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2026

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61
Citations
63989
World Ranking
1303
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Simon Øverland is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, primarily focusing on psychology, health professions, and medicine. Within these broad areas, their work frequently addresses subfields such as general health professions, clinical psychology, and social psychology, alongside topics in health and epidemiology.

The scientist's research themes center on several main topics, including suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, health disparities and outcomes, and employment and welfare studies. Additional areas of focus cover health, psychology, and well-being, global health care issues, and the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

Key papers published by Simon Øverland include:

  • Prevalence of mental disorders, suicidal ideation and suicides in the general population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A population-based repeated cross-sectional analysis, 2021, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • Parental income and mental disorders in children and adolescents: prospective register-based study, 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Differential associations between types of social media use and university students' non-suicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • Estimating risk factor attributable burden - challenges and potential solutions when using the comparative risk assessment methodology, 2022, Archives of Public Health
  • The association between mental disorders and subsequent years of working life: a Danish population-based cohort study, 2022, The Lancet Psychiatry

Simon Øverland has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Jens Christoffer Skogen, Ann Kristin Knudsen, Jonas Minet Kinge, Dan J. Stein, and Børge Sivertsen. These collaborations have contributed to publications spread across key venues such as the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, and the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Their research output notably emphasizes population-based studies and register-based analyses, addressing public health questions related to mental disorders, socioeconomic factors, and the influence of social media on mental health behaviors. The work often utilizes epidemiological approaches to explore risk factors and outcomes associated with mental health conditions.

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Theo Vos;Stephen S. Lim;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas;Kaja M. Abbas

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Simon I Hay;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Haidong Wang;Kaja M. Abbas;Mitra Abbasifard;Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Heather M. Orpana;Heather M. Orpana;Laurie B. Marczak;Megha Arora;Nooshin Abbasi

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Cristiana Abbafati;Kaja M. Abbas;Mohammad Abbasi

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.

    Rafael Lozano;Nancy Fullman;John Everett Mumford;Megan Knight

  • Exercise and the Prevention of Depression: Results of the HUNT Cohort Study

    Samuel B. Harvey;Simon Øverland;Stephani L. Hatch;Simon Wessely

  • The epidemiology of insomnia: associations with physical and mental health. The HUNT-2 study.

    Børge Sivertsen;Steinar Krokstad;Simon Øverland;Arnstein Mykletun;Arnstein Mykletun

  • Work and common psychiatric disorders.

    M Henderson;SB Harvey;S Øverland;A Mykletun;A Mykletun

  • The Health Status of Nonparticipants in a Population-based Health Study The Hordaland Health Study

    Ann Kristin Knudsen;Matthew Hotopf;Jens Christoffer Skogen;Simon Øverland

  • Anxiety, depression, and cause-specific mortality: the HUNT study.

    Arnstein Mykletun;Ottar Bjerkeset;Michael Dewey;Martin Prince

  • Levels of anxiety and depression as predictors of mortality: the HUNT study

    Arnstein Mykletun;Ottar Bjerkeset;Simon Øverland;Martin Prince

  • The bidirectional association between depression and insomnia: the HUNT study.

    Børge Sivertsen;Paula Salo;Arnstein Mykletun;Mari Hysing

  • Physical activity and common mental disorders

    Samuel B. Harvey;Matthew Hotopf;Simon Øverland;Arnstein Mykletun;Arnstein Mykletun

  • A Population-Based Cohort Study of the Effect of Common Mental Disorders on Disability Pension Awards

    Arnstein Mykletun;Simon Overland;Alv A. Dahl;Steinar Krokstad

  • Smoking in relation to anxiety and depression: Evidence from a large population survey: The HUNT study

    Arnstein Mykletun;Simon Overland;Leif Edvard Aarø;Hanne-Marthe Liabø

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnstein Mykletun
Arnstein Mykletun Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Børge Sivertsen
Børge Sivertsen Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Leif Edvard Aarø
Leif Edvard Aarø Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Florian Fischer
Florian Fischer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam
Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam Texas Tech University
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
David C. Schwebel
David C. Schwebel University of Alabama at Birmingham
Deborah Carvalho Malta
Deborah Carvalho Malta Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Falk Schwendicke
Falk Schwendicke Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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