Former PhD student awarded Heart's Paper of the Year
Posted on 5 June 2017
Nicole Valtorta and her co-authors have been warmly commended by Heart, the journal of cardiovascular science, who selected the paper as the best of 2016 based on the quality of the published research.
Heart measured their top papers based on pageviews, citations and Altmetric, after which the Editorial Team voted to select the winner from the top 10 papers.
The paper, titled 'Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies', has linked loneliness with death from stroke and heart disease.
Award certificates will be presented at the Heart stand during the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Barcelona in August.
Nicole was a PhD student at the time the paper was published and has recently completed her PhD. This is a fantastic achievement for any researcher and it is unheard of for the award to be given to a PhD student. We hope that Nicole and her co-authors will be very proud of their achievement and this very important paper.