Jairo H. Migueles

7.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jairo H. Migueles is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jairo H. Migueles has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 59 papers in Physiology and 28 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jairo H. Migueles's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (68 papers), Physical Activity and Health (36 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (28 papers). Jairo H. Migueles is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (68 papers), Physical Activity and Health (36 papers) and Children's Physical and Motor Development (28 papers). Jairo H. Migueles collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Sweden and United States. Jairo H. Migueles's co-authors include Francisco B. Ortega, Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, José Mora-González, Marie Löf, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Idoia Labayen, Christine Delisle Nyström, Ulf Ekelund, Irene Esteban‐Cornejo and María Rodríguez‐Ayllón and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Jairo H. Migueles

106 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to ... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2019 2019 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations
    2017 1.2k citations Jairo H. Migueles, Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez et al. profile →
  2. Role of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in the Mental Health of Preschoolers, Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    2019 808 citations María Rodríguez‐Ayllón, Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez et al. profile →
  3. GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package for Generating Physical Activity and Sleep Outcomes From Multi-Day Raw Accelerometer Data
    2019 537 citations Jairo H. Migueles, Alex V. Rowlands et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jairo H. Migueles Spain 29 2.2k 2.2k 1.1k 715 520 106 4.8k
José Mora-González Spain 27 1.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 569 0.8× 450 0.9× 81 4.0k
Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez Spain 37 2.9k 1.3× 2.2k 1.0× 1.9k 1.8× 842 1.2× 642 1.2× 148 5.7k
Irene Esteban‐Cornejo Spain 33 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 611 0.9× 568 1.1× 142 4.2k
Vincent T. van Hees United Kingdom 28 2.8k 1.3× 3.6k 1.7× 784 0.7× 913 1.3× 297 0.6× 58 6.4k
José A. Casajús Spain 45 1.9k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 727 1.0× 702 1.4× 255 6.3k
Tiago V. Barreira United States 35 2.0k 0.9× 2.3k 1.1× 572 0.5× 804 1.1× 223 0.4× 129 4.1k
Nancy W. Glynn United States 46 1.7k 0.8× 3.2k 1.5× 452 0.4× 814 1.1× 429 0.8× 178 7.2k
Dale Esliger United Kingdom 36 2.2k 1.0× 2.8k 1.3× 719 0.7× 971 1.4× 206 0.4× 105 4.7k
David Thivel France 36 2.2k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 674 0.6× 725 1.0× 937 1.8× 219 4.4k
Timothy Tilert United States 8 3.7k 1.7× 4.0k 1.9× 934 0.9× 1.1k 1.6× 515 1.0× 11 6.4k

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All Works

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Migueles, Jairo H., et al.. (2025). Higher Sedentary Behaviour and Not Following Screen Time Guidelines Were Associated With Unfavourable Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Childhood. Acta Paediatrica. 115(1). 89–99. 1 indexed citations
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Chapman, Justin, Aaron Miatke, Dorothea Dumuid, et al.. (2024). A randomised controlled trial of interventions to promote adoption of physical activity in adults with severe mental illness. Mental health and physical activity. 27. 100652–100652. 1 indexed citations
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Gil‐Cosano, José J., Abel Plaza‐Florido, Luis Gracia‐Marco, et al.. (2024). Effects of combined aerobic and resistance training on the inflammatory profile of children with overweight/obesity: A randomized clinical trial. Pediatric Obesity. 19(10). e13152–e13152. 1 indexed citations
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Dote‐Montero, Manuel, Jairo H. Migueles, Alba Camacho-Cardeñosa, et al.. (2024). Impact of lifestyle moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity timing on glycemic control in sedentary adults with overweight/obesity and metabolic impairments. Obesity. 32(8). 1465–1473. 8 indexed citations
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Cadenas‐Sánchez, Cristina, Jairo H. Migueles, Juan Verdejo‐Román, et al.. (2024). Sleep Behaviors and the Shape of Subcortical Brain Structures in Children with Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 92(7). 703–709. 4 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, Marcus Bendtsen, et al.. (2023). Effects of exercise on sleep in children with overweight/obesity: a randomized clinical trial. Obesity. 32(2). 281–290. 6 indexed citations
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Ramos‐Maqueda, Javier, et al.. (2023). Lifestyle physical activity and rapid-rate non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Heart. 109(13). 992–999. 2 indexed citations
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Flor‐Alemany, Marta, Pedro Acosta‐Manzano, Jairo H. Migueles, et al.. (2023). Impact of Exercise Intervention Combined with Optimal Mediterranean Diet Adherence during Pregnancy on Postpartum Body Composition: A Quasi-Experimental Study—The GESTAFIT Project. Nutrients. 15(20). 4413–4413. 3 indexed citations
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Flor‐Alemany, Marta, Pedro Acosta‐Manzano, Jairo H. Migueles, et al.. (2022). Association of Mediterranean diet adherence during pregnancy with maternal and neonatal lipid, glycemic and inflammatory markers: The GESTAFIT project. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 19(2). e13454–e13454. 4 indexed citations
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Cadenas‐Sánchez, Cristina, Jairo H. Migueles, Irene Esteban‐Cornejo, et al.. (2022). Does sleep-disordered breathing add to impairments in academic performance and brain structure usually observed in children with overweight/obesity?. European Journal of Pediatrics. 181(5). 2055–2065. 8 indexed citations
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Cadenas‐Sánchez, Cristina, et al.. (2022). Associations of Sleep-Related Outcomes with Behavioral and Emotional Functioning in Children with Overweight/Obesity. The Journal of Pediatrics. 246. 170–178.e2. 3 indexed citations
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Gil‐Cosano, José J., Luis Gracia‐Marco, Esther Ubago‐Guisado, et al.. (2022). Leptin levels were negatively associated with lumbar spine bone mineral content in children with overweight or obesity. Acta Paediatrica. 111(10). 1966–1973. 5 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, Juan M. A. Alcántara, et al.. (2021). Calibration and Cross-Validation of Accelerometer Cut-Points to Classify Sedentary Time and Physical Activity from Hip and Non-Dominant and Dominant Wrists in Older Adults. Sensors. 21(10). 3326–3326. 34 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, Irene Esteban‐Cornejo, et al.. (2020). Associations of Objectively-Assessed Physical Activity and Sedentary Time with Hippocampal Gray Matter Volume in Children with Overweight/Obesity. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(4). 1080–1080. 27 indexed citations
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Medrano, María, Lide Arenaza, Jairo H. Migueles, et al.. (2020). Associations of physical activity and fitness with hepatic steatosis, liver enzymes, and insulin resistance in children with overweight/obesity. Pediatric Diabetes. 21(4). 565–574. 26 indexed citations
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Alcántara, Juan M. A., Abel Plaza‐Florido, Francisco J. Amaro‐Gahete, et al.. (2020). Impact of Using Different Levels of Threshold-Based Artefact Correction on the Quantification of Heart Rate Variability in Three Independent Human Cohorts. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(2). 325–325. 58 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, Elroy J. Aguiar, et al.. (2019). Step-Based Metrics and Overall Physical Activity in Children With Overweight or Obesity: Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR mhealth and uhealth. 8(4). e14841–e14841. 3 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Cristina Cadenas‐Sánchez, Alex V. Rowlands, et al.. (2019). Comparability of accelerometer signal aggregation metrics across placements and dominant wrist cut points for the assessment of physical activity in adults. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18235–18235. 56 indexed citations
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Cabanas‐Sánchez, Verónica, Irene Esteban‐Cornejo, Jairo H. Migueles, et al.. (2019). Twenty four‐hour activity cycle in older adults using wrist‐worn accelerometers: The seniors‐ENRICA‐2 study. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 30(4). 700–708. 40 indexed citations
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Henriksson, Pontus, Johanna Sandborg, Marie Blomberg, et al.. (2019). A Smartphone App to Promote Healthy Weight Gain, Diet, and Physical Activity During Pregnancy (HealthyMoms): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 8(3). e13011–e13011. 28 indexed citations

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