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Harvey A. Risch

Harvey A. Risch

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
113
Citations
54665
World Ranking
4892
National Ranking
2649

Harvey A. Risch 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 Harvey A. Risch sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 512 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harvey A. Risch 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 Harvey A. Risch sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Harvey A. Risch is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has a substantial research output primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields including Surgery, Genetics, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Reproductive Medicine.

The scientist's research addresses both broad and specialized topics within oncology and epidemiology, covering areas such as Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, and Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Harvey A. Risch include:

  • "Association Between Breastfeeding and Ovarian Cancer Risk," 2020, published in JAMA Oncology
  • "Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection," 2020, published in The American Journal of Medicine
  • "Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Meat consumption and risk of incident dementia: cohort study of 493,888 UK Biobank participants," 2021, published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients That Should Be Ramped Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis," 2020, published in American Journal of Epidemiology

Frequent publication venues for Harvey A. Risch include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Cancer Research
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, indicating a network of research partnerships. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas L. Vaughan
  • Anna H. Wu
  • Marilie D. Gammon
  • Alison P. Klein
  • Herbert Yu

Best Publications

  • Average risks of breast and ovarian cancer associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations detected in case series unselected for family history: a combined analysis of 22 studies

    A. Antoniou;P.D.P. Pharoah;S. Narod;H.A. Risch

  • Prevalence and Penetrance of Germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in a Population Series of 649 Women with Ovarian Cancer

    Harvey A. Risch;John R. McLaughlin;David E.C. Cole;Barry Rosen

  • Increased risk of noncardia gastric cancer associated with proinflammatory cytokine gene polymorphisms

    Emad M El-Omar;Charles S Rabkin;Marilie D Gammon;Thomas L Vaughan

  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

    Celeste Leigh Pearce;Claire Templeman;Mary Anne Rossing;Alice Lee

  • Hormonal etiology of epithelial ovarian cancer, with a hypothesis concerning the role of androgens and progesterone.

    Harvey A. Risch

  • Population attributable risks of esophageal and gastric cancers.

    Lawrence S. Engel;Lawrence S. Engel;Wong Ho Chow;Thomas L. Vaughan;Marilie D. Gammon

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Type I and II Endometrial Cancers: Have They Different Risk Factors?

    Veronica Wendy Setiawan;Hannah P. Yang;Malcolm C. Pike;Malcolm C. Pike;Susan E. McCann;Susan E. McCann

  • Population BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Frequencies and Cancer Penetrances: A Kin–Cohort Study in Ontario, Canada

    Harvey A. Risch;John R. McLaughlin;David E. C. Cole;Barry Rosen

  • Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Hereditary Ovarian Cancer

    S. A. Narod;H. Risch;R. Moslehi;A. Dorum

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

  • Tobacco, Alcohol, and Socioeconomic Status and Adenocarcinomas of the Esophagus and Gastric Cardia

    Marilie D. Gammon;Habibul Ahsan;Janet B. Schoenberg;A. Brian West

  • Body mass index and risk of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and gastric cardia.

    Wong Ho Chow;William J. Blot;Thomas L. Vaughan;Harvey A. Risch

  • An Inverse Relation between cagA + Strains of Helicobacter pylori Infection and Risk of Esophageal and Gastric Cardia Adenocarcinoma

    Wong Ho Chow;Martin J. Blaser;Martin J. Blaser;William J. Blot;Marilie D. Gammon

  • A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

    Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

  • 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

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • An application of capture-recapture methods to the estimation of completeness of cancer registration

    Sylvia C. Robles;Loraine D. Marrett;E. Aileen Clarke;Harvey A. Risch

  • The BOADICEA model of genetic susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancers: updates and extensions.

    A C Antoniou;A P Cunningham;J Peto;D G Evans

  • Nutrient Intake and Risk of Subtypes of Esophageal and Gastric Cancer

    Susan T. Mayne;Harvey A. Risch;Robert Dubrow;Wong Ho Chow

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Anna H. Wu
Anna H. Wu University of Southern California
Joellen M. Schildkraut
Joellen M. Schildkraut University of Virginia
Jennifer A. Doherty
Jennifer A. Doherty University of Utah
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Marc T. Goodman
Marc T. Goodman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Penelope M. Webb
Penelope M. Webb QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Daniel W. Cramer
Daniel W. Cramer Brigham and Women's Hospital
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Nicolas Wentzensen
Nicolas Wentzensen National Institutes of Health

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