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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
16790
World Ranking
1740
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Matthias Bopp is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily within the fields of medicine and health professions. Their work spans several subfields including general health professions, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and oncology.

The research topics covered by Matthias Bopp include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Workplace Health and Well-being

Several recent papers represent significant contributions to their areas of study. These include:

  • "Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality between and within countries in Europe: a population-based study" (2022), published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • "NO2 and PM2.5 Exposures and Lung Function in Swiss Adults: Estimated Effects of Short-Term Exposures and Long-Term Exposures with and without Adjustment for Short-Term Deviations" (2021), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • "Time trend of suicide in Swiss male farmers and comparison with other men: a cohort study" (2020), published in Swiss Medical Weekly
  • "Educational inequalities in mortality amenable to healthcare. A comparison of European healthcare systems" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Associations of occupational and leisure-time physical activity with all-cause mortality: an individual participant data meta-analysis" (2024), published in British Journal of Sports Medicine

Bopp frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Mall Leinsalu
  • Pekka Martikainen
  • Henrik Brønnum-Hansen
  • Wilma J. Nusselder
  • Patrick Deboosere

The venues where Matthias Bopp has most commonly published include:

  • Swiss Medical Weekly
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Use of the inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine and the risk of Bell's palsy in Switzerland.

    Margot Mutsch;Weigong Zhou;Philip Rhodes;Matthias Bopp

  • 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

  • Methods of suicide: international suicide patterns derived from the WHO mortality database

    Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Mitchell G Weiss;Mariann Ring;Urs Hepp

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

    Martijn Huisman;Anton Kunst;Otto Andersen;Matthias Bopp

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

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

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

  • 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

  • Lower Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke at Higher Altitudes in Switzerland

    David Faeh;Felix Gutzwiller;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

  • 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

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

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

  • Inequalities in Alcohol-Related Mortality in 17 European Countries: A Retrospective Analysis of Mortality Registers.

    Johan P. Mackenbach;Ivana Kulhánová;Matthias Bopp;Carme Borrell

  • Cohort Profile: The Swiss National Cohort—a longitudinal study of 6.8 million people

    Matthias Bopp;Adrian Spoerri;Marcel Zwahlen;Felix Gutzwiller

  • 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

  • Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in self-assessed health in 17 European countries between 1990 and 2010

    Yannan Hu;Frank J van Lenthe;Gerard J Borsboom;Caspar W N Looman

  • Religion and assisted and non-assisted suicide in Switzerland: National Cohort Study

    Adrian Spoerri;Marcel Zwahlen;Matthias Bopp;Felix Gutzwiller

  • Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight

    Maria Lc Iurilli;Bin Zhou;James E Bennett

  • Seasonality in suicide--a review and search of new concepts for explaining the heterogeneous phenomena.

    Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Matthias Bopp;Mariann Ring;Felix Gutzwiller

  • Use of the Inactivated Intranasal Influenza Vaccine and the Risk of Bell's Palsy

    Margot Mutsch;Weigong Zhou;Philip Rhodes;Matthias Bopp

Frequent Co-Authors

Mall Leinsalu
Mall Leinsalu National Institutes of Health
Pekka Martikainen
Pekka Martikainen University of Helsinki
Enrique Regidor
Enrique Regidor Complutense University of Madrid
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross
Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross University of Zurich
Carme Borrell
Carme Borrell Pompeu Fabra University
Terje Andreas Eikemo
Terje Andreas Eikemo Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Olle Lundberg
Olle Lundberg Stockholm University
Anton E. Kunst
Anton E. Kunst University of Amsterdam
Giuseppe Costa
Giuseppe Costa University of Turin
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz
Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Pompeu Fabra University

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