Richa Saxena

51.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Richa Saxena is a scholar working on Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Richa Saxena has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 39 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Richa Saxena's work include Sleep and related disorders (36 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (30 papers). Richa Saxena is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (36 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (30 papers). Richa Saxena collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Richa Saxena's co-authors include Jacqueline M. Lane, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Hassan S. Dashti, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Céline Vetter, Marta Garaulet, José C. Florez, David Altshuler and Simon Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Richa Saxena

153 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep in human health and disease

2022 117 citations Jacqueline M. Lane, Susan Redline et al. profile →
Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study

2023 101 citations Angus C. Burns, Jacqueline M. Lane et al. SLEEP profile →

Peers

Richa Saxena

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Peter Y. Liu United States

Birgit Stoffel‐Wagner Germany

Angelo Cagnacci Italy

Harpal Randeva United Kingdom

Hanno Pijl Netherlands

Molly S. Bray United States

Zdenka Pausová Canada

Marta Garaulet Spain

John R. B. Perry United Kingdom

Andrew R. Wood United Kingdom

Peter Y. Liu United States

Richa Saxena

538 ×0.3

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1.1k ×0.7

671 ×0.4

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1.5k ×1.1

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2.0k ×1.5

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richa Saxena

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richa Saxena

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richa Saxena. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richa Saxena based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richa Saxena. Richa Saxena is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wright, Alison K., Tianyi Huang, Matthew Carr, et al.. (2025). Clinical utility of self-reported sleep duration and insomnia symptoms in type 2 diabetes prediction. Diabetologia. 68(11). 2523–2534.

Strausz, Satu, Martin Broberg, Samuel E. Jones, et al.. (2025). Genetic associations between serotonin receptor 1F (HTR1F) regulatory variation and sleep apnoea in non-obese individuals: insights from GWAS and eQTL analyses. European Respiratory Journal. 66(3). 2401778–2401778.

Saxena, Richa, et al.. (2024). Clinical and genetic associations for night eating syndrome in a patient biobank. Journal of Eating Disorders. 12(1). 211–211.

Saxena, Richa & Yaoliang Tang. (2024). Neuron-targeted exosome therapy: A novel approach for treating cardiogenic dementia via RyR2 inhibition. Medical Hypotheses. 183. 111266–111266. 1 indexed citations

Dashti, Hassan S., Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Richa Saxena, & Marta Garaulet. (2024). Impact of polygenic score for BMI on weight loss effectiveness and genome-wide association analysis. International Journal of Obesity. 48(5). 694–701. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Han, Nuzulul Kurniansyah, Shaun Purcell, et al.. (2023). 0034 Genetic Variants for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Identified after Modeling Interactions with Daytime Sleepiness. SLEEP. 46(Supplement_1). A15–A16.

Garaulet, Marta, Bárbara Vizmanos, María‐Ángeles Bonmatí‐Carrión, et al.. (2023). Evening types as determined by subjective and objective measures are more emotional eaters. Obesity. 31(5). 1192–1203. 8 indexed citations

Johnston, Jennifer J., Robert T. Dirksen, Thierry Girard, et al.. (2022). Updated variant curation expert panel criteria and pathogenicity classifications for 251 variants for RYR1 -related malignant hyperthermia susceptibility. Human Molecular Genetics. 31(23). 4087–4093. 15 indexed citations

Burns, Angus C., Andrew J. K. Phillips, Martin K. Rutter, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide gene by environment study of time spent in daylight and chronotype identifies emerging genetic architecture underlying light sensitivity. SLEEP. 46(3). 11 indexed citations

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Vetter, Céline, et al.. (2022). How Accurately Can We Recall the Timing of Food Intake? A Comparison of Food Times from Recall-Based Survey Questions and Daily Food Records. Current Developments in Nutrition. 6(2). nzac002–nzac002. 15 indexed citations

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Richmond, Rebecca C., Jack Bowden, Hassan S. Dashti, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Causal Role of Sleep Traits on Glycated Hemoglobin: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Diabetes Care. 45(4). 772–781. 37 indexed citations

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Dashti, Hassan S., Angela Chen, Kris M. Mogensen, et al.. (2022). Sleep patterns of patients receiving home parenteral nutrition: A home‐based observational study. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 46(7). 1699–1708. 10 indexed citations

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Dashti, Hassan S., Douglas E. Levy, Marie‐France Hivert, et al.. (2021). Genetic risk for obesity and the effectiveness of the ChooseWell 365 workplace intervention to prevent weight gain and improve dietary choices. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 115(1). 180–188. 4 indexed citations

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Dashti, Hassan S., et al.. (2020). Sleep health, diseases, and pain syndromes: findings from an electronic health record biobank. SLEEP. 44(3). 29 indexed citations

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Dashti, Hassan S., Marie‐France Hivert, Douglas E. Levy, et al.. (2020). Polygenic risk score for obesity and the quality, quantity, and timing of workplace food purchases: A secondary analysis from the ChooseWell 365 randomized trial. PLoS Medicine. 17(7). e1003219–e1003219. 19 indexed citations

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McCaw, Zachary R., Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, Susan Redline, & Xihong Lin. (2019). Operating characteristics of the rank‐based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome‐wide association studies. Biometrics. 76(4). 1262–1272. 117 indexed citations

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Rhodes, Jessica A., Jacqueline M. Lane, Irma Vlasac, et al.. (2018). Association of DAT1 genetic variants with habitual sleep duration in the UK Biobank. SLEEP. 42(1). 9 indexed citations

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Dashti, Hassan S., et al.. (2018). Modifiable lifestyle behaviors, but not a genetic risk score, associate with metabolic syndrome in evening chronotypes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 945–945. 90 indexed citations

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Giorgi, Elena, Yuqing Li, Christian Caberto, et al.. (2016). No Association between the Mitochondrial Genome and Prostate Cancer Risk: The Multiethnic Cohort. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 25(6). 1001–1003. 14 indexed citations

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Lane, Jacqueline M., Jingjing Liang, Irma Vlasac, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits. Nature Genetics. 49(2). 274–281. 226 indexed citations

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