Nicola Orsini
About me
Researcher and teacher of statistical sciences in the fields of ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and global public health sciences.
Nicola Orsini, Ph.D. is Principle Researcher, Associate Professor of Medical Statistics, and Head of the Biostatistics Team at the Department of Global Public Health, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡. Dr. Orsini has worked for more than 15 years on development and application of quantitative methods widely used in ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and epidemiological research, including dose-response meta-analysis, sensitivity analysis, time-to-event analysis, quantile analysis, and intervention time-series analysis, leading to the publication of more than 250 research articles (H-index=79, i10-index=174).
His awards include the 2009 Torgny Wännström Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of public health from the Swedish Medical Association. In recognition of exceptional research performance demonstrated by multiple highly cited papers, Dr. Orsini has been named by Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) among the world's most top-cited (top 1%) scientists whose research leads the world in the field of Social Science for seven consecutive years (2017-2023).
He developed, documented, and freely shared several statistical software components in the Stata language. Dr. Orsini is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In 2020 Dr. Orsini has been elected member of the Society of Research Synthesis Methodology. He served in the Executive Board of the Strategic Research Program in Epidemiology at ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ between 2015 and 2021.
2023 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the Cross Field. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2022 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2021 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2020 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2020 Elected Member of the Society of Research Synthesis Methodology.
2019 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2018 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2017 Highly Cited Researcher. My research ranks among the top 1% most cited works in the field of Social Sciences. Clarivate Analytics. Web of Science.
2012 Young Scholar Award from the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡'s Strategic Program in Epidemiology. Development of novel procedures in epidemiology: A percentiles-based approach to analyse continuous outcomes.
2010 Young Scholar Award from the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡'s Strategic Program in Epidemiology. Developing user-friendly statistical methods for health researchers.
2009 Torgny Wännström Prize. For the best doctoral thesis in the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ field of public health. Nominations submitted by the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ faculties of the universities and the Swedish Medical Society's research mission appoints award winner.
Research
He is best known for his work on dose-response meta-analysis based on observational and experimental findings. A book chapter on this topic is with Donna Spiegelman, Professor Emerita of Epidemiologic Methods at Harvard School of Public Health. Handbook of Meta-Analysis, Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods, 2020). Another book chapter with Professors Susanna C. Larsson (KI) and Georgia Salanti (University of Bern) is available in Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-Analysis in Context. The Third Edition. 2022.
2025 KI's pedagogical grant
- Simulation-based teaching and learning statistics in educational programs
Current doctoral student
- Robert Theismeier - Statistical methods for the design, analysis, and interpretation of pooling projects
Previous doctoral and postdoctoral students
- Alessio Crippa - Development of novel statistical methods for meta-analysis
- Andrea Bellavia - A percentile approach to time-to-event outcomes
- Andrea Discacciati - Risk factors for prostate cancer: analysis of primary data, pooling, and related methodological aspects
- XingWu Zhou - Methods for intervention time-series analysis
Teaching
Master Program in Public Health
- Course Director "Biostatistics I" (5 weeks)
- Course Director "Biostatistics II" (5 weeks)
Doctoral Program in Epidemiology
- Course Director of "Fundamentals of Stata language" (1 week)
- Course Director of "Fundamentals of using Python in Health Related Research" (1 week)
- Course Director of "Biostatistics II: Logistic regression for Epidemiologists" (1 week, 2 times per year)
Articles
- Article: CLINICAL SCIENCE. 2025;139(9):449-462
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION. 2025;43(SUPPL 1):e215-e216
- Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2025;184:111820
- Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTION. 2025;90(5):106488
- Article: NATURE MEDICINE. 2025;31(6):2027-2035
- Article: ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2025;196:109274
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2025;35(1):101-107
- Article: GLOBAL HEALTH ACTION. 2024;17(1):2294592
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS. 2024;169(1):408-420
- Article: JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION AND SIMULATION. 2024;94(17):3807-3825
- Article: HEART. 2024;110(23):1349-1356
- Journal article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2024;34:ckae144.646
- Journal article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2024;155(8):1367-1375
- Journal article: JOURNAL OF STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION. 2024;:395-404
- Article: ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL. 2024;191:108983
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2024;24(1):2334
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2024;14(1):19847
- Journal article: INFECTION. 2024;52(4):1459-1468
- Article: BMJ PAEDIATRICS OPEN. 2024;8(1):e002460
- Article: BMC MEDICINE. 2024;22(1):236
- Article: JMIR MEDICAL EDUCATION. 2024;10:e52679
- Journal article: CHANCE. 2024;37(2):34-39
- Article: AGING-US. 2024;16(4):3056-3067
- Article: ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION. 2023;191:107144
- Article: DISABILITY AND HEALTH JOURNAL. 2023;16(4):101481
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. 2023;25(8):1270-1280
- Article: ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH. 2023;228:115796
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;51(5):735-743
- Journal article: EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING. 2023;24(Supplement_1)
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. 2023;25(5):698-710
- Article: ACTA BIOMEDICA DE L'ATENEO PARMENSE. 2023;94(2):e2023037
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;23(1):551
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;51(1):11-20
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2023;13(1):1204
- Article: LANCET HIV. 2023;10(1):e33-e41
- Article: CURRENT RESEARCH IN TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE. 2023;71(1):103374
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;68:1606175
- Article: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS. 2022;6(7):e12823
- Article: JOURNAL OF TRAVEL MEDICINE. 2022;29(6):taac081
- Article: EXPERT REVIEW OF VACCINES. 2022;21(8):1147-1157
- Article: ESC HEART FAILURE. 2022;9(4):2107-2118
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2022;12(7):e060981
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. 2022;24(6):1047-1062
- Article: RHEUMATOLOGY. 2022;61(5):1802-1809
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2022;12(4):e057414
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;22(1):625
- Article: EVIDENCE-BASED MENTAL HEALTH. 2022;25(1):1-6
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2022;17(1):e0261885
- Article: PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;2(3):e0000256
- Article: CARDIOLOGY JOURNAL. 2022;29(5):739-750
- Article: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2021;21(1):1324
- Article: MEDICINE. 2021;100(46):e27828
- Article: BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 2021;21(1):2069
- Article: NUTRIENTS. 2021;13(9):3110
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA. 2021;127(2):289-295
- Journal article: VALUE IN HEALTH. 2021;24:s94
- Article: ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH. 2021;197:111097
- Article: LANCET HIV. 2021;8(5):e256-e265
- Article: CIRCULATION. 2021;143(16):1542-1567
- Article: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 2021;760:143355
- Article: ANNALS OF SURGERY. 2021;273(3):579-586
- Article: ANNALS OF SURGERY. 2020;272(6):1118-1124
- Article: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 2020;739:140278
- Article: ECLINICALMEDICINE. 2020;25:100457
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2020;10(6):e036182
- Article: IJC HEART AND VASCULATURE. 2020;27:100505
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. 2020;177(4):342-353
- Article: SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN. 2020;46(2):303-310
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 2020;102(1):20-27
- Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES. 2020;75(1):131-138
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2019;9(12):e032704
- Article: BMJ OPEN. 2019;9(12):e033650
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2019;287:66-72
- Article: NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. 2019;29(4):398-408
- Article: BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 2019;19(1):202
- Article: CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2019;11:127-132
- Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2019;285(1):75-91
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION. 2019;49(1):e13040
- Article: NUTRIENTS. 2018;10(10):E1501-1501
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2018;57(7):2537-2545
- Article: CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2018;54:125-132
- Article: JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE. 2018;24(6):365-374
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION. 2018;27(3):197-204
- Article: CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2018;37(2):590-596
- Article: JACC-HEART FAILURE. 2018;6(3):246-256
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION. 2018;27(2):124-133
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2018;57(2):689-701
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2018;15(1):E155-155
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2017;141(10):1950-1962
- Article: HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH. 2017;15(1):61
- Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES. 2017;72(8):1123-1129
- Article: THORAX. 2017;72(6):500-509
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION. 2017;6(5):e004725
- Article: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH. 2017;24(13):12273-12280
- Article: LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH. 2017;2(5):e239-e246
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2017;117(5):712-719
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2017;56(2):843-852
- Article: OPEN HEART. 2017;4(2):e000557
- Article: JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH. 2016;31(12):2098-2105
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY. 2016;64(12):2440-2447
- Article: CIRCULATION-HEART FAILURE. 2016;9(11):e003105
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2016;11(10):e0165121
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION. 2016;5(10):e004210
- Article: BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. 2016;16:91
- Article: JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2016;146(8):1580-1585
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. 2016;219(4-5):389-397
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE. 2016;50(13):817-822
- Article: JAMA INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2016;176(6):816-825
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION. 2016;115(10):1830-1834
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2016;31(5):527-530
- Article: BMC MEDICINE. 2016;14:62
- Article: THYROID. 2016;26(2):306-318
- Journal article: EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOSTATISTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 2016;13(3)
- Article: MENOPAUSE-THE JOURNAL OF THE MENOPAUSE SOCIETY. 2016;23(1):108-110
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. 2015;49(5):e53-e63
- Article: NUTRIENTS. 2015;7(9):7749-7763
- Article: JACC-HEART FAILURE. 2015;3(9):681-687
- Article: JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH. 2015;30(6):976-984
- Article: BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 2015;350:h1551
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE. 2015;17(4):367-373
- Article: OPHTHALMOLOGY. 2015;122(2):274-280
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER PREVENTION. 2015;24(1):16-23
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2015;101(1):72-78
- Article: ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY. 2014;16(5):446
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2014;100(3):924-929
- Article: CIRCULATION. 2014;130(8):646-652
- Article: BJS-BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2014;101(10):1230-1237
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2014;50(7):1223-1231
- Article: CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY. 2014;12(4):676-682
- Article: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH. 2014;76(4):280-285
- Article: ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2014;24(4):291-296
- Article: CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 2014;186(5):338-344
- Article: ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY. 2014;16(2):R61
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2014;179(4):484-491
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2014;49(1):109-113
- Article: CIRCULATION. 2013;128(8):795-802
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 2013;10:94
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2013;98(2):454-459
- Article: GUT. 2013;62(8):1187-1192
- Article: ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY. 2013;24(7):1912-1918
- Article: JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH. 2013;22(3):258-265
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2013;97(5):951-957
- Article: ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY. 2013;15(2):R56
- Article: BJS-BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2013;100(3):360-366
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 2013;108(1):133-139
- Article: CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY. 2013;11(1):38-42
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2012;27(12):895-901
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE. 2012;186(10):1037-1043
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 2012;125(10):974-980
- Article: BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 2012;345:e5568
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2012;41(3):805-817
- Article: SLEEP MEDICINE. 2012;13(6):674-679
- Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY. 2012;30(14):1615-1619
- Article: DIABETES CARE. 2012;35(4):918-929
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION. 2012;95(2):362-366
- Article: GUT. 2012;61(2):262-267
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2012;175(1):66-73
- Article: STROKE. 2011;42(12):3621-3623
- Article: STROKE. 2011;42(10):2746-2750
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2011;105(7):1061-1068
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2011;104(7):1196-1201
- Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2011;269(2):211-218
- Article: PANCREATOLOGY. 2011;11(5):464-468
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2010;103(1):127-131
- Article: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2010;171(7):801-807
- Article: COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE. 2010;98(1):90-93
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2009;101(11):1932-1938
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2009;125(10):2413-2417
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2009;124(3):698-712
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2009;24(4):181-192
- Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2008;264(5):442-451
- Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2008;98(11):1864-1869
- Article: JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2008;179(5):1891-1895
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2008;122(8):1832-1841
- Article: STATA JOURNAL. 2008;8(1):29-48
- Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS. 2008;18(1):95-101
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2008;23(10):661-667
- Article: DIABETOLOGIA. 2007;50(7):1365-1374
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. 2007;4:16
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2007;120(9):1993-1998
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY. 2007;22(6):363-368
- Article: JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. 2006;176(6):2546-2550
- Article: DIABETOLOGIA. 2006;49(12):2819-2823
- Article: JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. 2006;98(15):1078-1087
- Article: JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS. 2006;8(1):97-108
- Article: MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE. 2006;38(2):240-245
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2006;118(2):431-441
- Article: JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE. 2005;97(22):1679-1687
- Article: STATA JOURNAL. 2004;4(4):429-435
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Employments
- Principal Researcher, Department of Global Public Health, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2022-
Degrees and Education
- Docent, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2011
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Institute of Environmental Medicine, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2008
- Licentiate Degree, Institute of Environmental Medicine, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2006
Supervision
- Ehrlinder Hanne, Förmaksflimmer: Risker och vinster med antikoagulation hos äldre