2026 Alvan R. Feinstein: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	101	7785	4056	540	67596

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Medicine

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67596

Overview

Alvan R. Feinstein was affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research activity included contributions to the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, where several editorial board listings appeared between 2022 and 2023. These publications included:

Editorial Board, 2022, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Editorial Board, 2022, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Editorial Board, 2022, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Editorial Board, 2022, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Editorial Board, 2023, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Feinstein worked frequently with a group of co-authors who appeared in multiple collaborations. These collaborators included David Tovey, Frcgp London, Emeritus Bours, Richard London, and Ludovic G. P. M. van Amelsvoort. Each was noted as having partnered on 17 occasions.

The primary venue for their research contributions was the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, where Feinstein had at least 17 publications.

Best Publications

A simulation study of the number of events per variable in logistic regression analysis.

Peter Peduzzi;John Concato;John Concato;Elizabeth Kemper;Elizabeth Kemper;Theodore R. Holford

8670
Citations
High agreement but low kappa: I. The problems of two paradoxes.

Alvan R. Feinstein;Domenic V. Cicchetti

3802
Citations
A critical appraisal of the quality of quality-of-life measurements

Thomas M. Gill;Alvan R. Feinstein

3142
Citations
Problems of Spectrum and Bias in Evaluating the Efficacy of Diagnostic Tests

David F. Ransohoff;Alvan R. Feinstein

2413
Citations
High agreement but low kappa: II. Resolving the paradoxes.

Domenic V. Cicchetti;Alvan R. Feinstein

2402
Citations
The Will Rogers phenomenon. Stage migration and new diagnostic techniques as a source of misleading statistics for survival in cancer.

Alvan R. Feinstein;Daniel M. Sosin;Carolyn K. Wells

2185
Citations
Importance of events per independent variable in proportional hazards regression analysis. II. Accuracy and precision of regression estimates

Peter Peduzzi;John Concato;John Concato;Alvan R. Feinstein;Theodore R. Holford

2129
Citations
Clinical biostatistics: LIV. The biostatistics of concordance

Michael S Kramer;Michael S Kramer;Alvan R Feinstein;Alvan R Feinstein

1597
Citations
Clinical Epidemiology: The Architecture of Clinical Research

Alvan R. Feinstein

1431
Citations
The risk of determining risk with multivariable models.

John Concato;Alvan R. Feinstein;Theodore R. Holford

1297
Citations
Standard classification of rosacea: Report of the National Rosacea Society Expert Committee on the Classification and Staging of Rosacea

Jonathan Wilkin;Mark Dahl;Michael Detmar;Lynn Drake

1229
Citations
Use of methodological standards in diagnostic test research. Getting better but still not good

M C Reid;M S Lachs;A R Feinstein

990
Citations
Problems in the “Evidence” of “Evidence-Based Medicine”

Alvan R Feinstein;Ralph I Horwitz

932
Citations
Importance of events per independent variable in proportional hazards analysis I. Background, goals, and general strategy

John Concato;Peter Peduzzi;Peter Peduzzi;Theodore R. Holford;Alvan R. Feinstein

850
Citations
Principles of medical statistics

Alvan R. Feinstein

759
Citations
Variability in Radiologists' Interpretations of Mammograms

Joann G. Elmore;Carolyn K. Wells;Carol H. Lee;Debra H. Howard

756
Citations
An Algorithm for the Operational Assessment of Adverse Drug Reactions: I. Background, Description, and Instructions for Use

Michael S. Kramer;John M. Leventhal;Tom A. Hutchinson;Alvan R. Feinstein

629
Citations
Scientific and clinical problems in indexes of functional disability.

Alvan R. Feinstein;Bruce R. Josephy;Carolyn K. Wells

550
Citations
A simple procedure for general screening for functional disability in elderly patients.

Mark S. Lachs;Alvan R. Feinstein;Leo M. Cooney;Margaret A. Drickamer

529
Citations
Clinical Epidemiology: The Architecture of Clinical Research.

D. G. Cook;A. R. Feinstein

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph I. Horwitz Temple University

John Concato Yale University

Joann G. Elmore University of California, Los Angeles

Mary E. Charlson Cornell University

John D. Clemens University of California, Los Angeles

Stephen D. Walter McMaster University

James G. Wright University of Toronto

Theodore R. Holford Yale University

Michael S. Kramer McGill University

Thomas M. Gill Yale University

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