Unnur Valdimarsdóttir

13.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
272 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Unnur Valdimarsdóttir is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Clinical Psychology, 82 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 60 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Unnur Valdimarsdóttir's work include Family Support in Illness (36 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (31 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (29 papers). Unnur Valdimarsdóttir is often cited by papers focused on Family Support in Illness (36 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (31 papers) and Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (29 papers). Unnur Valdimarsdóttir collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, Sweden and United States. Unnur Valdimarsdóttir's co-authors include Fang Fang, Katja Fall, Gunnar Steineck, Ulrika Kreicbergs, Erik Onelöv, Jan‐Inge Henter, Huan Song, Arna Hauksdóttir, Donghao Lu and Pär Sparén and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Unnur Valdimarsdóttir

257 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Nordic Health Registry-Based Research: A Review of Health Care Systems and Key Registries

2021 308 citations Unnur Valdimarsdóttir et al. profile →
Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease

2018 248 citations Huan Song, Fang Fang et al. profile →
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health Outcomes

2024 69 citations Hilda Björk Daníelsdóttir, Thor Aspelund et al. profile →
Metabolic Profile and Long-Term Risk of Depression, Anxiety, and Stress-Related Disorders

2024 45 citations Yu Zeng, Dang Wei et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Unnur Valdimarsdóttir Iceland	46	2.4k	2.3k	1.6k	1.0k	1.0k	272	7.9k
David M. Clarke Australia	38	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	941 0.6×	877 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	151	5.7k
Ingvar Bjelland Norway	24	2.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	742 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	48	11.2k
Paula R. Sherwood United States	39	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	721 0.4×	1.8k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	120	5.1k
Frank J. Penedo United States	47	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	743 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	141	8.4k
Nick Meader United Kingdom	31	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	900 0.6×	666 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	81	5.8k
Debbie Sharp United Kingdom	57	3.0k 1.2×	3.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	929 0.9×	906 0.9×	194	10.2k
Lauren A. Wise United States	62	924 0.4×	2.8k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	790 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	454	12.4k
Matthew M. Clark United States	60	2.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	661 0.6×	2.2k 2.1×	287	11.3k
Manfred Stommel United States	38	996 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	986 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	94	5.5k
Øivind Ekeberg Norway	56	3.8k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	783 0.5×	890 0.9×	817 0.8×	248	9.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Unnur Valdimarsdóttir

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Han, Xin, Yuchen Li, Haowen Liu, et al.. (2024). Childhood maltreatment and risk of endocrine diseases: an exploration of mediating pathways using sequential mediation analysis. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 59–59. 7 indexed citations

Bertone‐Johnson, Elizabeth R., et al.. (2024). Association between severe premenstrual disorders and change of romantic relationship: A prospective cohort of 15,606 women in Sweden. Journal of Affective Disorders. 364. 132–138. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Donghao, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, Dang Wei, et al.. (2024). Perinatal depression and risk of maternal cardiovascular disease: a Swedish nationwide study. European Heart Journal. 45(31). 2865–2875. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaowan, Dang Wei, Fang Fang, et al.. (2024). Peripheral vertigo and subsequent risk of depression and anxiety disorders: a prospective cohort study using the UK Biobank. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 63–63. 1 indexed citations

Han, Xin, Qing Shen, Can Hou, et al.. (2024). Disease clusters subsequent to anxiety and stress-related disorders and their genetic determinants. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1209–1209. 6 indexed citations

Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur. (2023). Mental and physical health outcomes of war migrants. European Psychiatry. 66(S1). S1–S1. 2 indexed citations

Bränn, Emma, Hilda Björk Daníelsdóttir, Edda Björk Þórðardóttir, et al.. (2023). Association between adverse childhood experiences and perinatal depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional analysis of 16,831 women in Iceland. Archives of Women s Mental Health. 26(6). 839–849.

Herweijer, Eva, Jiangrong Wang, Kejia Hu, et al.. (2023). Overall and Cervical Cancer Survival in Patients With and Without Mental Disorders. JAMA Network Open. 6(9). e2336213–e2336213. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Huazhen, Yu Zeng, Wenwen Chen, et al.. (2022). The role of genetic predisposition in cardiovascular risk after cancer diagnosis: a matched cohort study of the UK Biobank. British Journal of Cancer. 127(9). 1650–1659. 3 indexed citations

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Holmes, Emily A., Marie Kanstrup, Laura Singh, et al.. (2022). Using a Brief Mental Imagery Competing Task to Reduce the Number of Intrusive Memories: Exploratory Case Series With Trauma-Exposed Women. JMIR Formative Research. 6(7). e37382–e37382. 10 indexed citations

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Daníelsdóttir, Hilda Björk, Thor Aspelund, Edda Björk Þórðardóttir, et al.. (2022). Adverse childhood experiences and resilience among adult women: A population-based study. eLife. 11. 28 indexed citations

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Aspelund, Thor, Matthías Kormáksson, Arna Hauksdóttir, et al.. (2021). Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women. Stress. 25(1). 48–56. 7 indexed citations

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Halldórsson, Þórhallur I., Reynir Tómas Geirsson, Ragnar Bjarnason, et al.. (2021). Mode of delivery was associated with transient changes in the metabolomic profile of neonates. Acta Paediatrica. 110(7). 2110–2118. 3 indexed citations

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Lu, Donghao, Bengt Andrae, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, et al.. (2019). Psychologic Distress Is Associated with Cancer-Specific Mortality among Patients with Cervical Cancer. Cancer Research. 79(15). 3965–3972. 35 indexed citations

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Udumyan, Ruzan, Scott Montgomery, Fang Fang, et al.. (2017). Beta-Blocker Drug Use and Survival among Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Research. 77(13). 3700–3707. 76 indexed citations

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Dickerman, Barbra A., Jóhanna E. Torfadóttir, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, et al.. (2017). Midlife metabolic factors and prostate cancer risk in later life. International Journal of Cancer. 142(6). 1166–1173. 19 indexed citations

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Markt, Sarah C., Erin E. Flynn‐Evans, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, et al.. (2015). Sleep Duration and Disruption and Prostate Cancer Risk: a 23-Year Prospective Study. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 25(2). 302–308. 43 indexed citations

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Lu, Donghao, Karin Sundström, Pär Sparén, et al.. (2015). Bereavement Is Associated with an Increased Risk of HPV Infection and Cervical Cancer: An Epidemiological Study in Sweden. Cancer Research. 76(3). 643–651. 25 indexed citations

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Egilson, Snæfríður Þóra, et al.. (2013). Quality of life of adolescents born with extremely low birth weight. Acta Paediatrica. 102(6). 597–601. 9 indexed citations

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Bylund‐Grenklo, Tove, Ulrika Kreicbergs, Arna Hauksdóttir, et al.. (2012). Self-injury in Teenagers Who Lost a Parent to Cancer. JAMA Pediatrics. 167(2). 133–133. 47 indexed citations

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