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Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
148
Citations
106746
World Ranking
1223
National Ranking
20

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen 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 Thorkild I. A. Sørensen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 895 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Thorkild I. A. Sørensen 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 Thorkild I. A. Sørensen sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 148 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has a substantial body of research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their scholarly work spans subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Their research covers a range of topics, prominently featuring:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet

Sørensen has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • International Journal of Obesity
  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Obesity Reviews

Recent notable papers include:

  • Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study (2020, Diabetologia)
  • Will the COVID-19 pandemic worsen the obesity epidemic? (2020, Nature Reviews Endocrinology)
  • Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Changes in parental smoking during pregnancy and risks of adverse birth outcomes and childhood overweight in Europe and North America: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 229,000 singleton births (2020, PLoS Medicine)
  • DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies (2020, Genome Medicine)

Sørensen has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Torben Hansen
  • Lars Ängquist
  • Oluf Pedersen
  • Ellen A. Nøhr
  • Vincent W. V. Jaddoe

Their work shows a consistent focus on the epidemiology and genetics of obesity, metabolic disorders, and developmental health outcomes, expressed through robust collaborations and publications in high-profile medical and scientific journals.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • 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

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Childhood body mass index and the risk of coronary heart disease in adulthood

    Jennifer L Baker;Lina W Olsen;Thorkild I A Sørensen

  • Use of the Danish Adoption Register for the study of obesity and thinness.

    Albert J. Stunkard;Thorkild I. A. Sørensen;Fini Schulsinger

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • The Danish National Birth Cohort - its background, structure and aim:

    Jørn Olsen;Mads Melbye;Sjurdur Frodi Olsen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Genetic and environmental influences on premature death in adult adoptees

    Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Gert G. Nielsen;Per Kragh Andersen;Thomas W. Teasdale

  • The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900

    Anne Maria Herskind;Matthew McGue;Niels V. Holm;Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

  • Prediction of risk of liver disease by alcohol intake, sex, and age: A prospective population study

    Ulrik Becker;Allan Deis;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Morten Grønbæk

  • Mortality associated with moderate intakes of wine, beer, or spirits.

    Morten Gronbaek;Allan Deis;Thorkild I A Sorensen;Ulrik Becker

  • Familial Occurrence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Marianne Orholm;Pia Munkholm;Ebbe Langholz;Ole Haagen Nielsen

  • Body mass, fat-free body mass, and prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from a random population sample: findings from the Copenhagen City Heart Study.

    Jørgen Vestbo;Eva Prescott;Thomas Almdal;Morten Dahl

  • A counting process approach to maximum likelihood estimation in frailty models

    G. G. Nielsen;R. D. Gill;P. K. Andersen;T. I. A. Sørensen

  • Combined associations of prepregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with the outcome of pregnancy

    Ellen A. Nohr;Michael Vaeth;Jennifer L. Baker;Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

  • The levelling off of the obesity epidemic since the year 1999--a review of evidence and perspectives.

    B. Rokholm;J. L. Baker;T. I. A. Sørensen

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Kim Overvad
Kim Overvad Aarhus University
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Ellen A. Nohr
Ellen A. Nohr University of Southern Denmark
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia
Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia University of Copenhagen

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