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Frank B. Hu 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 Frank B. Hu sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,860 publications — 100th percentile

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

Frank B. Hu 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 Frank B. Hu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 318 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2010 - Kelly West Award, American Diabetes Association

Overview

Frank B. Hu is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a research focus predominantly in the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their research topics are diverse, with a significant emphasis on Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Nutrition, Genetics and Disease, Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, and Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank B. Hu include Walter C. Willett, Qi Sun, JoAnn E. Manson, Eric B. Rimm, and Marta Guasch-Ferré.

The prominent venues where this scientist has frequently published include Circulation, Current Developments in Nutrition, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Diabetes Care, and UNC Libraries.

Examples of recent papers by Frank B. Hu include:

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019 (2020), published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Waist circumference as a vital sign in clinical practice: a Consensus Statement from the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity (2020), published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2021), published in Circulation
  • The role of sugar-sweetened beverages in the global epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases (2022), published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • Association Between Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (2020), published in JAMA Internal Medicine

Frank B. Hu has received recognition in the form of awards such as the Member of the National Academy of Medicine (2015) and the Kelly West Award from the American Diabetes Association (2010).

Best Publications

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society

    Michael D. Jensen;Donna H. Ryan;Caroline M. Apovian;Jamy D. Ard

  • Global aetiology and epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications.

    Yan Zheng;Sylvia H Ley;Frank B Hu;Frank B Hu

  • Diet, lifestyle, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women

    Frank B. Hu;Joann E. Manson;Meir J. Stampfer;Graham Colditz

  • Dietary pattern analysis: a new direction in nutritional epidemiology.

    Frank B Hu

  • Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain: a systematic review

    Vasanti S Malik;Matthias B Schulze;Frank B Hu

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men

    Dariush Mozaffarian;Tao Hao;Eric B. Rimm;Walter C. Willett

  • The Role of Vitamin D and Calcium in Type 2 Diabetes. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Anastassios G. Pittas;Joseph Lau;Frank B. Hu;Bess Dawson-Hughes;Bess Dawson-Hughes

  • The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture

    Adela Hruby;Frank B. Hu

  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults

    Michael D. Jensen;Donna H. Ryan;Caroline M. Apovian;Jamy D. Ard

  • Diabetes mellitus, fasting glucose, and risk of cause-specific death.

    Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai;Stephen Kaptoge;Alexander Thompson;Emanuele Di Angelantonio

  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: A meta-analysis

    Vasanti S. Malik;Barry M. Popkin;George A. Bray;Jean Pierre Després

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Television Watching and Other Sedentary Behaviors in Relation to Risk of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women

    Frank B. Hu;Tricia Y. Li;Graham A. Colditz;Walter C. Willett

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Primary prevention of coronary heart disease in women through diet and lifestyle.

    Meir J. Stampfer;Frank B. Hu;JoAnn E. Manson;Eric B. Rimm

  • Diabetes in Asia: epidemiology, risk factors, and pathophysiology.

    Juliana C. N. Chan;Vasanti Malik;Weiping Jia;Takashi Kadowaki

  • Globalization of Diabetes: The role of diet, lifestyle, and genes

    Frank B. Hu

  • 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline for the Management of Overweight

    Michael D. Jensen;H. Ryan;M. Apovian;Catherine M. Loria

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter C. Willett
Walter C. Willett Harvard University
JoAnn E. Manson
JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School
Eric B. Rimm
Eric B. Rimm Harvard University
Qi Sun
Qi Sun Harvard University
Lu Qi
Lu Qi Harvard University
Meir J. Stampfer
Meir J. Stampfer Harvard University
Rob M. van Dam
Rob M. van Dam George Washington University
An Pan
An Pan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yanping Li
Yanping Li Harvard University
David J. Hunter
David J. Hunter Harvard University

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