Nicola Orsini

22.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
235 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Nicola Orsini is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Orsini has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 33 papers in Physiology and 28 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Nicola Orsini's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (23 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (15 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (14 papers). Nicola Orsini is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (23 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (15 papers) and Physical Activity and Health (14 papers). Nicola Orsini collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Italy. Nicola Orsini's co-authors include Alicja Wolk, Susanna C. Larsson, Sander Greenland, Rino Bellocco, Alessio Crippa, Donna Spiegelman, Andrea Discacciati, Matteo Bottai, Polyna Khudyakov and Ruifeng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Orsini

222 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Generalized Least Squares for Trend Estimation of Summarized Dose–response Data
    2006 1.1k citations Nicola Orsini, Rino Bellocco et al. profile →
  2. Meta-Analysis for Linear and Nonlinear Dose-Response Relations: Examples, an Evaluation of Approximations, and Software
    2011 1.1k citations Nicola Orsini, Alicja Wolk et al. profile →
  3. Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis
    2005 816 citations Susanna C. Larsson, Nicola Orsini et al. profile →
  4. Systematic review and meta-analysis of reduction in all-cause mortality from walking and cycling and shape of dose response relationship
    2014 380 citations Nicola Orsini et al. profile →
  5. One-stage dose–response meta-analysis for aggregated data
    2018 267 citations Alessio Crippa, Andrea Discacciati et al. Statistical Methods in Medical Research profile →
  6. Blood Pressure Effects of Sodium Reduction
    2021 169 citations Tommaso Filippini, Marcella Malavolti et al. Circulation profile →
  7. Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and incident dementia in the community
    2025 29 citations Nicola Orsini, Laura Fratiglioni et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicola Orsini Sweden 62 3.5k 2.7k 2.4k 1.8k 1.7k 235 14.5k
Akiko Tamakoshi Japan 72 4.0k 1.1× 3.2k 1.2× 3.0k 1.2× 2.5k 1.4× 1.9k 1.1× 593 19.8k
Dagfinn Aune United Kingdom 62 6.0k 1.7× 3.2k 1.2× 3.7k 1.5× 2.0k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 190 17.0k
Lars J. Vatten Norway 76 4.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 1.9k 1.1× 1.5k 0.9× 330 20.9k
Diane Feskanich United States 64 5.1k 1.4× 2.5k 0.9× 3.5k 1.4× 1.7k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 127 16.5k
W. Dana Flanders United States 75 3.3k 0.9× 3.2k 1.2× 2.5k 1.0× 2.8k 1.6× 995 0.6× 366 24.2k
Sun Ha Jee South Korea 57 2.3k 0.6× 2.2k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 921 0.5× 424 14.6k
Maurizio Trevisan United States 68 3.7k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 2.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 1.9k 1.1× 279 18.9k
Yikyung Park United States 68 4.6k 1.3× 2.9k 1.1× 3.4k 1.4× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 243 14.4k
Richard M. Martin United Kingdom 67 4.5k 1.3× 2.4k 0.9× 2.9k 1.2× 3.2k 1.8× 1.8k 1.1× 473 22.3k
Anne Tjønneland Denmark 75 5.5k 1.5× 2.8k 1.0× 3.7k 1.5× 3.8k 2.1× 2.5k 1.4× 579 22.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicola Orsini

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Karipidis, Ken, Tom Loney, Maria Blettner, et al.. (2025). The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: A systematic review of human observational studies – Part II: Less researched outcomes. Environment International. 196. 109274–109274. 4 indexed citations
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Karipidis, Ken, Tom Loney, Maria Blettner, et al.. (2024). The effect of exposure to radiofrequency fields on cancer risk in the general and working population: A systematic review of human observational studies – Part I: Most researched outcomes. Environment International. 191. 108983–108983. 15 indexed citations
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Vetrano, Davide Liborio, Nicola Orsini, Sölve Elmståhl, et al.. (2024). Validation of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) based on four aging cohorts from the Swedish National study on Aging and Care. BMC Medicine. 22(1). 236–236. 1 indexed citations
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Magnusson, Cecilia, Nicola Orsini, Ida Henriette Caspersen, et al.. (2023). Does misclassification of former tobacco smokers explain the ‘smoker’s paradox’ in the risk of COVID-19? Insights from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 51(5). 735–743. 1 indexed citations
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Möller, Jette, et al.. (2023). A probabilistic bias analysis on the magnitude of unmeasured confounding: The impact of driving mileage on road traffic crashes. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 191. 107144–107144. 1 indexed citations
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Orsini, Nicola, et al.. (2022). Antithrombotic treatment switching in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation and the risk of thromboembolism, bleeding, and cardiac death. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 6(7). e12823–e12823.
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Furukawa, Toshi A., et al.. (2022). A dose–effect network meta-analysis model with application in antidepressants using restricted cubic splines. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 33(8). 1461–1472. 9 indexed citations
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Filippini, Tommaso, Marcella Malavolti, Paul K. Whelton, et al.. (2021). Blood Pressure Effects of Sodium Reduction. Circulation. 143(16). 1542–1567. 169 indexed citations breakdown →
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Filippini, Tommaso, Duarte Torres, Carla Lopes, et al.. (2019). Cadmium exposure and risk of breast cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 118 indexed citations
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Crippa, Alessio, Andrea Discacciati, Matteo Bottai, Donna Spiegelman, & Nicola Orsini. (2018). One-stage dose–response meta-analysis for aggregated data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 28(5). 1579–1596. 267 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anderstam, Björn, Monica Eriksson, Abdul Rashid Qureshi, et al.. (2018). Effects of acute fructose loading on levels of serum uric acid—a pilot study. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 49(1). e13040–e13040. 12 indexed citations
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Stackelberg, Otto, Alicja Wolk, Ken Eliasson, et al.. (2017). Lifestyle and Risk of Screening‐Detected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Men. Journal of the American Heart Association. 6(5). 47 indexed citations
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Wallin, Alice, Nicola Orsini, Nita G. Forouhi, & Alicja Wolk. (2017). Fish consumption in relation to myocardial infarction, stroke and mortality among women and men with type 2 diabetes: A prospective cohort study. Clinical Nutrition. 37(2). 590–596. 25 indexed citations
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Bellavia, Andrea, Thanasis G. Tektonidis, Nicola Orsini, Alicja Wolk, & Susanna C. Larsson. (2016). Quantifying the benefits of Mediterranean diet in terms of survival. European Journal of Epidemiology. 31(5). 527–530. 31 indexed citations
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Neuman, Åsa, Cynthia Hohmann, Nicola Orsini, et al.. (2012). Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy and Asthma in Preschool Children: A Pooled Analysis of Eight Birth Cohorts. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 186(10). 1037–1043. 161 indexed citations
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Orsini, Nicola, Rino Bellocco, Matteo Bottai, et al.. (2008). Combined effects of obesity and physical activity in predicting mortality among men. Journal of Internal Medicine. 264(5). 442–451. 26 indexed citations
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Orsini, Nicola. (2005). ECLPCI: Stata module to compute Exact and Approximate Confidence Limits for Poisson Counts. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Orsini, Nicola. (1977). The vibrationally excited N2(+) ion and the twilight 4278 A emission band in the earth's mid-latitude thermosphere. PhDT. 6 indexed citations

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