2026 Allen A. Mitchell: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	83	15529	14611	7829	7244	273	27451

Overview

Allen A. Mitchell is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on public health, environmental and occupational health, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, epidemiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their work covers various topics, including:

Pregnancy and Medication Impact
Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management
COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction

Mitchell has published in several venues, notably:

Birth Defects Research
JAMA Psychiatry
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
BMJ Open

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mitchell include:

"Maternal Use of Specific Antidepressant Medications During Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Selected Birth Defects," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
"Patterns of Prescription Medication Use during the First Trimester of Pregnancy in the United States, 1997-2018," 2023, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
"Trends in first-trimester nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and use of select treatments: Findings from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study," 2020, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
"Maternal exposure to hydroxychloroquine and birth defects," 2021, Birth Defects Research
"Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine (Tdap) in pregnancy and risk of major birth defects in the offspring," 2020, Birth Defects Research

Frequent coauthors in Mitchell's research include:

Martha M. Werler
Stephen Kerr
Jennita Reefhuis
Samantha E. Parker
Elizabeth C. Ailes

Best Publications

Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States: The Slone Survey

David W. Kaufman;Judith P. Kelly;Lynn Rosenberg;Theresa E. Anderson

2689
Citations
Causal Knowledge as a Prerequisite for Confounding Evaluation: An Application to Birth Defects Epidemiology

Miguel A. Hernán;Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Martha M. Werler;Allen A. Mitchell

1546
Citations
Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors and Risk of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn

Christina D Chambers;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Linda J Van Marter;Martha M Werler

1094
Citations
Folic Acid Antagonists During Pregnancy and the Risk of Birth Defects

Sonia Hernández-Diaz;Martha M. Werler;Alexander M. Walker;Allen A. Mitchell

1072
Citations
Medication use during pregnancy, with particular focus on prescription drugs: 1976-2008

Allen A Mitchell;Suzanne M Gilboa;Martha M Werler;Katherine E Kelley

900
Citations
First-Trimester Use of Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors and the Risk of Birth Defects

C. Louik;A.E. Lin;M.M. Werler;S. Hernández-Díaz

747
Citations
Periconceptional Folic Acid Exposure and Risk of Occurrent Neural Tube Defects

Martha M. Werler;Samuel Shapiro;Allen A. Mitchell

729
Citations
Prepregnant Weight in Relation to Risk of Neural Tube Defects

Martha M. Werler;Carol Louik;Samuel Shapiro;Allen A. Mitchell

467
Citations
Use of over-the-counter medications during pregnancy.

Martha M. Werler;Allen A. Mitchell;Sonia Hernandez-Diaz;Margaret A. Honein

427
Citations
Prevalence and characteristics of opioid use in the US adult population.

Judith Parsells Kelly;Suzanne F. Cook;David W. Kaufman;Theresa Anderson

415
Citations
An Assessment of the Safety of Pediatric Ibuprofen: A Practitioner-Based Randomized Clinical Trial

Samuel M. Lesko;Allen A. Mitchell

399
Citations
Multivitamin supplementation and risk of birth defects.

Martha M. Werler;Catherine Hayes;Carol Louik;Samuel Shapiro

392
Citations
Recent trends in use of herbal and other natural products.

Judith P. Kelly;David W. Kaufman;Katherine Kelley;Lynn Rosenberg

388
Citations
Anticonvulsants and parental epilepsy in the development of birth defects.

Samuel Shapiro;StuartC. Hartz;Victor Siskind;AllenA. Mitchell

385
Citations
Neural Tube Defects in Relation to Use of Folic Acid Antagonists during Pregnancy

Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Martha M. Werler;Alexander M. Walker;Allen A. Mitchell

338
Citations
Maternal Medication Use and Risks of Gastroschisis and Small Intestinal Atresia

Martha M. Werler;Jane E. Sheehan;Allen A. Mitchell

325
Citations
The safety of acetaminophen and ibuprofen among children younger than two years old.

Samuel M. Lesko;Allen A. Mitchell

305
Citations
Recent Patterns of Medication Use in the Ambulatory Adult Population of the United States

David W. Kaufman;Judith P. Kelly;Theresa E. Anderson;Allen A. Mitchell

301
Citations
Medications as a potential source of exposure to phthalates in the U.S. population.

Sonia Hernández-Díaz;Allen Avrom Mitchell;Katherine E. Kelley;Antonia M. Calafat

286
Citations
Recent Trends in Use of Herbal and Other Natural Products

J.P. Kelly;D.W. Kaufman;K. Kelley

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia Hernandez-Diaz Harvard University

Samuel Shapiro Boston University

Lynn Rosenberg Boston University

David W. Kaufman Boston University

Kenneth L. Jones University of California, San Diego

Margaret A. Honein Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alexander M. Walker Harvard University

Michael Schatz Kaiser Permanente

Katherine A. Kelley University of Rhode Island

Russ Hauser Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Allen A. Mitchell

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