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Sakari Suominen

Sakari Suominen

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
16277
World Ranking
1448
National Ranking
14

Sakari Suominen 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 Sakari Suominen sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 226 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sakari Suominen 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 Sakari Suominen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Sakari Suominen is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, health professions, and psychology, with numerous publications contributing to these fields.

The subfields in which they have extensively published include general health professions, clinical psychology, health, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Suominen's main topics of work encompass a range of areas related to health and well-being, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Optimism, hope, and well-being
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Global health care issues

Their publication record includes several recent papers notable for their subject matter and publication venues:

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Public Health
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Hospital-treated infectious diseases and the risk of dementia: a large, multicohort, observational study with a replication cohort, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Older people's perceived autonomy in residential care: An integrative review, 2020, Nursing Ethics
  • Vitamin D supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer in the Finnish Vitamin D Trial: a randomized controlled trial, 2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Suominen frequently publishes in these venues:

  • The Lancet Public Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Jussi Vahtera
  • Jaana Pentti
  • Mika Kivimäki
  • Solja T. Nyberg
  • Lauri Sillanmäki

Best Publications

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Non-response and related factors in a nation-wide health survey

    K. Korkeila;S. Suominen;J. Ahvenainen;A. Ojanlatva

  • Association between socioeconomic status and the development of mental and physical health conditions in adulthood: a multi-cohort study.

    Mika Kivimäki;G David Batty;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Martin J Shipley

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

    Ida E. H. Madsen;S. T. Nyberg;L. L. Magnusson Hanson;J. E. Ferrie

  • Body mass index and risk of dementia: Analysis of individual-level data from 1.3 million individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Ritva Luukkonen;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Jane E. Ferrie

  • Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study.

    Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • Sense of coherence as a predictor of subjective state of health: Results of 4 years of follow-up of adults

    Sakari Suominen;Hans Helenius;Helena Blomberg;Antti Uutela

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of Up to 170,000 Men and Women: The IPD-Work Consortium

    Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkila;Solja T Nyberg;Marie Zins

  • Long working hours, socioeconomic status, and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data from 222 120 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Ichiro Kawachi;Solja T Nyberg

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;G David Batty;Markus Jokela

  • Physical inactivity, cardiometabolic disease, and risk of dementia: an individual-participant meta-analysis

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Severine Sabia;Severine Sabia

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis of 124,808 Men and Women

    Solja T Nyberg;Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkilä;Kirsi Ahola

  • Long Working Hours and Alcohol Use: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Published Studies and Unpublished Individual Participant Data

    Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Solja T Nyberg;Ida E H Madsen

  • Incidence and mortality of neurofibromatosis: a total population study in Finland.

    Elina Uusitalo;Jussi Leppävirta;Anna Koffert;Sakari Suominen

  • Structural validity and temporal stability of the 13-item sense of coherence scale: Prospective evidence from the population-based HeSSup study

    Taru Feldt;Hanna Lintula;Sakari Suominen;Markku Koskenvuo

  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases

    Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Ida E. H. Madsen

  • Factors contributing to sense of coherence among men and women

    Salla-Maarit Volanen;Eero Lahelma;Karri Silventoinen;Sakari Suominen

  • Long working hours and depressive symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data

    Marianna Virtanen;Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Ida Eh Madsen;Linda L Magnusson Hanson

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;Markus Jokela

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Markku Koskenvuo
Markku Koskenvuo University of Helsinki
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Jaana Pentti
Jaana Pentti University of Turku
Jane E. Ferrie
Jane E. Ferrie University College London
Hugo Westerlund
Hugo Westerlund Stockholm University

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