2026 Ichiro Kawachi: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	196	344	322	228	210	1778	151049
Medicine	197	201	183	134	121	1795	187909

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Best Scientists

196

344

322

228

210

1778

151049

Medicine

197

201

183

134

121

1795

187909

Best Scientists

D-Index

196

Citations

151049

World Ranking

344

National Ranking

228

Medicine

D-Index

197

Citations

187909

World Ranking

201

National Ranking

134

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award

Overview

Ichiro Kawachi is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses on research within the domains of social sciences and health professions. Their publications emphasize a multidisciplinary approach that bridges societal factors and health outcomes.

The main fields of study in Kawachi's body of work include:

Social Sciences
Health Professions

Subfields that commonly feature in their research are:

Health
General Health Professions
Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The primary topics Kawachi has examined cover areas such as:

Health disparities and outcomes
Employment and Welfare Studies
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
Climate Change and Health Impacts
Global Health Care Issues
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Kawachi's recent papers include:

Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? Current evidence and future implications, 2022, published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
Social inequality and the syndemic of chronic disease and COVID-19: county-level analysis in the USA, 2021, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach, 2020, Health & Place
A scoping review on the use of machine learning in research on social determinants of health: Trends and research prospects, 2021, SSM - Population Health

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Katsunori Kondo
Shiho Kino
Shuko Takahashi
Jun Aida
Hwa-Young Lee

The publication venues that regularly feature Kawachi's work are:

Social Science & Medicine
SSM - Population Health
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
American Journal of Epidemiology
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.

I Kawachi;B P Kennedy;K Lochner;D Prothrow-Stith

4734
Citations
Social ties and mental health.

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman

4281
Citations
Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.

Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P. Kennedy;Roberta Glass

2577
Citations
Social cohesion, social capital and health

I. Kawachi

2522
Citations
Neighborhoods and health

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman

1720
Citations
The local food environment and diet: A systematic review

Caitlin E. Caspi;Glorian Sorensen;S.V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

1612
Citations
Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study

Eva S. Schernhammer;Francine Laden;Frank E. Speizer;Walter C. Willett

1451
Citations
Social Capital and Health

Ichiro Kawachi;S.V. Subramanian;Daniel Kim

1439
Citations
A glossary for health inequalities

Ichiro Kawachi;S. V. Subramanian;N. Almeida-Filho

1434
Citations
Bevformer: learning bird's-eye-view representation from lidar-camera via spatiotemporal transformers

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1426
Citations
Social capital: a guide to its measurement

Kimberly Lochner;Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P. Kennedy

1349
Citations
Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status: Development and Evaluation of a New Indicator

E. Goodman;N. E. Adler;I. Kawachi;I. Kawachi;A. L. Frazier;A. L. Frazier

1321
Citations
Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States

Bruce P Kennedy;Ichiro Kawachi;Deborah Prothrow-Stith

1250
Citations
"Fundamental causes" of social inequalities in mortality: a test of the theory.

J. O. C. Phelan;Bruce G. Link;Ana Diez-Roux;Ichiro Kawachi

1130
Citations
Income distribution, socioeconomic status, and self rated health in the United States: multilevel analysis

Bruce P Kennedy;Ichiro Kawachi;Roberta Glass;Deborah Prothrow-Stith

1074
Citations
Night-Shift Work and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study

Eva S. Schernhammer;Francine Laden;Frank E. Speizer;Walter C. Willett

1070
Citations
Income Inequality and Health: What Have We Learned So Far?

S. V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi

1069
Citations
Symptoms of anxiety and risk of coronary heart disease. The Normative Aging Study.

I Kawachi;D Sparrow;P S Vokonas;S T Weiss

1049
Citations
Alcohol consumption and mortality among women

C. S. Fuchs;M. J. Stampfer;G. A. Colditz;E. L. Giovannucci

1010
Citations
Sexual function in men older than 50 years of age: results from the health professionals follow-up study.

Constance G Bacon;Murray A Mittleman;Ichiro Kawachi;Edward Giovannucci

1009
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

S. V. Subramanian Harvard University

Mika Kivimäki University College London

Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital

Katsunori Kondo Chiba University

Graham A. Colditz Washington University in St. Louis

Laura D. Kubzansky Harvard University

Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University

M. Maria Glymour Boston University

Jun Aida Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Walter C. Willett Harvard University

External Links

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