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Researcher · Finnish Cancer Registry · Finland

Risto J. Sankila

Risto J. Sankila publishes mostly in Oncology, Epidemiology and Neurology, on topics such as Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#141,466
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#753
of 37,370
Works
150
Citations
12k
Citations per work
80.4
h-index
59
i10-index 107Top 2.4% in Oncology
Risto J. Sankila

What does Risto J. Sankila research?

Risto J. Sankila's work is mostly in Medicine (53%).

Health Sciences: 80 works · 53.2% of their workMedicine: 80 works · 53.2% of their workOncology: 29 works · 19.1% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 8.0% of their workNeurology: 11 works · 7.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 10 works · 6.7% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 10 works · 6.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 9 works · 5.9% of their workEverything else: 70 works · 46.8% of their workTHEIR WORKRisto J. Sankila150works
Health Sciences53%

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. Medicine8053.2%
  2. Everything else7046.8%
  1. 1Oncology19% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology8% of their works
  3. 3Neurology7% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  5. 5Pathology and Forensic Medicine6% of their works
  6. 6Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Risto J. Sankila's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Risk Factors, Cancer Incidence, Population-Based Study, Cancer Risk, Genetic Testing, Global Surveillance, Mortality Rates and Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Factors392 topics
  2. Cancer Incidence352 topics
  3. Population-Based Study352 topics
  4. Cancer Risk272 topics
  5. Genetic Testing272 topics
  6. Global Surveillance231 topic
  7. Mortality Rates231 topic
  8. Childhood Cancer Survivor Study211 topic
  9. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory211 topic
  10. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia191 topic
  11. Childhood Cancer191 topic
  12. Colorectal Cancer161 topic
  13. Screening161 topic
  14. Microsatellite Instability151 topic
  15. Molecular Characterization151 topic
  16. BRCA1121 topic
  17. BRCA2121 topic
  18. Multiple Primary Cancers121 topic
  19. Second Primary Neoplasms121 topic
  20. Merkel Cell Carcinoma111 topic
  21. Polyomavirus111 topic

Where does Risto J. Sankila work?

Risto J. Sankila's main affiliation in the publication record is Finnish Cancer Registry, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Risto J. Sankila have?

OpenAlex counts 150 works and 12,059 citations for Risto J. Sankila, an h-index of 59, ranking #141,466 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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