Mojtaba Lotfaliany

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Mojtaba Lotfaliany is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Mojtaba Lotfaliany has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 19 papers in Epidemiology and 17 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Mojtaba Lotfaliany's work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (20 papers), Diabetes Management and Education (9 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers). Mojtaba Lotfaliany is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (20 papers), Diabetes Management and Education (9 papers) and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (9 papers). Mojtaba Lotfaliany collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Iran and United States. Mojtaba Lotfaliany's co-authors include Fereidoun Azizi, Farzad Hadaegh, Michael Berk, Brian Oldenburg, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Felice N. Jacka, Davood Khalili, Paul Kowal, Wolfgang Marx and Samaneh Akbarpour and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Mojtaba Lotfaliany

57 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mojtaba Lotfaliany Australia	23	443	434	270	255	216	69	1.5k
Zengchang Pang China	24	584 1.3×	383 0.9×	394 1.5×	352 1.4×	122 0.6×	135	2.2k
Karin Halina Greiser Germany	24	333 0.8×	271 0.6×	475 1.8×	213 0.8×	289 1.3×	71	1.7k
Sue Penckofer United States	25	484 1.1×	414 1.0×	255 0.9×	231 0.9×	215 1.0×	58	1.9k
Jingkai Wei United States	21	312 0.7×	216 0.5×	372 1.4×	144 0.6×	141 0.7×	67	1.5k
Natalia Gouskova United States	17	203 0.5×	368 0.8×	463 1.7×	236 0.9×	236 1.1×	45	2.0k
Paul Anthony Camacho Colombia	23	156 0.4×	402 0.9×	416 1.5×	303 1.2×	307 1.4×	119	1.8k
Andrew Grandinetti United States	27	469 1.1×	545 1.3×	304 1.1×	243 1.0×	204 0.9×	59	2.0k
Christopher W. Forsberg United States	26	454 1.0×	209 0.5×	187 0.7×	172 0.7×	273 1.3×	45	1.8k
Joanne Salas United States	25	186 0.4×	611 1.4×	152 0.6×	325 1.3×	314 1.5×	141	1.9k
María Medrano Spain	22	189 0.4×	544 1.3×	335 1.2×	261 1.0×	308 1.4×	91	1.8k

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Haydon, Helen M., Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Andrew Broadbent, et al.. (2025). Telehealth-facilitated palliative care enables more people to die at home: An analysis of clinical outcomes and service activity data. BMC Palliative Care. 24(1). 22–22.

Forbes, Malcolm, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, et al.. (2025). Testosterone Concentration and Incident Depression in Older Men: A Longitudinal Cohort Study. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(6).

Forbes, Malcolm, Duncan J. Topliss, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, et al.. (2025). Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Levels and Depression in Older Adults: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses in a Community-Dwelling Population. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 34(4). 544–554.

Forbes, Malcolm, Michael Berk, Daniel Clayton‐Chubb, et al.. (2025). Contribution of depression and cardiometabolic diseases and the role of depression treatment in survival and functioning in older adults. EClinicalMedicine. 82. 103182–103182.

Ganjali, Shiva, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Andrew Tonkin, et al.. (2025). Predictive performance of cardiovascular disease risk prediction models in older adults: a validation and updating study. Heart. 111(21). 1004–1012. 1 indexed citations

Raru, Temam Beshir, Julie A. Pasco, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, et al.. (2025). Contribution of gait speed, grip strength, and depression on the risk of serious falls among older adults. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 100155–100155.

Green, Jessica, Anna Wrobel, Wolfgang Marx, et al.. (2024). Early antibiotic exposure and risk of psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 226(3). 171–183. 2 indexed citations

Mengist, Belayneh, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Julie A. Pasco, et al.. (2024). Gait speed, handgrip strength, and their combination, and risk of depression in later life: Evidence from a prospective study of community-dwelling older adults. Journal of Affective Disorders. 369. 218–226. 4 indexed citations

Giménez‐Palomo, Anna, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Seetal Dodd, et al.. (2024). Efficacy and tolerability of monoamine oxidase inhibitors for the treatment of depressive episodes in mood disorders: A systematic review and network meta‐analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 150(6). 500–515. 3 indexed citations

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Aslam, Hajara, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Daniel So, et al.. (2023). Fiber intake and fiber intervention in depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials. Nutrition Reviews. 82(12). 1678–1695. 20 indexed citations

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Travica, Nikolaj, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Andrew Marriott, et al.. (2023). Peri-Operative Risk Factors Associated with Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction (POCD): An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(4). 1610–1610. 22 indexed citations

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Wrobel, Anna, Bianca E. Kavanagh, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, et al.. (2022). Personality traits as mediators of the relationship between childhood trauma and depression severity in bipolar disorder: A structural equation model. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 57(7). 1031–1042. 6 indexed citations

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Wrobel, Anna, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Alyna Turner, et al.. (2022). Attachment insecurity partially mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and depression severity in bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 145(6). 591–603. 10 indexed citations

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Haydon, Helen M., Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Cindy Jones, et al.. (2022). Health literacy, dementia knowledge and perceived utility of digital health modalities among future health professionals. Australasian Journal on Ageing. 42(2). 392–400. 5 indexed citations

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Lotfaliany, Mojtaba, Fereidoun Azizi, Farzad Hadaegh, et al.. (2020). Long-term effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention on the prevention of type 2 diabetes in a middle-income country. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14173–14173. 54 indexed citations

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Zafari, Neda, Leonid Churilov, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the creatinine‐based Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation in people with diabetes: A systematic review. Diabetic Medicine. 38(1). e14391–e14391. 8 indexed citations

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Gong, Enying, Shaira Baptista, Anthony Russell, et al.. (2020). My Diabetes Coach, a Mobile App–Based Interactive Conversational Agent to Support Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management: Randomized Effectiveness-Implementation Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(11). e20322–e20322. 86 indexed citations

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Zafari, Neda, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Graeme O’Keefe, et al.. (2020). Performance of 4 Creatinine-based Equations in Assessing Glomerular Filtration Rate in Adults with Diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 106(1). e61–e73. 7 indexed citations

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Kapoor, Nitin, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, et al.. (2020). Prevalence of normal weight obesity and its associated cardio-metabolic risk factors – Results from the baseline data of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program (KDPP). PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0237974–e0237974. 56 indexed citations

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Azizi, Fereidoun, Farzad Hadaegh, Farhad Hosseinpanah, et al.. (2019). Metabolic health in the Middle East and north Africa. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 7(11). 866–879. 104 indexed citations

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