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Ian Ford 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 Ian Ford sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 846 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian Ford 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 Ian Ford sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 173 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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 Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Ian Ford is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Hematology.

The scientist's work encompasses various main topics, notably:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Heart Failure Treatment and Management
  • Congenital heart defects research

Recent publications by Ian Ford include:

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • Life expectancy associated with different ages at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in high-income countries: 23 million person-years of observation (2023), published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • The genomics of heart failure: design and rationale of the HERMES consortium (2021), published in ESC Heart Failure
  • Genome-wide meta-analyses reveal novel loci for verbal short-term memory and learning (2022), published in Molecular Psychiatry

The most frequent co-authors with Ian Ford are:

  • J. Wouter Jukema
  • Stella Trompet
  • Abbas Dehghan
  • Jian'an Luan
  • Niek Verweij

Ian Ford often publishes in venues such as Nature Communications, UNC Libraries, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Molecular Psychiatry, and European Journal of Heart Failure, with the highest number of publications appearing in Nature Communications and UNC Libraries.

In 1999, Ian Ford was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an award that highlights long-standing contributions to their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Prevention of coronary heart disease with pravastatin in men with hypercholesterolemia. West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study Group

    J Shepherd;S M Cobbe;I Ford;C G Isles

  • Pravastatin in elderly individuals at risk of vascular disease (PROSPER): a randomised controlled trial

    James Shepherd;Gerard J Blauw;Michael B Murphy;Edward Lem Bollen

  • Ivabradine and outcomes in chronic heart failure (SHIFT): a randomised placebo-controlled study.

    Karl Swedberg;Michel Komajda;Michael Böhm;Jeffrey S Borer

  • Statins and risk of incident diabetes: a collaborative meta-analysis of randomised statin trials

    Naveed Sattar;David Preiss;Heather M Murray;Paul Welsh

  • Clinical Features and Outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) Cardiomyopathy

    Christian Templin;Jelena R. Ghadri;Johanna Diekmann;L. Christian Napp

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial

    Michael Ej Lean;Wilma S Leslie;Alison C Barnes;Naomi Brosnahan

  • Metabolic Syndrome With and Without C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease and Diabetes in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

    Naveed Sattar;Allan Gaw;Olga Scherbakova;Ian Ford

  • 2014 ESC/ESA Guidelines on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management: The Joint Task Force on non-cardiac surgery: cardiovascular assessment and management of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA).

    Steen Dalby Kristensen;Juhani Knuuti;Antti Saraste;Stefan Anker

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Diffuse axonal injury in head injury: definition, diagnosis and grading.

    J H Adams;D Doyle;I Ford;T A Gennarelli

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Plasma fibrinogen level and the risk of major cardiovascular diseases and nonvascular mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis.

    J Danesh;S Lewington;S G Thompson;Lowe Gdo.

  • Biochemical detection of left-ventricular systolic dysfunction

    TA McDonagh;SD Robb;Murdoch;JJ Morton

  • Ivabradine for patients with stable coronary artery disease and left-ventricular systolic dysfunction (BEAUTIFUL): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Kim Fox;Ian Ford;P Gabriel Steg;Michal Tendera

  • Pravastatin and the Development of Diabetes Mellitus Evidence for a Protective Treatment Effect in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study

    Dilys J. Freeman;John Norrie;Naveed Sattar;R. Dermot G. Neely

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture

    Karol Estrada;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Evangelos Evangelou;Yi-Hsiang Hsu

  • C-Reactive Protein, Fibrinogen, and Cardiovascular Disease Prediction

    Stephen Kaptoge;Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Lisa Pennells;Angela M. Wood

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Wouter Jukema
J. Wouter Jukema Leiden University Medical Center
Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar University of Glasgow
Stella Trompet
Stella Trompet Leiden University Medical Center
David J. Stott
David J. Stott University of Glasgow
Chris J. Packard
Chris J. Packard Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Colin Berry
Colin Berry University of Glasgow
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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