Michael Drey

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Drey is a scholar working on Physiology, Geriatrics and Gerontology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Drey has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Physiology, 21 papers in Geriatrics and Gerontology and 16 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Michael Drey's work include Nutrition and Health in Aging (43 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (18 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (15 papers). Michael Drey is often cited by papers focused on Nutrition and Health in Aging (43 papers), Frailty in Older Adults (18 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (15 papers). Michael Drey collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Michael Drey's co-authors include Cornel Sieber, Jürgen M. Bauer, Alfonso J. Cruz‐Jentoft, Eva Kiesswetter, Ralf Schmidmaier, Klaus Pfeifer, Thomas Bertsch, Wolfgang Uter, Yvonne Hopf and Jan W. Vrijbloed and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In The Last Decade

Michael Drey

72 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Nutrition, frailty, and sarcopenia 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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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. Nutrition, frailty, and sarcopenia
    2017 356 citations Alfonso J. Cruz‐Jentoft, Eva Kiesswetter et al. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Drey Germany 23 1.3k 635 316 313 190 79 2.0k
Francisco Romeu Landi Italy 7 1.8k 1.4× 675 1.1× 218 0.7× 313 1.0× 188 1.0× 13 2.4k
B. Penninx United States 12 1.6k 1.2× 620 1.0× 214 0.7× 577 1.8× 140 0.7× 16 3.2k
Chiara Cavazzini United States 11 1.4k 1.1× 621 1.0× 146 0.5× 388 1.2× 259 1.4× 12 2.5k
M. Nevitt United States 8 1.6k 1.2× 376 0.6× 370 1.2× 278 0.9× 286 1.5× 28 2.6k
David Beckwée Belgium 22 1.3k 1.0× 752 1.2× 110 0.3× 417 1.3× 133 0.7× 89 2.7k
Michael Nevitt United States 15 1.7k 1.3× 356 0.6× 280 0.9× 368 1.2× 278 1.5× 20 3.1k
Thuy-Tien L. Dam United States 10 2.4k 1.8× 920 1.4× 223 0.7× 283 0.9× 318 1.7× 11 2.9k
W.M.C. Chumlea United States 10 1.6k 1.3× 626 1.0× 171 0.5× 316 1.0× 86 0.5× 15 2.2k
Sophie Gillain Belgium 15 971 0.7× 437 0.7× 79 0.3× 442 1.4× 170 0.9× 47 1.7k
Esmee M. Reijnierse Netherlands 30 2.6k 2.0× 1.3k 2.0× 163 0.5× 557 1.8× 173 0.9× 81 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Drey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Drey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Drey

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

All Works

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Thomasius, Friederike, et al.. (2025). Clinical practice guideline: The diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. Deutsches Ärzteblatt international. 122(1). 12–18. 4 indexed citations
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Martini, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Characteristics and treatment options of 272,152 geriatric patients with very high and high fracture risk. Osteoporosis International. 36(7). 1257–1266. 1 indexed citations
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Martini, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Validation of the German version of the SarQoL® questionnaire in sarcopenic and probable sarcopenic patients. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 36(1). 217–217. 2 indexed citations
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Rottenkolber, Marietta, Karoline Lukaschek, Caroline Jung‐Sievers, et al.. (2024). Potential deprescribing indications for antidepressants between 2012 and 2019: repeated cross-sectional analysis in two Scottish health boards. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 378–378. 1 indexed citations
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Bidlingmaier, Martin, Sebastian Martini, Katharina Müller, et al.. (2024). Growth hormone treatment in aged patients with comorbidities: A systematic review. Growth Hormone & IGF Research. 75. 101584–101584. 2 indexed citations
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Bidlingmaier, Martin, Sebastian Martini, Martín Reincke, et al.. (2023). Hypogonadism is frequent in very old men with multimorbidity and is associated with anemia and sarcopenia. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. 57(1). 43–49. 2 indexed citations
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Rottenkolber, Marietta, Sebastian Fischer, Jochen Gensichen, et al.. (2023). Single and combined use of fall-risk-increasing drugs and fracture risk: a population-based case–control study. Age and Ageing. 52(6). 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wei, H. Nowotny, Martin Bidlingmaier, et al.. (2023). 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (HSD11B1) gene expression in muscle is linked to reduced skeletal muscle index in sarcopenic patients. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 35(12). 3073–3083. 4 indexed citations
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Drey, Michael, et al.. (2022). Influence of a ward-based pharmacist on the medication quality of geriatric inpatients: a before–after study. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. 44(2). 480–488. 5 indexed citations
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Petrera, Agnese, et al.. (2022). Proteomics of the phase angle: Results from the population-based KORA S4 study. Clinical Nutrition. 41(8). 1818–1826. 8 indexed citations
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Martin, Pascal, Alexander Martin Keppler, Paolo Alberton, et al.. (2021). Self-Assessment of Mobility of People over 65 Years of Age. Medicina. 57(9). 980–980. 9 indexed citations
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Ferrari, Uta, Stefan Hintze, Sabine Krause, et al.. (2021). Late-onset neuromuscular disorders in the differential diagnosis of sarcopenia. BMC Neurology. 21(1). 241–241. 13 indexed citations
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Grassi, Andrea, et al.. (2020). Head-down tilt bed rest with or without artificial gravity is not associated with motor unit remodeling. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 120(11). 2407–2415. 12 indexed citations
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Bötzel, Kai, Andrés Ceballos-Baumann, Urban M. Fietzek, et al.. (2020). Interrelation between Sarcopenia and the Number of Motor Neurons in Patients with Parkinsonian Syndromes. Gerontology. 66(4). 409–415. 21 indexed citations
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Hopf, Yvonne, et al.. (2018). An anticholinergic burden score for German prescribers: score development. BMC Geriatrics. 18(1). 239–239. 100 indexed citations
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Cruz‐Jentoft, Alfonso J., Eva Kiesswetter, Michael Drey, & Cornel Sieber. (2017). Nutrition, frailty, and sarcopenia. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. 29(1). 43–48. 356 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drey, Michael, Cornel Sieber, Jürgen M. Bauer, et al.. (2014). Motoneuron Loss Is Associated With Sarcopenia. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 15(6). 435–439. 88 indexed citations
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Drey, Michael & Cornelius Bollheimer. (2011). Vitamin D im Alter. DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 136(48). 2463–2465. 2 indexed citations
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Drey, Michael, Wolfgang Uter, Frieder R. Lang, et al.. (2010). The frailty syndrome in general practitioner care. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. 44(1). 48–54. 39 indexed citations

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