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87732
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Demetrius Albanes 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 Demetrius Albanes sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 944 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Demetrius Albanes 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 Demetrius Albanes sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 157 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

Demetrius Albanes is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has a significant publication record in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans major subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Oncology.

The main topics of Albanes' work focus on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, as well as RNA modifications and cancer.

Albanes' recent papers include:

  • Physical activity and risks of breast and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomisation analysis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Association Between Plant and Animal Protein Intake and Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Genome-wide Modeling of Polygenic Risk Score in Colorectal Cancer Risk, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Frequent co-authors of Demetrius Albanes include:

  • Stephanie J. Weinstein
  • Loïc Le Marchand
  • Graham G. Giles
  • Gad Rennert
  • Hermann Brenner

Albanes has published extensively in several notable venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications

Their work's emphasis on genetic epidemiology and cancer-related molecular biology reflects a multidisciplinary approach, integrating genetic factors, epigenetics, nutrition, and metabolism for a diverse range of conditions including colorectal and prostate cancers as well as liver disease.

Best Publications

  • Effect of selenium and vitamin E on risk of prostate cancer and other cancers: the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT).

    Scott M. Lippman;Eric A. Klein;Eric A. Klein;Phyllis J. Goodman;M. Scott Lucia

  • Prostate cancer and supplementation with alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene: incidence and mortality in a controlled trial

    O P Heinonen;D Albanes;J Virtamo;P R Taylor

  • α-Tocopherol and β-Carotene Supplements and Lung Cancer Incidence in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study: Effects of Base-line Characteristics and Study Compliance

    Demetrius Albanes;Olli P. Heinonen;Philip R. Taylor;Jarmo Virtamo

  • Multiple loci identified in a genome-wide association study of prostate cancer

    Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Peter Kraft

  • Genome-wide association study of circulating vitamin D levels

    Jiyoung Ahn;Kai Yu;Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon;K. Claire Simon

  • Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci

    Fredrick R. Schumacher;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sonja I. Berndt;Sara Benlloch

  • Intake of Fatty Acids and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in a Cohort of Finnish Men: The Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study

    Pirjo Pietinen;Alberto Ascherio;Pasi Korhonen;Anne M. Hartman

  • Randomised trial of α-tocopherol and β-carotene supplements on incidence of major coronary events in men with previous myocardial infarction

    Janne M Rapola;Jarmo Virtamo;Samuli Ripatti;Jussi K Huttunen

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes

    James D McKay;Rayjean J Hung;Younghun Han;Xuchen Zong

  • Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

    Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

  • Obesity, metabolic factors and risk of different histological types of lung cancer: A Mendelian randomization study

    Robert Carreras-Torres;Mattias Johansson;Philip C. Haycock;Kaitlin H. Wade

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

  • REPRODUCIBILITY AND VALIDITY OF DIETARY ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS I. A SELF-ADMINISTERED FOOD USE QUESTIONNAIRE WITH A PORTION SIZE PICTURE BOOKLET

    Pirjo Pietinen;Anne M. Hartman;Eliina Haapa;Leena Räsänen

  • A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Kai Yu;Lynn R. Goldin

  • Associations between smoking and body weight in the US population: analysis of NHANES II.

    D Albanes;D Y Jones;M S Micozzi;M E Mattson

  • Effects of alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplements on cancer incidence in the Alpha-Tocopherol Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study.

    D Albanes;O P Heinonen;J K Huttunen;P R Taylor

  • Incidence of cancer and mortality following alpha-tocopherol and beta-carotene supplementation: a postintervention follow-up

    Jarmo Virtamo;Pirjo Pietinen;Jussi K Huttunen;Pasi Korhonen

  • A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer

    Ali Amin Al Olama;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Sonja I. Berndt;David V. Conti

  • Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer identifies a second risk locus at 8q24

    Adam S. Kibel

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

    Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

Frequent Co-Authors

Jarmo Virtamo
Jarmo Virtamo National Institutes of Health
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Stephen J. Chanock
Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health
Peter Kraft
Peter Kraft Harvard University
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University
Sonja I. Berndt
Sonja I. Berndt National Institutes of Health
J. Michael Gaziano
J. Michael Gaziano Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon
Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon National Institutes of Health
Philip R. Taylor
Philip R. Taylor Cardiff University
Loic Le Marchand
Loic Le Marchand University of Hawaii at Manoa

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