George M. Savva

14.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
151 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

George M. Savva is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Molecular Biology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, George M. Savva has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in George M. Savva's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (38 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (16 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers). George M. Savva is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (38 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (16 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers). George M. Savva collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. George M. Savva's co-authors include Rose Anne Kenny, Carol Brayne, Fiona E. Matthews, Paul G. Ince, Hilary Cronin, Deirdre A. Robertson, Stephen B. Wharton, Orna Donoghue, Claire O’Regan and Gillian Forster and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

George M. Savva

145 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Age, Neuropathology, and Dementia

2009 669 citations George M. Savva, Fiona E. Matthews et al. profile →
Frailty and cognitive impairment—A review of the evidence and causal mechanisms

2013 555 citations George M. Savva, Rose Anne Kenny et al. profile →
Meta-analysis of the Parkinson’s disease gut microbiome suggests alterations linked to intestinal inflammation

2021 462 citations Stefano Romano, George M. Savva et al. profile →
Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study

2011 444 citations Chris Fox, Kathryn Richardson et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: case-control study

2018 320 citations Kathryn Richardson, Chris Fox et al. profile →
Fecal microbiota transfer between young and aged mice reverses hallmarks of the aging gut, eye, and brain

2022 222 citations Stefano Romano, Rebecca Ansorge et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
George M. Savva United Kingdom	53	2.9k	2.5k	2.0k	1.5k	1.2k	151	9.9k
Catherine Helmer France	55	2.6k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	646 0.4×	918 0.8×	304	10.4k
Anne M. Murray United States	43	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	836 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	194	9.0k
M. Pahor United States	47	5.0k 1.7×	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	923 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	104	10.5k
Jacobijn Gussekloo Netherlands	62	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	774 0.5×	1.9k 1.6×	331	13.5k
Kamal Masaki United States	73	5.6k 2.0×	4.0k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	2.5k 2.1×	267	18.3k
Osvaldo P. Almeida Australia	74	3.4k 1.2×	5.9k 2.4×	1.4k 0.7×	908 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	414	19.0k
Luc Letenneur France	62	3.5k 1.2×	4.3k 1.7×	1.0k 0.5×	747 0.5×	525 0.4×	174	11.9k
Michael E. Miller United States	54	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.9×	188	15.3k
Nicole Schupf United States	68	4.8k 1.7×	4.6k 1.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	766 0.6×	311	14.7k
Fulvio Lauretani Italy	72	7.5k 2.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	2.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	254	17.7k

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Sayavedra, Lizbeth, Muhammad Yasir, Andrew Goldson, et al.. (2025). Bacterial microcompartments and energy metabolism drive gut colonization by Bilophila wadsworthia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5049–5049. 1 indexed citations

Baker, David, Andrea Telatin, George M. Savva, et al.. (2025). Assessing Bias and Reproducibility of Viral Metagenomics Methods for the Combined Detection of Faecal RNA and DNA Viruses. Viruses. 17(2). 155–155. 1 indexed citations

Kellingray, Lee, George M. Savva, Enriqueta García-Gutiérrez, et al.. (2025). Temporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 shedding in feces and saliva: a longitudinal study in Norfolk, United Kingdom during the 2021–2022 COVID-19 waves. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(5). e0319524–e0319524. 1 indexed citations

Koev, Todor T., et al.. (2023). Starch characteristics and baking quality of chilled ready-to-eat sandwich bread made with starch branching enzyme II mutant wheat flour. Food Hydrocolloids. 147. 109390–109390. 2 indexed citations

Defernez, Marianne, Andrea Telatin, Sumeet K. Tiwari, et al.. (2023). Investigating Antibody Reactivity to the Intestinal Microbiome in Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A Feasibility Study. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(20). 15316–15316. 3 indexed citations

Nguyen, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Assessing cognitive decline in Vietnamese older adults using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic (MoCA-B) and Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) during the COVID-19 pandemic: A feasibility study. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 37(5). 1043–1061. 2 indexed citations

Ahn‐Jarvis, Jennifer, et al.. (2022). Impact of storage on starch digestibility and texture of a high-amylose wheat bread. Food Hydrocolloids. 135. 108139–108139. 20 indexed citations

Lazenby, James, George M. Savva, Laura C. McCaughey, et al.. (2021). Multiple holins contribute to extracellular DNA release in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Microbiology. 167(2). 33 indexed citations

Jones, Emily, Régis Stentz, Andrea Telatin, et al.. (2021). The Origin of Plasma-Derived Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles in Healthy Individuals and Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pilot Study. Genes. 12(10). 1636–1636. 26 indexed citations

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Tariq, Mohammad, Andrea Telatin, Rebecca Ansorge, et al.. (2021). Comparison of PCR versus PCR-Free DNA Library Preparation for Characterising the Human Faecal Virome. Viruses. 13(10). 2093–2093. 11 indexed citations

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Richardson, Kathryn, George M. Savva, Penelope J Boyd, et al.. (2021). Non-benzodiazepine hypnotic use for sleep disturbance in people aged over 55 years living with dementia: a series of cohort studies. Health Technology Assessment. 25(1). 1–202. 8 indexed citations

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Page, Andrew J., Sarah Bastkowski, Muhammad Yasir, et al.. (2020). AlbaTraDIS: Comparative analysis of large datasets from parallel transposon mutagenesis experiments. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(7). e1007980–e1007980. 20 indexed citations

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Moriarty, Frank, George M. Savva, Carlota M. Grossi, et al.. (2020). Cognitive decline associated with anticholinergics, benzodiazepines and Z‐drugs: Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 87(7). 2818–2829. 13 indexed citations

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Aldus, Clare F, Antony Arthur, P Millac, et al.. (2020). Undiagnosed dementia in primary care: a record linkage study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(20). 1–108. 31 indexed citations

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Ravi, Anuradha, Fenella Halstead, Amy Bamford, et al.. (2019). Loss of microbial diversity and pathogen domination of the gut microbiota in critically ill patients. Microbial Genomics. 5(9). 72 indexed citations

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Τράκα, Μαρία, Antonietta Melchini, Shikha Saha, et al.. (2019). Transcriptional changes in prostate of men on active surveillance after a 12-mo glucoraphanin-rich broccoli intervention—results from the Effect of Sulforaphane on prostate CAncer PrEvention (ESCAPE) randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 109(4). 1133–1144. 84 indexed citations

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O’Connell, Matthew, George M. Savva, Ciarán Finucane, et al.. (2018). Impairments in Hemodynamic Responses to Orthostasis Associated with Frailty: Results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 66(8). 1475–1483. 22 indexed citations

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Mousa, Andria, George M. Savva, Arnold Mitnitski, et al.. (2018). Is frailty a stable predictor of mortality across time? Evidence from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies. Age and Ageing. 47(5). 721–727. 52 indexed citations

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Setti, Annalisa, James Loughman, George M. Savva, & Rose Anne Kenny. (2015). Trail Making Test performance contributes to subjective judgment of visual efficiency in older adults. PeerJ. 3. e1407–e1407. 1 indexed citations

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Linde, Rianne M. van der, Blossom C. M. Stephan, George M. Savva, Tom Dening, & Carol Brayne. (2012). Systematic reviews on behavioural and psychological symptoms in the older or demented population. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 4(4). 28–28. 54 indexed citations

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