Max A. Little

10.5k citations

72 papers · 4.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Signal Processing top 0.5%
- Music and Audio Processing
- Speech and Audio Processing
Neurology top 0.5%
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neurological disorders and treatments

Papers in

Signal Processing 21
- Speech and Audio Processing 15
- Music and Audio Processing 12
Neurology 16
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 14
- Neurological disorders and treatments 9

Co-authors: Lorraine O. Ramig Patrick McSharry Athanasios Tsanas Jennifer Spielman Eric J. Hunter E. Ray Dorsey Nick S. Jones Yordan P. Raykov
Journals: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (5 papers)Sensors (3 papers)Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (2 papers)Journal of Parkinson s Disease (2 papers)Journal of Medical Internet Research (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Max A. Little

70 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Using Smartphones and Machine Learning to Quantify Parkinson Disease Severity 2018 · 272 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.

2018 JAMA Neurology
2012 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
2009 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
2008 IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

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1	Longitudinal progression of digital arm swing measures during free-living gait in early Parkinson's disease medRxiv ·Yasavoli-Sharahi Hamed, Twan van Laarhoven, Elizabeth Lentini, Yordan P. Raykov, Max A. Little, Jorik Nonnekes, Teo Hock Thiam, 政敏青田, Khalaf Suhail Bqain, Luc J. W. Evers	2026	0
2	Quantifying arm swing in Parkinson’s disease: a method accounting for arm activities during free-living gait Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ·Yasavoli-Sharahi Hamed, Twan van Laarhoven, Yordan P. Raykov, Max A. Little, Jorik Nonnekes, Tom Heskes, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Luc J. W. Evers	2025	1
3	Patient-specific game-based transfer method for Parkinson's disease severity prediction Artificial Intelligence in Medicine ·Umarkhodjayeva Muminakhon Saidturayevna, Huibin Lu, Tao Zhang, Max A. Little	2024	1
4	Causal GraphSAGE: A robust graph method for classification based on causal sampling Pattern Recognition ·Fábiánová Diana, By Jaco Du Preez and Saurabh Sinha, Max A. Little	2022	45
5	Remote Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease Symptom Severity Using the Simulated Cellular Mobile Telephone Network IEEE Access ·Athanasios Tsanas, Max A. Little, Lorraine O. Ramig	2021	34
6	Real-Life Gait Performance as a Digital Biomarker for Motor Fluctuations: The Parkinson@Home Validation Study Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Luc J. W. Evers, Yordan P. Raykov, Jesse H. Krijthe, Ana Lígia Silva de Lima, Daisuke Shibahara, Kasper Claes, Tom Heskes, Max A. Little, Oscar Vargas Chozo, Bastiaan R. Bloem	2020	41
7	A review of accelerometer-derived physical activity in the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies BMC Rheumatology ·Alexander Oldroyd, Max A. Little, William G Dixon, Hector Chinoy	2019	16
8	Metadata Concepts for Advancing the Use of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Research PubMed ·Daisuke Shibahara, Chao Lin Shi, Lauren Bataille, Max A. Little, Kasper Claes, Suchi Saria, Jesse M. Cedarbaum, Diane Stephenson, Jon Neville, Walter Maetzler, Alberto J. Espay, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Tanya Simuni, Daniel R. Karlin	2019	28
9	Impact of motor fluctuations on real-life gait in Parkinson’s patients Gait & Posture ·Ana Lígia Silva de Lima, Luc J. W. Evers, 王姜, Nienke M. de Vries, Margaret Daeschler, Babak Boroojerdi, บัวแก้ว รัตนกมุท, Max A. Little, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Marjan J. Faber	2018	25
10	Collecting Symptoms and Sensor Data With Consumer Smartwatches (the Knee OsteoArthritis, Linking Activity and Pain Study): Protocol for a Longitudinal, Observational Feasibility Study JMIR Research Protocols ·Anna L. Beukenhorst, M.J. Parkes, L. M. Cook, B. D. BEGG, Sabine N van der Veer, Max A. Little, Kelly Howells, Caroline Sanders, Jamie C. Sergeant, Terence W O’Neill, John McBeth, William G Dixon	2018	15
11	Automated Quality Control for Sensor Based Symptom Measurement Performed Outside the Lab Sensors ·Daisuke Shibahara, Yordan P. Raykov, Luc J. W. Evers, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Oscar Vargas Chozo, Andong Zhan, Kasper Claes, Max A. Little	2018	13
12	Sleep and cognitive performance: cross-sectional associations in the UK Biobank Sleep Medicine ·Simon D. Kyle, Claire E. Sexton, Bernd Feige, Annemarie I. Luik, Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, Simon Anderson, David A. Bechtold, William G Dixon, Max A. Little, David Ray, Dieter Riemann, Colin A. Espie, Martin K. Rutter, Kai Spiegelhalder	2017	113
13	Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits Nature Genetics ·Jacqueline M. Lane, Jingjing Liang, Irma Vlasac, Simon Anderson, David A. Bechtold, Jack Bowden, Richard Emsley, Shubhroz Gill, Max A. Little, Annemarie I. Luik, Andrew Loudon, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Shaun Purcell, Simon D. Kyle, Debbie A. Lawlor, Xiaofeng Zhu, Susan Redline, David Ray, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena	2016	226
14	Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel loci for chronotype in 100,420 individuals from the UK Biobank Nature Communications ·Jacqueline M. Lane, Irma Vlasac, Simon Anderson, Simon D. Kyle, William G Dixon, David A. Bechtold, Shubhroz Gill, Max A. Little, Annemarie I. Luik, Andrew Loudon, Richard Emsley, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Debbie A. Lawlor, Susan Redline, David Ray, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena	2016	201
15	Large-Scale Wearable Sensor Deployment in Parkinson’s Patients: The Parkinson@Home Study Protocol JMIR Research Protocols ·Ana Lígia Silva de Lima, 王姜, Nienke M. de Vries, 周雪梅, Lauren Bataille, Max A. Little, Heribert Baldus, Bastiaan R. Bloem, Marjan J. Faber	2016	43
16	High accuracy discrimination of Parkinson's disease participants from healthy controls using smartphones Siddharth Arora, Vinayak Venkataraman, Sean Donohue, Kevin Biglan, E. Ray Dorsey, Max A. Little	2014	50
17	Mood dynamics in bipolar disorder International Journal of Bipolar Disorders ·Paul J. Moore, Max A. Little, Patrick McSharry, Guy M. Goodwin, John Geddes	2014	21
18	Quantifying flood risk of extreme events using density forecasts based on a new digital archive and weather ensemble predictions Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society ·Patrick McSharry, Max A. Little, Harvey J. E. Rodda, John C. Rodda	2013	3
19	Steps and bumps: precision extraction of discrete states of molecular machines using physically-based, high-throughput time series analysis arXiv (Cornell University) ·Max A. Little, Bradley C. Steel, Fan Bai, Yoshiyuki Sowa, Maryam Dargahi, David M. Mueller, Richard M. Berry, Nick S. Jones	2010	21
20	Accurate Telemonitoring of Parkinson's Disease Progression by Noninvasive Speech Tests IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering ·Athanasios Tsanas, Max A. Little, Patrick McSharry, Lorraine O. Ramig Hit paper breakdown →	2009	431

About Max A. Little

Max A. Little is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Neurology, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Physiology, having authored 72 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Voice and Speech Disorders (18 papers), Speech and Audio Processing (15 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (14 papers), Music and Audio Processing (12 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (9 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (8 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (5 papers) and Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Signal Processing (976 citations), Neurology (1.3k citations), Physiology (1.8k citations), Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (265 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (669 citations). Max A. Little has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Lorraine O. Ramig, Patrick McSharry, Athanasios Tsanas, Jennifer Spielman, Eric J. Hunter, E. Ray Dorsey, Nick S. Jones, Yordan P. Raykov, Andong Zhan and Alexis Boukouvalas. Their work appears in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Sensors, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Journal of Parkinson s Disease and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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