Paula Iso‐Markku

866 total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 377 citations indexed

About

Paula Iso‐Markku is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Paula Iso‐Markku has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 377 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Physiology and 5 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Paula Iso‐Markku's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (5 papers). Paula Iso‐Markku is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (5 papers). Paula Iso‐Markku collaborates with scholars based in Finland. Paula Iso‐Markku's co-authors include Katja Waller, Urho M. Kujala, Eero Vuoksimaa, Keegan Knittle, Juho Polet, Jaakko Kaprio, Juha O. Rinne, Noora Lindgrén, Kauko Heikkilä and Sari Aaltonen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Paula Iso‐Markku

11 papers receiving 373 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.

Physical activity as a protective factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review, meta-analysis and quality assessment of cohort and case–control studies

2022 184 citations Paula Iso‐Markku, Urho M. Kujala et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →
Physical Activity and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults

2024 62 citations Paula Iso‐Markku, Sari Aaltonen et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paula Iso‐Markku Finland	8	158	129	104	76	36	11	377
Jenna Najar Sweden	10	88 0.6×	130 1.0×	82 0.8×	52 0.7×	29 0.8×	24	344
Ariana M. Stickel United States	10	148 0.9×	170 1.3×	68 0.7×	43 0.6×	26 0.7×	58	431
Hanna Wetterberg Sweden	14	163 1.0×	183 1.4×	86 0.8×	75 1.0×	27 0.8×	36	552
Oscar Lopez United States	2	131 0.8×	145 1.1×	63 0.6×	33 0.4×	20 0.6×	4	306
J.M. Starr United Kingdom	8	104 0.7×	144 1.1×	81 0.8×	45 0.6×	37 1.0×	9	344
Therese Rydberg Sterner Sweden	10	80 0.5×	71 0.6×	54 0.5×	75 1.0×	14 0.4×	39	349
Johan Skoog Sweden	11	113 0.7×	183 1.4×	48 0.5×	36 0.5×	30 0.8×	33	442
Weihong Kuang China	8	70 0.4×	191 1.5×	43 0.4×	90 1.2×	28 0.8×	20	401
Robert Sigström Sweden	13	49 0.3×	190 1.5×	56 0.5×	91 1.2×	16 0.4×	40	478
Inna Lisko Finland	12	153 1.0×	65 0.5×	52 0.5×	94 1.2×	11 0.3×	14	400

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paula Iso‐Markku

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11 of 11 papers shown

Iso‐Markku, Paula, Sari Aaltonen, Urho M. Kujala, et al.. (2024). Physical Activity and Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults. JAMA Network Open. 7(2). e2354285–e2354285. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

Aaltonen, Sari, Henri Vähä‐Ypyä, Paula Iso‐Markku, et al.. (2023). Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior in nonagenarians: Associations with self-reported physical activity, anthropometric, sociodemographic, health and cognitive characteristics. PLoS ONE. 18(12). e0294817–e0294817. 3 indexed citations

Iso‐Markku, Paula, Urho M. Kujala, Keegan Knittle, et al.. (2022). Physical activity as a protective factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review, meta-analysis and quality assessment of cohort and case–control studies. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 56(12). 701–709. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

Iso‐Markku, Paula, Jaakko Kaprio, Noora Lindgrén, Juha O. Rinne, & Eero Vuoksimaa. (2021). Education as a moderator of middle-age cardiovascular risk factor—old-age cognition relationships: testing cognitive reserve hypothesis in epidemiological study. Age and Ageing. 51(2). 14 indexed citations

Iso‐Markku, Paula, Jaakko Kaprio, Noora Lindgrén, Juha O. Rinne, & Eero Vuoksimaa. (2020). Middle-age dementia risk scores and old-age cognition: a quasi-experimental population-based twin study with over 20-year follow-up. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 92(3). 323–330. 3 indexed citations

Iso‐Markku, Paula, et al.. (2020). Twin studies on the association of physical activity with cognitive and cerebral outcomes. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 114. 1–11. 3 indexed citations

Kujala, Urho M., Henri Vähä‐Ypyä, Katja Waller, et al.. (2019). Chronic diseases and objectively monitored physical activity profile among aged individuals – a cross-sectional twin cohort study. Annals of Medicine. 51(1). 78–87. 24 indexed citations

Waller, Katja, Henri Vähä‐Ypyä, Timo Törmäkangas, et al.. (2018). Long-term leisure-time physical activity and other health habits as predictors of objectively monitored late-life physical activity – A 40-year twin study. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9400–9400. 16 indexed citations

Iso‐Markku, Paula, Katja Waller, Eero Vuoksimaa, et al.. (2018). Objectively measured physical activity profile and cognition in Finnish elderly twins. Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 4(1). 263–271. 14 indexed citations

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Iso‐Markku, Paula, Katja Waller, Eero Vuoksimaa, et al.. (2016). Midlife Physical Activity and Cognition Later in Life: A Prospective Twin Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 54(4). 1303–1317. 18 indexed citations

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Iso‐Markku, Paula, Katja Waller, Urho M. Kujala, & Jaakko Kaprio. (2015). Physical activity and dementia: Long-term follow-up study of adult twins. Annals of Medicine. 47(2). 81–87. 36 indexed citations

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