Sheila Maria Alvim Matos

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sheila Maria Alvim Matos is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheila Maria Alvim Matos has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 28 papers in Physiology and 19 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Sheila Maria Alvim Matos's work include Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (54 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (29 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (15 papers). Sheila Maria Alvim Matos is often cited by papers focused on Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (54 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (29 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (15 papers). Sheila Maria Alvim Matos collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and Portugal. Sheila Maria Alvim Matos's co-authors include Sandhi Maria Barreto, María Inês Schmidt, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, María del Carmen Bisi Molina, Dóra Chor, Paulo A. Lotufo, Estela M. L. Aquino, Isabela M. Benseñor, Marília Sá Carvalho and Valéria Maria de Azeredo Passos and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Sheila Maria Alvim Matos

86 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Cohort Profile: Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Cohort Profile: Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)
    2014 464 citations María Inês Schmidt, Bruce Bartholow Duncan et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sheila Maria Alvim Matos Brazil 22 961 419 342 251 236 93 2.1k
Annie Green Howard United States 25 775 0.8× 373 0.9× 313 0.9× 181 0.7× 134 0.6× 114 2.0k
Asnawi Abdullah Indonesia 16 662 0.7× 390 0.9× 224 0.7× 249 1.0× 346 1.5× 87 1.7k
Rishi Caleyachetty United Kingdom 17 705 0.7× 408 1.0× 386 1.1× 287 1.1× 257 1.1× 42 2.2k
Michel Vernay France 21 810 0.8× 318 0.8× 206 0.6× 175 0.7× 330 1.4× 72 1.7k
Minyoung Jang United States 10 559 0.6× 528 1.3× 166 0.5× 285 1.1× 190 0.8× 22 2.2k
Leyla Mohadjer United States 12 569 0.6× 365 0.9× 232 0.7× 237 0.9× 218 0.9× 24 2.0k
Rachel Leach United Kingdom 7 717 0.7× 508 1.2× 260 0.8× 221 0.9× 338 1.4× 8 1.9k
Kathryn S Porter United States 11 639 0.7× 341 0.8× 222 0.6× 180 0.7× 164 0.7× 14 1.7k
Vassiliki Bountziouka Greece 28 897 0.9× 797 1.9× 192 0.6× 173 0.7× 135 0.6× 105 2.1k
Vincent Carroll Australia 9 873 0.9× 476 1.1× 395 1.2× 378 1.5× 226 1.0× 16 2.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Almeida, Maria da Conceição Chagas de, Marcelo Krieger Maestri, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva, et al.. (2025). Exploring Associations between Race/Ethnicity and Glaucoma Prevalence in a Multicenter Brazilian Study: The ELSA-Brasil. Ethnicity & Disease. 35(1). 27–34. 1 indexed citations
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Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim, et al.. (2025). Survival Analysis and Factors Associated with Mortality in Heart Failure Patients in the ELSA-Brasil Cohort. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. 122(6).
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Aquino, Estela M. L., Lígia Gabrielli, Sheila Maria Alvim Matos, et al.. (2024). Percepção de imagem corporal, características socioeconômicas e estilo de vida em mulheres participantes do ELSA-Brasil na Bahia, Brasil. Cadernos de Saúde Pública. 40(2). e00107823–e00107823.
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Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim, et al.. (2024). Atividade Física no Tempo Livre e Incidência de Hipertensão Arterial em Participantes do ELSA-Brasil. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. 121(6). e20230734–e20230734. 1 indexed citations
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Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim, et al.. (2024). Leisure Time Physical Activity and Incidence of Arterial Hypertension in ELSA-Brasil Participants. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. 121(6).
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Feter, Natan, Rodrigo Citton Padilha dos Reis, Sheila Maria Alvim Matos, et al.. (2023). Association Between 24-Hour Movement Behavior and Cognitive Function in Brazilian Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Findings From the ELSA-Brasil. Innovation in Aging. 7(3). igad030–igad030. 11 indexed citations
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Camelo, Lidyane do Valle, Joanna M. N. Guimarães, Dóra Chor, et al.. (2023). Racial discrimination predicts the increase in body weight and BMI in Black individuals from ELSA-Brasil cohort. Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. 28(6). 1655–1662. 4 indexed citations
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Almeida, Maria da Conceição Chagas de, et al.. (2023). Combined Effect of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior on Abdominal Obesity in ELSA-Brasil Participants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(15). 6501–6501. 2 indexed citations
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Luft, Vivian Cristine, Paula A. Bracco, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, et al.. (2022). The inflammatory food index and its association with weight gain and incidence of diabetes: Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 32(3). 675–683. 3 indexed citations
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Pitanga, Francisco José Gondim, Maria da Conceição Chagas de Almeida, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, et al.. (2022). Leisure Time Physical Activity and SARS-CoV-2 Infection among ELSA-Brasil Participants. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19(21). 14155–14155.
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Benseñor, Isabela M., José Augusto Sgarbi, Carolina Castro Porto Silva Janovsky, et al.. (2021). Incidence of thyroid diseases: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism. 7 indexed citations
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Teles, Carlos, Martha Chico, Laura C. Rodrigues, et al.. (2021). Cuestionario de frecuencia de consumo de alimentos para niños de zonas rurales costeras del Ecuador: Construcción, validez relativa y calibración. Revista chilena de nutrición. 48(5). 687–697. 2 indexed citations
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Silva, Geraldo Bezerra da, Simon Fraser, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, et al.. (2020). Association between dietary patterns and renal function in a cross-sectional study using baseline data from the ELSA-Brasil cohort. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. 53(12). e10230–e10230. 2 indexed citations
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Mill, José Geraldo, et al.. (2020). Associações entre consumo de produtos lácteos, proteína C-reativa e perfil lipídico em adultos: resultados do ELSA-Brasil. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1 indexed citations
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Chaparro, M. Pia, Maria de Fátima de Pina, Letícia de Oliveira Cardoso, et al.. (2019). The association between the neighbourhood social environment and obesity in Brazil: a cross-sectional analysis of the ELSA-Brasil study. BMJ Open. 9(9). e026800–e026800. 11 indexed citations
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Canhada, Scheine, Vivian Cristine Luft, Luana Giatti, et al.. (2019). Ultra-processed foods, incident overweight and obesity, and longitudinal changes in weight and waist circumference: the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Public Health Nutrition. 23(6). 1076–1086. 173 indexed citations
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Veiga, Rafael, Hélio J. C. Barbosa, Heder S. Bernardino, et al.. (2018). Multiobjective grammar-based genetic programming applied to the study of asthma and allergy epidemiology. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 245–245. 10 indexed citations
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Barreto, Sandhi Maria, Maria de Fátima Haueisen Sander Diniz, María del Carmen Bisi Molina, et al.. (2018). Early-life nutritional status and metabolic syndrome: gender-specific associations from a cross-sectional analysis of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil). Public Health Nutrition. 21(8). 1546–1553. 6 indexed citations
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Drehmer, Michele, Andrew Odegaard, María Inês Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Brazilian dietary patterns and the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet-relationship with metabolic syndrome and newly diagnosed diabetes in the ELSA-Brasil study. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome. 9(1). 13–13. 43 indexed citations

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