2026 Antonia Trichopoulou: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	175	51	47	1	1	1091	149126
Best Scientists	175	710	651	2	2	1091	149126
Medicine	180	363	330	2	2	1064	162417

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Medicine in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Antonia Trichopoulou is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans the field of medicine, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, molecular biology, oncology, physiology, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Nutritional Studies and Diet
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Diet and metabolism studies
Cancer Risks and Factors
Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Trichopoulou has frequently published in several scientific journals. The top venues for their work are:

Nutrients
International Journal of Cancer
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
British Journal of Cancer

Among recent publications are:

Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis (2020, Nature Communications)
Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
A Body Shape Index (ABSI) achieves better mortality risk stratification than alternative indices of abdominal obesity: results from a large European cohort (2020, Scientific Reports)
Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between adherence to Mediterranean diet with physical performance and cognitive function in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021, Ageing Research Reviews)
Genome-wide Association Analysis in Humans Links Nucleotide Metabolism to Leukocyte Telomere Length (2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Trichopoulou include:

Elisabete Weiderpass
Anne Tjønneland
Rosario Tumino
Eleni Peppa
Elio Ríboli

Best Publications

Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

8465
Citations
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

5734
Citations
Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet and Survival in a Greek Population

Antonia Trichopoulou;Tina Costacou;Christina Bamia;Dimitrios Trichopoulos

4953
Citations
Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer

E. E. Calle;C. W. Heath;R. J. Coates;J. M. Liff

3606
Citations
Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

3430
Citations
Mediterranean diet pyramid: a cultural model for healthy eating

Walter C. Willett;Frank Sacks;Antonia Trichopoulou;Greg Drescher

2928
Citations
General and abdominal adiposity and risk of death in Europe.

T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann;M. Bergmann

2703
Citations
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

2651
Citations
General and Abdominal Adiposity and Risk of Death in Europe

T. Pischon;H. Boeing;K. Hoffmann

2402
Citations
Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

2155
Citations
European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC): study populations and data collection

E. Riboli;K. J. Hunt;N. Slimani;P. Ferrari

2000
Citations
Mediterranean diet pyramid today. Science and cultural updates

Anna Bach-Faig;Elliot M Berry;Denis Lairon;Joan Reguant

1979
Citations
Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

1565
Citations
Diet and overall survival in elderly people

Antonia Trichopoulou;Antigone Kouris-Blazos;Mark L Wahlqvist;Charalambos Gnardellis

1565
Citations
Dietary fibre in food and protection against colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC): an observational study

Sheila A Bingham;Nicholas E Day;Robert Luben;Pietro Ferrari

1447
Citations
A century of trends in adult human height

James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

1428
Citations
Meat, Fish, and Colorectal Cancer Risk: The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition

Teresa Norat;Sheila Bingham;Pietro Ferrari;Nadia Slimani

1235
Citations
Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer - Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58 515 women with breast cancer and 95 067 women without the disease

N Hamajima;K Hirose;K Tajima;T Rohan

1159
Citations
Menarche, menopause, and breast cancer risk: Individual participant meta-analysis, including 118 964 women with breast cancer from 117 epidemiological studies

N. Hamajima;K. Hirose;K. Tajima;T. Rohan

1080
Citations
Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

Angela M. Wood;Stephen Kaptoge;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit

928
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra H.M. Peeters Utrecht University

Kim Overvad Aarhus University

Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen

Elio Riboli Imperial College London

Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse

Heiner Boeing German Institute of Human Nutrition

Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault University of Paris-Saclay

Domenico Palli Institute for the Study and Prevention of Cancer (Istituto per lo Studio, la Prevenzione e la Rete Oncologica)

Pagona Lagiou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Rudolf Kaaks German Cancer Research Center

External Links

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