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Jonatan R. Ruiz

Jonatan R. Ruiz

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Medicine
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
119
Citations
55111
World Ranking
3883
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Jonatan R. Ruiz is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain. Their research primarily relates to the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cell Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a range of topics that include:

  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Muscle Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Cardiovascular and Exercise Physiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jonatan R. Ruiz include:

  • Idoia Labayen
  • Francisco J. Amaro-Gahete
  • Lucas Jurado-Fasoli
  • Borja Martínez-Téllez
  • Guillermo Sánchez-Delgado

Their publications appear regularly in several scientific journals, notably:

  • Nutrients
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Sport Science
  • JAMA Network Open

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Jonatan R. Ruiz include:

  • Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents (2020), International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Spanish University Students: Role of Gender (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Narrative Review of Motor Competence in Children and Adolescents: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • H3K18 lactylation marks tissue-specific active enhancers (2022), Genome Biology
  • European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack network (2023), British Journal of Sports Medicine

Best Publications

  • Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence: a powerful marker of health

    F B Ortega;J R Ruiz;J R Ruiz;M J Castillo;M Sjöström

  • Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations

    Jairo H. Migueles;Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez;Ulf Ekelund;Ulf Ekelund;Christine Delisle Nyström

  • Predictive validity of health-related fitness in youth: a systematic review

    Jonatan R Ruiz;Jose Castro-Piñero;Enrique G Artero;Francisco B Ortega

  • Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study

    Jonatan R Ruiz;Xuemei Sui;Felipe Lobelo;James R Morrow

  • Genetic variation in the beta 3-adrenergic receptor and an increased capacity to gain weight in patients with morbid obesity.

    K. Clement;C. Vaisse;B. S. J. Manning;A. Basdevant

  • Field-based fitness assessment in young people: the ALPHA health-related fitness test battery for children and adolescents

    Jonatan R Ruiz;José Castro-Piñero;Vanesa España-Romero;Enrique G Artero

  • Paraoxonase polymorphism Met-Leu54 is associated with modified serum concentrations of the enzyme. A possible link between the paraoxonase gene and increased risk of cardiovascular disease in diabetes.

    M C Garin;R W James;P Dussoix;H Blanché

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • Criterion-related validity of field-based fitness tests in youth: a systematic review

    Jose Castro-Piñero;Enrique G Artero;Vanesa España-Romero;Francisco B Ortega

  • Physical fitness levels among European adolescents: The HELENA study

    Francisco B Ortega;Francisco B Ortega;Enrique G Artero;Jonatan R Ruiz;Jonatan R Ruiz;Vanesa España-Romero;Vanesa España-Romero

  • Relations of total physical activity and intensity to fitness and fatness in children: the European Youth Heart Study

    Jonatan R Ruiz;Nico S Rizzo;Anita Hurtig-Wennlöf;Francisco B Ortega

  • The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness

    Francisco B. Ortega;Duck-chul Lee;Peter T. Katzmarzyk;Jonatan R. Ruiz;Jonatan R. Ruiz

  • Short sleep duration is associated with increased obesity markers in European adolescents: effect of physical activity and dietary habits. The HELENA study

    M Garaulet;F B Ortega;F B Ortega;J R Ruiz;J R Ruiz;J P Rey-López

  • Assessing muscular strength in youth: usefulness of standing long jump as a general index of muscular fitness.

    José Castro-Piñero;Francisco B Ortega;Enrique G Artero;Maria J Girela-Rejón

  • Muscular Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in an Apparently Healthy Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Data From Approximately 2 Million Men and Women

    Antonio García-Hermoso;Iván Cavero-Redondo;Robinson Ramírez-Vélez;Jonatan R. Ruiz

  • Reliability of health-related physical fitness tests in European adolescents. The HELENA Study

    F. B. Ortega;F. B. Ortega;E. G. Artero;J. R. Ruiz;G. Vicente-Rodriguez

  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in European Adolescents The HELENA Study

    Jonatan R. Ruiz;Francisco B. Ortega;David Martínez-Gómez;Idoia Labayen

  • Actigraph GT3X: validation and determination of physical activity intensity cut points.

    A. Santos-Lozano;A. Santos-Lozano;F. Santín-Medeiros;G. Cardon;G. Torres-Luque

  • A physical education trial improves adolescents' cognitive performance and academic achievement: the EDUFIT study.

    D. N. Ardoy;J. M. Fernández-Rodríguez;D. Jiménez-Pavón;D. Jiménez-Pavón;R. Castillo

  • Low level of physical fitness in Spanish adolescents. Relevance for future cardiovascular health (AVENA study)

    Francisco B. Ortega;Jonatan R. Ruiz;Manuel J. Castillo;Luis A. Moreno

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco B. Ortega
Francisco B. Ortega University of Granada
Luis A. Moreno
Luis A. Moreno University of Zaragoza
Michael Sjöström
Michael Sjöström Karolinska Institute
Marcela González-Gross
Marcela González-Gross Technical University of Madrid
Alejandro Lucia
Alejandro Lucia European University of Madrid
Dénes Molnár
Dénes Molnár University of Pecs
Yannis Manios
Yannis Manios Harokopio University
Kurt Widhalm
Kurt Widhalm Medical University of Vienna
Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Inge Huybrechts
Inge Huybrechts International Agency For Research On Cancer

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