2026 Ezekiel J. Emanuel: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	114	4639	4351	2519	2333	569	64851

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Member of the Association of American Physicians
Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their work spans multiple aspects of healthcare policy, management, and economic evaluations within the health sciences.

The researcher has published extensively, including in venues such as JAMA, JAMA Network Open, JAMA Internal Medicine, The Lancet, and Health Affairs.

Frequent co-authors include Karen E. Joynt Maddox, Michael Berkwits, Robert Golub, Mary Mcdermott, and Jody Zylke.

Their recent papers include:

Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation, 2020, Science
The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education, 2020, JAMA
Fairly Prioritizing Groups for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, 2020, JAMA
COVID-19 and Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 18 Comparison Countries, 2020, JAMA

The main fields of study covered by their publications include Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research focuses on the following topics:

Healthcare Policy and Management
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Primary Care and Health Outcomes
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Ezekiel J. Emanuel has been recognized with several awards, including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, Member of the National Academy of Medicine since 2004, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1966, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Linda L. Emanuel;Linda L. Emanuel

3529
Citations
What Makes Clinical Research Ethical

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;David Wendler;Christine Grady

3491
Citations
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Govind Persad;Ross Upshur;Beatriz Thome

3351
Citations
Predicting the Future - Big Data, Machine Learning, and Clinical Medicine.

Ziad Obermeyer;Ezekiel J. Emanuel

2823
Citations
Symptoms and suffering at the end of life in children with cancer.

Joanne Wolfe;Holcombe E. Grier;Neil Klar;Sarah B. Levin

1458
Citations
What Makes Clinical Research in Developing Countries Ethical? The Benchmarks of Ethical Research

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;David Wendler;Jack Killen;Christine Grady

1295
Citations
Interventions to improve research participants' understanding in informed consent for research: a systematic review.

James Flory;Ezekiel Emanuel

1265
Citations
Are racial and ethnic minorities less willing to participate in health research

David Wendler;Raynard Kington;Jennifer Madans;Gretchen Van Wye

1118
Citations
Advance Directives for Medical Care — A Case for Greater Use

Linda L. Emanuel;Michael J. Barry;John D. Stoeckle;Lucy M. Ettelson

1043
Citations
Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions.

Govind Persad;Alan Wertheimer;Ezekiel J Emanuel

982
Citations
Shared decision making to improve care and reduce costs.

Emily Oshima Lee;Ezekiel J Emanuel

878
Citations
The promise of a good death

Ezekiel J Emanuel;Linda L Emanuel

809
Citations
Attitudes and Practices of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States, Canada, and Europe

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen;John W. Urwin;Joachim Cohen

699
Citations
Preserving the Physician-Patient Relationship in the Era of Managed Care

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Nancy Neveloff Dubler

661
Citations
Understanding Economic and Other Burdens of Terminal Illness: The Experience of Patients and Their Caregivers

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Diane L. Fairclough;Julia Slutsman;Linda L. Emanuel

606
Citations
The Economics of Dying -- The Illusion of Cost Savings at the End of Life

Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Linda L. Emanuel

555
Citations
Understanding of prognosis among parents of children who died of cancer: impact on treatment goals and integration of palliative care.

Joanne Wolfe;Neil Klar;Holcombe E. Grier;Janet Duncan

541
Citations
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: attitudes and experiences of oncology patients, oncologists, and the public

E.J Emanuel;E.R Daniels;D.L Fairclough;B.R Clarridge

530
Citations
The Medical Directive. A new comprehensive advance care document

Linda L. Emanuel;Ezekiel J. Emanuel

517
Citations
The MOOC Phenomenon: Who Takes Massive Open Online Courses and Why?

Gayle Christensen;Andrew Steinmetz;Brandon Alcorn;Amy Bennett

405
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Wendler National Institutes of Health

Christine Grady National Institutes of Health

Kevin G. Volpp University of Pennsylvania

Andrea B. Troxel New York University

Diane L. Fairclough University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Victor R. Fuchs Stanford University

Arlene S. Ash University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Cary P. Gross Yale University

Arnold M. Epstein Harvard University

Daniel Polsky Johns Hopkins University

External Links

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