Silvan Licher

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Silvan Licher is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvan Licher has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 9 papers in Physiology and 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Silvan Licher's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (20 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Silvan Licher is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (20 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (7 papers). Silvan Licher collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Silvan Licher's co-authors include M. Arfan Ikram, M. Kamran Ikram, Frank J. Wolters, Maarten J.G. Leening, Peter J. Koudstaal, Albert Hofman, Ünal Mutlu, Lana Fani, Blossom C. M. Stephan and Trudy Voortman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, American Journal of Psychiatry and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Silvan Licher

38 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Plasma tau, neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β levels and risk of dementia; a population-based cohort study

2020 215 citations Silvan Licher, M. Kamran Ikram et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silvan Licher Netherlands	21	579	408	217	176	150	41	1.6k
Seong Yoon Kim South Korea	24	762 1.3×	394 1.0×	171 0.8×	112 0.6×	114 0.8×	81	1.7k
Elżbieta Kuźma United Kingdom	15	451 0.8×	299 0.7×	236 1.1×	204 1.2×	65 0.4×	32	1.4k
Marcel Olde‐Rikkert Netherlands	16	368 0.6×	286 0.7×	166 0.8×	126 0.7×	129 0.9×	28	1.2k
Rod Walker United States	26	543 0.9×	519 1.3×	393 1.8×	406 2.3×	84 0.6×	90	2.9k
Elizabeth A. McAninch United States	27	447 0.8×	605 1.5×	154 0.7×	207 1.2×	62 0.4×	60	2.7k
Ilianna Lourida United Kingdom	16	503 0.9×	493 1.2×	465 2.1×	166 0.9×	49 0.3×	34	1.7k
Hua Jin China	14	622 1.1×	316 0.8×	94 0.4×	166 0.9×	132 0.9×	43	1.5k
Shahram Oveisgharan United States	21	366 0.6×	328 0.8×	252 1.2×	386 2.2×	82 0.5×	113	1.8k
Ramit Ravona‐Springer Israel	20	468 0.8×	473 1.2×	182 0.8×	105 0.6×	61 0.4×	94	1.4k
Jules J. Claus Netherlands	19	1.1k 1.8×	654 1.6×	185 0.9×	135 0.8×	110 0.7×	49	2.2k

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Licher, Silvan, et al.. (2025). Temporal Trends of Anticholinergic Drug Exposure Among Older Adults: A 25-Year Population-Based Study. Drug Safety. 48(10). 1141–1147.

Mooldijk, Sanne S., et al.. (2025). Time to nursing home admission and death in people with dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 388. e080636–e080636. 7 indexed citations

Kieboom, Brenda C.T., et al.. (2024). Healthcare avoidance during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and all-cause mortality: a longitudinal community-based study. British Journal of General Practice. 74(748). e791–e796.

Claus, Jacqueline J., et al.. (2024). Characterizing TIA and stroke symptomatology in a population-based study: implications for and diagnostic value of FAST-based public education. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 3512–3512.

Schepper, Evelien de, D. Schiphof, W.E. van Spil, et al.. (2023). Changes to consultations and diagnosis of osteoarthritis in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 31(6). 829–838. 2 indexed citations

Ikram, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Patient perspectives on telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods community-based study. BMC Health Services Research. 23(1). 803–803. 9 indexed citations

Luik, Annemarie I., Guy Brusselle, Patrick Bindels, et al.. (2022). Sex-specific patterns and lifetime risk of multimorbidity in the general population: a 23-year prospective cohort study. BMC Medicine. 20(1). 304–304. 11 indexed citations

Licher, Silvan, Frank J. Wolters, Jelena Pavlović, et al.. (2022). Effects of Eligibility Criteria on Patient Selection and Treatment Implications from 10 Multidomain Dementia Prevention Trials: A Population-Based Study. Neuroepidemiology. 57(1). 14–24. 2 indexed citations

Ikram, M. Kamran, Brenda C.T. Kieboom, Robin P. Peeters, et al.. (2021). Prevalence and determinants of healthcare avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic: A population-based cross-sectional study. PLoS Medicine. 18(11). e1003854–e1003854. 81 indexed citations

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Mooldijk, Sanne S., Amber Yaqub, Frank J. Wolters, et al.. (2021). Life expectancy with and without dementia in persons with mild cognitive impairment in the community. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 70(2). 481–489. 20 indexed citations

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Vinke, Elisabeth J., Pınar Yilmaz, Florian Dubost, et al.. (2021). Intracranial arteriosclerosis is related to cerebral small vessel disease: a prospective cohort study. Neurobiology of Aging. 105. 16–24. 11 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Natalie Terzikhan, Frank J.A. van Rooij, et al.. (2021). Design, implementation and initial findings of COVID-19 research in the Rotterdam Study: leveraging existing infrastructure for population-based investigations on an emerging disease. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(6). 649–654. 8 indexed citations

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Willik, Kimberly D. van der, Silvan Licher, Elisabeth J. Vinke, et al.. (2020). Trajectories of Cognitive and Motor Function Between Ages 45 and 90 Years: A Population-Based Study. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 76(2). 297–306. 32 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuan, Frank J. Wolters, Lori B. Chibnik, et al.. (2019). Variation in blood pressure and long-term risk of dementia: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 16(11). e1002933–e1002933. 59 indexed citations

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Darweesh, Sirwan K.L., Silvan Licher, Frank J. Wolters, et al.. (2019). Quantitative gait, cognitive decline, and incident dementia: The Rotterdam Study. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 15(10). 1264–1273. 34 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Alis Heshmatollah, Kimberly D. van der Willik, et al.. (2019). Lifetime risk and multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases and disease-free life expectancy in the general population: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 16(2). e1002741–e1002741. 81 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Shahzad Ahmad, Hata Karamujić‐Čomić, et al.. (2019). Genetic predisposition, modifiable-risk-factor profile and long-term dementia risk in the general population. Nature Medicine. 25(9). 1364–1369. 146 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Sirwan K.L. Darweesh, Frank J. Wolters, et al.. (2018). Lifetime risk of common neurological diseases in the elderly population. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 90(2). 148–156. 55 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Pınar Yilmaz, Maarten J.G. Leening, et al.. (2018). External validation of four dementia prediction models for use in the general community-dwelling population: a comparative analysis from the Rotterdam Study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 33(7). 645–655. 74 indexed citations

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Licher, Silvan, Renée F.A.G. de Bruijn, Frank J. Wolters, et al.. (2017). Vitamin D and the Risk of Dementia: The Rotterdam Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 60(3). 989–997. 60 indexed citations

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