José Lapetra

22.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
97 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

José Lapetra is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, José Lapetra has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 35 papers in Physiology and 22 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in José Lapetra's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (64 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (29 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (21 papers). José Lapetra is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (64 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (29 papers) and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling (21 papers). José Lapetra collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Norway. José Lapetra's co-authors include Jordi Salas‐Salvadó, Ramón Estruch, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, Emilio Ros, Dolores Corella, Miquel Fiol, Lluís Serra‐Majem, Enrique Gómez‐Gracia, Fernando Arós and Xavier Pintó and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

José Lapetra

93 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

A Short Screener Is Valid for Assessing Mediterranean Diet Adherence among Older Spanish Men and Women

2011 1.1k citations Helmut Schröder, Montserrat Fitó et al. Journal of Nutrition profile →
A 14-Item Mediterranean Diet Assessment Tool and Obesity Indexes among High-Risk Subjects: The PREDIMED Trial

2012 775 citations Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, Estefanía Toledo et al. profile →
Prevention of Diabetes With Mediterranean Diets

2014 406 citations Jordi Salas‐Salvadó, Mònica Bulló et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Lapetra Spain	42	3.9k	2.6k	1.3k	977	898	97	7.4k
Enrique Gómez‐Gracia Spain	47	5.1k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	111	9.1k
Estefanía Toledo Spain	52	5.3k 1.4×	3.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	913 1.0×	200	10.3k
Miguel Ruiz‐Canela Spain	44	3.7k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	927 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	605 0.7×	197	7.1k
James M. Shikany United States	62	4.5k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	308	11.5k
María Isabel Covas Spain	37	2.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	751 0.8×	725 0.8×	62	6.2k
Xavier Pintó Spain	45	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	843 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	336	9.8k
Miquel Fiol Spain	55	5.4k 1.4×	3.6k 1.4×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	211	11.1k
Susan E. Steck United States	49	5.5k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	400 0.4×	188	10.0k
Li‐Qiang Qin China	49	2.1k 0.5×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	837 0.9×	258	8.0k
Fernando Arós Spain	58	4.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.4×	2.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	173	10.7k

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Lassale, Camille, Olga Castañer, Ramón Estruch, et al.. (2025). Adherence to a Mediterranean diet and leisure-time physical activity are associated with reduced initiation of antidepressant, anxiolytic, antipsychotic and antiseizure drug use in older adults: a cohort study. Age and Ageing. 54(4).

Pérez‐Vega, Karla Alejandra, Indira Paz‐Graniel, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, et al.. (2024). Mediterranean Diet Modulation of Neuroinflammation-Related Genes in Elderly Adults at High Cardiovascular Risk. Nutrients. 16(18). 3147–3147. 4 indexed citations

Domínguez‐López, Inés, Anna Tresserra‐Rimbau, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, et al.. (2021). Urinary Tartaric Acid, a Biomarker of Wine Intake, Correlates with Lower Total and LDL Cholesterol. Nutrients. 13(8). 2883–2883. 15 indexed citations

Lassale, Camille, Álvaro Hernáez, Estefanía Toledo, et al.. (2021). Energy Balance and Risk of Mortality in Spanish Older Adults. Nutrients. 13(5). 1545–1545. 4 indexed citations

Castro‐Barquero, Sara, Camille Lassale, Emilio Sacanella, et al.. (2021). Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity Decrease the Initiation of Cardiovascular Drug Use in High Cardiovascular Risk Individuals: A Cohort Study. Antioxidants. 10(3). 397–397. 4 indexed citations

Barrubés, Laura, Nancy Babió, Pablo Hernández‐Alonso, et al.. (2020). Association between the 2018 WCRF/AICR and the Low-Risk Lifestyle Scores with Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Predimed Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(4). 1215–1215. 24 indexed citations

Konieczna, Jadwiga, Dora Romaguera, Miquel Fiol, et al.. (2019). Longitudinal association of changes in diet with changes in body weight and waist circumference in subjects at high cardiovascular risk: the PREDIMED trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 16(1). 139–139. 30 indexed citations

Díez‐Espino, Javier, Pilar Buil‐Cosiales, Nancy Babió, et al.. (2019). Impact of Life's Simple 7 on the incidence of major cardiovascular events in high-risk Spanish adults in the PREDIMED study cohort. Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition). 73(3). 205–211. 13 indexed citations

Chaffin, Mark, Liu Cao, Amy Deik, et al.. (2018). MetProc: Separating Measurement Artifacts from True Metabolites in an Untargeted Metabolomics Experiment. Journal of Proteome Research. 18(3). 1446–1450. 4 indexed citations

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Casas, Rosa, Mireia Urpí-Sardà, Emilio Sacanella, et al.. (2017). Anti-Inflammatory Effects of the Mediterranean Diet in the Early and Late Stages of Atheroma Plaque Development. Mediators of Inflammation. 2017. 1–12. 81 indexed citations

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Guasch‐Ferré, Marta, Nerea Becerra‐Tomás, Miguel Ruiz‐Canela, et al.. (2017). Total and subtypes of dietary fat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMED) study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 105(3). 723–735. 87 indexed citations

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Guasch‐Ferré, Marta, Jordi Salas‐Salvadó, Emilio Ros, et al.. (2017). The PREDIMED trial, Mediterranean diet and health outcomes: How strong is the evidence?. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 27(7). 624–632. 87 indexed citations

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Corella, Dolores, Eva M. Asensio, Óscar Coltell, et al.. (2016). CLOCK gene variation is associated with incidence of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in type-2 diabetic subjects: dietary modulation in the PREDIMED randomized trial. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 15(1). 4–4. 113 indexed citations

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García-Calzón, Sonia, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, Cristina Razquín, et al.. (2016). Mediterranean diet and telomere length in high cardiovascular risk subjects from the PREDIMED-NAVARRA study. Clinical Nutrition. 35(6). 1399–1405. 69 indexed citations

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Guasch‐Ferré, Marta, Yan Zheng, Miguel Ruiz‐Canela, et al.. (2016). Plasma acylcarnitines and risk of cardiovascular disease: effect of Mediterranean diet interventions. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 103(6). 1408–1416. 120 indexed citations

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Castellano, José M., et al.. (2016). Free radical scavenging and α-glucosidase inhibition, two potential mechanisms involved in the anti-diabetic activity of oleanolic acid. Grasas y Aceites. 67(3). e142–e142. 20 indexed citations

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Babió, Nancy, Nerea Becerra‐Tomás, Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González, et al.. (2015). Consumption of Yogurt, Low-Fat Milk, and Other Low-Fat Dairy Products Is Associated with Lower Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Incidence in an Elderly Mediterranean Population. Journal of Nutrition. 145(10). 2308–2316. 105 indexed citations

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Toledo, Estefanía, Frank B. Hu, Ramón Estruch, et al.. (2013). Effect of the Mediterranean diet on blood pressure in the PREDIMED trial: results from a randomized controlled trial. BMC Medicine. 11(1). 207–207. 213 indexed citations

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Tresserra‐Rimbau, Anna, Alexander Medina‐Remón, Jara Pérez‐Jiménez, et al.. (2013). Dietary intake and major food sources of polyphenols in a Spanish population at high cardiovascular risk: The PREDIMED study. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 23(10). 953–959. 196 indexed citations

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Guasch‐Ferré, Marta, Mònica Bulló, Ramón Estruch, et al.. (2013). Dietary Magnesium Intake Is Inversely Associated with Mortality in Adults at High Cardiovascular Disease Risk. Journal of Nutrition. 144(1). 55–60. 58 indexed citations

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