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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Boo Johansson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their research spans social sciences and medicine, with significant contributions in demography, general health professions, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Johansson's work includes studies in psychiatry and mental health, as well as health-related topics.

Their research frequently addresses themes such as retirement, disability, and employment; dementia and cognitive impairment research; cognitive abilities and testing; health disparities and outcomes; nutrition and health in aging; health, environment, and cognitive aging; and technology use by older adults.

Johansson's recent papers include the following:

  • Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples (2020), published in European Journal of Personality
  • Going web or staying paper? The use of web-surveys among older people (2020), published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Towards an active and happy retirement? Changes in leisure activity and depressive symptoms during the retirement transition (2020), published in Aging & Mental Health
  • Helping out or helping yourself? Volunteering and life satisfaction across the retirement transition (2020), published in Psychology and Aging
  • Frailty trajectories in three longitudinal studies of aging: Is the level or the rate of change more predictive of mortality? (2021), published in Age and Ageing

Johansson collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Magnus Lindwall, Graciela Muñiz-Terrera, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Marie Kivi, and Georg Henning.

Their publications appear often in journals such as Psychology and Aging, Age and Ageing, Innovation in Aging, Motivation and Emotion, and Research Square (Research Square).

Best Publications

  • Role of Genes and Environments for Explaining Alzheimer Disease

    Margaret Gatz;Chandra A. Reynolds;Laura Fratiglioni;Boo Johansson

  • Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old

    Gerald E. McClearn;Boo Johansson;Stig Berg;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Longitudinal Studies of Clonally Expanded CD8 T Cells Reveal a Repertoire Shrinkage Predicting Mortality and an Increased Number of Dysfunctional Cytomegalovirus-Specific T Cells in the Very Elderly

    Sine Reker Hadrup;Jan Strindhall;Tania Køllgaard;Tina Seremet

  • Midlife overweight and obesity increase late-life dementia risk A population-based twin study

    W.L. Xu;A.R. Atti;M. Gatz;N.L. Pedersen

  • Age-related change in peripheral blood T-lymphocyte subpopulations and cytomegalovirus infection in the very old: the Swedish longitudinal OCTO immune study.

    Jadwiga Olsson;Anders Wikby;Boo Johansson;Sture Löfgren

  • Heritability for Alzheimer's Disease: The Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins

    Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen;Stig Berg;Boo Johansson

  • Expansions of peripheral blood CD8 T-lymphocyte subpopulations and an association with cytomegalovirus seropositivity in the elderly : the Swedish NONA immune study.

    Anders Wikby;Boo Johansson;Jadwiga Olsson;Sture Löfgren

  • Immune Parameters in a Longitudinal Study of a Very Old Population of Swedish People: A Comparison Between Survivors and Nonsurvivors

    Frederick G. Ferguson;Anders Wikby;Pamela Maxson;Jadwiga Olsson

  • An Immune Risk Phenotype, Cognitive Impairment, and Survival in Very Late Life: Impact of Allostatic Load in Swedish Octogenarian and Nonagenarian Humans

    Anders Wikby;Frederick Ferguson;Rosalyn Forsey;Julie Thompson

  • Changes in CD8 and CD4 lymphocyte subsets, T cell proliferation responses and non-survival in the very old: the Swedish longitudinal OCTO-immune study

    Anders Wikby;Pamela Maxson;Jadwiga Olsson;Boo Johansson

  • Physical Exercise at Midlife and Risk of Dementia Three Decades Later: A Population-Based Study of Swedish Twins

    Ross Andel;Michael Crowe;Nancy L. Pedersen;Laura Fratiglioni

  • Mid- and Late-life Diabetes in Relation to the Risk of Dementia: A Population-based Twin Study

    Weili Xu;Chengxuan Qiu;Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • What matters for life satisfaction in the oldest-old?

    A I Berg;Linda Hassing;G. E McClearn;Boo Johansson

  • Telomere length predicts survival independent of genetic influences.

    Stephanie L. Bakaysa;Lorelei A. Mucci;Lorelei A. Mucci;P. Eline Slagboom;Dorret I. Boomsma

  • Comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension exacerbates cognitive decline: evidence from a longitudinal study

    Linda B. Hassing;Scott M. Hofer;Sven E. Nilsson;Stig Berg

  • Complexity of Work and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: A Population-Based Study of Swedish Twins

    Ross Andel;Michael Crowe;Nancy L. Pedersen;James Mortimer

  • The immune risk phenotype is associated with IL-6 in the terminal decline stage: findings from the Swedish NONA immune longitudinal study of very late life functioning.

    Anders Wikby;Bengt-Olof Nilsson;Rosalyn Forsey;Julie Thompson

  • The immune risk profile is associated with age and gender: findings from three Swedish population studies of individuals 20–100 years of age

    Anders Wikby;Ingrid A. Månsson;Boo Johansson;Boo Johansson;Jan Strindhall

  • Does Participation in Leisure Activities Lead to Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease? A Prospective Study of Swedish Twins

    Michael Crowe;Ross Andel;Nancy L Pedersen;Boo Johansson

  • Potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in identical twins

    Margaret Gatz;Margaret Gatz;James A. Mortimer;Laura Fratiglioni;Boo Johansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Scott M. Hofer
Scott M. Hofer University of Victoria
Andrea M. Piccinin
Andrea M. Piccinin University of Victoria
Stig Berg
Stig Berg Jönköping University
Gerald E. McClearn
Gerald E. McClearn Pennsylvania State University
Magnus Lindwall
Magnus Lindwall University of Gothenburg
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Steven H. Zarit
Steven H. Zarit Pennsylvania State University
Laura Fratiglioni
Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institute

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