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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 49 2833 2592 1368 1234 128 54487

Mall Leinsalu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mall Leinsalu between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mall Leinsalu published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 4.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2015. 11 of the 139 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2015. 1994: 1 publication 1995: 3 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 3 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 3 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 2 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 4 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 8 publications
1994 2025

139 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mall Leinsalu: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 1
1995 3
1996 1
1997 1
1998 1
1999 3
2000 0
2001 0
2002 5
2003 1
2004 3
2005 1
2006 2
2007 2
2008 8
2009 7
2010 1
2011 4
2012 3
2013 3
2014 9
2015 12
2016 3
2017 12
2018 9
2019 9
2020 9
2021 6
2022 2
2023 7
2024 3
2025 8
Total 139
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Mall Leinsalu 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 Mall Leinsalu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 124–133 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453 128
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Mall Leinsalu 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 Mall Leinsalu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186 49
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Mall Leinsalu is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with notable contributions in subfields including General Health Professions, Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The focus of their scholarly work centers on health disparities and outcomes, global health care issues, employment and welfare studies, global cancer incidence and screening, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, as well as obesity, physical activity, diet, and birth, development, and health.

Leinsalu has authored publications in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to the European Journal of Public Health and Scientific Reports with four publications each. Other common venues include PLoS ONE and the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, each with two articles, as well as the International Journal of Public Health.

Some of their recent research articles include:

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study, 2022, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Educational inequalities in mortality amenable to healthcare. A comparison of European healthcare systems, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Determinants of educational inequalities in disability-free life expectancy between ages 35 and 80 in Europe, 2021, SSM - Population Health
  • Widening educational inequalities in mortality in more recent birth cohorts: a study of 14 European countries, 2023, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
  • Changing social inequalities in smoking, obesity and cause-specific mortality: Cross-national comparisons using compass typology, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in Leinsalu's research include Pekka Martikainen, Aleksei Baburin, Andrew Stickley, Naoki Kondo, and Domantas Jasilionis. These partnerships have supported their exploration of public health concerns across various populations and health systems.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Marie Ng;Tom P Fleming;Margaret W. Robinson;Blake Thomson

  • Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.

    Ashkan Afshin;Mohammad Forouzanfar;Marissa Reitsma;Patrick Sur

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Irina Stirbu;Albert-Jan R. Roskam;Maartje M. Schaap

  • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Max G Griswold;Nancy Fullman;Caitlin Hawley;Nicholas Arian

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Marissa B Reitsma;Nancy Fullman;Marie Ng;Joseph S Salama

  • Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990???2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Katrina F. Ortblad;Caterina Guinovart;Stephen S. Lim

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Haidong Wang;Chelsea A. Liddell;Matthew M. Coates;Meghan D. Mooney

  • Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Stephen S Lim;Kate Allen;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Zulfiqar A Bhutta;Lalit Dandona;Lalit Dandona

  • Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990-2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    Ryan M Barber;Nancy Fullman;Reed J D Sorensen;Thomas Bollyky

  • Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;Degu Abate;Solomon M. Abay

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

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

  • Trends in health inequalities in 27 European countries.

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Barbara Artnik;Matthias Bopp

  • 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 inequalities in diabetes mellitus across Europe at the beginning of the 21st century

    Albert Espelt;Carme Borrell;Albert-Jan Roskam;Maica Rodriguez-Sanz

  • Variations in the relation between education and cause-specific mortality in 19 European populations: a test of the "fundamental causes" theory of social inequalities in health.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Matthias Bopp;Patrick Deboosere

  • The changing relation between education and life expectancy in central and eastern Europe in the 1990s

    Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Evgueni M Andreev;Domantas Jasilionis;Mall Leinsalu

  • Estonia 1989–2000: enormous increase in mortality differences by education

    Mall Leinsalu;Denny Vågerö;Anton E Kunst

  • Determinants of inequalities in life expectancy : an international comparative study of eight risk factors

    Johan P Mackenbach;José Rubio Valverde;Matthias Bopp;Henrik Brønnum-Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Johan P. Mackenbach
Johan P. Mackenbach Erasmus University Rotterdam
Matthias Bopp
Matthias Bopp University of Zurich
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Terje Andreas Eikemo
Terje Andreas Eikemo Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stein Emil Vollset
Stein Emil Vollset University of Washington
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Ai Koyanagi
Ai Koyanagi University of Barcelona
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University

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