Sèverine Sabia

16.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
154 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Sèverine Sabia is a scholar working on Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sèverine Sabia has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Physiology, 57 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 41 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sèverine Sabia's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (38 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (35 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (34 papers). Sèverine Sabia is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (38 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (35 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (34 papers). Sèverine Sabia collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Finland. Sèverine Sabia's co-authors include Archana Singh‐Manoux, Mika Kivimäki, Aline Dugravot, Martin J. Shipley, Vincent T. van Hees, Alexis Elbaz, Aurore Fayossé, Michael Marmot, Julien Dumurgier and G. David Batty and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sèverine Sabia

145 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2019 2015 2021 2017 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. GGIR: A Research Community–Driven Open Source R Package for Generating Physical Activity and Sleep Outcomes From Multi-Day Raw Accelerometer Data
    2019 537 citations Jairo H. Migueles, Alex V. Rowlands et al. profile →
  2. A Novel, Open Access Method to Assess Sleep Duration Using a Wrist-Worn Accelerometer
    2015 440 citations Vincent T. van Hees, Sèverine Sabia et al. profile →
  3. Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia
    2021 370 citations Sèverine Sabia, Aurore Fayossé et al. profile →
  4. Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Before Diagnosis of Dementia
    2017 336 citations Archana Singh‐Manoux, Aline Dugravot et al. profile →
  5. Estimating sleep parameters using an accelerometer without sleep diary
    2018 322 citations Vincent T. van Hees, Sèverine Sabia et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  6. Physical activity, cognitive decline, and risk of dementia: 28 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study
    2017 294 citations Sèverine Sabia, Aline Dugravot et al. profile →
  7. Association Between Age at Diabetes Onset and Subsequent Risk of Dementia
    2021 200 citations Aurore Fayossé, Julien Dumurgier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sèverine Sabia France 55 3.6k 2.7k 2.1k 1.3k 1.3k 154 10.0k
Suzanne Satterfield United States 66 4.3k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 2.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.0× 163 16.9k
Teresa Liu‐Ambrose Canada 58 3.7k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 4.5k 2.2× 1.3k 1.0× 800 0.6× 283 13.4k
Leon Flicker Australia 73 3.6k 1.0× 2.4k 0.9× 4.6k 2.2× 1.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.2× 481 18.2k
Aline Dugravot France 42 1.8k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 87 7.0k
Felipe Barreto Schuch Brazil 58 5.9k 1.6× 2.2k 0.8× 2.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.2× 1.1k 0.9× 242 14.7k
Catherine Helmer France 55 2.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 3.2k 1.6× 918 0.7× 946 0.7× 304 10.4k
Kamal Masaki United States 73 5.6k 1.5× 2.0k 0.7× 4.0k 1.9× 2.5k 1.9× 811 0.6× 267 18.3k
Jeff D. Williamson United States 64 4.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.5× 3.4k 1.6× 2.4k 1.9× 793 0.6× 242 14.5k
Neelum T. Aggarwal United States 53 5.0k 1.4× 2.5k 0.9× 4.8k 2.3× 885 0.7× 955 0.7× 151 12.5k
Brenda L. Plassman United States 52 2.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 4.7k 2.3× 746 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 200 11.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sèverine Sabia

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All Works

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Dumurgier, Julien, Claire Paquet, Jacques Hugon, et al.. (2025). MemScreen: A smartphone application for detection of mild cognitive impairment: A validation study. The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s Disease. 12(3). 100077–100077.
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Yerramalla, Manasa Shanta, et al.. (2024). Association between profiles of accelerometer-measured daily movement behaviour and mortality risk: a prospective cohort study of British older adults. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 10(2). e001873–e001873. 2 indexed citations
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Prugger, Christof, Marie‐Cécile Perier, Sèverine Sabia, et al.. (2024). Association between changes in cardiovascular health and the risk of multimorbidity: community-based cohort studies in the UK and Finland. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 42. 100922–100922. 2 indexed citations
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Landré, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Reliable measures of rest-activity rhythm fragmentation: how many days are needed?. European Review of Aging and Physical Activity. 21(1). 29–29. 1 indexed citations
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Sabia, Sèverine, Aline Dugravot, Damien Léger, et al.. (2022). Association of sleep duration at age 50, 60, and 70 years with risk of multimorbidity in the UK: 25-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 19(10). e1004109–e1004109. 61 indexed citations
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Machado‐Fragua, Marcos D., Aurore Fayossé, Manasa Shanta Yerramalla, et al.. (2022). Association of Metabolic Syndrome With Incident Dementia: Role of Number and Age at Measurement of Components in a 28-Year Follow-up of the Whitehall II Cohort Study. Diabetes Care. 45(9). 2127–2135. 25 indexed citations
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Machado‐Fragua, Marcos D., Benjamin Landré, Aurore Fayossé, et al.. (2022). Circulating serum metabolites as predictors of dementia: a machine learning approach in a 21-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 334–334. 13 indexed citations
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Migueles, Jairo H., Eivind Aadland, Lars Bo Andersen, et al.. (2021). GRANADA consensus on analytical approaches to assess associations with accelerometer-determined physical behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep) in epidemiological studies. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 56(7). 376–384. 87 indexed citations
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Benadjaoud, Mohamed Amine, Mehdi Menai, Vincent T. van Hees, et al.. (2019). The association between accelerometer-assessed physical activity and respiratory function in older adults differs between smokers and non-smokers. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10270–10270. 12 indexed citations
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Hees, Vincent T. van, Sèverine Sabia, Samuel E. Jones, et al.. (2018). Estimating sleep parameters using an accelerometer without sleep diary. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12975–12975. 322 indexed citations breakdown →
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Welch, Catherine, Sèverine Sabia, Eric J. Brunner, Mika Kivimäki, & Martin J. Shipley. (2018). Does pattern mixture modelling reduce bias due to informative attrition compared to fitting a mixed effects model to the available cases or data imputed using multiple imputation?: a simulation study. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 18(1). 89–89. 5 indexed citations
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Dugravot, Aline, Michael Marmot, Alexis Elbaz, et al.. (2017). Contribution of cognitive performance and cognitive decline to associations between socioeconomic factors and dementia: A cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 14(6). e1002334–e1002334. 54 indexed citations
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Bell, Joshua A., Mark Hamer, G. David Batty, et al.. (2014). Combined effect of physical activity and leisure time sitting on long-term risk of incident obesity and metabolic risk factor clustering. Diabetologia. 57(10). 2048–2056. 44 indexed citations
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Bouillon, Kim, G. David Batty, Mark Hamer, et al.. (2013). Cardiovascular disease risk scores in identifying future frailty: the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Heart. 99(10). 737–742. 58 indexed citations
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Hagger‐Johnson, Gareth, Sèverine Sabia, Eric J. Brunner, et al.. (2013). Combined impact of smoking and heavy alcohol use on cognitive decline in early old age: Whitehall II prospective cohort study. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 203(2). 120–125. 62 indexed citations
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Hamer, Mark, Sèverine Sabia, G. David Batty, et al.. (2012). Physical Activity and Inflammatory Markers Over 10 Years. Circulation. 126(8). 928–933. 209 indexed citations
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Sabia, Sèverine. (2008). Smoking History and Cognitive Function in Middle Age From the Whitehall II Study. Archives of Internal Medicine. 168(11). 1165–1165. 99 indexed citations
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Sabia, Sèverine, Michael Marmot, Carole Dufouil, & Archana Singh‐Manoux. (2007). Smoking history and cognitive function in late midlife: evidence from the Whitehall II study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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