Ilona Croy

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
190 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Ilona Croy is a scholar working on Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilona Croy has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Sensory Systems, 57 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 55 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Ilona Croy's work include Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (111 papers), Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (56 papers) and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (54 papers). Ilona Croy is often cited by papers focused on Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (111 papers), Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies (56 papers) and Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques (54 papers). Ilona Croy collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Ilona Croy's co-authors include Thomas Hummel, Steven Nordin, Håkan Olausson, Uta Sailer, Antje Hähner, Valentin A. Schriever, Simona Negoias, Peter Joraschky, Anna Oleszkiewicz and Chantal Triscoli and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Ilona Croy

173 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Olfactory Disorders and Quality of Life--An Updated Review

2014 675 citations Ilona Croy, Thomas Hummel et al. profile →
Updated Sniffin’ Sticks normative data based on an extended sample of 9139 subjects

2018 475 citations Anna Oleszkiewicz, Ilona Croy et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ilona Croy	3.7k	2.2k	1.8k	1.3k	1.0k	190	5.9k
Noam Sobel	4.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	91	7.0k
Claire Murphy	3.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.5×	595 0.5×	416 0.4×	119	5.6k
Bettina M. Pause	1.9k 0.5×	830 0.4×	803 0.4×	644 0.5×	673 0.6×	76	2.8k
Jonas Olofsson	1.6k 0.4×	888 0.4×	774 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	966 0.9×	115	3.5k
Johannes Gerber	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	359 0.3×	350 0.3×	104	3.5k
Marilyn Jones‐Gotman	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	3.4k 2.6×	1.0k 1.0×	95	9.1k
Francis McGlone	1.3k 0.4×	592 0.3×	872 0.5×	6.1k 4.8×	2.8k 2.6×	141	10.9k
André Mouraux	1.2k 0.3×	692 0.3×	374 0.2×	5.6k 4.4×	917 0.9×	210	8.7k
Roman Ferstl	1.2k 0.3×	536 0.2×	576 0.3×	579 0.4×	525 0.5×	67	2.8k
Monique A. M. Smeets	943 0.3×	419 0.2×	309 0.2×	524 0.4×	634 0.6×	77	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilona Croy

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Hamann, Julie, et al.. (2025). Support or stress? How attachment and relationship dynamics associate with acute psychosocial stress in the presence of the romantic partner. Social Science & Medicine. 381. 118275–118275.

Goeckenjan, Maren, et al.. (2025). Primary infertile couples share more HLA alleles than expected by chance. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 308. 47–53.

Croy, Alexander, Uta Sailer, Annett Schirmer, et al.. (2025). A standardized lexicon of body odor words crafted from 17 countries. Scientific Data. 12(1). 325–325. 1 indexed citations

Croy, Alexander, et al.. (2025). A dataset of laymen olfactory perception for 74 mono-molecular odors. Scientific Data. 12(1). 347–347. 2 indexed citations

Croy, Ilona, et al.. (2025). Securely stressed: association between attachment and empathic stress in romantic couples. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 32420–32420.

Felice, Sara De, Tara Chand, Ilona Croy, et al.. (2024). Relational neuroscience: Insights from hyperscanning research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 105979–105979. 9 indexed citations

Croy, Ilona, et al.. (2024). Odor‐Based Recognition of Canine Stress: Investigating Human Olfactory Perception. Journal of Sensory Studies. 39(6).

Wilz, Gabriele, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the acceptance of smart sensing in psychotherapy patients: findings from a randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Digital Health. 6. 1335776–1335776. 7 indexed citations

Schirmer, Annett, Ilona Croy, Katja Liebal, & Stefan R. Schweinberger. (2024). Non‐verbal effecting – animal research sheds light on human emotion communication. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 100(1). 245–257. 4 indexed citations

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Khalsa, Sahib S., et al.. (2023). Multidimensional assessment of anticipated and experienced interoceptive states. Physiology & Behavior. 269. 114265–114265.

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Croy, Ilona, et al.. (2023). Late Blindness and Deafness are Associated with Decreased Tactile Sensitivity, But Early Blindness is Not. Neuroscience. 526. 164–174.

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Croy, Ilona, et al.. (2023). An integrative review: Human chemosensory communication in the parent-child relationship. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 153. 105336–105336. 3 indexed citations

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Linn, Jennifer, et al.. (2023). Olfactory brain activations in patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10072–10072. 9 indexed citations

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Weidner, Kerstin, et al.. (2021). Same salience, different consequences: Disturbed inter-network connectivity during a social oddball paradigm in major depressive disorder. NeuroImage Clinical. 31. 102731–102731. 6 indexed citations

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Fairhurst, Merle T., Francis McGlone, & Ilona Croy. (2021). Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 43. 54–61. 20 indexed citations

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Sabatowski, R., et al.. (2019). C-tactile touch perception in migraineurs – a case-control study. Cephalalgia. 40(5). 478–492. 4 indexed citations

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Croy, Ilona, Michael G. Smith, Anita Gidlöf-Gunnarsson, & Kerstin Persson Waye. (2016). Optimal Questions for Sleep in Epidemiological Studies: Comparisons of Subjective and Objective Measures in Laboratory and Field Studies. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. 15(6). 466–482. 17 indexed citations

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Negoias, Simona, et al.. (2015). Olfactory bulb volume predicts therapeutic outcome in major depression disorder. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 10(2). 367–372. 47 indexed citations

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Smith, Michael G., et al.. (2013). Nocturnal vibration and noise from freight trains impacts sleep. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 40114–40114. 4 indexed citations

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Croy, Ilona, et al.. (2011). Häusliche Gewalt bei Patienten – durch medizinische Fachkräfte vermutlich unterschätzt: Eine Vollerhebung bei Dresdner und Chemnitzer niedergelassenen medizinischen Fachkräften und solchen des Dresdner Universitätsklinikums. Zeitschrift für Evidenz Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen. 105(6). 452–458.

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