Sarah Van de Velde

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Sarah Van de Velde is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Van de Velde has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 21 papers in Clinical Psychology and 20 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Sarah Van de Velde's work include Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (15 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (15 papers). Sarah Van de Velde is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (16 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (15 papers) and COVID-19 and Mental Health (15 papers). Sarah Van de Velde collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Sarah Van de Velde's co-authors include Piet Bracke, Katia Levecque, Lieve Moons, Edwin Wouters, Ingeborg Stalmans, Veerle Buffel, Jordi Alonso, Silvia Florescu, Viviane Kovess–Masféty and Anders Boyd and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Stroke and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Van de Velde

82 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Gender differences in depression in 23 European countries. Cross-national variation in the gender gap in depression

2010 547 citations Sarah Van de Velde, Piet Bracke et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Van de Velde Belgium	27	815	704	645	606	424	90	2.7k
Noriko Cable United Kingdom	26	380 0.5×	526 0.7×	462 0.7×	201 0.3×	255 0.6×	68	2.2k
Reg Arthur Williams United States	23	617 0.8×	741 1.1×	191 0.3×	395 0.7×	380 0.9×	51	2.7k
Yan Cheng China	29	446 0.5×	484 0.7×	251 0.4×	205 0.3×	325 0.8×	107	2.7k
Jochen Hardt Germany	35	2.5k 3.0×	693 1.0×	506 0.8×	545 0.9×	564 1.3×	110	7.1k
Richard Schulz Germany	28	746 0.9×	764 1.1×	626 1.0×	814 1.3×	829 2.0×	51	5.0k
Ehud Bodner Israel	34	1.7k 2.0×	393 0.6×	761 1.2×	1.4k 2.4×	445 1.0×	191	3.9k
Alyson K. Zalta United States	31	2.4k 2.9×	494 0.7×	143 0.2×	378 0.6×	339 0.8×	106	3.9k
Yaling Yang United Kingdom	39	1.7k 2.1×	622 0.9×	110 0.2×	821 1.4×	621 1.5×	112	5.2k
Birgitta Floderus Sweden	36	365 0.4×	891 1.3×	334 0.5×	246 0.4×	316 0.7×	61	4.6k
Marina Economou Greece	31	1.6k 1.9×	977 1.4×	505 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	254 0.6×	153	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Van de Velde

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Van de Velde

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Velde, Sarah Van de, et al.. (2025). An Extended Policy Analysis of Flemish Universities’ Intersectional Commitments to Sexually Transgressive Behaviour. Social Inclusion. 13. 1 indexed citations

Vives‐Cases, Carmen, Sofia Neves, Sarah Van de Velde, et al.. (2025). Strengthening universities ’ response to sexual harassment with an equity approach: the UNI4EQUITY mixed-methods study protocol. BMJ Open. 15(7). e097265–e097265.

Velde, Sarah Van de, et al.. (2024). Abortion Trajectory, Timing, and Access Study (ATTAS): study protocol. Archives of Public Health. 82(1). 211–211.

Buffel, Veerle, et al.. (2024). The relation between economic stressors and higher education students’ mental health during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 52(3). 316–328. 3 indexed citations

Pande, Saket, Simukai Shamu, Sarah Van de Velde, et al.. (2024). COVID-19 and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and child marriage: An online multi-country cross sectional survey. PLoS ONE. 19(10). e0304671–e0304671.

Velde, Sarah Van de, et al.. (2023). An international comparison of gender differences in mental health among higher-education students during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: a multilevel design. Archives of Public Health. 81(1). 211–211. 3 indexed citations

Tavolacci, Marie‐Pierre, Edwin Wouters, Sarah Van de Velde, et al.. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Health Behaviors among Students of a French University. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(8). 4346–4346. 67 indexed citations

Kumar, Navin, Kamila Janmohamed, Kate Nyhan, et al.. (2021). Sexual health and COVID-19: protocol for a scoping review. Systematic Reviews. 10(1). 37–37. 8 indexed citations

Gronewold, Janine, Miriam Engels, Sarah Van de Velde, et al.. (2021). Effects of Life Events and Social Isolation on Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease. Stroke. 52(2). 735–747. 31 indexed citations

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Kumar, Navin, Kamila Janmohamed, Kate Nyhan, et al.. (2021). Sexual health (excluding reproductive health, intimate partner violence and gender-based violence) and COVID-19: a scoping review. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 97(6). 402–410. 23 indexed citations

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Michielsen, Kristien, Anna Kågesten, Jennifer Toller Erausquin, et al.. (2020). International Sexual Health And REproductive health (I-SHARE) survey during COVID-19: study protocol for online national surveys and global comparative analyses. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 97(2). 88–92. 33 indexed citations

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Leye, Els, et al.. (2018). The Association Between Women's Social Position and the Medicalization of Female Genital Cutting in Egypt. International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 44(3). 101–101. 4 indexed citations

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Velde, Sarah Van de, Anders Boyd, Jordi Alonso, et al.. (2018). Gender differences in common mental disorders: a comparison of social risk factors across four European welfare regimes. European Journal of Public Health. 29(3). 481–487. 16 indexed citations

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Velde, Sarah Van de, Tine Van Bergen, Evelien Vandewalle, et al.. (2015). Rho kinase inhibitor AMA0526 improves surgical outcome in a rabbit model of glaucoma filtration surgery. Progress in brain research. 220. 283–297. 38 indexed citations

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Hollanders, Karen, Tine Van Bergen, Sarah Van de Velde, et al.. (2013). A RHO kinase inhibitor, AMA0526 improves corneal wound healing after alkali burn injury. Acta Ophthalmologica. 91(s252). 0–0. 2 indexed citations

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Velde, Sarah Van de, Anders Boyd, & Viviane Kovess–Masféty. (2012). Mental health in Europe: a gender perspective. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Tuyckom, Charlotte Van, Sarah Van de Velde, & Piet Bracke. (2012). Does country-context matter? A cross-national analysis of gender and leisure time physical inactivity in Europe. European Journal of Public Health. 23(3). 452–457. 38 indexed citations

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Christiaens, Wendy, Sarah Van de Velde, & Piet Bracke. (2011). Pregnant Women's Fear of Childbirth in Midwife- and Obstetrician-Led Care in Belgium and the Netherlands: Test of the Medicalization Hypothesis. Women & Health. 51(3). 220–239. 25 indexed citations

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Velde, Sarah Van de, et al.. (2008). Who benefits from divorce and who doesn’t? The effects of social-relational and socio-economic factors on mental health. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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Longstreth, W. T., Thanh G.N. Ton, Thomas D. Koepsell, et al.. (2008). Prevalence of narcolepsy in King County, Washington, USA. Sleep Medicine. 10(4). 422–426. 66 indexed citations

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