2026 D. Woodrow Benson: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	78	17961	16882	8956	8278	266	24993

D. Woodrow Benson publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where D. Woodrow Benson sits on this spectrum.

101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 266 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

D. Woodrow Benson D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where D. Woodrow Benson sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

D. Woodrow Benson is affiliated with the Medical College of Wisconsin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pathology and forensic medicine, molecular biology, and epidemiology.

Their main topics of work include spinal fractures and fixation techniques, congenital heart defects research, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, congenital heart disease studies, spinal cord injury research, trauma and emergency care studies, and cardiac arrhythmias and treatments.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

Common deletion variants causing protocadherin-α deficiency contribute to the complex genetics of BAV and left-sided congenital heart disease (2021), published in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
Focused Strategies for Defining the Genetic Architecture of Congenital Heart Defects (2021), published in Genes
A predictive model of motor deficit in civilian ballistic lumbosacral spine injuries (2023), published in The Spine Journal
Home monitoring detects fetal supraventricular tachyarrhythmia recurrence during dose reduction of antiarrhythmic therapy (2020), published in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Biologically derived epicardial patch induces macrophage mediated pathophysiologic repair in chronically infarcted swine hearts (2023), published in Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors include Mostafa H. El Dafrawy, Christopher Johnson, Michael J. Lee, Edwin Ramos, and Bettina F. Cuneo.

Benson has repeatedly published in several academic venues, with the highest number of contributions to the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, followed by The Spine Journal, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication, and Genes.

Best Publications

Congenital Heart Disease Caused by Mutations in the Transcription Factor NKX2-5

Jean Jacques Schott;D. Woodrow Benson;Craig T. Basson;William Pease

1574
Citations
Genetic Basis for Congenital Heart Defects: Current Knowledge A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young

Mary Ella M Pierpont;Craig T. Basson;D. Woodrow Benson;Bruce D. Gelb

1143
Citations
Mutations in the cardiac transcription factor NKX2.5 affect diverse cardiac developmental pathways

D. Woodrow Benson;G. Michael Silberbach;Ann Kavanaugh-McHugh;Carol Cottrill

796
Citations
Bicuspid aortic valve is heritable

Linda Cripe;Gregor Andelfinger;Lisa J. Martin;Kerry Shooner

748
Citations
Congenital sick sinus syndrome caused by recessive mutations in the cardiac sodium channel gene (SCN5A)

D. Woodrow Benson;Dao W. Wang;Macaira Dyment;Timothy K. Knilans

671
Citations
Constitutively active AMP kinase mutations cause glycogen storage disease mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Michael Arad;D. Woodrow Benson;Antonio R. Perez-Atayde;William J. McKenna

632
Citations
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome : Current Considerations and Expectations

Jeffrey A. Feinstein;D. Woodrow Benson;Anne M. Dubin;Meryl S. Cohen

584
Citations
Atenolol versus Losartan in Children and Young Adults with Marfan's Syndrome

Ronald V. Lacro;Harry C. Dietz;Lynn A. Sleeper;Anji T. Yetman

535
Citations
NKX2.5 mutations in patients with congenital heart disease.

Doff B. McElhinney;Elizabeth Geiger;Joshua Blinder;D. Woodrow Benson

526
Citations
Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Organization in Developing and Diseased Aortic Valves

Robert B. Hinton;Joy Lincoln;Gail H. Deutsch;Hanna Osinska

506
Citations
Supraventricular tachycardia mechanisms and their age distribution in pediatric patients.

Jae Kon Ko;Barbara J. Deal;Janette F. Strasburger;D.Woodrow Benson

506
Citations
Nkx2-5 Pathways and Congenital Heart Disease: Loss of Ventricular Myocyte Lineage Specification Leads to Progressive Cardiomyopathy and Complete Heart Block

Mohammad Pashmforoush;Jonathan T Lu;Hanying Chen;Tara St Amand

484
Citations
Calmodulin mutations associated with recurrent cardiac arrest in infants

Lia Crotti;Christopher N. Johnson;Elisabeth Graf;Gaetano M. De Ferrari

439
Citations
AHA/ACCF Scientific Statement on the Evaluation of Syncope: From the American Heart Association Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and Stroke, and the Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; and the American College of Cardiology Foundation In Collaboration With the Heart Rhythm Society

S. Adam Strickberger;D. Woodrow Benson;Italo Biaggioni;David J. Callans

425
Citations
Comparison of Magnetic Resonance Feature Tracking for Strain Calculation With Harmonic Phase Imaging Analysis

Kan N. Hor;William M. Gottliebson;Christopher Carson;Erin Wash

415
Citations
Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Identifying Knowledge Gaps and Rising to the Challenge From the International Bicuspid Aortic Valve Consortium (BAVCon)

Hector I. Michelena;Siddharth K. Prakash;Alessandro Della Corte;Malenka M. Bissell

412
Citations
Inherited Arrhythmias A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Office of Rare Diseases Workshop Consensus Report About the Diagnosis, Phenotyping, Molecular Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Approaches for Primary Cardiomyopathies of Gene Mutations Affecting Ion Channel Function

Stephan E. Lehnart;Michael J. Ackerman;D. Woodrow Benson;Ramon Brugada

351
Citations
Electrocardiographic Features in Andersen-Tawil Syndrome Patients With KCNJ2 Mutations: Characteristic T-U–Wave Patterns Predict the KCNJ2 Genotype

Li Zhang;Li Zhang;D. Woodrow Benson;Martin Tristani-Firouzi;Louis J. Ptacek

330
Citations
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Is Heritable

Robert B. Hinton;Lisa J. Martin;Meredith E. Tabangin;Mjaye L. Mazwi

298
Citations
KCNJ2 Mutation Results in Andersen Syndrome with Sex-Specific Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Phenotypes

Gregor Andelfinger;Andrew R. Tapper;Richard C. Welch;Carlos G. Vanoye

298
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Benditt University of Minnesota

Lisa J. Martin Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Alfred L. George Northwestern University

John J. Gallagher Duke University

Carl L. Backer Northwestern University

Christine E. Seidman Harvard University

Michael J. Ackerman Mayo Clinic

Pippa Simpson Medical College of Wisconsin

Katherine E. Yutzey Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Jonathan G. Seidman Harvard University

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