Vasilis Kontis

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Vasilis Kontis is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasilis Kontis has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in General Health Professions, 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Vasilis Kontis's work include Global Health Care Issues (7 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (5 papers). Vasilis Kontis is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (7 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (5 papers). Vasilis Kontis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Vasilis Kontis's co-authors include Majid Ezzati, Colin Mathers, James E. Bennett, Guangquan Li, Kyle J Foreman, Leanne M Riley, Ruth Bonita, Jürgen Rehm, Paul Elliott and Ioanna Tzoulaki and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Vasilis Kontis

19 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Future life expectancy in 35 industrialised countries: projections with a Bayesian model ensemble

2017 868 citations Vasilis Kontis, James E. Bennett et al. The Lancet profile →
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries

2020 268 citations Vasilis Kontis, James E. Bennett et al. Nature Medicine profile →
NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4

2020 260 citations James E. Bennett, Vasilis Kontis et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers

Vasilis Kontis

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Shiwei Liu China

Shivani A. Patel United States

Perviz Asaria United Kingdom

Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco Peru

Jonathan Pearson‐Stuttard United Kingdom

Ben Lacey United Kingdom

Richelle J. Koopman United States

Chuanhua Yu China

Blake Thomson United States

Danijela Gašević Australia

Shiwei Liu China

Vasilis Kontis

335 ×0.5

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357 ×0.9

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235 ×0.7

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404 ×1.3

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273 ×1.0

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Citations per year, relative to Vasilis Kontis Vasilis Kontis (= 1×) peers Shiwei Liu

Countries citing papers authored by Vasilis Kontis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vasilis Kontis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vasilis Kontis

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

All Works

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19 of 19 papers shown

Parks, Robbie M., Vasilis Kontis, G. Brooke Anderson, et al.. (2023). Short-term excess mortality following tropical cyclones in the United States. Science Advances. 9(33). eadg6633–eadg6633. 11 indexed citations

Kepp, Kasper P., Jonas Björk, Vasilis Kontis, et al.. (2022). Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−2021. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(6). 1722–1732. 21 indexed citations

Kontis, Vasilis, James E. Bennett, Theo Rashid, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries. Nature Medicine. 27(3). 562–562. 9 indexed citations

Kontis, Vasilis, James E. Bennett, Theo Rashid, et al.. (2020). Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries. Nature Medicine. 26(12). 1919–1928. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

Parks, Robbie M., James E. Bennett, Vasilis Kontis, et al.. (2020). Anomalously warm temperatures are associated with increased injury deaths. Nature Medicine. 26(1). 65–70. 94 indexed citations

Bennett, James E., Vasilis Kontis, Colin Mathers, et al.. (2020). NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4. The Lancet. 396(10255). 918–934. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

Watkins, David, Jessica Hale, Brian Hutchinson, et al.. (2019). Investing in non-communicable disease risk factor control among adolescents worldwide: a modelling study. BMJ Global Health. 4(2). e001335–e001335. 21 indexed citations

Kontis, Vasilis, Laura K. Cobb, Colin Mathers, et al.. (2019). Three Public Health Interventions Could Save 94 Million Lives in 25 Years. Circulation. 140(9). 715–725. 65 indexed citations

Bennett, James E., Jonathan Pearson‐Stuttard, Vasilis Kontis, et al.. (2018). Contributions of diseases and injuries to widening life expectancy inequalities in England from 2001 to 2016: a population-based analysis of vital registration data. The Lancet Public Health. 3(12). e586–e597. 84 indexed citations

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Pearson‐Stuttard, Jonathan, et al.. (2018). Worldwide burden of cancer attributable to disease and high body-mass index: a comparative risk assessment. Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology. 1 indexed citations

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Kontis, Vasilis, James E. Bennett, Colin Mathers, et al.. (2017). Future life expectancy in 35 industrialised countries: projections with a Bayesian model ensemble. The Lancet. 389(10076). 1323–1335. 868 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kontis, Vasilis, et al.. (2017). Long- and short-time behaviour of hypocoercive-type operators in infinite dimensions: An analytic approach. Infinite Dimensional Analysis Quantum Probability and Related Topics. 20(3). 1750015–1750015. 2 indexed citations

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Kontis, Vasilis, et al.. (2016). Markov semigroups with hypocoercive-type generator in infinite dimensions: Ergodicity and smoothing. Journal of Functional Analysis. 270(9). 3173–3223. 11 indexed citations

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Tzoulaki, Ioanna, Paul Elliott, Vasilis Kontis, & Majid Ezzati. (2016). Worldwide Exposures to Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Associated Health Effects. Circulation. 133(23). 2314–2333. 164 indexed citations

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Bennett, James E., Guangquan Li, Kyle J Foreman, et al.. (2015). The future of life expectancy and life expectancy inequalities in England and Wales: Bayesian spatiotemporal forecasting. The Lancet. 386(9989). 163–170. 94 indexed citations

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Kontis, Vasilis, Colin Mathers, Ruth Bonita, et al.. (2015). Regional contributions of six preventable risk factors to achieving the 25 × 25 non-communicable disease mortality reduction target: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 3(12). e746–e757. 101 indexed citations

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Kontis, Vasilis, Colin Mathers, Jürgen Rehm, et al.. (2014). Contribution of six risk factors to achieving the 25×25 non-communicable disease mortality reduction target: a modelling study. The Lancet. 384(9941). 427–437. 270 indexed citations

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Kontis, Vasilis, et al.. (2011). Ergodicity of Markov Semigroups with Hörmander Type Generators in Infinite Dimensions. Potential Analysis. 37(3). 199–227. 12 indexed citations

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Inglis, J., Vasilis Kontis, & Bogusław Zegarliński. (2010). From U-bounds to isoperimetry with applications to H-type groups. Journal of Functional Analysis. 260(1). 76–116. 12 indexed citations

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