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D-Index
42
Citations
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World Ranking
4573
National Ranking
2176

David J. Rothman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Rothman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

David J. Rothman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Rothman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

David J. Rothman was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on health professions and medicine, with particular attention to subfields such as general health professions, economics and econometrics, emergency medical services, gender studies, and neurology.

The main topics covered in their work included healthcare policy and management, global health workforce issues, primary care and health outcomes, diversity and career in medicine, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, as well as cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Rothman authored and co-authored publications across various respected venues. These included:

  • Health Affairs (2 publications)
  • Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law (1 publication)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America (1 publication)
  • American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (1 publication)

Some of their recent published papers were:

  • "Medical Professionalism In An Organizational Age: Challenges And Opportunities," 2020, Health Affairs
  • "Medical Professionalism: The Authors Reply," 2020, Health Affairs
  • "Olfactory Changes After Military Deployment Are Associated With Emotional Distress but Not With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury History," 2021, American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

In addition to journal articles, Rothman also contributed to academic book publishing, with a publication titled "Learning the Secrets of English Verse" released in 2022 by Springer International Publishing.

The researcher frequently collaborated with several coauthors. Notable frequent collaborators included:

  • Susan Delaney Spear
  • David Blumenthal
  • George E. Thibault
  • Adam Bonica
  • Howard L. Rosenthal

Best Publications

  • The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic

    David J. Rothman

  • Conscience and convenience: The asylum and its alternatives in progressive America

    David J. Rothman

  • Strangers At The Bedside: A History Of How Law And Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making

    David J. Rothman

  • The Oxford history of the prison : the practice of punishment in Western society

    Norval Morris;David J. Rothman

  • Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest A Policy Proposal for Academic Medical Centers

    Troyen A. Brennan;David J. Rothman;Linda Blank;David Blumenthal

  • The Discovery of the Asylum.

    Ernest Cassara;David J. Rothman

  • Professional Medical Associations and Their Relationships With Industry: A Proposal for Controlling Conflict of Interest

    David J. Rothman;Walter J. McDonald;Carol D. Berkowitz;Susan C. Chimonas

  • The Willowbrook Wars

    David J. Rothman;Sheila M. Rothman

  • Medical Professionalism — Focusing on the Real Issues

    David J. Rothman

  • Politics and Power

    David J. Rothman

  • Were Tuskegee & Willowbrook ‘Studies in Nature’?

    David J. Rothman

  • Ethics and Human Experimentation

    David J. Rothman

  • Physicians and Drug Representatives: Exploring the Dynamics of the Relationship

    Susan Chimonas;Troyen A. Brennan;David J. Rothman

  • Beginnings Count: the Technological Imperative in American Health Care

    David J. Rothman

  • Marketing HPV vaccine: implications for adolescent health and medical professionalism.

    Sheila M. Rothman;David J. Rothman

  • A challenge to integrity in spine publications: years of living dangerously with the promotion of bone growth factors

    Eugene J. Carragee;Alexander J. Ghanayem;Bradley K. Weiner;David J. Rothman

  • The Bellagio Task Force Report on Transplantation, Bodily Integrity, and the International Traffic in Organs

    D.J. Rothman;E. Rose;T. Awaya;B. Cohen

  • The Institutional Review Board and beyond: Future Challenges to the Ethics of Human Experimentation

    Harold Edgar;David J. Rothman

  • The Hidden Cost of Organ Sale

    S. M. Rothman;D. J. Rothman

  • Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest

    Troyen A. Brennan;David J. Rothman;Linda Blank;David Blumenthal

  • The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic

    Kai T. Erikson;David J. Rothman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal Harvard University
Howard Rosenthal
Howard Rosenthal New York University
Troyen A. Brennan
Troyen A. Brennan Harvard University
Jerome P. Kassirer
Jerome P. Kassirer Tufts University
Victoria H. Raveis
Victoria H. Raveis New York University
Eugene J. Carragee
Eugene J. Carragee Stanford University
Christopher M. Bono
Christopher M. Bono Harvard University
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center
Kimford J. Meador
Kimford J. Meador Stanford University

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