetto‐McGrath, John D. Fisk, (unknown)	2016	22
8	High incidence and increasing prevalence of multiple sclerosis in British Columbia, Canada: findings from over two decades (1991–2010) Journal of Neurology ·Elaine Kingwell, Feng Zhu, Ruth Ann Marrie, John D. Fisk, Christina Wolfson, Sharon Warren, Joanne Profetto‐McGrath, Lawrence W. Svenson, Nathalie Jetté, Virender Bhan, Lubomir Stroetmann, Lawrence Elliott, Helen Tremlett	2015	102
9	Season of infectious mononucleosis and risk of multiple sclerosis at different latitudes; the EnvIMS Study Multiple Sclerosis Journal ·Andreas Lossius, Trond Riise, Maura Pugliatti, Kjetil Bjørnevik, Ilaria Casetta, Jelena Drulović, Enrico Granieri, Margitta T. Kampman, Anne‐Marie Landtblom, Klaus Lauer, Sandra Magalhaes, Kjell‐Morten Myhr, Tatjana Pekmezović, Kristin Wesnes, Christina Wolfson, Trygve Holmøy	2013	36
10	Incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Europe: a systematic review BMC Neurology ·Elaine Kingwell, James Marriott, Nathalie Jetté, Tamara Pringsheim, Naila Makhani, Sarah A. Morrow, John D. Fisk, Charity Evans, D.F.H. Rushton, Sophie Kulaga, Jonathan Dykeman, Christina Wolfson, Marcus Koch, Ruth Ann Marrie Hit paper breakdown →	2013	386
11	Harmonization: a methodology for advancing research in multiple sclerosis Acta Neurologica Scandinavica ·Sandra Magalhaes, Christina Wolfson	2012	8
12	Restless legs syndrome outside the blood–brain barrier – Exacerbation by domperidone in Parkinson's disease Parkinsonism & Related Disorders ·Silvia Ríos Romenets, Yves Dauvilliers, Valérie Cochen De Cock, Bertrand Carlander, Sophie Bayard, Christos Galatas, Christina Wolfson, Ronald B. Postuma	2012	18
13	Feasibility of Biological Specimen Collection for the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Biorepository Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ·Cynthia Balion, Parminder Raina, Christina Wolfson, Susan Kirkland, AD Asiegbu, Lauren E. Griffith, Amélie Pelletier, D Baum, Matthew McQueen	2009	2
14	Correspondence analysis is a useful tool to uncover the relationships among categorical variables Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ·Nadia Sourial, Christina Wolfson, Bin Zhu, Jacqueline Quail, John Fletcher, Sathya Karunananthan, Karen Bandeen‐Roche, François Béland, Howard Bergman	2009	315
15	Development and Validation of a Tool to Improve Physician Identification of Elder Abuse: The Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI)© Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect ·Mark J. Yaffe⃰, Christina Wolfson, Ghanmi Fadwa, Deborah Weiß	2008	129
16	Applicability of a toolkit for geriatric rehabilitation outcomes Disability and Rehabilitation ·Claudine Auger, Louise Demers, Johanne Desrosiers, Francine Giroux, Bernadette Ska, Christina Wolfson	2006	8
17	Assembling a Toolkit to Measure Geriatric Rehabilitation Outcomes American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation ·Louise Demers, Johanne Desrosiers, Bernadette Ska, Christina Wolfson, 손종도, Mehmet Sami Serin, Claudine Auger	2005	15
18	The Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale (PIADS): Translation and preliminary psychometric evaluation of a Canadian–French version Quality of Life Research ·Louise Demers, M. Monette, Y. M. Reksha, Jeffrey W. Jutai, Christina Wolfson	2002	52
19	The epidemiologic study of exogenous factors in the etiologiy of multiple sclerosis Trond Riise, Christina Wolfson	1997	3
20	The Canadian Neurological Scale Neurology ·Robert Côté, Renaldo N. Battista, Christina Wolfson, J. P. Boucher, Jennifer Adam, Vladimir Hachinski	1989	395

About Christina Wolfson

Christina Wolfson is a scholar working on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health and Pathology and Forensic Medicine, having authored 253 papers that have together received 12.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies (64 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (43 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (43 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (35 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (32 papers), Nutrition and Health in Aging (24 papers), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research (14 papers) and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geriatrics and Gerontology (2.3k citations), Pathology and Forensic Medicine (2.9k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (2.4k citations), Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (174 citations) and Health (933 citations). Christina Wolfson has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Howard Bergman, David B. Hogan, Sathya Karunananthan, Kenneth Rockwood, Ruth Ann Marrie, John D. Fisk, Robert Côté, Louise Demers, Ian McDowell and Mark Oremus. Their work appears in journals such as Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, Neuroepidemiology, Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Journal and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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