2026 Garen J. Wintemute: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3663	3378	1752	1588	257	7977

Overview

Garen J. Wintemute is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Medicine, with a strong focus on health-related topics.

Their main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Psychology
Medicine

Within these fields, their subfields of research cover areas such as Health, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Ophthalmology.

Health
Clinical Psychology
Sociology and Political Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Ophthalmology

The scientist's work extensively addresses topics such as Gun Ownership and Violence Research, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries, Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.

Gun Ownership and Violence Research
Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
Crime Patterns and Interventions
Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Frequent publication venues where their research appears include:

Injury Epidemiology
JAMA Network Open
Preventive Medicine
Injury Prevention
PLoS ONE

The scientist has coauthored work with several frequent collaborators, among them are:

Veronica A. Pear
Julia P. Schleimer
Elizabeth A. Tomsich
Aaron B. Shev
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz

Representative recent publications include:

Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study, 2021, Injury Epidemiology
Public Concern About Violence, Firearms, and the COVID-19 Pandemic in California, 2021, JAMA Network Open
Purchaser Licensing, Point-of-Sale Background Check Laws, and Firearm Homicide and Suicide in 4 US States, 1985-2017, 2020, American Journal of Public Health
Unemployment and Crime in US Cities During the Coronavirus Pandemic, 2022, Journal of Urban Health

Best Publications

The Epidemiology of Firearm Violence in the Twenty-First Century United States

Garen J. Wintemute

311
Citations
Mortality among recent purchasers of handguns.

Garen J. Wintemute;Carrie A. Parham;James Jay Beaumont;Mona Wright

289
Citations
When children shoot children. 88 unintended deaths in California

Garen J. Wintemute;Stephen P. Teret;Jess F. Kraus;Mona A. Wright

211
Citations
Handgun Ownership and Suicide in California

David M. Studdert;Yifan Zhang;Sonja A. Swanson;Lea Prince

191
Citations
Yes, you can: physicians, patients, and firearms

Garen J Wintemute;Marian E Betz;Marian E Betz;Marian E Betz;Megan L Ranney;Megan L Ranney;Megan L Ranney

180
Citations
Childhood drowning and near-drowning in the United States

Garen J. Wintemute

179
Citations
Subsequent Criminal Activity Among Violent Misdemeanants Who Seek to Purchase Handguns: Risk Factors and Effectiveness of Denying Handgun Purchase

Garen J. Wintemute;Mona A. Wright;Christiana M. Drake;James J. Beaumont

169
Citations
Firearms as a cause of death in the United States, 1920-1982.

Garen J. Wintemute

163
Citations
Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Julia P. Schleimer;Christopher D. McCort;Aaron B. Shev;Veronica A. Pear

142
Citations
Physician counseling on firearm safety: a new kind of cultural competence

Marian E. Betz;Garen J. Wintemute

135
Citations
Prior Misdemeanor Convictions as a Risk Factor for Later Violent and Firearm-Related Criminal Activity Among Authorized Purchasers of Handguns

Garen J. Wintemute;Christiana M. Drake;James J. Beaumont;Mona A. Wright

133
Citations
Guns and Gun Violence

Garen J Wintemute

126
Citations
Drowning in childhood and adolescence: a population-based study.

Garen J. Wintemute;Jess Frank Kraus;Stephen P. Teret;M. Wright

126
Citations
Effectiveness of denial of handgun purchase to persons believed to be at high risk for firearm violence

Mona A. Wright;Garen J. Wintemute;Frederick P. Rivara

115
Citations
Association between Firearm Laws and Homicide in Urban Counties

Cassandra K. Crifasi;Molly Merrill-Francis;Alex McCourt;Jon S. Vernick

113
Citations
Interpreting the empirical evidence on illegal gun market dynamics.

Anthony Allan Braga;Anthony Allan Braga;Garen J. Wintemute;Glenn L. Pierce;Philip J. Cook

112
Citations
The relationship between firearm design and firearm violence. Handguns in the 1990s.

Garen J. Wintemute

105
Citations
Support for New Policies to Regulate Firearms — Results of Two National Surveys

Stephen P. Teret;Daniel W. Webster;Jon S. Vernick;Tom W. Smith

104
Citations
Effects of policies designed to keep firearms from high-risk individuals.

Daniel W. Webster;Garen J. Wintemute

94
Citations
Initial and subsequent hospital costs of firearm injuries

Garen J. Wintemute;Mona A. Wright

85
Citations
Preventing Firearm-Related Death and Injury.

Rocco Pallin;Sarabeth A Spitzer;Megan L Ranney;Marian E Betz

84
Citations
“Hey, let me hold your guns for a while”: A qualitative study of messaging for firearm suicide prevention

Rocco Pallin;Bonnie Siry;Deborah Azrael;Christopher E. Knoepke

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Magdalena Cerdá New York University

Daniel W. Webster Johns Hopkins University

Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania

Deborah R. Azrael Harvard University

Matthew C. Miller Northeastern University

Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University

Sonja A. Swanson Erasmus University Rotterdam

Silvia S. Martins Columbia University

David Hemenway Harvard University

Emma E. McGinty Cornell University

External Links

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