Olga L. Sarmiento

17.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
243 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Olga L. Sarmiento is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olga L. Sarmiento has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 98 papers in Transportation and 71 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Olga L. Sarmiento's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (115 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (97 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (64 papers). Olga L. Sarmiento is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (115 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (97 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (64 papers). Olga L. Sarmiento collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United States and United Kingdom. Olga L. Sarmiento's co-authors include Diana C. Parra, Ross C. Brownson, Michael Pratt, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Felipe Montes, Neville Owen, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Martyn Standage, Mark S. Tremblay and Shifalika Goenka and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Olga L. Sarmiento

233 papers receiving 8.7k 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.

Evidence-based intervention in physical activity: lessons from around the world

2012 876 citations Olga L. Sarmiento, Neville Owen et al. profile →
Compositional data analysis for physical activity, sedentary time and sleep research

2017 339 citations Carol Maher, Peter T. Katzmarzyk et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olga L. Sarmiento Colombia	50	4.3k	2.9k	2.8k	2.0k	1.4k	243	9.1k
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Brazil	49	4.8k 1.1×	4.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	231	11.3k
Grant Schofield New Zealand	48	3.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	919 0.6×	210	7.8k
Charlie Foster United Kingdom	57	5.3k 1.2×	5.1k 1.8×	2.6k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.1×	244	14.0k
Kelli L. Cain United States	51	3.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	4.2k 1.5×	942 0.5×	2.1k 1.5×	117	8.3k
Dori E. Rosenberg United States	39	2.8k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	704 0.5×	141	7.3k
Gregory J. Norman United States	55	4.2k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	3.1k 1.6×	728 0.5×	192	10.8k
Delfien Van Dyck Belgium	53	3.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.5×	2.4k 1.6×	186	8.2k
Bénédicte Deforche Belgium	65	5.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	4.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	312	12.9k
Mitch J. Duncan Australia	46	2.7k 0.6×	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.4×	693 0.5×	265	9.2k
Nanette Mutrie United Kingdom	59	3.2k 0.7×	4.8k 1.6×	1.4k 0.5×	2.3k 1.1×	551 0.4×	243	11.3k

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Lee, I‐Min, et al.. (2025). Even a small dose of physical activity can be good medicine. Nature Medicine. 31(2). 376–378. 4 indexed citations

Yamada, Goro, Alejandra Vives, Alina Schnake‐Mahl, et al.. (2025). Are extensions in paid parental leave associated with lower infant and neonatal mortality in Latin American cities? Evidence from 148 cities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia (2000–2015). Social Science & Medicine. 372. 117971–117971. 1 indexed citations

Sarmiento, Olga L., Diego Martínez, Abby C. King, et al.. (2024). Urban Care for Unpaid Caregivers: Community Voices in the Care Block Program, in Bogotá, Colombia. Journal of Urban Health. 101(6). 1113–1127. 1 indexed citations

Murray, Jennifer, et al.. (2023). How Do Adolescent Smoking Prevention Interventions Work in Different Contextual Settings? A Qualitative Comparative Study Between the UK and Colombia. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 31(5). 691–704. 1 indexed citations

Zafra‐Tanaka, Jessica Hanae, Ariela Braverman‐Bronstein, Cecilia Anza‐Ramirez, et al.. (2023). City features related to obesity in preschool children: a cross-sectional analysis of 159 cities in six Latin American countries. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 20. 100458–100458. 6 indexed citations

Arbeláez, Pablo, Olga L. Sarmiento, Quynh Nguyen, et al.. (2022). 430 Training neural networks to identify built environment features for pedestrian safety. Abstracts. A65.2–A65. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Rajnish, Jennifer Murray, Felipe Montes, et al.. (2021). Socio-environmental and psychosocial predictors of smoking susceptibility among adolescents with contrasting socio-cultural characteristics: a comparative analysis. BMC Public Health. 21(1). 2240–2240. 17 indexed citations

González, Silvia A., Olga L. Sarmiento, Pablo Lemoine, et al.. (2020). Active School Transport among Children from Canada, Colombia, Finland, South Africa, and the United States: A Tale of Two Journeys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(11). 3847–3847. 15 indexed citations

Jalo, Elli, Hanna Konttinen, Henna Vepsäläinen, et al.. (2019). Emotional Eating, Health Behaviours, and Obesity in Children: A 12-Country Cross-Sectional Study. Nutrients. 11(2). 351–351. 48 indexed citations

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Mitáš, Josef, Ester Cerin, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, et al.. (2019). Do associations of sex, age and education with transport and leisure-time physical activity differ across 17 cities in 12 countries?. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 16(1). 121–121. 35 indexed citations

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Katzmarzyk, Peter T., Jean‐Philippe Chaput, Mikael Fogelholm, et al.. (2019). International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE): Contributions to Understanding the Global Obesity Epidemic. Nutrients. 11(4). 848–848. 52 indexed citations

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Morales, Ricardo, et al.. (2019). Personal exposure to air pollutants in a Bus Rapid Transit System: Impact of fleet age and emission standard. Atmospheric Environment. 202. 117–127. 38 indexed citations

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Tremblay, Mark S., Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Mikael Fogelholm, et al.. (2017). Temporal and bi-directional associations between sleep duration and physical activity/sedentary time in children: An international comparison. Preventive Medicine. 111. 436–441. 82 indexed citations

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Katzmarzyk, Peter T., Stephanie T. Broyles, Catherine M. Champagne, et al.. (2016). Relationship between Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity in 9–11 Years Old Children in a Multi-National Study. Nutrients. 8(12). 770–770. 44 indexed citations

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Zhao, Pei, Enqing Liu, Yijuan Qiao, et al.. (2016). Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood obesity at age 9–11: results of a multinational study. Diabetologia. 59(11). 2339–2348. 91 indexed citations

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Akhavan‐Tabatabaei, Raha, et al.. (2014). A discrete-event simulation model to estimate the number of participants in the ciclovia program of bogota. Winter Simulation Conference. 2860–2871. 2 indexed citations

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Cerin, Ester, Kelli L. Cain, Terry L. Conway, et al.. (2014). Neighborhood Environments and Objectively Measured Physical Activity in 11 Countries. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 46(12). 2253–2264. 91 indexed citations

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Franco, Juan Felipe, Néstor Y. Rojas, Olga L. Sarmiento, & Eduardo Behrentz. (2013). Urban air pollution in school-related microenvironments in Bogota, Colombia. Ingeniería e Investigación. 33(2). 42–48. 10 indexed citations

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Franco, Juan Felipe, et al.. (2009). Niveles de material particulado en colegios distritales ubicados en vías con alto tráfico vehicular en la ciudad de Bogotá: estudio piloto. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Duperly, John, et al.. (2009). The association between Colombian medical students' healthy personal habits and a positive attitude toward preventive counseling: cross-sectional analyses. BMC Public Health. 9(1). 218–218. 69 indexed citations

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