Rajesh Dikshit

36.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
103 papers, 26.6k citations indexed

About

Rajesh Dikshit is a scholar working on Oncology, Epidemiology and Otorhinolaryngology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajesh Dikshit has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 26.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Oncology, 27 papers in Epidemiology and 20 papers in Otorhinolaryngology. Recurrent topics in Rajesh Dikshit's work include Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (22 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (20 papers) and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (15 papers). Rajesh Dikshit is often cited by papers focused on Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (22 papers), Head and Neck Cancer Studies (20 papers) and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (15 papers). Rajesh Dikshit collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and France. Rajesh Dikshit's co-authors include Isabelle Soerjomataram, Jacques Ferlay, David Forman, Freddie Bray, Donald Maxwell Parkin, Marise Souto Rebelo, Sultan Eser, Colin Mathers, Prabhat Jha and Prakash C. Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Rajesh Dikshit

92 papers receiving 26.0k 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.

Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

2014 22.6k citations Rajesh Dikshit et al. International Journal of Cancer profile →
Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study

2014 684 citations Rajesh Dikshit et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajesh Dikshit India	30	9.6k	7.8k	6.0k	5.1k	4.5k	103	26.6k
Sultan Eser Türkiye	15	8.6k 0.9×	7.3k 0.9×	5.5k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	43	23.4k
Marise Souto Rebelo Brazil	5	8.2k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	5.4k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	6	22.7k
Siwei Zhang China	56	9.9k 1.0×	10.9k 1.4×	7.0k 1.2×	7.7k 1.5×	5.1k 1.1×	235	28.3k
Rongshou Zheng China	55	10.3k 1.1×	10.6k 1.4×	7.4k 1.2×	7.8k 1.5×	5.2k 1.2×	204	28.8k
Wanqing Chen China	62	10.8k 1.1×	11.2k 1.4×	7.9k 1.3×	8.1k 1.6×	5.5k 1.2×	301	31.1k
Jiaquan Xu China	49	10.7k 1.1×	10.4k 1.3×	8.3k 1.4×	4.9k 1.0×	5.0k 1.1×	129	35.2k
Hongmei Zeng China	53	9.3k 1.0×	10.1k 1.3×	7.0k 1.2×	7.2k 1.4×	4.8k 1.1×	169	26.9k
Hai‐Rim Shin South Korea	37	7.9k 0.8×	5.6k 0.7×	4.6k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	4.7k 1.0×	77	21.7k
Peter D. Baade Australia	48	9.7k 1.0×	7.5k 1.0×	5.4k 0.9×	5.4k 1.1×	3.2k 0.7×	294	23.4k
Lillian L. Siu Canada	81	11.6k 1.2×	8.2k 1.0×	6.5k 1.1×	5.0k 1.0×	4.1k 0.9×	579	24.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rajesh Dikshit

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Dikshit, Rajesh, et al.. (2025). Reply to: Beyond the Numbers: Inflammation as the Missing Link in Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth–Based Buccal Mucosa Cancer Risk Models. JCO Global Oncology. 11(11). e2500487–e2500487.

Mhatre, Sharayu, Diptavo Dutta, Anand Iyer, et al.. (2025). A genome-wide association study of buccal mucosa cancer in India and multi-ancestry meta-analysis discovers risk loci and gene-environment interactions. EBioMedicine. 122. 106042–106042.

Singh, Arjun, Manigreeva Krishnatreya, Aseem Mishra, et al.. (2025). Association of Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth Score With the Risk for Buccal Mucosa Cancer, Stratified on Tobacco and Alcohol Use: A Multicenter Case-Control Study From India. JCO Global Oncology. 11(11). e2500119–e2500119. 1 indexed citations

Mhatre, Sharayu, Fiona Bragg, Nandkumar Panse, et al.. (2024). Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA-Barshi). International Journal of Epidemiology. 53(4). 1 indexed citations

Hosseini, Bayan, Nandkumar Panse, Manigreeva Krishnatreya, et al.. (2024). Occupations and the risk of buccal mucosa cancer in Indian men: A multi-centre case-control study. Cancer Epidemiology. 92. 102644–102644. 1 indexed citations

Patil, Ashwini, et al.. (2024). Spectrum of hepatitis B and hepatitis C-related cancers in India. ecancermedicalscience. 18. 1760–1760. 1 indexed citations

Dikshit, Rajesh, et al.. (2023). Human papillomavirus self-sampling for cervical cancer screening. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(2). 74–80.

Chaturvedi, Pankaj, et al.. (2023). Challenges faced by tobacco quitline services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Substance Use. 29(3). 376–381. 2 indexed citations

Bajpai, Jyoti, Atul Budukh, Rajaraman Swaminathan, et al.. (2023). Epidemiology of rare cancers in India and South Asian countries – remembering the forgotten. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia. 12. 100168–100168. 7 indexed citations

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Singh, Arjun, Muffazal Lakdawala, Sharayu Mhatre, et al.. (2022). Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Mental Health Status Prevailing among COVID-19 Patients in Mumbai, India. Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 47(1). 55–60. 2 indexed citations

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Dikshit, Rajesh, et al.. (2022). Exclusive use of different types of tobacco products, exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and risk of subtypes of head and neck cancer among Indian males. International Journal of Cancer. 152(3). 374–383. 10 indexed citations

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Maheshwari, Amita, Nandkumar Panse, Kedar Deodhar, et al.. (2022). Diagnostic accuracy of menstrual blood for human papillomavirus detection in cervical cancer screening: a systematic review. ecancermedicalscience. 16. 1427–1427. 6 indexed citations

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Budukh, Atul, Rajesh Dikshit, & Pankaj Chaturvedi. (2021). Outcome of the randomized control screening trials on oral, cervix and breast cancer from India and way forward in COVID‐19 pandemic situation. International Journal of Cancer. 149(8). 1619–1620. 8 indexed citations

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Subedi, Ranjeeta, Meghnath Dhimal, Atul Budukh, et al.. (2021). Epidemiologic Pattern of Cancer in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Findings of Population-Based Cancer Registry, 2018. JCO Global Oncology. 7(7). 443–452. 15 indexed citations

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Souza, Rosemarie de, Sharayu Mhatre, Garvit Chitkara, et al.. (2021). Clinical course and outcome of patients with COVID-19 in Mumbai City: an observational study. BMJ Open. 11(5). e042943–e042943. 14 indexed citations

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Bhattacharjee, Atanu, et al.. (2020). HER2 borderline is a negative prognostic factor for primary malignant breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 181(1). 225–231. 15 indexed citations

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Nagrani, Rajini, Sharayu Mhatre, Preetha Rajaraman, et al.. (2017). Association of Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) Identified SNPs and Risk of Breast Cancer in an Indian Population. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40963–40963. 15 indexed citations

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Patel, Prakruti, et al.. (2015). The efficacy and safety of clomiphene citrate and metformin on ovulation induction in patients suffering from anovulatory infertility. International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. 1241–1246.

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Ganesh, Balasubramanian, Sanjay Talole, & Rajesh Dikshit. (2009). A case–control study on diet and colorectal cancer from Mumbai, India. Cancer Epidemiology. 33(3-4). 189–193. 33 indexed citations

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Dikshit, Rajesh, Anna Gillio‐Tos, Paul Brennan, et al.. (2007). Hypermethylation, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and survival in 235 patients with laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers. Cancer. 110(8). 1745–1751. 51 indexed citations

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