Björn Carlsson

23.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
165 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Björn Carlsson is a scholar working on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Björn Carlsson has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 41 papers in Surgery and 41 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Björn Carlsson's work include Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (31 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (22 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (21 papers). Björn Carlsson is often cited by papers focused on Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (31 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (22 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (21 papers). Björn Carlsson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Finland. Björn Carlsson's co-authors include Lena Carlsson, Lars Sjöström, Markku Peltonen, Claude Bouchard, Hans Wedel, Jarl Torgerson, C. David Sjöström, Kristina Narbro, Anna‐Karin Lindroos and S Dahlgren and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Björn Carlsson

163 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Lifestyle, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors 10 Years after Bariatric Surgery

2004 3.2k citations Lars Sjöström, Markku Peltonen et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
Association of Bariatric Surgery With Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and With Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications

2014 697 citations Lars Sjöström, Markku Peltonen et al. profile →
Bariatric Surgery and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects

2012 547 citations Lena Carlsson, Markku Peltonen et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity toward platelets in chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

2003 519 citations Björn Carlsson, Lena Carlsson et al. profile →
Life Expectancy after Bariatric Surgery in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study

2020 281 citations Lena Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Björn Carlsson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Björn Carlsson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Björn Carlsson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Björn Carlsson. Björn Carlsson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies 2025 ·European Journal of Epidemiology ·Lena Carlsson, Markku Peltonen, Peter Jacobson, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, Per‐Arne Svensson, Magdalena Taube, Cecilia Karlsson, Sofie Ahlin, (unknown), Rosie Perkins, (unknown), Annelie Carlsson, (unknown), (unknown), Björn Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm	1
2	Association between delay in diabetes development and mortality in people with obesity: Up to 33 years follow‐up of the prospective Swedish Obese Subjects study 2024 ·Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism ·Lena Carlsson, Björn Carlsson, Peter Jacobson, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, Cecilia Karlsson, (unknown), Sofie Ahlin, Ingmar Näslund, Kristjan Karason, Per‐Arne Svensson, Magdalena Taube, Markku Peltonen, Kajsa Sjöholm	2
3	Short-term effects of obesity surgery versus low-energy diet on body composition and tissue-specific glucose uptake: a randomised clinical study using whole-body integrated 18F-FDG-PET/MRI 2024 ·Diabetologia ·Jan W. Eriksson, Maria J. Pereira, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Giovanni Fanni, M. Lundqvist, Björn Carlsson, Magnus Sundbom, (unknown), Mark Lubberink, Joel Kullberg, Ulf Risérus, Håkan Åhlström	3
4	Mortality in relation to diabetes remission in Swedish Obese Subjects – a prospective cohort study 2024 ·International Journal of Surgery ·Lena Carlsson, Björn Carlsson, Peter Jacobson, Cecilia Karlsson, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, (unknown), Sofie Ahlin, Per‐Arne Svensson, Magdalena Taube, Ingmar Näslund, Kristjan Karason, Markku Peltonen, Kajsa Sjöholm	4
5	Population pharmacokinetics of a novel PCSK9 antisense oligonucleotide 2024 ·British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology ·(unknown), Dinko Rekić, Angelica Quartino, Björn Carlsson, (unknown), (unknown), Alexis Hofherr, Tina Rydén‐Bergsten, Catarina Nilsson, (unknown)	1
6	A Markov model of fibrosis development in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease predicts fibrosis progression in clinical cohorts 2023 ·CPT Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stergios Kechagias, Sara Hansson, Mathias Liljeblad, Patrik Nasr, Björn Carlsson, Mattias Ekstedt, Sebastian Ueckert	2
7	The greater impact of PNPLA3 polymorphism on liver‐related events in Japanese non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease patients: A multicentre cohort study 2023 ·Liver International ·Yuya Seko, Kanji Yamaguchi, Toshihide Shima, Michihiro Iwaki, Hirokazu Takahashi, Miwa Kawanaka, Saiyu Tanaka, Yasuhide Mitsumoto, Masato Yoneda, Atsushi Nakajima, Ola Fjellström, Jenny E. Blau, Björn Carlsson, Takeshi Okanoue, Yoshito Itoh	21
8	Life expectancy after bariatric surgery or usual care in patients with or without baseline type 2 diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects 2023 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Lena Carlsson, Björn Carlsson, Peter Jacobson, Cecilia Karlsson, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, (unknown), Sofie Ahlin, Per‐Arne Svensson, Magdalena Taube, Ingmar Näslund, Kristjan Karason, Markku Peltonen, Kajsa Sjöholm	11
9	Hepatic patatin‐like phospholipase domain‐containing 3 levels are increased in I148M risk allele carriers and correlate with NAFLD in humans 2022 ·Hepatology Communications ·Elke Ericson, (unknown), Anne‐Christine Andréasson, Carly I. Dix, (unknown), Sara Hansson, Richard Lee, Jennifer Schumi, Madeleine Antonsson, Ola Fjellström, Patrik Nasr, Mathias Liljeblad, Björn Carlsson, Stergios Kechagias, Daniel Lindén, Mattias Ekstedt	14
10	ETESIAN: A PHASE 2B STUDY OF THE EFFICACY, SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF AZD8233, A PCSK9-TARGETED ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE, IN PATIENTS WITH DYSLIPIDEMIA 2022 ·Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Michael J. Koren, Alexis Hofherr, Jennifer Schumi, Dinko Rekić, (unknown), Catarina Nilsson, Anna Rudvik, (unknown), Tina Rydén‐Bergsten, Björn Carlsson	14
11	Assessing reproducibility and utility of clustering of patients with type 2 diabetes and established CV disease (SAVOR -TIMI 53 trial) 2021 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yasunori Aoki, Bengt Hamrén, Lindsay E. Clegg, Christina Stahre, Deepak L. Bhatt, Itamar Raz, Benjamin M. Scirica, Jan Oscarsson, Björn Carlsson	1
12	9p21.3 Coronary Artery Disease Locus Identifies Patients With Treatment Benefit From Bariatric Surgery in the Nonrandomized Prospective Controlled Swedish Obese Subjects Study 2020 ·Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine ·Peter Jacobson, Markku Peltonen, Per‐Arne Svensson, Magdalena Taube, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, Kajsa Sjöholm, Claude Bouchard, Björn Carlsson, Lena Carlsson	2
13	Long-term incidence of serious fall-related injuries after bariatric surgery in Swedish obese subjects 2018 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Lena Carlsson, Kajsa Sjöholm, Sofie Ahlin, Peter Jacobson, Johanna C. Andersson‐Assarsson, (unknown), Cristina Maglio, Cecilia Karlsson, Stephan Hjorth, Magdalena Taube, Björn Carlsson, Per‐Arne Svensson, Markku Peltonen	17
14	Bariatric Surgery and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects breakdown → 2012 ·New England Journal of Medicine ·Lena Carlsson, Markku Peltonen, Sofie Ahlin, Åsa Anveden, Claude Bouchard, Björn Carlsson, Peter Jacobson, Hans Lönroth, Cristina Maglio, Ingmar Näslund, Carlo Pirazzi, Stefano Romeo, Kajsa Sjöholm, Elisabeth Stoltz Sjöström, Hans Wedel, Per‐Arne Svensson, Lars Sjöström	547
15	A Microarray Search for Genes Predominantly Expressed in Human Omental Adipocytes: Adipose Tissue as a Major Production Site of Serum Amyloid A 2005 ·The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Kajsa Sjöholm, Jenny Palming, Louise E. Olofsson, Anders Gummesson, Per‐Arne Svensson, Ted Lystig, Eva Jennische, John Brandberg, Jarl Torgerson, Björn Carlsson, Lena Carlsson	132
16	Evidence for gender-specific associations between leptin and olfaction. 2003 ·PubMed ·(unknown), AK Lindroos, Lauren Lissner, (unknown), Björn Carlsson, (unknown), L Sjöström	21
17	Familial predisposition for obesity may modify the predictive value of serum leptin concentrations for long-term weight change in obese women 1998 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·AK Lindroos, (unknown), Björn Carlsson, (unknown), Jarl Torgerson, Cecilia Karlsson, Kaj Stenlöf, Lars Sjöström	30
18	The obese growth hormone (GH)-deficient dwarf rat: body fat responses to patterned delivery of GH and insulin-like growth factor-I. 1996 ·Endocrinology ·Ross Clark, Deborah L. Mortensen, Lena Carlsson, Björn Carlsson, (unknown), I. C. A. F. Robinson	34
19	Distribution of IGF-I mRNA and IGF-I binding sites in the rat kidney 1992 ·Histochemistry and Cell Biology ·Göran Matejka, Peter S. Eriksson, Björn Carlsson, Eva Jennische	26
20	Expression and Physiological Significance of Growth Hormone Receptors and Growth Hormone Binding Proteins in Rat and Man 1991 ·Acta Paediatrica ·Björn Carlsson, S Edén, Anders Nilsson, Claes Ohlsson, Jan Törnell, Kerstin Vikman, Olle Isaksson	5

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