Lars Bäckman

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 835 citations indexed

About

Lars Bäckman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Bäckman has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 835 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 6 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 2 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Lars Bäckman's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (3 papers). Lars Bäckman is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (3 papers). Lars Bäckman collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United Kingdom. Lars Bäckman's co-authors include Lars Nyberg, Anna Stigsdotter Neely, Anne Larsson, Johan Sandblom, Linda B. Hassing, Stuart MacDonald, Håkan Fischer, Sari Jones, Erika J. Laukka and Laura Fratiglioni and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Stroke and Cerebral Cortex.

In The Last Decade

Lars Bäckman

12 papers receiving 805 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transfer of Learning After Updating Training Mediated by the Striatum

2008 675 citations Anna Stigsdotter Neely, Anne Larsson et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Bäckman Sweden	6	510	354	170	137	54	13	835
Huixia Zhou China	12	500 1.0×	301 0.9×	178 1.0×	128 0.9×	81 1.5×	49	845
Jessica Paxton United States	12	928 1.8×	380 1.1×	186 1.1×	139 1.0×	46 0.9×	21	1.2k
Christian Chicherio Switzerland	19	667 1.3×	204 0.6×	305 1.8×	97 0.7×	69 1.3×	32	1.1k
Christine Lowe United Kingdom	14	618 1.2×	298 0.8×	325 1.9×	111 0.8×	44 0.8×	18	1.1k
Petter Marklund Sweden	13	573 1.1×	147 0.4×	139 0.8×	99 0.7×	54 1.0×	16	863
Mads L. Pedersen Norway	15	479 0.9×	192 0.5×	220 1.3×	65 0.5×	50 0.9×	26	771
Alice Parr United Kingdom	8	639 1.3×	241 0.7×	200 1.2×	87 0.6×	41 0.8×	8	884
Chobok Kim South Korea	13	920 1.8×	222 0.6×	180 1.1×	199 1.5×	140 2.6×	32	1.2k
Giovanni Mento Italy	20	674 1.3×	193 0.5×	122 0.7×	139 1.0×	20 0.4×	66	1.0k
Timothy K. Miura United States	3	431 0.8×	287 0.8×	87 0.5×	109 0.8×	23 0.4×	4	690

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Bäckman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Bäckman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Bäckman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lars Bäckman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lars Bäckman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lars Bäckman. Lars Bäckman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Papenberg, Goran, Nina Karalija, Alireza Salami, et al.. (2025). Aging-related losses in dopamine D2/3 receptor availability are linked to working-memory decline across five years. Cerebral Cortex. 35(2). 2 indexed citations

Korkki, Saana M., et al.. (2025). Dedifferentiation of caudate functional organization is linked to reduced D1 dopamine receptor availability and poorer memory function in aging. Imaging Neuroscience. 3. 3 indexed citations

Lundgren, Erik, Ulman Lindenberger, Martin Lövdén, et al.. (2025). 10-year longitudinal dopamine D2-receptor losses are associated with cognitive decline in healthy aging. Cerebral Cortex. 35(11).

Eklund, Anders, Nina Karalija, Britt M. Andersson, et al.. (2025). Respiratory influence on cerebral blood flow and blood volume – A 4D flow MRI study. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism. 45(8). 1531–1542. 2 indexed citations

Marseglia, Anna, Laura Fratiglioni, Grégoria Kalpouzos, et al.. (2018). P2‐588: PREDIABETES AND DIABETES ACCELERATE COGNITIVE DECLINE AND PREDICT MICROVASCULAR LESIONS. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 14(7S_Part_17). 1 indexed citations

Kalpouzos, Grégoria, Benjamín Garzón, Rouslan Sitnikov, et al.. (2017). Higher Striatal Iron Concentration is Linked to Frontostriatal Underactivation and Poorer Memory in Normal Aging. Cerebral Cortex. 27(6). 3427–3436. 32 indexed citations

Bäckman, Lars. (2009). Cognition in Preclinical Dementia: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects. Acta Psychologica Sinica. 41(11). 1040–1048. 3 indexed citations

MacDonald, Stuart, Lars Nyberg, Johan Sandblom, Håkan Fischer, & Lars Bäckman. (2008). Increased Response-time Variability is Associated with Reduced Inferior Parietal Activation during Episodic Recognition in Aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 20(5). 779–786. 54 indexed citations

Neely, Anna Stigsdotter, et al.. (2008). Transfer of Learning After Updating Training Mediated by the Striatum. Science. 320(5882). 1510–1512. 675 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laukka, Erika J., Sari Jones, Laura Fratiglioni, & Lars Bäckman. (2004). Cognitive Functioning in Preclinical Vascular Dementia. Stroke. 35(8). 1805–1809. 23 indexed citations

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Wåhlin, Åke, Scott B. Maitland, Lars Bäckman, & Roger A. Dixon. (2003). Interrelations between Subjective Health and Episodic Memory Change in Swedish and Canadian Samples of Older Adults. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 57(1). 21–35. 14 indexed citations

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Larsson, Maria, et al.. (2003). Effects on Episodic Memory of Stimulus Richness, Intention to Learn, and Extra-Study Repetition: Similar Profiles Across the Adult Life Span. Journal of Adult Development. 10(2). 67–73. 5 indexed citations

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Hassing, Linda B. & Lars Bäckman. (1997). Episodic Memory Functioning in Population-Based Samples of Very Old Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 8(6). 376–383. 21 indexed citations

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