José Maia

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
380 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

José Maia is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Maia has authored 380 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 228 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 185 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 95 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in José Maia's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (219 papers), Children's Physical and Motor Development (171 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (65 papers). José Maia is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (219 papers), Children's Physical and Motor Development (171 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (65 papers). José Maia collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Brazil. José Maia's co-authors include Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Vítor P. Lopes, André Seabra, Robert M. Malina, Martine Thomis, Luís Paulo Rodrigues, Gastón Beunen, Jean‐Philippe Chaput, Martyn Standage and Olga L. Sarmiento and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

José Maia

354 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Compositional data analysis for physical activity, sedentary time and sleep research

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Maia Portugal	43	3.6k	2.9k	1.7k	1.1k	986	380	6.9k
Susi Kriemler Switzerland	51	3.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	943 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	229	8.6k
Gareth Stratton United Kingdom	49	4.5k 1.3×	4.0k 1.3×	3.2k 1.9×	764 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	258	8.8k
James M. Pivarnik United States	40	3.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	884 0.9×	161	8.2k
Joey C. Eisenmann United States	55	5.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.9×	160	9.0k
Johan Lefevre Belgium	51	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.7×	729 0.7×	181	6.9k
José Castro‐Piñero Spain	35	3.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	994 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	177	6.3k
Karin A. Pfeiffer United States	43	5.5k 1.5×	4.4k 1.5×	3.4k 2.0×	476 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	284	9.8k
Germán Vicente‐Rodríguez Spain	53	4.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	3.9k 2.3×	2.8k 2.5×	1.5k 1.6×	278	9.7k
Jordan Smith Australia	34	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	500 0.5×	802 0.8×	118	5.4k
Alexander Wöll Germany	39	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	2.2k 1.3×	721 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	325	6.6k

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Pereira, Sara, José Maia, Olga Vasconcelos, et al.. (2024). Children’s Individual Differences in the Responses to a New Method for Physical Education. Sports. 12(12). 328–328.

Maia, José, Donald Hedeker, Tiago V. Barreira, et al.. (2024). Associations of obesity, movement behaviors, and socioeconomic status with fundamental movement skills in children: Results from the REACT project. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24108–e24108. 6 indexed citations

Pereira, Sara, Olga Vasconcelos, Go Tani, et al.. (2023). Secular Trends in Physical Fitness of Peruvian Children Living at High-Altitude. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3236–3236. 1 indexed citations

Hedeker, Donald, Sara Pereira, Tiago V. Barreira, et al.. (2023). Statistical analysis of the longitudinal fundamental movement skills data in the REACT project using the multilevel ordinal logistic model. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24015–e24015. 1 indexed citations

Guimarães, Eduardo, Adam Baxter‐Jones, Sara Pereira, et al.. (2020). Patterns of physical performance spurts during adolescence: a cross-cultural study of Canadian, Brazilian and Portuguese boys. Annals of Human Biology. 47(4). 346–354. 8 indexed citations

Chaves, Raquel Nichele de, Adam Baxter‐Jones, Olga Vasconcelos, et al.. (2019). Modelling the dynamics of children’s gross motor coordination. Journal of Sports Sciences. 37(19). 2243–2252. 23 indexed citations

Katzmarzyk, Peter T., Jean‐Philippe Chaput, Mikael Fogelholm, et al.. (2019). International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic. Nutrients. 11(4). 848–848. 52 indexed citations

Santos, Marcos André Moura dos, Alan Nevill, Sara Pereira, et al.. (2018). Modeling children's development in gross motor coordination reveals key modifiable determinants. An allometric approach. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(5). 1594–1603. 33 indexed citations

Gouveia, Élvio Rúbio, Bruna R. Gouveia, Andreas Ihle, et al.. (2017). Correlates of health-related quality of life in young-old and old–old community-dwelling older adults. Quality of Life Research. 26(6). 1561–1569. 51 indexed citations

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Gomes, Thayse Natacha, et al.. (2014). “Fat-But-Active”: Does Physical Activity Play a Significant Role in Metabolic Syndrome Risk among Children of Different BMI Categories?. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism. 5(8). 1 indexed citations

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Seabra, André, et al.. (2012). Growth reference charts of six to 10 year old children from the Maia County, Portugal. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1 indexed citations

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Garganta, Júlio, et al.. (2011). System of tactical assessment in Soccer (FUT-SAT): Development and preliminary validation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 66 indexed citations

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Maia, José, et al.. (2010). EDUCAÇÃO PERMANENTE NA ATENÇÃO À SAÚDE DE IDOSOS*. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Maia, José, et al.. (2007). Factores genéticos e ambientais nos níveis e padrões de actividade física. Um estudo em gémeos. Biblioteca Digital do IPB (Instituto Politecnico De Braganca). 1 indexed citations

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Maia, José, et al.. (2007). Efeitos da idade, do sexo e da área geográfica no crescimento somático e aptidão física nas crianças e jovens rurais de Calanga, Moçambique. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1 indexed citations

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Bustamante, Alcibíades, André Seabra, Rui Garganta, & José Maia. (2007). Efectos de la actividad física y del nivel socioeconómico en el sobrepeso y obesidad de escolares, Lima Este 2005. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Lopes, Vítor P., et al.. (2005). Estabilidade e mudança nos níveis de actividade física. Uma revisão da literatura baseada na noção e valores do tracking. Biblioteca Digital do IPB (Instituto Politecnico De Braganca). 2 indexed citations

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Maia, José, et al.. (2004). Corpo, maturação biológica e actividade física: um olhar interactivo em crianças e jovens madeirenses. Biblioteca Digital do IPB (Instituto Politecnico De Braganca). 1 indexed citations

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Maia, José, et al.. (2004). Influence of demographic-biological and social-cultural determinants in the levels of physical activity in children and youngsters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Lopes, Vítor P. & José Maia. (2000). Critical or sensitive periods: revisiting a polemic them e in the light of the empiric investigation. Revista Paulista de Educação Física. 14(2). 128–140. 1 indexed citations

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