Sarah Appleton

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sarah Appleton is a scholar working on Physiology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Appleton has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Physiology, 50 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 28 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Sarah Appleton's work include Sleep and related disorders (48 papers), Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research (47 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (27 papers). Sarah Appleton is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (48 papers), Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research (47 papers) and Sleep and Wakefulness Research (27 papers). Sarah Appleton collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Sarah Appleton's co-authors include Robert Adams, Anne Taylor, Tiffany K. Gill, Richard E. Ruffin, R. Doug McEvoy, David Wilson, Catherine Hill, Gary Wittert, Carol J. Lang and Peter Catcheside and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Appleton

145 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in the Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotype

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Appleton Australia	37	2.0k	972	801	676	638	151	4.5k
Takeshi Tanigawa Japan	39	1.4k 0.7×	558 0.6×	833 1.0×	637 0.9×	690 1.1×	285	5.5k
Imre Janszky Sweden	42	859 0.4×	925 1.0×	230 0.3×	593 0.9×	432 0.7×	163	5.8k
Ylva Trolle Lagerros Sweden	39	1.6k 0.8×	560 0.6×	277 0.3×	1.3k 1.9×	308 0.5×	173	4.8k
Anne G. Wheaton United States	38	980 0.5×	2.2k 2.2×	1.0k 1.3×	931 1.4×	485 0.8×	76	5.5k
Xiaoli Chen China	29	807 0.4×	930 1.0×	273 0.3×	1.4k 2.1×	379 0.6×	80	4.1k
Ann M. Berger United States	45	677 0.3×	1.7k 1.8×	2.1k 2.6×	640 0.9×	613 1.0×	147	7.0k
Barbara Phillips United States	30	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 2.2×	969 1.2×	461 0.7×	1.7k 2.7×	84	6.2k
Bernt Lindahl Sweden	42	1.6k 0.8×	586 0.6×	260 0.3×	1.4k 2.0×	588 0.9×	113	5.5k
Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen Norway	41	1.1k 0.6×	315 0.3×	484 0.6×	975 1.4×	158 0.2×	174	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Appleton

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Appleton, Sarah, Ganesh R. Naik, Duc Phuc Nguyen, et al.. (2024). Associations of polysomnographic measures of obstructive sleep apnea, and nocturnal oxygen saturation with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle‐aged and older men. Journal of Sleep Research. 34(3). e14357–e14357. 1 indexed citations

Dobbie, Laurence J., et al.. (2024). Liraglutide 3.0 mg in the treatment of adults with obesity and prediabetes using real‐world UK data: A clinical evaluation of a multi‐ethnic population. Clinical Obesity. 14(3). e12649–e12649. 5 indexed citations

Berger, Mathieu, Andrew Vakulin, Camila Hirotsu, et al.. (2022). Association Between Sleep Microstructure and Incident Hypertension in a Population‐Based Sample: The HypnoLaus Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(14). e025828–e025828. 12 indexed citations

Stevens, David, Alia A. Alghwiri, Sarah Appleton, et al.. (2021). Should We Lose Sleep Over Sleep Disturbances After Sports-Related Concussion? A Scoping Review of the Literature. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. 37(3). E206–E219. 11 indexed citations

Reynolds, Amy C., Sarah Appleton, Tiffany K. Gill, et al.. (2021). Sleep disorders and gout in Australian adults. BMC Rheumatology. 5(1). 30–30. 4 indexed citations

Sprajcer, Madeline, Sarah Appleton, Robert Adams, et al.. (2021). Who is ‘on-call’ in Australia? A new classification approach for on-call employment in future population-level studies. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0259035–e0259035. 5 indexed citations

Melaku, Yohannes Adama, A D’Rozario, Gary Wittert, et al.. (2021). The association between obstructive sleep apnea and sleep spindles in middle-aged and older men: a community-based cohort study. SLEEP. 45(3). 10 indexed citations

Beleigoli, Alline, Sarah Appleton, Tiffany K. Gill, Catherine Hill, & Robert Adams. (2020). Association of metabolic phenotypes, grip strength and diabetes risk: The 15-year follow-up of The North West Adelaide Health Study, Australia. Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 14(6). 536–541. 4 indexed citations

Appleton, Sarah, Andrew Vakulin, A D’Rozario, et al.. (2019). Quantitative electroencephalography measures in rapid eye movement and nonrapid eye movement sleep are associated with apnea–hypopnea index and nocturnal hypoxemia in men. SLEEP. 42(7). 35 indexed citations

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Shi, Zumin, Evan Atlantis, Anne Taylor, et al.. (2017). SSRI antidepressant use potentiates weight gain in the context of unhealthy lifestyles: results from a 4-year Australian follow-up study. BMJ Open. 7(8). e016224–e016224. 22 indexed citations

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Appleton, Sarah, et al.. (2016). Association of kidney disease with obstructive sleep apnea in a population study of men.. SLEEP. 2 indexed citations

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Appleton, Sarah, Andrew Vakulin, Gary Wittert, et al.. (2016). The association of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and nocturnal hypoxemia with the development of abnormal HbA1c in a population cohort of men without diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 114. 151–159. 16 indexed citations

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Lang, Carol J., Sarah Appleton, Andrew Vakulin, et al.. (2015). Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS) are Independently Associated with Depression in a Community Based Population of Australian Men. 191. 2 indexed citations

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Appleton, Sarah, Gary Wittert, Andrew Vakulin, et al.. (2014). The Relationship between Functional Health Literacy and Obstructive Sleep Apnea and its Related Risk Factors and Comorbidities in a Population Cohort of Men. SLEEP. 37(3). 571–578. 28 indexed citations

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Gill, Tiffany K., Catherine Hill, E. Michael Shanahan, et al.. (2014). Vitamin D levels in an Australian population. BMC Public Health. 14(1). 1001–1001. 69 indexed citations

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Lester, Susan, Maureen Rischmueller, Peter J. Wormald, et al.. (2012). Sicca Symptoms and their Association with Chronic Rhinosinusitis in a Community Sample. The Open Rheumatology Journal. 6(1). 170–174. 8 indexed citations

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Adams, Robert, Cynthia Piantadosi, Sarah Appleton, et al.. (2012). Investigating obstructive sleep apnoea: will the health system have the capacity to cope? A population study. Australian Health Review. 36(4). 424–429. 23 indexed citations

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Adams, Robert, Sarah Appleton, David Wilson, Anne Taylor, & Richard E. Ruffin. (2009). Associations of physical and mental health problems with chronic cough in a representative population cohort. PubMed. 5(1). 10–10. 23 indexed citations

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Adams, Robert, Sarah Appleton, Catherine Hill, et al.. (2009). Independent Association of HbA_1c and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in People Without Diabetes. Obesity. 17(3). 559–563. 40 indexed citations

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Smith, Bruce A., et al.. (2004). Eformoterol n-of-1 trials in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease poorly reversible to salbutamol. Chronic Respiratory Disease. 1(2). 63–69. 7 indexed citations

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