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Giuseppe Costa

Giuseppe Costa

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Italy
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
62
Citations
14702
World Ranking
1271
National Ranking
11

Giuseppe Costa publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giuseppe Costa sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 329 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Giuseppe Costa D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giuseppe Costa sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Giuseppe Costa is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their body of work spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Health, Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics focus primarily on areas such as Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, Global Health Care Issues, Climate Change and Health Impacts, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, and Retirement, Disability, and Employment.

Among recent publications are several papers with notable citation counts:

  • "Temporal dynamics in total excess mortality and COVID-19 deaths in Italian cities" (2020, BMC Public Health)
  • "Predictive Modeling for Frailty Conditions in Elderly People: Machine Learning Approaches" (2020, JMIR Medical Informatics)
  • "Special Report: The Biology of Inequalities in Health: The Lifepath Consortium" (2020, Frontiers in Public Health)
  • "Update and review of the 2011 Italian deprivation index calculated at the census section level" (2020, Epidemiologia e prevenzione)
  • "COVID-19 infection and diffusion among the healthcare workforce in a large university-hospital in northwest Italy" (2020, La Medicina del lavoro)

Giuseppe Costa frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Fulvio Ricceri
  • Roberto Gnavi
  • Nicolàs Zengarini
  • Angelo d'Errico
  • Teresa Spadea

Their research is published mostly in journals such as:

  • PubMed
  • European Journal of Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Best Publications

  • Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Vivian Bos;Otto Andersen;Mario Cardano

  • Educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in middle-aged and older men and women in eight western European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Jens Kristian Borgan

  • Postprandial Blood Glucose Is a Stronger Predictor of Cardiovascular Events Than Fasting Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Particularly in Women: Lessons from the San Luigi Gonzaga Diabetes Study

    F Cavalot;A Petrelli;M Traversa;K Bonomo

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among women and among men: an international study.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Anton E. Kunst;Feikje Groenhof;Jens-Kristian Borgan

  • Changes in mortality inequalities over two decades: register based study of European countries.

    Johan P Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Barbara Artnik;Matthias Bopp

  • Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: a European comparative study.

    Vincent Lorant;Vincent Lorant;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Giuseppe Costa

  • Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries

    Johan P Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Gwenn Menvielle;Matthias Bopp

  • Socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease mortality in 10 western European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank V Lenthe

  • Inequalities in lung cancer mortality by the educational level in 10 European populations.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Martijn Huisman;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • The impact of the summer 2003 heat waves on mortality in four Italian cities

    P Michelozzi;F de Donato;L Bisanti;A Russo

  • Occupational class and ischemic heart disease mortality in the United States and 11 European countries.

    A E Kunst;F Groenhof;O Andersen;J K Borgan

  • The Effects of the Urban Built Environment on Mental Health: A Cohort Study in a Large Northern Italian City

    Giulia Melis;Elena Gelormino;Giulia Marra;Elisa Ferracin

  • The impact of interventions to improve attendance in female cancer screening among lower socioeconomic groups: a review.

    Teresa Spadea;Silvia Bellini;Anton Kunst;Irina Stirbu

  • Health inequalities between lone and couple mothers and policy under different welfare regimes – The example of Italy, Sweden and Britain☆

    Bo Burstrom;Margaret Whitehead;Stephen Clayton;Sara Fritzell

  • Socioeconomic status, non-communicable disease risk factors, and walking speed in older adults: multi-cohort population based study

    Silvia Stringhini;Cristian Carmeli;Markus Jokela;Mauricio Avendaño;Mauricio Avendaño

  • Social mobility and health in the Turin longitudinal study

    Mario Cardano;Giuseppe Costa;Moreno Demaria

  • Educational inequalities in avoidable mortality in Europe

    Irina Stirbu;Anton E Kunst;Matthias Bopp;Mall Leinsalu

  • Monitoring of trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality: Experiences from a European project

    Anton E. Kunst;Vivian Bos;Otto Andersen;Mario Cardano

  • Educational level and stroke mortality: a comparison of 10 European populations during the 1990s

    Mauricio Avendano;Anton E. Kunst;Martijn Huisman;Frank J. van Lenthe

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan P. Mackenbach
Johan P. Mackenbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Paola Michelozzi
Paola Michelozzi University of Hong Kong
Antonio Russo
Antonio Russo University of Palermo
Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London

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