Francesca Solmi

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Francesca Solmi is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesca Solmi has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Clinical Psychology, 25 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 12 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Francesca Solmi's work include Eating Disorders and Behaviors (33 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (17 papers) and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (11 papers). Francesca Solmi is often cited by papers focused on Eating Disorders and Behaviors (33 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (17 papers) and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (11 papers). Francesca Solmi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Francesca Solmi's co-authors include Nadia Micali, Glyn Lewis, Janet Treasure, Ross D. Crosby, Nicholas J. Horton, Kendrin R. Sonneville, Alison E. Field, Sonja A. Swanson, Stephani L. Hatch and Matthew Hotopf and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PEDIATRICS and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Francesca Solmi

67 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: a 12-year population-based cohort study

2020 301 citations Eiluned Pearce, Olesya Ajnakina et al. The Lancet Psychiatry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesca Solmi United Kingdom	26	1.4k	760	401	321	293	74	2.3k
Tracy K. Richmond United States	27	1.2k 0.8×	916 1.2×	242 0.6×	468 1.5×	243 0.8×	100	2.2k
Sandra J. Weiss United States	29	948 0.7×	659 0.9×	283 0.7×	440 1.4×	103 0.4×	109	2.5k
Karni Ginzburg Israel	26	1.8k 1.3×	371 0.5×	429 1.1×	352 1.1×	136 0.5×	91	2.8k
Hanna Konttinen Finland	28	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	167 0.4×	500 1.6×	212 0.7×	82	3.0k
Leah Li United Kingdom	32	750 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	156 0.4×	502 1.6×	345 1.2×	95	2.9k
Giada Pietrabissa Italy	25	1.2k 0.8×	464 0.6×	160 0.4×	437 1.4×	106 0.4×	103	2.2k
Claudia Sikorski Germany	21	595 0.4×	416 0.5×	269 0.7×	387 1.2×	356 1.2×	40	1.7k
Massimiliano Orri Canada	30	1.5k 1.1×	611 0.8×	411 1.0×	391 1.2×	115 0.4×	126	2.6k
Jennifer J. McGrath Canada	26	691 0.5×	884 1.2×	145 0.4×	501 1.6×	350 1.2×	73	2.8k
Belinda H. Operskalski United States	24	1.8k 1.3×	483 0.6×	1.0k 2.5×	582 1.8×	203 0.7×	44	3.3k

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Hayes, Joseph, Naomi Launders, Glyn Lewis, et al.. (2025). Mortality and hospital admissions in people with eating disorders: longitudinal cohort study in secondary care-linked English primary care records. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

Solmi, Francesca, et al.. (2024). A Longitudinal Study of Head Circumference Trajectories in Autism and Autistic Traits. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 56(2). 808–818.

Lewis, Gemma, Francesca Solmi, Jessica K. Bone, et al.. (2023). Neuropsychological markers of antidepressant action: a secondary analysis of the ANTLER randomised controlled trial. Psychological Medicine. 53(14). 6592–6599. 1 indexed citations

Stavola, Bianca De, Yvonne Kelly, Gemma Lewis, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal pathways between childhood BMI, body dissatisfaction, and adolescent depression: an observational study using the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 11(1). 47–55. 32 indexed citations

Bryant‐Waugh, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Investigating the prevalence and risk factors of picky eating in a birth cohort study. Eating Behaviors. 50. 101780–101780. 6 indexed citations

Solmi, Francesca, Arlinda B. Moreno, Glyn Lewis, et al.. (2021). Longitudinal association between binge eating and metabolic syndrome in adults: Findings from the ELSA‐Brasil cohort. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 144(5). 464–474. 25 indexed citations

Hamid, Aseel, et al.. (2021). Family functioning but not social capital is associated with better mental health in adolescents affected by violence and displacement by armed conflict in Colombia. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 68(8). 1598–1606. 7 indexed citations

Solmi, Francesca, James Downs, & Dasha Nicholls. (2021). COVID-19 and eating disorders in young people. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 5(5). 316–318. 68 indexed citations

Pearce, Eiluned, Olesya Ajnakina, Sonia Johnson, et al.. (2020). The association between loneliness and depressive symptoms among adults aged 50 years and older: a 12-year population-based cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry. 8(1). 48–57. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Solmi, Francesca, Becky Mars, Michael King, et al.. (2019). Depression and self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood in sexual minorities compared with heterosexuals in the UK: a population-based cohort study. European Journal of Public Health. 29(Supplement_4). 1 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca, Bianca De Stavola, Golam M. Khandaker, et al.. (2019). Association between prenatal maternal infection and disordered eating behaviours in adolescence: a UK population-based prospective birth cohort study. Psychological Medicine. 50(6). 927–935. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingyi, Brynmor Lloyd‐Evans, Louise Marston, et al.. (2019). Epidemiology of loneliness in a cohort of UK mental health community crisis service users. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55(7). 811–822. 26 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca, Becky Mars, Michael King, et al.. (2018). Depression and self-harm from adolescence to young adulthood in sexual minorities compared with heterosexuals in the UK: a population-based cohort study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 3(2). 91–98. 58 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca, et al.. (2018). The cost of mental and physical health disability in childhood and adolescence to families in the UK: findings from a repeated cross-sectional survey using propensity score matching. BMJ Open. 8(2). e018729–e018729. 13 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca, Joseph Hayes, Glyn Lewis, & James B. Kirkbride. (2017). Curiosity killed the cat: no evidence of an association between cat ownership and psychotic symptoms at ages 13 and 18 years in a UK general population cohort. Psychological Medicine. 47(9). 1659–1667. 15 indexed citations

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Micali, Nadia, Nicholas J. Horton, Ross D. Crosby, et al.. (2016). Eating disorder behaviours amongst adolescents: investigating classification, persistence and prospective associations with adverse outcomes using latent class models. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 26(2). 231–240. 44 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca, Christian von Wagner, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, et al.. (2015). Decomposing socio-economic inequality in colorectal cancer screening uptake in England. Social Science & Medicine. 134. 76–86. 42 indexed citations

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Micali, Nadia, Francesca Solmi, Nicholas J. Horton, et al.. (2015). Adolescent Eating Disorders Predict Psychiatric, High-Risk Behaviors and Weight Outcomes in Young Adulthood. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 54(8). 652–659.e1. 169 indexed citations

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Solmi, Francesca & Patrick Onghena. (2014). Combining p-values in replicated single-case experiments with multivariate outcome. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 24(3-4). 607–633. 13 indexed citations

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Kothari, Radha, Francesca Solmi, Janet Treasure, & Nadia Micali. (2012). The neuropsychological profile of children at high risk of developing an eating disorder. Psychological Medicine. 43(7). 1543–1554. 41 indexed citations

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