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Janet E. Olson

Janet E. Olson

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
89
Citations
34406
World Ranking
12553
National Ranking
6425

Janet E. Olson 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 Janet E. Olson sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 366 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Janet E. Olson 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 Janet E. Olson sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Janet E. Olson is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Their research contributions span the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Genetics and Oncology.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields including Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research topics prominently feature BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research. Additional areas of focus include Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Janet E. Olson has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Gastroenterology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Olson include:

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk Among Carriers of Germline Pathogenic Variants in ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and PALB2, 2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Evaluation of Germline Genetic Testing Criteria in a Hospital-Based Series of Women With Breast Cancer, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Risk of Breast Cancer Among Carriers of Pathogenic Variants in Breast Cancer Predisposition Genes Varies by Polygenic Risk Score, 2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Breast Cancer Screening Strategies for Women With ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2 Pathogenic Variants, 2022, JAMA Oncology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Fergus J. Couch, Kathryn J. Ruddy, Celine M. Vachon, Nicole L. Larson, and Nicholas Boddicker.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • Subtyping of breast cancer by immunohistochemistry to investigate a relationship between subtype and short and long term survival: a collaborative analysis of data for 10,159 cases from 12 studies

    Fiona M. Blows;Kristy E. Driver;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Annegien Broeks

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • Associations of general and abdominal obesity with multiple health outcomes in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study.

    Aaron R. Folsom;Lawrence H. Kushi;Kristin E. Anderson;Pamela J. Mink

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Inherited Mutations in 17 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes Among a Large Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cohort Unselected for Family History of Breast Cancer

    Fergus J. Couch;Steven N. Hart;Priyanka Sharma;Amanda Ewart Toland

  • A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

    Angela Cox;Alison M. Dunning;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Sabapathy Balasubramanian

  • Genome-wide association analysis of more than 120,000 individuals identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for breast cancer

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Beesley;Sara Lindstrom;Sander Canisius

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

    Sofia Khan;Dario Greco;Dario Greco;Kyriaki Michailidou;Roger L. Milne;Roger L. Milne

  • A Population-Based Study of Genes Previously Implicated in Breast Cancer

    Chunling Hu;Steven N Hart;Rohan Gnanaolivu;Hongyan Huang

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

  • Large-scale genomic analyses link reproductive aging to hypothalamic signaling, breast cancer susceptibility and BRCA1-mediated DNA repair

    Felix R. Day;Katherine S. Ruth;Deborah J Thompson;Kathryn L. Lunetta

  • Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Per Hall;Heli Nevanlinna;Karen Pooley

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Trends in Mastectomy Rates at the Mayo Clinic Rochester: Effect of Surgical Year and Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Rajini Katipamula;Amy C. Degnim;Tanya Hoskin;Judy C. Boughey

  • The continuing increase in the incidence of primary central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a surveillance, epidemiology, and end results analysis.

    Janet E. Olson;Carol A. Janney;Ravi D. Rao;James R. Cerhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Celine M. Vachon
Celine M. Vachon Mayo Clinic
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Stig E. Bojesen
Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen

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