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D-Index
105
Citations
42215
World Ranking
6751
National Ranking
139

Anders Ahlbom 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 Anders Ahlbom sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 412 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Anders Ahlbom 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 Anders Ahlbom sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Anders Ahlbom is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed to research primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis, oncology, modeling and simulation, general health professions, and demography.

The main topics of their work span several areas including COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, climate change and health impacts, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, health disparities and outcomes, insurance, mortality, demography, and risk management, as well as global health care issues and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Among their recent publications are several papers authored or coauthored by them or their collaborators:

  • Excess mortality from COVID-19: weekly excess death rates by age and sex for Sweden and its most affected region, 2020, European Journal of Public Health
  • Modern Epidemiology, 4th edition. TL Lash, TJ VanderWeele, S Haneuse, KJ Rothman. Wolters Kluwer, 2021, European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Trends in life expectancy: did the gap between the healthy and the ill widen or close?, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence, Recurrence, and Survival by Education and Comorbidity: A Swedish Register-based Study, 2021, Epidemiology
  • Burden and prevalence of prognostic factors for severe COVID-19 in Sweden, 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology

Their frequent coauthors include Karin Modig, Marcus Ebeling, Jonas Björk, Maria Feychting, and Kristoffer Mattisson.

In terms of publication venues, Anders Ahlbom's work appears regularly in:

  • European Journal of Epidemiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Medicine

Best Publications

  • Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease : a prospective study of Swedish men

    R Karasek;D Baker;F Marxer;A Ahlbom

  • ICNIRP Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric and magnetic fields (1 Hz to 100 kHz).

    Jiali Lin;R. Saunders;K. Schulmeister;P. Söderberg

  • A pooled analysis of magnetic fields and childhood leukaemia.

    A Ahlbom;N Day;M Feychting;E Roman

  • Association of apolipoprotein E genotypes with lipid levels and coronary risk.

    Anna M. Bennet;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Zheng Ye;Frances Wensley

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five susceptibility loci for glioma

    Sanjay Shete;Fay J. Hosking;Lindsay B. Robertson;Sara E. Dobbins

  • Prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in an elderly urban population: relationship with age, sex, and education.

    Laura Fratiglioni;M. Grut;Y. Forsell;M. Viitanen

  • Magnetic fields and cancer in children residing near Swedish high-voltage power lines

    M Feychting;A Ahlbom

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • Total mortality after changes in leisure time physical activity in 50 year old men: 35 year follow-up of population based cohort

    Liisa Byberg;Håkan Melhus;Rolf Gedeborg;Johan Sundström

  • Guidelines on limits of exposure to ultraviolet radiation of wavelengths between 180 nm and 400 nm (incoherent optical radiation)

    A F McKinlay;J H Bernhardt;A Ahlbom;J P Cesarini

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

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

  • Review of the epidemiologic literature on EMF and Health.

    I C Ahlbom;E Cardis;A Green;M Linet

  • Risk of arrhythmias in 52 755 long-distance cross-country skiers: a cohort study

    Kasper Andersen;Bahman Farahmand;Anders Ahlbom;Claes Held

  • Epidemiology of Health Effects of Radiofrequency Exposure

    Anders Ahlbom;Adele Green;Leeka Kheifets;David Savitz

  • Crohn's disease and cancer: A population-based cohort study

    Per-Gunnar Persson;Per Karlén;Olle Bernell;Carl-Eric Leijonmarck

  • Risk factors for late- onset Alzheimer's disease: A population- based, case-control study

    Laura Fratiglioni;Anders Ahlbom;Matti Viitanen;Bengt Winblad

  • Cardiovascular diseases and risk of hip fracture.

    Ulf Sennerby;Håkan Melhus;Rolf Gedeborg;Liisa Byberg

  • Mobile phone use and the risk of acoustic neuroma.

    Stefan Lönn;Anders Ahlbom;Per Hall;Maria Feychting

  • Fatty fish consumption and risk of prostate cancer

    Paul Terry;Paul Lichtenstein;Maria Feychting;Anders Ahlbom

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Feychting
Maria Feychting Karolinska Institute
Christoffer Johansen
Christoffer Johansen Copenhagen University Hospital
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Anssi Auvinen
Anssi Auvinen Tampere University
Anthony J. Swerdlow
Anthony J. Swerdlow Institute of Cancer Research
Niklas Hammar
Niklas Hammar Karolinska Institute
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Karl Michaëlsson
Karl Michaëlsson Uppsala University
David A. Savitz
David A. Savitz Brown University
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute

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