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David A. Hanley

David A. Hanley

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
50032
World Ranking
9096
National Ranking
358

David A. Hanley 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 David A. Hanley sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 355 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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David A. Hanley 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 David A. Hanley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David A. Hanley is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and focuses on research in medicine, specifically in orthopedics and sports medicine, surgery, pathology and forensic medicine, oncology, and physiology. Their research work centers primarily on bone health and osteoporosis, vitamin D studies, and related topics concerning bone and joint diseases, nutrition and health in aging, as well as parathyroid disorders and treatments.

Hanley has contributed extensively to the study of bone health, with 42 publications addressing bone health and osteoporosis research. Other areas of significant publication activity include vitamin D research studies and hip and femur fractures, each with 18 publications. Research topics also cover nutrition and health in aging, bone health and treatments, bone and joint diseases, and parathyroid disorders and treatments.

The scientist has published frequently in several academic venues. The main publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (14 publications)
  • Osteoporosis International (2 publications)
  • JBMR Plus (2 publications)
  • Archives of Osteoporosis (1 publication)
  • Postgraduate Medicine (1 publication)

David A. Hanley has collaborated regularly with several coauthors. The most frequent coauthors are:

  • Steven K. Boyd (18 joint publications)
  • Lauren A. Burt (15 joint publications)
  • Emma O. Billington (10 joint publications)
  • David Goltzman (8 joint publications)
  • Danielle E. Whittier (6 joint publications)

Recent representative publications from Hanley's work include:

  • Adverse Effects of High-Dose Vitamin D Supplementation on Volumetric Bone Density Are Greater in Females than Males, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Sex- and Site-Specific Reference Data for Bone Microarchitecture in Adults Measured Using Second-Generation HR-pQCT, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Bone Microarchitecture Phenotypes Identified in Older Adults Are Associated With Different Levels of Osteoporotic Fracture Risk, 2020, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • Cognitive decline is associated with an accelerated rate of bone loss and increased fracture risk in women: a prospective study from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study, 2021, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research
  • A Fracture Risk Assessment Tool for High Resolution Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography, 2023, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

Best Publications

  • Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

    Michael F. Holick;Neil C. Binkley;Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari;Catherine M. Gordon

  • Risk of New Vertebral Fracture in the Year Following a Fracture

    Robert Lindsay;Stuart L. Silverman;Cyrus Cooper;David A. Hanley

  • 2010 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis in Canada: summary

    Alexandra Papaioannou;Suzanne Morin;Angela M. Cheung;Stephanie Atkinson

  • Diagnosis and Management of Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: A Systematic Review and International Consensus

    Aliya A Khan;Archie Morrison;David A Hanley;Dieter Felsenberg

  • Effectiveness and safety of vitamin D in relation to bone health.

    Ann Cranney;Tanya Horsley;Siobhan O'Donnell;Hope Weiler

  • Intermittent etidronate therapy to prevent corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis.

    J D Adachi;W G Bensen;J Brown;D Hanley

  • Parathyroid hormone and teriparatide for the treatment of osteoporosis: a review of the evidence and suggested guidelines for its use.

    Anthony B. Hodsman;Douglas C. Bauer;David W. Dempster;Larry Dian

  • Multinational, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trial of the Effects of Alendronate on Bone Density and Fracture Risk in Postmenopausal Women with Low Bone Mass: Results of the FOSIT Study

    H. A. P. Pols;D. Felsenberg;D. A. Hanley;J. Štepán

  • Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency Revisited

    Michael F. Holick;Neil C. Binkley;Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari;Catherine M. Gordon

  • Diagnosis of asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: proceedings of the third international workshop.

    Richard Eastell;A. Arnold;M. L. Brandi;E. M. Brown

  • Effect of Recombinant Human Parathyroid Hormone (1-84) on Vertebral Fracture and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis: A Randomized Trial

    Greenspan Sl;Bone Hg;Ettinger Mp;Hanley Da

  • Bisphosphonate Therapy for Osteoporosis: Benefits, Risks, and Drug Holiday

    Michael McClung;Steven T. Harris;Paul D. Miller;Douglas C. Bauer

  • Relation between fractures and mortality: results from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study

    George Ioannidis;Alexandra Papaioannou;Wilma M Hopman;Noori Akhtar-Danesh

  • Primary hyperparathyroidism: review and recommendations on evaluation, diagnosis, and management. A Canadian and international consensus.

    A A Khan;D A Hanley;R. Rizzoli;J Bollerslev

  • Enhancement of bone mass in osteoporotic women with parathyroid hormone followed by alendronate.

    Roger S. Rittmaster;Michael Bolognese;Mark P. Ettinger;David A. Hanley

  • Trends in hip fracture rates in Canada.

    William D. Leslie;Siobhan O’Donnell;Sonia Jean;Claudia Lagacé

  • Vitamin D insufficiency in a population of healthy western Canadians

    Diana Rucker;Jane A. Allan;Gordon H. Fick;David A. Hanley

  • Estimation of the Prevalence of Low Bone Density in Canadian Women and Men Using a Population-Specific DXA Reference Standard: The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos)

    A. Tenenhouse;L. Joseph;N. Kreiger;S. Poliquin

  • Age-related patterns of trabecular and cortical bone loss differ between sexes and skeletal sites: a population-based HR-pQCT study.

    Heather M Macdonald;Kyle K Nishiyama;Jian Kang;David A Hanley

  • Vitamin D in adult health and disease: a review and guideline statement from Osteoporosis Canada (summary)

    David A. Hanley;Ann Cranney;Glenville Jones;Susan J. Whiting

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Adachi
Jonathan D. Adachi McMaster University
Robert G. Josse
Robert G. Josse University of Toronto
Jacques P. Brown
Jacques P. Brown Université Laval
Alexandra Papaioannou
Alexandra Papaioannou McMaster University
David Goltzman
David Goltzman McGill University
William D. Leslie
William D. Leslie University of Manitoba
Angela M. Cheung
Angela M. Cheung University of Toronto
Lehana Thabane
Lehana Thabane McMaster University
Sumit R. Majumdar
Sumit R. Majumdar University of Alberta
Charles H. Goldsmith
Charles H. Goldsmith Simon Fraser University

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