2026 Roger L. Milne: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	113	4864	4564	134	129	738	60167

Overview

Roger L. Milne is affiliated with Cancer Council Victoria in Australia. Their research spans several key areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Over 492 publications are tied to the broader field of medicine, with 305 also associated with biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. More specialized subfields include genetics, oncology, molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's work addresses significant topics such as BRCA gene mutations in cancer, cancer risks and factors, genetic associations and epidemiology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, global cancer incidence and screening, and colorectal cancer screening and detection.

Roger L. Milne has published extensively in certain venues, showing repeated contributions to:

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
International Journal of Epidemiology
International Journal of Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roger L. Milne include:

Graham G. Giles (199 collaborations)
Melissa C. Southey (108 collaborations)
John L. Hopper (74 collaborations)
Dallas R. English (66 collaborations)
Robert J. MacInnis (55 collaborations)

Among notable recent papers are:

"Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study," 2020, The Lancet Public Health
"Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis," 2020, Nature Communications
"Rapid implementation of mobile technology for real-time epidemiology of COVID-19," 2020, Science
"Genome-wide association studies identify 137 genetic loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of aging," 2021, Genome biology
"Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk," 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

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

2804
Citations
Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;John L. Hopper;Daniel R. Barnes;Kelly-Anne Phillips

2526
Citations
Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

2256
Citations
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

1465
Citations
Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

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

1400
Citations
Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

1271
Citations
RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

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

1015
Citations
Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

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

940
Citations
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

916
Citations
Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

897
Citations
Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

783
Citations
A common coding variant in CASP8 is associated with breast cancer risk

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

693
Citations
Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

681
Citations
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

663
Citations
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

643
Citations
Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

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

643
Citations
Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

Felix R. Day;Deborah J. Thompson;Hannes Helgason;Hannes Helgason;Daniel I. Chasman

641
Citations
MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

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

632
Citations
Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

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

574
Citations
Discovery of common and rare genetic risk variants for colorectal cancer

Jeroen R. Huyghe;Stephanie A. Bien;Tabitha A. Harrison;Hyun Min Kang

486
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne

Melissa C. Southey Monash University

John L. Hopper University of Melbourne

Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center

Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center

Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto

Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge

Dallas R. English University of Melbourne

Hermann Brenner German Cancer Research Center

External Links

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