Simona Sacuiu

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 762 citations indexed

About

Simona Sacuiu is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Physiology and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Simona Sacuiu has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 762 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 14 papers in Physiology and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Simona Sacuiu's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (32 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Simona Sacuiu is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (32 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (11 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Simona Sacuiu collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Simona Sacuiu's co-authors include Ingmar Skoog, Xinxin Guo, Boo Johansson, Deborah Gustafson, Silke Kern, Svante Östling, Anna Zettergren, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Magnus Sjögren and Scott M. Hofer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Neurology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Simona Sacuiu

38 papers receiving 753 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.

Changes in prevalence and incidence of dementia and risk factors for dementia: an analysis from cohort studies

2024 46 citations Simona Sacuiu, Ingmar Skoog et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simona Sacuiu Sweden	18	449	171	126	82	79	40	762
Andrea R. Zammit United States	16	351 0.8×	219 1.3×	198 1.6×	78 1.0×	51 0.6×	44	769
Elizabeth A. Boots United States	14	275 0.6×	239 1.4×	133 1.1×	70 0.9×	57 0.7×	30	654
Demitra Tsivos United Kingdom	8	319 0.7×	147 0.9×	170 1.3×	58 0.7×	39 0.5×	9	793
Shin Gyeom Kim South Korea	19	544 1.2×	262 1.5×	223 1.8×	108 1.3×	90 1.1×	84	1.1k
Rocío Trincado Spain	15	353 0.8×	123 0.7×	120 1.0×	56 0.7×	79 1.0×	25	880
Naiara Demnitz United Kingdom	11	237 0.5×	140 0.8×	160 1.3×	51 0.6×	83 1.1×	31	679
Vineeth John United States	4	631 1.4×	329 1.9×	157 1.2×	107 1.3×	83 1.1×	5	1.2k
Dane Rayment United Kingdom	5	301 0.7×	118 0.7×	113 0.9×	50 0.6×	39 0.5×	9	656
Melanie Chandler United States	13	510 1.1×	141 0.8×	202 1.6×	53 0.6×	36 0.5×	32	835
Emily Thiessen Canada	8	464 1.0×	175 1.0×	88 0.7×	40 0.5×	61 0.8×	12	795

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Sterner, Therese Rydberg, Lina Rydén, Simona Sacuiu, et al.. (2025). Loneliness and biomarkers of brain pathology in people with subjective cognitive decline. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 11299–11299. 1 indexed citations

Mo, Minjia, Tamar Abzhandadze, Simona Sacuiu, et al.. (2025). Antidepressant use and cognitive decline in patients with dementia: a national cohort study. BMC Medicine. 23(1). 82–82. 6 indexed citations

Seidu, Nazib M., Silke Kern, Simona Sacuiu, et al.. (2024). Association of CSF biomarkers with MRI brain changes in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 16(1). e12556–e12556. 5 indexed citations

Seidu, Nazib M., Silke Kern, Simona Sacuiu, et al.. (2023). Associations between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers and brain regions of relevance for very early Alzheimer’s disease processes. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S2).

Wetterberg, Hanna, Jenna Najar, Therese Rydberg Sterner, et al.. (2023). Decreasing Incidence and Prevalence of Dementia Among Octogenarians: A Population-Based Study on 3 Cohorts Born 30 Years Apart. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 78(6). 1069–1077. 5 indexed citations

Guo, Xinxin, Simona Sacuiu, Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg, et al.. (2023). Longstanding smoking associated with frontal brain lobe atrophy: a 32-year follow-up study in women. BMJ Open. 13(10). e072803–e072803. 1 indexed citations

Fässberg, Madeleine Mellqvist, Silke Kern, Henrik Zetterberg, et al.. (2023). Mild cognitive impairment is associated with passive suicidal ideation in older adults: A population‐based study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 148(1). 91–101. 7 indexed citations

Wetterberg, Hanna, Lina Rydén, Felicia Ahlner, et al.. (2022). Representativeness in population-based studies of older adults: five waves of cross-sectional examinations in the Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Study. BMJ Open. 12(12). e068165–e068165. 13 indexed citations

König, Alexandra, Jian Zhao, Nicklas Linz, et al.. (2022). Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment Using a Machine Learning Classifier and the Remote Speech Biomarker for Cognition: Evidence from Two Clinically Relevant Cohorts. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 91(3). 1165–1171. 7 indexed citations

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Rydén, Lina, Simona Sacuiu, Hanna Wetterberg, et al.. (2021). Atrial Fibrillation, Stroke, and Silent Cerebrovascular Disease. Neurology. 97(16). e1608–e1619. 33 indexed citations

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Wetterberg, Hanna, Jenna Najar, Lina Rydén, et al.. (2021). Dementia remains the major predictor of death among octogenarians. A study of two population cohorts of 85-year-olds examined 22 years apart. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(5). 507–517. 7 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Daniel, Alejandra Machado, Sara Shams, et al.. (2020). Predicting Fazekas scores from automatic segmentations of white matter signal abnormalities. Aging. 12(1). 894–901. 41 indexed citations

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Sacuiu, Simona, Nazib M. Seidu, Robert Sigström, et al.. (2019). Accuracy of 12 short versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale to detect depression in a prospective study of a high-risk population with different levels of cognition. International Psychogeriatrics. 34(5). 479–488. 6 indexed citations

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Gonzales, Mitzi M., Philip S. Insel, Craig Nelson, et al.. (2018). Chronic depressive symptomatology and CSF amyloid beta and tau levels in mild cognitive impairment. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 33(10). 1305–1311. 20 indexed citations

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Sacuiu, Simona, Marie Eckerström, Lena Johansson, et al.. (2018). Increased Risk of Dementia in Subjective Cognitive Decline if CT Brain Changes are Present. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 66(2). 483–495. 13 indexed citations

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Gonzales, Mitzi M., Philip S. Insel, Craig Nelson, et al.. (2017). Cortical Atrophy is Associated with Accelerated Cognitive Decline in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Subsyndromal Depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 25(9). 980–991. 26 indexed citations

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Eckerström, Marie, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Arto Nordlund, et al.. (2016). High Prevalence of Stress and Low Prevalence of Alzheimer Disease CSF Biomarkers in a Clinical Sample with Subjective Cognitive Impairment. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 42(1-2). 93–105. 15 indexed citations

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Sacuiu, Simona, Philip S. Insel, Susanne G. Mueller, et al.. (2015). Chronic Depressive Symptomatology in Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Associated with Frontal Atrophy Rate which Hastens Conversion to Alzheimer Dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 24(2). 126–135. 59 indexed citations

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Thorvaldsson, Valgeir, Stuart MacDonald, Laura Fratiglioni, et al.. (2010). Onset and Rate of Cognitive Change Before Dementia Diagnosis: Findings From Two Swedish Population-Based Longitudinal Studies. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 17(1). 154–162. 33 indexed citations

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Sacuiu, Simona, Deborah Gustafson, Magnus Sjögren, et al.. (2010). Secular changes in cognitive predictors of dementia and mortality in 70-year-olds. Neurology. 75(9). 779–785. 53 indexed citations

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