Kristine Yaffe

116.9k citations

853 papers · 64.6k indexed · 28 hit papers · h-index 132

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.01%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Geriatrics and Gerontology top 0.02%
- Frailty in Older Adults

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 311
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 280
Geriatrics and Gerontology 66

Co-authors: Deborah E. Barnes Amy L. Byers Eleanor M. Simonsick Kenneth E. Covinsky Katie L. Stone Suzanne Satterfield Anne B. Newman Jane A. Cauley
Journals: Alzheimer s & Dementia (106 papers)Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (76 papers)Neurology (75 papers)The Journals of Gerontology Series A (62 papers)American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (33 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Kristine Yaffe

812 papers receiving 62.8k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Association of Race and Ethnicity With Incidence of Dementia Among Older Adults 2022 · 131 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 JAMA
2022 JAMA Neurology
2021 JAMA Network Open
2021 Journal of Neurotrauma
2019 The Lancet Neurology
2018 JAMA Neurology
2016 Nature Reviews Disease Primers
2016 Hypertension
2016 The Journals of Gerontology Series A
2015 Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
2014 JAMA Neurology
2014 International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
2014 The Lancet Neurology
2014 The Lancet Neurology
2013 eScholarship (California Digital Library)
2011 The Lancet Neurology
2011 Nature Reviews Neurology
2011 JAMA
2009 New England Journal of Medicine
2009 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
2005 Neurology
2005 BMJ
2005 JAMA
2004 JAMA
2003 Neurology
2002 JAMA
2001 Archives of Internal Medicine
1998 JAMA

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kristine Yaffe, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Metabolomic biomarkers of rest-activity rhythms in older women: results from the Women’s Health Initiative study SLEEP ·Lingxiao Zhang, Chris Ho Ching Yeung, Kyoung A Lee, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Katie L. Stone, Kristine Yaffe, Kathleen M. Hayden, Ramon Casanova, Stephen R. Rapp, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Laura D. Baker, JoAnn E Manson, Yuan Huang, Qian Xiao	2025	1
2	Genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease predicts brain volume differences in mid and late life in UK biobank participants Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Peter Buto, Jingxuan Wang, Renaud La Joie, Scott C. Zimmerman, M. Maria Glymour, Sarah F. Ackley, Thomas J. Hoffmann, Kristine Yaffe, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Willa D. Brenowitz	2024	6
3	Development and validation of the Michigan Chronic Disease Simulation Model (MICROSIM) PLoS ONE ·James Burke, Luciana L. Copeland, Jeremy B. Sussman, Rodney A. Hayward, Alden L. Gross, Emily M. Briceño, Rachael T. Whitney, Bruno Giordani, Mitchell S.V. Elkind, Jennifer J. Manly, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Darrell J. Gaskin, Stephen Sidney, Kristine Yaffe, Ralph L. Sacco, Susan R. Heckbert, Timothy M. Hughes, Andrzej T. Gałecki, Deborah A. Levine	2024	2
4	Trajectories in depressive symptoms and midlife brain health Translational Psychiatry ·Christina S. Dintica, Mohamad Habes, Pamela J. Schreiner, Lenore J. Launer, Kristine Yaffe	2024	2
5	Association of Changes in C-Reactive Protein Level Trajectories Through Early Adulthood With Cognitive Function at Midlife Neurology ·Amber L. Bahorik, Tina Hoang, David R. Jacobs, Deborah A. Levine, Kristine Yaffe	2024	4
6	Dementia risk scores, apolipoprotein E, and risk of Alzheimer's disease: One size does not fit all Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Shea J. Andrews, Ana I Boeriu, Michaël E. Belloy, Alan E. Renton, Brian Fulton‐Howard, Willa D. Brenowitz, Kristine Yaffe, (unknown)	2024	2
7	1033 Association of the Cardiopulmonary Coupling Sleep Spectrogram with Incident Parkinson’s Disease in Older Men SLEEP ·Sasha Milton, Haoqi Sun, Katie L. Stone, Kristine Yaffe, M. Brandon Westover, Robert J. Thomas, Yue Leng	2024	1
8	The Drug Burden Index Is Associated With Measures of Cognitive Function Among Older Adults in the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Janie DiNatale, Ian M. McDonough, Amy Ellis, Joy W. Douglas, Kristine Yaffe, Kristi Crowe‐White	2024	2
9	Intimate Partner Violence, Mental Health, and Aging-Related Health Among Men and Women Veterans Across the Lifespan Journal of General Internal Medicine ·Carolyn J. Gibson, Amber L. Bahorik, Feng Xia, Carrie Peltz, Kristine Yaffe	2023	5
10	Music Engagement as Part of Everyday Life in Dementia Caregiving Relationships at Home The Gerontologist ·Theresa A. Allison, Jennie Gubner, Krista L. Harrison, Alexander K. Smith, Deborah E. Barnes, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Kristine Yaffe, Julene K. Johnson	2023	2
11	Contribution of life course cardiovascular risk factors to racial disparities in dementia incidence PubMed ·Erin L. Ferguson, Eric Vittinghoff, Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, Norrina B. Allen, Annette L. Fitzpatrick, Kristine Yaffe	2023	2
12	Genome-wide DNA methylation association study of recent and cumulative marijuana use in middle aged adults Molecular Psychiatry ·Drew R. Nannini, Yinan Zheng, Brian Joyce, Kyeezu Kim, Tao Gao, Jun Wang, David R. Jacobs, Pamela J. Schreiner, Kristine Yaffe, Philip Greenland, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones, Lifang Hou	2023	11
13	Cognitive and Functional Trajectories in Older Adults With Prediagnostic Parkinson Disease Neurology ·Meredith Bock, Eric Vittinghoff, Amber L. Bahorik, Yue Leng, Howard A Fink, Kristine Yaffe	2022	7
14	Extension of Mendelian Randomization to Identify Earliest Manifestations of Alzheimer Disease: Association of Genetic Risk Score for Alzheimer Disease With Lower Body Mass Index by Age 50 Years American Journal of Epidemiology ·Willa D. Brenowitz, Scott C. Zimmerman, Teresa Filshtein, Kristine Yaffe, Stefan Walter, Thomas J. Hoffmann, Eric Jorgenson, Rachel A. Whitmer, M. Maria Glymour	2021	17
15	Association of genetic risk for Alzheimer disease and hearing impairment Neurology ·Willa D. Brenowitz, Teresa Filshtein, Kristine Yaffe, Stefan Walter, Sarah F. Ackley, Thomas J. Hoffmann, Eric Jorgenson, Rachel A. Whitmer, M. Maria Glymour	2020	28
16	Olfaction as a Marker of Cognitive Impairment in Older Veterans Military Behavioral Health ·Daniel Freimer, Carrie Peltz, Allison R. Kaup, Feng Xia, Kristine Yaffe	2019	1
17	Subjective and objective cognitive function among older adults with a history of traumatic brain injury: A population-based cohort study PLoS Medicine ·Raquel C. Gardner, Kenneth M. Langa, Kristine Yaffe	2017	42
18	Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Frank R. Lin, Kristine Yaffe, Jin Xia, Qian‐Li Xue, Tamara B. Harris, Elizabeth Purchase-Helzner, Suzanne Satterfield, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Luigi Ferrucci, Eleanor M. Simonsick, for the Health ABC Study Group Hit paper breakdown →	2013	1219
19	The epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: Laying the foundation for drug design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials Alzheimer s & Dementia ·Kristine Yaffe, Michael Tocco, Ronald C. Petersen, Catherine Sigler, Leah Burns, Christel Cornelius, Ara S. Khachaturian, Michael C. Irizarry, María C. Carrillo	2012	19
20	Use of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Sleep Disturbances in Community‐Dwelling Older Women Journal of the American Geriatrics Society ·Kristine E. Ensrud, Terri Blackwell, Sonia Ancoli‐Israel, Susan Redline, Kristine Yaffe, Susan J. Diem, David M. Claman, Katie L. Stone	2006	23

About Kristine Yaffe

Kristine Yaffe is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Health and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 853 papers that have together received 64.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (280 papers), Sleep and related disorders (80 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (75 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (72 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (66 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury Research (55 papers), Sleep and Wakefulness Research (55 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (52 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (20.0k citations), Geriatrics and Gerontology (3.9k citations), Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (1.3k citations), Biological Psychiatry (2.0k citations) and Neurology (5.3k citations). Kristine Yaffe has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Deborah E. Barnes, Amy L. Byers, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Katie L. Stone, Suzanne Satterfield, Anne B. Newman, Jane A. Cauley, Terri Blackwell and Kristine E. Ensrud. Their work appears in journals such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Neurology, The Journals of Gerontology Series A and American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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