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D-Index
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35044
World Ranking
10428
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5370

Herbert Chen 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 Herbert Chen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 700 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Herbert Chen 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 Herbert Chen sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Herbert Chen is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States. Their research activity spans primarily within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Surgery, Gender Studies, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Oncology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including Diversity and Career in Medicine, Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments, Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances, and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research.

Herbert Chen has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as:

  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults (2020) in Annals of Surgery
  • Notch Signaling in Vascular Endothelial Cells, Angiogenesis, and Tumor Progression: An Update and Prospective (2021) in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Gamma Secretase Inhibitors in Cancer: A Current Perspective on Clinical Performance (2020) in The Oncologist
  • A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial (2020) in Annals of Surgery
  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Secondary and Tertiary Renal Hyperparathyroidism (2022) in Annals of Surgery

Frequent co-authors in Herbert Chen's collaborations include:

  • Brenessa Lindeman (108 joint publications)
  • Jessica Fazendin (95 joint publications)
  • Andrea Gillis (85 joint publications)
  • Rongzhi Wang (40 joint publications)
  • Polina Zmijewski (31 joint publications)

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, with the most frequent ones being:

  • The American Journal of Surgery (136 publications)
  • Journal of Surgical Research (46 publications)
  • Annals of Surgery (12 publications)
  • Cancer Research (11 publications)
  • Endocrine Abstracts (10 publications)

Best Publications

  • 2017 Guidelines of the American Thyroid Association for the Diagnosis and Management of Thyroid Disease During Pregnancy and the Postpartum

    Erik K. Alexander;Elizabeth N. Pearce;Gregory A. Brent;Rosalind S. Brown

  • The North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society consensus guideline for the diagnosis and management of neuroendocrine tumors: pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, and medullary thyroid cancer.

    Herbert Chen;Rebecca S. Sippel;M. Sue O'Dorisio;Aaron I. Vinik

  • Higher Serum Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Level in Thyroid Nodule Patients Is Associated with Greater Risks of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and Advanced Tumor Stage

    Megan Rist Haymart;Daniel John Repplinger;Glen E. Leverson;Diane F. Elson

  • Consensus guidelines for the management and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors.

    Pamela L. Kunz;Diane Reidy-Lagunes;Lowell B. Anthony;Erin M. Bertino

  • Is there still a glass ceiling for women in academic surgery

    Ying Zhuge;Joyce Kaufman;Diane M. Simeone;Herbert Chen

  • An achaete-scute homologue essential for neuroendocrine differentiation in the lung.

    Michael Borges;R. Ilona Linnoila;Helgi J. K. van de Velde;Herbert Chen

  • Isolated liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors: does resection prolong survival?

    Herbert Chen;Jeffrey M Hardacre;Ali Uzar;John L Cameron

  • The American Association of Endocrine Surgeons Guidelines for the Definitive Surgical Management of Thyroid Disease in Adults

    Kepal N. Patel;Linwah Yip;Carrie C. Lubitz;Elizabeth G. Grubbs

  • Outpatient minimally invasive parathyroidectomy: a combination of sestamibi-SPECT localization, cervical block anesthesia, and intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay.

    Herbert Chen;Lori J. Sokoll;Robert Udelsman

  • Conservation of the Drosophila lateral inhibition pathway in human lung cancer: A hairy-related protein (HES-1) directly represses achaete-scute homolog-1 expression

    Herbert Chen;Arunthathi Thiagalingam;Hemi Chopra;Michael W. Borges

  • Murray and Nadel’s Textbook of Respiratory Medicine

    Vanessa Nomellini;Herbert Chen

  • New Developments in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer

    David F. Schneider;Herbert Chen

  • Is Hashimoto's Thyroiditis a Risk Factor for Papillary Thyroid Cancer?

    Daniel Repplinger;Anna Bargren;Yi Wei Zhang;Joel T. Adler

  • Should all papillary thyroid microcarcinomas be aggressively treated? An analysis of 18,445 cases.

    Xiao-Min Yu;Yin Wan;Rebecca S. Sippel;Herbert Chen

  • Clinically significant, isolated metastatic disease to the thyroid gland.

    Herbert Chen;Theresa L. Nicol;Robert Udelsman

  • Pheochromocytoma: Current Approaches and Future Directions

    Joel T. Adler;Goswin Y. Meyer-Rochow;Goswin Y. Meyer-Rochow;Herbert Chen;Diana E. Benn

  • Intraoperative parathyroid hormone testing improves cure rates in patients undergoing minimally invasive parathyroidectomy.

    Herbert Chen;Zachary Pruhs;James R. Starling;Eberhard Mack

  • Secondary and tertiary hyperparathyroidism, state of the art surgical management.

    Susan C. Pitt;Rebecca S. Sippel;Herbert Chen

  • Why do students choose careers in surgery

    Jacquelyn K O’Herrin;Barbara J Lewis;Layton F Rikkers;Herbert Chen

  • A comprehensive evaluation of perioperative adjuncts during minimally invasive parathyroidectomy: which is most reliable?

    Herbert Chen;Eberhard Mack;James R. Starling

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Udelsman
Robert Udelsman Yale University
Ricardo V. Lloyd
Ricardo V. Lloyd University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shaoqin Gong
Shaoqin Gong University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bruce G. Robinson
Bruce G. Robinson University of Sydney
William H. Westra
William H. Westra Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James K. Kirklin
James K. Kirklin University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stephen B. Baylin
Stephen B. Baylin Johns Hopkins University
Keith D. Lillemoe
Keith D. Lillemoe Harvard University
Ben Shen
Ben Shen Scripps Research Institute
Brian O'Rourke
Brian O'Rourke Johns Hopkins University

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