Markus Waldén

14.3k total citations · 11 hit papers
117 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Markus Waldén is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Waldén has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 66 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 63 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Markus Waldén's work include Sports injuries and prevention (107 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (65 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (35 papers). Markus Waldén is often cited by papers focused on Sports injuries and prevention (107 papers), Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (65 papers) and Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (35 papers). Markus Waldén collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Norway and Netherlands. Markus Waldén's co-authors include Martin Hägglund, Jan Ekstrand, Henrik Magnusson, Håkan Bengtsson, Karolina Kristenson, Isam Atroshi, Roald Bahr, Jimmy Ekstrand, Thor Einar Andersen and John Bjørneboe and has published in prestigious journals such as Pain, BMJ and The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Markus Waldén

110 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Epidemiology of Muscle Injuries in Professional Football ... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2009 2013 2016 2011 250 500 750 1000
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. Epidemiology of Muscle Injuries in Professional Football (Soccer)
    2011 1.0k citations Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund et al. profile →
  2. Injury incidence and injury patterns in professional football: the UEFA injury study
    2009 1.0k citations Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  3. Injuries affect team performance negatively in professional football: an 11-year follow-up of the UEFA Champions League injury study
    2013 549 citations Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  4. Hamstring injuries have increased by 4% annually in men's professional football, since 2001: a 13-year longitudinal analysis of the UEFA Elite Club injury study
    2016 495 citations Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  5. Hamstring muscle injuries in professional football: the correlation of MRI findings with return to play
    2011 348 citations Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  6. Prevention of acute knee injuries in adolescent female football players: cluster randomised controlled trial
    2012 323 citations Markus Waldén, Isam Atroshi et al. profile →
  7. Three distinct mechanisms predominate in non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injuries in male professional football players: a systematic video analysis of 39 cases
    2015 321 citations Markus Waldén, Thor Einar Andersen et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  8. ACL injuries in men's professional football: a 15-year prospective study on time trends and return-to-play rates reveals only 65% of players still play at the top level 3 years after ACL rupture
    2016 244 citations Markus Waldén, Martin Hägglund et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  9. Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men’s professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/22
    2022 167 citations Jan Ekstrand, Håkan Bengtsson et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  10. Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020
    2023 67 citations Markus Waldén, Margo Mountjoy et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
  11. UEFA Women’s Elite Club Injury Study: a prospective study on 1527 injuries over four consecutive seasons 2018/2019 to 2021/2022 reveals thigh muscle injuries to be most common and ACL injuries most burdensome
    2024 32 citations Rita Tomás, Jan Ekstrand et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Markus Waldén Sweden 43 9.5k 4.7k 3.7k 2.5k 977 117 10.0k
John Orchard Australia 50 8.2k 0.9× 3.9k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 2.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 202 9.5k
Thor Einar Andersen Norway 40 6.3k 0.7× 2.5k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 751 0.8× 112 7.2k
Grethe Myklebust Norway 49 10.6k 1.1× 7.8k 1.6× 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 2.5k 2.6× 118 12.0k
Kristian Thorborg Denmark 49 6.4k 0.7× 5.3k 1.1× 1.5k 0.4× 769 0.3× 1.5k 1.6× 256 8.6k
Per Hölmich Denmark 49 6.0k 0.6× 5.7k 1.2× 1.3k 0.4× 683 0.3× 1.5k 1.5× 279 8.2k
Pascal Édouard France 36 4.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.3× 982 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 1.4k 1.4× 243 5.2k
Randall W. Dick United States 28 5.8k 0.6× 4.0k 0.8× 928 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 1.7× 44 7.5k
Rod Whiteley Qatar 40 3.9k 0.4× 2.2k 0.5× 931 0.3× 562 0.2× 971 1.0× 168 4.7k
John H M Brooks United Kingdom 28 3.7k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 980 0.3× 1.6k 0.7× 264 0.3× 51 4.3k
Benjamin Clarsen Norway 24 3.1k 0.3× 1.4k 0.3× 908 0.2× 1.0k 0.4× 339 0.3× 62 3.5k

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All Works

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Ekstrand, Jan, Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2025). Higher level of communication between the medical staff and the performance staff is associated with a lower hamstring injury burden: a substudy on 14 teams from the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(1). e002182–e002182. 1 indexed citations
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Bolling, Caroline, Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2025). ‘Good communication and good team building, it’s half of the work in managing a player’: how team doctors perceive communication in the European professional men’s football context. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 11(1). e002392–e002392.
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Tomás, Rita, et al.. (2024). UEFA Women’s Elite Club Injury Study: a prospective study on 1527 injuries over four consecutive seasons 2018/2019 to 2021/2022 reveals thigh muscle injuries to be most common and ACL injuries most burdensome. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 58(3). 128–136. 32 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fältström, Anne, Martin Asker, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2024). Poor knee strength is associated with higher incidence of knee injury in adolescent female football players: The Karolinska football injury cohort. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 33(9). 3179–3193. 2 indexed citations
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Alfredson, Håkan, Markus Waldén, David C. S. Roberts, & Christoph Spang. (2024). Tendinopathic Plantaris but Normal Achilles Tendon Found in About One-Fifth of Patients Not Responding to Conservative Achilles Tendon Management – Results from a Prospective WALANT Surgical Case Series on 105 Tendons. Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine. Volume 15. 41–45. 1 indexed citations
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Rosales, Roberto S., et al.. (2024). Association between distal radius fracture malunion and patient-reported disability: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EFORT Open Reviews. 9(11). 1097–1105. 1 indexed citations
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Skillgate, Eva, Anna Melin, Henrik Källberg, et al.. (2023). Dietary habits in adolescent male and female handball players: the Swedish Handball Cohort. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 9(4). e001679–e001679. 1 indexed citations
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Alfredson, Håkan, Markus Waldén, David C. S. Roberts, & Christoph Spang. (2023). Combined Midportion Achilles and Plantaris Tendinopathy: A 1-Year Follow-Up Study after Ultrasound and Color-Doppler-Guided WALANT Surgery in a Private Setting in Southern Sweden. Medicina. 59(3). 438–438. 1 indexed citations
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Waldén, Markus, Margo Mountjoy, Alan McCall, et al.. (2023). Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 57(21). 1341–1350. 67 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ekstrand, Jan, Håkan Bengtsson, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2022). Hamstring injury rates have increased during recent seasons and now constitute 24% of all injuries in men’s professional football: the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study from 2001/02 to 2021/22. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 57(5). 292–298. 167 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ekstrand, Jan, Håkan Bengtsson, Markus Waldén, Michael Davison, & Martin Hägglund. (2022). Still poorly adopted in male professional football: but teams that used the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in team training had fewer hamstring injuries – a retrospective survey of 17 teams of the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study during the 2020–2021 season. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 8(3). e001368–e001368. 35 indexed citations
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Tranæus, Ulrika, Martin Hägglund, Markus Waldén, et al.. (2022). Study protocol for a prospective cohort study identifying risk factors for sport injury in adolescent female football players: the Karolinska football Injury Cohort (KIC). BMJ Open. 12(1). e055063–e055063. 5 indexed citations
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Waldén, Markus, Jan Ekstrand, Martin Hägglund, et al.. (2022). Influence of the COVID-19 Lockdown and Restart on the Injury Incidence and Injury Burden in Men’s Professional Football Leagues in 2020: The UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. Sports Medicine - Open. 8(1). 67–67. 20 indexed citations
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Villa, Francesco Della, Martin Hägglund, Stefano Della Villa, Jan Ekstrand, & Markus Waldén. (2021). Infographic. High rate of second ACL injury following ACL reconstruction in male professional footballers: an updated longitudinal analysis from 118 players in the UEFA Elite Club Injury Study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 55(23). 1379–1380. 16 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Håkan, Jan Ekstrand, Markus Waldén, & Martin Hägglund. (2019). Few training sessions between return to play and first match appearance are associated with an increased propensity for injury: a prospective cohort study of male professional football players during 16 consecutive seasons. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 54(7). 427–432. 14 indexed citations
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Kiliç, Özgür, Haruhito Aoki, Edwin A. Goedhart, et al.. (2017). Severe musculoskeletal time-loss injuries and symptoms of common mental disorders in professional soccer: a longitudinal analysis of 12-month follow-up data. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 26(3). 946–954. 37 indexed citations

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