Agneta Åkesson

15.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
192 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Agneta Åkesson is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Agneta Åkesson has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 56 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 45 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Agneta Åkesson's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (51 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (49 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (21 papers). Agneta Åkesson is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (51 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (49 papers) and Heavy metals in environment (21 papers). Agneta Åkesson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Finland and United States. Agneta Åkesson's co-authors include Lars Järup, Alicja Wolk, Marie Vahter, Marika Berglund, Susanna C. Larsson, Bettina Julin, Per Bjellerup, Carola Lidén, Staffan Skerfving and Barbro Nermell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Agneta Åkesson

187 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Current status of cadmium as an environmental health problem

2009 1.9k citations Lars Järup, Agneta Åkesson Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology profile →
Gender differences in the disposition and toxicity of metals

2006 567 citations Marie Vahter, Agneta Åkesson et al. profile →
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology – nutritional epidemiology (STROBE‐nut): An extension of the STROBE statement

2016 342 citations Agneta Åkesson et al. profile →
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology—Nutritional Epidemiology (STROBE-nut): An Extension of the STROBE Statement

2016 323 citations Agneta Åkesson et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Agneta Åkesson	6.4k	2.8k	2.7k	2.2k	939	192	11.7k
Staffan Skerfving	7.4k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	659 0.7×	271	14.2k
Marco Vinceti	4.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	688 0.7×	332	11.3k
Alfred Bernard	5.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	275	12.2k
Duk‐Hee Lee	5.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	900 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	156	11.6k
James L. Pirkle	7.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 2.1×	155	13.0k
Éric Dewailly	6.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	631 0.2×	1.4k 0.6×	929 1.0×	259	12.2k
Richard Hornung	6.2k 1.0×	896 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	628 0.7×	138	12.7k
Martha María Téllez‐Rojo	6.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	570 0.6×	385	10.5k
Jan Alexander	3.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	769 0.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	354	13.3k
Hugo Neels	7.5k 1.2×	777 0.3×	2.9k 1.1×	607 0.3×	949 1.0×	266	16.1k

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Säve‐Söderbergh, Melle, Irina Gyllenhammar, Carolina Vogs, et al.. (2025). Fetal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water and congenital malformations: A nation-wide register-based study on PFAS in drinking water. Environment International. 198. 109381–109381.

Yuan, Shuai, Jie Chen, Xixian Ruan, et al.. (2025). Cross-population GWAS and proteomics improve risk prediction and reveal mechanisms in atrial fibrillation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6426–6426.

Säve‐Söderbergh, Melle, Irina Gyllenhammar, Carolina Vogs, et al.. (2024). Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and fetal growth: A nation-wide register-based study on PFAS in drinking water. Environment International. 187. 108727–108727. 8 indexed citations

Yuan, Shuai, Jing Wu, Jie Chen, et al.. (2024). Association between alcohol consumption and peripheral artery disease: two de novo prospective cohorts and a systematic review with meta-analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 32(2). 149–155. 5 indexed citations

Þórisdóttir, Birna, Erik Arnesen, Linnea Bärebring, et al.. (2023). Legume consumption in adults and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Food & Nutrition Research. 67. 15 indexed citations

Säve‐Söderbergh, Melle, et al.. (2023). Disinfection by-products in drinking water and risk of colorectal cancer: a population-based cohort study. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 115(12). 1597–1604. 18 indexed citations

Yuan, Shuai, Olga E. Titova, Ke Zhang, et al.. (2023). Plasma protein and venous thromboembolism: prospective cohort and mendelian randomisation analyses. British Journal of Haematology. 201(4). 783–792. 23 indexed citations

Donat‐Vargas, Carolina, Vicente Mustieles, Inmaculada Salcedo‐Bellido, et al.. (2021). Associations of serum phthalate metabolites with thyroid hormones in GraMo cohort, Southern Spain. Environmental Pollution. 287. 117606–117606. 11 indexed citations

Donat‐Vargas, Carolina, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Andreas Tornevi, et al.. (2019). Associations between repeated measure of plasma perfluoroalkyl substances and cardiometabolic risk factors. Environment International. 124. 58–65. 81 indexed citations

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Shi, Lin, Carl Brunius, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, et al.. (2019). Joint Analysis of Metabolite Markers of Fish Intake and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Relation to Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Swedish Adults. Journal of Nutrition. 149(8). 1413–1423. 15 indexed citations

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Donat‐Vargas, Carolina, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Andreas Tornevi, et al.. (2018). Perfluoroalkyl substances and risk of type II diabetes: A prospective nested case-control study. Environment International. 123. 390–398. 70 indexed citations

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Evans, Marie, et al.. (2016). End-stage renal disease after occupational lead exposure: 20 years of follow-up. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 74(6). 396–401. 12 indexed citations

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Donat‐Vargas, Carolina, Marika Berglund, Anders Glynn, Alicja Wolk, & Agneta Åkesson. (2016). Dietary polychlorinated biphenyls, long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and incidence of malignant melanoma. European Journal of Cancer. 72. 137–143. 32 indexed citations

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Julin, Bettina, Alicja Wolk, Leif Bergkvist, Matteo Bottai, & Agneta Åkesson. (2012). Dietary Cadmium Exposure and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study. Cancer Research. 72(6). 1459–1466. 142 indexed citations

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Engström, Annette, Karl Michaëlsson, Yasushi Suwazono, et al.. (2010). Long-term cadmium exposure and the association with bone mineral density and fractures in a population-based study among women. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 26(3). 486–495. 135 indexed citations

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Amzal, Billy, Bettina Julin, Marie Vahter, et al.. (2009). Population Toxicokinetic Modeling of Cadmium for Health Risk Assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 117(8). 1293–1301. 172 indexed citations

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Järup, Lars & Agneta Åkesson. (2009). Current status of cadmium as an environmental health problem. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 238(3). 201–208. 1886 indexed citations breakdown →

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Åkesson, Agneta, Thomas Lundh, Marie Vahter, et al.. (2005). Tubular and Glomerular Kidney Effects in Swedish Women with Low Environmental Cadmium Exposure. Environmental Health Perspectives. 113(11). 1627–1631. 367 indexed citations

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Vahter, Marie, Marika Berglund, & Agneta Åkesson. (2004). Toxic metals and the menopause. The Journal of the British Menopause Society. 10(2). 60–65. 43 indexed citations

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Åkesson, Agneta, Marika Berglund, Andrejs Schütz, et al.. (2002). Cadmium Exposure in Pregnancy and Lactation in Relation to Iron Status. American Journal of Public Health. 92(2). 284–287. 211 indexed citations

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