Michael J. Orlich

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Michael J. Orlich is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. Orlich has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 10 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Michael J. Orlich's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (20 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers). Michael J. Orlich is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (20 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (10 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (10 papers). Michael J. Orlich collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Michael J. Orlich's co-authors include Gary E. Fraser, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Joan Sabaté, Pramil N. Singh, Jing Fan, Synnøve F. Knutsen, W. Lawrence Beeson, Andrew Mashchak, Fayth L. Miles and Ujué Fresán and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Cancer and International Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. Orlich

25 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2

2013 406 citations Michael J. Orlich, Pramil N. Singh et al. JAMA Internal Medicine profile →
The Safe and Effective Use of Plant-Based Diets with Guidelines for Health Professionals

2021 195 citations Ujué Fresán, Fayth L. Miles et al. Nutrients profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael J. Orlich United States	16	786	629	554	158	148	25	1.5k
Tammy Y. N. Tong United Kingdom	20	1.0k 1.3×	475 0.8×	665 1.2×	131 0.8×	150 1.0×	39	1.8k
Patrick Mullie Belgium	22	965 1.2×	472 0.8×	507 0.9×	254 1.6×	90 0.6×	51	2.1k
Keren Papier United Kingdom	21	635 0.8×	494 0.8×	347 0.6×	185 1.2×	98 0.7×	47	1.4k
Anika Knüppel United Kingdom	18	618 0.8×	433 0.7×	336 0.6×	152 1.0×	138 0.9×	33	1.3k
Terry Butler United States	13	578 0.7×	405 0.6×	454 0.8×	56 0.4×	85 0.6×	22	1.2k
Willem De Keyzer Belgium	21	1.2k 1.6×	339 0.5×	560 1.0×	112 0.7×	91 0.6×	39	1.9k
Lauren E O’Connor United States	18	928 1.2×	206 0.3×	467 0.8×	95 0.6×	139 0.9×	55	1.4k
Eva Warensjö Lemming Sweden	25	871 1.1×	179 0.3×	507 0.9×	116 0.7×	170 1.1×	45	1.8k
R. Patti Herring United States	11	563 0.7×	330 0.5×	388 0.7×	53 0.3×	82 0.6×	26	1.1k
Heli Tapanainen Finland	27	927 1.2×	168 0.3×	553 1.0×	227 1.4×	120 0.8×	77	2.2k

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Orlich, Michael J., et al.. (2025). The association between time spent outdoors during daylight and mortality among participants of the Adventist Health Study 2 Cohort. Environmental Epidemiology. 9(3). e401–e401. 1 indexed citations

Orlich, Michael J., et al.. (2022). Dairy foods, calcium intakes, and risk of incident prostate cancer in Adventist Health Study–2. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 116(2). 314–324. 23 indexed citations

Orlich, Michael J., Joan Sabaté, Andrew Mashchak, et al.. (2022). Ultra-processed food intake and animal-based food intake and mortality in the Adventist Health Study-2. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 115(6). 1589–1601. 41 indexed citations

Miles, Fayth L., Michael J. Orlich, Andrew Mashchak, et al.. (2022). The Biology of Veganism: Plasma Metabolomics Analysis Reveals Distinct Profiles of Vegans and Non-Vegetarians in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort. Nutrients. 14(3). 709–709. 12 indexed citations

Khocht, Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Cross‐sectional comparisons of subgingival microbiome and gingival fluid inflammatory cytokines in periodontally healthy vegetarians versus non‐vegetarians. Journal of Periodontal Research. 56(6). 1079–1090. 16 indexed citations

Lee, Grace J., Keiji Oda, Kelly R. Morton, Michael J. Orlich, & Joan Sabaté. (2021). Egg intake moderates the rate of memory decline in healthy older adults. Journal of Nutritional Science. 10. e79–e79. 7 indexed citations

Sherchan, Prativa, Fayth L. Miles, Michael J. Orlich, et al.. (2020). Effects of Lifestyle Factors on Cognitive Resilience: Commentary on “What This Sunny, Religious Town in California Teaches Us About Living Longer”. Translational Stroke Research. 11(2). 161–164. 5 indexed citations

Fraser, Gary E., Joan Sabaté, Raymond Knutsen, et al.. (2019). Red and Processed Meat and Mortality in a Low Meat Intake Population. Nutrients. 11(3). 622–622. 43 indexed citations

Fraser, Gary E., Candace M. Cosgrove, Andrew Mashchak, Michael J. Orlich, & Sean F. Altekruse. (2019). Lower rates of cancer and all‐cause mortality in an Adventist cohort compared with a US Census population. Cancer. 126(5). 1102–1111. 23 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J., Tina H. T. Chiu, Preet K. Dhillon, et al.. (2018). Vegetarian Epidemiology: Review and Discussion of Findings from Geographically Diverse Cohorts. Advances in Nutrition. 10(Suppl_4). S284–S295. 31 indexed citations

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Sabaté, Joan, et al.. (2018). Unscrambling the relations of egg and meat consumption with type 2 diabetes risk. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 108(5). 1121–1128. 17 indexed citations

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Martins, Márcia Cristina Teixeira, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Michael J. Orlich, et al.. (2017). A New Approach to Assess Lifetime Dietary Patterns Finds Lower Consumption of Animal Foods with Aging in a Longitudinal Analysis of a Health-Oriented Adventist Population. Nutrients. 9(10). 1118–1118. 15 indexed citations

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Fraser, Gary E., Michael J. Orlich, & Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl. (2015). Studies of chronic disease in Seventh-day Adventists. International Journal of Cardiology. 184. 573–573. 3 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J., Pramil N. Singh, Joan Sabaté, et al.. (2015). Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Colorectal Cancers. JAMA Internal Medicine. 175(5). 767–767. 181 indexed citations

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Singh, Pramil N., Michael J. Orlich, Wesley James, et al.. (2014). Global epidemiology of obesity, vegetarian dietary patterns, and noncommunicable disease in Asian Indians. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 100. 359S–364S. 66 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J. & Gary E. Fraser. (2014). Vegetarian diets in the Adventist Health Study 2: a review of initial published findings. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 100. 353S–358S. 147 indexed citations

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Jacobs, David R. & Michael J. Orlich. (2014). Diet pattern and longevity: do simple rules suffice? A commentary. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 100. 313S–319S. 31 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J., Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Joan Sabaté, et al.. (2014). Patterns of food consumption among vegetarians and non-vegetarians. British Journal Of Nutrition. 112(10). 1644–1653. 127 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J.. (2014). Vegetarian Dietary Patterns: Mortality, Colorectal Cancer, and Food Consumption. The Scholars Repository - LLU (Loma Linda University). 2 indexed citations

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Orlich, Michael J., Pramil N. Singh, Joan Sabaté, et al.. (2013). Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2. JAMA Internal Medicine. 173(13). 1230–1230. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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