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Researcher · University of Milan · Italy

Carlo La Vecchia

Carlo La Vecchia publishes mostly in Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Surgery, on topics such as Cancer Risks and Factors, Nutritional Studies and Diet and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening.

ORCID 0000-0003-1441-897X OpenAlex
World rank
#26,286
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#461
of 242,206
Works
2,985
Citations
258k
Citations per work
86.5
h-index
189
i10-index 2,021Top 0.1% in Oncology
Carlo La Vecchia

What does Carlo La Vecchia research?

Carlo La Vecchia's work is mostly in Medicine (49%).

Everything else: 1,516 works · 50.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 1,469 works · 49.2% of their workMedicine: 1,469 works · 49.2% of their workOncology: 504 works · 16.9% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 298 works · 10.0% of their workSurgery: 191 works · 6.4% of their workEpidemiology: 170 works · 5.7% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 158 works · 5.3% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 146 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKCarlo La Vecchia2,985works
Health Sciences49%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else1,51650.8%
  2. Health Sciences1,46949.2%
    1. Medicine1,46949.2%
  1. 1Oncology17% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health10% of their works
  3. 3Surgery6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine5% of their works
  6. 6Pathology and Forensic Medicine5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carlo La Vecchia's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metabolic Syndrome, Chemotherapy, Survival, Risk Factors, Cancer Incidence, Population-Based Study, Cancer and Obesity.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Metabolic Syndrome8212 topics
  2. Chemotherapy7463 topics
  3. Survival5822 topics
  4. Risk Factors5592 topics
  5. Cancer Incidence4802 topics
  6. Population-Based Study4802 topics
  7. Cancer4131 topic
  8. Obesity4131 topic
  9. Cardiovascular Disease4081 topic
  10. Mediterranean Diet4081 topic
  11. Global Surveillance3331 topic
  12. Mortality Rates3331 topic
  13. Colorectal Cancer2261 topic
  14. Screening2261 topic
  15. Human Papillomavirus1691 topic
  16. Oropharyngeal Cancer1691 topic
  17. Genomic Analysis1641 topic
  18. Ovarian Cancer1641 topic
  19. Smoking Cessation1481 topic
  20. Tobacco Use1481 topic
  21. Multiple Primary Cancers1471 topic
  22. Second Primary Neoplasms1471 topic

Where does Carlo La Vecchia work?

Carlo La Vecchia's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Milan, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Carlo La Vecchia have?

OpenAlex counts 2,985 works and 258,165 citations for Carlo La Vecchia, an h-index of 189, ranking #26,286 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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