Sara Pereira

770 total citations
66 papers, 492 citations indexed

About

Sara Pereira is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Pereira has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 492 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 29 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sara Pereira's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (48 papers), Children's Physical and Motor Development (42 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (25 papers). Sara Pereira is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (48 papers), Children's Physical and Motor Development (42 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (25 papers). Sara Pereira collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Brazil and United States. Sara Pereira's co-authors include José Maia, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Thayse Natacha Gomes, Raquel Nichele de Chaves, Michele Souza, Daniel Santos, Fernanda Karina dos Santos, Donald Hedeker, Go Tani and Adam Baxter‐Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sara Pereira

58 papers receiving 482 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Pereira Portugal	13	314	252	128	83	81	66	492
Raquel Nichele de Chaves Portugal	13	296 0.9×	258 1.0×	131 1.0×	58 0.7×	91 1.1×	39	461
Katrine Nyvoll Aadland Norway	11	284 0.9×	341 1.4×	129 1.0×	66 0.8×	90 1.1×	20	494
Milena Morano Italy	14	214 0.7×	321 1.3×	48 0.4×	77 0.9×	72 0.9×	20	489
Pertti Huotari Finland	9	215 0.7×	243 1.0×	129 1.0×	37 0.4×	34 0.4×	17	389
Vincent Ebenegger Switzerland	10	420 1.3×	266 1.1×	116 0.9×	130 1.6×	77 1.0×	11	565
Michele Souza Brazil	13	271 0.9×	172 0.7×	113 0.9×	73 0.9×	58 0.7×	47	383
Bronagh McGrane Ireland	16	261 0.8×	323 1.3×	187 1.5×	52 0.6×	43 0.5×	26	582
Fernanda Karina dos Santos Brazil	14	333 1.1×	190 0.8×	162 1.3×	90 1.1×	56 0.7×	40	489
Flavia Bürgi Switzerland	11	544 1.7×	399 1.6×	154 1.2×	157 1.9×	121 1.5×	12	730
Angus A. Leahy Australia	13	203 0.6×	257 1.0×	203 1.6×	37 0.4×	26 0.3×	31	485

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Rago, Vincenzo, et al.. (2025). Physical and Physiological Demands of Official Beach Soccer Match-Play in Relation to Environmental Temperature. Sports. 13(4). 118–118. 1 indexed citations

Maia, José, Sara Pereira, Donald Hedeker, et al.. (2024). A multivariate multilevel approach to unravel the associations between individual and school factors on children's motor performance in the REACT project. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24080–e24080. 1 indexed citations

Pereira, Sara, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Jean‐Philippe Chaput, et al.. (2024). Individual and school correlates of body mass index and cardiorespiratory fitness in primary school children from the REACT project: A multivariate multilevel analysis. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24065–e24065. 3 indexed citations

Pereira, Sara, José Maia, Olga Vasconcelos, et al.. (2024). Children’s Individual Differences in the Responses to a New Method for Physical Education. Sports. 12(12). 328–328.

Pereira, Sara, et al.. (2024). INFOGRAPHIC: Relationship between Fundamental Movement Skills and Sports Skills. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 18(1).

Maia, José, Donald Hedeker, Tiago V. Barreira, et al.. (2024). Associations of obesity, movement behaviors, and socioeconomic status with fundamental movement skills in children: Results from the REACT project. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24108–e24108. 6 indexed citations

Júdice, Pedro B., Marlene N. Silva, Eliana V. Carraça, et al.. (2023). Providing office workers with height-adjustable workstation to reduce and interrupt workplace sitting time: protocol for the Stand Up for Healthy Aging (SUFHA) cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 24(1). 381–381. 4 indexed citations

Chaves, Raquel Nichele de, Olga Vasconcelos, Sara Pereira, et al.. (2023). Modeling the Dynamics of Children’s Musculoskeletal Fitness. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 2938–2938. 3 indexed citations

Pereira, Sara, Olga Vasconcelos, Go Tani, et al.. (2023). Secular Trends in Physical Fitness of Peruvian Children Living at High-Altitude. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(4). 3236–3236. 1 indexed citations

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Chaput, Jean‐Philippe, Sara Pereira, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, et al.. (2023). Sleep and fundamental movement skills in primary schoolchildren: The REACT project. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24019–e24019. 1 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, Go Tani, Jean‐Philippe Chaput, et al.. (2023). Validity and reliability of Meu Educativo®: A new tool to assess fundamental movement skills in school‐aged children. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24011–e24011. 8 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Donald Hedeker, et al.. (2023). Background, rationale, and methodological overview of the REACT project—return‐to‐action on growth, motor development, and health after the COVID‐19 pandemic in primary school children. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e23968–e23968. 7 indexed citations

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Hedeker, Donald, Sara Pereira, Tiago V. Barreira, et al.. (2023). Statistical analysis of the longitudinal fundamental movement skills data in the REACT project using the multilevel ordinal logistic model. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(7). e24015–e24015. 1 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, et al.. (2022). Variation and Predictors of Gross Motor Coordination Development in Azorean Children: A Quantile Regression Approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(9). 5417–5417. 1 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, Go Tani, Duarte Freitas, et al.. (2021). Physical fitness spurts in pre-adolescent boys and girls: Timing, intensity and sequencing. Journal of Sports Sciences. 40(6). 630–637. 6 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, et al.. (2021). The Defensive Golden Index: A novel method to rank football player defensive performance for Fútbol Club Barcelona. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part P Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology. 236(3). 209–220. 1 indexed citations

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Guimarães, Eduardo, Adam Baxter‐Jones, Sara Pereira, et al.. (2020). Patterns of physical performance spurts during adolescence: a cross-cultural study of Canadian, Brazilian and Portuguese boys. Annals of Human Biology. 47(4). 346–354. 8 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara. (2020). The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle and Health.. Open Repository of the University of Porto (University of Porto). 1 indexed citations

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Santos, Marcos André Moura dos, Alan Nevill, Sara Pereira, et al.. (2018). Modeling children's development in gross motor coordination reveals key modifiable determinants. An allometric approach. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 28(5). 1594–1603. 33 indexed citations

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Pereira, Sara, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Thayse Natacha Gomes, et al.. (2016). Multilevel modelling of somatotype components: the Portuguese sibling study on growth, fitness, lifestyle and health. Annals of Human Biology. 44(4). 316–324. 12 indexed citations

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