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D-Index
91
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50493
World Ranking
11517
National Ranking
5905

David J. Brenner 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 J. Brenner sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 531 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David J. Brenner 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 J. Brenner sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

David J. Brenner is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in subfields including Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Cancer Research.

The primary topics covered in their work include Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry, Effects of Radiation Exposure, Infection Control and Ventilation, Skin Protection and Aging, Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment, Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure, and DNA Repair Mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors working alongside David J. Brenner include Igor Shuryak, Guy Garty, David Welch, Manuela Buonanno, and Sally A. Amundson.

Key venues where their research has been published multiple times are Scientific Reports, Radiation Research, Photochemistry and Photobiology, Research Square (Research Square), and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by David J. Brenner are:

  • Far-UVC light (222 nm) efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Far-UVC (222 nm) efficiently inactivates an airborne pathogen in a room-sized chamber, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Far UV-C radiation: An emerging tool for pandemic control, 2022, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • Exposure of Human Skin Models to KrCl Excimer Lamps: The Impact of Optical Filtering†, 2021, Photochemistry and Photobiology
  • No Evidence of Induced Skin Cancer or Other Skin Abnormalities after Long-Term (66 week) Chronic Exposure to 222-nm Far-UVC Radiation, 2022, Photochemistry and Photobiology

David J. Brenner has been recognized with membership in significant professional organizations, including the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) since 2012 and the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Computed Tomography — An Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure

    David J. Brenner;Eric J. Hall

  • Estimated Risks of Radiation-Induced Fatal Cancer from Pediatric CT

    David J. Brenner;Carl D. Elliston;Eric J. Hall;Walter E. Berdon

  • Cancer risks attributable to low doses of ionizing radiation: Assessing what we really know

    David J. Brenner;Richard Doll;Dudley T. Goodhead;Eric J. Hall

  • Fractionation and protraction for radiotherapy of prostate carcinoma

    David J Brenner;Eric J Hall

  • Cancer risks from diagnostic radiology

    E J Hall;D J Brenner

  • Estimated radiation risks potentially associated with full-body CT screening.

    David J Brenner;Carl D Elliston

  • Second malignancies in prostate carcinoma patients after radiotherapy compared with surgery.

    David J. Brenner;Rochelle E. Curtis;Eric J. Hall;Elaine Ron

  • Direct evidence that prostate tumors show high sensitivity to fractionation (low α/β ratio), similar to late-responding normal tissue

    David J Brenner;Alvaro A Martinez;Gregory K Edmundson;Christina Mitchell

  • Estimating cancer risks from pediatric CT: going from the qualitative to the quantitative.

    David J. Brenner

  • The linear-quadratic model is an appropriate methodology for determining isoeffective doses at large doses per fraction.

    David J. Brenner

  • The Tumor Radiobiology of SRS and SBRT: Are More Than the 5 Rs Involved?

    J. Martin Brown;David J. Carlson;David J. Brenner

  • Far-UVC light (222 nm) efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses

    Manuela Buonanno;David Welch;Igor Shuryak;David J. Brenner

  • Radiation risks potentially associated with low-dose CT screening of adult smokers for lung cancer.

    David J. Brenner

  • The Bystander Effect in Radiation Oncogenesis: I. Transformation in C3H 10T½ Cells In Vitro can be Initiated in the Unirradiated Neighbors of Irradiated Cells

    S. G. Sawant;G. Randers-Pehrson;C. R. Geard;D. J. Brenner

  • Conditions for the equivalence of continuous to pulsed low dose rate brachytherapy.

    D.J Brenner;E.J Hall

  • What hypofractionated protocols should be tested for prostate cancer

    Jack F Fowler;Mark A Ritter;Rick J Chappell;David J Brenner

  • Biological effects in unirradiated human tissue induced by radiation damage up to 1 mm away.

    Oleg V. Belyakov;Stephen A. Mitchell;Deep Parikh;Gerhard Randers-Pehrson

  • The radiobiology of radiosurgery: Rationale for different treatment regimes for AVMs and malignancies

    Eric J. Hall;David J. Brenner

  • Managing Radiation Use in Medical Imaging: A Multifaceted Challenge

    Hedvig Hricak;David J. Brenner;S. James Adelstein;Donald P. Frush

  • Far-UVC light: A new tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial diseases

    David Welch;Manuela Buonanno;Veljko Grilj;Igor Shuryak

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Hall
Eric J. Hall Columbia University
Albert J. Fornace
Albert J. Fornace Georgetown University
Sally A. Amundson
Sally A. Amundson Columbia University
Nabil Simaan
Nabil Simaan Vanderbilt University
Y. Lawrence Yao
Y. Lawrence Yao Columbia University
Tom K. Hei
Tom K. Hei Columbia University
Qiao Lin
Qiao Lin Columbia University
Silvia C. Formenti
Silvia C. Formenti Cornell University
J. Martin Brown
J. Martin Brown Stanford University
Elaine Ron
Elaine Ron National Institutes of Health

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