2026 Marie Vahter: 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	119	598	569	7	7	437	37344
Medicine	120	3793	3552	74	70	404	38303

Marie Vahter 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 Marie Vahter sits on this spectrum.

101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 404 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marie Vahter 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 Marie Vahter sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 120 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Marie Vahter is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and medicine, with significant contributions in related subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nutrition and dietetics, environmental chemistry, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work centres on topics including heavy metal exposure and toxicity, arsenic contamination and mitigation, mercury impact and mitigation studies, child nutrition and water access, fluoride effects and removal, birth, development, and health, as well as the broader area of heavy metals in the environment.

Frequent publication venues for Marie Vahter include Environment International, Environmental Research, ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Pollution, and the Journal of Nutrition. These venues reflect an emphasis on environmental and health-related research.

Marie Vahter's recent papers demonstrate a focus on exposure to heavy metals and the effects on health across various populations and age groups:

"Prenatal and childhood arsenic exposure through drinking water and food and cognitive abilities at 10 years of age: A prospective cohort study" (2020) in Environment International
"Low-level maternal exposure to cadmium, lead, and mercury and birth outcomes in a Swedish prospective birth-cohort" (2020) in Environmental Pollution
"A longitudinal study of rural Bangladeshi children with long-term arsenic and cadmium exposures and biomarkers of cardiometabolic diseases" (2020) in Environmental Pollution
"Long-term cadmium exposure and fractures, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in a prospective cohort of women" (2022) in Environment International
"Executive functions in school children from Montevideo, Uruguay and their associations with concurrent low-level arsenic exposure" (2020) in Environment International

Frequent collaborators in Marie Vahter's research include Maria Kippler, Klara Gustin, Anna Sandin, Ann-Sofie Sandberg, and Agnes E. Wold. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working broadly on environmental health and toxicology topics.

Best Publications

Mechanisms of arsenic biotransformation.

Marie Vahter

957
Citations
Gender differences in the disposition and toxicity of metals

Marie Vahter;Agneta Åkesson;Carola Lidén;Sandra Ceccatelli

833
Citations
Tubular and glomerular kidney effects in Swedish women with low environmental cadmium exposure.

Agneta Åkesson;Thomas Lundh;Marie Vahter;Per Bjellerup

525
Citations
Exposure to inorganic arsenic metabolites during early human development.

Gabriela Concha;Gerardo Vogler;Dora Lezcano;Barbro Nermell

522
Citations
Methylation of inorganic arsenic in different mammalian species and population groups.

Marie Vahter

458
Citations
Cadmium-induced effects on bone in a population-based study of women.

Agneta Åkesson;Per Bjellerup;Thomas Lundh;Jonas Lidfeldt

433
Citations
Effects of arsenic on maternal and fetal health.

Marie Vahter

424
Citations
Intestinal absorption of dietary cadmium in women depends on body iron stores and fiber intake.

Marika Berglund;Agneta Akesson;Barbro Nermell;Marie Vahter

420
Citations
Metals and Women's Health

M. Vahter;M. Berglund;A. Åkesson;C. Lidén

398
Citations
Role of Metabolism in Arsenic Toxicity

Marie Vahter;Gabriela Concha

367
Citations
Toxic and essential elements in placentas of Swedish women.

Katarina Osman;Agneta Åkesson;Marika Berglund;Katarina Bremme

364
Citations
Inter-individual variations of human mercury exposure biomarkers: a cross-sectional assessment

Marika Berglund;Birger Lind;Karolin Ask Björnberg;Brita Palm

361
Citations
Genetic polymorphism in the biotransformation of inorganic arsenic and its role in toxicity.

Marie Vahter

357
Citations
Health effects of early life exposure to arsenic

Marie Vahter

349
Citations
Metabolism of arsenobetaine in mice, rats and rabbits

Marie Vahter;Erminio Marafante;Lennart Dencker

334
Citations
Longitudinal study of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in blood and urine of pregnant and lactating women, as well as in umbilical cord blood.

Marie Vahter;Agneta Åkesson;Birger Lind;Ulla Björs

320
Citations
Species differences in the metabolism of arsenic compounds

Marie Vahter

313
Citations
Biotransformation of trivalent and pentavalent inorganic arsenic in mice and rats.

Marie Vahter

311
Citations
A unique metabolism of inorganic arsenic in native Andean women

Marie Vahter;Gabriela Concha;Barbro Nermell;Robert Nilsson

307
Citations
Association of arsenic exposure during pregnancy with fetal loss and infant death: a cohort study in Bangladesh.

Anisur Rahman;Marie Vahter;Eva-Charlotte Ekström;Mahfuzar Rahman

298
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Åke Persson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Rubhana Raqib International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Walter Goessler University of Graz

Gunnar Jacks Royal Institute of Technology

Jochen Bundschuh University of Southern Queensland

Shams El Arifeen International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Peter Rudnai National Institutes of Health

Staffan Skerfving Lund University

Sandra Ceccatelli Karolinska Institute

Bo Lönnerdal University of California, Davis

External Links

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