Stig Wall

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Stig Wall is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stig Wall has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in General Health Professions, 32 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 28 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Stig Wall's work include Health disparities and outcomes (27 papers), Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention (18 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (16 papers). Stig Wall is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (27 papers), Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention (18 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (16 papers). Stig Wall collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Stig Wall's co-authors include Peter Byass, Lars Weinehall, Ingvar Lundberg, Åke Olofsson, Gisela Dahlquist, Hoàng Văn Minh, Kurt Boman, Lisa Blom, L. Nyström and Margareta Norberg and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stig Wall

141 papers receiving 6.0k 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. Breast cancer screening with mammography: overview of Swedish randomised trials
    1993 707 citations L. Nyström, Stig Wall et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stig Wall 1.2k 1.1k 986 936 782 142 6.6k
Clyde B. Schechter 994 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 818 0.8× 476 0.5× 1.4k 1.8× 254 8.3k
Raj Bhopal 2.1k 1.8× 1.8k 1.7× 1.2k 1.2× 415 0.4× 491 0.6× 238 8.7k
Jennifer H. Madans 1.0k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 514 0.5× 288 0.3× 426 0.5× 74 5.3k
Richard Taylor 1.4k 1.2× 907 0.9× 563 0.6× 291 0.3× 843 1.1× 226 6.3k
Rachel Hess 1.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.4× 2.0k 2.1× 1.0k 1.1× 658 0.8× 201 7.1k
Majid Ezzati 1.1k 1.0× 2.1k 2.0× 855 0.9× 240 0.3× 532 0.7× 25 7.0k
Yoshihisa Fujino 1.3k 1.1× 735 0.7× 435 0.4× 376 0.4× 929 1.2× 470 8.4k
Janet E. Hux 1.1k 1.0× 725 0.7× 1.8k 1.8× 350 0.4× 424 0.5× 71 6.7k
Emily Banks 1.3k 1.2× 2.3k 2.1× 1.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.7× 2.5k 3.2× 301 11.1k
Yousef Khader 1.5k 1.3× 2.3k 2.2× 1.7k 1.7× 431 0.5× 483 0.6× 624 11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Stig Wall

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stig Wall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stig Wall

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stig Wall. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stig Wall 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 Stig Wall. Stig Wall is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Santosa, Ailiana, Stig Wall, Edward Fottrell, Ulf Högberg, & Peter Byass. (2014). The development and experience of epidemiological transition theory over four decades: a systematic review. Global Health Action. 7(1). 23574–23574. 119 indexed citations
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Hirve, Siddhivinayak, Sanjay Juvekar, P. P. Lele, et al.. (2012). Does self-rated health predict death in adults aged 50 years and above in India? Evidence from a rural population under health and demographic surveillance. International Journal of Epidemiology. 41(6). 1719–1727. 37 indexed citations
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Pham, Thai Son, et al.. (2011). Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in Vietnam—results from a national survey. Journal of Human Hypertension. 26(4). 268–280. 123 indexed citations
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Norberg, Margareta, Stig Wall, Kurt Boman, & Lars Weinehall. (2010). The Västerbotten Intervention Programme: background, design and implications. Global Health Action. 3(1). 4643–4643. 288 indexed citations
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Tesfaye, Fikru, Peter Byass, Stig Wall, Yemane Berhane, & Ruth Bonita. (2008). Association of smoking and khat (Catha edulis Forsk) use with high blood pressure among adults in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2006.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). A89–A89. 90 indexed citations
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Emmelin, Anders & Stig Wall. (2007). Indoor Air Pollution. CHEST Journal. 132(5). 1615–1623. 57 indexed citations
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Fantahun, Mesganaw, Edward Fottrell, Yemane Berhane, et al.. (2006). Assessing a New Approach to Verbal Autopsy Interpretation in a Rural Ethiopian Community: The InterVA model/Evaluation D'une Nouvelle Maniere D'interpreter Les Autopsies Verbales Dans Une Communaute Rurale En Ethiopie: Le Modele InterVA/Evaluacion De Un Nuevo Sistema De Interpretacion (Modelo InterVA) De Las Autopsias Verbales En Una Comunidad De la Etiopia Rural. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84(3). 204. 1 indexed citations
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Strathdee, Geraldine, Victoria Manning, David Best, et al.. (2005). Dual diagnosis in a Primary Care Group (PCG) (100,000 population locality): a step-by-step epidemiological needs assessment and design of a training and service response model. Drugs Education Prevention and Policy. 12. 119–123. 18 indexed citations
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Emmelin, Maria, Lars Weinehall, Birgitta Stegmayr, et al.. (2003). Self-rated ill-health strengthens the effect of biomedical risk factors in predicting stroke, especially for men – an incident case referent study. Journal of Hypertension. 21(5). 887–896. 90 indexed citations
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Flinck, Agneta, Carina Källestål, Anna Holm, Peter Allebeck, & Stig Wall. (1999). Distribution of caries in 12-year-old children in Sweden. Social and oral health-related behavioural patterns.. PubMed. 16(3). 160–5. 36 indexed citations
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Muhe, Lulu, Peter Byass, L Freij, A Sandström, & Stig Wall. (1996). A one-year community study of under-fives in rural Ethiopia: health andbehavioural determinants of morbidity. Public Health. 110(4). 215–219. 8 indexed citations
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Stenberg, Berndt, Nils Eriksson, Kjell Hansson Mild, et al.. (1995). Facial Skin Symptoms in Visual Display Terminal (VDT) Workers. A Case-Referent Study of Personal, Psychosocial, Building- and VDT-Related Risk Indicators. International Journal of Epidemiology. 24(4). 796–803. 35 indexed citations
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Wall, Stig, et al.. (1991). The Rönnskär case. An epidemiological study of mortality and cancer incidence among Swedish smelter workers.. PubMed. 30 Suppl 3. 1–95. 3 indexed citations
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Dahlquist, Gisela, Lisa Blom, Lars Åke Persson, Anna Sandström, & Stig Wall. (1990). Dietary factors and the risk of developing insulin dependent diabetes in childhood.. BMJ. 300(6735). 1302–1306. 166 indexed citations
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Nyström, L., et al.. (1990). The Swedish Childhood Diabetes Study. An Analysis of the Temporal Variation in Diabetes Incidence 1978–1987. International Journal of Epidemiology. 19(1). 141–146. 82 indexed citations
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Dahlquist, Gisela, et al.. (1988). The Epidemiology of Lost Residual β‐cell Function in Short Term Diabetic Children. Acta Paediatrica. 77(6). 852–859. 5 indexed citations
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Dahlquist, Gisela, Lisa Blom, Gösta Holmgren, et al.. (1985). The epidemiology of diabetes in Swedish children 0?14 years ? a six-year prospective study. Diabetologia. 28(11). 802–808. 178 indexed citations
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Holmgren, Gösta, et al.. (1982). Incidence of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus among Children in a North-Swedish Population 1938–1977. Human Heredity. 32(6). 408–417. 22 indexed citations

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