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David Reich 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 Reich sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 635 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Reich 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 Reich sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 161 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Reich is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and focuses primarily on medical research. Their work spans several specialized areas within medicine, particularly emphasizing infectious diseases and the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Reich has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a significant number of publications totaling 138. Within this broader field, their subfields of study include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology

The core topics of their research prominently cover COVID-19 and related clinical and technological areas. These major topics include:

  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Some of Reich's recent papers demonstrate a clear focus on COVID-19 and related clinical studies:

  • An inflammatory cytokine signature predicts COVID-19 severity and survival (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Robust neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection persist for months (2020, Science)
  • Convalescent plasma treatment of severe COVID-19: a propensity score-matched control study (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Severe Obesity as an Independent Risk Factor for COVID-19 Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Younger than 50 (2020, Obesity)
  • Machine Learning to Predict Mortality and Critical Events in a Cohort of Patients With COVID-19 in New York City: Model Development and Validation (2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research)

The venues where Reich frequently publishes reflect a strong emphasis on medical and research-oriented journals. These publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • BMJ Open
  • Nature Medicine

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Reich's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Robert Freeman
  • Matthew A. Levin
  • Benjamin S. Glicksberg
  • Alexander W. Charney
  • Girish N. Nadkarni

Best Publications

  • Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies

    Alkes L Price;Alkes L Price;Nick J Patterson;Robert M Plenge;Robert M Plenge;Michael E Weinblatt

  • Population structure and eigenanalysis

    Nick Patterson;Alkes Price;Alkes Price;David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich

  • A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

    Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs;Tomislav Maricic

  • A map of human genome sequence variation containing 1.42 million single nucleotide polymorphisms

    Ravi Sachidanandam;David Weissman;Steven C. Schmidt;Jerzy M. Kakol

  • 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM guidelines for the diagnosis and management of patients with thoracic aortic disease: Executive summary: A report of the american college of cardiology foundation/american heart association task force on practice guidelines, american association for thoracic surgery, american college of radiology, american stroke association

    Loren F. Hiratzka;George L. Bakris;Joshua A. Beckman;Robert M. Bersin

  • An inflammatory cytokine signature predicts COVID-19 severity and survival.

    Diane Marie Del Valle;Seunghee Kim-Schulze;Hsin-Hui Huang;Noam D. Beckmann

  • Ancient Admixture in Human History

    Nick J. Patterson;Priya Moorjani;Yontao Luo;Swapan Mallick

  • The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

    Kay Prüfer;Fernando Racimo;Nick Patterson;Flora Jay

  • Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome

    Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;LaDeana W. Hillier

  • Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure

    Pardis C Sabeti;David E Reich;John M Higgins;Haninah Z P Levine

  • Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

    David Reich;Richard E. Green;Martin Kircher;Johannes Krause

  • Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

    David E. Reich;Michele Cargill;Michele Cargill;Stacey Bolk;James Ireland

  • A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

    Matthias Meyer;Martin Kircher;Marie Theres Gansauge;Heng Li

  • 2010 ACCF/AHA/AATS/ACR/ASA/SCA/SCAI/SIR/STS/SVM Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Thoracic Aortic Disease

    Loren F. Hiratzka;George L. Bakris;Joshua A. Beckman;Robert M. Bersin

  • Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

    Wolfgang Haak;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Nadin Rohland

  • Reconstructing Indian Population History

    David Reich;Kumarasamy Thangaraj;Nick Patterson;Alkes L. Price;Alkes L. Price

  • Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

    Iain Mathieson;Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nadin Rohland;Nadin Rohland;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick

  • On the allelic spectrum of human disease.

    David E Reich;Eric S Lander

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

    Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

Frequent Co-Authors

Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Alkes L. Price
Alkes L. Price Harvard University
Wolfgang Haak
Wolfgang Haak Max Planck Society
Heng Li
Heng Li Harvard University
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
David Altshuler
David Altshuler Harvard University

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