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Åke Borg publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Åke Borg sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 516 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Åke Borg D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Åke Borg sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 131 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Åke Borg is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has a significant body of research in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans topics related to cancer genomics, diagnostics, and treatment, with a particular focus on breast cancer and genetic factors influencing cancer development and progression.

The main fields of study for Åke Borg include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology with 101 publications, and medicine with 63 publications. Subfields of study prominently include cancer research, molecular biology, genetics, oncology, and pathology and forensic medicine. Their work centers on various topics such as cancer genomics and diagnostics, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, breast cancer treatment studies, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, HER2/EGFR in cancer research, advanced breast cancer therapies, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Johan Vallon-Christersson, Anna Ehinger, Lao H. Saal, Martin Malmberg, and Lisa Rydén. These coauthors have contributed to numerous studies alongside Åke Borg, indicating an active and collaborative research environment.

Åke Borg has published extensively in several scientific venues. These include Cancer Research with seven publications, Nature Communications with five, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with four, Journal of Clinical Oncology with four, and Redox Biology with three publications.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Åke Borg are:

  • Integrating spatial gene expression and breast tumour morphology via deep learning, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Spatial deconvolution of HER2-positive breast cancer delineates tumor-associated cell type interactions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Comprehensive molecular comparison of BRCA1 hypermethylated and BRCA1 mutated triple negative breast cancers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • RNA sequencing-based single sample predictors of molecular subtype and risk of recurrence for clinical assessment of early-stage breast cancer, 2022, npj Breast Cancer

Best Publications

  • Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;David C. Wedge;Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

  • Genetic Heterogeneity and Penetrance Analysis of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Breast Cancer Families

    D Ford;D F Easton;M Stratton;S Narod

  • Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial transcriptomics

    Patrik L. Ståhl;Patrik L. Ståhl;Fredrik Salmen;Sanja Vickovic;Anna Lundmark;Anna Lundmark

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences

    Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;Helen Davies;Johan Staaf;Manasa Ramakrishna

  • Gene-Expression Profiles in Hereditary Breast Cancer

    I Hedenfalk;D Duggan;Y Chen;M Radmacher

  • Mutational Processes Molding the Genomes of 21 Breast Cancers

    Serena Nik-Zainal;Ludmil B. Alexandrov;David C. Wedge;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo

  • The Life History of 21 Breast Cancers

    Serena Nik-Zainal;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;Peter Van Loo;David C. Wedge;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • PIK3CA Mutations Correlate with Hormone Receptors, Node Metastasis, and ERBB2, and Are Mutually Exclusive with PTEN Loss in Human Breast Carcinoma

    Lao H. Saal;Karolina Holm;Matthew Maurer;Lorenzo Memeo

  • HRDetect is a predictor of BRCA1 and BRCA2 deficiency based on mutational signatures

    Helen Davies;Dominik D. Glodzik;Sandro S. Morganella;Lucy R. Yates

  • Estrogen Receptor Status in Breast Cancer Is Associated with Remarkably Distinct Gene Expression Patterns

    Sofia Gruvberger;Markus Ringnér;Yidong Chen;Sujatha Panavally

  • High-definition spatial transcriptomics for in situ tissue profiling.

    Sanja Vickovic;Sanja Vickovic;Gökcen Eraslan;Fredrik Salmén;Johanna Klughammer

  • Recruitment of HIF-1alpha and HIF-2alpha to common target genes is differentially regulated in neuroblastoma: HIF-2alpha promotes an aggressive phenotype.

    Linda Holmquist-Mengelbier;Erik Fredlund;Tobias Löfstedt;Rosa Noguera

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

  • The CD44+/CD24- phenotype is enriched in basal-like breast tumors

    Gabriella Honeth;Pär-Ola Bendahl;Markus Ringnér;Lao H Saal;Lao H Saal

  • HER-2/neu amplification predicts poor survival in node-positive breast cancer.

    Åke Borg;Atul K. Tandon;Helgi Sigurdsson;Gary M. Clark

  • Poor prognosis in carcinoma is associated with a gene expression signature of aberrant PTEN tumor suppressor pathway activity

    Lao H. Saal;Peter Johansson;Karolina Holm;Sofia K. Gruvberger-Saal

Frequent Co-Authors

Håkan Olsson
Håkan Olsson Lund University
Johan Staaf
Johan Staaf Lund University
Göran Jönsson
Göran Jönsson Lund University
Heli Nevanlinna
Heli Nevanlinna University of Helsinki
Markus Ringnér
Markus Ringnér Lund University
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Paolo Radice
Paolo Radice Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

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