Verena Sengpiel

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Verena Sengpiel is a scholar working on Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Verena Sengpiel has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 38 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 32 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Verena Sengpiel's work include Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (22 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (18 papers) and Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (16 papers). Verena Sengpiel is often cited by papers focused on Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies (22 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (18 papers) and Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (16 papers). Verena Sengpiel collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Norway and United States. Verena Sengpiel's co-authors include Bo Jacobsson, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Helle Margrete Meltzer, Ronny Myhre, Margaretha Haugen, Linda Englund‐Ögge, Staffan Nilsson, Jonas Bačelis, Solveig Myking and Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Verena Sengpiel

80 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Long-term Risk of Neuropsychiatric Disease After Exposure to Infection In Utero

2019 179 citations Bo Jacobsson, Henrik Hagberg et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Verena Sengpiel Sweden	24	1.1k	866	724	434	307	88	2.3k
Sarah McMullen United Kingdom	25	686 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	732 1.0×	240 0.6×	251 0.8×	61	2.3k
Yves Jacquemyn Belgium	29	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	736 1.0×	341 0.8×	84 0.3×	203	2.9k
Maryam Kashanian Iran	27	845 0.8×	709 0.8×	870 1.2×	354 0.8×	79 0.3×	182	2.3k
Michael J. Zinaman United States	25	285 0.3×	653 0.8×	881 1.2×	472 1.1×	272 0.9×	58	2.3k
Ihunnaya O. Frederick United States	26	2.0k 1.9×	2.0k 2.3×	1.1k 1.5×	462 1.1×	580 1.9×	41	4.3k
See Ling Loy Singapore	25	485 0.4×	523 0.6×	568 0.8×	148 0.3×	239 0.8×	113	1.6k
Lene Schack-Nielsen Denmark	17	360 0.3×	704 0.8×	609 0.8×	290 0.7×	328 1.1×	26	1.3k
Zachary M. Ferraro Canada	21	989 0.9×	780 0.9×	543 0.8×	147 0.3×	130 0.4×	52	1.8k
Alistair W. Shiell United Kingdom	17	1.6k 1.5×	2.8k 3.3×	878 1.2×	171 0.4×	582 1.9×	23	3.7k
Massimo Agosti Italy	28	409 0.4×	762 0.9×	418 0.6×	566 1.3×	757 2.5×	149	2.7k

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Åkerström, Magnus, Emina Hadžibajramović, Ylva Carlsson, et al.. (2025). Maintaining operability at a high personal cost – a mixed method study on maternal healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Health Services Research. 25(1). 173–173.

Källén, Karin, Mikael Norman, Charlotte Elvander, et al.. (2025). Maternal and perinatal outcomes after implementation of a more active management in late- and postterm pregnancies in Sweden: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 22(1). e1004504–e1004504.

Lindén, Karolina, Mehreen Zaigham, Magnus Domellöf, et al.. (2025). The association between antenatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure and infant neurodevelopment at four months of age: A prospective multicenter cohort survey within the COPE study. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 158. 107973–107973. 1 indexed citations

Carlsson, Ylva, et al.. (2025). Reclaiming motherhood through shame, distance, and gratitude—A phenomenological study of Swedish women’s lived experiences of giving birth while ill with COVID-19. PLoS ONE. 20(10). e0333937–e0333937.

Magnuson, Anders, Scott Montgomery, Snehal Patil, et al.. (2024). Changing diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes (CDC4G) in Sweden: A stepped wedge cluster randomised trial. PLoS Medicine. 21(7). e1004420–e1004420. 8 indexed citations

Bergman, Lina, Mehreen Zaigham, Ola Andersson, et al.. (2024). Inflammatory and cardiovascular markers in placenta following SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy: A Swedish prospective cohort study. Placenta. 158. 78–88.

Naurin, Elin, et al.. (2024). The impact of exclusion due to COVID‐19 restrictions on partners' satisfaction with Swedish hospital postnatal ward care: A multi‐methods approach. Birth. 51(3). 612–619. 3 indexed citations

Lindén, Karolina, et al.. (2023). The experience of being a partner to a childbearing woman whose pregnancy is complicated by pre-eclampsia: A Swedish qualitative study. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 36. 100847–100847. 1 indexed citations

Åkerström, Magnus, Verena Sengpiel, Emina Hadžibajramović, et al.. (2023). The COPE Staff study: Study description and initial report regarding job satisfaction, work‐life conflicts, stress, and burnout among Swedish maternal and neonatal healthcare workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 162(3). 989–997. 9 indexed citations

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Åkerström, Magnus, Ylva Carlsson, Verena Sengpiel, et al.. (2022). Working conditions for hospital-based maternity and neonatal health care workers during extraordinary situations – A pre-/post COVID-19 pandemic analysis and lessons learned. Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare. 33. 100755–100755. 10 indexed citations

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Andersson, Malin, Ove Karlsson, Sven‐Egron Thörn, et al.. (2021). Study protocol: establishment of a multicentre pre-eclampsia database and biobank in Sweden: GO PROVE and UP MOST, a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(11). e049559–e049559. 3 indexed citations

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Carlsson, Ylva, Lina Bergman, Mehreen Zaigham, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 in Pregnancy and Early Childhood (COPE): study protocol for a prospective, multicentre biobank, survey and database cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(9). e049376–e049376. 7 indexed citations

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Naurin, Elin, Dietlind Stolle, K. Martinsson, et al.. (2020). Pregnant under the pressure of a pandemic: a large-scale longitudinal survey before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. European Journal of Public Health. 31(1). 7–13. 45 indexed citations

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Wennerholm, Ulla‐Britt, Sissel Saltvedt, Christina Bergh, et al.. (2020). Induction of Labour at 41 Weeks Versus Expectant Management and Induction of Labour at 42 Weeks (SWEdish Post-Term Induction Study, SWEPIS): Multicentre, Open Label, Randomised, Superiority Trial. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 75(4). 207–209. 5 indexed citations

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Berntorp, Kerstin, Karl Kristensen, Anastasia Katsarou, et al.. (2020). Glycemic, maternal and neonatal outcomes in women with type 1 diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring during pregnancy – Pump vs multiple daily injections, a secondary analysis of an observational cohort study. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 100(5). 927–933. 15 indexed citations

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Wiik, Johanna, et al.. (2019). Abnormal cervical cytology is associated with preterm delivery: A population based study. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 98(6). 777–786. 8 indexed citations

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Jacobsson, Bo, et al.. (2018). Timing of probiotic milk consumption during pregnancy and effects on the incidence of preeclampsia and preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study in Norway. BMJ Open. 8(1). e018021–e018021. 69 indexed citations

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Bačelis, Jonas, Julius Juodakis, Kristina M. Adams Waldorf, et al.. (2018). Uterine distention as a factor in birth timing: retrospective nationwide cohort study in Sweden. BMJ Open. 8(10). e022929–e022929. 15 indexed citations

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Jacobsson, Bo, Verena Sengpiel, Staffan Nilsson, et al.. (2016). Immunological and Inflammatory Response After Antenatal Supplementation with Lactobacillus Rhamnosus in Low-Risk Pregnant Women. Reproductive Sciences. 23. 293. 1 indexed citations

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Brantsæter, Anne Lise, Ronny Myhre, Margaretha Haugen, et al.. (2011). Intake of Probiotic Food and Risk of Preeclampsia in Primiparous Women: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. American Journal of Epidemiology. 174(7). 807–815. 141 indexed citations

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