Puja Agarwal

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Puja Agarwal is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Puja Agarwal has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 33 papers in Physiology and 14 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Puja Agarwal's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (33 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (23 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Puja Agarwal is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (33 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (23 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Puja Agarwal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and India. Puja Agarwal's co-authors include Martha Clare Morris, Thomas Holland, David A. Bennett, Sue E. Leurgans, Sujit Roy, Julie A. Schneider, Mehali Mitra, Yamin Wang, Lisa L. Barnes and Neelum T. Aggarwal and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Puja Agarwal

67 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Trial of the MIND Diet for Prevention of Cognitive Decline in Older Persons

2023 159 citations Lisa L. Barnes, Klodian Dhana et al. profile →
Association of Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay and Mediterranean Diets With Alzheimer Disease Pathology

2023 96 citations Puja Agarwal, Sue E. Leurgans et al. Neurology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Puja Agarwal United States	23	656	530	384	251	213	71	1.8k
Antonio Capurso Italy	25	891 1.4×	396 0.7×	406 1.1×	180 0.7×	296 1.4×	49	2.4k
Estefânia Gastaldello Moreira Brazil	29	148 0.2×	398 0.8×	334 0.9×	162 0.6×	176 0.8×	82	2.2k
Lorena Fuentes‐Broto Spain	24	626 1.0×	185 0.3×	678 1.8×	437 1.7×	146 0.7×	57	3.0k
Tae Gen Son South Korea	29	1.1k 1.7×	172 0.3×	1.1k 2.9×	155 0.6×	136 0.6×	51	3.3k
Véronique Ducros France	27	342 0.5×	205 0.4×	454 1.2×	94 0.4×	537 2.5×	60	2.2k
Aron M. Troen United States	25	424 0.6×	293 0.6×	505 1.3×	43 0.2×	330 1.5×	59	2.5k
Emre Sarandöl Türkiye	24	248 0.4×	122 0.2×	286 0.7×	131 0.5×	255 1.2×	69	2.0k
Marc Sim Australia	28	721 1.1×	279 0.5×	249 0.6×	94 0.4×	375 1.8×	128	2.4k
Jan Philipp Schuchardt Germany	27	644 1.0×	295 0.6×	447 1.2×	90 0.4×	1.5k 7.0×	67	2.7k
Jordi Olloquequi Chile	28	823 1.3×	207 0.4×	599 1.6×	59 0.2×	75 0.4×	73	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Puja Agarwal

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Alves, Francesca, Darius J.R. Lane, Adam Wahida, et al.. (2025). Aberrant Mitochondrial Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease Links Energy Stress with Ferroptosis. Advanced Science. 12(37). e04175–e04175. 5 indexed citations

Anderson, A. W., et al.. (2025). Inclusive Design of AI’s Explanations: Just for Those Previously Left Out?. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 16(1). 1–44. 1 indexed citations

Cherian, Laurel, Puja Agarwal, Sonal Agrawal, et al.. (2025). Dietary Patterns Associated With Risk of Intracranial Atherosclerosis in Older Adults With Hypertension or Myocardial Infarction. Neurology. 105(9). e214147–e214147.

Wallace, Taylor C., et al.. (2025). Dietary Choline Intake and Risk of Alzheimer’s Dementia in Older Adults. Journal of Nutrition. 155(7). 2322–2332. 1 indexed citations

Bush, Ashley I., Scott Ayton, Puja Agarwal, et al.. (2024). Elevated iron levels in the older adult brain are associated with higher R2 relaxation rate in gray matter and more white matter hyperintensities: An ex‐vivo MRI, pathology and mass spectrometry study. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S9). 1 indexed citations

Banerjee, Samrat, Puja Agarwal, Swarup Roy Choudhury, & Sujit Roy. (2024). MYB4, a member of R2R3-subfamily of MYB transcription factor functions as a repressor of key genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis and repair of UV-B induced DNA double strand breaks in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 211. 108698–108698. 11 indexed citations

Li, Jun, Ana W. Capuano, Puja Agarwal, et al.. (2024). The MIND diet, brain transcriptomic alterations, and dementia. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(9). 5996–6007. 13 indexed citations

Agarwal, Puja, Sue E. Leurgans, Sonal Agrawal, et al.. (2023). Association of Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay and Mediterranean Diets With Alzheimer Disease Pathology. Neurology. 100(22). e2259–e2268. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Xiaoran, Todd Beck, Klodian Dhana, et al.. (2023). Association of Whole Grain Consumption and Cognitive Decline. Neurology. 101(22). e2277–e2287. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoran, Klodian Dhana, Lisa L. Barnes, et al.. (2022). A healthy plant-based diet was associated with slower cognitive decline in African American older adults: a biracial community-based cohort. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 116(4). 875–886. 31 indexed citations

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Belaidi, Abdel Ali, Shashank Masaldan, Adam Southon, et al.. (2022). Apolipoprotein E potently inhibits ferroptosis by blocking ferritinophagy. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(2). 211–220. 77 indexed citations

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Lotan, Roni, Ramit Ravona‐Springer, Hung‐Mo Lin, et al.. (2022). Greater intake of the MEDI diet is associated with better cognitive trajectory in older adults with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 190. 109989–109989. 14 indexed citations

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Cherian, Laurel, Puja Agarwal, Thomas Holland, Julie A. Schneider, & Neelum T. Aggarwal. (2022). Western diet associated with increased post-stroke depressive symptoms. Journal of Nutritional Science. 11. e44–e44. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoran, Klodian Dhana, Jeremy D. Furtado, et al.. (2021). Higher circulating α-carotene was associated with better cognitive function: an evaluation among the MIND trial participants. Journal of Nutritional Science. 10. e64–e64. 25 indexed citations

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Lefèvre‐Arbogast, Sophie, Klodian Dhana, Neelum T. Aggarwal, et al.. (2021). Vitamin D Intake and Brain Cortical Thickness in Community-Dwelling Overweight Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Nutrition. 151(9). 2760–2767. 6 indexed citations

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Mitra, Mehali, Puja Agarwal, & Sujit Roy. (2021). The N-terminal MYB domains affect the stability and folding aspects of Arabidopsis thaliana MYB4 transcription factor under thermal stress. PROTOPLASMA. 258(3). 633–650. 6 indexed citations

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Cherian, Laurel, Thomas Holland, Puja Agarwal, et al.. (2020). Diet Pattern in Acute Stroke Patients, a Semiquantitative Analysis (5472). Neurology. 94(15_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Puja, et al.. (2019). GDP and Outward Foreign Direct Investment from India: Co-Integration and Causality Test. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering. 9(1). 2436–2439. 1 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Puja, Yamin Wang, Aron S. Buchman, David A. Bennett, & Martha Clare Morris. (2018). Association of Carotenoids, Vitamin E and Vitamin C intake with Parkinsonism and Progression of Parkinsonian signs in Older Adults (S4.006). Neurology. 90(15_supplement). 1 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Puja, et al.. (2018). MIND Diet Associated with Reduced Incidence and Delayed Progression of Parkinsonism in Old Age. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 22(10). 1211–1215. 89 indexed citations

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