Elena Philippou

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Elena Philippou is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Philippou has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 21 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Elena Philippou's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (23 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (16 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 papers). Elena Philippou is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (23 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (16 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 papers). Elena Philippou collaborates with scholars based in Cyprus, United Kingdom and United States. Elena Philippou's co-authors include Elena Nikiphorou, Marios Constantinou, Anne Salonen, Fuad A. Iraqi, Chaysavanh Manichanh, John Penders, Jonna Jalanka, Abdolreza Norouzy, Nataša Golić and Robert E. Spiller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Elena Philippou

61 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Mediterranean Diet, Cognitive Function, and Dementia: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

2016 323 citations Elena Philippou et al. Advances in Nutrition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elena Philippou Cyprus	23	720	616	282	223	177	67	1.9k
Rosaura Leis Spain	29	806 1.1×	686 1.1×	410 1.5×	464 2.1×	91 0.5×	141	2.5k
Cathryn A. Conlon New Zealand	26	531 0.7×	660 1.1×	298 1.1×	524 2.3×	63 0.4×	97	2.3k
Bárbara Vizmanos Mexico	22	378 0.5×	562 0.9×	307 1.1×	248 1.1×	54 0.3×	90	1.8k
Bahram Rashidkhani Iran	34	856 1.2×	1.5k 2.5×	396 1.4×	451 2.0×	96 0.5×	176	3.3k
Parvane Saneei Iran	30	1.1k 1.5×	1.5k 2.4×	250 0.9×	629 2.8×	188 1.1×	163	3.3k
Marta Stelmach-Mardas Poland	21	495 0.7×	710 1.2×	196 0.7×	311 1.4×	43 0.2×	62	1.7k
Agnieszka Mazur-Biały Poland	25	813 1.1×	202 0.3×	510 1.8×	203 0.9×	99 0.6×	67	2.1k
Laima Brazionis Australia	22	540 0.8×	886 1.4×	212 0.8×	262 1.2×	29 0.2×	59	2.0k
Maria Letizia Petroni Italy	33	861 1.2×	453 0.7×	324 1.1×	257 1.2×	110 0.6×	106	3.2k
Nachum Vaisman Israel	28	716 1.0×	295 0.5×	228 0.8×	484 2.2×	62 0.4×	85	2.2k

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Magriplis, Emmanuella, et al.. (2025). Ultra Processed Food Consumption in Children and Adolescents: Main Food Group Contributors and Associations With Weight Status. Nutrition Bulletin. 50(2). 278–289. 1 indexed citations

Philippou, Elena, et al.. (2024). The effect of time-restricted eating on arterial stiffness indices in men with metabolic syndrome: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 25(1). 497–497. 2 indexed citations

Deligiannidou, Georgia-Eirini, Elena Philippou, Vanda Andrade, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Relationship between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Subjective Well-Being among Greek and Cypriot Adults. Nutrients. 16(8). 1238–1238. 5 indexed citations

Christodoulou, Christiana C., Christiana A. Demetriou, Elena Philippou, & Eleni Zamba Papanicolaou. (2023). Investigating the Dietary Intake Using the CyFFQ Semi-Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire in Cypriot Huntington’s Disease Patients. Nutrients. 15(5). 1136–1136. 3 indexed citations

Philippou, Elena, et al.. (2022). Relative validity and reproducibility of the CyFFQ semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire for assessing dietary intake in Cypriot adults. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36(1). 139–153. 3 indexed citations

Andrade, Vanda, Stefano Quarta, Lence Miloseva, et al.. (2022). Exploring Hedonic and Eudaimonic Items of Well-Being in Mediterranean and Non-Mediterranean Countries: Influence of Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(3). 1715–1715. 7 indexed citations

Heraclides, Alexandros, et al.. (2022). Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on lifestyle behaviors and their association with personality among adults in Qatar: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0276426–e0276426. 1 indexed citations

Negm, Ahmed, Carlos Prada, Yaping Chang, et al.. (2022). Rehabilitation at the Time of Pandemic: Patient Journey Recommendations. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 14. 781226–781226. 5 indexed citations

Negm, Ahmed, Carlos Prada, Yaping Chang, et al.. (2022). Rehabilitation Care at the Time of Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Scoping Review of Health System Recommendations. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 13. 781271–781271. 7 indexed citations

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Faieta, Julie, Hannes Devos, Michele K. York, et al.. (2021). Exercise interventions for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Systematic Reviews. 10(1). 6–6. 10 indexed citations

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Quarta, Stefano, Marika Massaro, Mihail Chervenkov, et al.. (2021). Persistent Moderate-to-Weak Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Low Scoring for Plant-Based Foods across Several Southern European Countries: Are We Overlooking the Mediterranean Diet Recommendations?. Nutrients. 13(5). 1432–1432. 39 indexed citations

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Kolokotroni, Ourania, et al.. (2021). Lifestyle habits of adults during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Cyprus: evidence from a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 786–786. 52 indexed citations

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García‐Conesa, María‐Teresa, Elena Philippou, Marika Massaro, et al.. (2020). Exploring the Validity of the 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS): A Cross-National Study in Seven European Countries around the Mediterranean Region. Nutrients. 12(10). 2960–2960. 135 indexed citations

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Andrade, Vanda, Rui Jorge, María‐Teresa García‐Conesa, et al.. (2020). Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Subjective Well-Being in a Sample of Portuguese Adults. Nutrients. 12(12). 3837–3837. 30 indexed citations

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Alunno, Alessia, Elena Nikiphorou, Elena Philippou, et al.. (2020). Nutrition in RMDs: is it really food for thought? Focus on rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Rheumatology. 4(1). 10–10. 14 indexed citations

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Philippou, Elena, Gerda K. Pot, Alexandros Heraclides, Marcus Richards, & Rebecca Bendayan. (2018). Dietary glycaemic index and cognitive function: prospective associations in adults of the 1946 British birth cohort. Public Health Nutrition. 22(8). 1415–1424. 6 indexed citations

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Philippou, Elena, et al.. (2016). Mediterranean Diet, Cognitive Function, and Dementia: A Systematic Review of the Evidence. Advances in Nutrition. 7(5). 889–904. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mousavi, Seyedeh Neda, Mohsen Nematy, Abdolreza Norouzy, et al.. (2014). Comparison of intensive insulin therapy versus conventional glucose control in traumatic brain injury patients on parenteral nutrition: A pilot randomized clinical trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Mousavi, Seyedeh Neda, Fariborz Samini, Mohsen Nematy, et al.. (2014). Hyperglycemia and antibody titres against heat shock protein 27 in traumatic brain injury patients on parenteral nutrition. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Pavlopoulos, Harry, Julia Grapsa, Elli Stefanadi, et al.. (2008). The evolution of diastolic dysfunction in the hypertensive disease. European Journal of Echocardiography. 9(6). 772–778. 22 indexed citations

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