Kenneth Rockwood

109.6k total citations · 22 hit papers
665 papers, 61.1k citations indexed

About

Kenneth Rockwood is a scholar working on Geriatrics and Gerontology, Physiology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth Rockwood has authored 665 papers receiving a total of 61.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 334 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology, 246 papers in Physiology and 205 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Kenneth Rockwood's work include Frailty in Older Adults (328 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (202 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (202 papers). Kenneth Rockwood is often cited by papers focused on Frailty in Older Adults (328 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (202 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (202 papers). Kenneth Rockwood collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Kenneth Rockwood's co-authors include Arnold Mitnitski, Andrew Clegg, Olga Theou, John Young, Steve Iliffe, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, Xiaowei Song, Arnold B. Mitnitski, Alexander Mogilner and Chris MacKnight and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth Rockwood

643 papers receiving 59.4k citations

Hit Papers

Frailty in elderly people 1997 2026 2006 2016 2013 2005 2008 2001 2007 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. Frailty in elderly people
    2013 6.3k citations Andrew Clegg, Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  2. A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people
    2005 5.7k citations Kenneth Rockwood Canadian Medical Association Journal profile →
  3. A standard procedure for creating a frailty index
    2008 2.4k citations Samuel D. Searle, Arnold Mitnitski et al. BMC Geriatrics profile →
  4. Accumulation of Deficits as a Proxy Measure of Aging
    2001 2.0k citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  5. Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits
    2007 2.0k citations Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski profile →
  6. Physical Activity and Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Elderly Persons
    2001 1.1k citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  7. Validity and reliability of the Edmonton Frail Scale
    2006 1.1k citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. Age and Ageing profile →
  8. Vascular cognitive impairment
    2003 857 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  9. Prevalence and 10‐Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation
    2010 792 citations Xiaowei Song, Arnold Mitnitski et al. profile →
  10. Prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment with and without dementia in an elderly population
    1997 773 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  11. Frailty Defined by Deficit Accumulation and Geriatric Medicine Defined by Frailty
    2010 706 citations Kenneth Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski profile →
  12. Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies
    2020 621 citations Rónán Ó’Caoimh, Duygu Sezgin et al. Age and Ageing profile →
  13. Frailty, fitness and late-life mortality in relation to chronological and biological age
    2002 544 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. BMC Geriatrics profile →
  14. Diagnostic Criteria for Vascular Cognitive Disorders
    2014 543 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  15. Operationalization of Frailty Using Eight Commonly Used Scales and Comparison of Their Ability to Predict All‐Cause Mortality
    2013 486 citations Olga Theou, Arnold Mitnitski et al. profile →
  16. A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale
    2020 471 citations Kenneth Rockwood, Olga Theou et al. BMC Geriatrics profile →
  17. The impact of frailty on intensive care unit outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
    2017 471 citations John Muscedere, Sean M. Bagshaw et al. Intensive Care Medicine profile →
  18. Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources
    2020 460 citations Kenneth Rockwood, Olga Theou profile →
  19. Vascular Cognitive Impairment
    2014 438 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  20. Measuring Frailty in Medicare Data: Development and Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index
    2017 426 citations Kenneth Rockwood et al. profile →
  21. The degree of frailty as a translational measure of health in aging
    2021 182 citations Susan E. Howlett, Andrew D. Rutenberg et al. profile →
  22. Relationship of body mass index with frailty and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults
    2022 116 citations Olga Theou, Judith Godin 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
Kenneth Rockwood Canada 104 34.0k 25.0k 15.8k 10.6k 8.6k 665 61.1k
Linda P. Fried United States 111 28.1k 0.8× 26.8k 1.1× 11.9k 0.8× 8.1k 0.8× 8.2k 1.0× 424 72.2k
Jack M. Guralnik United States 148 20.1k 0.6× 33.5k 1.3× 6.7k 0.4× 13.5k 1.3× 8.7k 1.0× 768 91.7k
Jeremy Walston United States 82 24.3k 0.7× 22.8k 0.9× 9.5k 0.6× 3.4k 0.3× 4.0k 0.5× 331 45.4k
Anne B. Newman United States 156 22.8k 0.7× 48.2k 1.9× 8.2k 0.5× 12.0k 1.1× 6.5k 0.8× 983 114.9k
Bruno Vellas France 97 14.7k 0.4× 26.3k 1.1× 5.4k 0.3× 14.1k 1.3× 4.7k 0.5× 704 50.0k
Matteo Cesari Italy 92 14.8k 0.4× 20.3k 0.8× 5.2k 0.3× 5.9k 0.6× 3.1k 0.4× 555 39.4k
Roberto Bernabei Italy 90 12.4k 0.4× 12.5k 0.5× 4.3k 0.3× 5.3k 0.5× 5.1k 0.6× 516 35.8k
Gregory L. Burke United States 102 11.3k 0.3× 13.6k 0.5× 5.2k 0.3× 3.3k 0.3× 3.3k 0.4× 347 57.6k
Graziano Onder Italy 82 11.0k 0.3× 9.1k 0.4× 4.7k 0.3× 4.0k 0.4× 4.1k 0.5× 464 29.3k
Thomas M. Gill United States 83 9.4k 0.3× 7.4k 0.3× 3.9k 0.2× 3.5k 0.3× 4.6k 0.5× 434 26.5k

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All Works

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Chen, Linan, Nicole Ee, Kenneth Rockwood, et al.. (2025). Impact of Frailty on Antihypertensive Treatment in Older Adults. Hypertension. 82(3). 509–519. 2 indexed citations
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Fürtjes, Anna E., Donncha S. Mullin, John D. Fisk, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the multivariate genetic architecture of frailty with genomic structural equation modeling. Nature Genetics. 57(8). 1848–1859.
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Lewis, Ebony, Gail Kenning, Adrienne Withall, et al.. (2024). Looking out across the front yard: aboriginal peoples’ views of frailty in the community – A qualitative study. Ethnicity and Health. 29(8). 987–1007.
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Rockwood, Kenneth, et al.. (2024). A systematic review of goal attainment scaling implementation practices by caregivers in randomized controlled trials. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 8(1). 37–37. 3 indexed citations
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Canevelli, Marco, Lindsay Wallace, Giuseppe Bruno, et al.. (2023). Frailty is associated with the clinical expression of neuropsychological deficits in older adults. European Journal of Neurology. 31(1). e16072–e16072. 9 indexed citations
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Borda, Miguel Germán, Mario Ulises Pérez‐Zepeda, К. Ray Chaudhuri, et al.. (2022). Frailty in Parkinson's disease and its association with early dementia: A longitudinal study. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 99. 51–57. 14 indexed citations
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Wallace, Lindsay, Olga Theou, Judith Godin, et al.. (2021). 10‐year frailty trajectory is associated with Alzheimer’s dementia after considering neuropathological burden. Aging Medicine. 4(4). 250–256. 20 indexed citations
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Pérez‐Zepeda, Mario Ulises, Judith Godin, Joshua Armstrong, et al.. (2020). Frailty among middle-aged and older Canadians: population norms for the frailty index using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. Age and Ageing. 50(2). 447–456. 47 indexed citations
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Ó’Caoimh, Rónán, Duygu Sezgin, Mark O’Donovan, et al.. (2020). Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies. Age and Ageing. 50(1). 96–104. 621 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rockwood, Kenneth, et al.. (2020). A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale. BMC Geriatrics. 20(1). 393–393. 471 indexed citations breakdown →
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Seeley, Anna, Terry Quinn, Najma Siddiqi, et al.. (2020). The consistent burden in published estimates of delirium occurrence in medical inpatients over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis study. Age and Ageing. 49(3). 352–360. 153 indexed citations
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Rockwood, Kenneth, Lindsay Wallace, & Daniel Davis. (2019). Genetic predisposition and modifiable risks for late-life dementia. Nature Medicine. 25(9). 1331–1332. 7 indexed citations
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Heyland, Daren K., Allan Garland, Sean M. Bagshaw, et al.. (2015). Recovery after critical illness in patients aged 80 years or older: a multi-center prospective observational cohort study. Intensive Care Medicine. 41(11). 1911–1920. 152 indexed citations
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Mitnitski, Arnold, Xiaowei Song, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2013). Assessing biological aging: the origin of deficit accumulation. Biogerontology. 14(6). 709–717. 146 indexed citations
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Theou, Olga, Michael R.H. Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2012). Disability and co-morbidity in relation to frailty: How much do they overlap?. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 55(2). e1–e8. 167 indexed citations
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Searle, Samuel D., Arnold Mitnitski, Evelyne A. Gahbauer, Thomas M. Gill, & Kenneth Rockwood. (2008). A standard procedure for creating a frailty index. BMC Geriatrics. 8(1). 24–24. 2435 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rockwood, Kenneth. (2005). A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 173(5). 489–495. 5694 indexed citations breakdown →

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