Karina Friis

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Karina Friis is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karina Friis has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Health and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Karina Friis's work include Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (11 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (8 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (6 papers). Karina Friis is often cited by papers focused on Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (11 papers), Mobile Health and mHealth Applications (8 papers) and Chronic Disease Management Strategies (6 papers). Karina Friis collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Australia. Karina Friis's co-authors include Mathias Lasgaard, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Richard H. Osborne, Gill Rowlands, Anna Aaby, Mark Shevlin, Finn Breinholt Larsen, Bo Christensen, Morten Grønbæk and Anne Bo and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PLoS Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Karina Friis

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Health literacy is associated with health behaviour and self-reported health: A large population-based study in individuals with cardiovascular disease

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karina Friis Denmark	20	964	456	364	219	205	40	1.8k
Samuel D. Towne United States	25	570 0.6×	346 0.8×	294 0.8×	296 1.4×	111 0.5×	95	1.6k
Robert L. Ferrer United States	22	1.1k 1.1×	362 0.8×	380 1.0×	331 1.5×	230 1.1×	72	2.2k
SangNam Ahn United States	21	713 0.7×	246 0.5×	409 1.1×	210 1.0×	120 0.6×	82	1.5k
Sandra K. Burge United States	23	780 0.8×	667 1.5×	266 0.7×	293 1.3×	489 2.4×	96	1.9k
Kalpa Kharicha United Kingdom	25	828 0.9×	616 1.4×	216 0.6×	238 1.1×	176 0.9×	67	2.0k
Lou Grothaus United States	27	860 0.9×	355 0.8×	480 1.3×	495 2.3×	133 0.6×	50	2.5k
Siobhán Reilly United Kingdom	23	858 0.9×	148 0.3×	338 0.9×	286 1.3×	233 1.1×	82	1.7k
Enriqueta Pujol‐Ribera Spain	19	525 0.5×	176 0.4×	349 1.0×	202 0.9×	243 1.2×	64	1.3k
Lei Jin Hong Kong	23	868 0.9×	234 0.5×	424 1.2×	249 1.1×	151 0.7×	55	2.0k

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Friis, Karina, et al.. (2025). Loneliness is associated with adverse health behaviour and obesity: a Danish population-based study of 122,258 individuals. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 375–375. 2 indexed citations

Vestergaard, Claus Høstrup, Susan M. Smith, Karina Friis, et al.. (2024). Economic, cultural, and social inequalities in potentially inappropriate medication: A nationwide survey- and register-based study in Denmark. PLoS Medicine. 21(11). e1004473–e1004473.

Christiansen, J. A., et al.. (2024). Social Disconnectedness in Individuals with Cardiovascular Disease: Associations with Health Literacy and Treatment Burden. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 31(3). 363–371. 4 indexed citations

Sørensen, Jes Bak, et al.. (2023). Geographical inequality in health: results from a population-based health survey. European Journal of Public Health. 33(Supplement_2).

Aaby, Anna, et al.. (2021). Multimorbidity and health literacy: A population-based survey among 28,627 Danish adults. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 51(2). 165–172. 19 indexed citations

Friis, Karina, Yoav Ben‐Shlomo, April Hartley, et al.. (2021). Socio-economic inequalities in fragility fracture incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 61 observational studies. Osteoporosis International. 32(12). 2433–2448. 25 indexed citations

Aaby, Anna, Karina Friis, Bo Christensen, & Helle Terkildsen Maindal. (2020). Health Literacy among People in Cardiac Rehabilitation: Associations with Participation and Health-Related Quality of Life in the Heart Skills Study in Denmark. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(2). 443–443. 13 indexed citations

Friis, Karina, et al.. (2020). Low Health Literacy and Mortality in Individuals with Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, and Mental Illness: A 6-Year Population-Based Follow-Up Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(24). 9399–9399. 20 indexed citations

Friis, Karina, et al.. (2020). Impact of low health literacy on healthcare utilization in individuals with cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes and mental disorders. A Danish population-based 4-year follow-up study. European Journal of Public Health. 30(5). 866–872. 18 indexed citations

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Christensen, Robin, et al.. (2019). Socio-economic inequalities in fragility fracture outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic observational studies. Osteoporosis International. 31(1). 31–42. 22 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, Finn Breinholt Larsen, Claus Vinther Nielsen, Anne‐Mette Hedeager Momsen, & Christina Malmose Stapelfeldt. (2018). Social inequality in cancer survivors’ health behaviours-A Danish population-based study. European Journal of Cancer Care. 27(3). e12840–e12840. 13 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, Finn Breinholt Larsen, & Mathias Lasgaard. (2017). Physical violence at work predicts health-related absence from the labor market: A 10-year population-based follow-up study.. Psychology of Violence. 8(4). 484–494. 24 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, Mathias Lasgaard, Richard H. Osborne, & Helle Terkildsen Maindal. (2016). Gaps in understanding health and engagement with healthcare providers across common long-term conditions: a population survey of health literacy in 29 473 Danish citizens. BMJ Open. 6(1). e009627–e009627. 139 indexed citations

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Lasgaard, Mathias, Karina Friis, & Mark Shevlin. (2016). “Where are all the lonely people?” A population-based study of high-risk groups across the life span. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 51(10). 1373–1384. 181 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, et al.. (2016). A National Population Study of the Co-Occurrence of Multiple Long-Term Conditions in People With Multimorbidity, Denmark, 2013. Preventing Chronic Disease. 13. E12–E12. 12 indexed citations

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Larsen, Finn Breinholt, Karina Friis, Mathias Lasgaard, et al.. (2014). Hvordan har du det? 2013. Sundhedsprofil for region og kommuner: Bind 1. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 9 indexed citations

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Bo, Anne, Karina Friis, Richard H. Osborne, & Helle Terkildsen Maindal. (2014). National indicators of health literacy: ability to understand health information and to engage actively with healthcare providers - a population-based survey among Danish adults. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1095–1095. 152 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, Ola Ekholm, & Zorana Jovanovic Andersen. (2008). The relationship between lifestyle, working environment, socio‐demographic factors and expulsion from the labour market due to disability pension among nurses. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 22(2). 241–248. 36 indexed citations

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Johansen, Ditte, et al.. (2006). Food buying habits of people who buy wine or beer: cross sectional study. BMJ. 332(7540). 519–522. 95 indexed citations

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Friis, Karina, et al.. (2005). Comparison of lifestyle and health among Danish nurses and the Danish female population: is it possible to generalize findings from nurses to the general female population?. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 19(4). 361–367. 16 indexed citations

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