Lars Bo Andersen

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
7 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Lars Bo Andersen is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Bo Andersen has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Physiology and 3 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Lars Bo Andersen's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers), Physical Activity and Health (6 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 papers). Lars Bo Andersen is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (7 papers), Physical Activity and Health (6 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 papers). Lars Bo Andersen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Norway and Australia. Lars Bo Andersen's co-authors include Pedro Curi Hallal, Regina Guthold, Fiona Bull, Ulf Ekelund, William Haskell, Hans Ole Hein, Marianne Schroll, Peter Schnohr, Olga L. Sarmiento and Diana C. Parra and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports and American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Lars Bo Andersen

7 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects

2012 4.1k citations Pedro Curi Hallal, Lars Bo Andersen et al. The Lancet profile →
Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world

2012 876 citations Gregory W. Heath, Diana C. Parra et al. The Lancet profile →
All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work

2000 810 citations Lars Bo Andersen, Peter Schnohr et al. Archives of Internal Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Bo Andersen Denmark	5	3.4k	3.0k	1.3k	1.1k	840	7	5.8k
Timothy Tilert United States	8	4.0k 1.2×	3.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	707 0.6×	934 1.1×	11	6.4k
Brian Martin Switzerland	26	2.7k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	421 0.5×	46	4.8k
Melicia C. Whitt‐Glover United States	32	3.8k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	714 0.7×	649 0.8×	78	8.3k
William Haskell United States	11	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	545 0.5×	705 0.8×	15	5.1k
Bradley J. Cardinal United States	42	2.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	595 0.5×	909 1.1×	245	6.5k
Katrien Wijndaele United Kingdom	48	4.5k 1.3×	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	539 0.5×	633 0.8×	113	7.2k
Angie S Page United Kingdom	46	2.3k 0.7×	3.7k 1.2×	851 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.4×	99	6.0k
Duncan J. Macfarlane Hong Kong	34	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	751 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	431 0.5×	92	6.5k
Joel D. Barnes Canada	31	2.9k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	996 0.8×	457 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	71	5.7k
Marie Murphy United Kingdom	42	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	491 0.4×	573 0.7×	180	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Bo Andersen

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Bo Andersen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Bo Andersen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lars Bo Andersen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lars Bo Andersen 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 Bo Andersen. Lars Bo Andersen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Andersen, Lars Bo. (2013). Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Children. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. 7(5). 341–342. 2 indexed citations

2.

Heath, Gregory W., Diana C. Parra, Olga L. Sarmiento, et al.. (2012). Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world. The Lancet. 380(9838). 272–281. 876 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Heath, Gregory W., Diana C. Parra, Olga L. Sarmiento, et al.. (2012). Physical Activity 3 Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world. 1 indexed citations

4.

Hallal, Pedro Curi, Lars Bo Andersen, Fiona Bull, et al.. (2012). Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects. The Lancet. 380(9838). 247–257. 4072 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Hallal, Pedro Curi, Lars Bo Andersen, Fiona Bull, Regina Guthold, & William L. Haskell. (2012). Physical Activity 1 Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects. 10 indexed citations

6.

Dencker, Magnus, Ola Thorsson, Magnus K. Karlsson, et al.. (2005). Daily physical activity in Swedish children aged 8–11 years. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 16(4). 252–257. 62 indexed citations

7.

Andersen, Lars Bo, Peter Schnohr, Marianne Schroll, & Hans Ole Hein. (2000). All-Cause Mortality Associated With Physical Activity During Leisure Time, Work, Sports, and Cycling to Work. Archives of Internal Medicine. 160(11). 1621–1621. 810 indexed citations breakdown →

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